Ren Qian lips formed into an 'Oh'. He showed a relieved expression on his face.
"And how do I do that?", Ren Qian asked, his reluctance from earlier had completely disappeared.
The baby disappeared and reappeared quite a distance away from Ren Qian.
Ren Qian watched on in confusion.
"It's for your safety. You see my soul essence is quite sinister due to where I came from."
Re Qian had the urge to ask where he came from, but he didn't because he felt it was not the right time to ask.
"So just concentrate your internal soul energy at one point like your fingertip.", the baby said and demonstrated.
A tiny ball of dense black energy slowly formed at his fingertip. It gave off an extremely sinister aura, one that sent serious chills down your back. The kind that incited your deepest darkest fears. Even Ren Qian who stood quite a distance could feel it. When Ren Qian cast a short glance at it, he felt like he was staring at the Devil himself.
'The heck? You call this 'quite' sinister. This soul energy could literally wipe out everything off the surface of the world.', Ren Qian thought when he felt the sensation again.
However, he suddenly felt bitter. Even if he had a baby soul, at least he knew where he came from.
He felt lost and confused. He did not at all understand why he was brought here, and for what purpose?
Everything felt strange and weird to him and he didn't get anything at all.
A scoffing voice brought him back from his train of thoughts.
"Haha. This is soul energy, idiot. It only affects souls.", the baby ridiculed.
"Hey, are you reading my thoughts?", Ren Qian said.
"Uh yeah, I am speaking to you through your mind, remember?"
Ren Qian felt like this baby was mocking him.
"Hey, you know you are just a baby right? Learn to speak properly to your elders.", Ren Qian said, trying to give off the big brother vibe.
"Oh, am I now?", the baby said, a hint of a smirk in his tone of speech.
"Where exactly are you from?", Ren Qian carefully asked.
"Me? I am from the Darkness", the baby said.
Ren Qian was quiet, he was in shock, partially because of the soul's answer and partially because the soul was willing to answer his probing question.
"What, you thought I would not answer your question? The questions you ask to which I do not answer are those which I do not know the answer to. I want to satisfy your curiosity in exchange for your soul essence."
Ren Qian was once again shocked.
He didn't think this evil soul knew what repayment was.
He was starting to believe the soul's words about his origin when he remembered the sinister aura that emanated from his soul essence.
He began imagining what the Darkness would be like, however, he was reminded of the cold chilling sensation he felt even when he was a distance away from the essence and he immediately concluded his thoughts with a statement, 'The Darkness must be powerful'
Ren Qian thought for a moment before asking his next question.
"Were you brought here against your will?"
"You seem to be the righteous type. What, are you going to sympathize with me if I say I was?", the soul scoffed.
"Don't feel too much pity for me, boy. No matter how much I didn't want to be here, I am bound to this body to eternity."
"So, what happens to you if the host decides to be good?", Ren Qian asked, although he could roughly guess what would happen.
"I grow weaker and weaker until I disappear from existence, I guess", the soul said. He used his power to create a chair out of the darkness. He sat calmly and easily on it, looking like a little boss.
"How do you do that?", Ren Qian asked. This soul never seems to amaze me.
"This is my domain, you silly boy. I can manipulate it in whichever way I want."
Ren Qian felt strange hearing a baby-ish voice calling him a silly boy in his mind.
"As I said before, I'm not a baby. My body grows only according to the body's growth rate.", he said, seemingly annoyed at being called a baby repeatedly in Ren Qian's mind.
"Then why don't I have a domain like you and the other one?", Ren Qian asked, confused.
Currently, he looked like a little child who is curious about everything in the world.
"Because you don't belong here. You were teleported here just as you said. Only residing souls have domains. Little fool, why are you so clueless about everything?", the soul spoke, this time he seemed slightly frustrated.
"Do you believe in reincarnation?", Ren Qian asked, after a long moment of silence.
The soul burst into hearty laughter, "I am the living evidence of reincarnation, kid. This soul has reincarnated multiple times, you know?"
'Oh, so that's why he sees me as a kid', Ren Qian thought.
"Do you have memories of your past lives?"
"If I did, life in itself would have been boring. It's better to slowly find things out, don't you think?", the soul said.
Ren Qian nodded in understanding.
Then he thought, 'Perhaps, I was reincarnated as well, and I've lost all my past memories. That makes me curious who I was in my past life.'
Unfortunately, Ren Qian didn't know he was reincarnated at least 56 times and in actual sense, his 57th reincarnation's body was being preserved until his soul was found and placed back into his body.
"Answer my question though. Do you have memories of your past lives?", he asked.
"I don't know. Maybe I do. Maybe I don't.", the soul said blankly.
"No doubt. Some of the things I know are as a result of experiences from the past but all of my memories are wiped anytime I enter a new body."