Eyes Of Life and Death

*Cue tragic backstory music*

Lin Feng was a cowardly youth as a child. He always got picked on, most especially by the most unexpected people. The only one who had stood by his side was his mother, she was a beautiful maiden. When she was still alive, the clan children avoided bullying him, but all that changed when she died. From then on, he was bullied. His father abandoned him like trash, leaving him all alone to train by himself.

Then one day, a man passed by his home in the Enchanting Oak Stronghold, this man was Asura. Feng was lost that day, and he had injured his leg while looking for the way back home. Asura found him and took a liking to him, he took Feng back home, at first Feng wanted to stay with asura because of how nice he treated him, but then the bastard he called his father came to collect him.

That day, before he left, he told Feng these words.

"Anyone can become Asura. I will come back here in a few years, and you better be ready."

Up until today, Feng had never understood that first sentence. He shouted up to the heavens while exchanging blows with the puppet general.

"Is this what he meant? Anyone can become Asura? Haha old man Asura, I figured it out! I was the successor from the start! Is this why you called all of us Modern Day Asuras, that first sentence, Asuras are born from negativity, I see now!"

The smile on his face had lessened in intensity, but now his eyes had a glint of darkness in them.

"HAHAHAHA!"

The puppet general who he was fighting with a thought in his mind.

'This little boy… Just who is this asura fellow? Is this why the witch wanted me to handle him?'

Feng's fists now had white mists of negative energy cloaked around them. Multiple giant fist shadows formed in the air and Feng yelled out.

"Grand Nihility Fist."

This was no ancestral technique, it was merely something he thought of during the fight.

These giant fist shadows contained a certain darkness to them, the negative energy that was generated in his Dantian (located at the area of the stomach, it can also be referred to as the gut core, it is mostly used to store qi, some things will be explained in the later chapters) had gathered in these fists.

The set of giant fists descended on the puppet general with overwhelming power, they followed the movements of Feng's real fist.

The General looked towards the giant fists and looked behind Feng, where Eshu and Feng's wraiths were taking care of the last puppets. He realized that there was no winning, and the Blood Queen, who knew all in the area of Blood God Forest suddenly sent him a mental command.

"STOP!"

The hoarse and scratchy voice of the puppet general yelled out.

Feng held his fist in the air, and the incoming giant fists stopped descending. The general breathed a sigh of relief and spoke again.

"You have passed your trial."

These were the words that the Blood Queen told him to say.

"Trial?"

"Yes, it was a test of strength."

"Ah, good, good."

"Don't be so happy yet, I was one of the weakest generals, most likely more will come for you."

"There are more of you freaks?!"

"Well, I wouldn't say freaks, but there are more generals."

Feng twitched his lips and almost dropped his hand. Most likely he would have said this if the general were to die: "Sorry, my hand slipped."

His heart was in pain, but who was he to argue with the orders of a Supreme earth immortal.

He knew he was powerless against the blood queen, so he just looked at Eshu, who was done cleaning up the little pests.

"Let's get going, we need to find somewhere to camp." He said.

The general who was silent all this while spoke up.

"I said you passed your trial, but he didn't."

"What's that supposed to mean?"

"It means your little disciple will have to fight me,"

"He's just a boy!"

"And so are you, but it's not from me, these orders came from the Blood witc- I mean Queen!"

"Since you are being so hard-headed, I will just continue to fight with you"

The general was alarmed, but he had to make his face look calm.

Feng dropped the arm he was holding in the air all this time. The giant fist shadows descended, and the void came with them.

They all converged to one point, landing on the pitiful general. These fists smashed through the surface of the earth, and the wind from these fists blew the trees away.

Feng raised his hand to summon another giant fist, but then a voice spoke out.

"Master. Please hold your hand!"

It was Eshu; he was in the air, and a green death aura surrounded him, his eyes glowing with blinding intensity, his hair floating with the wind.

In his left hand was the broken sword, and his right hand was extended forward, towards Feng.

"I will handle this by myself."

His voice was calm, yet flowed with the wind and gave off a certain pressure.

[Feng boy, you have triggered an old memory. And it seems a skill came with it]

'Ah, Damon why didn't you speak out before?'

[How could I. Don't you know I was typing.]

'...'

"With life comes death, and with death comes new life. Life and death cannot survive without each other, I walk the path of Life-Death, my path is life and my path is also death, with this, i shall give you punishment for offending my master!"

Eshu's voice then spoke out once more, but this time, when Feng looked at his disciple again, he saw a different sight. His eyes no longer glowed, his left eye was green and emitted the aura of life, and the right eye was black and emitted the aura of death. There were two strange runes in them.

Suddenly Eshu's voice spoke for the last time and they contained boundless power.

"Feel my wrath abomination Eyes of Life And Death."

His eyes glowed, and the runes that were inside flew out and landed on the puppet general.

When the two things made contact, some invisible strings snapped, and the general's soul was liberated. But it was liberated to receive death again. The black seal rotated and pushed the general's soul out of its body, and into the void.

After this, Eshu's body fell lifelessly from the air and when he fell onto the ground, a massive crater was formed.

Feng looked at the scene around him.

Crushed rocks, damaged trees, puppet flesh, and last of all a sea of blood. His darkness relished this scene, never to forget it again.