‘Hey!’
In a gigantic plain there were tens of thousands of bodies with armors, swords, and even some with strange animal looking body parts. The air was filled with some red fog giving an ominously feeling.
‘What’s with the sudden change in narrative?!’
There were only 4 people alive, they were flying on the sky, two adults, and two youths, the adults were carrying the two youths that were heavily injured.
‘Hey! I’m still alive so count me in too!!’
The two men gave a god-like presence seemingly capable of making every single living thing bow in fear and respect.
“Except me of course! Hey…”
One burly with iron-like scales and an iron tail like that of a monkey. And one with black flames coming out of all his body.
The two youths also gave a great pressure but negligible in comparison to the adults.
‘I’m also a great cultivator!!!’
“Your sect almost killed my son!!!” a deep thunderous voice was heard, very pissed-off and furious.
“I can say the same!!!”Although not as thunderous, it was more mysterious, with the same furious and pissed-off tone as the other.
‘I’m also pissed-off!!! ‘
Meanwhile a seemingly insignificant and useless creature was lying on the floor, almost dead from being trampled by a tide of people. His name is yìshì Xiǎolóng.
‘I haven’t stop fighting since a few weeks! AND the people were CULTIVATORS! A single one of them would obliterate lower worlds like eating a pie, if not more easily!!’ even though he knew that this thing doesn’t have sentience or anything similar, he still feels weird to be able to see and somewhat ‘understand’ what this thing ‘said’.
‘And lastly I’m not insignificant and useless!! I will be someone above all the gods!!! …If I don’t die…’ He only muttered the last part.
That real-fury was something strange for him as he almost ‘never’ care about anything.
‘*cough* How it all become like this?’ finally calming after a few seconds of fury because of the people that trampled over him running for their lives, he didn’t even care that two god-like figures were about to fight above him, or that he have almost half a foot at the dead-door, and just like that he just concentrated on his own thoughts.
A day before.
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“Yìshì, We are putting you in the task of being a cultivator under the orders of the heir!” said a muscular man with a smile on his face.
He was talking to a youth with an average looking face but with an armor that gives the opposite feeling.
‘Hey! I haven’t stopped fighting since the beginning of the war, not even a fucking single day!! I have survived by pure luck and willpower!! If this go on, I will go on a strike!!!’
“I know that you have being fighting since the start of this war, even though you only enter a few days before this war started, heck you entered as a test disciple for your low martial talent being only a cannon fodder, and now you’re in the tops of the inner sect disciples in just a few weeks. It’s impressive that you could reach that strength outside of a sect” He said with some respect on his voice, after all no normal cultivator can soar from a low-end world to the Cultivation World without gaining enormous amounts of experience trough the way.
Especially seeing his weird armor and weapons selection, everyone can swear that it was their first time seeing something like this and they have seen so much shit already.
He wore a greyish light Metal armor, with a tall pair of full iron boots with a retractable moon-like blade on its sole, and a pair of gauntlets having also retractable hidden daggers.
His armor have a helmet that was made with some short of black metallic-like leather leaving the eye area without protection, and hanging behind was a cape like robe, this type of leather was also between and under the places the metallic pieces of armor was set, lastly he have a ring almost ignorable in comparison to the rest of the armor with odd writings around it.
The first word that would came to the mind of someone seeing the armor would be ‘Sharp’. The armor was made with that kind of feeling that made one think that he was a close bare-handed fighter, and then unexpectedly get out the fucking blades and slash everything in his way!.
“…” at the sudden description of his armor he took look at the sealing only to see a transparent weird looking thing that he called ‘Spectator’ because of his written dialog like in a book.
This thing is like a curse, a few days before, he eat a legendary pill said to increase the soul and unleash some of the potential of the one who consumed it, making the talent of the person increase with the use of the soul to purify the body and manages to let the person see the world even if every sense and energy was blocked in the body without a manner to know what happen outside.
But the moment he consumed it, although he did increase his talent and also his soul, he started to see this strange thing. This should be the see the world, even if it’s more like reading inside the mind and he can chose to activate or deactivate it at wish, is strange if it is activated.
Seeing the writhed log-like thing in his mind he sighed inside ‘well it doesn’t matter, I just deactivate it and that’s it’.
“Now that I think about it since when you have that armor? You look like a theft... and why nobody have plucked your eyes out!?” after giving him the information he started to get out of the topic.
Continuing the conversation “I made it myself, I have been upgrading this armor since I was in the low-end world. And about the eyes, I cover it with black-colored QI for protection, easy vision and comfort” looking bored he answered.
