《Void Martial God》
Chapter 1: Fate Twist
MODIFIED VERSION WITH IMPORTANT CHANGES IN THE STORY AND STYLE OF WRITING.
This is a story of peerless warriors.
This is a story of twisted fate.
This is the story of the Void Martial God
Chi Lang was a so-called genius. Chi Lang never thought that myself, he just did what he thought was best in his intent to protect and bring honor to his family and friends, but he wasn''t aware of the most cruel human emotion.
Jealousy.
Chi Luo Ron was Chi Lang best friend and cousin. Chi Luo Ron was one of the people he did his best for. Chi Luo Ron always smiled and helped his friend, they were always together. Chi Lang wanted to explore the world, as a practitioner and as an adventurer, initially he asked Chi Luo Ron to come with him but he insisted to remain and practice in his own while protecting his dears. Months, then years passed by. Chi Lang went to forests inhabited by ghosts, mountains where immortal sages meditated for thousands of years and even went to the extreme desert of Thorny Rocks where fire serpents and black-death turtles reside, at a certain point he wanted to return to his home where his family was, where his friends were. When Chi Lang returned he was already a full-fledged man of 23 years filled with willpower and ardor, and a practitioner of rare talent and power, but what he found there was described in only one word.
Disaster.
Buildings in flame, mutilated corpses and soundless despair welcomed him, the only living being in that parade of death was a man dressed in black, the man vaguely reminded him of Chi Luo Ron, his smile was still there, but shadows clouded his eyes, as if his mind was corrupted, but Chi Lang instantly knew that his friend wasn''t controlled or anything like that, he was genuinely himself.
Chi Luo Ron saw Chi Lang and his smile became boarder, he opened his mouth to say something but closed it again, he began frowning and then opened his mouth again and said.
"Well well, if it isn''t my dear friend Lang, never thought you will come to find me just after I finished killing your family"
Chi Luo Ron said as he showed Chi Lang the head of his dead father.
At that moment the world became black as Chi Lang realized how naive he was, and how powerless he really was.
Chi Lang thought that after becoming strong he would bring honour to his family and make them proud, but never had he thought of the cruelty of fate and how power is null when you have no one to protect.
Chi Lang immediately launched himself at him, random attacks were easily avoided by the killer of his family, his attacks were really undisciplined with no form, just raging power filled with wrath and despair, if only his mind was sane then he would have used an elemental attack to block him and then kill him, but the loss of his family, and the pain from the betrayal clouded his mind.
Chi Luo Ron easily avoided his thrust of spear and kicked Chi Lang in the abdomen with enough force to shatter mountains and split the sky, but it only did little to no damage to Chi Lang, only managing to send him a few meters backwards, he start raging again, launching his twin spears and retracting it by using the attached chain, then thrusting it again, he used raw ki attacks as they were the only ones that he could use without too much concentration as they are controlled by his will, he kicked him at the knee, breaking his bone by the raw power of his kick, then launched him at the earth and impaled his hands at the ground, he yelled screams of horror.
Chi Lang also started yelling at him, asking why he did what he did.
His response was a smile that was betrayed by his pained expression, and a simple phrase.
"I wanted to be better than you and become the next head of the Chi Clan but they said that you are better than me. So I killed them."
Chi Lang was shocked, did he ever wrong him? Was this the response of fate because he was challenging the heaven by practitioning?
Chi Luo Ron used his distraction by unleashing a potent soul attack, when Chi Lang sensed the dark miasma that was coming from Chi Lao Ron body, it was too late.
Souls attacks are a fearsome type of attacks as they can be utilized to attack a stronger opponent and eventually win, they utilize your own soul to attack the enemy soul, but if you encounter an enemy with high guard, always aware of his surrounding and with higher power than you, you will lose your soul as it will be destroyed and you will stop existing, not ever reincarnating again, it is a powerful attack that isn''t very used as its risk toward the user is very high.
When the miasma was inside Chi Lang soul attacking him from the intern, Chi Lang tried to kill him. At least if Chi Lang was to die then he would have died avenging his family, but Chi Lang eyes were already almost all black and his strength betrayed him as he only managed to cut him in the chest and in the throat with his claws before his life was drained from him.
After that what came in front of him wasn''t death. What came in front of him was void.
Void of life, void of death, it wasn''t black nor white, there was equilibrium of Yin and Yang as if every plus and minus in there eliminated itself, it was peaceful and chaotic, colorful and bland, noisy and soundless.
Horror assaulted Chi Lang as he started screaming, after crying for what seemed a year the horror became despair, he lived in his memories, remembering his family and loved ones, then after the despair came the anger, anger at himself for being powerless and for letting his family die, anger at Chi Luo Ron for his betrayal.
He managed to put himself together, and started thinking, why was the void not eliminating him? Why was he still existing, when it is said that if your soul gets defeated the soul is destroyed you stop existing? What will he do now?
Then he tried doing what he can do the best.
Training.
He meditated for hours but nothing was found, it was like the forces of nature didn''t work here, no earth Ki, sky Ki nor heaven Ki, it was void of everything.
Then a realization came to Chi Lang mind, isn''t Ki a manifestation of the earth, sky and heaven power? Isn''t void itself a power? From what he learned in his life was that by conquering a manifestation of power you can conquer the power itself, then what if he managed to conquer void? Wouldn''t he be able to overcome the null space and return to the mortal world?
Thus Chi Lang started meditating again but this time he wasn''t trying to collect Ki, this time he was trying to sense Equilibrium Ki as he called it. Chi Lang continued for what seemed 5 years, but he didn''t manage to sense nothing, he continued until he managed to sense a spark that blended with the surrounding, fascinating was the only word to describe it, it was nor yin nor yang, it was the line between them. Chi Lang instantly tried to attract it but the spark didn''t come towards him, it was as if it ignored his existence, he tried again and again but no results were achieved, he resumed trying to sense the sparks, as already knew what form they have it was easier to sense them and in 10 years of time his world was filled with sparks of Equilibrium Ki, he stopped thinking about revenge and his past, instead Chi Lang was spending his time looking and analyzing the sparks, as they were very fascinating for Chi Lang, his time now wasn''t horrible, but instead he was almost happy of being there, then suddenly a spark of Equilibrium Ki came toward him, as it entered his soul, instantly Chi Lang became happy but after the void particle entered his soul, his emotions died, it was as if Chi Lang was the void itself.
More sparks came to him and nurtured his soul, until the previously brown light that was his soul, became of the colour of the void.
His anger, his despair, his love, his happiness, his ardor and every other emotions died, no, they stopped working as if they were hibernated.
Chi Lang body became part of the void, his emotions slept and his soul was filled with Equilibrium Ki, then he snapped back to reality.
The void was eating him!
Chi lang tried resisting, he searched in his memory for happy, sad and any other memory, he filled his thoughts about revenge and happy past times.
Finally Chi Lang started coming back to normal.
Scary.
That was Chi Lang thought at the moment, he realized that the equilibrium is not achieved by eliminating everything diverse but by assimilating it, it probably what happened to everyone that had his soul defeated, you don''t die, you simply become part of the void.
Chi Lang returned to absorb the equilibrium ki, but this time he never let my guard down. Chi Lang continued thinking about revenge to avoid the void eating him.
Instead of the color of the void, his soul now was dark purple.
When Chi Lang soul was filled to the point where no other sparks entered his soul, he started refining it like how cultivators do with the KI. Chi Lang took a particle of void and reduced it to tiny particles by crushing the best he can, then did the same thing with the other particles, at that moment he picked the tiny sparks and started compressing it in the form of a ball, the ball gave a strange light, as he added more tiny sparks the ball became bigger and the light also became more bright. Chi Lang added the rest of his crushed void sparks slowly, when there were no other particles the ball started spinning, the speed of the rotation became faster and faster and its color became red with raging flames adorning it as if the sun itself was in his, now red colored, soul.
It was very similar to the Core Forming Stage.
The practitioner Realms are subdivided in 6 known Realms:
First: Body Strengthening Realm. This Realm is for the preparation of the body to the Earth Essence, in this Realm the practitioner will train his body to the limit of human possibilities, this Realm is subdivided in 7 stages and they are differentiated by how powerful you attack is: 500 Jin, 600 Jin, 750 Jin, 900 Jin, 1150 Jin, 1500 Jin, 2000 Jin.
Second: Earth Realm. This realm is about utilizing the Earth Ki to strengthen your body and adding layers of KI to the core. The realm is subdivided in 10 stages based on how many layers your core have. The first stage is the Core Forming Stage, in this stage the cultivator have to create a basic core using the earth Ki-
Third: Sky Realm. In this realm the practitioner absorbs the Ki between the earth and the heaven and utilize it to strengthen their core, this Realm is subdivided in 10 stages and are based on how compressed is your core is.
Fourth: Heaven Realm. This realm is the most dangerous one, because you have to absorb Heaven Ki and the heaven doesn''t like who steals from its power, this realm is subdivided in 10 stages and it''s based on how many Heaven Wraths you have passed.
The remaining two at the time were Realms of Legends, the Lords Realm and the Emperors Realm, the Lords have the power to destroy countries and empires but the legendary Emperors were said to travel free in the world and having continents destroyed with a flick of fingers.
Initially as the sun started the rotation Chi Lang panicked, but then a comforting and warm sensation spread in my body, calming him.
Now his soul had a lot more spaces as the flaming ball was very small, so he resumed his meditation and found that he could control the sparks to move a little, a smile formed in his lips but instantly disappeared as he remembered that he was still blocked in this place, and that Chi Luo Ron is out living his life and ruling his clan, so he concentrated and started forming layers on the flaming ball, minutes passed by, then the minutes became hours and then days, until Chi Lang lost count of the years that had gone lost.
The only thing that helped Chi Lang against the craziness that started devouring him because of how lonely he was, was the void itself or more precisely the sparks of Equilibrium.
As Chi Lang soul was filled with sparks he started refining it, he crushed the sparks in now finer than the previous and started adding them on the core. When the particles of void reached the core they seemed to be attracted to it like how iron is attracted to a magnet. When Chi Lang finished, the core started moving faster and faster and changed his colour and the colour of his flames to dark red as if it was made by blood. Shattered memories of people he never met started rushing in his mind, memories of people that lived in worlds where there was no KI and the technology reigned supreme, memories of dragons that used magic to destroy and eat worlds, memories of cultivators so strong that planets stopped moving by a word of them. Chi Lang realized that he was really a toad in a well and that there is always a higher sky. Every memory of them finished in the same mothod: Devoured by the void. Chi lang was depressed. If those powerful and peerless immortals didn''t manage to escape then how can he manage? At that moment a memory found its way to Chi Lang. In a world where magic reigned supreme resided an heremit, this sage lived his entire life pursuing the epitome of magic: Spatial Magic! The sage managed to find what space magic was but didn''t found the power that fueled it. At that moment Chi Lang smiled.
It''s Equilibrium KI! The power to fuel spatial magic is Equilibrium KI!
Using the memories of the sages and the Equilibrium KI he ripped the fabric of reality and launched himself outside, but Chi Lang forgot that he was dead and didn''t have an alive body so his souls started wandering for an eternity until it got absorbed by a sudden vacuum.
