Chapter 1 - Beginning -
It was a beautiful and breathtaking night.
The full moon shining in the sky.
But a beautiful night like this was the night when history was about to change.
The Sealed Spirit Mountain is a mountain separated from the world by an unbreakable divine formation.
It was said that the mountain was sealed by the gods more than 10.000 years ago, if this is true no one knew, all the records about it were lost in time.
From the outside, the mountain was apparently normal, but in reality the inside was hollow.
How could someone know that the Sealed Spirit Mountain is the place where a demon was residing.
The demon was by no means a normal one. An incredible sinister aura was rising from his body.
The demon, standing in midair in the core of the mountain, was sealed by thousands of white chains. The chains were engraved with symbols containing incredible power. The walls too, were engraved with the same powerful symbols.
It was a black Panther type demon, black fur covering its body and silver symbols were painted on his fur, shining with its every breath. His paws were engulfed in dark flames and its body had a length of hundreds of meters, it was an incredible huge and ancient demon, its power was enough to easily destroy this world, but it was restrained by those chains, it was impossible to guess how powerful those chains should be for them to seal something as powerful as this Demon.
Who knew for how many years this being was sealed in this place.
It was immortal, peerless, evil and its might was incomparable with any other creature.
Suddenly the ancient Demon opened his eyes.
It’s beautiful but cold silver eyes didn’t have pupils, just by looking in them was enough to die from fright.
As soon as his eyes opened, bloodlust and enormous hatred filled the mountain, but thanks to the seal, the bloodlust couldn’t reach the outside world.
It was extremely furious and tired, half his power was already lost thanks to the oppresing seal, but then, hope took over his hatred.
“After so many years, at least, I’m ready.”
“They thought I will be trapped here forever, but they couldn’t guess that I had something like the “Heavenly Rebirth” technique that allowed someone to be reborn at a huge price.”
“I will lose my power, my memory and my body, but I will gain freedom and in a few hundred years I will be even more powerful that I was before.”
“Now, even though the chances for it to succeed are very few, is still better than waiting to die while being trapped here forever.”
“Now I just want to start anew, a new body, a new mind, but the same soul!”
After thousands of years, it was ready to use the “Heavenly Rebirth” technique.
The requirements for this technique were simply impossible and even if those requirements were meet the probability of success was less than one-percent.
Not only that, the heavens itself destroyed this technique but the Demon learned it before it was destroyed, that was one of the reasons it was sealed inside that mountain in the mortal realm.
After thousands of years the requirements were finally meet and the Demon was ready to use it.
“Heavenly Rebirth.” Said the demon
Suddenly the space around the Demon distorted and ripples were forming in the air. All the Qi gathered in thousands of years gathered around and formed a white cocoon around the Demon.
As time goes by, the cocoon became smaller and smaller and now it was not more than a meter wide.
Not much time passed and cracks started to appear, spreading on its entire surface while an incredible Dark qi started to leac out from the cracks.
At this point the earth started to tremble.
*boom*
With an incredible loud sound the cocoon exploded and an incredible quantity of dark qi exploded through the peak of the mountain hitting the barrier, but the dark qi was unstoppable and it instantly broke through the barrier forming a dark rising tower that seemed to pierce the heavens.
At this point, all the experts around the continent became aware of the strange anomaly in the sky, they could feel the immense dark qi coming from the sky.
Feeling this dark qi, fear rose in their hearts, they couldn’t help but look at the sky, seeing that dark tower and sensing the boundless power coming from it, many started to tremble, while many almost couldn’t breathe anymore from the fear.
Many fell on their knees and many thought the end of the world had came.
But many top experts like sects heads, clan heads and other powerful experts shot in the sky flying toward the origin of this strange fenomen. Maybe they were hoping to gain some benefits, for simple curiosity or because they wanted to see what was happening with their eyes, but an incredible number of experts were flying with incredible speed towards the same place. Everyone was feeling unease.
An incredible amount of rays of light flashed in the dark sky, all the rays of light were rushing in the same direction.
The first to arrive rushed close to the origin of that anomaly but at no more than 500 meters from the dark tower, they died.
As if they were at the bottom of the ocean and couldn’t resist the incredible pressure. Their body contorted and distorted, those behind them could hear the sounds of their bones and flesh cracking and tearing, then retreated instantly.
But those who were under the immense pressure couldn’t move anymore.
Many started to scream from the pain but in just a breath of time, exploded in pieces. Those who got too close, died without the chance to escape.
Seeing this horrifying scene, no one dared to get close again.
