Chapter 64: Post Battle Affairs

Chapter 64: Post Battle Affairs

(the newest update of the status sheet will be posted so you all are up to date on Xue Tie's abilities and power level. )

Word count = 2402 on 8/13/2023

A figure that is sitting on a throne begins to stir. Their posture indicates they are leaning against their own clenched fist. There is a light layer of rocks which is how they maintained this position while asleep as otherwise they would have just flopped over.

This figure is Xue Tie who had just won against the Great General Tie Xue. He stirs away, his movement knocking the bits of rocks off him that cause a few clacks to echo the throne room. The sound helps them awaken as they open their dark brown eyes to survey the situation.

"Aaaahhhhh" he yawns and stretches, knocking more rocks off.

"Where am i? Last thing I remember is me fighting. Hmm, a chair. Finely ornamented and gaudy A throne room and it's kingly chair. But how did I win in the end?" Xue Tie surveys his surroundings and realizes he is in the capital's throne room. As he is questioning himself, he gets a small pain in his head.

"AGH" he witnesses the suppressed memory of his own avatar and how it had casually annihilated the entire army. Once this ends, he begins to process how the avatar was actually created.

"So…my martial spirits just merge and that just makes the avatar? And i've been undergoing a partial merge this entire time whenever I refined my armors rings with my trident? How stupid i have been for never realizing this" He facepalms as he already suspected martial spirit fusion for being the feeling of what he was told to accomplish from Mohg some time ago.

While he is in contemplation, 2 cloaked figures enter the throne room. They look around for a short moment before focusing on Xue Tie who is deep in thought.

"Ahem" one of them clears their throats which knocks Xue Tie out of his contemplation. He looks to the two figures and asks

"How did your fight go?"

"It was progressing at a normal pace with the king at the backfoot due to facing us both at once. But it all changed when you surprisingly released a martial spirit fusion avatar and slaughtered both his general and army. He attempted to run, most likely to join heaven Dou or one of the other kingdoms to try join them and then rally up a force to counterattack us. Using us as pressure to have the Balak forces to join Heaven Dou. would that not indeed be the ideal situation since we arent ready to fight them yet?"

"Your analysis makes sense Sun Douluo" he says and both figures takes the hood off their cloaks, revealing that they are actually the Sun and Moon Douluos. With the moon douluo even having been proclaimed dead. In truth, it was all a high level illusion. That is why Xue Tie had a banner up, he arranged the play some time ago where anyone who saw the banner, except his own people, would fall under an illusion where they saw the decapitated head and body of the Moon douluo when he took over the throne.

Xue Tie had been able to convince them to take a step back and let him, a new party take over so that they can get their revenge. The real reason for why they took over the kingdom and waged war was because the Balak Kingdom king had r*ped and killed their mother during a diplomatic visit they had to the former TianSheng sky kingdom (original name before replaced by sun moon and now Empyrean).

As such, they actually had no desire to play king and thought it was a hassle so Xue Tie had an advantage in the conversation, though Moon Douluo was not happy to be proclaimed death, their former subordinates who betrayed them will be made regular lackeys in the kingdom while the loyal ones to them would be made a specialized army as they were informed of the truth after being brought to the dungeon.

They made their discontent known for their dislike of this whole scheme but after some more talk, they realized the truth of the situation and submit. They could not show themselves for this fight as the truth is not well known yet but his army just assumes that Xue Tie had titled douluo elders in his organization and he asked them to come over to play kingdom for this battle.

Which is true as he does have a titled douluo elder amongst his people, Dugu Bo, but he is not here and has been enjoying his time with his family and cozying up to the heaven Dou royal family just like in canon.

On the other hand, Xue Tie heard that his daughter in law is pregnant with Dugu Yan. which means canon is coming up in the next few months as Xue Tie believes that Tang San is just a month or 2 older than Dugu Yan but he has no evidence to back him up.

"What has the army been up to?" "Mostly administrative work to begin properly integrating the territory of the Balak Kingdom into Empyrean." "good good" Xue Tie responds pleased.

