The Pathway 33 The Xue Ku Lang Hai

A relatively large village in the northern province on the continent of Yamachi. The village was located near the legendary Anji sea to the front and Zhoudao city to the back. The curve of the Anji sea also connected Zhoudao city. Opposite Wonyong on the other side of the sea, was a small city formed by the three villages of Fushui, Darsa and Sinsan.

The vast body of water of the Anji sea was the home of three different groups of the thala.s.sics [Water sacred beasts]. These three thala.s.sics were the fishfolk, the dragonblood and the lionkind. After millions of years of disputes, an agreement was finally reached and the Anji sea was equally divided among them.

The agreement created a free region of the sea where all the sea sacred beasts could come together without barging into each other's territories. Trades, meetings among others, could be carried out in this region.

Wonyong village was situated at the free region of the sea where the three thala.s.sics came together. In the immediate waters of Wonyong were three tribes from these thala.s.sics. They were the White Sybils of the fishkind; the Ruby Crowns of the sea dragons and the Grey Runes of the sea lions.

Due to them living closer to the free region, there was a close interaction among them. The Frozen Ember pearl, a total grade luminous treasure, was divided into three fragments and each was given to the three tribes. This act consolidated the unity among the three thala.s.sics.

These three tribes also made an agreement with Wonyong village in regards to the region and depth of the water to fish.

As a sevillage, Wonyong was having a fair amount of visitors, cultivators, traders and merchants.

Due to the availability of vegetation towards the other side of the village, half of the villagers were farmers. The various farm produce along with the mundane sea creatures caught in the water, would be sold to buyers including merchants and traders.

But the true value of the village was the luminous pillar, the Righteous World.

The Righteous World was a total grade luminous treasure of high importance located at the end of the village in the valley before the chains of mountain that separated them from Zhoudao. This valley area of the village had no building or any other things but had been reconstructed with many bamboo mats covering the floors. The cultivators would sit on them to meditate and practice their cultivation. The effective power of the pillar covered the whole area of the valley.
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Due to all these, cultivators were coming from far and near to cultivate under the Righteous World. Among them were the sacred beasts who could transform into mortal forms. They would often visit Wonyong to trade or to practice cultivation under the Righteous World.

A relatively peaceful harmony ensued among all. Gradually, the older members of the water sacred beasts were coming out to join the meditating cultivators.

Among them was Liqiris from the White Sybils of the fishkind. He was a sacred beast at the early stage of the nascent soul who had already reached the cultivation levels of total transformation. In his possession was one of the fragments of the pearl, the one belonging to the White Sybils of the fishfolk. It was the responsibility of his clan to keep the fragment and produced it when required.

It was around the same time that a Xue Wu named Hou Hai came in from the Zhoudao city. He was an extremely powerful peak stage nascent soul cultivator of hegemonic level of power. His core beast was a divine red eagle who had gained complete awareness of its existence. With him was a young Xue Wu cultivator of the early stage of nascent soul who happened to be his son, Lang Hai. They would come to the Righteous Valley to meditate for long hours. It was there they met Cao Xiu.

Some workers were a.s.signed to see to the upkeep of the valley, to regularly attend to it. They were the Righteous Keepers. One of these keepers was Cao Xiu who had been carrying out his daily task efficiently. He was a late-stage golden core cultivator who had been looking forward to breaking through to the nascent soul stage after reaching a bottleneck for a quite a long time.

Cao Xiu had noticed them due to their long hours of meditation thus they had come to know one another. He had learned about them and they had learned about him. Sometimes, they would provide some a.s.sistance for him in his bid to breakthrough to the next stage.

Gradually, he became relaxed with them and would relate with them on many things of interest whenever he had the moment. They would talk about many things including cultivation, artifacts and treasures.

Although w.a.n.g Xiu was young girl of Lianchi stage, she understood everything they were talking about. She would join her father at the Righteous Valley and practiced her cultivation too whenever she had the chance to.

w.a.n.g Xiu couldn't have been more proud of her father. Ever since the death of her mother, her father had been the one taking care of them. Oh, how much they missed her. She had died in a strange necrosis attack. Though the perpetrator was killed too, the pain was still enormous to bear.

