The universe, as mysterious as it can ever be, has existed through the endless time, unaffected by all the changes in it. The universe, in its long passage of time, has given birth to an infinite numbers of life, the worlds, the stars and many more as such there is no end to it.
However, the most mysterious or say the greatest birth of all is the birth of the intelligent beings such as human, beastman, elf, demons and divine beings who has taken hold of the world or whatever the universe has to offer. And hence, taking advantage of this, they began to slowly grew in numbers and fought for their share of the world.
But it was the discovery of the qi that has changed the life of all the beings as qi can be cultivated to strengthen oneself, extend the life, become immortal and ascend to higher realms. So, qi cultivation became a necessary path for those walks on the road to immortal.
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Abyss dimension
A world filled with ancient ruins of different civilization from the unknown time, drifting through the endless space. It was a world, a parallel universe existing alongside the world of the living. A blood like skies covered all round it in this endless world. And no men dared to venture in this god forbidden world no matter how strong they world, so they say.
Peng. Peng. Peng. Peng
The sounds of clashing came from the colliding streaks of light. On closer look, one can see that there were seven of these lights, all of these lights were colliding in a frenzied manner without stop.
But something was weird about them as six out of seven lights were seen to be clashing only on that one light. Their clash were creating sparks everywhere they went and it was difficult to follow their clash with normal eyes, as in one moment they appear here and in a split of second they appear somewhere hundreds or thousands of miles away from the original place.
Every clash of theirs bring destruction to the already ruins in the radius of hundreds of miles even from the impact of the clash.
One of the light turned into a dragon and rammed the weak light, throwing it out of the group.
Boooom. Boooooooom. Boooom
The weak light flew for hundreds of miles at an insane speed, colliding through the ruins and rocks, sometimes destroying and sometimes creating a large hole in it.
Craaaaaash.
Screeeeeeeeeesh
Rumble
And then it crashed one of the big ruins, sliding through until it came to a stop and scattering dust in its surroundings.
As the dust began to shimmer down, one can see a man in his thirties glowing in golden aura. But he looked rather shabby with a messy black hair and with an armor which seems like it has gone through thousands of battle. His body was covered in cuts and wounds and gold like substance were flowing from it.
The man, being unable to stand up, crawled to the wall behind him. With the wall supporting his back and his two beloved swords, he stood up trembling.
“cough….cough…..huff…..huff….”
Blood, not red but in gold color, came out from his mouth.
“You don’t die easily, do you?”
Suddenly, a voice came from above. The injured man looked up and saw a man who was also radiating a golden aura and besides him stood five other with an intense killing intent aimed at him.
The man that spoke up also seems to be in thirties with blonde hair and wore a dragon shaped armor. The other besides him were, a bearded old man with in golden robe, a silver hair youth in his twenties with two horns about ten centimeters, a teenage girl with scarlet hair, and two identical bald old man- one in green robe and the other in blue robe.
They all gives out a golden aura from their body but the aura of the injured man seems to go dimmer as time goes by.
“Hehe….look at you. A dying man spouting nonsense about killing us. I can't believe the one was most feared in our realm reduced to such pitiful state…tsk…tsk.”
The scarlet girl mocked the injured man.
“Enough!”, said the blonde man to the girl and then he turn to the injured man, “I don't want to drag this fight any longer in this abyss dimension. Let’s end this fight without anyone dying, so give us what we have come for and we'll let you live.”
“Hahaha……I never knew you are such a merciful man. Even after knowing you for thousands of year, this is my first time seeing this sides of yours. Oh! What a kind fellow my once upon a time sworn-in brother you are. Hahah…cough...cough…”, The injured man said sarcastically.
“You are nothing but a piece of trash who is about to die now. Don't be so stubborn and give us the azure crystal before we give you a dog's death.”, the silver man said in rage.
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“Piece of trash? Heh….A dog giving me a dog’s death? Truly funny. Who was it that was trampled under my feet and begged to spare his pitiful dog’s live? Or did you forget?”, the injured man said in cold smile to the silver man.
“YOUUUUUU…….Stop being so stubborn and gives us the azure crystal, dammit.”, shouted the silver youth with rage.
“Why don’t we just kill him and take it? Look at his pitiful being, killing him and putting him out of the misery would be us doing him a favor instead.”, the scarlet girl spoke with a smile.
“Well, it would be troublesome if he were to die as the azure crystal is stored in his soul.”, replied the bald man in green robe.
“Oh! So that’s why the young Lord didn’t want him dead.”, the scarlet girl said with an understanding look and turn to the blonde man.
“Oye! Stop chirping among yourselves. It’s making my ears go numb.”, said the injured man laughingly.
The eyes of the others became cold with killing intent, but the blonde man waved at them signaling them to stop with his gaze on the injured man and said,
“We only want the azure crystal and nothing more. If not you and I know that this place will become our grave.”
“Stop flapping your mouth too much. It makes me want to throw up.”, the injured man said coldly and continued, “What you and I know is that even if I have to kill all the people in the world just to kill you, I will still do it. So, no use of words with me.”