Suddenly other shattered memories started rushing in Chi Lang mind and emotions not his found way in his spirit and mind. Memories of a young man named like him with a grave diesease and little to none talent in cultivating rushed in his head.
Chi Lang opened my eyes and in front of him he found a woman in her thirties, she was a beautiful goddess with black hair and eyes of the same color adorned her tiny face, she wore a regal dress, white with black flowers painted on it wich emphasized her curves and young body.
The woman looked at Chi Lang and said.
"Xiao Lang, wake up, your father is waiting in the launch room, let''s go meet him, you know how much he loves to see you."
"Yes Mother, I''m coming"
Chi Lang said that because his soul and memories fused with this body proprietary soul, she his my mother and he loved her.
Chi Lang analyzed the room, it was a large white room with a king sized bed, a door that lead to the wardrobe, a table and a chair, it was very simple but also gave a royal feeling.
He got up and went to the wardrobe, opened it and found himself in a room filled with every type dress one can think of, from peddlers hats to blood steel helms, from black cloaked attires to regal violet dresses, there were also various types of shoes and sandals.
He went to a simple white shirt and pants pair, after undressing from the sleeping attire, he picked underwear and the clothes and started dressing.
When he was done he wore a pair of black boots, and went towards the launch room.
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After 5 minutes Chi Lang got there and a guard announced him to my family.
"Young Master Chi lang has arrived"
Chi Lang entered and found himself in front of a table big enough for 30 people, seated on one end was his mother then there were his 2 sisters and 2 brothers.
At the other end was a man looking at Chi Lang with a smile, his hands had scars, and from his dress a sign of a claw sprouted out towards his throat.
Chi Lao Ron.
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Spoiler: OLD VERSION My children, today I shall tell you of the twisted fate and his cruel games.
Today I shall tell you my story.
I was a so-called genius, although I never thought that myself, I just did what I thought was best in my intent to protect my family and friends, but I wasn''t aware of the most cruel human emotion.
Jealousy.
Chi Luo Ron my best friend, one of the people I did my best for, he always smiled and helped me, we were always together, until I wanted to explore the world, as a practitioner and as an adventurer, initially I asked him to come with me but he insisted to remain and practice in his own while protecting his dears, months then years passed by, I went to forests inhabited by ghosts, mountains where immortal sages meditated for thousands of years and even went to the extreme desert of Thorny Rocks where fire dragons and black-death turtles reside, at a certain point I wanted to return to my home where my family was, where my friends were, when I returned I was already a full fledged man filled with willpower and ardor, and a practitioner of rare talent and power, but what I found there was described in only one word.
Disaster.
Buildings in flame, mutilated corpses and soundless despair welcomed me, the only living being in that parade of death was a man dressed in black, the man vaguely reminded me of Chi Luo Ron, his smile was still there, but shadows clouded his eyes, as if his mind was corrupted, but I instantly knew that he wasn''t controlled or anything like that, he was genuinely himself.
He saw me and his smile became boarder, he opened his mouth to say something but closed it again, he began frowning and then opened his mouth again and said.
"Well well, if it isn''t my dear friend Lang, never thought you will come to find me just after I finished killing your family"
He said as he showed me the head of my dear father.
At that moment the world became black as I realized how naive I was, and how powerless I really was.
I thought that after becoming strong I would bring honour to my family and make them proud, but never had I thought of the cruelty of fate and how power is null when you have no one to protect.
I immediately launched myself at him, random attacks were easily avoided by the killer of my family, my attacks were really undisciplined with no form, just raging power filled with wrath and despair, if only my mind was sane then I would have used a spirit attack to block him and then kill him, but the loss of my family, and the pain from the betrayal clouded my mind.
He easily avoided my thrust of spear and kicked me in the abdomen with enough force to shatter mountains and split the sky, but it only did little to no damage to myself, only managing to send me a few meters backwards, I start raging again, launching my twin spears and retracting it by using the attached chain, then thrusting it again, I used ki attacks as they were the only ones that I could use without too much concentration as they are controlled by my will, I kicked him at the knee, breaking his bone by the raw power of my kick, then launched him at the earth and impaled his hands at the ground, he yelled screams of horror.
I also started yelling at him, asking why he did what he did.
His response was a smile that was betrayed by his pained expression, and a simple phrase.
"I wanted to be better than you"
I was shocked, did I ever wrong him? Was this the response of fate because I was challenging the heaven by practitioning?
He used my distraction by unleashing a potent soul attack, when I sensed the dark miasma that was coming from Chi Lao Ron body, it was too late.
Many of you my children may not know what souls attack are, so I will explain it.
Souls attacks are a fearsome type of attacks as they can be utilized to attack a stronger opponent and eventually win, they utilize your own soul to attack the enemy soul, but if you encounter an enemy with high guard, always aware of his surrounding and with higher power than you, you will lose your soul as it will be destroyed and you will stop existing, not ever reincarnating again, it is a powerful attack that isn''t very used as its risk toward the user is very high.
Now let''s return to my story.
When the miasma was inside my soul attacking me from the intern, I tried to kill him at least if I was to die I would have avenged my family, but my eyes were already almost all black and my strength betrayed me as I only managed to cut him in the chest and slightly in the throat with my claws before my life was drained from me.
After that what came in front of me wasn''t death, but void.
Void of life, void of death, it wasn''t black nor white, there was equilibrium of Yin and Yang as if every plus and minus in there eliminated itself, it was peaceful and chaotic, colorful and bland, noisy and soundless.
Horror assaulted me, after screaming for what seemed a year the horror became despair, I lived in my memories, remembering my family and loved ones, then after the despair came the anger, anger at myself for being powerless and for letting my family die, anger at Chi Luo Ron for his betrayal.
I managed to put myself together, and started thinking, why was the void not eliminating me? Why was I still existing, when it is said that when the soul is destroyed you stop existing? What will I do now?
Then I tried doing what I do the best.
Training.
I meditated for hours but nothing was found, it was like the forces of nature didn''t work here, no earth Ki, no sky Ki nor heaven Ki power, it was void of everything.
Then a realization came to my mind, isn''t Ki a manifestation of the earth, sky and heaven power? Isn''t void itself a power? From what I learned in my life was that by conquering a manifestation of power you can conquer the power itself, then what if I manage to conquer void? Wouldn''t I be able to overcome the null space and return to the mortal world?
Thus I started meditating again but this time I wasn''t trying to collect Ki, this time I was trying to sense Equilibrium Ki as I called it, I continued for what seemed, if my mental clock didn''t betray me, 5 years, but I didn''t manage to sense nothing until I managed to sense a spark that blended with the surrounding, fascinating was the only word to describe it, it was nor yin nor yang, it was the line between them, I instantly tried to attract it but the spark didn''t come towards me, it was as if it ignored my existence, I tried again and again but no results were achieved, I resumed trying to sense the sparks, as already knew what form they have it was easier to sense them and in 10 years of time my world was filled with sparks of Equilibrium Ki, I stopped thinking about revenge and my past, instead I was spending my time looking and analyzing the sparks, as they were, and are until now, very fascinating for myself, my time now wasn''t horrible, but instead I was almost happy of being there, then suddenly a spark of Equilibrium Ki came toward me, as it entered my soul, instantly I became happy but after the void particle entered my soul, my emotions died, it was as if I was the void itself.
More sparks came to me and nurtured my soul, until the previously brown light that was my soul, became of the color of the void.
My anger, my despair, my love, my happiness, my ardor and every other emotions died, no, they stopped working as if they were hibernated.
My body became part of the void, my emotions slept and my soul was filled with Equilibrium Ki, then I snapped back to reality.
The void was eating me!
I tried resisting, I searched in my memory for happy, sad and any other memory, I filled my thoughts about revenge and happy past times.
I started coming back to normal.
Scary.
That was my thought at the moment, I realized that the equilibrium is not achieved by eliminating everything diverse but by assimilating it, it probably what happened to everyone that had his soul crushed, you don''t die, you simply become part of the void.
I returned to absorb the equilibrium ki, but this time I never let my guard down.
Instead of the color of the void, my soul now was dark purple.
When my soul was filled to the point where no other sparks entered my body, I started refining it, I took a particle of void and reduced it to tiny particles by crushing the best I can, then did the same thing with the other particles, at that moment I picked the tiny sparks and started compressing it in the form of a ball, the ball gave a strange light, as I added more tiny sparks the ball became bigger and the light also became more bright, I added the rest of my crushed sparks slowly, when there were no other particles the ball started spinning, the speed of the rotation became faster and faster and its color became red with raging flames adorning it as if the sun itself was in my, now red colored, soul.
It was very similar to the Core Forming Stage.
My children you may not know what I am talking about so I shall explain myself.
The practitioner Realms are subdivided in 6 known Realms:
First: Body Strengthening Realm. This Realm is for the preparation of the body to the Earth Essence, in this Realm the practitioner will train his body to the limit of human possibilities, this Realm is subdivided in 7 stages and they are differentiated by how powerful you attack is: 500 Jin, 600 Jin, 750 Jin, 900 Jin, 1150 Jin, 1500 Jin, 2000 Jin.
Second: Earth Realm. This realm is about utilizing the Earth Ki to strengthen your body, creating a core and utilizing it to learn new techniques. The realm is subdivided in 10 stages based on how many layers your core have.
Third: Sky Realm. In this realm the practitioner absorbs the Ki between the earth and the heaven and utilize it to strengthen their core, this Realm is subdivided in 10 stages and are based on how compressed is your core is.
Fourth: Heaven Realm. This realm is the most dangerous one, because you have to absorb Heaven Ki and the heaven doesn''t like who steals from its power, this realm is subdivided in 10 stages and it''s based on how many Heaven Wraths you have passed.
The remaining two at the time were Realms of Legends, the Lords Realm and the Emperors Realm, the Lords have the power to destroy countries and empires but the legendary Emperors were said to travel free in the world and having continets destroyed with a flick of fingers.
Although later on I discovered that there were other Realms but that is a story for another time.
Now let''s return to the story, my dear children.
Initially as the sun started the rotation I panicked, but then a comforting and warm sensation spread in my body, calming me.
Now my soul had a lot more spaces as the flaming ball was very small, so I resumed my meditation and found that I could control the sparks to come to me, a smile formed in my lips but instantly disappeared as I remembered that I was still blocked in this place, and that the best are Chi Luo Ron is out living his life, so I concentrated and started forming layers on the flaming ball, minutes passed by, then the minutes became hours and then days, until I lost count of the years that had gone lost.
The only thing that helped me against the craziness that started devouring me because of how lonely I was, was the void itself or more precisely the sparks of Equilibrium.
As the first layer was finished I found myself capable of opening a portal in the void, instantly I ripped the fabric of reality and launched myself outside, I forgot that I was dead and didn''t have an alive body so my souls started wandering for an eternity until it got absorbed by a sudden vacuum.
Suddenly shattered memories started rushing in my mind and emotions not mine found way in my spirit and mind.
I opened my eyes and in front of me I found a woman in her thirties, she was a beautiful goddess with black hair and eyes of the same color adorned her tiny face, she wore a regal dress, white with black flowers painted on it wich emphasized her curves and young body.
The woman looked at me and said.
