Awakening
After everyone, heard what had happened to the Bai Clan, there was a change in the air. It got a lot harder to breathe, dust and small debris, and other loose items that weren't stuck in the ground started to float into the air.
He Hong was looking over to Bai Gui, he could see his face visibly changing, veins started to spread across his neck, then his forehead, and finally his eyes, his eyes rolled back and all that could be seen were the white of his eye balls.
Bai Gyi was now shaking, his hair was now floating up, the ground started to shake and cracks started to form from the epicenter that was Bai Gui himself, his eyes started glowing azure getting brighter and brighter.
His aura was now leaving on its own accord, white lotus blossom started to form above him, and from the sound of thunder and the cracking of lightning going off, as a Lightning storm started to form above the Red Crowned Crane Sect.
"Bai Gui you need to control your breathing, your losing control of yourself, Bai Gui, clouds are forming above us, you need to really control yourself people will be hurt by the lightning junior brother!" - Red-Crowned Emperor He Hong
"Ahhhhhhhhhh!"
Boom!
It was like a bomb went off, Bai Gui released the entire base of his cultivation and his aura changed from a pale azure color to a blinding white Spirit Qi coming out of his mouth and hands and was surrounding his entire body now.
Bai Gui lost all reasoning as he lost control of his anger, he entered a strong variant version of Spirit Qi deviation, in better words he entered a reverse Spirit Qi Deviation, his Spirit Qi was running rampant now and his Spirit Qi was spinning at an alarming rate in his dantain.
All his meridians were opening and closing, all you could see where the white of his eyes, as he was now on the line between thresholds, between consciousness and unconsciousness, and was now from He Hong's perspective in like a sub-unconscious state.
"Get away from him! He's lost control, hurry before he attacks you!" - He Hong
Bai Gui was now in all intent purposes, all swallowed up by animal-like emotions, mainly rage, and in a loss of his senses, and basically of himself.
"I'll kill them, I'll kill them all!!!" Enraged Bai Gui
"Oh crap, get down now!" - Bai Ru
"What!" - He Hong
" Wraith of the Celestial White Sky Tiger! "
The White Spirit Qi that was surrounding Bai Gui, was now gathering into a giant column and was growing taller and taller then moving faster as it then punched a hole through the clouds above and then through the troposphere, through the stratosphere, the mesosphere, and finally leaving the atmosphere of the planet altogether, then into outer space outside the planet's ozone. When it got to about 20,000 miles above the planet it exploded.
The huge mass of Spirit Qi started to fall back into the atmosphere and then floated back down towards their area and the Spirit Qi, started to form back together, the mass grew to 180 meters tall and 340 meters long.
The large mass of Spirit Qi started to grow limbs, a tail, head, and then a pair of wings on its back started to grow out, then two stubbles of bones grew on its back, just beneath its skin almost past the hair of the creature, behind those two wings.
The body then started to form black strips all along the body, then it opened its eyes, showing its azure eyes, then standing up and frowning.
The creature flapped its wings and started to descend, it blew past the layers of the ozone, creating a barrier of energy around its body as fell faster and faster towards the ground, it went through the hole of the Lightningclouds that were formed by Bai Gui, landing right behind him.
"It's a White Sky Tiger!" - He Hong, He Huo Hong, Bai Gui & Bai Lang
It proceeded to looks towards the RedCrowned Spirit Crane, the was floating above He Hong, and somehow took it as a sign, as a challenge towards its natural power.
"Oh crap!" - He Hong
The White Sky Tiger took an aggressive stance while standing towards He Hong's Spirit Soul.
ROAR!
The surrounding trees and a major part of the forest, that was surrounding this small group of people, were blown away and rocks, branches, trees, a couple of houses nearby were thrown to the wayside.
The roar sent off warning bells, towards everything in the southeast part of the Huo Continent and anyone that was in a higher stage than Spirit Emperor Stage, giving off a small ringing sound in their Soul Realms, like a sort of greeting, to let them know an opponent has entered into the fold.
Everyone and anything that could hear the White Sky Tiger's roar or even feel just a part of the White Sky Tiger's presence was sweating, feeling the pressure of a high ranked Soul-Spirit caused pressure to bear down on people that had weaker Soul's or even Soul Spirits that were of the same rank. Were forced to lower themselves to its presence.
A couple of Soul Spirits and even Spirit Beast's out there within its area of Spirit Sense limits refused to bow down to it.
