I stayed in frozen time for a long time, the feeling of danger only left me when I accomplished the first level of Temporal Distortion. It was a really weird coultivation method and it took ages to complete this first step, of course in flozen time, I can't tell how long it took, to others it might look no more than a few minutes, but for me it was too long, long enough to forget about all the dangers and return to reality.
4 hours had passed since my disappearance, Kisara and Ukita were getting dressed up for the main event, nobody wanted to be too late for the main event and Kisara was reconsidering the date of her own wedding due to the recent events aka Kenichi's bachelor party.
The Groom looked a bit beaten up, with bruises on his face, it was impossible to heal everything overnight, the guests, other than Kenichi's parents and the masters didn't fare much better, many of them had their own wounds of love and affection. Many of the people there I saw for the first time, but some I knew and they used to be enemies, but today they came to Shirahama and Furinji's wedding, I can't even imagine what could have happened to cause this change in attitude.
Of course most of them might have already forgotten all about me and 3 years had already passed, it wouldn't be so strange for them to forget a person they had only seen once in their life, after all I didn't even fight in the tournament for more than one match, where I practicaly just held a person in check, while doing nothing too outrageous, of course it would be a bit different for ponytail guy, but he hasn't come to the wedding, maybe he's crying himself to sleep or drowning in alcohol right now.
Ooops spoke too soon, the wedding hasn't even started and people have begun gather all around I think They want to raid this place, normaly I wouldn't care, but Kisara might want me to interfere at any moment, of course I could be the hidden hero that saves the day in the shadows, the guy nobody knows about and nobody thanks, but I'm not that type of guy, to tell the truth, I might not even have to interfere with all the masters from the Ryozanpaku present.
The Marriage ceremony was a failure, once Yami attacked, everyone begun to fight and even some of the guests turned out to be on Yami's side. It was an all out buffet, with the conclusion of Ponytail Kano fighting with Kenichi over whom was more worthy of being Miu's husband.
The masters from Ryozanpaku just observed as the youngsters were fighting amongst themselves, not caring one bit about the wedding, saying something that they could have another ceremony anytime they liked, but this experience would be a good waking call for their disciple.
This time the roles however were reversed, normaly Kenichi would be the one at the receiver's end, being beat up real badly until he gets his second wind, but now it was Kano, whom could only use one hand to fight with him, once however Kenichi got too overconfident, the tide begun to change, the Shinpaku alliance begun to lose horribly, every one of them was too used to their peacefull lives, while the people from Yami had long secluded and trained like crazy, there was no way for Kisara and the others to measure up to their standards. The reason the Yami people were being pushed back at the beginning was because they were measuring up their opponents, now however that they knew how strong they were, there was no reason to have mercy.
This Circus ended with a single glance from Kisara, all she did was looked at me and say a single word "Help". I froze the world and then begun relocating everyone to two different sides, threating the injured as best as I could and After I was sure that everything was in place, I resumed time.
Seeing everyone's dumbstruck faces was the greatest reward I could receive, the people from Yami were just as confused as those from the Shinpaku alliance, only ponytails looked at me enraged.
"You! You're Tiangu!"
Everyone froze as they looked at me, I was getting really irritated by this stupid nickname, how did I from a Wolf become a Dog, it's all that old Geezer's fault. (Somewhere in China an old man suddenly sneezed, asking whether he had caught a cold or something)
Back at the wedding ceremony everyone was still looking at me as if they had seen a ghost, even the masters of Ryozanpaku were shocked, because I had moved them aside in order to more easily move the rest of the people I even put Master Akisame and Kensai near the wounded people.
Kisara was resting in my hands as time resumed and Kenichi was a bloody mess like always, even with on hand a user of both Dou and Sei is stronger than a regular martial artist, we're like the geniouses in this world, but those of us that have talent in the field of martial arts are few.
The awkward silence was ruined by Ponytail Kano, he kept barking at me, about how he had searched for me for years, that he had prepared the Ki technique for me and that all I had to do was join Yami and the world would be mine, those sorts of loser talk. What I did in response was hand Kisara to Ukita, whom although wounded could still stand tall and went into the middle of the two groups, it was the middle dividing the two.
