User blog:Ronchellster/WWYD - Answer Xian II

At the end of the day she had an invitation that was not used, apparently something related to her mother's youth, but she didn't give me more details or just didn't know.

With the invitation in hand, I leave the village and with it a portal is opened for a necropolis. As soon as I enter I realize that something is wrong, an unusual mist covered the place.

"Path of the Stars: Heavenly Release of Tao"

I wrapped myself in a purifying aura to protect myself from the effects of the fog, it was concentrated monster energy, prolonged exposure would transform me into an incubus, with the aura I would be fine, but that brought another problem, because of the fog, if I tried to mature the herb in that state would be corrupted and useless to me.

I needed a place away from the fog or to undo it all, since the second option would be unfeasible to find a place and for my luck or lack of it, the only place so the view was a tower in a black palace, because always have these in necropolises?

I go to it expecting resistance, but there was none, it seems that I was welcome, which in itself is already suspect. Once inside, I enter a Western-style ballroom and the hostess.For a change I already knew, Minerva.

Minerva was a warrior that I met many years ago, I think that more than 600 years ago, she was a centered warrior, with a firm code of honor, she traveled looking for improvement, at the time I couldn't help but admiring her technique then asked her to train me at least for a while, our styles were very different, what she taught me would not help in my cultivation, but would help me survive in the years to come.

We traveled together for only 5 months, but it felt like a lifetime, one night we were cornered by a group of ghosts. As far as I could understand they had been after her for a long time, however they never managed to influence her, but that night they did, the reason? She fell in love with the boy who traveled with her.

We both fought and, as expected, I had no way to win in a conventional way, so I practically dropped a mountain on top of her. Years later she became a Wight and the rest is history.

- I should have known that I would find you eventually. - I say.

- Nothing escapes you, right? - She says smiling. - So, what do I owe the honor of your visit?

- Stop with liars, no one would believe that the necropolis I entered would be yours just by chance, you set this up.

She laughs. - Clever.

She goes down the stairs elegantly, she wore a very elegant party dress, a strange contrast to her original taste, which was for a more masculine garment.

- A few days ago a little bird told me that you were on a desperate journey for your cultivation. - I even wonder what the bird was - Then I thought: What better time than now to send my invitations.

- Thanks for the consideration. - I say sarcastically. - But if you don't mind I want to take care of my affairs. So can you let me through?

She scowls - It's always like that with you, isn't it? Cultivation, cultivation, always the damn cultivation.

- You know why I do this.

- No, I don’t know, I can’t understand how someone can become so blind as to throw his life away, the world around you is passing by and the only thing that crosses your mind is how to improve your cultivation, you don’t see what does to people around you? Or do you just not care? - She looked like she was going to cry.

- With people you mean monsters, right? - She does not answer. - Whatever, the Minerva from before would have understood me.

- Maybe, but even she saw the light, as they say.

- And what did that light show you?

- Many things, among them that I cannot have you for me, not only for me, at least.

It was what I feared, at that time the other guests arrived and I can say that she searched a lot. To my left appeared a huge figure with the body of a snake, a zombie Ryu, to my right a hooded figure appears, but I don't need to see it to know who it is, I can see it through her mouth, Yue a Lich with iron fangs, In front of me came three figures, two of which were almost copies of each other, tall and full of muscles, Mayu and Ayu, a pair of undead Onis, the third figure in sight, was a girl with a slender figure, but with well-trained muscles, I could tell by the posture that she wore a sword, perhaps a katana, her hair tied in a braid. and the gray skin in the undead tone, Saeko, but now she is an Ochimusha.

-You put together quite a group. - I say.

- Yes, I always had an eye for talent - Minerva says with a smile. - But I wouldn't have succeeded if you hadn't done what you did so that's actually your responsibility.

- My conscience is clear.

That last sentence irritated Minerva, without any warning she manifested her monster energy, materialized her claws and attacked me, all in an instant, I was quick and escaped, in the next instant Ryu came towards me in an attack, I exchanged some strikes with her using the soul blades.

