Prologue Part 7
As the Gigantic Golden Dragon flew into the 800 ft Long Green snake, they crashed into each other than the Dragon instantly caught the snake in its claws fighting it off then it began to bite off the snakes head and swallowed the 800 ft Green snake whole!
The huge man that threw that kick earlier at Yang Long, felt pain in his soul after his Soul-Spirit Snake ( Geen Pit Viper ) was eaten by Yang Long's Soul-Spirit. ( Celestial Emperor Dragon )
"Young Master Run now!" - Snake Clan Guards
"Guys look back down there!" - Hu Ling
" Holy Shit!" - Tang Fu, Su Sai, Kai Tang, Hu Ling
"Watch your Language guys" - Yu Yuyin & Xiao Dao
Yu Yuyin & Xiao Dao smacked Tang Fu, Kai Tang, and Hu Ling in the back of the head.
"Hahaha, you guys got hit in the head!" - Su Sai.
"look at that Massive Dragon, it came from that guy!" - Hu Ling
"See Kai didn't I tell you, never underestimate anyone."- Xiao Dao
" Oh wow, it's still chasing them!" - Yu Yuyin, Su Sai
Back at the beginning of the 6th Section (sky) Most of The Night Serpent Clan were still running away from the Massive Gold Dragon up the stairs towards the next section, they were throwing their clans Martial Arts and their battle techniques, swords, spears and throwing knives made from there Soul Essence, at it like a child throwing a pebble at a cruise ship, the Dragon got angrier and angrier as more stuff was thrown at it, it was seeing it as an insult to it.
It began to move faster an' faster as it stormed threw the opposition in front of it, roaring and clawing at anything in its way as it clears the way ahead for Yang Long.
"Man, I should have just done this, from the beginning!"
Off to the side, near the edge of the steps, Zui De She watched as this gold Dragon came out of nowhere and attacked the rest of The Night Serpent Clan, it just grazed by him, but before it passed him he saw it look at him before flying past him.
( Holy Shit that's a terrifying Dragon ) - Zui De She
The guards that were watching all this from the side of the stairs, became terrified when they saw this happening near them.
( Hey you coming dude? )
( Who said that? )
"I did." -Yang Long
Zui De She's back an' neck was sweating like raindrops.
He was looking towards the peak of the mountain, then a chill ran down his back then he turned around after hearing this voice, a man in his mid 30's was looking at him as he was wearing a Black Hangfu-Robe with Gold dragons on it, he was wearing black armor on his forearms, calves and the back of his hands.
He had his Black Hair tied into a top knot with shaved sides, a thin mustache with a small goatee, with a Black Katana and Wakizashi on his hip with a Black Iron Staff strapped to his Back.
"You coming or what?"
"I'm sorry, are you talking to me?"
"Yea I am"
"So you staying or are you coming with me?"
"No I'll be fine, I can't leave."
"Those people you just killed, I'm part of the same clan."
"It didn't seem that way a minute ago?"
"I know that, but I can't leave them."
"Your clan has you under a Soul Slave Contract, doesn't it!"
"How'd you know?"
"I might be young, but where I'm from, anyone could break one of those.
"I can too but I don't want to cause trouble for my family or my loved ones."
"Hahaha, are you sure?"
("I don't want to upset them any more than I already have.")
"Are you sure, because I could fix that for you?.
"I don't believe that you would ... !"
"Oh really watch this."
"Hey wait... what are you doing?"
Long placed his left index finger on Zui De She's forehead and began to infuse his energy and sword intent into his body.
Zui De She was quenching in pain as his soul and body we're washed of the Soul Slave Dao Imprint he had placed on his soul when he signed a contract with that clan.
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Back in the Divine Realm
Inside a castle, a boy was playing cards with a group of other kids at a table.
"Lu Henry, get over here!" - Hu Fuiyo
"Come on Henry, stop with your duties and come play cards?" - Yin Lao
"No I can't, I have to finish the last check on row 411."
"Damn, he's such a stickler for rules. - Li Tian
Next to Li Tian was a pretty girl named Lu Meigui who was part of the Lu family just like Lu Henry in the Serpent Clan.