"Hey Xiao Lang honey, wake up, your father is waiting in the launch room, let''s go meet him, you know how much he loves to see you."
"Yes Mother, I''m coming"
I said that because my soul fused with this body proprietary soul, she is my mother, although I didn''t remember my father.
I analyzed the room, it was a large white room with a king sized bed, a door that lead to the wardrobe, a table and a chair, it was very simple but also gave a royal feeling.
I got up and went to the wardrobe, opened it and found myself in a room filled with every type dress one can think of, from peddlers hats to Princes crowns, from black cloacked attires to regal violet dresses, there were also various types of shoes and sandals.
I went to a simple white shirt and pants pair, after undressing from the sleeping attire, I picked underwear and the clothes and started dressing.
When I was done I wore a pair of black boots, and went towards the launch room.
After 5 minutes I got there, a guard announced me to my family.
"Young Master Chi lang has arrived"
I entered and found in front of me a table big enough for 30 people, seated on one end was my mother then there were my 2 sisters and 3 brothers.
At the other end was a man looking at me with a smile, his hands had scars, and from his dress a sign of a claw sprouted out towards his throat.
I swear that even if I died another 50 times, I would never forget his smile.
Chi Lao Ron.
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Chapter 2: Father and Son, Betrayer and Betrayed.
MODIFIED VERSION WITH SLIGHT CHANGES IN STYLE AND STORY
In front of Chi Lang was Chi Luo Ren with his gentle and loving smile plastered on his face, his dirt blond hair was cut short, his eyes were no more clouded, he was still handsome even tough he was in his thirties.
Chi Lang hands started shaking and his mind went blank, memories of his ''Father'' resurfaced, always smiling to him even when it was said that he didn''t have any special talent in martial arts like his brother or when they discovered his disease, a man who is always smiling and loving his family equally and genuinely, but he also remembered how he killed my family and smiled with the same smile.
Emotions battled in Chi Lang soul, from a side he was his family killer, from the other he was his father.
Chi Lang resolve was made, he had to kill him.
Chi Lang tried sending water earth ki, as he was in the Earth Realm seventh stage when he died, this was his strongest attack, but instead of his usual sky blue ki nothing came out.
When someone practice in a certain environment or eat a special type of pill rich of a certain element power, he can fuse his Ki with the elemental power, thus creating a new type of ki, those who can do it are little, because you have to form your core from the start in this manner and fuse every particle of an elemental spark with exactly 7 particles of KI, if you add more KI and less element its effects will be bland and of little help for your cultivation, but if you ever put too much element in you KI, you will lose your mind and become possessed by the element.
The types of elements power that can be fused with the KI are subdivided in 4 principal types:
Fire: This type of elemental power is the essence of flames that devour everything, it has raw force and speed equally good, it''s one of the easier type of elements to be controlled. It can be found in deserts, volcanoes and various type of ''flame pills''.
Water: This element is the peacefulness of the seas but it is also the raw power of flooding rivers, this element utilize a scheme of defending until an opening is available and then striking with all the power you have. It can be found in the rivers, seas and in the various ''water pills''.
Stone: Defence is the best Attack, this element is steady and solid like the earth that we have under our feet, it''s peaceful and everlasting, the practitioner of this element will have impregnable defence that puts the others at shame. It can be found in deep caves, thousands year old fossils and in the various ''stone pills''
Wind: This elements is the impersonation of speed, if you practice this element, you can with a movement of you foot find yourself miles away. It can be found in high mountains, clouds and in the various ''wind pills''.
Chi Lang panicked not finding my ki, so he analyzed his dantian.
Inside his dantian he didn''t found his previous blue core, only the void essence that he collected in the void instead of being in his soul was in his dantian, but the equilibrium KI was locked. Chi Lang thought that it''s because this body previous owner only reached the 900 Jin stage, his talent was very bad, he was 16 and didn''t even manage to arrive to the 1500 Jin stage when his fellow disciple of the same age were at the 2000 Jin stage.
Chi Lang was powerless in front of his family killer, he was powerless in front of his father.
"Xiao Lang are you alright? It''s another attack of the ''blood chilling cold'' ? "
The blood chilling cold is a disease that attacks at random times by chilling your blood and bones, the intensity of the attack varies greatly, it can make your blood more dense or it can freeze your bones to the point where they break, the only cure known is absorbing fire ki to balance the cold, but as Chi Lang was still at the ''Body straightening Realm'' he couldn''t cultivate earth essence to blend with the fire ki.
Chi Lang wanted to attack him utilizing a soul attack but if Chi Luo Ron won who knows when the next time Chi Lang would exit the void is?
"No father, I am just a little tired"
In that moment Chi Lang emotions swayed a little, in this life he was his father and Chi Lang his son, in his past life he was the betrayer and Chi Lang the betrayed.
But resolve returned to him as he remembered when Chi Luo Ron smiled and showed me Chi Lang father''s head. Chi Lang closed his hands until his nails penetrated the skin of his palms.
"Come and sit then"
Chi Lang did as his father ordered him, he went to the chair between his sister and his mother, and sat down.
They started eating, and chatting, although Chi Lang never talked and answered the questions with a ''Yes'' or a ''No''. Chi Lang would have never imagined that the moment when he would eat with his family killer like a family would come.
After eating, Chi Lang was going to stand up and go to his room to organize his thoughts, when his father started speaking.
"Xiao Lang when are you returning to the ''fire lotus sect''? "
The sects are organizations of cultivators that form braches all around the continent to recruit more cultivators and nurture the young talents, some sects are small while others like the'' Fire lotus sect'' big enough to compete with the royal family, in this life Chi Lang was a cultivator in a branch of the ''Fire lotus sect'' 400 miles away.
"The next month, father. "
"Go and show them what is better between talent and hard work"
Chi Lang father was really loving to the point that his hate for him subdued a little.
But death was the only possible result in this clash, fueled by revenge and Jealousy.
"Father what are those scars that you have in your hand? Why don''t you erase them? "
Chi Lang little sister asked his father, her name was Chi Fei, she was 15 years old with beautiful raven hairs and blue eyes, her face resembled a less mature version of mother, her talent for cultivating was very evident, she was younger than me but already at the 2000 Jin stage.
Chi Lang father looked slightly depressed and gloomy when Chi Fei asked him about the scars.
"It''s a reminder of how foolish I was, because the mind may forget but the body remembers"
Silence fell on the launch room.
He seemed repentant, Chi Lang emotions swayed a little more, but he didn''t want to forget the pain and the sorrow that he gave him.
Chi Lang got up and went to his room, closed the door, sat on the bed and started thinking about what to do and what happened when he entered this body. Chi came to the conclusion that his soul found this body almost dead, probably because of the ''blood chilling cold'' and as they were compatible in some way, probably because he didn''t have a core and his physique was similar to that of Chi Lang, so his soul fused with this body former one and managed to overtake the body as Chi Lang soul was stronger than the former body soul, but the soul of the former ''Chi Lang'' didn''t disperse instead was assimilated with that of Chi Lang so he toke over his memories and emotions.
After some thinking Chi Lang came to the conclusion that what he needed now is power to protect himself and his family, the power to kill his enemies.
He picked his dimensional bag and went out.
The dimensional bag is a bag that can reduce the body and the weight of the introduced items, but the bag that Chi Lang picked didn''t have a weight reduction system, instead it had a weight distribution system to help with training.
When he was out. Chi Lang had good look at the mansion, it was too small to be called castle, but big enough to be the house of one of the ruling clans of the city, the buildings were white, simplistic like his room, the edifices were subdivided in areas, every area was dedicated to one member of the family or to a certain utility like library, servants dormitory or the training hall.
Chi Lang went to the forest behind the mansion, and followed the path until he came across a river, there he started picking rocks and putting them inside the bag, every time the rocks arrived in the aperture of the bag they shrinked to a thirtieth of his original size, he continued until he was satisfied. The bag was probably of 500 Jin of weight. (250 kilos)
Chi Lang picked the bag with his hand, and the distributed weight instantly pressed him on the ground making him split blood from his mouth, the pain was unbearable. Chi Lang thought his bones were crushed and his organs exploded, he started becoming dizzy and losing focus, when everything was black he remembered the corpses of his family and the mutilated head of his father.
Chi Lang shook his head and the dizziness subdued a little, he started mustering his strength of 900 Jin. Chi Lang had put his hand on the ground with great difficulty, and started pushing, his bones cried from the pain and blood flooded from his mouth, after what seemed hours he managed to land on his knee. Chi Lang knee bones cracked from the pressing but he gritted my teeth with undying willpower and pressed on it managing to stand on his feet, when Chi Lang was standing up he tried to move but his feet didn''t help him as they didn''t budge in the slightest, he stood there motionless with pain adorning his face for minutes until his bones didn''t bear it anymore. Chi Lang fell to the ground with a THUD and his hands let the bag go, he started breathing irregularly and with difficulties, Chi Lang laid down for a hour.
Chi Lang tried getting up but his bones were aching badly, so he started crawling towards the path, every now and then he tried getting up, he managed to arrive at the house on his feet before the sun faded in the horizon, when Chi Lang arrived he found his mom looking at him worryingly.
"Xiao Lang are you alright?! "
She asked him when she saw Chi Lang bloodied.
" Yes mother I was just training"
Chi Lang replied with little to none emotions in his voice, when he was in the void he learned how to control his emotion and he didn''t want to let his pain transpire making her even more worried.
Chi Lang really loved her and the rest of his family, and this time he wouldn''t let anyone touch them even if his soul and body got destroyed in the way.
"Xiao Lang, do you want me to tell the servants to prepare a medical bath?"
"Yes, please do mother"
Again Chi Lang voice was emotionless.
"Xiao Lang are you perhaps annoyed by something today? You are acting distant"
Chi Lang smiled at her with a genuinely kind smile and said.
"No mother, its probably because I found a new method of training to help me, so I was focused on it"
"Please don''t overwork yourself, your disease can deteriorate."
After finishing his speak with mother and saying goodbye, he went to his room and laid himself on the king sized bed, after some times two guards came transporting a bathtub, the guards positioned the tub in the center of the blank room and went out without saying a word, Chi Lang got up and started undressing, then he went towards the tub.
The water inside the bath was green with various red and blue petals of flowers, it gave a mystical feeling.
As Chi Lang sat inside the bathtub all his pain and sorrow slided away and he slipped in the world of the dreamless rest.
When Chi Lang woke up he found himself still in the tub so he stood up and went toward the wardrobe, he dressed in another pair of white pants and shirt, after that he went toward the shoes cabinet and picked a black pair of boots, at the side of the cabinet there was a mirror, Chi Lang was curious of his appearance so he went and looked at myself.
In the mirror reflected was a young man in the middle of his teens, shoulder length dark violet hair adorned his head, his face was beautiful with rosy lips similar to that of girl but not enough to become confounding, his eyes were light blue, his height was 1.75 m and his physique was not too big nor too small, it was just of the right size. Chi Lang was very happy because his face resembled his mother and not his father and because it was pleasing to the eye. Even if he was a genius cultivator he was still an inexperienced young man and wanted to try falling in love and maybe having a family of his own.
Chi Lang exited the wardrobe and went towards the launch room.
After eating, he went back to his training and this time managed to take a step at the cost of some broken bones.