The weight on her shoulders had been ma.s.sive but she had been trying her best. w.a.n.g Xiu remembered being at home one day preparing the evening meal when her father suddenly barged in staggering.

"w.a.n.g Xiu!"

She ran to her father and was extremely afraid when she saw the blood on his father.

"Father!"

She knew something was very wrong and started crying.

"Father."

She tried to stop the bleeding with her shaking hand but couldn't. There were many deep cuts on his body.

"w.a.n.g Xiu, take.. this spatial sac."

w.a.n.g Xiu couldn't stop herself from crying as she continued to look at her father.

"Nooo father, noooo."

Cao Xiu coughed up blood as he tried to speak.

"Listen to me, my daughter. What is inside the sac I gave you is very important to the sea sacred beasts, especially the White Sybils of the fishfolk. It's a fragment of the Frozen Ember pearl. Please keep it safe. Don't let it fall into the wrong hands..."

He coughed more blood as he took out a seal.

"This teleportation seal will take you away from here. It's the last one I have. After you leave here, go to Ankhora continent. Look for the Last-Sword sect and show them this token."

Cao Xiu produced a golden token and gave it to his daughter.

"Hurry up and leave. You don't have much time."

Cao Xiu activated the teleportation seal and sent his daughter into the opened portal.

As w.a.n.g Xiu was sent flying into the portal, she turned her head to take a last glance at her father. It was at this time that she saw the young looking man with blue-black hair, a dark blue eyes and was holding a silver sword suddenly appeared. The young man that had mortally wounded her father. How could she forget his face? He and his father had been friends with her own father. They betrayed her father and were even ready to kill him. How could she forget this?

Elder w.a.n.g Xiu stared at the man in front of her.

"Lang Hai."

"Mhm, so w.a.n.g Xiu, you remembered who I am. I'm highly honoured."

Lang Hai happily nodded before he continued.

"Many a million year it took me to locate you after searching far and wide, It was very painful to see you escaped that day. Fortunately, my path was directed towards you."

"Why?"

He looked at elder w.a.n.g Xiu with knitted brows.

"What?"

She returned the look with burning anger and slowly shook her head.

"You killed my father, Lang Hai."

He watched elder w.a.n.g Xiu with a bitter smile on his face.

"Cao Xiu? His death was on him. I had nothing against your father, after all, he was a valley keeper. He should have faced his own work. But no, he had to get involved in our matter and he paid for it. His fault."

He shrugged and extended his left hand.

"Hand over the artifact, w.a.n.g Xiu and I will consider letting you leave."

With eyes burning with anger, elder w.a.n.g Xiu took out her sword, Light-Flex, and with two downward swipes, sent two blades of radiant blue lights towards him. He raised his glaive and blocked them in quick succession. Using eternal light steps, she appeared in front of Lang Hai who hurriedly raised his glaive. For several minutes, they exchanged numerous deadly swords moves as their swords clashed ferociously.

They separated, but before he could follow her position, numerous images of elder w.a.n.g Xiu came at him from different angles. All with different sword moves. He quickly summoned the power of his divine fire eagle and released rings of red liquid fire. The rings collided with the sword moves creating ma.s.sive energy field. His glaive was also moving with ferocious speed as he continued to block the images that pa.s.sed through the rings. By the time the energy receded, only two images of elder w.a.n.g Xiu were left attacking Lang Hai. But he managed to hold them off and dispersed the last image. The true elder w.a.n.g Xiu streaked back to her original position.

"The Thousand Heavenly Immortals?"

Asked Lang Hai as he looked at elder w.a.n.g Xiu in utter disbelief.

"It was truly remarkable for you to have learned such a move. It really caught me off guard. If it was the old me, I could have been in mortal danger. You even forced me to use my mystical arts, the Two Worlds Liquid fire."

Elder w.a.n.g Xiu didn't answer but lifted her sword over her head and released it. The sword shot into the sky and projected downward with a ma.s.sive red light that spread around the sword from its pointed edge.

The Vermilion Divine Judgment.

This was her most powerful mystical art. Once the sword started to descend, the opponent would never be able to hide from it but to face it.

