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Cultivation Realms – Elementary Profound Realm, Nascent Profound Realm, True Profound Realm, Spirit Profound Realm, Earth Profound Realm, Sky Profound Realm, Emperor Profound Realm, Tyrant Profound Realm, Sovereign Profound Realm, Saint Profound Realm and Divine Profound Realm.
World Spiritist Levels – White-Cloak, Gray-Cloak, Blue-Cloak, Purple-Cloak, Gold-Cloak.
Profound System Ranks - Low Ranked Profound System, Medium Ranked Profound System, High Ranked Profound System, Special Ranked Profound System, Legendary Ranked Profound System, Ultimate Ranked Profound System and Heavenly Ranked Profound System.
Chapter 53 - Hidden Objectives
"You…"
At that moment, Zhou Zhiyuan's face turned ashen, his eyes widening and veins popped up in his forehead. His face went through various color changes – White, blue, red and finally ending on green. At that moment, his killing intent was high enough to reach the heavens.
Not only him, but even the members of the Water Devil Alliance had surprised expressions. Their jaws dropped in shock, their eyes considerably widened.
Issei's nerves caused each and every one of them to look at him in amazement. He dared to disrespect a core disciple just like that, saying it out loud so everyone could hear him. All of the Water Devil Alliance members suddenly felt numb in their scalps, a bad feeling welling up within them.
"You're seeking death!"
At that moment, just as they feared, Zhou Zhiyuan leaped forward. His figure was akin to that of a fierce tiger as he swung his arm with vehemence, his palm that was suddenly coated in spiritual power carried the sound of ripping apart the wind as it aimed towards Issei's face.
*Whoosh *
However, before he could do anything, Issei, who was just before his eyes, suddenly vanished from view. His eyes widened considerably as his palm aimlessly swept past the space where the younger boy had just been.
In the next moment, Zhou Zhiyuan's eyes widened as he felt pressure building up behind him. Before he could do anything, he suddenly felt as if a huge beast had collided against his back as his body was suddenly lifted from the ground.
This attack would have worked on most people, but Zhou Zhiyaun definitely wasn't someone to be taken lightly. While in mid-air, he did a back-flip, falling steadily on the ground. In the moment he did so, however, he felt pressuring building up inside him. His mouth then opened, blood gushing forth.
That punch had made him cough up blood!
At that point, Zhou Zhiyuan's eyes snapped to the position he had just been at, finding a small, delicate looking boy there. He was just casually standing there, looking at him with disdain.
The moment he saw that, Zhou Zhiyuan felt immense rage building up inside his heart. His vision turned red, as he lost sense of everything but a single thing – The youth who had just punched him.
"Damn you!"
While screaming, Zhou Zhiyuan lunged forward, straight at the delicate looking youth. As he ran, he slapped his cosmos sack, a longsword appearing on his right hand. Not stopping for even a moment, he jumped at the youth.
"Heavenly Cross!"
Spiritual power exploded from his sword in a fierce manner. It then quickly began converging into two giant lines, that intersected with each other, forming a three-meters long cross.
"Oh?"
Looking at the attack in front of him, Issei's eyes widened slightly as he stretched his fingers in his right hand, emulating a sword. He then swept his hands downwards in a wide arc!
"Heavenly Strike!"
Spiritual power exploded from his extended fingers, slowly becoming a large, sword-like energy beam that clashed against Zhou Zhiyuan's attack.
*Bam! *
A large sound exploded out as the two martial skills collided, shocking everyone in the vicinity. The sand in the ground immediately scattered in the air, shrouding the space around them with a sand smoke.
At this point, everyone was holding their breaths, not daring to move as they all waited for the sand to drift back to the ground. Deep fear and worry was present in the eyes of all the members of the Water Devil Alliance.
Soon enough, the sand in the air dispersed, allowing everyone to see again. However, when they saw the scene in front of them, all of their eyes widened considerably.
Not too far away from them were two people. One with an azure, inner disciple robes and another with a deep blue, core disciple clothes.
One of them was standing proudly, his figure calm as he looked at the second, who was kneeling on the ground, a large bloodied line on his torn robes, that extended from his left shoulder all the way to his navel.
The first person wore an azure robe while the second wore a deep blue robe….
When everyone took notice of that, their eyes widened considerably. The one left standing was none other than Issei! Which meant… that the one on the ground… was…. Zhou Zhiyuan!
"How..."