Causing Bai Gui's newly awakened Soul-Spirit to roar again, back to them, in its defense and increase its power to an even higher level, as it released more pressure on them.
ROAR!!!
... ... ...
Ahhh!
"My king, what's wrong!"
"I'm in severe pain, AHHHH!"
( My Xian, please stop resisting that soul spirit, it's crushing me! )
( What!!)
Inside this King's Soul Space, there was a large Island, on that Island, there was a gigantic forest with a huge lake in the middle of it, inside that lake was an even smaller island with a small mountain on it, inside the mountain was a cavern, at the bottom of that was a large cave.
( Who dares, to invade my master's soul space! )
The soul-spirit beast opened its eyes, violet eyes with Yellow-colored iris, it revealed itself and slithered out of its cave. It was a very long and big Violet Crescent Sky Snake.
( You, who slithers yourself at night, and flick your tongue dare to stand up to me, a King amongst my own kind and rule those of a lesser class dare to question me, you violet snake! )
( Hiss, Hiss, AHHH! )
( That's what I thought, little girl, back off before I come over there and rip you from your master's soul space and devour you! )
( Okay, okay I give, leave my master alone you are hurting him, please stop! )
" I can't believe it, Junior Brother Gui, awakened his Soul-Spirit even though he never did before, even when he entered the Nascent Soul Stage in his twenty's he never could, he's cultivated his Soul to the Soul Sea Stage.
But now from the look of things, I think he'll skip right over the rest of the Soul Sea Stage and directly reach the Soul Awakening Stage all in one jump, oh my gosh!" - He Hong
The Soul-Spirit beast released its Spirit Essence and connected its self to Bai Gui's Soul Space. When the Soul-Spirit beast connected its self to Bai Gui, Bai Gui's Soul-Spirit Cultivation skyrocketed through the Soul Sea Stage.
Bai Gui's Soul Cultivation went from the 4th level and went up, from Soul Lake, Soul Ocean, Soul Sea, Soul Sea Planet, to the Soul Awakening Stage, 1st level, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, and then reaching the 7th stage of the Soul Awakening Stage.
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- Author's Note
There are three paths, known to men and women who pursue cultivation.
There is the normal way in cultivation by absorbing Qi and going down that path by raising it more and more until you reach the next level, down the spiritual path, also known as internal cultivation.
There is the hard way in cultivation by increasing your soul cultivation and going down that path by increasing your soul's strength, making it larger and stronger until you reach the next soul realm, down the soul path, also known as mind cultivation.
Then there is the hardest way in cultivation by strengthening your body, by absorbing, pills and herbs and elixirs to strengthen your body, sometimes even by withstanding the very elements themselves to increase your strength, to reach the next stage in the Body path, also known as external cultivation.
On planet azure, there are 5 known Soul Stages, with later stages unknown or forgotten to the masses on the planet over the later generations.
1. Soul Formation Stage - This stage is reached when someone enters the Nascent Soul cultivation stage, their soul starts to form when someone reaches the last level with the Nascent Soul Stage, their soul has finished forming, but is not assessable.
2. Soul Sea Stage - This stage, relates to the size of the soul reserves a person has, the larger it is or becomes, the larger reserves someone has to use their soul spirit essence.
3. Soul Awakening Stage - This stage relates to someones, soul spirit potential, the higher they reach in this stage, increases the chances of that person having a better and easier time in cultivating their soul and soul spirit.
4. Soul Transformation Stage - This stage is in relation to, strengthening the soul in order to control and use the soul in fighting, or use it suppress other humans, beasts, or other lifeforms, with a physical pressure outside of the person's body, rather than an invisible pressure felt on only one individual, like in the previous two stages.
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- Huo Continent, Silver River Provence, Tang Soul Palace
A man was sitting under a gazebo, with 6 other older men, there were watching 4th young master from the Tang clan plying against the 7th young master from the Yang Dynasty.
Three of the older men were a part of the Tang Clan, one was from the Tang Dynasty, and the last two were from the Yang Dynasty.
Hahaha!
"Junior brother Jiao, I win again."
"What!, no no no!"
"Senior brother, how did you do that!" - Yang Jiao
"You should just start to practice more, and then maybe you'll get good enough to beat me someday." - Tang Fēng
Hahaha! "My oh my, young master Fēng wins again, brother Tuo!"
