11. A Helping Hand, Another Wisp, and Another World

Emerald Gem Sect, Infinite Legacy Pagoda

Orval has entered the Nascent Soul grotto in the pagoda. When he walked in there was nothing, no sound and no light. It even felt like there was not space or time. Normally when one enters a grotto, there is a power or a force that draws them in a certain direction or wills them on what they need to do. For some reason this is not happening for him.

While this concerned Orval, he decided not to let it affect him as this could be a test or apart of the grotto's will, since even if he played a part in the creation of these, he didn't actually understand them at all.

He decided to spend his time trying to comprehend more chapters of the Infinite Legacy Scripture. He is particularly interested in the ones on karma and death. He felt that he needed to understand death, since he has learned life techniques. If he could comprehend them and fuse them into a higher power it would be great. As for karma, he was not sure but he felt it was the right time to learn it.

He began to cultivate the chapters, starting with death. It was simple, yet profound. Death seemed to be inevitable and yet it was avoidable. To create death was a simple task, which could be done sometimes with just a look.

Orval was beginning to understand death, even if it was just a little. Suddenly, as if influenced by his cultivation, the environment began to change in the grotto. It was as if he was transported to another world all together.

Unknown Location in the Universe

The God, who has been diligently working on his project, noticed a shift in the universe. This surprised him greatly, since this has never happened ever since he created this universe.

With a devilish smile he spoke aloud to himself "Finally, it's getting closer. I never thought the access would happen this fast. I think I'll even give a helping hand."

With that he looked out into the vast universe, in the direction of Glass Planet. He simply waved his hand and sent a wisp of energy in that direction. It seemed to be moving slowly, but in reality it was traveling quickly enough to traverse the universe in a few days.

Emerald Gem Sect, Infinite Legacy Pagoda

The current scene in Orval's Nascent Soul grotto, has changed to a truly bloody world. His physical body was not there and he was only there in soul form. As he looked around it was like hell. There are volcanoes everywhere, the only difference was instead of lava, they where erupting with hot blood. As he looked closer at the volcanoes, he noticed that they were not made of stone, but they were made of dead bodies. Hundreds of millions of dead bodies made up just a single volcano.

Orval was terrified as he viewed the scene. He held in his fear as best he could and continued to explore. He pasted rivers and oceans made of blood. In side the oceans lived vile creatures, that looked like the essence of violence. As he explored he still had not found a single living being.

Suddenly, he noticed a surge of power. He headed towards the power source. As he arrived he noticed a youth. He was a handsome young man with devilish eyes and bloody red hair. He sat on a throne made of skulls, which sat on a mountain of humans.

The youth seemed to notice Orval, as he looked up at him and spoke "Who are you? You do not seem to be from this world. Well, I suppose considering the state you are in, you probably couldn't do anything let alone answer me. Hehe." His voice was murderous. Every ounce of Orval's soul shivered as the red haired you spoke.

The murderous youth continued "I am assuming you are here to experience something, since I have some guests I am about to..." He paused for a moment "Shall we say attend to. I hope you gain what you need." He then shifted his focus onto the ground below his mountain of corpses.

A giant metal gate began to appear. Once the gate fully manifested the doors began to open with a loud creak. A massive amount of living being began to pour in like a wave. There were humans, elves, dwarfs, and even demons that entered. As Orval watched the astonishing scene of tens of millions of beings entering, he was amazed. Not only was there so many beings, but even the lowest one seemed to have the strength that could topple any power he has ever come across in his world. Well, with the exception of that other being he met in the grotto the last time.

In the front of the group of people that had just entered, there was a human man that stood majestically. He exuded the aura of a leader with great charisma. He even looked the part, he had a handsome face, a tall and built figure, and he wore shining golden armor fitting of a hero.

The handsome hero suddenly spoke "You vile, murderous bastard! You were the pride and hope of the entire world. You had achieved so much, so quickly. Why would a successful mage, at the peak of the mortal ranks and about to ascend, betray everyone and become an evil mage!" The hero was clearly shook up as he spoke.

"HAHA!" laughed the evil mage. He then looked down upon the hero with blood thirsty eyes a spoke "You could never understand what it truly means to reach the peak and ascend. If you could reach the peak as well and see what I have seen, you might do exactly as I have. It's unfortunate that, that, will not happened for you."

The Evil Mage began to summon a mass of power. This power was clearly not the power of cultivators. Orval watched in astonishment as the power surged, trying to absorb and understand this power. As the power grew, the youth mage began to chant.

"By my name, Origin "Regency Venerate Absolutus" Lionheart, I summon thee to do my bidding. To be merciless, to be murderous, to be forever and absolute, to be death. Hear my call and slaughter all!"

All around the chanting evil mage, the space around began to change. A godly figure appeared, it was a massive being covered in a black robe. It was brandishing a massive scythe.

The tens of millions of beings below were manifesting their power as well, but it paled in comparison to this one move by the youth. The figure looked down and simply swung the scythe. Nothing could stop it. Nothing could block it. It cut through all the manifested powers and destroyed the souls of the tens of millions of beings, who all dropped dead. The figure then vanished after slaughtering everything.

Orval watched on in complete shock. He still did not understand the power behind the move, but he realized two things. One, was the attack held nothing but the power of death, and in that one move he had gained a perfect comprehension of death. Two, the power that was shown could easily have destroyed the world he knew, which was terrifying.

He now looked at the youth on the throne, who was mumbling to himself. Orval was unable to hear what he was saying. The youth seemed to be looking at something as he mumbled, but Orval could not see anything and just assumed that it was something profound.

The mage looked up at him and said "See you later" with a wave of his hand.

The scene then vanished just as quickly as it appeared. Orval was back in his body, sitting in complete darkness. He continued to digest what he had seen. After a few minutes a light began to appear in the distance. He was unable to move, but the light kept moving closer to him slowly.

After a few minutes the light arrived and stopped just in front of Orval. It was a tiny wisp of energy. Orval reached out and touched it. The wisp surged with power and began to get brighter. Then, it exploded with a small pop. All that remained was a gold piece of paper. This paper moved forward, entering Orval's soul. Once it entered his soul, he understood just what he gained.

He circulated his qi and worked hard to comprehend the death chapter and the paper he received.

Unknown Location, Glass Planet

The Rot Fiend Lord was walking with the Blood Fiend Lord. They walked down a dark path heading lower from the basement. Soon, they came upon a dark, yet light area. It was a mine filled with hundreds of thousands of fiends. The fiends were digging this massive mine lower and lower into the planets surface.

The Rot Fiend Lord looked on with a satisfied look. He then spoke "You have made great progress, Damon. After this tunnel is complete we shall realize the start of our plan and I will promote you to a rot fiend.

"Thank you my lord" spoke Damon as he bowed respectfully.