Chapter 19 Fighting a Origin Beast

They continued to charge at Qin Ming. "It's almost here! Get ready!"

Qin Ming posies himself and throws his hand outward. His hands start to spark and humm with energy, a flash of electricity smashes against the ravine walls. That face of that wall instantly melted into lava. "Tianlong, now!"

She nods, she throws her hands to either side of her body, air starts to rise and rocks begin to fly about this region.

V̴͙̪̳̾̋̍̅̀͘͝O̴̟̣̤̙͖͈̤̬͋̊Ȏ̶̖̥̰̤̌̆̏̆͂̀̕Ȯ̵̗̗̋͐̂͝M̷̼̹̖͕̠̀̍̽̐̃͝!!

Space distorts and the rocks are instantly ground to dust. Wind stops flowing, the space becomes very thick and viscous. Qin Ming laughs in excitement, "yeah right on!"

They continued to bore through the ravine, and as they got closer, Tianlong began to shiver and tremble. "NOOOOOO!!!!"

Qin Ming jumps to the sound of her voice "Tianlong what's wrong!?"

She fell to her knees and clasped her head "not again! I can't go through that again!"

Her Dao Realm quickly crumbled.

BOOOOM!!!!

Pressure blew everything back, a wave of pressure slapped against Qin Ming's chest. In an instant blood explodes from his mouth. "Plan B Icedawn!"

Icedawn nods, she lifts her head up and stares at the impending doom. Her eyes lock on the beast. "You can do this!"

"R̸͔̬̞̦̭̩͎̃͗̾͐͗̔A̴̧̹͔̫̠̩̝̖̳̼̪̪̜͗̀̂̾̅Ą̵̘̹̪̭͕͔̭̭͙̝̫͈̭̀́́̀̈́͛͜͝A̵̧̙̠̠͙̞̱͂̿͊͂̑͑͊͘Ḁ̸̡̘͔̝̲̲̙͖͔͉̃͌̾̆̐̔̎̏͂͋͌̀̅̚͠À̴͔̖͎̲̘̻͓̇̇̈́H̸̼̬̞̙̠̱̼́̓͂̃͌͌̈̕̕͘͜ͅ!!!!R̸͔̬̞̦̭̩͎̃͗̾͐͗̔A̴̧̹͔̫̠̩̝̖̳̼̪̪̜͗̀̂̾̅Ą̵̘̹̪̭͕͔̭̭͙̝̫͈̭̀́́̀̈́͛͜͝A̵̧̙̠̠͙̞̱͂̿͊͂̑͑͊͘Ḁ̸̡̘͔̝̲̲̙͖͔͉̃͌̾̆̐̔̎̏͂͋͌̀̅̚͠À̴͔̖͎̲̘̻͓̇̇̈́H̸̼̬̞̙̠̱̼́̓͂̃͌͌̈̕̕͘͜ͅ!!!!"

The Origin Beast continued to bore through and reach them, they were now meters away. Qin Ming very quickly gathered up lightning in the palm of his hands, he closed his eyes. Air fills his nostrils. Then all of a sudden everything around him stops, the Dao of Qiankun fills this space. He injects the Dao of Space into the Dao of Qiankun.

He forces both of these Daos to close in on the Dao of Storms, it coats it in a careful manner. He raised his palm to the air, in a flash the lightning in his hand exploded and turned into a massive ball of energy.

With every casual movement of his hand the ball of lightning gobbles up space. However it was only a few nanometers that were eaten so it wasn't all that noticeable! It was as if Qin Ming was holding up a small world!

He swung it down and the ball of lightning zipped all the way to greet the beast. In less than a fraction of a second the ball crashes into the beast!

BOOOOOOOM!!!

There was a tsunami of black viscous blood that spewed from the Origin Beast's skull.

"R̸̨̛̯̤̠͍͓̫̬̖͑̽̏̈̀̈́͛̄̌̓̅̈́͂̍͌͆̋̈̑͌̚͜͝͝͠͝ͅA̶̢̙̬͓͈̦͆̑̍̋͌͗̈́̎̆͊̐̕͝A̸̡̡̨̢̮̮̘̭̹̣̗̘͔̺̫̠̹͈͑̉̀͊͗̊̾̀̍̃̈́̀̀̊̿̋̍͗̀̏̋̚͝ͅA̸̛̝͎̻͚̦̹̮͎̙̥͊̃̄͑͐̇̏̽̋͘Ä̶̧̧̭̭̰̠̹͚͕̪̦̖͇̙̟̲̪̦̰͈͙̲̙̦̤̦́͐̓̃̽̒̈́̔̅̓̽͐̉̾̽͛̇̓̑̚̕̚͝͝Å̸̢̡͔̻͕̳̤͍̳͇̟̼̟̻̦̮̩̈́̓̉͆̏̉̆̎̈͘ͅÁ̸̭͎̖̮̘̓̄̅̈͆̓̅̚͝ͅH̶̢̘̩̤͉͓͉̲̥̝͈́̊ͅ!!!!!!!!!"