"Well, I guess it was a good match, I guess I can't complain, young master Jiao won 2 out of the 8 games in total." Yang Liang
"Miss Duan, if you could start dinner early tonight, bring the two young ones in for tea!" - Tang Yun
"Yes, right away 3rd Great Elder!" - Head Court Ladie Duan Yan
"I hear that the Huo Continent is heating up right now, brother Huang?" - Tang Liu
"Yes, I overheard my maids talking about this very topic this morning, brother Ming-húa" - Yang Liang
"I was told about this, but I myself have not heard much about what's going on, but the Yang Dynasty head must have left his retreat, and must be planning something about this!" Yang Ming-húa
"We found out from, the Crow Clan that people were starting to make moves in the shadows right now, but to what extent we haven't found out yet!" - Tang Huang
"I know for a fact, the Huo Sect is making moves behind the scenes, there are still quite a few within their walls there, say that they were poorly treated and unfairly compensated in the last war. So they have been trying to make plans for their future." Yang Ming-húa
Yang Liang was beginning to sweat profusely, some of the men noticed but didn't say anything, minutes and then 30 mins went by as they talked about things going on within the continent. But then when Yang Ming-húa had finally stopped on his part in the conversation, he had finally seen what had been going on with his brother Liang.
"Brother Liang what's wrong!" - Ming-húa
"Brother Ming-húa, there's been an awakening!" - Liang
"What's wrong what do you mean an awakening, do you mean...
"Ahhhh, it starting to hurt more and more, ah!"
Yang Liang was now on the ground, shaking and rolling partially on the ground, his face was getting redder, veins were forming on his face and arms, his aura was going out and in back into his body. Liang had started a small fire on the gazebo from releasing his cultivation unconsciously.
At this point, all of the men there knew this situation got a lot more serious than what it was a couple of minutes ago.
"Brother Liang, hold on I got you, hold on!" - Ming-húa
Yang Ming-Húa opened a portal, then started to channel his soul essence and Spirit Qi into the portal, then made a few hand signals really quickly, then pushed the tunnel towards Liang's soul space inside Yang Liang's body.
Woom!
A tunnel formed at the end of the tunnel, a small world was within Yang Liang soul realm, there was a vast land and had trees, mountain, and another region of the vast land, covered in snow.
"Yang Ming-Húa, let us join you. I promise and I'll make sure they promise not hurt or touch anything within your brother's soul space!" - Tang Liu
"We promise Yang Ming-Húa!" - Tang Yun, Tang Huang, Tang Tuo
The men followed, Ming-Húa inside the portal tunnel then, stepped into Liang's soul Realm inside his body, they could feel two strong forces within the Soul Realm.
There was one force, on a mountain, another on the edge of the part of Liang's Soul Realm that was covered in snow.
"You coward, you can't defeat me, so you call for help!"
"I did no such thing, I never let anyone into my territory!"
"I'll say this one last time, apologize and bow to your king, and I'll spare you from death!"
"I will not bow down to you, a false king!"
"That sounds like my brother's Soul Spirit-Beast!" - Yang Ming-Húa
"Oh, that's pretty good, I didn't know your brother awakened his Soul-Spirit, and it's Spirit Beast one at that! - Tang Huang
"My brother has never shown it in public before, and you could understand why as ... ... ... ... ... ... ... his Soul-Spirit is a Spirit Beast instead of the normal Yang Bloodline Flame Soul-Spirit, and for one thing it well ... it's well ... let's just say it's really arrogant for one, and it thinks no one's worthy to even see it! - Ming-Húa
"Ming-húa, how dare you enter this place, without my permission!"
"Well, it knows I'm here let's go!"
Wosh!!!!!
All of the men performed their movement techniques and rushed to the tallest mountain, in Liang's Soul Realm.
"Hmm, you brought other ant's with you too, Yang Ming-Húa!"
"Lord Marlon, we greet you!" - Yang Ming-Húa
The other men, gave a small bow as they met, Liang's Soul Spirit-Beast.
"Oh, wow it's an Exalted Spirit Fire Roc, I have never seen one before!" - Tang Liu
When the men started to talk about him, he didn't even give them the time of the day.
But when the men released that he was even looking at them, they picked up on where the Spirit Fire Roc was looking at, across halfway from them on almost the other side of Liang's Soul Realm, there was a large Beast Standing there, with lifeless emotion on his face, with only Cold-blooded killing intent coming out of its eyes.
