All hail dragon lord Zhou

Trials

making sure that everything was in order Zhou made a posture as if ready for battle he knew he had to stay alive to win,as if noticing his movement,the huge serpent raised his head staring at Zhou with cold eye's looking at him as if seeing a delicate meal,fuuuu,the entire room went dark, f**k,am I suppose to fight a monster in the dark now,damn it.

still in the dark Zhou had a somewhat troubled look on his face as he silently closed his eyes,without him noticing the shed of red glowing light coming off his sword,riiiip,a ripping sound of clothes and flesh could be heard as Zhou let out a soft groan nearly able to contain the pain he was felling from his leg being slashed,water welled up in his eyes as if he was about to cry but a sense of determination engulfed him putting him in a state of resolution"no I won't cry I must stay strong for mother for Ling,he didn't know why such thought of Ling would arise in his mind at this moment,puuuuu,another s***h was heard,this time blood was jetting from his left shoulder,"endure,endure,"thought Zhou as he kept the lingering pain inside,puuu,another strike,puuuu,puuu,puuu,puu,wound kept mounting up on his body as he did his best to defend he knew that he must use the sword in his arms if not he would just bleed to death,riiiip,a ripping sound echoed in the dark void but this time it was not Zhou's body which received the hit,but the serpent,a screeching sound could vaguely be heard as the serpent cried out in pain,it was clearly angered as it increased it's charge at Zhou,clang,fuuu,another attack was blocked,this process went on for hours until the serpent cried out it last,and fell down dead,but instead of being sent out of the dark room he was still situated in this world of silence,"huh"Zhou currently had a look of anixity as he was waiting for the cold voice,but he received nothing,"I've won let me out"called out Zhou,but he received no response,"let me go"he called out again but heard nothing ,suddenly"what do you see"called out the cold voice Zhou answered without consideration nothing,but the voice asked again"what do yo see"this time Zhou was silent,as he carefully thought of his answer,"I do see nothing with my eyes,began Zhou,but I did learn something which is to survive and live one had to be strong and not weak and only with power will I be able to achieve what I seek,I think it's revenge,or perherps I don't know it yet but one thing I do know is that one only sees the Truth when one is blind,meaning being blind is seeing and seeing is being blind,Zhou had now come to a conclusion,what I see is the Truth of life",even after that the only thing he could pick up from the room was silence total silence,gloominess filled Zhou as he waited but there wasn't a hint of regret,"just making sure pass",prepare for the next challage

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in a castle beautifully adored with several standing relics and beautified by the enriching furniture,a maiden was standing head bent in a bowing position as she reported the findings of their current investigationto the beautiful figure in front of her,"there was no trace of the person you are trying to find,all we know is that he was killed for betraying his colony by helping out a stray demon beast,his mother was killed along with him as a warning to others,,my lady I think you should consider giving up his already dead any!"shut up"yelled the beautiful figure as she gestured for the maiden to leave murmuring to herself "his alive I know he is please come back to me,a stream of tears rolled down her beautiful green eyes as she stared out the window.

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next challenge"_hell purgatory"hearing this name Zhou thought it was going to be another challenge of wits when reality hit him hard,he was inside a stone room with the shape as that of a circular jar with lava flowing out of the holes in the walls,a platform was at the center of the room,which due to the rising of the lava Zhou chose to stand upon it but he got engulfed likewise,what could be heard next was his painful cries and howls as the lava melted and burned through his skin flesh and bones ,he would have been dead by now if not for the life force being generated by the stone platform beneath him,it was like a blacksmith making a sword he got nearly disintegrated and then gets restored by the life force.

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any results yet,asked the figure in a green robe,"no not yet but were still trying,don't worry will do our best,but its been a month now,said the figure in green,holding his chin zhua chun uttered"I think he doesn't want to be found,he paused before continuing,I think his in hiding we just have to wait for an opportunity please give us some more time princess We'll definitely find him,turning away the prince didn't utter a word as she turned away and left.

sighing zhua chun could only leave as well.

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inside a room with a circular circumference,Zhou stood silently watching the lava burn through his body,he had now gotten acustomed

to it and didn't need to wail and scream anymore he was now numb to the pain,

"pass"uttered the cold voice and the stone room vanished reveling a new room with all kinds of markings,"what now","each symbol contain spirit energy which has already been accumulated and put into them your job is to absorve as many you can",Zhou was some what shocked as he kenw how hard it was to gain spirit energy,it could only be done by strong power houses who had the technique for cultivating this kind of energy it was very dangerous and if forced one could break his sphere of consciousness lose his mind and become a souless walking dead,it is said that spirit energy in battle can destroy ones opponent in one glance without him moving a finger,not only were there different types of spirit energy infact he felt that the spirit energy stored in these runes we're not from this era and could possisbly make his cultivation of spirit energy diffrent from that of an ordinary cultivator, where or when are they from it is also said that spirit energy could be absorbed from the universe,the better the technique the better the quality absorbed,he guessed that these runes absorbed spirit energy after being emptied,this was an amazing feat on its own but one still needed a method to utilize their sphere of consciousness ,boom!a ball o light penetrated the space between his brows as an ancient method of cultivating spirit energy was imprinted in his mind,universe uprising,so this is name of the method,this method had 7 levels which he could only know as his spiritual level got higher,but in the mean time he could practice the first level which involved him opening his sphere of consciousness and absorbing spiritual energy,until his sphere turns into a realm.

"this is good stuff"thought Zhou as he opened up his sphere of. consciousness

boooooom,a large invisibe vortex opened up greedily absorbing the energies stored in the rune ,a sharp pain could be felt in his head as the energy was continually being absorbed by his sphere of consciousness.Zhou would have screamed in pain and even try to commit suicide by now,but he held on as he remembered his experience going through hell purgatory,even so his face still contorted in pain,but he knew to preserve,as he remembered his first lesson,I must stay strong,I need power for what am about to do and I must get it,after reaching his limit he would rest for a while before repeating the same process.