This time the killing intent grew from the blonde man and he said in a cold smile, “For you to go such extreme just because of women, I don’t know whether you've turned to a fool or not. It’s funny when you used to be a cold-blooded killer and strength was your everything. And now here you are, dying for one woman that I killed.”
“She was my wife.”, the injured man said as his rage grew with killing intent.
“She was a traitor to my kind as she helped you escape, the man who disturbed the balance of the world.”, said the blonde man.
“SHE WAS YOUR SISTER, YOU OWN BLOOD SISTER.”, roared the injured man as he gave out extreme killing intent and his already dim golden aura glowed again, readying himself for the all-out battle.
Seeing him, the others also readied themselves for the battle. And then…..
Grooooowl
At that sound they all tense up, sending chill down to their spine. And all turned to the direction of the sound hundreds of miles away.
“Abyss monster”
The silver man said in low voice but it was heard by everyone.
Growl. Growl. Growl
With the growling sound, came the hundreds of monsters in their view, some by crawling up the ruins and rocks and some by flying, and seconds by seconds their numbers grew from hundreds to thousands.
Each monsters were about ten feet in height, in the form of a dog but with no fur and four eyes on their neck. A pair of bat-like wings on its back and a long tongue hanging on its mouth.
Panic could be seen on everyone's face at the sight of the monsters.
“Le….Lets get out of here.”, stammered the scarlet girl. And the others except the blonde man gave an approval nod.
“Young Lord, I don’t know about you and others but us brothers are unwilling to continue staying here any longer.”, said the bald man in blue robe and the bald man in green robe nodded.
“Young master, I think we should leave this place as soon as possible.”, requested the bearded man in golden robe with a pleading voice as he was the only person to call the blonde man ‘Young master'.
The blonde man's face became unsightly as he gritted his teeth looking at the monsters and then he turned his gaze to the injured man and spoke hurriedly,” Hurry up and give us the azure crystal. Can’t you see, these abyss monsters are. You will die if you don’t hurry up.”
“Over my dead body. So come and give it a try.”, responded the injured man in cold smile.
“You….”
“Young master, please. We have to escape from here if not we all will die.”
As the blonde man was about to rush to the injured man, the bearded old man in golden robe interrupted him in a panic.
The blonde man halted and hesitated, trying to decide what to do.
GROOOWL
This time the sound was louder and from behind the other monsters, came a monster about 40 feet in height with six eyes.
Everyone's face became pale with sweat falling rolling down on their face.
“Let’s escape.”, this time the blonde man ordered without hesitation at the sight of the new monster, and turn to give one last look at the injured man but instead was greeted with a waving hand. So he gritted his teeth and turned into a streak of light as he dashed away with five other light following closely.
Watching the escaping light until they faded from his sight, he suddenly fell on the ground on his face.
“cough….cough….huff….huff….huff”
He coughed a few times before breathing profusely. Then he let go of his beloved swords and slowly reach out to his chest and a crystal in azure color about a size of a fist came out from his chest to his palm.
He rubbed the crystal gently and murmured, “I have sacrificed everything for this crystal, hoping to uncover the mystery and secrets behind it. About how it suddenly appeared from the spatial crack, destroying thousands of planets and stars. But it was all in vain in the end….haha.”
Sincerely, the image of a certain woman appeared in his mind and tears rolled down on his dusty face and he closed his eyes and said weakly, “ I'm tired of all this of all the running. Let me rest now.” Thinking of the woman, he mumbled, “I’m coming to you. Let’s be together again.”
After few seconds, the body showed no sign of movement.
GROOOOWL
Came the six-eyed monster with the other monsters surrounding the body of an injured man and stood there without doing anything.
The six-eyed monster walked to the body slowly, but as it was about ten feet from the body it was startled by the sight of the azure crystal because the crystal was glowing in azure light and the light was growing at an extreme speed.
The six-eyed monster got angry for startling it and gave an angry sound.
GROOOOOWL..... GROO-
Booooooooooooooom
The crystal exploded wiping out everything in the millions miles radius.
As the explosion calmed down, nothing was found in the radius of the explosion. The body of an injured man, abyss monsters, floating rocks and ancient ruins all disappeared with a trace. And everything became quiet and calm.
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Outside of the abyss dimension.
Thousands of people stood in front of the dimension crack, while five old men stood nearest to the dimension crack. These old men’s were sweating profusely as they stood in a formation maintaining the crack from closing.
“I can't hold on much longer. If they don’t exit fast then it will be a disaster.”, complained one of the old man.
“Hey, if you want to die then die alone. Don’t drag us with you.”, another one spat out this words angrily.
Just then-
Swooosh. Swooosh. Swooosh. Swooosh. Swooosh. Swooosh
Six streaks of light came out of the dimension crack and landed in front of everyone.
“Quickly, close the dimension crack. The abyss monsters are right behind us.”, shouted the bearded old man in golden robe hurriedly.
Listening to the warning, the five old man operated the formation and closed the dimension crack.
“Young Lord, did you succeed?”, one of the old man asked the blonde man.
Hearing that, the blonde man gritted his teeth with veins popping out from his face and turning his head as he looked at the skies-
“ASUUUUURAAAAAAAA”