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In front of me Chi Luo Ren with his gentle and loving smile plastered on his face, his dirt blond hair was cut short, his eyes were no more clouded, now he wasn''t young anymore but was still handsome even tough he was in his thirties.
My hands started shaking and by mind went blank, memories of my ''Father'' resurfaced, always smiling to me even when it was said that I don''t have any special talent in martial arts like my brothers or when they discovered my disease, a man who is always smiling and loving his family equally and genuinely, but I also remembered how he killed my family and smiled with the same smile.
Emotions battled in my soul, from a side he was my family killer, from the other he was my father.
My resolve was made, I had to kill him.
I tried sending water earth ki, as I was in the Earth Realm seventh stage , this was my strongest attack, but instead of my usual sky blue ki nothing came out.
My children you are probably wondering what does water ki mean, so I shall explain myself.
When someone practice in a certain environment or eat a special type of pill rich of a certain element power, he can fuse his Ki with the elemental power, thus creating a new type of ki, those who can do it are little, because you have to form your core from the start in this manner and fuse every particle of an elemental spark with exactly 7 particles of KI, if you add more KI and less element its effects will be bland and of little help for your cultivation, but if you ever put too much element in you KI, you will lose your mind and become possessed by the element.
The types of elements power that can be fused with the KI are subdivided in 4 principal types:
Fire: This type of elemental power is the essence of flames that devour everything, it has raw force and speed equally good, it''s one of the easier type of elements to be controlled. It can be found in deserts, volcanoes and various type of ''flame pills''.
Water: This element is the peacefulness of the seas but it is also the raw power of flooding rivers, this element utilize a scheme of defending until an opening is available and then striking with all the power you have. It can be found in the rivers, seas and in the various ''water pills''.
Stone: Defence is the best Attack, this element is steady and solid like the earth that we have under our feet, it''s peaceful and everlasting, the practitioner of this element will have impregnable defence that puts the others at shame. It can be found in deep caves, thousands year old fossils and in the various ''stone pills''
Wind: This elements is the impersonation of speed, if you practice this element, you can with a movement of you foot find yourself miles away. It can be found in high mountains, clouds and in the various ''wind pills''.
Now that you know what elemental power is, let''s resume.
I panicked not finding my ki, so I started analyzing my dantian.
I didn''t found my previous core, only the void essence that I collected in the void, but it was locked, I assume it''s because this body owner only reached the 900 Jin stage, his talent was very bad, he was 16 and didn''t even manage to arrive to the 1500 Jin stage when his fellow disciple of the same age were at the 2000 Jin stage.
I was powerless in front of my family killer, I was powerless in front of my father.
"Xiao Lang are you alright? It''s another attack of the ''blood chilling cold'' ? "
The blood chilling cold is a disease that attacks at random times by chilling your blood and bones, the intensity of the attack varies greatly, it can make your blood more dense or it can freeze your bones to the point where they break, the only cure known is absorbing fire ki to balance the cold, but as I was still at the ''Body straightening Realm'' I couldn''t consume earth essence to blend with the fire ki.
I wanted to attack him utilizing a soul attack but if he won who knows when the next time I would exit the void is?
"No father, I am just a little tired"
In that moment my emotions swayed a little, in this life he was my father and I his son, in my past life he was the betrayer and I the betrayed.
But resolve returned to me as I remembered when he smiled and showed me my father''s head, I closed my hands until my nails penetrated my skin.
"Come and sit then"
I did as my father ordered me, I went to the chair between my sister and my mother, and sat down.
We started eating, and chatting, although I would have never imagined that the moment when I would eat with my family enemy would come.
After eating, I was going to stand up and go to my room to organize my thought, when my father started speaking.
"Xiao Lang when are you returning to the ''fire lotus sect''? "
The sects are organizations of cultivators that form schools all around the continent to recruit more cultivators and nurture the young talents, some sects are small while others like the'' Fire lotus sect'' big enough to compete with the royal family, in this life I was a cultivator in a branch school of the ''Fire lotus sect'' 400 miles away.
"The next month, father. "
"Go and show them what is better between talent and hard work"
Father was really loving to the point that my hate for him subdued a little.
But death was the only possible result in this clash, fueled by revenge and Jealousy.
"Father what are those scars that you have in your hand? Why don''t you cancel them? "
My little sister asked my father, her name was Chi Fei, she was 15 years old with beautiful raven hairs and blue eyes, her face resembled a less mature version of mother, her talent for cultivating was very evident, she was younger than me but already at the 2000 Jin stage.
Father looked slightly depressed and gloomy when Chi Fei asked him about the scars.
"It''s a reminder of how foolish I was, because the mind may forget but the body remembers"
He seemed repentant, my emotions swayed a little more, but I didn''t want to forget the pain and the sorrow that he gave me.
I got up and went to my room, closed the door, sat on the bed and started thinking about what to do and what happened when I entered this body, I came to the conclusion that my soul found this body almost dead, probably because of the ''blood chilling cold'' and as we were compatible in some way, probably because he didn''t have a core and his physique was similar to mine, my soul fused with his and managed to overtake the body as my soul was stronger than his, but the soul of the former ''Chi Lang'' didn''t disperse instead was assimilated with mine so I toke over his memories and emotions.
After some thinking I came to the conclusion that what I need now is power to protect myself and my family, the power to kill my enemy.
I picked my dimensional bag and went out.
The dimensional bag is a bag that can reduce the body and the weight of the introduced items, but the bag that I picked didn''t have a weight reduction system, instead it had a weight distribution system to help with training.
When I was out I had good look at the mansion, it was too small to be called castle, but big enough to be the house of one of the ruling clans of the city, the buildings were white, simplistic like my room, the edifices were subdivided in areas, every area was dedicated to one member of the family or to a certain utility like library, servants dormitory or the training hall.
I went to the forest behind the mansion, and followed the path until I came across a river, there I started picking rocks and putting them inside the bag, every time the rocks arrived in the aperture of the bag they shrinked to a thirtieth of his original size, I continued until I was satisfied, I think it was 500 Jin of weight.
I picked the bag with my hand, and the distributed weight instantly pressed me on the ground making me split blood from my mouth, the pain was unbearable, I thought my bones were crushed and my organs exploded, I started becoming dizzy and losing focus, when everything was black I remembered the corpses of my family and the mutilated head of my father.
I shook my head and the dizziness subdued a little, I start mustering my strength of 900 Jin, I had put my hand on the ground with great difficulty, and started pushing, my bones cried from the pain and blood flooded from my mouth, after what seemed hours I managed to land on my knee, my knee bones cracked from the pressing but I gritted my teeth and pressed on it managing to stand on my feet, when I was standing up I tried to move but my feet didn''t help me as they didn''t budge in the slightest, I stood there for minutes until my bones didn''t bear it anymore, I fell to the ground with a *THUD* and my hands let the bag go, I started breathing irregularly and with difficulties, I laid down for a hour.
I tried getting up but my bones were aching badly, so I started crawling towards the path, every now and then I tried getting up, I managed to arrive at the house on my feet before the sun faded in the horizon, when I arrived I found my mom looking at me worryingly.
"Xiao Lang are you alright?! "
She asked me when she saw me bloodied.
" Yes mother I was just training"
I replied with little to none emotions in my voice, when I was in the void I learned how to control my emotion and I didn''t want to let my pain transpire making her even more worried.
I really loved her and the rest of my family, and this time I wouldn''t let anyone touch them even if my soul and body got destroyed in the way.
"Xiao Lang, do you want me to tell the servants to prepare a medical bath?"
"Yes, please do mother"
Again my voice was emotionless.
"Xiao Lang are you perhaps annoyed by something today? You are acting distant"
I smiled at her with a genuinely kind smile and said.
"No mother, its probably because I found a new method of training to help me, so I was focused on it"
"Please don''t overwork yourself, your disease can deteriorate."
After finishing my speak with mother and saying goodbye, I went to my room and laid myself on the king sized bed, after some times two guards came transporting a bathtub, the guards positioned the tub in the center of the blank room and went out without saying a word, I got up and started undressing, then went towards the tub.
The water inside the bath was green with various red and blue petals of flowers, it gave a mystical feeling.
As I sat inside the bathtub all my pain and sorrow slided away and I slipped in the world of the dreamless rest.
When I woke up I found myself still in the tub so I stood up and went toward the wardrobe, I dressed in another pair of white pants and shirt, after that I went toward the shoes cabinet and picked a black pair of boots, at the side of the cabinet there was a mirror, I was curious so I went and looked at myself.
In the mirror reflected was a young man in the middle of his teens, shoulder length dark violet hair adorned my head, my face was beautiful with rosy lips similar to that of girl but not enough to become confounding, my eyes were light blue, my height was 1.75 m, my physique was not too big nor too small, it was just of the right size.
I exited the wardrobe and went towards the launch room.
After eating, I went back to my training and this time managed to take step at the cost of some broken bones.
Well, my children let''s take a break now shall we? We will continue the next time. Be sure to be punctual.
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Chapter 3: Freezing Blood
Running along the river was a white silhouette, every step the silhouette made the heart shake with a heavy THUD, if someone saw the silhouette they could only imagine how heavy and how much force it had.
It was Chi Lang.
In the last 2 weeks his strength improved by leaps and bound, his strength already reached 1000 Jin, if someone saw how much he improved wouldn''t they think he is a monster?
But for him this wasn''t enough, 1000 Jin of strength aren''t even good to defend yourself in a small town like Chao Bao, he wanted to have enough strength to defeat Chi Lao Ron and defend himself in the sect.
He knew how arrogant and cruel the disciples in the sects are, and he also knew that the sect followed the rule of the jungle, where only the strong has rights.
Chi Lang clan resided in Chao Bao, the meaning of Chao Bao is excellent gem because at the sunrise it''s splendor is like that of a beautiful thousand year old jade, simple and peerless.
In this small city there were 4 clans: The Chi clan, Lin clan and the Dong clan. The fourth clan was the Heng clan. The Heng clan held its power with a steel hand and no one dared question it. The Lord of the city was also the patriarch of the Heng clan. The other three clan didn''t dare to attack the Heng clan so they competed between themselves for the second position. The Chi clan kept the power on the mines of the West and the best constructors of Chao Bao, the Dong clan held power on the market and roads, the Lin clan instead had control on the agriculture and food market.
Chi Lang stopped running and started emptying the bag that was on his back, every time a rock exited the bag it would enlarge by thirty time. He continued picking the rocks from his bag and putting them at the shore of the river.
ROOOOOOARRR
Suddenly a sky splitting shriek echoed as if it was challenging the heaven.
BOOOM BOOOM BOOOM
Heavy steps resounded and hideous red blood ki filled the air. Pressure descended on Chi Lang making him kneel and making his breathing hard. He looked around in despair searching for what was coming.
From the forest a dark red mass came out. It was a gigantic salamander at least 3 meters high!
"Blood Salamander! "
It was actually a Bloody Salamander!
The bloody salamander is a beast of the first layer in the earth realm!
Chi Lang tried to run but suddenly a cold sensation filled his body. The cold started spreading from his dantian and spread in all of his body. The chilling sensation started to become more and more cold, until he fell down paralyzed from the pain.
