Lei cursed his luck, as he struck back another strike from a demon, feeling the miasma filled slashes burn his skin and sink into his body like poison. He wouldn’t last if this continued. The only reason he hadn’t already died was the tremendous amount of Qi all around him in the air, he had been drawing as much as he could and more had kept flowing in, allowing him to stay afloat. But even with this much Qi in the air, these creatures were capable of matching him somehow. If that wasn’t bad enough, Yan Yun was now telling him that the core of the barrier was a demon Divinity. He hadn’t even known demons could achieve divinity in the first place! As Lei moved through the stances, one of the lurking demons lunged from behind. He cursed, turning to block the strike but he was too slow, the hit was going to claw his eyes out- A burst of energy flowed into Lei from somewhere and without thinking for even a single moment he let it out as a powerful strike of lightning, piercing the demon’s

Li’s face morphed, joy and anger swirling in his expression. “I am going to tear you limb from-”I moved in closer, Chi gathering in my fist as I channeled the First law, Qi and Gu mixing into an explosive fusion. I pushed it even further with Dissonance, as my attack struck, blasting the demon backward and slamming him into the wall. I didn’t wait, using stepping again as I rushed closer. The demon rose to his feet, face half torn but visibly repairing as Gu swirled around his body. He was fast, fast enough to dodge my strike and attack back with his own.I channeled the second law, pushing it further with Resonance. The Qi in the air itself shook as I drew on the power around the world, drawing it into me. I intercepted the demon’s attack, my fist landing into his chest as I blocked his dark lightning with my arm, sending him blasting as he crashed through trees and boulders, smashing them apart.“Yes. That’s more like it!” he cackled in the distance, a dent in his chest as blood po

I opened my eyes, watching a new world around me. One with different potentials, and with a different me. I took a stance, shifted my body weight, there was a calm in my mind that hadn’t been there. I was complete now, I was one and truly one, all parts of me were of myself, there were no different aspects left, only a single soul, only I. And it was that certainty which allowed me to finally form my own martial path. Pieces of the many combat techniques I had learned, the misty arts and the battles I’d fought, they all formed Harmony within me. I hadn’t known I could do this, that I could change myself. No… not change. To embrace myself, to become one with an aspect I had always ran away from.Zhou Fang’s words came to my mind. Knowledge was power too. But it was not the only kind of power. I let my Chi move around me, gathering into my feet and arms, focused to a pinpoint. I didn’t have a name for this, but I didn’t need one either. This was just my kind of fighting, my kind of batt

Yang Shen struck first, rushing in with a rapid strike as Gu manifested all around him. The emperor’s presence lashed out, but he was ready.“Shatter.” He commanded as the space between the two of them cracked, portions of the void sweeping out. Yang Shen jumped into the gaps, pulling the emperor with him as the world swirled around them.Space moved and swirled in the gap spitting them out into the skies above Azure city, away from his castle.Good, he’d been afraid that wouldn’t work. The big problem was taken care of.The heavens above him rumbled, thunder gathering into a powerful storm, Qi swirled all around the man in front of him in a torrent powerful enough to destroy him completely. The lightning from the heavens curled around the entire area, forming a giant dragon’s visage in the background. Winds howled, people screaming beneath as they watched the two of them flying high up above in the skies.Yang Shen chuckled, feeling slightly nervous about what he needed to do next. D

Sheng Ming looked at the skies and felt his heart sink. He had feared this outcome, dreading it from the very beginning, and now it was here. The world shook around them all, and every person in the empire felt the influence of the emperor fade, as the very heavens above began to fall. The end had happened, and he had been given the misfortune to watch it. And yet, there was still a duty he had to complete. Sheng Ming let out a breath, feeling the poison exiting his body. It had been difficult to spot at first, but he had noticed it present in the air, and in the water, barely there, but enough to build up and kill even powerful cultivators. Western poison, he’d heard tales of it. Thankfully, he knew how to deal with it as well. As the last of the poison was purified from his body, he began to make his way out of the jade court. The barrier had shattered somewhere during the battle, though not by the emperor or the demon. Whoever had broken it had saved him a lot of strength, for