“What is that technique? In my entire life I haven’t heard something like that!” he asked amused.
“Self-created” He answered as a mater-of-fact.
“…you are joking, Right?” he said looking strangely at yìshì.
Today: 24 hrs. Before
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In a grandiose training room an army was orderly filed.
“This will be the last time I said this, all of you, your mission is to follow the orders given by the heir!” An elder was flying through the air lecturing the cultivators before their departures.
“Protect him with your live if necessary!”
“Now go! And kill all those fucker of the Loù sect!”
“Yes, sir!!!” everyone shouted in extreme enthusiasm!
‘What the hell, why the enthusiasm?! We are just scouting a newly discovered shortcut to the enemy sect, we literally are not going to fight anyone.’ He didn’t know how wrong he was.
But when he looked inside his mind ‘*sigh* Well… at least is somewhat useful… I better prepare myself...‘ Suddenly sighing at the bad premonition.
‘I would not care if a world was crashing against me, but this kind of thing infuriates me!’
Suddenly the ground shined and in the next moment all the cultivators were nowhere to be seen.
Today: 20 hrs. Before
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In a cave that was as tall as the sky with almost no illumination an army was being led by a youth.
Even though the great number of warriors were moving in the arduous ground at a fast pace they didn’t create any sound. They weren’t flying because of security reasons, the QI used was big enough to be detected even if it was difficult, it was better to not gamble, and they were using some kind of special footwork to not create vibrations and other kind of traceable hint.
And since cultivators don’t need talking to communicate they just send a very small amount of QI to communicate, and it was small enough to make nobody, after a few meters, able to discover it.
The QI is used to send the message they want to communicate.
With all of this, it was like noting was there.
If there was only one cultivator doing this, others would only discover it at a few hundredths meters.
But since this mission was overly important they send an entire army to eliminate every other dangers inside the fractured world, normally the latest one would notice an army would be at a few hundredths of kilometers as you already found the enemy within your senses.
“This will be easy just slay some minor beast and that’s all” some cultivators were having a conversation.
“Don’t lower your guard, even if it is difficult for them to encounter us, everything is possible”
“You seriously think that will hap-” before he finished someone already interrupt him.
“Shut up! We come here in an important mission, not having fun!” the heir.
‘Who would entertain himself in a fractured and abandoned world, full of dangers, no light, hided from everything and more importantly almost within the reach of one of the more powerful sects’…’I certainly would…’
At the same time just at the other end of the cave.
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An army was patrolling the cave with another youth at the front.
“Heir… this place is a great danger towards the sect… how did you knew about it anyway, we have been residing in this place since hundreds of thousands of years and we never seen something like this”
“Don’t worry, in my childhood I accidentally fell into the ancient transfer array, since then when I found something incredible annoying I come to this place to cultivate” He replied nonchalantly.
Everyone was dumbfounded what kind of coincidence was that!!
“A few days ago it stuck me the idea of taking advantage of the shortcut to the outside this world have, so we can have our main forces go from there to the enemy bases without suspicion” Saying so wisely.
‘The clan head, should have catch him while he was escaping his duty’s just to train…’ everyone thought the same thing.
“Do you think that the Jìnzhǎn sect would notice this?”
“*PUFF* how could it be, we have lived here for so long and only trough luck we find it!!”
Today: 18 hrs. Before
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The surroundings seemed filled with some kind of invisible pressure, making the animals with sharp senses to run.
‘So that’s what I was feeling? Seems that I better go to a better position to fight, or just be the first one to die’ reading inside his mind he noticed the signal that makes the start of the ‘show’.
The tale has been illicitly lifted; should you spot it on Amazon, report the violation.
Moving without anyone noticing his presence, he begin the repositioning to a better place.
‘If I move while the chaos is surging, nobody will care about me’
‘…Seriously I think I should be an assassin instead of a close combat warrior…I’m sneaking between an army!’
“Wait!!” just in this moment the heir detected something off.
‘Shit!’ thinking he was discovered, he cursed in his mind.
“Looks that there are enemies in front of us!!” At the moment those words were shout. An energy shot from his mouth and covered the enemy’s position.
‘I’m a fucking ninja!’
A few hundredths of kilometers away.
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“Shit!” The heir suddenly shouted making a few that haven’t seen the enemy, aware of it. ‘I just wanted to relax a little!!’
“Enemies at sight!” he shouted while also shooting some kind of energy towards the enemy’s positon.
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Two shouts along with a wave of energy crossed the battlefield at the same time.
The two sects were separated by a short margin of a few hundredths of kilometers, if a battle really started the two sides would almost instantly reach each other.