"Darkfire Style: Colossus"

Yue, the Lich, used the black flame technique and formed a spiritual body of a giant, despite being only the top half. His big arm reached out to me, I couldn't let him touch me.

"Thunder God Style: Twin Blades, Twister"

This technique is normally used to attack groups of enemies, but I used it to quickly rotate and gain mobility, avoided Yue's attack and scaled Ryu's body by making several cuts, nothing serious, these attacks would at most scratch a dragon's scales, she tries to use her tail to stop me, but I jump over and support myself to gain distance.

For the time being I was able to get by, but it wouldn't last long, my soul weapons didn't have enough power, I could use the thunder god's sword, however it is not compatible with Tao's aura and I need it to keep me going clean from corruption.

As if they could notice my indecision, they came in another attack, Ryu threw several fireballs in my direction, I deflected or blocked them all. Yue summons several skeletons out of nowhere to attack me.

"Thunder God Style: Twin Blades, Twister"

I cut them all, Yue tries to reach me with the arms of the colossus, I avoid at the last minute, but Ryu managed to hit me with the tail and throw me against the ground. I avoid the worst of the fall, but they also expected it, Mayu and Ayu came towards me and they both hit me with a straight punch each, I flew off the floor with broken ribs.

- Get him, now! - Shouts Minerva.

Ryu transforms into its full form and spits a blast of miasma in my direction, Mayu and Ayu go to my back and launch a blast of monster energy in my direction, Yue tells the colossus to block my exit from above, they were determined to corrupt me at all costs, but neither am I willing to give up. The attacks collide, releasing so much miasma that you can barely see anything.

- Did we get him? - Yue asked in a metallic voice.

- Don't let your guard down. - Said Minerva. - He wasn't free for that long for nothing. Ayu, Mayu, can you see him?

They do not respond, they couldn't, in the meantime that took for the attacks to collide I moved through their attack and throw them both against the wall, of course I only managed with a reinforcement. While they are still confused I jump several times and attack Ryu from above making her head fall to the ground, I do not stop and keep attacking and exchange blows with Minerva who has trouble keeping up with my speed.

- Did he get faster all of a sudden? - Asks Yue.

- No ... - Answers Minerva. - It's the skill of a cultivator ... Soul Merge.

Soul Merge, is the ability to absorb a mystical beast or a minor deity within the Soul Realm, which is formed in the early stages of cultivation and expands with the progress of it, within Soul Realm you can insert the souls you absorb either by consensus or by capturing and extracting their strength when necessary, however you cannot put anything you find inside it as this can interfere with your cultivation for good or for bad, in my case my Soul Realm is extensive and versatile, so I can absorb diverse creatures, seven to be exact.

The form I took was that of the white tiger, but I only released 40% of its strength, more than that will interfere with Tao's aura. I prefer not to use the skills of my beasts, because if I become dependent on them I will lose a good part of my ability.

The form I was using was that of the white tiger, a descendant of one of the four sacred animals, it greatly increases my strength and speed, but as my claws grow I cannot use weapons.

- You really grew up. - Minerva said as we exchanged blows.

- I have been through many things since our time. - I answer.

- That's the kind of story I prefer to hear in bed. - She flirts.

Minerva walks away and gives a signal to Yue who sends her colossus on top of me, with my claws I manage to make a hole in the chest and advance against the Lich.

"Darkfire Style: Underworld Armor"

Yue covers herself with black flames and forms an armor that vaguely resembled an insect, she looked very strong, but she only had brute strength so it was easy to dodge her attacks, Minerva came from behind and the two together tried to corner me, if Yue was one fighter at the level of Miverva I would be concerned, but it was not the case, in the first oversight I managed to separate the two and focused on Yue.

"War God Style: Twin Blades, 7 advanced strokes"

With a sequence of attacks I destroyed Yue's armor, she still tries to fight back, but I cut off one of her arms and dig one of my claws into her chest. I give her a chance to surrender, but she refuses and shows a weapon hidden inside the jaw-covering device, before she can use it, I cut off her head with a movement of my claws. Yue fell. Minerva arrives quickly with her arms transformed, I block her.

