What are Souls? many beings have asked this question from God's and True Immortal Cultivators to the common mortals and self aware beings.
Where do they come from and have they always existed or were they created from some unfathomable being of great power no one truly knows.
But one thing that the God's who manage the Souls of all things that have died or ceased to exist from mortals to mountains have learned is that the ego of a soul must be cleanesed of its past memories for the safety of the universe and the Souls own sanity as not all who die and reincarnate can handle what the may be reborn as from a mortal man reborn as a insect would go insane from the burden placed upon there new bodies mind.
These Souls that were left in this state would end up damaged and would continue to cause defects with each subsequent rebirth
Hence the God's and Immortals well versed in Soul study decide to create a cycle of reincarnation. They would work together to collect Souls that drifted into the universe from the outer verse also known as the Myriad Chaos Sea different to the void that existed between the universe and its sub realms but just as dangerous.
Through this Cycle of reincarnation the God's and Immortals would scrub the ego of souls then send them into the universe to be reborn by doing this the God's noticed they would gain powers of faith much like the God's who had worshipers. And the True Immortals would gain greater understanding of Souls hence learning new techniques in managing there own Souls they were also in change of the Souls of Cultivators that weren't destroyed or refined by demonic Cultivators.
This Great Universe floating within the Myriad Chaos Sea was strange in that it had both Mana and Qi coexisting in it with sub realms containing abundant Mana or Qi alone and even some where neither types of Energy were available. This meant that while Cultivators existed there were beings who could wield the power of mana to create similar feats of power to Cultivators in the Foundation Realm to the rare and illusive rumored True Immortals. These weirds of Mana are known as Mages and they come in a variety of classes based on the style of magic and weaponry they wielded.
At this point in time in a sub realm inhabited by the God's of reincarnation a younger God was cleaning Souls his current batch had come from the outer verse and while he was halfway through working on a soul of a mortal man formally known as Jacob he sensed a disturbance from the outerverse.
*hmm what is that?*
he thought to himself as strange murky inky black tentacles started to pierce into the membrane of the great universe and started to syphon the very life essence of the great universe causing the God's to be startled and distracted from his work.
"This isn't good I'm not strong enough to deal with this!"
As the young god started to weild his divinity to destroy the tentacles he sent out a emergency summon calling on all the God's and Immortals to help fight the unknown creature assaulting the universe.
The other God's and True Immortals arrived quickly and those well versed in Space Dao and Magic opened a passage into the outer verse to confront the invader. While this was happening the partially cleansed soul of Jacob drifted in its wisp form towards a ruinic circle on the table and was sent into the cycle of reincarnation to be reborn.
In the Outerverse Myriad Chaos Sea the God's and True Immortals confronted and fought a creature three times the size of their Great Universe, a being that looked similar to a Angler Fish with numerous tentacles made up of a murky inky black skin.
Realising the threat it posed they called upon all the universes remaining God's and True Immortals to fight it off or hopefully destroy it.
The Spells and divinity of the God's were capable of destroying the creaters natural defensive aura allowing the devastating Skills, Artifacts and Talsimans of the True Immortals to inflict damage upon the Creature native to the Myriad Chaos Sea.
For Nine long years the fight for the great universe lasted with the destruction of the Creature dubbed the Universe Devourer by the God's and True Immortals who tired and exhausted returned to their home after a brief period of recovery they held a meeting and discussed preventive methods to counter a event like this happening again. The result would be a coalition of God's and Immortals guarding in the Outerverse year round with rotations ever ten thousand years.
Back in the Reincarnation sub realm the young god had returned and noticed the soul he had been working on had disappeared in a panic he searched for it and discovered it had drifted into the ruinic circle meant for sending Souls into the cycle of rebirth, worked about the state the soul would be he traced were it had been reborn too a Elven Couple a race known for being members of the eternal races a grouping of races know. For low birth rates and not having a actual lifespans at least none had died of old age that the gods were aware of most died from combat or ritual death to be reborn when they grew tired of life unlike the other eternal races like Dragons and Phoenix's who would either just enter long periods of slumber or fiery rebirth from there bloodline.
Upon observing the reborn soul he noticed its memories were heavily fragmented but had not effected the soul and body intact it happily accepted its new name and life as if it had gone through the whole Soul cleansing
Although it seemed to have a desire to Cultivate and be a Immortals traveling the universe even though he had yet to start exploring his current world!
"I best keep a eye on this boy to make sure there are no major issues with his rebirth, oh well it will give me something to watch while I continue my work"
The young god muttered to himself while he started working on the next soul that would be sent into the cycle of reincarnation which thankfully hadn't been disrupted too much from the War for the Great Universe due to the wearing Soul God's and Immortals continuing to work while others fought.
As peace returned to the Great Universe the hearty Cry of a Newborn Child could be heard with the simple tree house of a Elven household a Man could be seen pacing back and forth In front of his and his wife's bedroom, he looks up upon hearing the cry and enter the room seeing the midwife next to his wife in bed holding a crying male boy.
"Look Respen we had a boy, what should we call him?"
The soft voice of the beautiful brunette Elfen woman in the bed spoke as she looked at her husband looking exhausted from the trial of childbirth.
Respen walks towards his wife and the midwife he gentle takes the child from the midwife thanking her for her work and looks at his wife and the boy in his arms.
"Well my dear Merlara, how about Nathraval? what do you think son do you like this as a name?"
The crying child in Respens arms stops crying and tilts his heard then a burble like chuckle noise comes out of his mouth.