‘This world was big enough so that neither of us met but… We meet in the end…’
‘Like seriously! In this world a dozen hundred thousand kilometers is nothing!! Why the hell both of us go by the same path?!?!’
“” Jìnzhǎn/luò sect!!”” The two shouted at the same time.
The energy earlier was for identifying the enemy and its numbers.
Seeing that they have around the same numbers and the enemy was the heir of each sect it was difficult to think of what to do.
“”……..”” After the shouts, an intense silent came, the two heirs haven’t noted that they have been silent while they were thinking.
The cultivators were waiting orders either to fight or to retreat.
The atmosphere became more tense every second that passed.
The killer intent of the cultivators started to materialize in a blood-like substance.
People touching their weapons, artifacts, claws, and every other thing useful to start a battle started to appear.
A few minutes after that happen everything went from tense to awkward, nobody knows what is happening. Why the heirs haven’t say anything, and they even questioned ‘How the heck we encounter each other?!’
‘…Seriously a cultivator of your level already finish thinking this in at least lest than one second! In all the war I’ve been we only see each other for a few seconds at much! And then start to fight!!’ He started thinking what the hell is happening in the heads of the heirs.
Finally, the tension return and reached its limit when the two heirs without saying anything, appeared between the armies throwing an attack at each other that created a giant crater bellow them, that also produced a shockwave that push back all the cultivators of the two armies.
Nobody could see what happened, but when they recovered the first thing they do was start to fly at their maximum speed.
“Fuckers you all shall die!”
“For the sect!!”
“Our heir will trash yours!”
“I want a rise!!!”
The cultivators from both sides shouted similar things, but all of them have the same thought ‘!Fuck them!’.
Well except one ‘I felt something wrong with this…’
*BOOOM*
When the first line of offence made contact with each other an explosion was heard because the strength of the collision.
Meanwhile the cultivators at the back were finishing reading long range attacks and defense against long range attacks, the cultivators at the end launch an attacks of different elements and weapons, bows, javelins, harpoons, boomerangs, crossbows, blowguns, and more bizarre weapons.
Also some used techniques to launch, lighting, fire, water, etc. in different forms at their enemies.
Within the armies there were several people that have a few hundredth meters around without cultivators surrounding them, fighting only one vs one. These are fighting genius that could kill everyone that approaches them. These only fight against other genius on a ‘one vs one’ fight.
But even these genius were only trash against the heirs, nobody would stay at least that a few tens of kilometers away from them!
*BOOOOOM*
The battlefield was a burning, literally! Cultivators that specialized on fire launched a giant attack causing everyone to start flying between the flames!
“Shit! This armor was new!!” noticing that parts of his armor that started to burn, he cursed and deployed his weapons. *Slash!* The Moon-blade from its sole appeared and with a kick at the neck, he sliced in two the enemy! Even though he was the lower leveled cultivator here, nobody could see his attacks.
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The stile Yìshì uses is a martial art created in his home world. Yes a martial art! In this universe the martial arts were deemed useless because of the secret arts, concepts of the universe, etc. were extremely more powerful, Heck! The cultivation methods have techniques that were more powerful that any martial art, and this goes on and on! The only ones that uses martial arts at a certain degree were the normal people and low leveled cultivators of the low-end worlds, even cultivators that reached the low-medium level worlds ended forgetting martial arts for more powerful things!
Well almost everyone…
Yîshì was born as an orphan because his only family, his mother, died at the moment of the childbirth, he was the child that cried the loudest at the moment of birth in the entire hospital, as if to cry this injustice at the heavens!, he was then send to an orphanage where he lived the first five years of his live until the time he, along with every other 5 years child in his world traveled to the place they would discover their martial talent. Making him, after some events, want to become a cultivator.
His martial art is [Wúlùn rúhé] or [anyway] even though is somewhat difficult to learn, and it is hellish to master, it is useful against almost any kind situation, especially to kill anything. This combined with some weapons he himself created especially for this style, he learned the best martial art in the existence of his universe! After he mastered this martial art he have been improving it little by little trough hardship.
This martial art is the first martial art suited to cultivators!
After that with his abilities he managed to reach the martial world after a few hundredths of years! This is an impressive feat as he managed to maintain a fast speed of breakthroughs in his cultivation, thanks to that, he looks like a youth.
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“You all shall see my might!!!” Shouting he started to fight with his all. At the same time black QI started to appear in front of his eyes.
*SHIU*
Doing a spinning hook kick he created an air blade that approached the enemies!!
As if the world started to slow down, the cultivators seeing their doom coming closer tried to do something but it was useless.
