Wudang: Legends Of Qi Earth

ANONE

Alex closed his eyes as he sat under the thousand year chrysanthemum tree, Qi slowly snaked in and out of his body, nourishing his bones and strengthening him as he drew upon the essence of the world. The (Wudang Heart Sutra) had already reached the second stage, the inner pill right above his Dantian meant he had an alternate source of energy, a highly compressed and purifier form of energy, but such an existence also meant that his cultivation would be a bit slower. But Alex didn"t mind, wonder he had rushed his way through the realms and levels, and while his foundations were already quite stable, he wanted to be careful at the rate which he Advanced.

In all honesty Alex was still quite frantic about his low cultivation, sure he"s able to fight against people at a higher realm than him, but that"s mostly due to luck.

It was as if there was a common disease going around with cultivators where they would happily underestimate someone at a lower level of cultivation than them, it was stupid and Alex had more than proved that the realms were just a formality for him. But the one thing he had to worry about were the gates, he was still in the mortal gates of cultivation, those within the earth gates are akin to elephants while he"s an ant, there was a very big difference.

Alex continued to meditate, Qi filtering into his body and strengthening his bones, organs, tissue, blood, married etc. His body was still taking in an abyssal amount of Qi every time he medicates, but now instead of rapidly leveling up in cultivation, his body was being strengthened to ridiculous proportions.

There weren"t anything like body cultivation methods, as far as Qi is concerned everything grows together, the Energy, the body and the soul, those are what The cultivation of Qi nourishes. So there was no specific method to solely for us on the training of the body, there might be cultivation techniques that would place emphasis on creating a strong body, but the cultivation of Qi and the soul would Leave be and important aspect of it.

It"s been two months since the emperor"s birthday, tomorrow Alex would be fifteen and the Princess and a bunch of delegates from the emperor would be here to officially sign the engagement doc.u.ment and make it fully and completely official. Alex didn"t trust the princess, even with all of her very obvious ambitions and plans to change the world they live, he knew it was an insurmountable task, a task she would be taking against the man who raised her, her own father! Alex didn"t believe she hated him enough to want to bring him down.

But there"s a possibility she"s actually right, a chance that they could do the f.u.c.king impossible and start a revolution that could and would shake the very foundations of earth itself. Alex was down for anything that would put an end to the emperor, he didn"t have too much of an impression on the Empire of Albion, so he didn"t care so much about them, The empire of heaven was a big enough problem as it is. The emperor had too many sins, so too did the royal family.

What happened in Macau was a cover up, a clean up for the mistakes and errant bad decision of someone else. The first prince Lu Quan was quite respected, even though he"s not as famous as his two youngest siblings, he still hand enough clout to be respected. He was known as a fierce general and had won many a conquest for the emperor across multiple Dimensions and particle world"s,  winning resources not just from Albion, but from other worlds.

He was also married; married to a woman who was born and raised in a h.e.l.l dimension, a succubus; a demoness of great power. Not much is known about her as she keeps out of the public eye, besides there"s nothing too good to be said about demons, either way she"s lived twice as long as the emperor himself, and in that time had founded cults to the worship of demons. According to what Alex had found out from the remnant, this woman was f.u.c.king the emperor, the father of her own husband. She was the one who had handed the secret of the demon summoning ritual to the communion of true sons! A terrorist organization created in secret by the first Emperor to cause dissent and havoc amongst the people so that they can always turn to the Emperor for help and security, keeping them under his heels and silencing any talks of rebellion.

And as for those of them who feel joining the Communion would be a way to make a difference, they had no idea they were working solely for the Emperor. Macau was a loose end, a thriving city this close to the heart of his empire but completely out of his control, it was too much of a threat, and an outright war would cause problems with the power who had claim to that city. So basically everyone that died was just collateral damage in the Emperor"s attempt to not give anyone a foothold over him. 

There was too many things wrong with this world, and it as quite unfortunate that things like truth and justice and fairness would never be enough for Alex to truly change it, if he wanted to beat all these snakes, then he had to be an even bigger, dangerous and much more poisonous snake; he had to become a dragon.

"Now what are you thinking so hard about, aren"t you supposed to be training?" Alex heard Anya daily as she took a seat behind him, wrapping her legs around his waist and resting her forehead on his back.

"I was training, until someone decided to interrupt, how are you doing Anya." Alex asked as he leaned back the rest his head on her chest, ignoring the very cushy feeling beneath them.

"I don"t like that your mother won"t let me stay with you, plus she"s been teaching me a whole bunch of things that I don"t think I need, but she says it would keep both of us alive, so I don"t think it"s too bad. However tensions seem to have rises between the Wudang sect and the Emei sect, for some reason the sect leader didn"t like the fact that Xiao Mei and I were drawn back home ending the promised three year student exchange program. I get the feeling that there"s something that I was supposed to do that didn"t happen, and now it"s causing problems.

Maybe it"s because before I left the a.s.sistant sect head had asked me to be her disciple and join the sect, she said the Emei sect will treat much better than the Wudang sect and that I didn"t have to worry about their politics and schemes, and that I could train as much as I want and be as strong as I wanted to be. I just have to refuse the engagement with you, she said it was a trap set by your mother and grandfather and that they were trying to take advantage of me." Alex wasn"t sure what to say, because to him it sounded like Anya had doubts, but then again he"s never once lied to her before about anything, he wouldn"t start now.

"You"re right Anya it was a trap and my family took advantage of you in an attempt to keep me safe, but we never hid that from you. If you"re not sure about this, then we can call if off, if you have doubts....."

"Did you heat your head or something, did I sound like I had any doubts, I was just telling you what happened. Alex my place is with you, who"s going to keep you safe? Even though people keep telling me that I"m too young and all these feelings and devotions I have for you will pa.s.s the older I get, I know they won"t. Because you and I we"re written in the stars, we"re destined for each other. Sure you might have to marry another woman, and you will have to learn to love her because I won"t like it if you don"t! But it doesn"t change one very fundamental fact, you belonged to me first, and you will always belong to me. I"m not sharing you, I"m just lending you out every once in a while.

I don"t care about the Wudang sect or the Emei sect of the Empire, all I ever wanted was to keep you from beaten by all those boys back in the village. But you like to dream, you had visions of seeing the world, of becoming a very powerful cultivator and enjoying the good things of life. You made me want that for myself too, you made me want to grow stronger and be happy and not live my life in a cage. And all these things mattered to me because in my head, I will have them all, and you"ll be right there with me, always. I won"t let anyone ruin my dreams for their own ambitions, not even you and you"re schemes.

We thought of this world as a novelty, a man"s romance, freedom, power and prestige. But it"s different than what we expected, everyone is out to get us, and the only way we can actually be happy, is to carve out a piece of this world for ourselves. Own it in such a way that people won"t want to fight us, but they"ll want to protect us. Just fighting to keep ourselves and our family safe isn"t enough Alex, we"re going to be husband and wife once you"re eighteen, we"ll have children of our own someday, and our enemies will become theirs, just as your parents enemies are now yours. It"s time we start dreaming bigger, much more bigger. I no longer want to live in this world Alex....I want to rule it."