Lang Hai couldn't believe a cultivator at the Yinlong stage of the martial art and nascent soul in cultivation could be that powerful. He raised his glaive which was making loud throbbing sounds with red veins visible inside it and hit the base of the glaive on the ground. The base of the glaive entered the ground with the bladed side facing upward.

He clasped his hands together and the glaive turned into a ma.s.sive pillar of liquid fire with veins of runes. And almost instantly, he opened his hands and the ma.s.sive pillar shot upward to meet the downward ma.s.sive red light.

They collided and the impact was extremely frightful. If it had happened on the ground, the whole village and its vicinity would have turned to dust. Still the effect had dangerous effect on the village. Many houses were knocked down and the whole village was turned red. Even the vicinity of the village was affected.

Both the sword and the glaive returned to their owners.

He shook his head slowly with a sigh.

"I never saw that coming. The Vermilion Divine Judgment. Two powerful arts you have shown me and twice you have forced my hands. Now, I can no longer hold back."

Lang Hai took one giant step and disappeared.

"Oath Of The Fallen Souls!"

Elder w.a.n.g Xiu exclaimed in utter alarm.

The Oath of the Fallen Souls was a martial arts move that could only be executed by an artist of a Qingzhong [world master] level at the least. This move would make its executioner pa.s.s through the body and soul of the opponent. By the time the martial artist appeared behind the opponent, the opponent's would have been dead with his body still standing. Although, it consumed high amount of Chi energy and a level of body strength.

Elder w.a.n.g Xiu realised that her opponent must have reached the Qingzhong[world sovran] level as a martial artist while she was at the Yinlong[silver dragon] level. She knew it would mean her death to take this attack head-on. This was a martial move that only a few martial artists on the mortal plane could master. Hence, she took out the Jade Life heavenly seal, a life saving seal and immediately activated it. She raised her sword and used her most powerful mystical arts technique, the Timeless Guardians Light.

The Jade Life heavenly seal was supposed to be used twice but by the time Lang Hai appeared behind her, it had been disintegrated.

Elder w.a.n.g Xiu was on one knee with blood trickling down the side of her mouth. She couldn't defeat him in martial arts.Maybe she should have used the escape seal given to her by Blood Blade. But at least, she now realised the power level of her opponent. He wasn't a cultivator she could face with her current level of power.

She doubted she couldn't withstand him in both martial and mystical arts but her anger wouldn't let her be. They had betrayed her family and killed her father.

She raised her and looked at the man behind her.

"Why?"

"Are you asking me why?"

Lang Hai laughed as he took out the other two fragments of the Frozen Ember Pearl. He made the hand gestures and the two fragments ascended into the midair and started to vibrate. Shortly, the third in the hand of elder w.a.n.g Xiu flew out and joined the other two to form a whole pearl.

"The Frozen Ember Pearl."

He flew up and caught it before descending.

Elder w.a.n.g Xiu stared at him with more burning anger.

"You and your father killed my father because of this?"

"No w.a.n.g Xiu, my father wasn't after this. He was after what was under the pillar. The Legacy Of Dawn. He managed to get it and people won't know it's gone anyway."

He shook his head as he gave a faint smile.

"It was all me, w.a.n.g Xiu. Do you even know what this is, w.a.n.g Xiu? It doesn't matter, I will tell you. You will die soon anyway. They said this pearl was an ice luminous treasure, that it was an artifact only for the water element cultivators especially the ice element affiliated. Oh, how wrong they are."

He looked at the pearl in his hand smiling.

"This is as good as divine. This is my way through the heavenly tribulations."

He glanced at her, frowning.

"I can't let you live w.a.n.g Xiu. You are this powerful now, what will in the future? I can't allow you to come after me. I can't be watching my back because of you, w.a.n.g Xiu."

He jumped into the air and spun his glaive as he descended to deliver the killing blow.

Jufeng who had been knocked flying from the impact of the collision, tried to do something to help but knew that there was basically nothing he could do. He was simply incapacitated. Another death knocking on his door.

Elder w.a.n.g Xiu looked at him with defiance and activated the seal given to him by Blood Blade just as a flaming sword was colliding with the throbbing glaive.