Droning sounds resonated in the air. Rumbling sounds filled the world as innumerable blue lightnings danced in the air. Amidst all of these horrifying natural disasters, a youth with an azure robe seated cross-legged in a mountain peak. The mountain peak didn't contain any trees. Rather, the surrounding ground of the mountain was scorched black.
The youth's eyes was closed, the clouds in the skies roiled. A violet glow shone inside the clouds. Mass amounts of clouds merged together to form a whirlpool that looked like an eye of a storm.
It was at this moment that the youth opened his eyes. His eyes radiated a glow of decisiveness and determination. He outstretched his hands as he formed hand sigils in the air.
The air around the youth rumbled, the clouds behind the youth became tainted with the scarlet color. The mountain peak trembled as a mysterious power gushed out form the youth's body. The youth flicked his palm open. A mountain emanating a domineering atmosphere emerged. On the other hand of the youth, small beads of black and white appeared.
The violet rumbling clouds above the youth trembled as thigh thick lightnings encircled around it. Soon, the cloud moved directly above the youth's head.
"Suppression of Life and Death!" The youth howled. The mountain on his palm scattered to countless small mountains that emanated the same amount of suppression as the original mountain. The beads of white and black shot off towards the violet clouds, all the way while emanating droning sounds.
The violet cloud exploded with power as the whirlpool on its center gave off an earth shattering rumble. Soon, a red lightning about as huge as a human materialized. The space around the red lightning distorted.
~Boom!
The beads of white and black collided with the red lightning. The red lightning became blotted with a huge hole, the hole looked like the heavens were just pierced. It became an astounding sight from below. The energy of the red lightning immediately regenerated as another red lightning with the same amount of power materialized. This time, it didn't hesitate to shot off directly towards the youth on the mountain peak!
"Hmmph!" The youth snorted as the countless small mountain around him converged to a point. Creating a three thousand meters tall mountain! The three thousand meters mountain gave off a heart palpitating pressure, and it gave off an extremely domineering aura, as if it was looking down on the world.
~BOOM!
An incomparably large explosion occurred, the mountain scattered, as the red lightning pierced its base. The youth's pupils constricted as he flicked his wrists a blood beam shot off towards the red lightning.
The red lightning greatly weakened after it destroyed the mountain. Because of that, it was immediately obliterated by the youth's retaliation.
The violet clouds above the skies seethed, it seemed to be in rage due to the destruction of its red lightning. Red flashed filled the air as three red lightnings about the same size as the former lightning formed. The youth's expression turned solemn as he once again summoned the mountain and the black and white beads.
"Art of the Mountain; Million mountains against the multitude!" The youth formed a blade posture with his two fingers and pointed towards the three surging red lightnings. The mountain on his palm scattered to countless small mountains that blotted the sky.
"Life and Death Suppression; Twisted Dimension!" The youth opened his palm and the black and white beads rumbled, the space around the beads seethed, soon. It disappeared and in a blink of an eye, it was now before the red lightnings!
Millions of small mountains accompanied by the strange power of the black and white beads struck the red lightnings. An enormous shockwave surged around the vicinity. The mountain peak where the youth once seated on flattened like a pancake. The trees near the base of the mountain became charcoal.
The world around the youth became a huge desert. It seemed to be void of life.
The youth spat a mouthful of blood, his eyes filled with decisiveness as he shouted.
"I shall ascend to immortality!"
...
The space around me distorted until I finally arrived inside a completely white room. The scene that I just witnessed blew my mind away. As a fan of wuxia novels. Being able to see such a spectacular sight of a cultivator fighting against tribulation shook my entire being.
[Please choose your In-Game Name:___________]
A blue screen flickered before me accompanied with a clang sound. It was at that moment that I woke up from my stupor. My eyes brightened and excitement filled my heart. If I soon become a high leveled powerhouse, will I be able to summon such cool looking divine abilities?!
I immediately wrote the In-Game Name that I always used in all my games.