''Blood chilling cold! Does the heaven want to kill me so much?! I escaped death one time, I shall not die today or my name isn''t Chi Lang!''
Despair filled Lang when he tried to move only to be stopped by the increased pain.
CRACK
His bones cracked from the cold and the Ki pressure.
AHHHHHHHHH
A shriek filled with horror and pain spread reaching the city.
The people of the city were startled by the howl of pain and suffering, some of them even felt their hearts growing cold as if the devastated shriek passed his pain to them.
The salamander advanced towards Lang slowly as if it was enjoying his screams. Its steps resounding between the earth and the sky scaring the weak beasts in the vicinity.
Blood started gushing out of Chi Lang mouth and a look of pain and determination on his face.
He had put his hands on the ground and started mustering his strength and pushed with all the strength that he managed to muster.
CRACK CRACK PLOP PLOP
His bones cracked and his blood vessels started bursting from the exercised pressure. He moved but his speed and strength was low in confront of the beast. Body Strengthening Realm and the Earth Realm are distant like heaven and earth, it isn''t wise to compare them.
The salamander, probably annoyed that its prey managed to stand on his feet decided to attack. In confront of its mole the salamander speed was even more astonishing. The salamander launched itself towards Chi Lang. Chi Lang felt as if the heavenly winds decided to ascend on earth and attack him, he felt stupid when he thought that he would manage to escape. His body resigned himself to the wrath of the heaven, he ignored the pain of the cold, the pain from his cracking bones and the blurriness caused by his freezing blood.
Resolve returned to him when he remembered his little sister Chi Fei and her smile. He decided to try a last desperate attempt to escape and return home. He stepped making pressure on his right foot with all his force and propelled himself to the left with great force. He thought he managed to escape the monster attack. But suddenly the salamander changed direction and clawed him with great force launching him across the river making him slam on a tree. His bones bended broken, his right leg was flected in a strange manner and his left hand was only attached by a thin line of skin and nerves. Blood flooded from a massive wound on his chest and his mouth. It was a spectacle that could make the strongest cultivator pity him.
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"Get lost! "
A sky shattering voice filled with anger and an all devouring fire Ki descended on the forest as if it wanted to burn everything that stood in its path. The Ki was so powerful and tyrannical that made the Bloody Salamander Ki seem kid play. A shadow shoot towards the beast.
HOOOONG
A loud sound echoed and a flash of red light filled the river shore when the shadow and the Bloody Salamander touched.
When the light subdued the salamander wasn''t there anymore instead blood red rain started pouring from the sky and mixing with the crystal clear river making it seem as if the river was made of blood.
"Xiao Lang! "
The shadow shoot towards Chi Lang and cried worried.
The shadow that was in front of Chi Lang was a young man in his 20, he had the same hair colour of Roan but his was shoulder length, his eyes were black like the starless sky, his pyahyque was slightly bigger than that of Chi Lang and his face had a different type of beauty in confront of Chi Lang he was more manly looking.
He was Chi Feng, Chi Lang big brother. Chi Feng was an absolute genius that appeared one time every thousand years.
He was 17 and already at the second layer of the Earth Realm! If Chi Feng said he was the second most promising disciple of the Chi clan then no one would dare to say that there is a first.
Peerless and kind he was the perfect type of big brother, he loved his little brother Chi Lang more than everything, they entered the same branch school. In the Fire Lotus Sect the outer disciple didn''t dare to harass Chi Lang because they were scared of the brother, but Chi Feng was at a level where he would have to enter the inner disciple exam so he can''t protect him anymore.
When Chi Lang saw that his brother arrived he smiled and drifted to the unconsciousness.
When Chi Lang opened his eyes he was greeted by darkness, it was a different type of darkness than the void. This darkness wasn''t impassible and indifferent like the void instead it was like a blizzard. Freezing, deadly and beautiful.
Chi Lang gazed at the darkness around him until a pair of ice cold eyes opened in front of him and looked directly at him in the eyes, Chi Lang was mesmerized by the eyes as they were incredibly beautiful like diamonds at the moonlight, the eyes started moving towards and a human silhouette started to appear.
"Haa Haa"
Chi Lang flashed back to consciousness, and found himself in his bed breathing with difficulties.
He looked at his body and found it bandaged from head to toe. Ache diffused in his body when he tried to move. At that moment the door opened and his mother entered. When she saw Chi Lang awake tears filled her eyes and she went towards him.
"Xiao Lang, please don''t worry me another time"
Chi Lang was deeply moved in his heart, he never had a mother in past because she died giving birth to him, his only family consisted of his father and his brother, so this motherly love gave him a warm feeling, he secretly swore to defend his family with everything he had.
"Sorry mother"
He said apologetically, but in his heart he loved the feeling when he said ''mother''.
"How much time passed since the attack? "
"Four days passed since then, when Xiao Feng brought you, you were in the middle of an attack of ''blood chilling cold'' and your bones were in a sorry state, we had to call Wheng Zhang Laoshi to cure you"
"That wasn''t ''blood chilling cold''! "
Said Chi Lang as he came to a realization.
" What do you mean? "
Asked his mother, she was surprised. If it wasn''t'' blood chilling cold'' then what mysterious disease was?
"It was a spirit! It was my spirit!"
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Chapter 4: Xukong Yongshi, the Void Warriors
Spirits are a part of the mind and the soul of people, they reside in the dantian and are awakened by the Ki when a core it''s created. Spirits are divided in 4 types. Beast spirits, Xinling spirits, Elemental spirits and Weapon spirits. Beast spirits are spirits that take a form to help the cultivator in combat directly, they are like a loyal tamed beast, they can be weak and useless like a Blue Stink Cockroach or can be mystical and immortal like the Lightning Steel Phoenix. The Xinling spirits are spirits that give the cultivator control of a type of mind power, they range from the pointless automatic writing to the exceptionally rare energy medicine. Elemental spirits give the control over a certain element like water and fire but they don''t modify the type of KI you have, instead if you have a type of elemental spirit and you nurture him a different type of Ki the spirit will be affected by the Ki (if a water spirit is feed fire Ki then you would receive a water/fire spirit) , but it is known that if you have the same type of elemental spirit and elemental ki your power will advance by leaps and bounds. The weapon spirits are spirits that take the form of an item that correspond to the personality and soul of the user, if a farmer awakened his spirit he might have a farmer scythe weapon spirit but if instead a venomous and sly person awaken his spirit he might have a poisonous dagger.
"Mother this time the cold didn''t come from the stomach! It came from the dantian!"
What Chi Lang meant was that the ''Blood Chilling Cold'' usually doesn''t diffuse from the dantian but from the stomach, at least this was in his case.
"What do you mean by your spirit causing it?! You still didn''t reach the Core Forming Stage! How could a non awakened spirit cause it?! "
Chi Lang mother name was Heng Mei Ling and like her name says she had a beautiful and kind spirit, she was the sister of the city lord Heng Tai Jun, when she was younger she fell in love with the young patriarch of the Chi clan Chi Luo Ron and since their status permitted their union, they married.
Heng Mei Ling was puzzled by her son, from 2 weeks ago he started going to the forest to train everyday and every time he returned he was bloodied and had broken bones and even his personality changed drastically. The old Chi Lang was an optimist and serene person, even tought he had a grave disease and little to no talent in cultivation he was always smiling and said ''It''s alright mother, I will put more effort and win over them'' every time he said that to her, her heart ached like it was stung by a million needles. But now her son was emotionless and was pushing himself to the maximum managing even to injure himself to death. How could she not worry?
"It''s probably my spirit trying to awakening, mother."
Said Chi Lang with a wry smile to his mother.
A precocious awakening!
These words hit Heng Mei Ling like a cold shower in a blizzard. Tears returned to her pretty face. How could she not know what a precocious awakening was? Didn''t her little brother die because he had a precocious awakening? Was there someone that survived a precocious awakening? No there isn''t any record of someone surviving a precocious awakening! Was the hate of the heaven toward her son so much that on top of a killer disease and no talent he had to receive a sure death factor like the precocious awakening? Yes it''s probably that! But Heng Mei Ling knew that it isn''t wise to put every fault on the heaven and don''t do anything to cure the problem. But she knew that curing the Precocious Awakening is like wanting to freeze a blazing flame.
A precocious awakening happen when a spirit tries to awaken before the Core Forming Stage but the body doesn''t have the power to stand the stress of an expanding spirit making the dantian explode from the intern. The precocious awakening is caused in the majority of the causes by the Spirit managing to absorb the earth Ki by himself.
"It''s alright mother, I''ll manage don''t be sad"
Chi Lang looked at her eyes and said with an honest smile that warmed Heng Mei Ling heart. But she was still very worried about her son, he was very fragile and loving she loved him even more than her other children.
Chi Lang was thinking about a solution to his death sentence. If the heaven decided that he had to die then he would challange them till the end!
A smile formed on Chi Lang lips.
"Then I have to reach the core formation stage before my spirit awakens! "
Chi Lang voice was soft but still resounded in the room. Heng Mei Ling was startled. She knew that this was the only method to avoid death but wanted to avoid it because it was nearly impossible. By reaching the Core formation stage the body would then awaken the spirit normally and there would be little risk. But was it really that easy to reach the core formation stage in so little time? How could it be that easy, when even the geniuses of the Chi clan toke 1 year from the 2000 Jin stage to the core formation stage! And even if she didn''t want to think about it, her son talent was really bad!
"Chi Lang you make me worry! How can you develop so much strength in so little time when even your elder brother took 10 months to advance to the Core formation stage?! "
Chi Lang looked in his mother eyes and made a wry smile thinking about how even his mother thought that his talent was a lot inferior to that of his brother. Chi Lang was secretly envious about how his brother was prided by the family. Chi Lang shook his head to send away the feelings of Jealousy and looked at his mother with a serious and loving gaze.
"Mother don''t worry. Did I, Chi Lang, ever lied to you? If mother ever said ''The heaven shall fall tomorrow!'' then this unworthy son of yours shall make it fall! If mother says to Chi lang ''You shall survive'' , then Chi Lang shall survive and return stronger than ever! "
Chi Lang was serious about what he said. The previous owner of the body was someone who loved his family strongly but didn''t have the willpower to demonstrate it. The old Chi Lang had incredible willpower of someone who survived and conquered the void. These two emotions combined in the new Chi Lang and now he would do anything to make his family happy.
Heng Mei Ling was strongly moved by her son words. It''s true that her son didn''t ever make a void promise, so if he said that he would reach the Core Formation stage in time then she would believe that he would reach it!
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"Then son of mine. Survive and return stronger! "
"This son of yours understand!"
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Chi Lang took almost a week to recover. Chi Lang spent this recovery time thinking about why did his spirit awaken so early, he came to the unique conclusion that can be only happen in his case. The void! The spirits don''t need the core formation stage to awaken. They need Ki! Didn''t the equilibrium Ki transfer from his soul to the dantian ? Then what if a part of the Equilibrium Ki managed to escape the lock and got absorbed by the Spirit in his dantian ? Wouldn''t his spirit try to awaken? But then what caused the previous cases of Blood Chilling Cold? Were they really caused by a disease or is there something else causing it?
