Wicked Reincarnation

"If we want to stop the Ghost King, you'll need to unite the hidden families, share your powers with them," Xavi concluded but then gave her a concerned look.

"You need to so-to-say evolve your powers, especially if you can't use your soul. Don't worry, we'll look for a way to heal your soul too."

Lia touched her chest. She has long grown accustomed to sacrificing her soul, but if there was a way to piece her soul back together and save her from using it as a power catalyst, then why refuse?

Lia agreed.

So, a week passed after the conversation. Day and night Lia trained and tried to visualise her soul taking the form of the corpse. Endless efforts, endless tries and endless training led to no proper results.

The only upside was since Lia physically became more stronger, faster and agile, her corpses also possessed greater strength.

"Seems like you can only go so far for now. Your undead aren't doing the harder tasks still," Xavi stood at the sidelines while Lia glared at the ten corpses before her.

"Can you merge your soul pieces?"

Lia shook her head.

"Then what about putting several soul pieces into a corpse?"

"It has the same effect as putting larger soul pieces. I have at least now 100 tiny pieces. If I'm going to only reduce myself to 10, I can put several ones into one corpse," Lia did as Xavi suggested.

As expected the corpse was several times stronger and the control worked better, however it was still only a puppet without a brain.

"Charge at her and take her knife away," as Lia ordered the corpse to attack Lia, the latter was flying around Xavi. The moment Lia muttered these words, Lily jumped away and started to fight with the corpses.

It was a huge advantage to have Lily and Xavi's men help Lia improve her combat skills, also think about using her corpses more strategically.

"Make it stop!" Lily shouted. She wanted to tend to Xavi.

"Just give it your knife," Lia indifferently told Lily. Lily didn't waste any time and gave her knife to the corpse.

Yet once the knife was in the corpse's hand, it didn't cease its attack, on the contrary, it used the knife to fight Lily.

"Hey! Did you secretly tell it to continue?"

Lia took a second, "No…"

The corpse was moving on its own! Lia didn't give it any other command apart from the one she said.

"Then!" Both Lily and Xavi looked at her with expectations.

"I don't know how," just as Lia said those words the corpse stopped moving.

"Train more!" was the only thing Xavi could press out as Lia sent a glare his way and Xavi quietly excused himself.

While Lia practised her newfound, potential breakthrough, a bigger worry relentlessly chased Xavi. Lia's power wasn't developed enough to give others powers.

So, the only probability was to try that. However, if he could he would prefer not to do it, after all, it was unclear what risks there were.

Xavi waited a few days for Lia to figure out how her corpse started to move on its own. Lia has made considerable progress as only 10 of the corpses and herself were able to fight against Lily and 20 of Xavi's men who were all skilled.

"Any good news?" Xavi sat on the sidelines and watched them fighting.

Sweat beads ran down Lia's face. Her choppy bangs started to grow out, "No. After that one time, I couldn't get the corpses to move on their own."

"Ok, let's set that aside," with the lollipop in his mouth, his hoodie over his head, Xavi looked truly brattish right now.

Lily told the others to go back and rest. She, herself, was out of breath as she sat next to Xavi.

"What's wrong?" Lia noticed the curious glint in Xavi's eyes.

"We can't waste more time. I also need to train, so let's try giving me powers," Xavi stretched out his hand. Lia didn't grab it.

"I don't know how."

"The Ghost King pours his life force and a piece of his power to the ones he gives power, let's try it."

Lia wasn't sure if it would work because her power didn't stem from her lifeforce after all.

However, she still grabbed his hand and guided her lifeforce into Xavi.

"Do you feel anything, young master?"

There was no light, shine or anything that indicated the transfer worked.

"Wait," suddenly Lily changed tones, she sounded anxious, "Isn't your life force contaminated with the Ghost King's? Young Master will be in danger!"

"No need to worry," Lia reassured Lily, "The life force isn't contaminated, it's being devoured by the power of the Ghost King inside of me. Xavi won't have any problems."