*BROOM*
“””“Aaaa!!!”””” seven enemies were dropped on the floor with their throat cut and even one with the head flying through the air, four managed to survive but before they could do anything.
*TA*
They could only see a black smoke inside the hooded armor and then… All black.
Yìshì started to do Spinning hook kicks madly at his enemies.
Rapidly a hundredth cultivators died against the hooded figure, and even more suffered injures.
“Block his attacks!!!” The enemy responded rapidly at the sudden attack and blocked all the attacks of the hooded figure. Everyone was perplexed.
“What the hell is that?!”
“Shit! Who the fuck is he!!”
“His cultivation is lower than us!”
Everyone in that zone of the battlefield was baffled, even though nobody stopped fighting they were terrified at the sight.
Just as the luò sect was about to counter attack, the enemy disappeared in front of their eyes.
Today: 1 hr. before
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The battle have gone longer than expected. Even the Blood QI in the air was visible at simple sight as a tick red fog.
Neither side has retreated nor have the opportunity to call for reinforcements.
‘Shit! This is more strain to my body that I think’ Even though he was stronger physically and spiritually, comparing to the vast majority of cultivators here, he was exhausted. He have been fighting at his outmost like a stupid for a few hours, he is the one that have killed the more enemies among everyone else in the battlefield by an enormous amount.
He is panting like crazy under a mountain of corpses he himself killed.
Nobody dared to approach him even in his weakened state after some earlier attempts.
At that moment he saw something awesome at the distance, and knew what he feel earlier wasn’t just his imagination.
‘I better get out of here!!!’ After thinking that, he started to go at the fastest speed he could muster, the direction… the entrance of the world the transportation array.
Thought he noticed a little too late.
‘Fucking foreshadowing!’ He started to run even faster!
At the distance.
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Two youths were standing one in front of the other panting heavily, they were over a pool of blood, their blood.
“So this is the end?”
“Yea...”
“”One of us have to die!!!””
The two used all their strength at one last attack, the two attacks clashed.
*CRACK*
Their weapons weren’t able to resist such an encounter after all the battle, and broke while leaving the strength of the strike intact!
Their attacks continued their course, and the battle seemed domed at a mutual dead.
Just as the strike was at a hair breath and noting could be done, two flashes of light appeared and everyone just froze looking at the sky, when they see the two figures everyone just started to run like what Yìshì have done.
“”You will pay for this!!!”” A tremendous voice was heard, and with it came a wave of energy that killed everyone in a few dozen thousands kilometers. Corpses were flying everywhere, by pure bad luck Yìshì was hit by a corpse at a high speed.
“*GULP* Hell!! Why the fuck?!?!” gulping his own blood, he heavily get up and continued to run towards the exit, but… as nobody have the guts to fly everyone was running with all their might at Yìshì direction.
“Run for your lives!!”
“We are gona die!!”
“Call for reinforsments!!”
“Get out of my way!!!”
The last one grasped Yìshì and throw him back.
“What?” when he suddenly started to see the sky he didn’t know what to think.
When everyone started to shout.
“Run!” “Run!” “Don’t!!” “Run!” “Run!” “Run!” “Run!”
“Run!” “Steep!!” “Run!” “Run!” “Run!” “Run!” “Run!”
“Run!” “Run!” “Run!” “Over!!” “Run!” “Run!” “Run!”
“Run!” “Run!” “Run!” “Run!” “Run!” “Me!!!” “Run!”
Everyone was yelling the same word.
Everyone was running over Yìshì, trampling him over and over.
‘Why?!?!’
After everyone have disappeared in the distance the silent started to reign.
……
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‘I love my armor…’ was the only though he have after he was trampled to half-dead.
Like a useless cannon fodder.
‘Hey!’
Current time.
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’How fast things can change…’ he was starting to despair.
‘…I’m going to die here?’
‘And if I die… what’s next?’
‘Why?!’
‘I just wanted to become a powerhouse!!’
…
‘I…will die here…’ realizing this unavoidable truth he realized how stupid he was.
*PUFF*‘Hahahaha…It’s a good death as any other!’
“Anyways, I don’t have anything else to do here, so let’s just enjoy the show!!!” he said out loud!
At the powerhouses.
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*SHA―N* A bright light flashed and rapidly disappeared in the distance.
The two mans were now alone, the two youths were nowhere to be seen.
“Now we can fight without worries” said the burly man.
“I would like to say that we could just go home and neither of us die…But not as much as I would love to kill you!!!” shouted the burning man, before launching a wave of fire against the burly one.
The other was already expecting this and launched an attack with his tail that created an air blade, the power of the two were so similar that the attacks ended nulling each other.
