The Doors! (Finale 2)
The tremors were felt throughout the world. Each main continent and the dozens of waste continents and the beings inside of them all felt the rumbling.
"Oh?" Blade confusedly uttered. Surrounding him was a mysterious purple mist that seemed to distort the surroundings, covering his figure and giving him another type of sensation.
This mist then disappeared as his tall body clad in dark clothing came into view. Squinting slightly, Blade focused on the ground below his feet.
Seeing the trembling ground and the shaking pebbles, Blade's figure disappeared, soon reappearing several meters away from Andra who was slashing the air with a pair of blades.
It seemed that even as the ground violently shook, she didn't perceive such an event and was completely engrossed in practicing her blade techniques.
"Andra? Do you not feel it?" Blade's confused voice entered Andra's ear, awakening her from the state of training and intensive focus she was in.
"Huh?" Andra yelped... "Ah! The ground!" She jumped in the air by surprise, not descending but instead, remaining afloat. Seeing her actions, Blade snickered...
"You... are you afraid of earthquakes?" He couldn't help but question, blitzing through space and appearing next to Andra at a speed beyond what she couldn't sense.
"Maybe, maybe not." A light red hue of embarrassment covered Andra's cheeks as she commented mid-air. Feeling Blade's hand wrapping around her waist, she leaned into his embrace, awaiting the end of this earthquake of sorts...
"Hmm, but I highly doubt this is natural..." A cold light flashed through Blade's eyes. As his words went on to confuse Andra, he explained thereafter, "Otherwise, there wouldn't be a need for such a large number of divine senses being released."
And Blade further continued by saying... "There've been quite a number of curious beings to have tried peering into this location.
Not only Astral's but mine own divine sense has blocked their senses. But this isn't normal. After releasing mines, I realized that there are hundreds of divine senses covering this continent.
"Something interesting must be happening... And this earthquake is part of it all." He deduced.
Hearing this, Andra was about to reply but before she could, another voice not belonging to neither Blade or Andra appeared, entering their ears.
"Shockingly, it has happened already!"
Out of nowhere, the voice of the duo's master whom they hadn't contacted in several months, appeared as Blade coldly glanced to his side, meeting eye-to-eye with Astral's black orbs.
"You!" Growling, Blade's sharp and long canines appeared in Astral's sight. But, both he and Astral knew that a battle was undesirable.
"Come now, don't bite me." Astral teased... "Anyway, which do you deem more important, the Holy Lands, or some stupid reason to constantly be rageful at me?" He followed up.
His hands were clasped behind his back and his back was upright and calm even as Blade showcased such displeasure upon seeing him.
Tch!
Clicking his tongue in annoyance, Blade retained some calm-headedness upon the mention of the holy lands as he awaited whatever Astral had to say.
Seeing this, Astral smirked and pointed to the earth below while saying, "You see that, you can probably even feel the divine senses, it's due to the hundreds of Martial Sovereigns and beings above such a level realizing what is about to take place."
"The appearance of the Holy Lands..?" Andra assumed. Agreeing with her, Astral nodded his head and continued.
"Yes Dolion, the Holy Lands have most probably appeared. Only when the doors to the Holy Lands appeared, will each nook and cranny of the whole planet shake simultaneously."
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Time passed and the rumbling only intensified. Each faction of the Green Star World prepared at incredible speeds and in less than ten minutes, they had all headed out.
On a large sky traversing boat treasure, Blade was present on the deck along with several other individuals including his master, the Sect Leader, the Overseers, and the Chief Elders...
"As the Young Holy Child, you carry the hope of our Limitless Sky Sect...! When you enter the Holy Lands, I hope you can defeat a considerable amount of the otherworld beings and claim a high ranking, gaining rewards and fame for our Limitless Sky Sect in Green Star World..!"
One of the Chief Elders fawned over Blade who didn't fall for his pretense. If he was this believing in the Young Holy Children of the Limitless Sky Sect, he'd say the same thing to Andra who wasn't even qualified to be on the deck of the ship.
Anyway, Blade's attention was on something completely different. Silence descended as Blade squinted his eyes and clicked his tongue before...
Hehehe... Hahahahaha!
Bursting out in boisterous laughter, Blade's sharp gaze landed on Astral as he grumbled with rage obvious from his tone, "Once more, you've taught me jack shit!"
Forcefully retaining some strands of calmness, he refocused his attention on the people surrounding him who carried confused expressions as Blade then asked, enlightening them at the same time.
"What, or who are the so-called otherworld beings you speak of, oh great elder?"
Thrum!
Speaking this in a very obvious sarcastic manner that didn't give the chief elder much respect, Blade cared little as in his eyes, he sent his murderous intent toward Astral who acted as if he was focused on something interesting far away.
Hearing his words, the chief elder, along with most of the other individuals of lofty status present, glanced at Astral in shock as the sect leader then went on to ask, "Ah! Overseer Fabel, is it that you've not conveyed to your disciple what dangers there are located in the Holy Lands?"
Scratching the back of his head, slightly embarrassed, Astral's mind buzzed as several thoughts and excuses appeared... "Haha, well I always thought it would be better to not say.