Chi Lang came to the conclusion that he had to advance even more quickly because if the equilibrium Ki got absorbed again then his spirit would probably awaken completely and he would die again but this time there probably wouldn''t be the void but real death.
"Haa Haa"
Chi Lang was breathing with difficulties while he was running at a speed that seemed almost as if he was strolling a little faster than the usual. On his back was the dimensional bag that weighted over 800 Jin. After coming to the conclusion that he needed to advance even faster he had put even more weight on the bag and started training.
Chi Lang stopped running along the border of the forest, he didn''t dare to go over to the forest again, or at least he had to wait until he was stronger. Chi Lang went cautiously a little toward the forest and laid on the grass on his stomach. After taking some time to regain his breath, he put his palms on the grassy ground and started pushing, when he arrived to the point where his hands were extended he then would descend to the ground again then redo the cycle again from zero putting attention to not curve his back. He was doing push-ups. After sixty or so push-ups his body didn''t manage to resist anymore and fell on the ground with a heavy THUD. Chi Lang was grasping for air but the air never seemed enough so he continued like that for another 10 minutes.
When his body stabilized he then started running again but this time his speed was a little faster than the previous almost walking speed. After another 30 minutes of running he fell to the ground on his stomach grasping for air another time.
"Haa Haa"
Chi Lang breath was ragged and the longer he strained his body the more ragged his breath became and the more his body ached. But Chi Lang knew that the pain was a signal of the mind showing that he was advancing. So he continued even when he was almost dying.
Chi Lang turned around and laid down on his back at 180 degrees, then raised his legs by 30 degrees. Chi Lang then put his hands crossed on his chest and started raising his head toward the heaven after reaching his peak he fell down to the earth and started raising his head toward the sky again.
Chi Lang continued doing sit-ups until he fell to the ground motionless. His muscles were burning as if his veins were transporting molten iron instead of blood.
This was was the routine of Chi Lang after the attack. He decided to postpone his return to the Sect by another week to enhance his strength even further. Chi Lang strength rose by leaps and bounds again in the last week he was already at 1050 Jin stage! But his goal was the Core Formation Stage and this speed was too low for him. If someone ever heard this then they would certainly think that Chi Lang is crazy! Enhancing his strength by 50 Jin without having entered the Earth Realm in a week is already crazy. How could he want more?
Chi Lang decided to enhance his training by the most difficult and fast method known. Fighting! It is widely known that one would have breakthroughs and enhance his strength by battles between life and death, it is also known that the best opponents are the beasts. The beasts widely differ in types and strength. There are terrestre beast like Xing Lions and Shadow Wind Panthers, avian beasts like the Sky Soaring Shark or the Glacial Lord Eagle, there are even water beasts at the northern Everlasting Sea but those beasts aren''t known because everyone that saw them wouldn''t return to recount it, even the emperor wouldn''t dare to be careless in the Everlasting Sea.
Beasts are animals that can cultivate. Beasts that have already created a core are subdivided in 3 known realms: Yi Realm is equivalent to the human Earth Realm, Liang Realm is equivalent to the human Sky Realm, lastly the San Realm is equivalent to the Heaven Realm.
It is widely known that even if the beast cultivation is similar to that of the pratictioner usually the beast would still be stronger than the cultivator. The beasts have a heavenly gift of a body and a style of combat that widely differs between species. A cultivator can''t get used to a myriad of different styles of combat, it''s simply impossible.
But before going to train in the wilderness near his house, Chi Lang had to learn a method to attack.
It was the time to learn a skill!
The memories that he gained from the void were full of memories of immortal cultivators that soared the sky and walked on the bottom of the seas killing everything that stood in their path by a twitch of hand. But a certain memory or to be precise memories gained his attention. They were memories of a world where there wasn''t any type of Ki or energy other than the life energy. The people of that world developed technologies of flying birds of iron and boxes of steel and vapor that raced faster than the winds they called them ''Airplanes'' and ''Cars''. In this world there was a certain secular clan of heavenly warriors that forged their body to the point of challenging void by ripping the space apart with only the strength of their muscles and their heavenly techniques. They managed to conquer the void like Chi Lang. They later created techniques by utilizing the Equilibrium Ki but the basic were technique of raw strength. Every time one of them was to die he would return to the void. Because everything that is taken from the void shall return to the void.
They called themselves Xukong Yongshi, the Void Warriors.
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Chapter 5: Might of the Xulong Yongshi Sect Skills
Chi Lang was thinking about why in the memories of the experts in the void there wasn''t even one of those who managed to conquer it and receive the memories of the dead experts like he did, all of this caused a headache to Chi Lang so he decided to ignore it for now and concentrate on cultivating, and when he finish his matters in this world he will try returning to the void to learn more, but first he have to obtain his revenge and also put his family in a point where no one can even dare to think to harm them.
For now he had to learn a skill.
In hia previous life Chi Lang learned only water based skills that infused water ki in his attacks but now he didn''t have any type of ki to help him execute those skills so he decided to learn a base skill of the Xulong Yongshi that didn''t need ki. Chi Lang was thinking about what martial art he had the best possibilities of learning, the Xulong Yongshi had various types of skills based on parts of the body, there were styles that utilized only the legs other that utilized the plant of the foot, there is even a technique that utilize the head as a weapon.
The martial skills are subdivided in seven levels and every level is subdivided in: Lower tier, Mid tier and Upper tier.
The seven levels of the skills are:
Yellow level
Green level
Blue Coal level
Vermilion steel level
Golden blood-diamond level
Black jade level
White cosmic iron level
The last four levels were only known as legend to the common folk in the Xue Feng continent.
Chi Lang concentrated on his memories of the skills of the Xulong Yongshi, thousands of peculiar methods flashed in his mind but there were little that could be practiced using his current cultivation. The rest of the techniques needed at least the formation of a core in the dantian or other special requirements.
[Heavenly Pentagram Punch]
This technique was created by the Heavenly Dao Follower Lang to help the young Dao Followers in their training and at the same time giving them a way to defend themselves. The Heavenly Pentagram Punch consist of a punch powered by the raw power of muscles, a fine way of directing power and follows a set of rules of the Dao. This skill is the base of the Heavenly Way Of The World and can be improved further. This skill is subdivided in five level of understanding: First Form, Second Form, Third Form, Fourth Form and Fifth Form. This skill was further enhanced by the Xulong Yongshi sect.
The first skill Chi Lang choose was a skill that consisted of a punch of raw power and finesse. This skill could even be improved to another level if one wanted. The only problem faced by Chi Lang was that this skill couldn''t be used in every clash, so he decided to cultivate also another skill. Chi Lang initially thought of choosing a skill of sword but opted to do not because the way of the sword is too profound and need it''s time to be useful, instead he started searching for a skill of claw or another sharp part of the body. Chi Lang started searching within his mental library, hours passed by without him finding anything. But Chi Lang knew that his search will be long because he wanted a skill that didn''t need the usage of ki and that skill also needed to be one that used a sharpened part of the body.
[Descending Dragon Claws]
This technique is based on the might race of the Dragons and has a portion of their power in it. It consist of a leap toward the heaven and a mighty descend on the hearth clawing on those who dare to oppose you. This skill is the base foundation of the Methods Of The Three Dragons and helps in the harmonization with the earth and the sky. This skill doesn''t utilize ki or any type of energy other than the raw strength of muscles and the power borrowed from the earth and the sky to fuel it. This skill is subdivided in three level of understanding: Eagle Form, Tai Bird Form and Dragon Form. This skill was further enhanced by the Xulong Yongshi sect.
''Found it !''
Chi Lang was elated and happy because he found a skill that can help him now but also have the possibility to be cultivated even further. If he wanted to become stronger faster to escape death, what was better than having a precise road already laid down?
Chi Lang went to the courtyard inside the residence and told the servants to exit from it. Chi Lang didn''t want anyone to see his methods as they were truly out of this world, if someone ever knew that he had some foreigner world''s knowledge and heavenly skills wouldn''t they want to capture him and interrogate him? Chi Lang didn''t want to know what would happen if someone with strength got to know, he still didn''t have any confidence in his strength to oppose those who would attack him and his family for those methods.
The courtyard was a small garden with a stream of small dimensions flowing with calming water. The stream divided the garden in two and gave a faint feeling of unity with nature, the stream had various stones with flat surface sprouting in it. There were even some small fishes swimming calmly adding even more mystical charm to the garden. The grass was so green that almost hurt the eyes, occasionally in the grass small zones of exotic coloured flowers spread. On the other half of the garden was a small Hut of brown wood that didn''t seem out of place in that paradise of colours and peace. The Hut seem to be a hunting Hut but gave also an imposing feeling. On the top of the wooden door were two words written in a simple and imposing manner.
''WEAPON STOCK''
Chi Lang ignored it and went to a small patch of grass in an angle of the courtyard to start reading the book.
Chi Lang opened the Descending Dragon Claws book inside his mind and was instantly flooded with informations about the skill ''Descending dragon claws'', there were information about stances, required mindset and informations about the origins and credits of the skill and its creator, there was even a biography of the creator and how he thought of this method after forming a brotherhood relationship with the ''Radiant Western Dragon'', the creator was later known as the ''Devil Dragon Emperor''. Coincidentally the ''Devil Dragon Emperor'' lived in this world as he spoke about his prime youth in the Xue Feng continent, altough that happened over sixteen thousand and five hundred years ago.
After reading the book fully Chi Lang went toward a big stone that was in the river and sat down, in his head he opened the book again and went directly toward the postures section, it was a type of book with illustrations and a meticulous description of every stance.
After visualizing the first posture in his head, Chi Lang got up.
Following the first posture Chi Lang opened his legs by 120 degrees and curved his knees at the level of the abdomen then extended his arms at the same degrees of the legs in front of him. After that Chi Lang pulled every inch of power in his body and started following the rules of harmonization and powerbuilding written in the manual of the ''Descending Dragon claws''. In his legs raw power of muscles harmonized themselves with the earth, energy started swirling as if Chi Lang legs were one with the ground.
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BOOOM
Chi Lang pushed the earth as if he was soaring toward the heaven, instantly cracks spread on the ground and a ground shaking sound exploded from where Chi Lang was. When Chi Lang pushed the ground with his legs, the power of the 1050 Jin and the power gained from the harmonization with the earth unleashed at his full potential and he leaped like an arrow launched from a bow.
When Chi Lang was in the sky at 10 meter of distance from the ground he pulled his legs back toward his back and extended his hands toward the heaven and formed claws with his fingers. Chi Lang closed his eyes and started listening to the wind, th wind had an apparently uneven sound but after what seemed hours in Chi Lang mind the wind started forming a precise and unique rhythm sound. The sound was peaceful and at the same time was also ravaging and tyrannical. Chi Lang was in a state of peace and didn''t notice the swirling winds that surrounded his hands.
Chi Lang started falling but was still in his state of peace of mind. His body started moving as if it was following the instructions of the winds like how a tigress teaches her cub to hunt. Chi Lang hands started descending when he was almost in the ground. Suddenly his legs launched themselves in front of him at the same time his hands clawed at incredible speed in the same direction. The force released by his legs propelled him towards another stone ten meters backwards and his hand released the force collected from the wind and the sky in one move.