- You really have no mercy, do you? - She said, I think holding back tears.

- A little hypocritical coming from you. - I answer. - She won't die with just that, you know.

We exchanged a few more blows and I managed to take advantage, in that time Saeko, who until now had done nothing, entered the battle and she is skilled with the sword, she alone left me more cornered than the others working as a team.

- You improved a lot. - I tell Saeko.

She didn't even blink, she didn't stop the attacks for anything, she was different from the others, she didn't seem to want to corrupt me, she was using a real sword, made for combat and on top of that she was aiming for my vital points, she wanted to kill me.

I make a mistake and Saeko gets an opening.

"Dead Sea Style: Tide"

I try to hold her attack with my claws, but she manages to break it and I get a bad cut on the shoulder.

"Dead Sea Style: Next Wave"

I jump back and avoid the attack at the same time that I gain distance, but that turned out to be a mistake, Ryu Zumbi finally got up and came towards me trying to grab me, I hold his fangs with my body avoiding being devoured, I had to use all my strength for that. She flies with me over the sky without any ground and my white tiger shape didn't offer an advantage.

We arrived very high, the air was thin, breathing was difficult, but the good part is that the fog will not affect us at that time, which means that I can turn this fight around.

She finally drops me in midair and prepares another blast of miasma, I won't give her time to use it, I use another one of my beasts, the black horned dragon, scales form on my body covering my arms and legs, a tail grows, wings too and of course a pair of horns, basically from the male version of a dragon monster girl.

I punch her in the chin forcing her to close her mouth, then I turn and hit her eye, practically blinding her. It changes to her standard form and gains distance with several fireballs, I don't even move, in this form most attacks are inefficient.

- Let's get this over with.

I wield the sword of the thunder god.

"True Thunder God Style: Celestial Cut"

With a quick movement I cut Ryu and she loses one of her arms trying to defend. She transforms again trying to escape, but I won't give her a chance.

"True Thunder God Style: Stinger"

I lock her body in the highest tower with the attack and for the next blow I use together one of my souls swords.

"True Thunder God Style: Cyclone"

- I'm not finished yet.

"True Thunder God Style: Imperial Hurricane"

My attack starts a storm that brought down part of the tower and destroyed most of Ryu's body, yet she was still alive.

- One more attack.

"True Thunder God Style: Thunder King's Hammer"

I concentrate an intense amount of electricity on my swords and drop everything on top of her and her falls to the ground with the tower collapsing shortly thereafter.

- Minerva was right, I have no mercy. - I say gasping, this last sequence tired me. - With the broken tower I have nothing else to do here.

Without a tower without a place to ferment the herbal extract, it seems that my search for a necropolis continues.

...

Here is going to be a jump in time so I'm going to use this part to explain some things about the styles.

War God Style: One of the most used styles in the world for being relatively easy to learn, practical to use and very adaptable since it has variations to use with multiple weapons and even with bare hands. It is a style more focused on attack than on defense and also very aggressive.

Water Dragon Style: An unusual fighting style that requires dedication to master, even beginners of this style are feared. Exclusively focused on the use of katanas as weapons, although it can be used with other lighter cutting weapons such as swords and daggers, it has great mobility and speed both in attack and defense.

Dead Sea Style: Variant of the Water Dragon Style used mainly by the undead taking advantage of its vigor and stamina, very similar to the original style, but different from it, which is balanced between attack and defense, the Dead Sea Style is more focused on the attack.

Thunder God Style: Extremely aggressive style focused on the use of several weapons in high speed attacks, but with a greater focus on swords, difficult to master. It has two types of techniques, the first focusing on more traditional attacks and the second on more unique attacks charged with energy, non-cultivators tend to learn only the first type.