Li Tian who was next to this girl was trying to get near her so he could obtain some benefits within the clan, Li Tian desperately wanted to become a clan elder so he could gain some real power in his clan, but right now his position within his Li family was in the balance as his great grandmother was the 2nd Great Elder of the Night Serpent Clan.
She had a slew of business on hand, she was getting older and older an if she wanted to gain a higher position in the clan or even a Grand Elder position, she would have to ascend to a much higher cultivation level.
But Li Tian was smart and could see that this time of peace wouldn't last forever, so he was trying to cozy, up to one of the women in the Lu clan's household.
Li Tian's main goal was to become the Patriarch of the Li family that was one of the 8 side branches that help rule the Night Serpent Clan with the main household and become an Elder of the clan.
So he could solidify his position for Li Clan's successor position sooner than later.
Right when Li Tian was gonna make a move on Lu Meigui.
Lu Henry was running over, began to start yelling and screaming.
"Guys stop what your doing, Help!"
" What does Henry want now? "
"Man oh Man, Lu Meigui your cousin is a little annoying!"
"Yea I know, but his heart is in the right place!"
"You should come and look at this, one of the soul orbs has changed "
" What are you talking about?" - Li Tian
"Henry the orbs don't change, all they can do is shatter into pieces." - Yin
"Have you been smoking weed again Henry?" - Lu Meiguī
"What no, I only do that now before Bed!"
"No, I swear the orb changed color" - Lu Henry
"what are you talking about, let me have a look!" - Lu Kongfan
"Row you better not look at my cards while I'm gone!" Yin Lao
Yea, yeah whatever" - Rue Row
" I mean it Row"
" Li can you watch him for me?" - Yin Lao
Rue Row, began to make a move towards Yin Lao's Cards
" Row don't look at his cards." - Li Tian
"What! He won't know I looked at them." - Rue Row
"Rue you know what happened last time!"
"He won't do that again."
"He will, he made you drink a grade 7 Poison last time!" - Li Tian
Yin Lao Was the Successor to the 2 Branch of the Night Serpent Clan, he was a Dual Culitavator and had a rare birth defect which gave him the Double Body Acupoints physique. So in turn when he started on this path to cultivating he would be blessed and cursed at the same time.
Because he would have the opportunity to have two Martial Souls ( Martial Spirit in the Lower Realms ) in his body giving him a chance to practice two Cultivation Techniques at the same time as long as they don't contradict each other.
So even though he wouldn't really be able to use them at the exact same time he would still be able to Dominate everyone else in his generation.
So after displaying his talents at the 1st Trial at the exam of the Violet Thunder & Lightning Sect, he caught the eye of every elder in attendance at the exam that he was made a Disciple instantly in the mind of everyone in attendance at the Violet Thunder & Lightning Sect.
His performance was so great that an Elder there in attendance contacted a Grand Elder within the Sect as he felt no one there could possibly train this Kid in the ways of Cultivating there Sect's Martial Arts.
At the end of the 2nd Trial, of the Violet Thunder & Lightning Sect entrance exam, when the Grand Elder showed up he automatically declared him an Inner Disciple of their Sect, that he didn't even need to take the 3rd, 4th, or even the 5th part of the exam of the Violet Thunder & Lightning Sect.
So when that was announced, it sent shockwaves throughout the Violet Thunder & Lightning Sect, alerting the Great Elders, the other Grand Elders, the Sect Master, and even the old Monsters of their Sect that were in a secluded retreat, that it even left them speechless.
So they performed a private test for him two days later in the Sect, every Elder within the Sect came into attendance for the private test including the Sect Master and members of their council and High Council.
They found out he was born with a special physique, possessing the very rare Double Acupoints physique and that he had an Innate talent for the Thunder and Lighting Elements and a Great talent for Poison and an Average Talent in the Fire Element.
They applauded him for his talents and raised him directly to a Core Disciple, that he would be admitted directly into the Sect and that his Clan didn't have to pay the Joining Sect Fee.
Right now, for Li Tian, it was unknown how strong Yin Lao had become since the last time they fought was when their Night Serpents Clan has there annual 5 year Clan Assembly 4 years prior.
Yin Lao's Innate talent was so frightfully high that it even scared the Ancestors and Protectors of the Violet Thunder & Lightning Sect, that he was told by some of his Elders in the Li Clan that there was a chance the Main Bloodline Branch in the Night Serpent Clan would even give Yin Lao the hand in Marriage of the Night Clan's Young Miss who possessed the Levitating Lightning Bloodline, in which she possed an Innate Heavenly Thunder & Lightning Physique.