The Origin Beast screeched an ugly ear piercing scream. Soundwaves pierced the sky, it zipped with immense speed. The Dao of Qiankun shuddered, the screech was deeply infused with this Dao. It was meter in diameter, and as it charged at them it distorted space. Qin Ming felt his heart clench.

Qin Ming took in a tiny breath of air, "third stance [River Cracks Stone]!"

Qin Ming thrusts his fist forward and a cone of pressure jets from his fist. The sky cracked, his third stance had been fully infused with the Dao of Space and Qiankun. This cone traveled faster than the speed of sound, it made an ear piercing shriek as it zoomed over.

BOOOÓ̴̺̯̭͚̱̪͈͍̕ͅO̵̡̗̲̠͊͊͆̆́̋̕͠͠Ơ̵͓͓̻͇̦͗̒̈́̂̓͐̏̕͜O̶̺̬͓͕̗̿̇̀̐̽̽̔̒̕O̸̥͕̬̔̅̒̀M̴͖͉̗̄̌͂̀͝͠͝!!!

Space was shattered, dark voids seeped through these cracks. Air was being sucked into these cracks as violent as a tiger. In less than a second the space was repaired. If these cracks were any bigger, space would have folded in on itself and devoured this world. Then it would have been a hole of nothingness.

Qin Ming lifted up his arms to brace the blastwave, the Origin Beast, however was unaffected. Qin Ming grit his teeth, but Icedawn plants her hand on his shoulder, "look! There are cracks! Just a little more."

Qin Ming nodded, he held his finger out, spiritual energy gathered and coalesced on the tip of his finger. A miniscule sphere grew as the energy became denser. He also cloaked his energy in: the Daos of Qiankun, Space, Ice, and Lightning.

PEEEW!

CRACK!

Spiritual Energy shot from the tip of his finger like a cannon. Although he was weaker in terms of long range attacks, the many long range Dao's he specialized in made up in this regard. He had only focused on body cultivation at the moment. So he was a bit stronger in close up battles. But this attack was sufficient, after all the Origin Beast was leagues above him in raw strength. Thus he chose to attack from a distance.

The cannon sped to the ancient beast. When it reached the ground it ate up the rocks around it and began to pull in any living thing in its vicinity. Simultaneously the cannon devours the Origin Beast in its entirety.

G̷͍̹̒̈́̐́͊̈̅̊̃͜R̶̡̧̹̯͔̰͉̱̥̤͎̄̎̓̉̉̐̾̉͒Ȏ̴̙̣̘̠͙̦̎̽͝W̸͂͗̽͛̋ͅW̸̧̧̝̲̗̪̭͐͊̒́̕̚W̴̧̺͎͍̮̺̟̝̭̦̬͖̘̜͊͒̽̇̈́͂͝W̸̨͚͓̻̜͕̟̼̦͙͉͙̃̃͐͌̅̆͗̂̕͝ͅͅ!̵̢̡̬̣͚̖͖̫̋̍̽̇͊͐̏̑͊̾̽͐̿͠!̴̻̞͇̯̗̻͍͓̦̲̔̓̀͛̐̀͘͜!̶̡̡̞͎̲̟̫̟̬̯͉͓̹͖̙͆͋ ̷̣̖̝̮͔̲̦̮̝̈́̓́̆̊̅͌G̶̨̠̫͇̤͑̌͐̅̐̓̋̊̈́͑̓͋͋̈́̕Ŗ̵͕̩̰̳̪̻̯̮̲̑̑̋A̶̰̯̝̞̱͓̣̓͗́̾̔A̶̰͇̬̖̭̘̘̤̣̙̐͑̈̌̈͒͆̉͋̈͒̍͐̚̕A̷̡̝̫͈̫̞̖̟͔̝͑͊̈́̔̄̄͐͑̃̈́̓͋͜͠Ạ̵̢̡͔̮̮̘̎̽̉͊̈́͒̊̄̽̆̏̃͝ͅ!!!

The Origin Beast flailed its body, it squirmed within the walls of the ravine. It slammed against the wall, and caused the wall to tremor and crash. It borrowed into the ground and began to run away. Qin Ming relaxed his shoulders, he sighed in relief "I'm glad that's over."