"No way, that can't be!" - Tang Liu
"But it is, and it's here since deal with it!" - Lord Marlon
" How could one of those be here, if that thing is here, then that means one of them is here!" - Tang Liu
"Great Uncle, what's wrong why are you concerned about that Spirit Beast, we just have to watch Yang Liang's Spirit Beast destroy it, and everything will be fine afterward!" - Tang Tuo
"Cousin Tuo, if one of those Soul-Spirit's is here, then it is a big problem, there's only one clan on the planet that can possess that Soul-Spirit Beast as their Soul-Spirit, and if one of them is here then we have a situation on our hands, you weren't around back then but my uncle and grandfather told me that if I ever saw one those, then I should tread lightly." - Tang Yun
"What is it?" - Tang Tuo
"It's a White Sky Tiger!" - Tang Liu, Tang Huang, Yang Ming-Húa, Tang Yun
"What, aren't there like none of those Spirit Beast's left on the planet how could there be one here!"
"It's not a real living White Sky Tiger Spirit-Beast, it's someone from the Bai Clan's Soul-Spirit! - Tang Liu
Hello, is one of the ancestors of the White Tiger Clan here, if so can you show yourself, please!" - Yang Ming-Húa
Chuckle, Hahaha!
"It's no use, you little ants, that thing came here on its own accord!" - Lord Marlon
"He's right, you little maggots!" - The White Sky Tiger
Hahaha
"Hey, you little ant!" - Lord Marlon
"Who me!" - Tang Tuo
"Yes, you! - Lord Marlon
Tang Tuo, was pointing at himself, then stepped forward.
"Little ant, one of the special abilities of a White Sky Tiger, when there a Soul-Spirit and not a living and breathing real Spirit Beast, is that they possess the ability to invade another person's Soul Realm."
"What!"
"Back in the Elemental Era, one of the things they liked to do back then was to enter their master's enemy's Soul Realm and rip their Soul-Spirit from the enemy's Soul Realm and Devore them right in front of their masters, then eat that Cultivator when they were done with there Soul-Spirit meal!"
Hahaha, well well, it looks like we have an intelligent Soul Spirit-Beast in front of me.
"From the look of it, you don't seem to be a young Soul Spirit-Beast, where are you from!"
"Hahaha, your a talkative one aren't you!"
"I'm from three Eons ago, from this time period. I've been waiting in the Spirit Beast Realm for the next descendent to peak my interest, I found one a little while ago, by this idiot took a while to finally reach his Soul threshold."
"Now my patience is running thin!"
"You stupid ants move back!"
Woosh!
Within a second of speaking, the tiger moved in front of everyone, the Exalted Spirit Fire Roc made a small step back and spread its wings in full display, activating his natural ability, the power to conjure fire.
Both Spirit Beast's roared
The White Sky Tiger Stood within 40 meters from the Spirit Fire Rock. Both began to stare at each other.
"So I'm gonna ask you again, Dare to stand against me, Grand Lord Tora!!!"
Roar!
( It can't be him, he's part of the sovereignty, within the Spirit Beast Pantheon! ) - Lord Marlon
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Run Down of Story so Far
( Bai Jian )
[ Has An Immortal Soul ]
[ Immortal Yang Physique] -
Sacred Sky White Tiger Physique
x1 Servant Elder Bai Tang
x1 Spirit Ring
x1 Inheritance
x1 White Jian Sword
x2 Black Katana Swords
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(Qiang Huo Shizi)
[ Has An Divine Soul ]
[ lesser Immortal King Physique ]
x1 White Clouds Spirit King Mask
x28 Battle Puppets
x1 Spirit Ring
x1 Black Katanna Sword
x2 White Ivory Jian Swords
x2 Ivory Daggers
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x6 Martial Art Techniques
1st [ Graceful Gale Wind Techniques ]
2nd [ Toughening Finger Points ]
3rd [ Shaking Strikes ]
4th [ Gentle Wind Fist Techniques ]
5th [ Shadow Void ]
6th [ Suppressing Strikes ]
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F.Y.I
Hengxing Means - Fixed Star
Qiang Means - Strong
Shizi Means - Lion
Huo Means - Fire
Hou Means - Ape
Jian Means - Sword
Long Means Dragon
Hei Means Black
Gui Hai Means = Noble Lake
Tang Means = Time
Tuo Means = To Entrust
Fēng Means = Vast
Liu Means = Flowing
Huang Means = Imperial
Ming-húa Means = Brilliant
Duan Means = Straight
Yan Means = Gorgeous
Liang Means = Bright