Big Undercurrents

Gallia, a world where the strong rule and the weak are bitches to those with power, following in their shadows as they grovel in the dirt for their leftovers.

The world is known to have seven continents that are filled with myriads of mysterious life forms, treasures, rare resources. etc. But because of an unknown cause, the other six continents sealed themselves, preventing themselves to interact with one another.

No one know the origins of this world, other than rumors spread by the mouth. One rumor goes, that the known world was the result of a terrifying battle with the God Race and the Demon Race fighting for supremacy, which was common in the world were power is what do all the talking.

This point had been investigated but no one had found clues confirming or denying this point.

The other rumor, was about primeval humans feeling the world was a too small to contain them, spilt the main continent, Pandora, into seven parts. In the end, these beings dig their own graves.

The humans of Eme Continent agreed with this rumor more than the first one as humans tend to have extremely large egos.

This rumor has not been confirmed as of yet.

(AN: Eme continent is the human continent.)

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(Eme Continent, South of Yami County, Kres Village)

" Ah! the weather is so harsh these days, if only I didn't have to work today, I could have finish some of those task that had been plying up lately." an age voice spoke, to no one as he tends to his plot of farmland, behind his little shed.

(An: On the continent, all land is own by the ruling parties, nobles, sects etc. The only way to own one's own land is to have enough power to take it away from its owner or earn merits.)

His plot of land isn't too big nor is it small, just a dozen of acres of land. If this was the world of normal humans, then this would take hundreds of men to finish plowing the field. The old man seems to not need any help at all as he moves at an alarming speed, that is at least the same speed as a cheetah. And it seems that he wasn't even going all out as he keeps complaining out random things.

" Those damn government officials, always acting so arrogant and demanding taxes, the taxes that we already paid. " Remembering the incident, he could but feel that these people are too hypocritical. They always talking about how it is to be loyal and they will protect them all from harm, while they are the harm to the people themselves. If he wasn't at the village at that time, he really believed that they would have massacred the small village. As luck would have it, he just broke through to the peak of mortal realm, although there are plenty of people stronger than him out there, they still gave him some face on the matter and gave the village a month to gather the money.

' They probably did this, in hopes that if an unexpected variable were to appear, they wouldn't have too much bad blood between them. After all, this way too common in this world.' Thought the old man, realizing the plot those old monsters in the city.

(Cultivation Realms: Mortal, Warrior, Nascent Soul, Saint, Divinity, God)

(Each realm is further divided into 9 levels)

(Each level is rank as early, mid, large, peak)

There is no way, they could gather that much money in such a short time frame. They can barely afford to pay their regular taxes once month, let alone pay twice a month. Of course, there is lots of reason as to way they had to pay the money, first being, they don't have a choice, second, they still don't have a choice, third is because of the internal conflict happening in the city.

Recently, the ruling clan of the city had some changes. This resulting in a period of unrest for the clans that had been in the ex-clan's camp, doing anything to earn favors at all cost from the new clans.

One of the clans of Yami City, the Yu Clan. In Yami city there are four Big Families/ Sects/ Clans. The strongest amongst them, the Mayor House, the current residence of the now new ruling family, Hua. Following close by are the, Ka Clan, Next is the Song Clan, then Tie Clan.

As the weakest of the major powers of the city, the Tie Clan had no choice but make harsh decisions, that could affect them in the long run if not handle well. One of such choice is making the taxes higher and higher. Of course, the head of the clan gave proper instructions that they shouldn't offend any parties that could later be their undoing.

Removing himself from his memories, he looks up towards the sky, only seeing darkness and the never-ending echo of thunder that could shatter the souls of weak minded beings.

" Ohh... it been so long, I wonder what it could have been like to experience it just once, before I turn into a bag of bones... it such a pity that I would never have such a chance." the man expression was distant at if recalling a memory that he had buried in his soul.

"Forget it, what have happened, will always be the same, so why change it?" He said as he shakes his head, getting himself back to together.

'hmm!! What's this feeling as if something is about to happen?' Before he could go back to what he was doing, he got a premonition of something dangerous about to happen.

Looking around, he could not see anything out of place, so he started to wonder if he had sense wrongly, which could be true considering he had not comprehend his new level after breaking through, considering the amount of problems that had been happening lately.

Still looking around a while longer and nothing happened, he soon lost his caution and was just about to head home for the day, when the already dark skies became even more dark, with arches of lightning and thunder flashing through it.

He was startled at what he was seeing, he wanted to stay and look a little more but his body not listening to his orders at all and flashed away with incredible speed, looking for cover.

The sky looks as if the apocalypse had come, as the atmosphere became more oppressive.

The mountains that are part of the Magical Beast Domain, are being constantly been stroke with lightning the size of a grown man's waist. The entire area of 50 kilometers of the mountains tremble as if being afraid of what is about to happen.

Luo Di wasn't even paying attention to what was going on, but instead looking at his rice fields that had become patties. His lips twitches, as his face went dark. ' I spend 30 years taking care of this field, I plowed it for ten years!!! I got some shit from the most of vile of creatures, the Deprecated Goat and spread it. For water, I went into the Magic Domain to get the piss of a cyclops.... yeah, a cyclops, the giant fucking monster that hates anything that has two eyes. To make sure my rice become eternally healthy, I had to drip every grain in the blood of that slut, Masha, and this was when I just started cultivation!!!!!'

(Deprecated Goat, a goat that said to be the outcome of an experiment of an Evil God to past time. It's said that if it is alive, the goat would stop shitting all day.)

(Masha just think of a gigantic long worm, that as an upper body of a beauty, who is very slutty and fuck everyone in the mountains. This was said to be the outcome of a drop of blood from an injured goddess and worm)

He restrained himself, although he wants to kill someone right now to vent his anger.

The lightning that had been going on for a while now, suddenly stop.

Luo looked up at the sky and was scared witless as the lightning and thunder energy was being gathered, for what seem to be an all-out strike.

Luo without even having a strong cultivation base, could instantly tell that this attack could diffidently kill some Nascent Soul cultivators in one hit. That speaks of how powerful the energy being gathered was.

Of course, all those thoughts Luo had happened in an instant, as the gathered energy descended with terrifyingly momentum that could shatter mountains and overcome seas. The lightning was golden in color, looking divine as it took the shape of an arrow as it impacted into the Magical Beast Domain, causing mass destruction to surge outwards from the impact zone.

The entire continent was alarmed, because of the amount of power that descended from the heavens. Various powers sent their experts out to investigate the cause of this power, but they were force to go back empty handed.

There was no clue other than the power descended into the Magic Beast Domain, since the mountain range was too big, they gave up, it's like finding a needle in a haystack. As for Luo? he got knocked out the moment the lightning touches the mountains, as he was too weak, and was too close to the source of the impact.