Path of the Tyrant King

"Hehe." Maven's distorted laughter echoed through the fog as Nesilia and Ye Yuyan tried to escape.

"What the hell are you..." Before Nesilia could finish talking the fog slammed into her face and filled her mouth. The pours all over her body opened up and unwittingly absorbed the fog. Her eyes went dull and she stared in from of her lifelessly.

"No point in resisting." Maven chuckled and raised his moonlight sword, the fog gathered around the tip of the blade. He turned his sword to face Ye Yuyan who was dazed from the fog.

"Moon reflected on second spring." He muttered as the sword shone, and reflected on it was a blood drop.

Ye Yuyan's eyes went completely lifeless and a white mist exited from his pores and gathered towards his glabella. The condensed mist formed on his glabella becoming a foggy sword.

BLOOD!

BLOOD!

BLOOD!

Like a mantra revealing his heart, the whispers of hundreds of demons went about in his mind. They unearthed the deepest memories in his heart by tapping into his deepest desire.

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BOOM!

Lightning flashed in the heavens and soon after there was rumbling the shook the earth. Animals in the mountains fled as goats and sheep ran towards the fields.

Lightning struck once again this time it was at the top of a mountain. The cold icy peaks of the mountain were stained red. The long thin streaks of blood flowed down the peak.

The source of all the blood were two bodies which laid close to one another. One was a young man in crimson robes and his hair was a deep scarlet that billowed across the snow.

Next to him was a woman dressed in tattered and blood white robes. The tips of her hair were slowly turning white but the rest remained a dark like an abyss.

The young man's body suddenly twitched as more blood dripped as he slowly got up a large hole became visible on his abdomen.

He looked at the woman's body in front of him and was unable to move. His eyes looked down with his lips trembling and he clenched his teeth. He fell to his knees and started to shake her awake.

"Hey...wake up." He said with his voice trembling.

"Come on...please." He said as he shook her once.

"You can't be dead." He said disbelieving and shook her body intensely.

"You aren't supposed to die. Aren't you a legendary bearer?" He pleaded

"Aren't you invincible?!??!" Then he finally roared with despair, his eyes moisten as tears dripped down them unceasingly.

His tears landed on her body as he constantly tried wiping them. Even his nose was becoming snot filled, a horribly unseaming sight for such a dignified man.

"Please just wake up...." He pleaded one last time as he weakly shook her body and got no response.

His eyes started to go dull as the blood left his body faster and faster. Then suddenly a bolt of lightning struck right behind him. His body was vibrated awake as he got his balance and turned to look behind him.

His senses were assaulted with intense vibrations like he was being electrocuted. He waited a moment for the shaking to end and concentrated in front of him. The blurriness went away and in front of him was a beast with two terrifying blue eyes.

It had a massive head with mane-like fur but the hair was formed from bolts of lightning. Its electrifying gaze landed on the young man making him weak. He had heard of legends of such a beast, they were called Qilin!

"She'll never wake not in this lifetime." The Qilin said with a rumbling voice that echoed like thunder.

"This lifetime?!?!" The young man asked with the hope appeared in his eyes.

"A bearer never truly dies they just never get the chance to live again. Unless of course, one were to change the laws of the world." The Qilin bellowed in a sonorous voice.

"How could I possibly change the laws of the world. When I can't even save my own life?" The young man smiled wistfully as sorrow filled his heart.

"Hehe boy, I didn't appear to you for nothing. Tell me what is it that you desire the most?" The Qilin asked eagerly with its beady blue eyes watching the young man.

"I...." The young man stuttered out as he put his hand on his abdomen. He took his other hand and covered his mouth as he coughed up some blood.

"I want to see her again." The young man said as he wiped the blood of his mouth.

"I want to see her once more." He said almost pleading and walking closer to the Qilin.

"I want to see her one last...." Before he could finish his 5th step he collapsed onto the ground bleeding out even faster than before.

"Time..." His eyes went completely dead with his final words. All traces of life oozed out of him leaving an impeccable corpse laid on snow.

The Qilin condensed down quickly becoming a young man in 9 colored robes. In his eyes flashed 9 colors and on his back were 9 colored thunder wings. He materialized in front of the young man's corpse and brought his palm to his back.

"Then I shall give you life a new and in exchange, you shall change the laws of the world." The 9 colored man said with a serene smile.

"By my authority, I call to you Heaven's Way!" The 9 colored man roared to the heaven's and suddenly clouds formed.

Each arch of 9 colored lightning streamed down faster and faster. Every bolt of tribulation lightning gathered onto the palm of the 9 colored young man, it slowly infiltrating into the bloody man's body.

The blood all around the mountain and inside of his body started to gather into a clump over his corpse. As the blood left his body he looked increasingly more emanciated to the point where he looked like a dry husk.

"Refine!" The 9 colored man roared as the lightning condensed down the blood clump, slowly refining out the impurities.

The blood condensed down to 1/2 of its original size then, 1/4, 1/8, 1/16, and stopping only when it was a small deep crimson blood drop.

It radiated out intense vital forces and pulsated like a beating heart. If someone stood by it they would notice their heartbeat following the pace of the blood drop.

The 9 colored man flicked the blood drop and suddenly the entire world peeled away, all the landscapes and the sky turned into a deep darkness that stretched to the edges of the world.

Maven's form appeared in this abyss he looked around frantically and roared: "Who the hell are you?!?"

Out of the void, a voice echoed: "Hehe, did you think that the Lunar's inheritance could affect me?"

Maven took a few steps back in the darkness, as the void distorted and revealed a young man dressed in black robes. His dark and cold gaze saw through Maven who tried to meet his gaze and turned away immediately.

"How are you able to make fake memories?" Maven chuckled dismissively as his face distorted with anger.

"There's no way you could be from Far Antiquity." He said with a trembling voice and pointed his finger at Ye Yuyan.

"My, have I scared you brother?" Ye Yuyan chuckled coyly as he lightly floated in the void.

"Shut up!" Maven roared and flipped his palm over a fog sword formed in his palm. Then he struck out with a sword beam made from fog emanating at Ye Yuyan.

Ye Yuyan squeezed his fist and around it manifested a sanguine aura. He opened his fist revealing his palm which was filled with a scarlet color. He threw down a crimson palm at the incoming fog beam completely obliterating it.

The palm continued towards Maven who tried to raise his fog sword to guard. Before he could finish suddenly a scarlet aura came from his body. He tried to move his hand and noticed the red aura chain his hand.

"What the hell did you do to me?!?" Maven questioned as he tried to rip the chain off.

"You tried to use her illusionary sword totem in your blood to control me. I just used my own method to do the same." Ye Yuyan chuckled maniacally as his eyes went completely dead.

"You...this can't be blood magic?!?" Maven said with a trembling voice before he could talk any longer the bloody aura engulfed his body.

"You'll make a good pawn, especially as her inheritor." Ye Yuyan laughed and tapped on the void making Maven disappear.

Ye Yuyan turned his perception toward his memory. His gaze was planted on the 9 colored man with the thunder wings. Yet strangely the 9 colored man met his gaze as if acknowledging his existence.