Master of my Fate

Far atop a blackened and eroded mountain there are winds sharp that inscribe men, and yin abundant. A mountain so slender said wind could rip it asunder, a mountain no longer a mountain. Yet no one dares speak so, as this mountain still tall as its prime was once wide like an ocean, claimed by the master the Immortal Yiqi realm. The Monarch of Demons, Edward Li Qiang. Supreme peak and the lands surrounding in a million-mile radius was the holy land for Demonic practitioners.

"Another failure" Edward barely mumbled 

His current appearance a cry away from his prime. Hair no longer silky and radiant, eyes still lethal yet lost all charm. His shoulders once round like a boulder now narrow and boney. He looks as of a skeleton rotting and wasting, as he had not moved for a many year.

"I can feel it, the essence and rules of what may be beyond"

Holding his scruffy beard which long turned grey and undignified, Edward was nearing his final moments

"After a million years and thousands of generations passed am I really going to perish?

No! I refuse it, the heavens have shackled this plane then I will break them!"

Roared Li Qiang, an edict of such magnitude and volume the clouds vanished like ghosts. the rivers flowed ashore, and Supreme peak began to give and crumble. 

Li Qiang inside his own soul burning all but his own life force, threw away his Chi and emptied all three cores, with the fire inherited from his mother. 

"I have returned to nothing many times over but never like this" in a trance like state Li Qiang's flesh and bones began melting from the blaze of his soul, blood steamed, and his brain fried

"How pitiful my vessel is destroyed yet I feel no pain, only... anticipation."

BOOM! FWSSSH!

At Li Qiang's moment of critical enlightenment a figure made of illustrious jet raven melt which outshines the rising sun looks down at the burning soul

"Child of Demons and Phoenixes, you have trespassed where no mortal is suffered."

The pressure emitted from the godly presence was wholly unfamiliar to Edward, who spent an epoch fearless and oppressive. Hesitant the Monarch of Demons gathered his wit

"No one in many realms would hinder this one's enlightenment. Who…. No, what are you?"

Edward demands with for the first time in his life a fearful gaze, while splintering off a minute amount of his soul

"I am what will be your end. Yama and Hades, both my servants." spoke the light

"Yama, Hades... You speak of myth creature. You claim to be Hela, a false idol worshipped by mortals in the lowest of realms." Edward not so confidently shot 

"Amusing words coming from a mortal. We allow you to become more than what you deserve, yet everyone but the weakest denies us. Cultivation is a gift given to you, entertainment for our pleasure at best." 

Edward, thoroughly confused thinking that this light may be be true, remains silent hoping the Goddess will continue while he absorbs and comprehends the mystical words flowing across his minds eye.

"Foolish mortals, no respect for divinity yet you try to ascend. Worst of all, IN MY PRESENCE." 

YAAH!

Releasing an energy much more pure, much more noble than any Chi Edward has seen before, the energy in the form of ten thousand ravens all smother Edward as he is unable to resist

AAHHHHH screams Edward unable to move due to losing the Divine Void Steps concentrated in his eyes 

"Like I said, you cultivate for our entertainment worm. Thinking you could actually ascend past the limits we had placed upon mortals, HAHAHA. That might be the most amusing part of your entertaining life. You have given me quite a lot of joy, watching your intrigue reminds me of my brother. Your might of my father. You are the best toy that has ever been given to us, feel honored that I end your path, because there will be no true end like the others had planned for you. After your death you will enter my domain, and I will snare your fiery soul to hell to serve me, HAHAHAA!"

"No." Edward exclaims forcing the words out as he continues to feel the ebony ravens eat and consume his soul.

"No? What are you on about mortal, this a foregone conclusion."

Edward finally sure his soul he smuggled thru many realms is safe

"I AM INCAPABLE OF SERVING AND LIVING FOR THE SAKE OF ANOTHER" Howls the burning Monarch of Demons releasing the full heat in which he holds, torching all ten thousand ravens and even his soul, the heat which even the Goddess recedes from. 

"HAHAHAHA! Truly mortal you humor me till no end." 

While having a soul with phoenix like properties Edward would not be able to save himself from this. Burning his soul something that normal phoenixes do to cultivate, he is still human. Valuing his own freedom more than his life he made a desperate attempt to fool the god.

Hela impressed with the mortal's resolve did not let it stir her, seeing this as a magnificent conclusion of her favorite toy