Icedawn had a dream-like smile, "as am-"

The Origin Beats resurfaced and it rang out several bellows.

"W̷̗̺̫̬͉͍̳̮̗͑͜O̴̡̨̧̪̤͈͓̭͍͓̰͚̖͆̀̍͝ͅ ̴͓͇̤̄̓̉̔̎̐̈́̇͂͂̓̔̆͘͜ͅW̶̭̟͓̳̤̄͌̄̒̒̍́̚O̶̳̠̲͎̳̞̼̝̺̓͊̅ͅ ̵̛̠̘͓̩̺̹̳̳͈̱͗͂͌̐́̕͝͝͝Ẅ̶͔̹̞̞̱̣̥͆̀͌̔̕̚Ó̶̪̼̻̥̞͚͉͍̘̳̔̉̎͌̎͐̑̈̈́̀̈́͠͝ ̸͖̼̝̂̇̾̀͂͒́͋̉̊̏̊̈́W̸̧̮̤͙̦̫̞̾̾̓̕O̶̧̫̯̟̮̗̎͊͛̕ ̸͍̗͓̯̤̹͕̯̰̥̘͙͂͆͊͒̏̓̎̈́W̵̡̧̙̗̞̮͔̦͙̍̂̓̀͑̍͋́̽̂̍̿̋̄͝O̴̧̥͊̂̈͋̓͐͆̂̃͜ͅ!!!"

Icedawn curls and her stomach churns, she grips her mouth holding back the acid in her throat. "What is this feeling!?"

BOOOOOM! CRASSSH!

"So you wish to pick on my spirit beast…. however I don't remember you asking if that was ok?"

Qin Ming groans "what now!?!"

"I am Chacabre, the Tainted One, you dare act against my Origin Beasts. You've killed the ones of Inferno and Jade. Now you wish to see the one of Qiankun perish as well?"

Qin Ming felt his heart sink, the soles of his feet turned icy, just who was this person! "Chacabre…"

Qin Ming slowly rolled this name in his tongue. He had dealt with Origin beasts before and it took no difficulty as well. But something about Chacabre was just so unsettling. Chacabre gave off queer Dao ripples, it was unlike anything Qin Ming had felt before. "Who is this!"

Icedawn shook her head "I don't know myself, this is the first time I'm hearing of these Origin Beasts."

Chacabre sighs "enough of the small talk, you die now!"

In a flash Chacabre disappears, Qin Ming frantically looks around for him. In the next moment a mighty fist slams down toward Qin Ming. Qin Ming throws up his fist to block his blow, in that same instant Qin Ming executes his first stance

"[Twig in a Stream]!"

Qin Ming snakes his hand around Chacabre, and he throws Chacabre's arm out of the way. He blows him almost a meter back. "STOP THIS FIGHTING!!"

Chacabre tilts his head "oh am Just supposed to forget you killed my subordinates?"

Qin Ming starts to breathe in a calculated rhythmic pace, "Listen, all those people I have killed have tried to kill me first! We just want to leave this place! Any more of this and your blood will be on my hands."

Chacabre laughs from the pit of his gut "what a riot! My blood! On your hands!! Give me a break, kid."

Qin Ming takes a miniscule breath "fine then don't blame me when you die!"

Qin Ming turns into a blip and appears behind Chacabre. His leg is like a mighty guillotine, it came chopping down with earth shattering force. The second Qin Ming connects to his shoulder, an ear splitting explosion follows. Chacabre rocketed into the earth at speeds faster than sound. The earth split apart, rocks flew everywhere. Those rocks smash into the ravine walls and cause portions of the ravine wall to fall apart.

Qin Ming didn't have enough power left to fight Chacabre at full strength. If this fight continues for much longer Qin Ming would lose! Qin Ming makes delicate hand signs, he was like a composer of the Dao, space turned into silk under his fingers. The space around his fingers turns into a beautiful tapestry of space. He flicks his fingers and a net flies at Chacabre at insane speeds. The net slurps Chacabre up in one go! Qin Ming sighs and crashes into the ground.

The net was just enough to completely suppress Chacabre, but for how long… this could be anywhere from a few seconds, to a few years.

Chacabre pushed his hands against the net, but the more he pushed the more the net constricted around him. The net tightly hugs him. Chacabre grumbles, "seems pointless! Qiankun, come get me!"

The ground rumbles and a giant worm splits open the earth, "listen to me now, and listen to me well, this is not the last you will see of me runt!"