That the Night Serpent Clan and the Violet Thunder & Lightning Sect were thinking of combing their forces, a 5th rank family and a 4th rank Sect to combined together to form an almost Top Tier Qusi 3rd Rank Power.
There were rumors that they would try to bring the extinct Heavenly Thunder & Lightning Sect back from the canal of history if they could be Combined, bringing with them into the fold 5th Ranked Lighting Sword Sect and 4th Ranked Divine Thunder Dragon Sect.
If they did it, It would probably even alert the Higher powers from above in one of the Higher Realms, and scare the powers that resided in the same Realm as them and that scared Li Tian to the core!
At the same time, it makes him feel excited and proud that he could soon be part of this new to be reborn Superpower.
So when Li Tian sees Rue Row messing around with Yin Yao's Cards it makes him almost feel bad that Rue Row still doesn't understand how scary his own friend is.
But I guess that he figures that since they were both good friends with each other, Yin Yao won't hurt Rue Row that bad mostly just some small cuts or bruise when they fight and argue.
They have been friends since they were young and misfits when they would play tricks on girls with short dresses or skirts or throw rocks at thugs in the nearby towns and cities when they left their clans for fun and adventures.
Sometimes Li Tian was jealous of Yin Yaos talent that he was exceptionally suitable to cultivate the Ultimate Martial Arts from the Violet Thunder & Lightning Sect and but now that his cultivation, had caught up to the same realm as Yin Yao level of cultivation base even though there was still quite a few stages between thenm, that he didn't feel that bad.
He was gonna watch his friend, storm through, dominate and take over the Cultivation World alive, it made him smile that when Yin Yao was finally ready to show off his talents to the universe it would shake their very basic understanding of their worlds colliding, it made him proud that Yin Yao was his friend even if that meant hanging out with Rue Row all the time.
Rue Row made their long adventures and their short journeys more fun especially with all the times he's made them all laugh with his stupid quirks and silly shenanigans even though he has an above-average talent for cultivation, every group needed a friend that would make the journey much better, with all the serious and dangerous things that happened to cultivators in their pursuit of power and immortality.
Possessing an astonishing level of combat strength, wasn't the only thing needed to along the journey for men or women that went down the path of cultivating Martial Arts, you needed basic people skills or even common knowledge of others so you could walk down your path.
Li Tian was now remembering the last thing his Great Grandfather told him before he went into a secluded retreat of an untold amount of time without knowing if that was the last time he would see him again.
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[ Li Tian last Memory of his Great Grandfather]
"Little Li come here"
"Hi Great Grandpa"
"Hey, Little man how old are you now?"
"I'm 7 now!"
"Wow, really!"
"Yea, silly!"
"Little Li, let me tell you something okay?"
"Okay."
"Little Li, It's the journey that counts in your life, not the destination, okay remember that little Li. You need to stop and enjoy the little things too, not just the big things in your life!"
"But Great Grandpa, Daddy said you reached a new stage in your Cultivation last year?"
"Yes, Cough ... Cough ! !! ! Cough !!
"you okay?"
"Cough... Cough .. Ahh yes little one!"
"Yes, Little Li That's true I did reach a higher stage."
"Isn't that a big thing in your life Great Grandpa?"
"Yes it is, but if I have one regret Little Li. Then I believe that I didn't live my life to the fullest, I was always worried about me and the things I wanted that I never stopped to look around and an enjoy my time with my family and friends or that things that they wanted I only did things I wanted and now that a lot of them aren't here anymore, I regret the things I did in my life but not what I achieved through my hard work. So in that sense, I regret the small things I missed in my life, not the big things I achieved."
"Cough ... Cough ! !! ! Cough !!
"Are you really okay?"
"Cough... Cough .. Ahh yes, yes I promise little one!"
"Okay little Li, do you think you can try to remember that for me?"
"Yea I can " - Li Tian
Li Tian began to take a deep breath and opened his eyes slowly, he looked at Rue Row and shook his head slowly with a grin on his face.
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"Rue come on let's go see what Lu Heng found!"
"What no, I want to see Yin Yao's cards first!"