A core disciple from Zhou Zhiyuan's group muttered with disbelief. His eyes were widened, and he looked at the scene as if he didn't dare to believe it. When he saw that his senior brother had started battling with this inner disciple, he was excited and rushed over to see the battle, looking forward to Zhou beating this young boy's ass. However, what he saw was the complete opposite!
The other core disciples near him had similar expressions as they all expressed their disbelief in one-word sentences, that ranged from "How?" to "What?".
While everyone stood there dazed, Zhou Zhiyuan, that was still bleeding, clenched his teeth as he ripped apart his robes, clutching it together and pressing it on his wound, applying pressure in order to stop the bleeding.
While he did so, the rage in his eyes that seemed to be be shining with ever-burning passion slowly dissipated, replaced with somberness.
After a while, he lifted his head and gazed deeply at Issei. There was undoubtedly hatred in his eyes, as well as loathing and wrath, but at the same time, they seemed to be contained.
He coughed up another mouthful of blood. The blood sprayed in the desert's ground, painting the sand in red. His eyes turned colder as he gazed at Issei,
"You… do you dare to say your name?!" Zhou Zhiyuan finally asked, his killing intent covering the entire area. After finding out the level of power of this delicate looking boy, he didn't attack anymore. Instead, he questioned him.
"Although I don't see any reason..." Issei began coolly, "I don't see why not. I'm an inner disciple of Heavenly Might School, Issei." Issei didn't bother mincing words and postponing something that was inevitable, so he announced his name loud and clear.
"Issei..." Zhou Zhiyuan repeated before laughing cruelly, "Very good, I've remembered you."
He then slowly got up from the ground, his toned upper body bare, except for the single piece of clothing that he kept pressing against the giant slash that ran across his body.
"I'll be awaiting you inside the tomb. I look forward to our next meeting."
Zhou Zhiyuan then turned around, and without saying anything, took his leave. Seeing that, all of his followers widened their eyes, before running after him, making sure to take out their best medicines as they ran, intending to gift them to Zhou Zhiyuan.
Now, Issei was finally left alone with the members of the Water Devil Alliance. As soon as he noticed that Zhou Zhiyuan was far away, he immediately fell to the ground, coughing up a mouthful of blood.
"Junior Brother!"
Immediately, the members of the Water Devil Alliance that had just been standing there stupidly snapped back to their senses and rushed to him, worrying for his situation. However, before they could even get close, Issei extended his left hand, stopping them in their spots.
"No need for worries," He began as he took in a mouthful of fresh air, ignoring the felling of tiredness that took over his body, "Let's just get on our way. I'll be back in a prime condition in an hour."
Even with those words, the members of the Water Devil Alliance seemed to want to say something more, but just one glance into Issei's cold eyes was enough to make them shut their mouths tightly.
Sighing, Issei got up and slowly walked in the direction of his Fierce Profound Beast. He then made a slight jump, falling directly on top of it. He then looked at the Water Devil Alliance, who had yet to mount their Fierce beasts and said in annoyance.
"Let's get going already. We have lost too much time."
Following that, he slapped his beast slightly, making it dash forward into the distance. Seeing that, the members of the Water Devil Alliance didn't dally in any longer as the ran back to their mounts, quickly catching up with Issei.
While they continued their travel, all of them didn't say a single word, but kept sending glances full of worry towards their younger brother. That was the first time that they had actually seen him cough up blood, so they were quite affected.
In the end, though, they didn't really need to worry. Just as Issei said, his condition wasn't too bad.
When he had blocked the attack, he had overused his spiritual power, causing a disturbance in his blood flow which led to him coughing up blood. In fact, the act of coughing up blood was of minor importance. His main problem was the fact that he had completely drained his spiritual power in order to deal with that strike.
Initially, he felt that it wouldn't be too much of problem, so he only used his hands, but when he noticed the sheer destructive will of the power, it was already too late to call Gan Jiang and Mo Ye out, so he could only channel all of his spiritual power into his hand.
When he thought of that, Issei cursed slightly. For him, if it was anyone below the fifth level of the True Profound Realm, with his current amount of problem, he would be able to win, albeit with a little difficulty.
Zhou Zhiyuan, however, wasn't a normal cultivator. He was a genius in his own right, and his battle prowess could be compared to those of the sixth level of the True Profound Realm, a power that even if Issei went all out, he wouldn't be able to match.
The only reason he actually managed to win the fight was the fact that Zhou Zhiyuan was too enraged to think with clarity. If he had been in a right state of mind, Issei knew for sure that the end result would be very, very different.
