Ray woke up the next day on his bed and saw that his mother was sleeping on the same bed as him. She was actually sitting on the edge of the bed with her legs stretched out and her head resting against the headboard, while he was sleeping on the other side.
He looked at his mother and then remembered what happened yesterday. He has managed to make his soul core, and now he can cultivate soul runes. He can finally make a formation. He got excited. He waited for his mother to wake up and celebrate with her.
After some time Diana woke up and then saw that she had fallen asleep. So she hurriedly looked for Ray, who was looking at her with a smile. Seeing his cheeky smile, Diana pulled his cheek and said, "What are you smiling at?"
Ray says, "I am looking at the most beautiful woman in the world."
Diana grinned and said, "Who taught you that? Do you want some beating?"
Ray says, "I am telling the truth."
Diana then asked with a scolding voice, "Then tell me, why have you not followed the way the book has taught you to make a soul core with a single rune? What if something wrong happened? I should have taught you how to do it first. I was in the wrong; I thought you were a genius and could easily comprehend it. You almost gave me a heart attack."
"But Mother, I tried to make it with a single rune. It failed every single time. It only worked when I tried to make multiple soul runes and combined them with law. At the end I succeeded." Ray asked with a confused face. He tried to explain quickly with confusion.
Diana looked at his confused face and said, "I know you succeeded, but you made it more complex. You brought out so many runes and turned it into a law and then combined them together. You are supposed to comprehend one rune at a time when you start cultivating. But you made it into your soul core, with multiple runes in one go. That too, combining law. That is what you do when you become a silver-stage cultivator."
"You did the most dangerous thing on this world; what you did almost cost you your life. If I hadn't given you the soul pill, soul formation, and soul stones surrounding you. You would have been dead." She started to smack her head. It is so complicated that it is going over her own head. How is it possible for this kid to do that at this age and without even reaching the iron stage?
Ray now understood and said with a nod, "Then I will not tell anyone. Problem solved."
Diana could only smile wryly at the cheeky kid who could understand everything at the age of six and could only say, "You better. If you do, you might get in trouble. People get jealous easily and want to kill other geniuses."
Then she said, "I will make a concealing formation inside your soul core. So that no one can investigate it. Even if they did, they would see the soul core of a single rune. You have reached the peak of the Qi soul stage. You need to work on your foundation. I will teach you how to use the runes and make formations."
Ray nodded like an obedient boy and listened to his mother. Diana is also very happy for Ray, who can learn soul law at an early age.
Diana then asked, "So why are you in a hurry to make a formation? Why do you not want to be a swordsman or a mage?"
Ray looked at his mother in nervousness and said, "Mother, don't be surprised, but it seems I have memories from my past life. I think I have reincarnated from a past life."
Diana got shocked and asked with a smile, "What? Really? Who were you in your past life? Were you a legendary swordsman? A sorcerer?"
Ray looked at his mother with a straight face and then shook his head and said, "No, I was once a mortal. I lived in the world of mortals. In that mortal world there were so many inventions and so many new innovative things that were available. They do not exist in this world."
Diana got excited after hearing that and said, "You need to tell me more about it."
"Mother, you are weird." Said Ray with a smile.
Diana asked with a confused tone and asked, "Why?
"If someone were in your position, they would be freaking out." Asked Ray.
"I should have, but you are my baby. You are not someone from that world anymore. You are you. You are someone I gave birth to. I refused to believe you are someone else." said Diana
Ray's eyes started to go watery, and then tears started to fall from both sides of his cheeks. He was so nervous when he said it. He was expecting a different reaction. But now he truly loves his mother. Seeing her baby crying, Diana came forward and hugged him tightly.
She then said, "Besides, there are many beings that were reincarnated in this world before. Although it is very rare, it has happened before. Some kept it a secret until he or she became strong enough to reveal his or her reincarnation. Some revealed it at an early age, like you. But I think we should keep it a secret from the others. Because they won't react the way I did."
"I was going to say the same, Mother. I was not planning on saying it to anyone else to begin with. But to make my plan work, I would need your help. I need a lot of powerful people to help me with it. It has to be in secret until we are strong enough to protect ourselves." Said Ray with a very serious face.
"If you keep any more secrets from your mother again, you will see how I pull your ears." She said that while pulling Ray's ear.
"Ouch! Ouch! Mother, you are hurting me. You said if I do it in the future. Why are you pulling it now?" asked Ray in pain.
"Well, you need to know how it will feel in the future. What are you going to do about it?" asked Diana.
Ray became speechless; he had no word to retort to that. He then said, "Mother, do you want to become the first member in my team to retrieve the inventions from my world to this world? Let's make this world more upgraded."
"I do not mind helping you and becoming my only child's supporter. But I need to know how big this scale is, and we need to know how much we can handle. We can do that after we have done our analysis and evaluation. Also, we need to know the cost of all these things you are asking for." Said Diana.
The more Diana talks, the more Ray feels that he is so much behind in resources. And he has to earn that as well. Diana looked at her son starting to calculate, and understanding made her feel happy.
All of a sudden Ray is thinking about how much his mother can help him and how many people he needs. He started to think of people who like to invent stuff. He needs to find all these people from this world. He looked at Diana with one eye up, and Diana looked at him with a smile, waiting for what he wants to ask.
"Mother, we need a large number of people who love to invent stuff. And I do not mean weapons; I mean that is to help people. I mean accessories. The weapon is indeed part of the deal as well, but that comes with the package. I want people who want to make flying machines or travelling machines. I want people like that."
Diana looked at his son with a weird smile because she has all of a sudden some of the names starting to come one after the other. But she wants to start with the person she has in mind. She looks at Ray with a weird smile, and all of a sudden Ray does not want to hear it. Ray wants to run away from his bed. But Diana holds him with her claws and does not let him go.
Ray is like, "I do not want to hear it. It's okay, Mother."
"We are going to the party tomorrow that your highness from the kingdom has invited. We will be going to the king's palace, and there is a princess who was born with a bloodline that may help you." She said with an expectant smile.
She further said with an evil grin, "I know that princess who can be your second member in the team. I want you to win her over. If you can make her your wife, it's an even better idea. You will have the whole kingdom as your backing."
Ray gulped and asked, "Which princess are you talking about, Mother?"
She then said, "She is the 7th princess and the 36th child of the king. She was born with a formation heart."