[Please choose your In-Game Name: Heaven Defying]
[Checking availability]
[Name available, would you like to use it?]
I tapped yes and another window appeared before me.
[Please choose your path.]
[Sword Path: With their firm and righteous martial hearts. Sword Path Masters can cleave through their enemies with ease, and can easily outcome any tribulation with their steadfast mind.]
[Fist Path: The most versatile fighter, they can wield any weapon that they want. May it be sword, daggers, talismans, etc. However, they're mostly vulnerable against long ranged classes.]
[Mage Path: The class which deals enormous damage. Vulnerable in close range, But a God in long ranged. Their AoE spells can immediately nuke the health bar out of the enemy.]
[Warlock Path: The class which summons monsters to fight in battlefields, the range of monsters that they can summon depends on their luck. But if used in the right way. One can summon a sea of monsters to overwhelm their enemies. Useful in Raids.]
[Ranger Path: The masters in middle ranged fights. Their swift movements causes headaches to most close ranged fighters. But if caught, one should expect to be beaten to a pulp.]
I tapped on the Warlock Path. Of course, even though I wanted to dominate this game, I want to do it solo. So I need monsters to accompany me in my path to glory. I smiled while I thought.
[Warlock Path is chosen, Note: Class cannot be changed once chosen, do you want to continue?]
My hand, or should I say. My virtual hand tapped on the yes button.
[Class created! Thank you and Enjoy!]
[Transporting to a random sect. Good Luck!]
The blue screen before me flickered to an encouraging message before I was engulfed in bright white light. The space around me distorted and I felt extremely dizzy.
On the top right left corner was my name and my health bar. But before I obtained the time to check my basic stats. A muscular man broke the door before me. His looked to be bedraggled and tears seemed to leak on the corner of his eyelids. Somewhat unfitting for a huge man like him.
"Toad?! You're awake?! You gotta help me here, man. Jiang Cheng is here again causing us trouble!" I looked at the muscular man with a confused expression. Wait, did he just call me toad? I thought.
[A storyline has been triggered. Quest: Help Zhong Chi and defeat Daoist Jiang Cheng. Quest Rank: B. Reward: Middle-Ranked Talisman Paper 1 stack. Sealing Talisman 30x. 300xp.]
Oh! A quest? A storyline no less! I exclaimed in my heart. I tapped the yes button and stood up. The muscular man called by the system as Zhong Chi threw a confused look at me. I am just a beginner in this world, how would you expect my reaction will be?
"Thanks, Toad. I hope that you can avenge this injustice. Here." The muscular man threw a bashful look and retrieved an item from his pocket. He laid it in front of me and a blue screen flickered displaying.
[Low-Ranked Talisman Paper]
I took it from his palm with an ecstatic expression, and while copying my favorite MC's expression I murmured. "Thanks, fellow Daoist."
I walked out and saw that I am inside a small house in a huge courtyard. Before me, resplendent light flashed and booming sounds echoed. I could see NPC's agilely leaping avoiding the other parties' divine abilities.
In the middle of the crowd. I could see a person with a golden question mark sign hovering over his name. Hmm... So that's my quest target.
It feels quite weird to be given a battle quest as my first quest, but this Rank... Hmm... good. I felt excited to the thought of obtaining the rewards, my excited stupor ended as I heard a crashing sound followed by miserable shrieks. Blood splattered on the ground as a fellow sect member became severely injured by a flame blade.
"Coward, Zhong Chi! Come here and meet your death!" Jiang Cheng shouted, his voice domineering to the extreme. The huge muscular man beside me became pale, he murmured towards me whilst trembling. "T-Toad... I know that this is asking too much, but I will give you my previous belongings if you humiliate that bastard!" His voice trembled in anger.
"Boss, I'm sorry. I was unable to hold them down." The severely injured fellow sect member said, his tone muffled before falling on the ground. The other comrades of Zhong Chi strode towards the fallen member and immediately healed him with pills.
