(30) Yin and Yang
1033 Words
Child of fates, they were born to be righteous or evil and establish the greatest era in a certain world. They are talented and fate keeps blessing them. Almost a million of years ago, a child of fate was born in this cultivation world. He led the righteous forces under his control to destroy demonic sects and cults. Afterwards, he created the Ten Ancient Sect which are all under his governance. No one knew if he achieved immortality but he seemed to have disappeared mysteriously after a few hundred years of rule. The fragments of a demonic sect were then scattered around the mainland and other zones but no one dared to create a demonic sect anymore. In fear that the child of fate is watching them.
Zi Yingjun knew this tale when he was a disciple of Thousand Sword Sect, one of the Ten Ancient Sect in the Central Continent. It's true he was part of the Thousand Sword Sect, even becoming a core disciple because of his senior's help. However, he chose the demonic path than stay naive and be their prey.
"Interesting." from his dantian, the Time Lotus Essence's spirit exclaimed. Sui Shen had rummaged through his memories and she finds him worthy for her nurturing. She was given the task to train him. After many failures in the future, she must not let him have a flaw. He must be trained to become the child of fate's nemesis. Sui Shen counted and guessed the child of fate will be born after a hundred year of Zi Yingjun's ascension as the overlord of this world.
Sui Shen watched the core disciple Zi Yingjun discovering the truth about the sect's hidden motive. His face paled like no other man who will feel his life threatened. The senior he treated as a saviour is actually going to use him to bait an ancient dragon.
"Ehm?!" Zi Yingjun stopped upon seeing a familiar black shadow ahead with blue green hollow eyes. Sui Shen noticed his stillness and observed outside through his sense of sight. The Shadow Asura was grinning at Zi Yingjun.
"Master, shouldn't you run?" Sui Shen asked without much emotion. Even if he dies, she can bring him back to time again.
The Shadow Asura suddenly turned into a puff of black smoke and headed towards Zi Yingjun with a very fast speed. Zi Yingjun aimed to turn to the side and evade it but the Shadow Asura decisively went behind him. His breath stuttered but he felt nothing when the Shadow Asura penetrated his chest.
"Guh!" he vomited blood and gripped his abdomen. His dantian is shuddering in pain. Zi Yingjun had never felt this pain before, not like any other pain when he was fighting stronger enemies.
"Feral Semi-Devil?" Sui Shen immediately recognized the cultivation base of the Shadow Asura. She surrounded the qi sea with yang energy to keep the dantian from being ruined and weaken the newfound enemy.
"Like I expected, this boy is indeed reborn." the Shadow Asura spoke with a coarse, evil voice. "But the best thing is, he has the pure fragment of the Great Dao!"
"Oh, no." she can only sigh when the Shadow Asura dived deep into the qi sea. Zi Yingjun felt his abdomen turning too cold. He circulated his qi to warm himself but it's useless.
"Sui Shen, do something!" Zi Yingjun demanded. His dantian's qi became black with a purplish tint. He felt a rush of coldness throughout his entire body. Unknowingly, his skin went pale, his hair turned white as his hands started to spread frost around his surrounding. Zi Yingjun had never experienced this numbing coldness, not even in the Demon Execution Cliff.
"This is the real Pure Yin!" the Shadow Asura exclaimed in delight as the dantian glowed in darkness. Zi Yingjun almost felt like he turned into a corpse piled on an ice. His dantian was filled with dark energies, unrefined and raw. He desperately tried to refine it but it was all in vain. "Little boy, don't force yourself. This is your true aptitude, sealed by a supreme rune grandmaster!"
"Seal." Sui Shen softly spoke and the dark qi were quickly refined. Zi Yingjun's true aptitude was sealed again. She trapped the Shadow Asura in a cage of yang energy.
"Damn it." Zi Yingjun held a lock of his white hair. It slowly turned black and his pale skin went tender. He felt he just died but was revived. However, he never knew that was his true aptitude, that pure yin can also harm him. But who sealed it?
"Master, you have a quite capable father." Sui Shen came out with the Shadow Asura trapped. "He's indeed a supreme rune grandmaster. Fortunately, I am the Time Lotus Essence and I know everything that happened within the course of history. Thus, you are lucky I was able to stop the pure yin fragment from taking over your body."
"You know nothing. Shouldn't you let the boy take control of it? Not restrain his potential?" the Shadow Asura spoke in disagreement. It then looked back on the weakened Zi Yingjun. "Humans are really dainty. I wonder why he gave him that unbearable talent? It should have been given to me, hehe."
"Boy? Im not that young." Zi Yingjun stood up and wiped the blood from his lips. He leaned on a tree to support himself.
"Master, don't underestimate this bastard." Sui Shen casted a cold glare to the laughing Shadow Asura. "He's a Feral Semi-Devil, a demon beast that can become a true immortal. This bastard should be at least a hundred thousand old."
"Ahaha! You Little Critter is two million years ahead of me." the Shadow Asura laughed eerily, his hollowed eyes staring at Sui Shen.
"Name?" she ignored his mockery calmly.
"Sovereign Hei." his grim smile grew wider. Sui Shen searched through the Book of Time and finally saw his name.
"Master, would you like him to be your second ancient guide?" Sui Shen turned towards Zi Yingjun. Sovereign Hei suits Zi Yingjun's attribute. He is a Shadow Asura good for assassination and spying. Zi Yingjun will surely be fond of its soul core.
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