The worm eats him, then scuttles back into the large crevice. After the worm clears the ground once again seals. For once this turbulent land was actually silent, birds once more dare to sing their songs of rejoice. Tianlong finally releases her long since held breath. Her eyes gazes into the setting sun, her eyes were as calm as a serene river. Her fixated view resembles an overdue longing "finally, it's over!"

Icedawn's heart returns to a normal pace, "we actually made it through that calamity, we did it!"

Icedawn turns to Tianlong, she looks back at Qin Ming, "today was troubling, quite troubling indeed. Let's head back home, we need to recover!"

Tianlong nodded, then gathered Qin Ming's body. Her face crumpled when she held him, "Qin Ming…"

Tianlong began to breathe even heavier, she felt her stomach sink to her feet. Her world began to spin. Icedawn curves her head at Tianlong, "Tianlong, is something wrong?"

Tianlong shook her head, but her face and eyes were a sickly green, her stomach could have made butter with all its churning. Icedawn shifts and peers at the sky "let's go!"

In a flash they arrive at the top of the ravine and zoom towards the school. Tianlong looks to her left and Icedawn has gone back into her treasure. She walks up to the front of the school and collapses.

About a day passed by before either one woke up. Qin Ming slowly lifts an eye. By his bed-side were Lei Laoshi, Jiangsu, and Raya. Qin Ming lets out a faint groan "ugh where am I?"

They glance at each other "huh? You're back at school. Don't you remember?"

Qin Ming put a hand on his head, he slightly winced "agh remember what?"

Lei Laoshi clasped Jiangsu's shoulder and dragged him away. "Jiangsu, have you noticed, Qin Ming, he produces Primordial Dao ripples!"

Jiangsu put a hand on his chin and hums, "quiet trobleing…."

Lei Laoshi looks back at him, "he is something else."

Jiangsu walks back over to Qin Ming, "tell me brother where did you go?"

"When I was there, Encountered…"

He grabs his head "AHHHHHHHHH!!!"

Jiangsu grabs his shoulder "calm down brother, just tell me what happened."

Whenever Qin Ming even tried to speak he had a head-splitting headache. "When I ventured beyond the mountains, I discovered an ancient civilization. They practiced an unfathomable form of the Dao, in fact my Daos simply could not react with them."

Jiangsu nods "ah yes the Abyssal Remmanates."

Qin Ming looks to his side "Tianlong she…"

Raya grabs his hand "it's okay, Tianlong is fine!"

Qin Ming shakes his head "no, she's not, I've seen it!"

Raya tilts her head "what do you mean?"

"She is scared! Whatever she saw… enough I grow tired of talking!"

Raya pulls back "fine!"

She stands up and stomps her foot in the ground, the entire room shakes a bit, and like that she left! From then on, life continued like normal for about three months.

Early in the Morning

Each of the students lines up in front of the school. Lei Laoshi walks in front of each of them, he looks each of them up. He, in a casual manner, strolls about, "good very good!"

"I am proud of each of you, simply you outdid yourselves. In fact, I am quite confident in the outcome of this tournament." Lei Laoshi's eyes were watery, when he saw how much each of them, not even the tallest of mountains could ever reach, how proud he was. He saw most of these kids grow, now he is not afraid of their safety.

"Let's go!" he grabs them and in a flash they arrive!

At the Divine Palace

They walk into the arena like they own the place! Ruisayga, Augus, and Qin Ming walk bound to the hip. They strutted into the place bigger than life itself! Not even the Crystal Emperor had this much swagger.

When they enter the Divine Palace a flash of light crushes over them, each of the teams glare at the new arrivals.

The hall had looked like it had just been ransacked. The stone pillars had battle scars staining the marble. The rugs were torn and singed, one group was beaten bloody, their ring leader was under foot by a tall bulky man, his hair was a deep crimson and his chest was dotted with deep scars.

"Look boys, fresh meat!"

Another group walks in "no Akuma he's mine!"

Qin Ming instantly snapped when he heard this voice. His eyes were bloodshot, his face snapped in half, an active volcano looked like a day at the beach next to him. "You!"

Akemi continues to walk right next to him "hey you."

Augus grabs Qin Ming "let it go, look at that man named Akuma look at his robes!"

Qin Ming snaps out of his fit "wait.."

Augus cracks a smirk "yeah the Jade Empire! The one's beaten, that's the Ruby Alliance!"

Qin Ming nods "right."

They continue to walk past them, Qin Ming rams his shoulder into Akemi. "Hey you little runt sho-!!!"

Akemi shakes his head "stop Fudo let them pass."

Fudo huffed hot air from his nostrils "whatever."

Qin Ming and the rest pass by with little resistance afterward. Augus rams his fist into Qin Ming's head "listen you little runt, we've worked too hard, don't give free information!"

