= "Ame, Kiel, goodnight, my babies." = Noah, the father of the two reincarnated beings, said his goodnight as the two calmed down.

He placed the two of them in the same bassinet as he exited the room and left Ava to sleep on the bed.

Ame and Ye Feng secretly watched Ava intake some healing powder before going to rest for the night.

She sounded happy and content. She seemed strong for a woman who had just given birth.

It was deep into the night when most adults were already asleep. Yet two newborns were both wide away.

Two newborns turned their bodies and began staring at each other.

Ye Feng tried his best to initiate the conversation.

[What kind of Soul are you? How did you reincarnate?] Ye Feng had no qualms about letting this young girl know of his situation as their speech alone explained their situation.

Though it would be much preferred if the two of them could actually understand each other's words.

[= "What?" =] Ame failed to understand Ye Feng.

Hearing Ame speak to him mentally confirmed that they spoke different languages. This also confirmed reality had been overwritten with another.

It was a different world with different laws of being.

Ame was the same; hearing Ye Feng speak of such foreign language failed any form of communication. She, who had been around for hundreds of years, was unable to recognize his words.

= 'This is going to be a problem.' = She thought to herself.

Realizing their lack of ability to comprehend each other's words, Ye Feng had an idea and scrambled around his mind to find something.

Pushing his tiny and frail body to sit up, Ye Feng succeeded after some trial and error.

'Okay, if talking is not going to work, let us try something else….' Ye Feng began using body movement to communicate.

He was not speaking like how deaf people did in his time, but how a child tries to communicate…

He pointed at his mouth, close and opened it, and then crossed his arms.

Ame tried her best to comprehend Ye Feng and what she got was, = [= "Speak, cross…oh, he cannot speak… but he spoke earlier... oh you mean you cannot speak the language!?" =] Ame managed to decrypt the words of the old fogey baby.

Seeing Ame's face show a face or realization, he made a sigh of relief as he tried motioning that he wanted to sleep.

'I can't learn a language in one day, but I'll go about talking to her once I pick it up.'

Speaking to Ame was nothing but short of empty work. They would fail to understand each other, and with Ye Feng not knowing what the other was talking about, he knew he'd only be lost, and it would be an unproductive experience for both.

Emotions may surface, and change may be inevitable, but the core of his being would not change so quickly.

'This universe is different, yet it is still the same.'

Aether and Ye Feng did not know how many eons since this new Universe was created. This plane of existence may have been completed the same instant the shell formed for all their knowledge and awareness.

But, thankfully, Ye Feng knew the very basis of what kind of Universe this was.

'A Universe built from the ground up using the logic of the previous one. A culmination of a thousand realms, scattered about creating the amalgamation of power… a world where it reign supreme.'

Aether was no more in this world, and the sea of aureate light had scattered to become the new laws.

And this was a world that even Ye Feng failed to comprehend.

As the Origin of All who ruled over the trail of life and death scattered to become a single entity, what kind of fate would it have as it gets to live among mortals?

It, who controlled Eternity, Reality, and Time, what kind of power would it show to its creation?

Ye Feng closed his eyes and tried sensing the energy of the world. He had no idea what it was, but he should still be able to deconstruct its touch, tracing the past to the present.

He tried sensing it… he failed.

'That's odd… I can't seem to feel the energy of the world… no, I am doing this incorrectly. What if there is another process here? Like I said, there is such a new rule surrounding the world. Thus, I am sure that this world's cultivation method is also different. It is very different from using the past as a blueprint.'

The methods of the Universes were not the same; on the previous one, there were two ways of cultivating, and that was through forming a connection with the Spirit World and either bonding with a Spirit or just pure cultivation.

Ye Feng failed to create any kind of bond with any Spirit and cultivated himself alone. That should not have been a problem, as the Spirit World was already gone. He did not need another creature to funnel spirit energy in his body.

The Spirit World was the first to be destroyed when Aether rose from the sea of light. Ye Feng thought so too; however, such a fact didn't matter, and when he tried again, instant failure was all he found.

He could already feel and ascertain its existence, but the problem was that his body, or rather his soul, failed to make a connection for the third time.

He turned to the side and saw his twin doing the same, trying to cultivate as early as possible. He did not know why she wanted to grow up so early in life, but considering he was doing the same for survival's sake, he had no right to question her.

He watched her silently intake the energy of the world, and it was entering her without a problem. There was no rejection or anything like that. And seeing this made Ye Feng ask himself a lot of things.

