Chapter 1: Fate Twist_Void Martial God

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.

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.

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:

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.

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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