“”This will be a close fight!”” The eyes of the two started to shine.
Strikes capable of cracking the space itself with just strength!
Flames capable of burning the noting!
Time cracked each time the hits came in contact with each other!!
The two started to accelerate the velocity they launched attacks until they just disappeared!
*KA-BOOM* A strong hit that shacked the entire world sounded and the two became visible again.
“This will take time” Say the burning man.
“I was about to say the same” say the burly man.
‘I want popcorn…’ Think an insignificant being.
*BOOM**BOOM**BOOM**BOOM*
The attacks begin again but with more strength, destroying great parts of the scenery.
Even though the vast majority of the attacks were nullified, some were only reduced to a fraction of its initial strength.
One of these reduced strikes hit a kilometer away from Yìshì and send him flying through the air like a ragdoll, ending in a pile of dead bodies.
‘I want popcorn…With painkillers in it.’
The battle continued like this for a dozen of hours, with some techniques appearing here and there.
An enormous ball of white flames that was countered by some strange ability of the scales of the burly man.
A moment the burly man become twice his size, and the burning man enfolded in more black flames.
A giant sword with some cravings that appeared from the air, just to fall in the hands of the burly man!
A pill appeared in the hands of the burning man and then he consumed it, becoming more powerful all of a sudden!
The battle was long enough to know that reinforcement was about to arrive.
“Hehe, it’s time to finish this!”
“I think the same!”
The two reached the same conclusion.
The burly man throw his sword, after that he started to emit some colored fog, he become slimmer and red, then his fist started to glow.
The burning man toke a bottle of pills and eat them at a single gulf, then his flames changed color and concentrated in the palm of his hand.
‘Well… now I’m officially dead!’
The two prepare to use their strongest attack in their arsenal, one that concentrated their entire might, body and soul, in a single point to strike!!!
Everything started to disintegrate in the presence of the two techniques!!
“”Let’s see who will survive!!!”” The two appeared in front of each other about to make the final attack.
They ended a few centimeters above Yìshì.
‘Oh sh--’ he couldn’t finish his thinking.
The moment the two strikes touched each other, the time seemed to stop.
………………
After a few seconds like that everything went white.
*KA-BOOOOOOOM*
Then everything on sight was destroyed including the two men, and of course Yìshì.
The fractured World have collapsed…
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In the endless void
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*!!!CRACK!!!*
A sound of something breaking traveled the void.
The next moment a light appeared! That was something that shouldn’t be there!!
The light upon closer inspection was in reality three different lights.
On the endless void these three lights, lighten the almost touchable darkness.
One like a big piece of silver metal that shines firmly. Another one like a big ball of black flames with a light that although being obscure, it lighten this dark void.
These two seems ethereal.
But the last one although being more small, it shines more brightly than the others, it looks less menacing, less awesome, but definitely more firm more solid with another light in its center.
…………
After an unknown amount of time, the last light started to show some strange signs of movement.
‘This is the after live?’…….. Something shined within this light.
‘…Wait… Why I still have consciousness?’ Yìshì finally become aware!
Trying to sense around him, he felt some strange feeling.
‘This feeling... It’s like the two powerhouses!!’ he was scared lightless.
‘Wait… why they aren’t moving?… Why there is nothing within my senses?!’
‘Calm down, *SIGH* first where I am?’ He expanded his senses and discover! …’Fuck… There’s really nothing…’
‘Soo I’m able to move?’ He tried to walk but ‘I don’t have legs…’
Finally after some tries, he begin to move. ‘Shit! I’m slower than a fucking rock!!!’ he started approaching the powerhouses.
After another unknown amount of time.
‘I was something before this void? Or I was within this void the entire time? I’m just a product of imagination or I…’ He finally touched the two powerhouses!
‘OF COURSE I WAS SOMETHING!!!!!!!’ regaining his sanity because the sudden new stimulation.
‘…Now what?’…‘I should…’
Little time after, the little light started absorbing the other two. Starting to change giving a physical, and more alive feeling.
‘New stimulation!!’ He started seeing little parts of the memories of the powerhouses.
Again. After another unknown amount of time.
There only remained one light.
‘…’
The light was completely solid, and obviously more powerful!!
‘Let’s begin!’
The light started to fade from the void, until darkness once again, prevails.
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In a place called West City
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At that exact moment in a hospital of the West City.
A loud cry echoed in the entire hospital.
“whaa!, whaaa!!,whaaa!,whaaa!!,whaa!!!” The loudest every doctor have heard.
“It’s a boy!!!”Exclaimed the doctor.
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