Qin Ming grumbles and chews his lip. His heart trembled like an earthquake. His legs were jelly. "I know…."

Augus smiles "get sleep, tomorrow we start!"

Qin Ming nodded then headed to his room. A few hours passed by and the jade rabbit began to gently dance, and sing their songs of the night. He opened the window and let the moonbeams greet his bare chest. "Why can't I make my breakthrough, I am a late stage basal mortal?"

He felt he was very close to making a breakthrough, just one little push and boom he'd be at the Buddha level. He sighed then rested his head on the windowsill. "Icedawn?"

A cold aura rests over the room, and an ephemeral, almost ghost-like version of Icedawn pops out. "Yes my dear."

"Why can't I make my breakthrough?"

Icedawn sighs as she looks out and is entranced by the moon "there are a few reasons, but most times what's holding you back is you need to make some form of insight, it's hard to explain. It's more of an instinct one has."

Qin Ming frowns, "hmmm, this is troubling."

Qin Ming felt ready but what he needed was a spark, something to propel him forward. He walks out of his room and climbs to the roof. He sits down in lotus position. His eyes lock in on the moon that dances about the night sky. The sound of a cicada's song fills his ears. The moon beams poured on him nonstop.

Qin Ming reaches his hand to the sky. His hand covers the moon "so close!"

He slumps over and crashes on the roof "ahhhhh this is so… frustrating, if only I could."

He slaps his face, a hand-print lay flat on his face. It was red and welts dotted his face. The jade rabbit continued to hang high in the sky as if to mock him. Qin Ming closes his eyes and quietly hums to himself, "the moon…"

he rambled to himself for hours and before he realized it, the golden crow roosted a morning's embrace. Qin Ming lifted himself up, "the sun…"

Qin Ming bolted up "yes! Yes! That's it!"

Icedawn floats over to him "so what did you find out?"

Qin Ming jumped up and down and he wasn't able to remain still. "The sun needs the moon, without the moon the sun will devour the world. Without the sun the moon will freeze the planet. They work in perfect harmony!"

Qin Ming wags his finger across the sky, with the Dao of Fire and Ice, Qin Ming paints a priceless painting. Fire danced about the ice and ice gently embraced the welcome of the flames. The fire began to take shape and resembled a golden crow flying in the sky. While the ice also began to form into a jade rabbit that rode on the back of the golden crow.

"[Ice-crow Formation]"

Qin Ming jumps off the building and struts over to a tree. His finger dances, a golden crow with a jade rabbit on its back flies out, it slaps against the tree side.

BOOOOM!!

The tree instantly disintegrates but is also instantly frozen by the rabbit. But the crow beats its wings and the tree once more attempts to burn, and so on and so forth. This freezing, burning process was like a millstone grounding the tree to dust!

Qin Ming jumps up and shouts "ALRIGHT!!!!"

He throws his hands up and drops to his knees "I did it I really did it!"

Qin Ming had devised a killer technique and also a way of reaching the next stage. He graciously shoots his hand into the air and a giant crow that resembles a rock shoots into the air. A sun beam shoots back down to Qin Ming. This sun beam coats his body, his cells are rend from his body, his bones and muscles absorb the sun's energy. Very slowly the sun replaces his entire body. After a few moments this transformation was complete.

His body had been bathed in cosmic light, and was now a child of the universe. He had become a Buddah!

Qin Ming closes his fists, he looks over his new body. "This change was so…"

His body could be described as tofu before, but now he was harder than steel. His body was twenty times more durable. Regular attacks couldn't phase him in the slightest. His body was perfect!

Icedawn grips his shoulder and nods her head. Qin Ming looks back up at her. In the next few moments everyone rushes out.

"Who was that?"

"Someone made a breakthrough now! What luck!"

"How lucky indeed, they are someone to watch!"

Lei Laoshi walks out and greets Qin Ming "you actually broke through?"

Qin Ming nods "it appears I have."

Augus slaps his back "what was that, you can use the Dao of Fire? But it was so weird, I haven't seen anything like it!"

His friends congratulated him while the competition cursed his name.

In the distance a young man sat on the windowsill "so little brother made a breakthrough. Good this will be a challenge, I wouldn't wish to be bored all day."

Fudo tilts his head at Akemi "lord Akemi, you know this man?"

Akemi smiles, "I do, seeing him grow like this makes me… besides the point."

He jumps off the windowsill and walks away "come now Fudo, there is work to be done!"

Fudo follows behind him, but catches a final look at this man. "Qin Ming was it? I shall do well to remember this man!"