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I hid for about three days to recover my wounds and restore my energy, after that I went back to my village to confirm some things. The Hakutaku who gave me the invitation, as I expected, was threatened to do so, I cannot demand too much from her so she leaves without resentment.

Fortunately I knew of another place where there might be an invitation to a different necropolis, but I would have to leave the Mist continent, I myself have no problem with that, but it is likely that many of my "suitors" will not be quiet about it, so you better be ready for the worst.

I left for a port city, from there I could take a ship to continue my journey. On the way, the only obstacles were some monsters so weak that I didn't even bother to remember the name. My problems started when I entered the city, the next ship was only leaving the next day so I decided to spend the night in the city, which incredibly resulted in a civil war.

I woke up at night listening to a noise, quickly the night sky was on fire.I quickly go to the source of the flames, but fortunately, or not, it was not a house on fire but a flame barrier covering the city, nothing enters or leaves this barrier, I could do something about it, but decide not to whoever was responsible, I would prefer to face him now.

I wasn't sure if the person responsible for this was another one of my "suitors", but by guarantee I went to a more open place waiting for her to appear, what I found were two Ochimusha, a very tall one with black hair tied in a typical samurai braid, the other had caramel-colored hair in a medium short hairstyle, with a braid in front of the eye.

- Good night I presume. - I say doing a slight bow. They do the same. - Sorry, but I don't remember meeting you.

- It's because you didn't really know. - Answer the smallest. - I am Aiko and this one is Benkei, We are here on behalf of someone else.

- Who?

- Lady Shigure. - That name came to me like thunder.

- Shigure ... how long has it been since I heard that name. - Shigure was one of my teachers, one of the most present, it was from her that I learned the basics of Water Dragon Style. - How's she doing?

- Well, she demands your presence.

- Demand? - She says yes. - I'm sorry, but I think I will have to refuse, I have been very busy these days.

- I heard about it, but unfortunately I follow orders.

- You look like a soldier talking like that.

- Not a soldier, not a disciple. - She pulls out her katana, the other walks away.

-As she wants. - I draw my soul sword.

"Water Dragon Style: Tide"

"Water Dragon Style: Tide"

We both started with the same movement and our swords meet, one holding the other's blow, the sea suddenly became more agitated. We both stepped back and prepared for the next attack.

"Water Dragon Style: Wave"

"Water Dragon Style: Wave"

Again we made the same movement, we almost looked like a mirror.

"Water Dragon Style: Next Wave"

"Water Dragon Style: Next Wave"

We exchange strokes successively, each following the other's movement almost as if it were a dance, for a layman it must seem that we are just showing ourselves, but it is much more tense than that, a millisecond delay, a slightly stronger attack or weaker, a lighter grip on the sword, any of these things can decide combat in an instant.

- I'm sorry, but I don't intend to prolong it any longer than it should. - Says Aiko.

"Thunder God Style: Sword, Swallow"

A Blade of air flies towards me quickly, I spin the air and avoid the attack.

- I think the same thing. - I answer.

"Thunder God Style: Sword, Celestial Cuts"

"Water Dragon Style: Suiken"

I undo a sequence of quick attacks and she avoids everyone with perfect elegance and control, Shigure trained her well, I change the pace of the last sequence of attacks hoping to pass through her guard, but she manages to adapt by deflecting most attacks, except the last that she hit with the blade, at the same time that she was in the perfect position for a counter attack, she moves forward and I almost can't avoid it.

"Water Dragon Style: Next Wave"

She persists in attack and I am forced to block her attack, an ordinary sword would have broken by now.

- You fight really well. - She says. - It's more than I would expect from any other human.

- Thank you, but for your expression I believe you expected more.

- Truth. - She speaks discouraged. "I heard stories about you, about a legendary cultivator and an exceptional martial artist, as well as a spiritualist and a collector of rare artifacts, but you don't seem to need any of them against me."

- Then that's it. - I almost laughed, Aiko didn't like it. - It is true that I have many artifacts and also spirits of very rare magical beasts, and I do not hesitate to use them if necessary, but I prefer to avoid them.