'Why is that? What is the difference between her and me…? We came from different Universes… and what's the different previous world and this…? Connection with the Spirit World… yes, that's it!' He made the correct conjecture.

With his soul being a remnant of the previous Universe, he was still bound to the rest of its rules. He who was born in that world was blessed with the prerequisite to forming a connection with the Spirit World to cultivate; that was the way to weed out the Mortals from the Immortals.

This brand still remained, but without a Spirit World, Ye Feng did not know what it was he needed to do… but, then, he remembered something.

'Form a connection with me….' Ye Feng uttered in silence to the legendary serpent of beginning and end.

Aether did not fight with him and instead melted into Ye Feng. They were one and the same yet, this was still necessary for them to cultivate.

Ye Feng felt a connection… a deep bond that could not be explained by words.

One of Ye Feng's eyes revolved. Circling his iris was a serpent biting its own tail.

And as Ye Feng opened his eyes, his right eye had already been marked. This was his brand, and as he connected with Aether, he received another name.

Aether was the name corresponding with everything… however, now that it was free, it had already abandoned its past. It followed its nature and marched forth.

Now that it had become a genuine Spirit — Ouroboros was its true name.

His mother, Ava, was a strong woman with long black hair. She managed to quickly recover from giving birth the very next day. She even did the housework without so much as looking tired.

Ava's morning routine was relatively simple. First, she'd go about doing the housework before tending to her children's needs. She would often talk a lot, so her children would be able to pick up her words.

Though one of the two already knew how to speak, the other had nothing better to do other than listen and learn.

'This is rather pleasant.' Ye Feng was pleased with this development.

Two months passed since Ye Feng, who now knew his name as Kiel, was reborn in this world.

He learned a lot of things and had already grasped almost everything that he could from his parents.

On a hilltop was where their house was built.

His home was a small house built only from materials found in the nearby forest; it had three rooms: the bedroom, the kitchen/dining area, and the other for storage.

From what Kiel knew, his father, Noah, was strong. He ventures to the nearby forest to hunt for food and beasts to sell for other resources.

During the day, Ame and Kiel made an unspoken rule of not cultivating to not create a big commotion. They did not want their parents to have an unappreciated headache.

After all, despite their weird quirks, Ava and Noah seemed to be a relatively normal couple.

However, during the night, there was a meeting between two tiny children.

[Can you understand me now?] Ame asked with her eyes closed and without opening her mouth.

[Yes, I already learned from Ava — I mean Mother, how to speak the words.] Ye Feng answered with confidence.

They were not communicating with their mouths but instead, their minds. The two of them had a relationship that neither of them could explain. It may have been that thing that others say about twins having a mental connection, but whatever it was, the two of them were now living like this.

[You learn fast; it hasn't even been a whole week since you began learning the language. Are you sure you weren't faking earlier?]

[I have nothing to gain from lying.]

[Hehe, I couldn't understand you, but I knew that's what you sounded like.] Ame giggled.

[Who are you?] heabruptly asked.

[Why should I tell you? It is not like I know who you are.] Ame refused with nonchalance.

In the past, Kiel had no need to ask anyone for their names. They would either introduce themselves, demand a name, or he would live his life in utter silence, only speaking when needed.

Kiel, however, wanted to form a connection. He learned that to live was to create relationships and to cut them off was to die; thus, instead of getting angered or irritated, he chose to become the "bigger person," [My previous name was Ye Feng, I come from a time when this world of yours did not exist. I was a wandering man with no direction. In my time, I used to be a person who had nothing despite grasping everything. I am an empty figure from a distant past that no one knows.]

Ame was somewhat surprised to hear Kiel speak of his past. From his tone, she could tell that he should be someone with an understandable depth, but who knew he was this open?

Kiel was either stupid or eccentric.

However, she snorted, 'Peh, a time when the world did not exist?' she was doubtful, but... she could somehow tell that he was not lying.

[Are you lying?]

[I gain nothing from lying to you.]

'...why do I not feel doubt? It's kinda creepy.' for someone like her, doubt and suspicion were second nature.

Kiel did not rouse such a thing.

Was it their connection? It was something she could not quite understand. Even after experiencing so much, Ame wasn't all-knowing, after all.

Clearing her mind, she decided to respond in kind to his introduction, [My name was Qiara, I am someone who appropriates unwanted treasure from the rich to those who need them—namely myself— until I got ganged up on by ten assholes of the Council. The Ten Sovereigns personally came to find and end me.