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I threw a single simple fist by using all the mysteries of Temporal distortion, what happened made everybody present shocked, it was as if I had shattered reality itself as if space itself had broken into pieces for a single second everyone saw small fragments of space disappear before reforming, this was something insane, this was a demonstration of what stage I was in right now, because I was no longer a martial artist, I had entered the realm of coultivators, right now even the elder's strong defenses might not be anything special for me.
You have to understand that out of the three cultivation techniques, the Heavenly seal, trained the Spirit, it was the ability to control Qi, the Temporal Distortion however tempered the body, in order to survive the impossible phenomenon of spatial distortions, the collapse of space, before I finished the first level I was as weak as before physicaly, but right now I could even frighten myself, the problem was that this was only the first step, there were a lot of steps higher than this, this little spatial rift was but one of the skills I could use, but it was selected for a reason as well, because there was probably no living being that could survive a spatial rift, it was no different than a tiny black hole, a collection of numerous tiny singularities that would cause even the a Nurclear explosion to just disappear.
-What sort of technique is this?(Elder)
-Space Shattering fist, but I'm not very proficient at it, even my hand is numb and injured after only executing it once, of course its real usage is that in hyper speed, I can simple make a person disappear from existance(Yashin)
Kano fell on his butt, everyone else had difficulty breathing, not to speak about talking.
-So what have you decided which side will you be on?(Elder)
-I'm sorry but I'm not longer a Martial Artist, I'll be waiting for a duel when the elder reaches my level and becomes a fellow coultivator(Yashin)
-I don't know what you are talking about, but I'll accept your challenge, but we will have to talk about a few matters, before you decide to disappear on us or something
-Why would I disappear?
-Come on now, whom are you kidding, I've lived for many years and I've heard about coultivators, although I haven't met any in my travels, but since you have somehow become one and you can already break the fabric of space, that means that your time here is limited, you will probably ascend or something, am I not right?
-As always you are half-right, but the day I ascend will probably be too far into the future, so far that everyone present will already have grand grand children or be dead, cultivation takes time
-Whom do you think you're talking to, stop lying, I know you perceive a second as an hour, you can probably ascend in mere seconds if you wanted to, aren't the people here just obstacles that hold you back from doing so?
-I thought you knew me better, my words are but air, they have no meaning, my actions are my real words, if you really want to know how I feel you will have to fight me, if you think you can harm me you are welcome to try, because right now, my body doesn't lose much to yours
-This old body of mine might not be much, but what about comparing our martial arts?
-Isn't that being too shameless, you have lived a lot longer than me, if we compare techniques, I'm at a loss, there's no way for me to win
-You're lying once more, how much time did you spent when in hyperspace, how many years have you spent mastering martial arts there, although I cannot tell from your body, I'm sure you have lived more than what you make others know
-Not really, Yes I spent some time, but what I practiced was no martial arts, it's coultivation techniques, which had nothing to do with martial arts, until just a few hours ago, I didn't even know what this space shattering fist was, of course I'm sure that in front of an expect coultivator, I wouldn't even be able to touch him, but for common people, I'm now no differnt than a Deity
-That's funny, you sound more and more like those people from Yami, are you sure you don't want to join them?
-I told you I don't care enough about the means, I only care about profit, if joining them would give me what I want, I would have joined them long ago, but truth is that they have nothing of worth to me and as for you people, you have nothing worth to me as well, why should I join a side when both sides are like helpless children, why would an eagle join a cock fight?
-Eagle and chickens, well that might be so, but what will happen if others like you appear?
-Once that happens, you will know, you will know what I saw, you will know how insignificant we all are in the large spectre of things, we are but ants in a universe of wonders, how many earths do you think are out there, how many worlds do you think exist in the voids of space?
-How should I know?
-But aren't you curious?
-Not really, having my loved ones by my side is enough for me, wondering about the voids of space, can be left to scientists to discover, what's it got to do with us simple martial arts folks?
-Then we have nothing to talk about, Kisara, Ukita lets go have some drinks
The two of them looked at me as if they were looking at some sort of Ghost Vampire, it was the exact same expression they had when they had called me that years ago.
-Are you an alien?(Kisara)
-So you're an Alien Ghost Vampire!(Ukita)
I don't know why I keep them company, I think either their brains are damaged or I seriously lack normal friends.