- Why?

- Because if I use them too much I will end up having them as crutches and that will stagnate my skills.

Aiko remained silent for a while, then she finally smiled. - So that's why, you are much more dedicated than I expected from a master.

- I am not a master of anything or anyone.

- If you cannot be considered a master then in this world there are only apprentices. - Aiko replies. - In that case, it looks like I'm going to have to work hard to make you use one of your artifacts. - She looks at me with solid determination and a sparkle in her eyes that I haven't seen in a long time.

- It's each one. - I think. - If the situation were different I think I would be falling in love now.

We both went back to the fight.

"Thunder God Style: Sword, Thousand Celestial Cuts"

"Thunder God Style: Sword, Thousand Celestial Cuts"

We exchange several blows at the same time that we avoid the blows of the other, who is outside can only see some figures of our swords moving and cutting through the air. At the last meeting of our swords, my soul sword reached its limit and broke, Aiko hurried over and tried to attack me with a very hasty movement.

"Water Dragon Style: Next Wave"

That was a mistake, the "next wave" is a good move to attack quickly and precisely after recovering from a blow, but this is only after a technique from the "Water Dragon Style", using it after a technique fast as the "Thounsand Celestial Cuts" is very inefficient, at least under normal conditions, Aiko takes advantage of the slippery ground of the port to gain more mobility and compensate for its movement, I almost can't avoid it and I end up slipping on the ground in a terrible position, Aiko notices and I jump in an attack from above, I materialize another soul weapon, a pair of hatchets and hold her attack, then push her away with a double kick to recover myself.

"Water Dragon Style: Suijin"

Suijin is not a technique in itself, it is something similar to a state of enlightenment, it is difficult to explain in words, it is like the combat aura used by cultivators, but this is present in martial arts practitioners. Suijin increases the speed and mobility of all movements, unfortunately it is a skill that I cannot use myself.

"Water Dragon Style: Flood"

"Water Dragon Style: Suiken"

Aiko slides towards me with an endless torrent of attacks, I need to concentrate enough to dodge everyone.

"Water Dragon Style: Next Wave"

She advances in an attack and I hit with the hatchets, try to counterattack, but she jumps first.

"Water Dragon Style: Crusade Torrent"

Aiko condenses the humid air and uses it to attack with two heavy flying cuts.

The attack hits me right in the face, sending me away, Aiko prepares for another attack.

"Water Dragon Style: Flood"

Flood is one of the fastest and deadliest techniques in the Water Dragon Style that constantly attacks from various directions. I materialize my remaining sword next to the hatchet and use all the means I can to block attacks, that's right, block, there is no point trying to avoid it. I block as many attacks as possible, but it is still far from perfect and I suffer several cuts.

"Water Dragon Style: 40 Day Flood"

She moves forward with an even faster and deadlier attack, it seems that this time I have no choice, Aiko wanted me to use more than martial art against her and succeeded.

"Formation of 8 swords"

I use one of my spiritual techniques and materialize 8 swords impregnated with my chi, with controlled and precise movements as if I were holding them myself, this is the formation of 8 swords.

"Water Dragon Style: 40 Day Flood"

Normally, you can't use this technique without "Suijin", but thanks to my technique I could emulate it. We exchanged attacks and this one, but I managed to be faster and subdued Aiko's streak by hitting him several times, but even that didn't make her give up. She prepared for the next attack "The 100-year flood", I will not give her that chance, my next attack does not need preparation or even special skills, just good old hard training and breathing technique.

"Water Dragon Style: Mizukage"

No multiple cuts or fulminating attacks, just speed and concentration in a single quick and accurate strike, this is the Mizukage, an attack so fast that the shadow is left behind.

Aiko stops for a moment and falls to her knees, her armor breaks into a clean cut, she did not let go of her sword.

- I lost. - She says.

- I know how you feel. - Every martial arts practitioner feels this at some point, the impotence to find an opponent that makes him feel small, not that I can say much about it.