On a hill roughly 1 km from the dark tower, 5 experts stood with imposing figures. They were the heads of the 5 great sects of the Sun Kingdom.
Beads of sweat were forming on their foreheads.
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“What is that!?”
An old man with a blue coat asked.
“Whatever it is we can’t even get close, we can only watch for now.”
Said a mid-age man with a white coat.
They were not friends, the reason they were together now was because in case of emergency they could fight together. Even though they didn’t like each other there was no other choice.
“Look!”
The old man with the blue coat sensing that something was changing and called the others.
The dark tower was shrinking until only a dark sphere was left.
“The Spirit Sealed Mountain disappeared!”
Only now the only woman of the group spoke, even though her face was covered, one could understand just by listening to her voice how beautiful she have to be.
Where before was the Spirit Sealed Mountain now was just a desolate plain. The mountain that was there before, now disappeared without a trace.
A dark sphere like a black hole was in the spot where the mountain was located before.
That sphere was darker than the night and it was shrinking bit by bit.
Everyone waited, they couldn’t do anything else but wait.
Fear was inside their heart, their face pale.
After some time, the sphere became a meter wide and it stopped to shrink.
All the experts present were looking intensly as if their eyes were going to pop out.
The dark sphere shrinked one more time but this time it shrinked to the size of a finger in less than a second.
“Wha..”
“Heavens!”
No one could believe their eyes.
What they couldn’t believe wasn’t the fact that the incredible huge sphere was now at the size of a finger but that after it shrinked it revealed the body of a child!
“How could this be!”
One of the 5 sect heads that until now didn’t spoke a single word couldn’t suppress his voice anymore.
The child was a newborn but his skin was deathly pale and even though he was a newborn it had long pitch black hair two times longer than his height.
Everyone could sense a huge threat from this apparently harmless child.
The child was sleeping, nothing could wake him up, not even the ruckus caused by so many people present.
“What is that?” The woman asked
“It’s an aberration! We have to kill it before it can grow!!”
The old man with the blue coat was the first to recover and yelled at the others.
“What are you saying?! How could we kill a child?”
The woman clad in white rejected the idea of the old man. She didn’t want to kill a child even though she too could feel the threat coming from the said child.
“If we don’t kill him now then he will kill us in the future! Maybe you can’t feel it, but I can feel bloodlust coming from that child!”
The old man didn’t wait for a reply and instantly flew high in the sky and started to use a strange martial skill.
Suddenly, a white sword appeared in his hand.
“Heavenly Lighting!”
Five Lighting shot at the same time from the sword and intersect midway from him and the child, forming one lighting many times stronger and thicker. It shot directly towards the child, as fast as light, but as it was getting close it curved and shot toward the old man who used the skill, with even greater might and speed, the old man was shocked but recovered quickly, he used another technique, this one was for difese. A huge earth wall formed in front of him but it only lasted an instant. As the lighting hit the wall, the wall was not better than paper, the lighting pierced through the wall. Before being pierced by the lighting, fear and regret appeared on the old man face as the lightning pierced through his heart. The old man become powder the instant after.
Everyone present watched all of this happening, no one dared to move anymore.
“Fool. Die a dog death!” said the woman, not a hint of sadness in her voice. Who told him to recklessly attack something unknown?
Everyone watched the child, waiting to see what will happen.
They were not let to wait for too long, half an hour passed and the black pearl entered the child chest, exactly where his heart should be.
The air started to tremble, beads of sweat formed on the forehead of everyone present as a cold shiver run through their spine.
An oppresing dark qi started to flew out from the body of the child, pushing back everyone for hundreds of meters.
Black symbols compared everywhere on his body, and with them, dark flames slowly covered his body.
The flames expanded more and more, there was no heat nor sound coming from them, but those that were too weak caught fire, they burned with the same black flames covering their boy. There was no heat coming from the dark flames so those who were engulfed didn’t feel any pain or the feeling of their skin burning, but soon, their skin became black and then it started to split, revealing the flesh and blood underneath.
They still didn’t feel any pain, but one after another they become aware of the changes in their body.
Screams filled the air.
Many tried to extinguish with various techniques, but no one was successful.
After a few breaths of time, the flames intensified greatly, and they started to burn madly. In a mere instant not even the ash remained from those who were engulfed in those strange dark flames.
“RUN!”
No one knew who said that first, but everyone knew that it was too dangerous to stay here.
But before they could flee, the dark flames covering the child became more powerful. The ears of the presents started to ring and accompanied by several *booms* and shockwaves the child it shot in the sky like a black star, with a speed too fast even for those powerful experts to follow.
They could only watch, powerless, as the child disappeared in the sky.