The First Store System

A wave large enough to cover more than eighty percent of the area in Johanna’s sea of consciousness rose. Beads of sweat started falling from Johanna’s head as if it was raining.

Johanna had her eyes closed as she concentrated on the wave. A single lapse of concentration and the wave would crash into the sea of consciousness, creating a severe injury for Johanna. She could even become brain dead, so she didn’t take any risk and didn’t take her complete focus from it for not even a second.

Time flew by, and several seconds had passed.

Even though the time had only gone by in seconds, Johanna felt different. In those several seconds, Johanna had felt as if she had passed eternity.

Johanna’s efforts finally paid off as the wave finally reached the border between her sea of consciousness and the pocket space.

The time of reckoning finally arrived. It was now time for Johanna to release the wave from her control and let it crash into her pocket space.

At the same time, she had to control the extent of the damage. Her sea of consciousness must stay out of the damage range, irrespective of its intensity._.

A single injury and the wave would fall off where it was, resulting in an even more severe situation in Johanna’s sea of consciousness.

Johanna took a deep breath as she needed to be at her hundred percent before starting. Her pounding heart finally calmed down. Her eyes turned blank as if there was no life in them.

Johanna’s father had a tense expression on his face since this moment was the most crucial for Johanna to start over. If she failed to destroy the pocket space in a single swoop, its shards would flow toward her sea of consciousness. It would either turn her into brain dead or physically dead.

Johanna finally released the wave from her control as it crashed onto her pocket space, creating a loud bang heard only by Johanna.

“ARGH!”

Johanna subconsciously screamed in pain as it was too much and too quick for her to bear it silently. Johanna’s father only looked nervously at his daughter since he knew the time wasn’t right for him to interfere.

He could only hope for the best at this moment. He had already done what he could do by transferring his good fortune to Johanna.

Johanna had done her best. She had created a wave as large as she could without her sea of consciousness destructing.

The process wasn’t as quick as she had imagined.

Time flew by, and several minutes had passed.

“Thud!”

Johanna suddenly crashed to the ground with a loud sound. Her father rushed to her since she could be seen aging with naked eyes.

At the same time, Johanna’s father heaved a sigh of relief. Johanna had achieved what she wanted to do. Now it was time for him to swoop in and stop his daughter from dying.

As Johanna’s father appeared in front of Johanna, he had a vial of green liquid in his right hand.

A pool of blood had appeared where Johanna had crashed since she was only a mortal, while the material used on the floor wasn’t.

The man gently picked his daughter up. Her hair had turned grey and was about to fall off, while saggy baggages were all around her. It looked as if a single wave of wind would be enough to blow Johanna into ashes.

The father opened the cap of the vial and pushed the content inside it into Johanna’s mouth.

A green light suddenly engulfed the unconscious Johanna. It soon formed itself into a cocoon around her.

Around a few seconds later, the cocoon started disintegrating into pieces. Before its broken pieces could land on the ground, it would dissipate into light particles and fly toward Johanna, shining blindingly.

Johanna’s father had a smiling face as he looked at Johanna beyond the blinding light. The vial that he had just pushed into his daughter’s throat had cost him a fortune.

It was an Immortal grade material. It was a lifespan increasing item. Even a mortal could live up to million years if they were to drink the vial.

The man didn’t need it since he was an Immortal, but it was still very expensive, and one of his most valued possessions. Yet he didn’t care as he looked at his young daughter beyond the now slowly dimming light.

He couldn’t help but feel nostalgic as the current Johanna looked when she was in her teenage years.

Soon the light completely dimmed down as Johanna presented itself in the open. She currently looked like a sixteen-year-old girl.

Johanna’s eyelashes suddenly fluttered as she was regaining her consciousness.

A few seconds later, her eyes fully opened as she rubbed them.

“Where am I?” She couldn’t help but ask as her memory wasn’t complete.

The next moment her sight cleared while her memories returned.

“I did it,” Johanna couldn’t help but yell in excitement as she found herself to be an ordinary girl.

“Yes, you did it,” Johanna’s father smilingly added from the other side as he looked at his daughter jumping in excitement.

Time flew by.

“Are you ready?” Johanna’s father asked his daughter as she currently sat on a meditating mat while an open book lay there on the ground in front of her.

It was the mortal grade Art of the Doom.

Since Johanna had successfully crippled herself and survived, it was time for her to start over.

Johanna’s father wanted to stop his daughter from doing things in a hurry, but Johanna refused to follow through with her father’s words. She had given herself a goal of ten thousand years to reach the peak of Immortality with the pseudo-divine physique, and every second in that time was valuable for her.

“Have you prepared the material?” Johanna asked as she was only waiting for her father to prepare the heavenly materials she currently needed.

It wasn’t easy to start over after crippling cultivation. The process would be full of challenges and pain. Johanna would need several heavenly materials to help herself pass through those issues.

Johanna’s father nodded and took out a bunch of materials from his pocket space, handing each of them to Johanna.