"No come on, you can do that another time you guys play together."
"Humm... okay I'll come but you can't tell Yin Yao!"
"Hahaha, okay Rue Let's go..."
Li Tian and Rue Row got up from the Table about 3 to 5 mins after Yin Lao, and the others left to follow Lu Heng to Row 411 of this Soul orb room.
"Lu Meiguī, do you want to come as well?"
"Huuhh.." Lu Meiguī let out a small sigh ...
"Okay, I'll come as well!"
The three of them left to catch up to others that left ahead.
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When they got there, Lu Henry pointed to the Golden orb on the fifth shelf.
On the shelves where clear glass orbs with one portion of that person's soul placed in a glass orb.
The way it works is, if someone dies the orb flashes then they enter the cycle of reincarnation but if someone destroys someone's soul while they are in the Nether Realm. Regardless of it, they were or weren't fighting or competing in the trials of Reincarnation in the Nether Realm their life would be completely gone, nothing would be left.
Gone, dead, crumbled to dust, faded away, or destroyed there all the same thing when your soul is destroyed in the Nether Realm unless your in a living body, the Nether Realm will grab your soul and bring you to the Soul Line at the Nether Realm Bridge of death leading to King Yama's Death Castle for Soul Judgement.
If your soul was completely crushed or destroyed then the parcel Soul within the orb would shatter into pieces.
But if something happens. obviously, then one of the people that we're watching and or supposed to protect the orbs in this Soul Castle was to report it to the clan.
Then one of the clan's deacons or janitors or someone of a higher position if someone important dies or their soul is crushed then they would come to the castle to collect the orbs information. After that they would then leave, as long as that person who was killed used their Soul Trace Stone before reincarnating, then they can be found when they're reborn, the elder or that person's parents bring the glass orb with them into the outside world as they try to find their child again who died, with a Soul Trace Stone you can locate them again in the immortal or lower Realms by informing the recover teams in that Realm or lower Realms.
When they get close to there child again the orb will flash and burn brighter, they then talk to there child's new parents usually paying them with money or cultivation resources.
After confirming the child's origin and soul, they would take the child back to the clan, the child would receive help again on their path of cultivation.
When the child turns 6 again the clan would get a Mind Soul Gem or jar of Haze water to help them regain their memories again.
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The Only time the clan doesn't get their clan members back, is if the baby is reborn in a higher realm out of reach or if they are born in a powerful clan or sect, they give up the child to the new family with the old parents taking the role as Godparents if their lucky or there killed or taken away to stop them from influencing the child in its new life out of respect for being part of the Clan in its last life.
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Now a couple of days of passed outside of the Nether Realm since Yang Long released Zui De She from the Night Serpent Clans Soul Contract, they were told of their young master's subordinate strange an unfortunate accident, a couple of days ago.
The clan sent a great elder to receive his Soul Orb, now the guards and servants that died with there young master Lu She would be taken care of later on after the young master Lu She returned to the clan, they would then take the guards orbs an bring them back to the clan main hall until they resurrected.
Since Zui De She had died but hadn't resurrected yet his glass orb was still under review.
The Night Serpent Clan has a little over 200 thousand people in its clan, there are over 575 rows with each row having 50 shelves number from 1st to 30th, keeping track of their clan member's souls, now the lower the row number is the higher rank being 1st row, 1st shelf 4th position better than let's say 13th row, 5th shelf 30th position making a comparison that the 4th Best Ranked member of the entire Clan is better than the person 19,500th Ranked member.
The higher you were Raked the better you were served, treated, and watched with care within the Clan, those people's souls are with the most important people having 4th Rank in the Clan, made them one of if not almost one the more important people within the clan.
Lu She was on 45th Shelf, 10th position from the 1st position of that shelf's top spot. Lu She's oldest brother and sister out of his ten siblings were between the 30th and 10th shelf showing the importance of their lives over his but it also helped that they were a descendent of the Current Patrician of the Night Serpent Clan being kept on a higher shelf and a lower number in order of importance to the Night Serpent Clan.
Yang Long didn't know this, but this encounter with Zui De She would start to turn the gears of Destiny forward.
It would start to change the course of the future, in all sense, it was for the better, he just didn't know better.
"Come on, let's go!"
"Okay."