After all, my disciple was still soo weak back then, if I had told him that there may be individuals not that much weaker than myself, wouldn't he have lost his will to grow as strong as he is today before the opening of the Holy Lands?"
Nodding their heads, the people of the limitless sky sect thought it made sense. "Yes, the otherworld beings are very powerful. Some young ones are just as strong as Mortal Transcendents even whilst being alive for only several decades." A chief elder said.
"Well, we may as well tell you now." The Sect Leader smiled, saying... "The Holy Lands appears as a mysterious door. When it appears, the whole world trembles to welcome its appearance and it always appears in the center of the world, which happens to be the center of Sector 1 of Forbidden Land 029." He continued.
"Inside, all those under 150 years of age who entered and are from the same world would appear in the same location. You'll then spend three years inside the holy lands. But in the outside world, only three months would have passed. Most importantly, several dangers that could even kill me and the Overseers are located inside."
Thrum!
Saying this, the Sect Leader's face turned serious. Along with his change in expression, Blade also became slightly more serious. He was also interested in these dangers, especially if they involved the so-called otherworld beings.
"These dangers originate from the Holy Lands itself, or they originate in the form of other living beings, but living entities who aren't of this world. They're beings from the countless worlds located in the Heavenly Ocean also known as the Ancient Universe!
We call them otherworld beings!"
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Only an hour had gone by since the beginning of the rumbling and after one hour, several massive events had taken place. Firstly, the rumbling had stopped, leaving in its wake countless destroyed mountains and flooded cities that were located closest to the seas... There were a devastating amount of mortal deaths throughout the world.
So even though it carried the name Holy, its appearance was anything but as in fact, the normal mortals who could barely live past eighty could only leave information of those doors as legends.
The doors for cultivators that were known as the Holy Lands, for mortals, were known as The Coming of Extinction!
Another shocking event that took place was the news of the supreme powers of the several main forces of the world all traveling through the skies of their continents making their way to the center of the world, to the center of Sector 1 of Forbidden Lands 029.
One more thing was the fact that the hidden dragons and crouching tigers of the world were also appearing one by one as they made their way to the center of the world.
These figures weren't desiring to enter the Holy Lands as they knew one under 150 years of age couldn't enter, but they all had disciples whom they wished would enter!
Of course, all of this news would take a while to reach the ears of the weaker individuals but these were merely some of the events which took place in the hour since the beginning of the rumbling.
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In the empty azure skies where the clouds had been forcefully dispersed by an unknown power, several hundreds of figures stood in the skies around or near two massive doors.
These doors were pristine white and had several golden dragons and phoenixes etched onto them radiating holy and prideful energy oozing a sensation of righteousness!
Thousands of meters...
This was how large those doors were.
Large and imposing!
Forever and ever, they stood throughout Father Time, unhinged and unharmed...
Impossible to destroy, invulnerable and invincible through the ages!
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
Countless explosions in the skies took place at the same time. Instantly thereafter, appearing from cracks in the skies that showcased the empty and dark void were several massive boats that traversed the skies, each ten or hundreds of meters long!
These were owned by all the powerhouses... All the most gifted geniuses of the top sects instantly appeared at the same time, shocking all present.
Of the several main continents, the supreme highest powers that ruled these continents all held different systems but there was one thing that remained the same and that was their desire to cultivate supreme geniuses.
The figures present all exclaimed in shock as a knowledgeable disciple of a hidden dragon explained to a confused black-haired young boy also of a disciple of a crouching tiger...
"Only geniuses worthy of the title of Young Holy Child of these supreme factions have appeared on these traveling treasures..." He said to the boy with disheveled black hair...
"These geniuses include Heavenly Celestial Sect's Athena, Laurel Fuji, Alexander... Limitless Sky Sect's Blade Pure-Heart and Dolion... Soulless Sword Sect's Heracles, Azolo, Helphire, Virgil... Godly Jade Empire's Ester, Hesperia, Portia, Praha... and finally is the Heavenly Demon Sect's Chu... no, he was already... am, the Heavenly Demon Sect isn't here!"
Reaching this point, the knowledgeable and fat young man rubbed his perfectly rounded belly and continued conveying information to the other fellow of his age who adorned all-black clothing.
"It's rumored that Blade Pure-Heart of the Limitless Sky Sect is the most powerful of the Holy Children but the mysterious Soulless Sword Sect's disciples haven't ever revealed their cultivation bases whilst the imposing Godly Jade Empire's disciples all used the Godly Jade Body Scripture said to make the cultivators invincible in the same realm...
So even if they say Blade Pure-Heart is the most powerful and even a Martial Sovereign after he defeated Chu Peng, it might not be the case! There's also a rumor that the Heavenly Celestial Sect has found a monster of a genius named Athena who has most likely reached the Martial Sovereign realm too..."
As he reached this point, he placed his hand on the black-haired youth's shoulder with a deadpan expression as he said in a disappointed tone.
"Both you and I may be geniuses, but compared to those monsters, we're merely geniuses!" But, even this fatty's words were ignored by the black-haired youth whose short shoulder-length black hair rose along with his battle intent and excitement...
After all, throughout his life, he had gone against the odds and defeated those deemed by others impossible for him to defeat...!
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(Volume 2: End)