As Ling Tao sat there waiting with all the others, as he had crossed this morning, he was thinking a lot of things, thoughts turning into webs and webs into blurry visions from which he could not make out anything.
As soon as he realized that, the first thing he did was to stop thinking and chant a mantra in his heart and with a long breath in the end. No one would believe him if he told them that one of the reason why he lasted to the end of the game was because of his deep knowledge of various cultures.
He did not know how his love for stories turned into an interest in old tales of gods and demons, from which he traveled his way into old records of gods, cultures worshipping totems to stars, to longing to visit those places and experience those rituals.
Before the release of the game, for 5 years he traveled from Europe to Egypt to India to Japan learning and experiencing various cultures of worshiping the god to the slave of god to seeking the god itself. He loved those tales of unimaginable powers, the powers that according to their ancestors created and kept the world in balance.
Their tales of play that they were the architect of, to introduce the world to itself and what they were capable of. Well, it''s a tale for another time, right now he was unsure of what he needed to do exactly. Though he had some idea but that depended on the result of tonights operation. His father..
His father in this world was Ling Tianlong, and the first thought that came into his mind was what a fucking genius he was, unlike the cultivation worlds he read about in his old, this world was different. One of the reasons behind lots of players being unable to move forward in the game was the game world''s rule, and his father, considering the world is real now, managed to keep his son alive.
They say that everyone has a weakness, and his father''s weakness was him, well technically, now he was Ling Tao of Earth, and that was not an issue anymore.
Well all this set aside, his father was the 2nd most powerful person in the sect, he was the kind of person who kept a pen in his right hand and a sword in his left hand. 150 years back when his grandfather left the seat of sect master, his father ascended the seat and with his ultra-super-dooper-sharp mind managed to grow the sect further, even his grandfather could not stop praising at every fucking party.
Well all things set aside, the fact that they had survived the seige on sword mountains till now was quite a surprise to everyone, whether it was any person in the clan or enemy party or the watchers. His fathers mastery on his martial arts and his tactics were just superb, but when the war was at an end, this happened.
Right now their heaven shattering clan was in a fight with the joint collaboration of the "Eternal Flame Sect" and "Silent Moon Sect".
Both "Eternal Flame Sect" and "Silent Moon Sect" were Core Formation Sects like "Heaven Breaker Sect", and unlike his own sect, they were older than their sect, which meant more old monsters, schemers more scheming than the devils, and yet they were at a disadvantage.
Well, one might wonder why they were at war with these two sects. What kind of gutter shit things Ling Tao did. Though he wanted to forget them, Ling Tao remembered them like he had just watched a IBAX movie, at the age of 9, he, technically not him, went and schemed against the princess of "Silent Moon Sect". and this year, a few months back he again went and tried to break another flower in someone else''s house, the hot and fiery princess of 2nd most influential person in the "Eternal Flame Sect".
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So what happened exactly, well when he was 9, well not him but that old gutter Tao, went into a festival in Falling Lotus City. Falling Lotus City is the one with the branch of the heavenly court ruled by the top Nascent Soul Realm power in the Narmada (''the giver of bliss'' or ''pleasing river'') plains.
While engaging in a lavish party in one of the inns in the city, he got a glimpse of the princess of Silver Moon City. He was so fascinated by her looks and temperament, that when he found out that she was going to take part in Maha-Chitrakari-Prayogita, he went to watch and tried to make contact with her, but was instead rejected when she found out who he was. Fueled by his uncontrollable desire to catch her and put her in a gold cage, and not allow her to see the day of the light and torment her by making small cuts on her wrist every day,...cough...cough.
Even thinking about his old self''s thoughts, he could not help but cough out the thoughts. Everybody in the room turned towards him, looking at him in disgust, while some old black donkey with grass in his mouth was with a grin on his face. As he looked up, out of his own thoughts, he was handed a glass of water by his mother, which he quickly drank and calmed himself again. Now thinking about where he was, he found the calm in the atmosphere very deadly, like a haunted house in night, with wolf''s background noise, green smoke moving towards you and once you take a breath you start to feel your neck being grabbed by two palms with no hand or body.
As he got out of the train made of his thoughts, some time had passed, he was not feeling like thinking about the past anymore. After some time the physician came out.
And to his dismay, the news was not pleasant to his ears. The physician first came out and bowed to his grandfather and his uncles or aunties. She was Aunt Ling Meixiu, the 17th elder in the sect council, was fairly younger than most of the sect council members and was a perfectionist and a much more mature person.
If one is to define her, then it would be a 21-ish young, serious-looking girl with tightly bound hair in a neat bun or braid with minimum to none makeup, the one wearing simple clothes most of the time and a natural beauty, the kind you would like to call mommy, fair, with a face that screams "get-me" and "obey me" at the same time, whitish pupils and eyes that looked zoomed off in distance all the time while looking directly at you, "the deadly mommy".
Well as she started to explain the extent of injuries and her observation, the color on Ling Tao''s face started to wear out.
Ling Meixiu: Sect Grandelder, the sect leader''s condition is not good. Though we have fixed his bodily injuries and even went on to use half a drop of Amrit-chaya (immotal liquid''s shadow), we seem to be unable to bring him back out of the coma.
As Ling Meixiu mentioned all this, the color on the face of Ling Tao''s mother could not help but start to wear off as well.
Ling Tao''s grandfather hearing this, took notice of the situation and thought for some time, and questioned Ling Meixiu.
Ling Zhengyu: Even Amrit-Chaya (immortal liquid''s shadow) had no effect on him, how is this possible, explain more properly.
Enenemy Camp:-
In a temporary castle, built in between a forest of trees with a width of the length of SUVs and lengths of 100s of meters, was a boy of 18-ish years of age.
He was with a woman, dressed in completely ice-like clothes.
boy: Bai Xueying with this you can be sure that after some time you will be able to grasp the concept of the moon''s essence and merge it with your breakthrough in the spirit awakening realm, thus achieving a perfect breakthrough with a pseudo concept, giving you 500% more power than normal breakthrough.
To the boys remark, the girl could not help but give a smile, like a sunflower on a snowy day.
As Bai Xueying left the temporary castle after expressing her thanks, the innocent look on the boys face completely disappeared, with that came a ice cold serious face.
As he thought about the hardships he faced and the schemes he went through to make this attack happen on the Heaven Breaker sect, he could not help but thank the heavens to give him this chance to avenge for his mother and father''s death.
Alas! That scheming Ling Tianlong got the hang of the situation much faster than expected and went to the saint of opposing paths to mediate between them, but after this day''s attack, he was sure that when the next day arrived with the first ray of Star of prosperity, that cockroach Ling Tao will be upon his feet waiting to be crushed by his foot.