That showed that Issei still had much to improve, which only served to further increase his desire for cultivation resources.
In the end, though, he won, so there wasn't too much of problem. Not only that, he also manged to accomplish one of his objectives with that, which was to create deep enmity with a certain person's group.
"Long Tian, Long Tian," Issei muttered, a dark look on his face, "You're in for so much trouble..."
Issei, obviously, wasn't a person that acted without thinking. Before taking action, he would always consider the consequences and see if the pros outweighed the cons. This time was no exception, as he angered Zhou Zhiyuan on purpose.
From the start, he knew that Zhou Zhiyuan was Long Tian's, the number one core disciple, close friend. In fact, he created enmity between him and Zhou Zhiyuan for this very reason. He wanted to anger Long Tian.
Issei's objectives on this trip to the tomb, although it may not seem like so, didn't restrain themselves to only acquiring the treasures. It could be said that he had some darker, crueler, plans.
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AN: Also, guys, I have some info to tell you. For this dungeon trip, I'll be basing myself on the Chinese novel Martial God Asura. As I said, this story is in fact a the fan fiction of a bunch of Chinese novels, including Martial God Asura.
As such, if you have any interest on knowing kinda what is going to happen, I suggest you give Martial God Asura a read. Warning: The MC is a jackass. Like, seriously, Chu Feng is the kind of people that kill bastards but is a bastard himself. Like, he has already raped what? 4 girls? And on two of them, at the very least, he was conscious and did it on purpose. Aside from that, he is a pretty cool guy that cares for his friend (LOL). However, its not too bad as they don't take much time on describing it, and basically just gives the reader the main idea. (Sorry, no true R-18 scenes.)
Now, if you're wondering, then I'll tell you right now that Issei isn't based on Chu Feng. Although there are some similarities, Issei's personality will be much different from his. If you want an idea, it'll be pretty similar to Meng Hao from I Shall Seal The Heavens. (A series that I seriously recommend. Best novel I have ever read by far.)
Now, if you really are interested on how this story will develop, I suggest you read Against The Gods (Not mine. The Chinese novel.) You see, for the time being, I'm mixing the MGA time-line along with my own ideas, adding some events from my own and excluding some others. However, in about 20-40 chapters, I'll enter the ATG story-line. Obviously, I'll not completely copy it.
I'll work with their characters, and also the events that happen there, but there will be major differences. For example, some events will end up completely different, the relationship between the characters will be different and there will even be some characters that are OOC and many other stuff. (Basically, I'm getting the main events and twisting them around to fit Issei's personalities and my wishes. Also adding new events and taking out others.)
For example of some of the changes, let's imagine that in ATG (Chinese), the MC gets a treasure from a trip. On mine, he'll get a different treasure, will face different obstacles and many other stuff, but the place they are going is the same. In the end, it will be kinda like a fan fiction. Also, the relationship of Issei with the characters from ATG will be much more different than the ones Yun Che (MC) has with them.
In reality, for every chapter I'm writing right now, I'm reading a MGA chapter beforehand to know how to proceed. For example, the dungeon trip in MGA is from chapter 46 until 64.
Either way, if you're liking the concept of cultivation and many other things of my story, then I suggest the following novels:
Martial World;
Martial God Asura (Again, you must ignore the beast that the Main Character is to enjoy it);
True Martial World;
I Shall Seal The Heavens (The very best.);
A Thought Through Eternity (Only 17 chapters in. From the author of ISSTH. MC is funny as hell too.);
Heavenly Jewel Change (MC is kinda like Issei from DXD in the beginning. I mean the perverted Issei.);
Martial Peak;
Against The Gods (Again, not mine.);
Devouring The Heavens;
Tales Of Demons And Gods. (More childish than the others.);
Battle Through The Heavens;
Transcending The Nine Heavens (Tired of One-dimensional villains? Do you like bigger schemes, politics and many other cool stuff? If so, this is for ya!).
Finally, there is My Beautiful Teacher. In this one, it's a story with cultivation that takes place on the modern world. Really interesting, I suggest it (MC is also devilish. Quite literally, as he IS a Devil.)
Now, if you're into Sword Art Online and Log Horison-like stories, then I suggest Shura's Wrath (Barely. It's pretty messed up.) and Zhang Long (This one is kinda messed up too...).
Finally, this is it for now. New chapter is gonna be out tomorrow.