BOOOM SWISHH
A thunderous sound diffused in the courtyard followed by a sound of air being hacked in two. A second after the sonic boom two sudden waves of tyrannical water rose challenging the sky to fall, they were at least two meters high! The water in the river wasn''t very profound so the waves almost emptied it.
Chi Lang mouth almost fell to the ground, after a minute the water returned to the stream as if nothing happened, only the wet ground and the incredulous Chi Lang remained to testimony the might of the ''Descending Dragon Claws''. Chi Lang shook his head and organized his thoughts.
''The skills practiced by the Xulong Yongshi really aren''t so simple''
Chi Lang thought to himself.
"Xiao Lang are you alright?! What happened?!"
Two servants and his big brother Chi Feng came rushing to Chi Lang with worried faces.
"Big Brother, Chi lang was just trying a new skill"
"How could you manage to create so much power when you aren''t even in the Core Forming Stage?"
Chi Feng knew that his little brother wasn''t lying but how could he not doubt him when his brother was still in the Body strengthening realm? The sound was defying and tyrannical how could his sick little brother do it? Such thoughts were filling Chi Feng mind.
"Big Brother I fear I cannot answer your question now, but I swear that I will tell you when the time is right"
Chi Lang looked in Chi Feng eyes and smiled genuinely. Chi Feng was really curious what his little brother hid but he knew that if his brother said that he can''t answer him now the there is a good motive, when the right time comes his brother will surely say the reason to him.
"Alright I will wait but if something happens tell me"
Chi Lang was happy and his heart was warmed by his brother words and unconditional trust in him. He secretly sweared again in his heart to make everything in his possibilities to protect his family.
"Then Xiao Lang I will let you continue with your training in peace. "
Chi Feng turned and started walking followed by the servants toward the exit.
"Also big brother, thanks for saving me from the beast"
Chi Lang calm and composed voice was extremely soft but still reached Chi Feng.
"We are brothers, there is no need for thanks between us"
Chi Feng words resounded in Chi Lang heart like bell and made his resolve even more firm.
After the servants and his brother exited the courtyard Chi Lang also exited the courtyard and went toward the gate of the Chi clan mansion, then after he passed the gate he circumnavigated the house and went to the forest, after walking for some minutes he found himself in the place where he was attacked some weeks before. He went to a small zone of green grass and sat down.
Chi Lang decided that if he had to try his skills is better if he did it in secret where no one can see him.
In his mind he opened the book titled ''Heavenly Pentagram Punch'', this book was organized in a similar fashion to the book ''Descending Dragon Claws'' but this time it had another section dedicated to the rules of the Dao. Chi Lang browsed the book and started reading the various section. The first section was an introduction, the second were the credits of the creator and the Xulong Yongshi sect. The third section was the real start of the book and illustrated the first stance of the skill.
Chi Lang got up and started following the instructions. He extended his left foot to the front and retracted his right one backwards, then he put his left arm in front of him and curved it to cover his face after that he retracted his right hand to the extreme as if he was charging a launch of javelin. After that he closed his eyes and started emptying his mind of worldly thoughts. His mind was now empty and indifferent like the void that gave him a second possibility. A state of peace extended from his mind toward the earth passing by his body. The site of peace was similar but still different from the state he was in when he was utilizing the Descending Dragon Claws, it was something more similar to the state he was in when he was starting to be assimilated by the void.
If someone saw him they would see a piece of colored stone with the form of a young man that sprouted from the earth as it was a part of it.
Chi Lang right arm curved to the extreme until his fist touched his shoulder. Suddenly his right hand disappeared and appeared extended toward the front. His back curved toward the front as if it was following the thrown fist, but his eyes were still closed and his expression was serene as ever.
BOOOM
After seconds that seemed hours a devastating sound resounded toward the heaven.
BOOOM FWISHHH
A little later winds solidified in front of the fist and attacked the front of Chi Lang, hurricanes were created at the sides of his fist.
CRACK
A tree that was in front of Chi Lang cracked by the pressure of the heavenly wind. This time Chi Lang wasn''t really surprised because he already knew the might of the Xulong Yongshi skills but was nonetheless happy to see the results.
''The Xulong Yongshi sect really isn''t simple, neither their skills are. I don''t dare to immagine the ''Vermilion steel level'' techniques of the Xulong Yongshi sect. But for now it''s better if I think about mastering those Yellow level skills''
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Chapter 6: Ye Hall
BANG BANG FWOSHHH
Explosion and wind sounds resounded from the forest. A figure was in a delicate stance, beads of sweat covered his face and his rugged breath demonstrated his tired state. It was Chi Lang practicing Descending Dragon Claws.
In the last days Chi Lang practiced the Descending Dragon Claws to the base of the Eagle Form, it''s power didn''t have any major change instead his control over the skill reached new heights. Instead the advancement in the Heavenly Pentagram Punch was more high. He reached and consolidated the first form, right now he can''t further strengthen this form anymore because he already reached mastery in this form. For the second form he have to advance in strength until he reaches the 1500 Jin mark because the first form already depletes his energy after three punches and the second form is at least four times stronger. One could only imagine how much stress the second form could do to the body.
Chi Lang sat down and crossed his legs, then his breath calmed down and started to breath in and out in a rhythm, first it was vague but later it became more mystical and strange.
It was the Outer World Breath Method.
The Outer World Breath Method was a technique made by an elder for his grandson. His grandson was born with three missing meridians and every time his body needed to use those meridians, unbearable pain would spread in his body. The elder heart ached seing his grandson pained face and searched for a method to cure him, but found nothing. After researching for seven years and seven months he created a simple technique to subdue the pain, create the missing meridians and even repairing those that are damaged! This mystical technique was based on using the World Ki and circulating it in the body. Since this technique used the World Ki and not your own Ki, this technique could even be used by cripples and those who still didn''t step in the Martial World.
This technique was picked from the Void Memories by Chi Lang. The technique wasn''t practiced by anyone other than the grandson of the elder. The memory of the skill was from the grandson who managed to become a peerless Martial Lord after curing his disease and stepping in the Void.
A smile appeared on Chi Lang face and the sweat disappeared from his face. He had unexpectedly reached the 1100 Jin mark after training with the techniques to this level. If he used the Heavenly Pentagram Punch his strength would reach the 1800 Jin mark!
"Good, now I can go to the Thousand Ox Forest and have a mean to protect me. Now even if the Bloody Salamander attacked me again I can at least defend myself and hope to escape."
Chi Lang got up and went to the mansion and got a bath then after eating dinner he went to sleep.
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Chi Lang got up and dressed in his usual white attire. After having breakfast alone because he woke up late, he went to his mother in her courtyard. Heng Mei Ling was reading seated on a chair in the middle of the garden. She noticed Chi Lang and raised her head. She looked at him with a warm smile and said.
"Xiao Lang, come and speak"
Heng Mei Ling knew that her son wanted to say something so she went directly to the core of the matter. Chi Lang went toward her and stood there with a serious look.
"Mother your son is going for training I will return in some times"
Chi Lang stated with a determined look in his eyes. Heng Mei Ling was about to rebuke but then she looked in Chi Lang eyes and stopped. She knew that even if she was to say something to stop him, it wouldn''t work.
"And what about your return to the Sect? You already postponed your return by two weeks, wouldn''t you have to postpone it again? "
Heng Mei Ling questioned him, but she knew that even if an outer disciple was to die they wouldn''t care so his absence wouldn''t be noticed.
" Mother, even if I returned now I would still be the bottom of the well. I will go training and when I return I would have passed the tribulation of my spirit awakening and I would become strong enough to stand on my feet. Don''t worry mother, I, your son shall return! "
Chi Lang vowed to his mother so she will be less worried. Hang Mei Ling seemed to think for some time then said.
"Alright Xiao Lang you have my permission, but now you have to get your father permission, only then you can go"
Chi Lang bowed in respect to his mother then turned and went toward the Chi Clan Management Office. The Chi Clan Management Office is the location where all the matters concerning the Chi Clan, more or less important, get discussed and where the Chi Clan Patriarch work almost all the time.
"Hey brother Ben isn''t that the waste of the Chi clan?"
"Indeed indeed, you have keen eyes brother Geng Sha. What do brother Geng Sha suggest to do? "
(A/N Ben means stupid and Geng Sha means more stupid)
Two men, probably seventeen years old, made their way toward Chi Lang. The one called brother Geng Sha was a man with a sinister look in his face, he had a long curve nose and hollow eyes, he looked toward Chi Lang with a sadistic gaze that he didn''t try to hide. It was clear that the crow faced man had strange tendencies, clearly not eterosexual ones.
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The other man called brother Ben was short, he was tall at most five feet. He was fat, his belly probably didn''t let him see his own feet. His face was greasy and ugly beyond human compression. The look in his eyes when he looked toward brother Geng Sha was submissive as if he was a dog waiting his master to praise him, probably a masochist. One could only think about what was their relationship.
"Brother Ben I have an idea, wouldn''t the clan praise us if we helped eliminating the waste?"
"Oooh brother Geng Sha is very wise!"
Brother Geng Sha looked very pleased by the praise of the greasy little man and vowed to ''reward'' him tonight.
"Since the idea was mine then brother Ben should do it"
Brother Geng Sha said while he licked his lips with a sick smile on his face. His figure could scare women and children.
"Indeed indeed, brother Geng Sha shouldn''t dirty his hands with the junk. I shall do it. "
The disciples that were passing from there started grouping around Chi Lang and the other two. It was usual to see this type of thing so not all of them stopped. Indeed why would they lose their time looking at the bullying of a waste? And the bullying was even from two no ones.
Brother Ben was very happy because he could show off in front of the passing disciples while also venting some stress off and maybe even receive a ''reward'' from brother Geng Sha. While discussing this they couldn''t imagine to lose to the waste of the Chi clan. Brother Ben had the strength of 1350 Jin, how could he lose to a waste that posses merely 900 Jin? Brother Ben talent was very bad but it was still enough to manage with this junk.
"Well then waste, come here and let this senior do his duty of cleaning. Maybe if you call me great uncle I will go easy on you."
Brother Ben looked at Chi Lang and sneered, then his eyes flashed with disdain.
"Ahi Ahi, I, Chi Lang, indeed lost prestige if I am saw as a waste by the famous couple ''plug and socket''. I should just go kill myself"
Chi Lang said in a dejected manner as if he was really serious about killing himself.
The surrounding disciples started laughing without reserves. Brother Geng Sha was angered immediately and his eyes became bloodshot, instead strangely brother Ben reaction was different. His face flushed red while he thought
''Do we really look like a couple?''
"Kill him! "
Brother Ben was waken from his daze by brother Geng Sha roar.
" Haaaaaa"
He yelled like a strangled pig and rushed toward Chi Lang while his hand grasped every inch of strength of his body.
Chi Lang looked at him with disdain and suddenly he put his left hand in front of him and the right one behind him.
When brother Geng Sha saw him he sneered and looked at him as if he was the biggest fool ever. What was he trying to do? A Martial Skill?
When brother Ben almost arrived to Chi Lang everyone could see how Chi Lang would be reduced. But the next scene drained all the blood from their face.