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I looked towards the pills and thought. Hmm, it seems like pills also exists here, I wonder if I can become an alchemist. I inwardly smiled.
[Quest: Help Zhong Chi, defeat and humiliate Daoist Jiang Cheng. Quest Rank: B. Reward: Middle-Ranked Talisman Paper 1 stack. Sealing Talisman 30x Essence Stones 20x 300xp]
My eyes brightened to the sight of increased rewards.
"Leave them to me, fellow Daoist." I donned the same posture as earlier and walked towards the so called boss Jiang Cheng.
"Hmm? Who the hell are you? I am not here to fight the ants. I am here to fight that so called Boss in the first district." Jiang Cheng's eyes squinted. His pupils reflected intense killing intent. But before me who possessed some mental fortitude. How could I be swayed by just a stare?
"You wanna fight? Come here, let's fight!" I adjusted my posture to a basic gongfu stance. I looked towards my enemy and maintained a considerable distance between us. After all. This was a cultivation world where Qi was indefinitely available. Who knows what kind of divine ability will this Jiang Cheng release.
"Arrogant brat who doesn't know the distance between Heaven and Earth!" Jiang Cheng howled, his tone sharp and painful to hear. An invisible shockwave spread the surrounding dusts to scatter around him. His lackeys sneered in disdain, some gazes contained a hint of schadenfreude.
His lackeys started to move behind while Jiang Cheng unsheathed a small scimitar on his back. Wait... What?! That guy had a weapon? Damn it!
I turned my gaze towards Zhong Chi and silently cursed in my heart. At the least give me some weapon to fight!
[Domineering Fellow Disciple: Jiang Cheng]
Health: 255/255
Qi: 500/500
Defense: 25
Attack: 120-145
What?! I turned and looked at my health bar.
[Player: Heaven Defying (Warlock)]
Health: 320/320
Qi: 800/800
Defense: 10
Attack: 75-90
I almost wanted to slap that Zhong Chi bastard for sending me here without any weapon to use! At this rate, with my measly defense. I would be slapped to death in two hits!
"Die, Ignorant brat!" Jiang Cheng leaped towards me, I can see a barely visible substance enshrouding his feet. Was that Qi?!
His scimitar aimed for my head. A ruthless attack! However, I didn't panic since I could see the flaws in his attacks. I leaped backwards dodging the scimitar in the last second as a huge MISS icon appeared over my head. Jiang Cheng's expression reddened. Clearly, he lost a great amount of face after missing his killing blow.
"Annoying brat!" As I stabilized myself. Jiang Cheng's second attack came. This time, a horizontal slash towards my chest! I crouched down and avoided his broadsword by a hair's width and sent a palm towards his abdomen while I utilized my left hand to chop the crucial arteries in his thigh. Temporarily numbing his movement speed.
"65!"
"50!"
"50!"
In a matter of two breaths I already sent three attacks on Jiang Cheng. His body staggered backwards after receiving the attack. His body unsteady, particularly his lower body. Just the effects of my brilliant attack. I thought while giving a small smile of self-praise.
However, this smile of self-praise was taken by Jiang Cheng as a mocking one. His face bulged with purple veins as he stabilized his sword stance. This time, he strode towards me, but his sword had a scarlet red aura enshrouding it! My natural senses were all screaming to get away from that scarlet red aura.
Enraged effect? I thought. Enraged effects were special berserk skills that bosses normally activates when their health's lower than ten percent. The scarlet red aura sent an oppressive pressure towards me as the airflow around my body quickened and heated.
However, I am not just a normal person, I have experienced much more dangerous encounters than this. And so, with a simple backstep footwork. I avoided Jiang Cheng's horizontal slash.
"You avoided it?!" Jiang Cheng couldn't believe his eyes when he noticed that I dodged his sword with a simple footwork. But ah, if he knows what I've been thinking, he would've died already.