"What about the capitals civilians?"

"That area has been mostly untouched since everyone felt your presence was required there to placate the people." Xue Tie nods in response and sits up, knocking up dust that was still on it and the few bits of rocks.

"Have some clean my new chair, then contact Hua Lin to have this castle renovated. Let the proliferate market city plan begin while the empyreans castle will remain the capital, but we will need to spice it up a bit more since it's a bit dingy." he tells them as he leaves the throne room

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Status:

Name: Xue Tie

Race: Human (transmigrator)

Age 19 (34 if counting previous life's 15 years of age)

Bloodline: Mohg, Lord of Blood.

Martial Spirits: Blood Trident-mutated, Robes of Blood (used to be gloves of blood, gained wings)-mutated by contact with Blood Trident)

Level: 77 Spirit Saint

Cores: 1 Soul Core

Robes of Blood Spirit Ring composition: black, black , black , Black, Black, Black, red

Blood Trident Ring Composition: Black, black-red, red, orange.

Robes of Blood Spirit Ring Ability names: BloodFlame Talons, BloodBoon, Immutable, Blood Trace, Blood Vortex, primal Burst, martial Spirit Avatar

Blood Trident Spirit Ring Ability Names: Refinement, Evanescent Path, Tiger Roar depicting death, Turbulent Air

Robes of Blood Spirit Ring Abilities effect:

1.BloodFlame Talons: The user's claws are covered in a red aura. Users can claw out to enable a 'scratch' on whatever surface they find (air, rocks, people, etc). That scratch will explode in a flurry of blood flame 1 second later

a.Divergent applications: Xue Tie has trained to be able to suppress the activation of the follow-up explosion up to 5 seconds later.

2.BloodBoon: Users' hands manifest blood flame which they may throw at a target. As long as Spirit Energy is provided, more blood flame will be created. Thus creating a flamethrower of sorts for reference.

3. Immutable: a defensive ability where the Robes of Blood cover more of the body and provide a 5x defensive boost as well as a .5x boost for every ring possessed by the user. Current Bonus = 8x. The negative is that the user's total weight increases by the same amount as the total bonus.

4.Blood Trace: As long as the user is either within 20 ft of a target or as long as the user has obtained enough blood, a trace can be established. The trace comes in the form of a red circle around the target. The ring can not be dispelled by anti-status abilities. Can be applied 3 times for better effect.

a.Application: the trace assists in both Bloodflame talons or Bloodboon to gain the 'Seeking' property. The seeking property lasts for 1 second after activation of mentioned spirit skills. Additional traces extend it up to 5 seconds

B. App2: trace increases the effectiveness of spirit skill the more traces there are. 2 traces = 25% damage boost. 3 traces = 50% boost.

5. Blood Vortex: A Wind based technique that summons a tornado that revolves around the user that can be directed with the casters hands to produce shredding attacks into the distance. (imagine Godrick the grafted when he shoots out wind blasts)

6. Primal Burst: Based on Flame Grant Me Strength. Users receive a 30% boost while suffering from self harm via immolation. This can be applied multiple times for a 30% boost each time but a 4x multiplier for self harm(stacks)

7. Martial Spirit Avatar: a clone of the Blood Robes that has access to all the robes spirit rings below 7. Can act independent of the user.

a. Does not have access to spirit bones or Martial Skills like Nihil.

b. the armor itself is empty and supported purely through spirit energy.

Blood Trident Martial Skills

1: Refinement: Anything stabbed by the martial spirit begins a cycle of refinement via compression and evolution.

