Divinity

Fiend God Zeng Zue

"Great effects, worse pain ever"

Bia Xiao murmured while using the meridian in his left leg to sense the condition of his leg. If compared to a few days ago, his leg now was ten times stronger.

"The energy inside of the lava is being refined by my meridian. It seems this blue lava is a sort of energy source"

Bia Xiao thought out loud. The meridian in his left leg seemed to have some energy stored within it from the lava and with each cycle, the energy would pass through his heart with the aid of the meridian.

"Why is this meridian connecting my heart and leg. This is so weird"

Bia Xiao continued to sense and feel the flow of energy in the meridian. He could sense the lava's power slow refining the meridian and strengthening it with each cycle it took from the leg to the heart.

After two hours of cycling, Bia Xiao once again took a deep breath and place his left leg into the lava. Just like the last time, his leg was badly burnt and the flesh roasted black, the pain was excruciating, making his face twist.

The only difference this time was that he didn't pass out like the last. He could see his bones beneath the skin and smell his burnt flesh.

"My God, what the hell I'm I going"

Bia Xiao screamed out the pain was nothing to laugh about, worse this level of pain. It was a good thing that he didn't pass out like the last time and was able to watch the process of the lava soaking inside of the leg. The more the lava was absorbed by the meridian, the worse the pain got.

"Ahhh"

Bang

With a loud scream, Bia Xiao heard an explosion in his mind and her passed out. Three days later, waking up, Bia Xiao took a deep breath, again and again, to calm himself down.

"No wonder I passed out. The pain is just too unbearable, the hell is this thing"

Bia Xiao greeted his teeth after remembering the explosion that happened before he passed out. Sensing the meridian inside of his left leg, he came to realize that it was firmer than ever. Even the flesh on his leg had a strong aura of sturdiness to it.

"Wait what!"

Bia Xiao jump to his feet in amazement, while checking on his meridian, his mind broke apart and went into his right leg, there, a new meridian chanelle had opened up. This meridian looked dry and out of sorts as if hungry for energy.

"Haha, a breakthrough. I have broken through to the second meridian"

Bia Xiao shouted as his hand pounded his chest. Eyes filled with tears as the image of his mom and dad flash by.

"Haha mon, dad are you see this"

Bia Xiao threw caution to the wind as he pushed the energy inside his body to the limits. His feet push off the ground and he flashes head first in the lava.

"That's the spirit"

Deep with the cave, a soft voice sounds out as soon as Bia Xiao sunk into the lava. Within seconds, a burnt body was ejected from the lava by a mysterious force. Once the body hit the burning rock floor, it didn't move, the flesh of the body was burnt black, bones in various areas could be soon.

Even breathing couldn't be heard but surprisingly, the burnt body still had life in it. The heartbeat was very slow and faint, almost unnoticeably. Bia Xiao hadn't jumped into the lava on a youth's impulse, while he was checking his new meridian, a voice kept urging him to dump off into the lava.

For a moment, he was surprised and wanted to run away. But the voice felt close as if this voice was his beloved father, or mother or even a Master. It was a feeling that told him to trust and not the feel of great danger. Thus with a quick thought of his mom and dad, he took that leap of faith.

The black burnt body lay on the ground for days before the burnt skin started to fall off, revealing the baby smooth skin. The bones that could be seen a few days ago started to close and even the burnt away hair started to grow back again. But it was very slow.

2 months later, Bia Xiao woke up, his heart was beating so fast, it took him a very long time to calm down.

"Holy shxt I'm not dead"

Bia Xiao wiped away cold sweat from his forehead. If the voice had misled him, then for sure, only death awaited him. He wasn't a person to easily trust others, much less a voice of unknown origin. Thus this leap of faith had truly challenged his faith.

The meridian inside of his right leg seemed to have undergone a great change, it was roaring with vitality and energy. Much like his left leg.

"It seems I might be able to breakthrough again"

Bia Xiao thought as he senses the firm meridians. If this was known by the outside world, how shocked would the others be? The meridian opening realm took a lot of time to understand and fill.

One had to continuously draw in spiritual energy to temper the meridian with hundreds if not thousands of cycles before being able to experience another breakthrough. But here, he had broken through twice and was on the verge of another. This type of speed was unheard of for a person with limited background and resources.

"Finally awake I see"

"Who!"

Bia Xiao jumped to his feet, his eyes looking around as he backed up towards the way he came. If there were any sudden moves, even a pop from the lava and he was turn tail and run away.

"Rest easy child"

Bia Xiao was once again shaken to the core. He searched yet was unable to find where the voice was coming from, he started to circulate the energy inside his body as he was getting ready to flee.

"Over here"

Just as Bia Xiao was about to leave, the lava started to slowly rise, take the form a blue lava man sitting cross leg floating yo and down above the lava lake.

"Huh"

Bia Xiao was rooted on the spot. This was his first time seeing something like this, he had no knowledge of the martial world and the things that could happen. Thus when he saw the lava taking form and the voice speaking, it was as if his body was sent into shock.

"Be at easy young one"

The voice sounded gentle, Bia Xiao nod and nod some more as if unable to stop nodding. He was only 14 after all so what could one expect.

"What are you"

Bia Xiao asked after catching his breath and calming his mind after the raging waves.

"Ahah, not what but who. I am Fiend God Zeng Zue, the first and the last of my kind and this is just the reminder of my last will" The lava man stated as he looked at Bia Xiao.

"Your will?"

"Yes my will. I was killed a couple of thousands of year ago, and found refuge on this planet"

"Fiend God, what are those? Plus your dead and yet your hiding here?"

Bia Xiao scratched his head. This was all too like a dream to him. He had so many questions he had to ask, where was he from, how did he got here and why did he choose here and what is this lava.

If it was any other day, you would think that he was dreaming, but the heat surrounding him and the blazing lava couple with the pain he felt over these past few days and months, was all too real to believe it was fake.

"I can see in your eyes that you have a lot of questions to ask, but all will be shown to you eventually. I have lived for millions of years and my time has finally passed, now the time for the young as come. It can be seen as faith, I can sense within you that you have been practicing the body art of the fiend gods. In actuality, this booklet that you have on you is actually something that was created from a part of my art. Thus in a sense, it is me and I am it"

Zeng Zue reached out his and the Raging Tiger Art manual came floating out of Bia Xiao's robe. The manual looked like any other manual you would find at a commonplace shop or store. But within this high-temperature environment, the book started to glow a blue light that was very mesmerizing, once the booklet landed in the lava man's hand, the booklet burst with blazing blue lights, filling the entire cave in blue flames.

These blue flames were suffocating, making the walls of the cave started to melt The blue lava that was surrounding miles of the land area all around the cave started to surge wildly and within the next few moments, all of the blue lava and high temperature began to be absorbed into this simple manual.