BANG FWOOSHH
Chi Lang hands disappeared and when they reappeared, brother Ben vision changed. In front of him there wasn''t Chi Lang anymore, instead he was looking at the sky and could even count the clouds before falling to the ground ten meters from Chi Lang.
THUD CRACK
Brother Ben face paled immediately and pain started diffusing from his waist bone.
"Aaaaaaaahhhhhhhh"
A scream filled with pain and regret spread in the area. Everyone paled, how much pain could make brother Ben who was famous for his ''strange tendencies'' scream like that? Indeed to make a masochist regret the pain is very difficult. But the major question wasn''t that instead everyone wanted to know what kind of technique would let a waste like Chi Lang demonstrate so much strength.
Geng Sha trembled and rushed the now fainted brother Ben with an extremely worried look in his face, one could see how much important their ''relationship'' was for him. Even he, brother Geng Sha, never inflected so much pain to him. He immediately kneeled and checked his pulse. After that e sighed a sigh of relief and looked to Chi Lang with extreme hatred.
"Chi Lang! I, Chi Geng Sha challenge you to a battle in the Ye Hall! Would you dare? "
A battle in the Ye Hall!
What is the Ye Hall? One of the most famous places in the Chi Clan Mansion. When one someone battle in the Ye Hall even death wouldn''t be much. If you lost in the Ye Hall your enemy could torture you and no one can say anything!
"I, Chi Lang dare, but the question is do you dare to make this a battle to the Death? "
The disciples sucked a cold breath and all of them had the same thought.
This is going to be good!
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Chapter 7: Fear
(A/N in the last chapter I forgot to say the meaning of Ye in the Ye Hall. The Ye means Savage.)
A mass of people made their way toward the eastern side of the Chi clan mansion, the mass of people were guided by two people. One was a crow faced sinister man. The other was a dignified and frail young man.
On their way toward the Ye Hall several curious disciples of the Chi clan joined the mass. Other disciples instead started going around the Chi clan mansion informing their friends and family members about the duel in the Ye Hall. Normally there wouldn''t be so much commotion about a duel in the Ye Hall but today one of the duel participant was the famous trash of the Chi clan, would they lose the opportunity to laugh at the patriarch son? Who knows if they would have a second chance to ridicule the patriarch family. The patriarch family only weakness was Chi Lang. One son was a genius, although not the strongest but he was the one with the most potential, the eldest daughter was an inner disciple of the Floating Cloud Palace while the younger daughter had talent second only to her elder brother. The youngest brother was only ten years old but had been selected as a disciple of the Northern Heaven Forge to become a Forge Master. In this family of geniuses the only weak point was the trash Chi Lang. Although Chi Lang talent was very bad, there were still other in the Chi Lang whose talent was even worse. But those trash weren''t the sons of anyone important so why would anyone bother with them when there is someone more important to importune?
Obviously to anyone present this wasn''t a duel, it was a beating. How can a trash with 900 Jin of martial prowess win against brother Geng Sha who had 1700 Jin of martial prowess? He was simply courting death! Brother Geng Sha power was almost the double of the trash!
But unexpectedly Chi Lang face was serene and calm, he was the most tranquil one among them. For Chi Lang brother Geng Sha was simply a stepping stone, his objective was to stand at the top of the world, how could a mere Geng Sha be a problem to him? For the him who lived two lives directly and lived thousands of extraordinary lives indirectly killing Geng Sha twelve times in a row was simple. Could Geng Sha compare to the two headed hell serpent killed by the emperor of the Han dynasty? Could he compare to the world devouring lion killed by the medicine saint Ron. Or could he compare to the other countless monsters killed in his memories? The one courting death wasn''t Chi Lang, it was Geng Sha!
After passing through a fifteen feet high double door, a space of at least five hundred feet of diameter was in front of them. On three sides of the circumference was a wall that supported the one hundred and fifty feet high ceiling and on the side where the massive door opened were countless seating positions, the seating positions were adorned with luxurious red fabric. The floor and the walls were also red, if someone who didn''t know of the Ye Hall saw it, they would think that this was a first rate theatre where only the most beautiful dancers danced and where only the most beautiful stories were song.
The Ye Hall was a separated building that was located in the central area of the Chi clan mansion, so when Chi Lang and the other disciples arrived the seatings were already full with people, not only there were disciples there were also a lot of elders. It''s known that there are other two factions apart from the patriarch faction so it''s probable that the elders were here to use this duel as an excuse to attack Chi Lao Ron. The first faction that opposed Chi Lao Ron was that of elder Hen. Elder Hen was opposed to Chi Lao Ron from the time became the patriarch. Elder Hen never had the desire to rule over the Chi clan. The motivation as to why would he oppose Chi Lao Ron was that elder Hen was the sworn brother of the previous patriarch Chi Hongpa, this was also the motif as to why Chi Lao Ron didn''t take any measure against him. He wanted to redeem as much as possible. If only they didn''t have this discord then they could become good allies, one was a wise and charismatic leader and the other was a loyal and powerful elder. It was like putting wings on a tiger.
The second faction was that of Chi Hunzhang. Chi Hunzhang being the bastard elder brother of Chi Lao Ron, always wanted to become the patriarch of the Chi clan but he couldn''t because he was the son of a maid, his position in the line to the seat of the Patriarch was bellow his brother. His motives weren''t as pure as elder Hen, he simply was power thirsty and wanted more power than anyone. The more the better.
When Chi Lang and brother Geng Sha went to the their place, Chi Lang turned to the crowd and smiled mysteriously.
"I, Chi Lang, ask the esteemed elder and fellow disciple brothers and sisters to be a witness to the duel between this Lang and that Geng Sha. Our dispute can''t be resolved by pacific means, only death can resolve it. I also ask that no one interferes in this duel even if one of us was to die."
The hall fell into silence. It made one wonder, did Chi Lang become a fool? At least before he was wise and didn''t challenge anyone. But now even his intelligence was last!
What a disgrace!
Why was Chi Lang trying to die so hard? But it''s all good. If Chi Lang died then they would use this as an excuse to attack the Patriarch saying that he was mentally unstable because of the death of his son thus incapable of guiding the Chi clan. The sorrow of one can benefit another. This world was cruel to the less ambitious.
"Hahaha, as expected of Patriarch Ron son, fearless and indomitable! I Chi Hunzhang swear by the gods that if someone would step in, I would do anything in my power to stop him. "
Anyone who had ears to hear could sense the maliciousnees in Chi Hunzhang words. They could see his plan clearly but no intervened because this would benefit a lot of people here.
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BANG
"Hunzhang, what do you think are you doing?! So malicious! Overbearing! To think you would take action so directly!"
The door opened as if it was hit by lighting. An arrogant and cold voice came from the entrance. A silhouette appeared, arrogant and Noble, Chi Lao Ron stood there and criticized Hunzhang as if he was speaking to a disciple and not to an esteemed elder.
"Father, no need to worry. Please have faith in your son! "
Chi Lao Ron was about to rebuke but then saw the look in Chi Lang eyes, decise and calm. Chi Lao Ron decided to stop what he was about to say. But the hate toward Chi Hunzhang didn''t lessen instead it burned more and more. His hand trembled and his eyes flashed with a cold light.
Chi Lao Ron went toward the majestic throne in the middle of the upper seating area and sat down. His eyes calm and collected swept on everyone there. Everyone apart some more powerful elders had cold sweat wetting their backs.
"You can start"
Again the cold voice of Chi Lao Ron woke everyone up. Chi Lang turned toward Geng Sha and looked at him. On his face a beautiful smile was. It was surreal and unrealistic, truly a masterpiece. It made one pity him, how could someone so beautiful be a trash? Indeed the heaven doesn''t give two gift to the same person!
"Brother Geng Sha can start. "
"Brother your sister! Today I will teach respect for the older or my name shall become Hundan!"
(A/N Hundan means a**hole)
Chi Lang expression didn''t change instead he looked at him as if he was looking forward this duel. This made Geng Sha more infuriated than ever. Geng Sha couldn''t take this anymore! How could he waste more time on this piece of trash?
Brother Geng Sha dashed as if he wanted to end this with just a move. His hands formed a Claw that aimed at Chi Lang head. He didn''t want to torture him, he just wanted to kill him.
A lot of people with weak hearts closed their eyes while others had their eyes filled with anticipation. A lot of people were looking forward to see this cruel and Savage spectacle.
Chi Lang smiled and his body bended back as if he was falling.
SWOOSH
The Claw hand passed above Chi Lang with just enough distance to not touch his body. Suddenly Chi Lang right foot bended backwards and his left one pushed back from Geng Sha. In that moment unnoticed by everyone Chi Lang''s left hand index finger touched Geng Sha waist on the left side. A faint PLOP could be heard if someone concentrated, but unfortunately no one concentrated on the beating of the trash.
He looked at Geng Sha with slight surprise in his eyes, but that was quickly dissolved. He was surprised because he didn''t know that Geng Sha could be so fast. His strength must be more than 1700 Jin.
"Haha, it seems that this little brother was lucky. I fell on the right moment, but can I ask brother Geng Sha to be less malicious? Aiming for the head on the first attack is too much even if it''s brother Geng Sha who did it."
Chi Lang said playfully toward Geng Sha with a happy-go-lucky smile on his tiny face. A flash of the coldest light passed through ³öLang eyes, only Chi Lao Ron saw it and was startled. He could fell his back dripping with cold sweat and his body trembling. This was an emotion that he didn''t feel from a lot of time.
Fear.
Everyone was astonished.
How could Chi Lang be so lucky?! How could he fall in that precise moment?!
If they knew that Chi Lang did this by his own ability they would certainly be even more astonished.
Chi Lang didn''t want to use Descending Dragon Claw or Heavenly Pentagram Punch like before with brother Ben because now there were a lot of elders who could notice that they were Martial Skills. So instead he opted for another method.
"Come. "
Chi Lang said to Geng Sha. But Geng Sha didn''t need to ask for his permission. When Chi Lang said ''Come'', Geng Sha was already halfway to Chi Lang. His hand again formed a Claw. His nails were long and curved aiming toward Chi Lang chest, where the heart was. It was as if a crow descended on a rabbit with the objective of trashing it. Chi Lang was the rabbit.
Right before Geng Sha hand touched Chi Lang chest, Chi Lang stepped and stumbled to the left. Before falling, Chi Lang right foot pushed on the ground making Chi Lang do a somersault and distancing himself from Geng Sha. At that moment Chi land right hand moved again with surgical precision and touched a point to the upper left of Geng Sha heart.
PLOP SWOOOSH
Geng Sha hand cut the air covering the sound of Chi Lang''s touch.
Chi Lang turned to Geng Sha. His playful expression disappeared and was replaced by a cold and ruthless face. Geng Sha''s heart trembled, he started sweating profusely from his front, his hands trembled and his mind started to say.
"Go away!! Escape from here if you want to live!!"
But it was already over. He knew it but nonetheless tried to move away from his destiny. He wanted to escape. He wanted to live.
The air in hall became extremely tense and massive killing intent fell in the hall. Some disciples fainted, other started crying. The elders trembled and fear was written over their face. Chi Lao Ron, Elder Hen and Chi Hanzhang wanted to say something but didn''t manage to move from their seats. The hall was deathly silent.
"Now then, brother Geng Sha. Kneel. "
THUD