The Pathway

The sudden appearance of the sword that blocked his glaive had surprised Lang Hai as he returned to the midair. He keenly stared as the flaming sword returned to its owner who was standing a distance from him. This new ent.i.ty that was using a divine presence that blanketed her vicinity and this could only mean one thing.

A demiG.o.d!

Oh, how much he hated those demiG.o.ds. Yes, they were powerful but thinking the universe belongs to them? Annoying. Thinking they were deities, maybe, due to the traces of divinity they possessed. Pathetic. But as annoying as they were, the main problem wasn"t them but the exceedingly powerful figures behind them.

The heavenly G.o.ds.

How could he know which demiG.o.d was related to a powerful G.o.d and which one wasn"t? He had been trying to avoid encounters with them to the best of his capabilities yet they would seek him out. Disputes with a demiG.o.d could only mean big troubles for any cultivator if an opposing demiG.o.d was related to a mighty G.o.d. Even if he could avoid ascending to the heavenly plane, the involved G.o.ds could employ a more powerful cultivator on the mortal plane to deal with him. Oh, how much he hated all of them.

And here was one, not minding her own bugwax but was interfering in his dealing.

He quickly scrutinize his sorrounding and realized that w.a.n.g Xiu was no longer where she was and the kids had vanished too. He could have pursued and located her, if not for this new development. The demiG.o.d"s divine aura was covering w.a.n.g Xiu"s after-images and traces. This could only be a delibrate attempt on the part of the demiG.o.d to aid w.a.n.g Xiu. Was the demiG.o.d trying to be his enemy?

He knitted his brows tightly together as he carefully observed Reena with his eagle eyes. He was irritated to find out that although she was a demiG.o.d, she was still at the nascent soul. But how would he know about her ancestral heritage. Maybe she was even having a highcelestial as an ancestor.

With a scowl, he used his mindvoice.

"Why do you interfere in my matter, demiG.o.d?"

His brows became tightly knitted together in a slight frown.

"Leave now and I will let this be."

Reena stared at the blue-robed man standing in the midair a distance from her. A Xue Ku! A rogue blood cultivator, nonetheless, an extremely powerful and dangerous one. She had seen a bit of his power and realized that fact. But, how could she leave when it involved her son?

But, where were they? She had seen the group of the disciples including her son, knocked back from the impact of the collision. She had also seen elder w.a.n.g Xiu kneeling as the blood cultivator was descending to deliver what seemed to be the killing stroke. She had used her divine presence with the intention of masking their visibility and to shift the focus of the blood cultivator to herself. But all of a sudden, they were no longer where they were.

She used her divine sight and discovered their after images that followed the direction behind her. How did they manage to do that? It must be the work of the sect elder, she was definitely prepared for that but couldn"t have escaped him for long without help arriving. She left her divine aura in place which would make it difficult for the blood cultivator to see beyond her unless she was no longer in .

Reena knew she couldn"t leave yet, if she did, the blood cultivator would be able to trace them eventually. She would have to delay him for as long as possible despite the considerable danger it entailed.

"Leave? How can I leave when you are taking advantages of the situation? She"s already defeated, why do you seek her death?"

"Do you think this was an act of sparring or who was a better fighter? For the last time, stop interfering and we"ll be on neutral terms."

With a worried look on her face, Reena shook her head.

"I really can"t do that."

Lang Hai"s eyes started to dilate in anger as his glaive began to throb aloud.

"Then, this is on you."

With a swift forward thrust of his throbbing glaive, Lang Hai sent out a myriad of fiery blood wraiths towards Reena. These were powerful angry souls that were captured and harvested immediately after their death using the forbidden rogue blood cultivation art originated in the primordial chaos. An immensely dangerous mystical art.

Vengeance of the Fallen Stars.

Reena immediately jumped into the mid-air and initiated her mastered fourth stage of the Phoenix Inferno technique.

The Phoenix Stream.

She used a vast amount of Chi energy to make it more powerful. And a river of liquid fire flowed speedily in the direction of the coming wraiths.
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They collided and the impact knocked the two of them backwards.

Reena was just recovering from the knockback when Lang Hai appeared in front of her with his glaive aimed at her shoulder. She quickly raised her sword to deflect it and slashed upward as their weapons clashed frantically in what turned out to be a blur before she was knocked back several yards again.

"Though I sense your disadvantage in martial arts, you are strong in mystical arts. So, I will give you the honor you deserved by sticking to mystical arts. But make no mistake demiG.o.d, in the mortal plane, only a few can truly threaten me. I have already ascended the level of the mortal plane. But if you leave now, I will reconsider and not hold this against you."