A: The refinement can be applied to anything that can be physically interacted with. ie : Blood, bones, muscles, spirit rings (spirit rings can normally not be interacted with but this ability changes that fact)

2: Evanescent Path: Coats the trident in Special flames hotter than lava. Lasts for 5 minutes before having to be reapplied

3: Tiger Roar depicting death: releases a sound that calls upon all nearby blood to be pulled towards the user. Originally a debuff ability from the trident as it lets out a chime of doom to weaken targeted foes. but Mutated after consuming the Flame fruit from the Volcanic region. half dmg of regular nihil as well as half range but at much lower energy cost. Debuffs targeted enemies by an additional 15%

a: Blood Trace ring provides same boost to nihil as it does to this but also to the debuff. Total dmg possible with 3 rings is 22.5% of enemy health and targets are also weakened by that amount on top of that. Max range is 40ft

4: Turbulent Air: releases a noxious poison around the trident courtesy of a frogs acids. this poison leaves a trail where the trident is. This poison can be set ablaze to cause an explosion akin to using blood flame talons.

Self-made Spirit Skills

1: Nihil: a 40 ft radius circle of red smog that anyone within loses 30% of their total life force with each usage.

Divergent: With Blood Trace, Nihil's effect is limited to traced targets only but each trace increases Nihil damage by 50%. 3 traces = 150% damage aka 45% of total life each usage. The range is also doubled (80 ft).

Negative: High energy drain that has been reduced after a long study of bloodline

New abilities (self made or otherwise)

1st Spear Technique: Blood Drain- a powerful spear technique that focuses on two aspects. Piercing and then liquid manipulation (specifically blood). Useful to weaken foes by draining them of blood.

Only recently discovered and as such not at full potential aka high energy cost as well as concentration to utilize.

Blood Gods Domain: 3 states - Domination, Slaughter Assault, Armament.

1: Domination: 60 ft range killing intent domain that debuffs enemies by 30% while buffing self 30%

2: Slaughter Assault, A single target activation of the Domination domain that increases users speed by 150% and a power boost of 50%.

3: Augmentation: a self buff by condensing the domain into a type of shadowy armor. Provides a 70% boost in defense and 40% boost in other aspects

3a: Blood Touch: a mental attack that can only be used in the Augmentation state.It stuns the target for 2 seconds

Temporarily deactivates the domain to focus on attack, leaving one vulnerable.

Vampirism: An effect gained from the Domain seed that first appeared when the blood trident corrupted the seed. It provided a minor healing boost to self when living things come into contact with the trident. Was later boosted when the domain was fully unleashed for a proper vampirism state on both martial spirits and even the regular body.

Self-Martial Spirit Fusion

Form 1: Summons a Mohg avatar that is capable of using Nihil in a range of 500ft circle (aka 250ft radius). More damage the closer one is while base is by default 40% and max can be instant death. (uncontrolled state)

Form 2: Summons an avatar capable of using full skills and controlled akin to a mecha. (controlled state) This form has its own set of fused spirit rings based on the combination of both martial spirits rings.

Ring 1: Unknown

Ring 2: unknown

Ring 3: unknown

Ring 4: Unknown

(no more rings due to lack of rings on trident)

Equipment

1. Ring of Opening-Vin: 20% increase in spirit skill power in exchange for 25% spirit power usage.

2. Amulet of Nature-Cruise: 2x Energy regen

3. Band of HIding-Cy: masks/suppresses one's energy signature

4. Armband of Storage-unnamed: 8 crystals that each hold up to 15 cubic feet inside (Xue Tie owns a second storage item that he got from the Food God Envoys in recent chapters)

Spirit Bones

1. Drake's skull (77k years old): External spirit bone received after killing the Evanescent Gale Drake at Mt. QiXiao. Effects: mental protection and access to Evanescent Beam. A fire breath attack in the form of a condensed beam

2. Flaying Blood Scorpion Left Leg bone (Currently 30k years old after refinement, originally 20k years old):unknown effects, obtained in chapter 33. Unabsorbed

3. Sheer Wind Harpy Right Arm bone(pterodactyl)(23k years old originally, currently 29k years old after multiple refinements): Acquired from Spirit hall and later refined multiple times. Unabsorbed

4: 170k year old tiger leg bone (unabsorbed)

5: 190k year old bull leg bone. (unabsorbed)

6. 230k year old frog arm (unabsorbed)