But clearly, I underestimated the strange divine ability that he activated. Though I managed to dodge the scarlet red aura's graze. The oppressive airflow that surrounded his attack sent me flying backwards for about ten meters. I stabilized my body with a somersault and landed with the balls of my feet. Concluding with me being damaged by 50.
Scary! And that was just the shockwave! I can't imagine what will become of me If I'm struck by that head on! I thought as sweat formed on my back, drenching my Daoists robe wet.
"That brat dodged it... I can't believe my eyes... Did he really dodge it just now?!"
"Fool! If he didn't dodge it earlier, How could he still be there, alive and kicking?! No one is able to survive under Boss' Burning Culling Strike!" Jiang Cheng's lackeys discussed in the sidelines. Though their voice were just a murmur. I could hear it as if it was as clear as day.
I once again gave my self-praise smile. But stupid Disciple Jiang Cheng took it again as a mocking one and became further more enraged. He once again summoned that strange scarlet red aura and readied a thrust stance towards me.
A thrust stance? Did he want me to avoid his attack again? I thought as I scoured his body with my eyesight. Wait... That barely visible substance is there again. Could it be?!
~Bang!
The tiles on the ground cracked as Jiang Cheng leaped towards me. His speed became several times more faster than before. The tip of his broadsword aimed for my heart! If struck by this I would surely die!
Shit, I really underestimated this guy again! I cursed in my mind as I waited to die. There was no point in dodging since he was now three meters before me.
"Die!!!" Jiang Cheng's lips curved to a twisted smile as he stared at my helpless expression. The disciples around the area couldn't help but exclaim in shock.
Suddenly, the airflow around the area quickened, and a shadow slipped past the sidelines towards the area between me and Jiang Cheng. By the time that this shadow materialized between us. Jiang Cheng had already crossed the two meter gap and his broadsword was only about three inches before my chest.
~Chii...
A chiiing sound echoed and Jiang Cheng fell on the ground, unconscious. The blade the he held on his hand disappeared. When I recovered from my state of shock. I looked beside me and found an elderly man holding the sword, his expression dignified and an air of peace surrounded him.
"Hmm, Disciple Jiang Cheng, and... Disciple..." The elderly man looked towards me in confusion before continuing.
"Toad?" His words almost made me cough out blood. I registered my name as Heaven Defying. Why am I called a toad?! I exclaimed in my heart.
"I watched this battle in the sidelines and hmmph! This little bastard Jiang Cheng really wants to humiliate himself! If not for the fact that he the son of the Duke Jiang. I would have expelled this guy already!" The elderly man cursed.
"Bring Jiang Cheng to the medical room. Treat him accordingly and deduct the cost on the Jiang House!" The elderly man shouted, his gaze swept past Jiang Cheng's lackeys which nodded like a chicken pecking rice and moved their boss immediately.
Zhong Chi stared at the sidelines. He didn't know what to say. Earlier, he didn't expect that Toad was really capable of defeating Jiang Cheng. But now, his doubts were cleared.
"And as for you child, Come to the Refiner's Hall later in the afternoon. I have something to discuss to you about this event." The elderly man didn't say anymore words as he disappeared into thin-air.
What a strange technique To be able to disappear in sight with just a blink of an eye. That old man earlier must be strong.
I contemplated, but before I could dive further in my thoughts. Zhong Chi approached me with a fawning look and said.
"Toa- No- Boss! From today onwards. I swear allegiance to you! We already agreed to this so please accept us!" Zhong Chi knelt in one knee together with fifteen other disciples. Their gazes contained fanaticism which made my self-confidence expand even further.
"Hrrmmph! Okay, but before that. Give me the promised treasures first!" I cleared my throat and said in a domineering tone.
"Yes! Here is it!" Zhong Chi threw three pouches towards me as a blue screen flickered.
[Quest Completed! Storyline triggered! Intimacy with Zhong Chi increased. Level Up!]
A bright divine light enshrouded my figure as my level increased!
Hahahaha, I finally reached one step closer to my goal... Dominating this world! I exclaimed in my heart while my self-praise smile reached its pinnacle.