Reena remembered how the female elder of the Last-Sword sect, the one called w.a.n.g Xiu, had saved her son and his group earlier and how they all related with one another like one group of friends. How could she turned her back on her after that? And moreso, she had done nothing wrong that deserved death.

She stared at him indifferently and shook her head. She would hold a bit longer but had no plan of dying here. When she could no longr delay, she would definitely had to flee.

"I can"t do that."

"So be it."

Lang Hai buried the pointed tip of his glaive, which now had a color of a blood red, in the ground causing a rumble, then raised it up to the sky making a thunderous sound before slowly thrusting it forward creating a wailing sound. A single drop of red liquid flew from tip of the glaive towards the direction of Reena and was gradually expanding.

"Tear of the Sorrowful Heaven."

Reena"s eyes went wide from the knowledge of the executed move. From the moment the red drop was released, the strong baleful aura coming from its direction was an acknowledgement of its power. Even a weaker lowG.o.d would find it impossible to face it head-on. This could only be from a true mystical ascendant.

Covered in nimbus light, Reena quickly manifested her true nascent soul. A replica of herself cladded in white phoenix feather armor and two large flaming phoenix wings on her back. She twirled in mid-air, pushing a vast amount of Chi essence containing fire element and divine aura she could muster into her sword and slashed it horizontally forward. It released a gigantic flaming phoenix that covered the sky as it flew towards the expanding red drop.

The Phoenix Flight.

This was her best mystical art"s attack, the fifth stage of the Phoenix Beast Inferno. It was just at the early stage since she just finished mastering the fourth stage of the phoenix inferno, the phoenix stream. Though it was at the early stage, it was the best move she knew.

The two mystical attacks collided and created a deafening sound. The force of the impact spread in the air and extended upward creating a burning sky.

Reena was knocked hard to the ground as Lang Hai was sent several yards back. She managed to stand up but her stomach was roiling uncontrollably. She spat out a handful of blood as drops of blood streaked down her eyes.

Lang Hai looked at Reena with bloodshot eyes.

"I can"t be held for your predicament. Or have you forgotten the oath that bounds you as a demiG.o.d? That you can"t interfere in matters that don"t directly involve you in a mortal world as a demiG.o.d? You should have left, demiG.o.d."

Reena spat out more blood before asking.

"How could I have left when it involved my son?"

Lang Hai still with bloodshot eyes, shook his head.

"Do you think I"m here to kill your son? What would I gain from that? I never had any animosity against you or your son. I"m only here for the nascent soul. Many times I asked you to leave but you stayed."

"The nascent soul is with my son. How can I simply turn my back?"

"You should have left, demiG.o.d."

Beyond reasoning and with total bloodshot eyes, Lang Hai manifested his nimbus light which covered his whole body for an instant. When the light disappeared, Lang Hai appeared in his true nascent form. He was much more taller and bigger and was covered from head to toe with blistering red armor shimmering with dark energy. The red armor had shrank and fused with his nascent soul.

The baleful killing intent coming from his direction was unbelievable.

Reena was watching him carefully. His nimbus light was powerful for a blood cultivator of his level that was already high. But the shimmering dark energy that was blistering on the red armor got her thinking. Realization dawned on her as she recollected the knowledge of it.

"Chaotic blood armor?"

She had only heard of the legend. Only a cultivator with a primordial legacy could manifest something like this. Whether he had mastered it or not, he was a true living danger.

Time to leave.

She could have used teleportation but Lang Hai would have followed easily in his current state of power. Thinking quickly, she formed an image with a portion of her life-force and Chi essence. Pouring her divine aura into the image, she was able to hold it in position while she used the divine evasion to flee. By the time he realized that it was just an image, she wouldn"t be anywhere near the vicinity. She would"ve been long gone.

Using her divine sight, she saw the faint traces of the after images of elder w.a.n.g Xiu and the rest of the group. She could have used the flight teleportation but she wouldn"t have been able to follow their traces. An after-image must be traced and followed. She quickly used the divine evadion steps to follow them and arrived at the plain of the Ivory Yonder.

"Ivory Yonder?"

Addressing her question to no one in particular. She turned her head to look at the direction she was coming from as the echoes of Lang Hai"s voice boomed to her location.

Some miles away from where she was standing, she could see what appeared to be ma.s.sive red gates that were about to close. The after-images that she was following pa.s.sed through the gate hence she quickly intensify her divine evasive steps that took her to the outside of the gates.

She looked at the ma.s.sive gates and beyond the gates was a landscape different from the scenery outside. What in heaven"s tears was this place? She was thinking about it when her mind wandered back to the closing gates and she quickly entered.

As the gates were closing, she could hear the echoes of the booming voice of Lang Hai that was getting louder as he was getting nearer. She kept watching the gates until they were completely closed before turning towards the scene inside with a sigh of relief.