"I knew it. Doesn't work," absent-mindedly Xavi pulled off his hoodie revealing his messy hair.

"Then give me a piece of your soul."

"What?" neither Lia nor Lily could trust their ears.

"I don't want to resort to that either but we got no choice."

"Also, I'm not a corpse, you won't be controlling me… I hope," Xavi added when both females still stared at him in disbelief.

He was betting everything on this. Usually, when a king shares his power, it is enough to give them his life force, because the king's power was the original power.

Yet, Lia's power was different. While she retains part of the Immortal King's power, Xavi felt they were slumbering inside of her, not unlocked yet.

He didn't know why she couldn't fully utilise them. Maybe because she wasn't the true successor, maybe she hasn't fully accepted and acknowledged her role as the Immortal King or maybe because she was even afraid of it.

However, there was no doubt, from what Xavi heard of Lia's story, that it was the Immortal King himself who chose her to transfer his powers.

The Immortal King was dead but his powers still lingered. If the origin of all powers, the Immortal King's power, was to disappear, then no Immortal would ever attain powers again.

Except when heaven chose to give the immortal world another chance and bless them with powers.

Xavi's firm stare prompted Lia to comply, "Alright."

The process was the same as transferring her soul into the corpses. She caught a fleeting soul piece, guided it along her body to seep through her fingers into Xavi's.

But in addition, Lia tried to concentrate on the power part inside of her. Once someone has received powers, the powers are stored within the life force, thus the life force acts as a catalyst to draw the power out.

For some reason, Lia's power freely floated in her body. It wasn't attached to her soul nor her life force but she could transfer it into her soul.

Because Min's power inside of her interfered, she couldn't merge the power with her life force. This was why Lia couldn't use her life force and instead had to use her soul as a substitute.

The power needed a catalyst to come out of the body and manifest itself in any form.

The soul piece Lia gave Xavi was infused with a large amount of power. Lia didn't have to worry about running out of power, since it belonged to her.

Then once the soul entered Xavi's body, she slightly jumped. Because she's never used it on an alive person she has never noticed it. She could feel the beating heart, the organs, soul and life force of Xavi. She didn't need to think twice to know what she had to do. It came naturally.

She let her soul float around Xavi's body and with his life force, then she scattered her power forcibly and waited for it to merge until she couldn't feel her own soul anymore.

It was either a success or a failure. Lia knew this soul piece was forever lost as she couldn't retract it anymore. She sacrificed a bit of herself. She never thought she would ever get close to anyone again.

She kept the detail about her soul to herself. Xavi and Lily would be anxious if they found out.

"I think I transferred my power to you."

"Your soul?" Xavi was naturally sharp and he could also feel the strange and alien form enter his body, then disappear.

"I've retracted it," Lia didn't know that Xavi could feel her soul, yet her answer satisfied him. He thought it made sense and didn't question it further.

"I never had powers before, you should guide me, teacher!" Xavi in his little boy appearance reminded Lia of herself as a kid learning how to use her exorcist powers.

"Alright, "surprisingly Lia couldn't resist the temptation and pinched Xavi's soft cheeks.

Xavi's face instantly flushed.

"Young master! Lia you-" Lily was too angry to finish her sentence and rubbed the spot Lia touched on Xavi's face without scruples.

"I can only tell you how I did it," Lia let off of Xavi's hand, "You need to focus on your life force. You can feel it floating around, right? Grasp its form and take off a piece of any size you want."

Xavi had his eyes closed, a concentrating look appeared on his face.

"Once you have a piece you can form it into a ball or whatever might be convenient, then you guide towards a body part you feel the most comfortable releasing."

This time Lily's face flushed red. Hearing Lia's words, she couldn't help but let her gaze wander.

"Usually, it's the tip of the fingers. Let the life force wander down your arm, to your hand and release it once they reach your fingers. You can also guide a stream of life force instead of a piece but I advise against it because you're still a beginner and it's very tiring."

Xavi nodded and his eyes fluttered open. He opened the palm of his hands and a small white ball appeared for a few seconds.

"What's this power?"