50 DENIAL 3/3 AND MYSTERIOUS LIGHT-SHADOW ANCESTORs TALE (2/2)
He immediately dismissed the Qi Constructs, absorbing the strands back into his Pseudo-Core before clearing his voice and once again extending his hand. ”I still have yet to receive an answer?”
”…” Rin blinked a few times before she recovered. Her gaze fell onto the palm before it rose back up and looked back at the golden-eyed youth. Then, she said with a smile, ”Your eyes… before tonight, I had never seen such a deep gaze. It took me a long round of peering back at the bar just to tell your true body is not that of a child and that your real age is far from what you are showing. Although your irises were indeed gleaming with the brightness of youth, at the end of the black vortex within your pupils there was a wisdom that made my whole body shiver! It was that wisdom that pushed me to act as I had, for I believed I had finally found that one person that would understand me… and I did.”
The dull-gray eyes closed and a heartfelt smile found its way on the beautiful ashen haired youth's face. For the second time, she extended her own palm and tightly grasped the boy's.
”Now, please,” her droopy eyes lit up with determination, ”guide me so I may understand YOU!”
”Mm.” The child nodded, smiling reassuringly, ”Don't worry, Rin. I, Cheng Hao, will guide you and help you get back what you lost! I swear!”
Then, lowering his voice, he added, ”So, please, forgive me for now, you will have to wait.”
A light enshrouded his palm that was tightly grasping Rin's. The gray robed beauty's eyes widened like a frightened fawn's as a stream of foreign energy entered her consciousness. Immediately, her sharp pupils amidst the dull gray of her irises lost their luster as she fell unconscious. Cheng Hao grabbed her before she could fall and carefully placed her down, sparing her one last, resolute glance before gritting his teeth
”All I can leave you now is a hazy memory, but give me one year at most, and I assure you that this seed of hope I planted WILL bloom in your freedom!”
”One year is all I need! After that, I will come back for you!”
”I swear it… on my name.”
…
On a night more than a thousand years ago, a puny Mortal Realm cultivator from the Western Continent happened to witness an event that would change their life: he saw the sky tear open onto a new world; one of gargantuan beasts clashing in the air and of armies colliding, one where rivers of golden blood would wash the land and corpses would pile up into mountains. To the shock of the mortal cultivator, slowly, countless treasures began to flood out of the opening, illuminating the night as if it were day.
Taking advantage of his relatively close position, the mortal staked his life and approached the site of the fall. There, he found many helpful resources which allowed him to breakthrough continuously all the way to the peak of the Reverend Stage. As if that weren't enough, he was also bestowed with a powerful technique by a mysterious legacy that elevated his strength to a whole another level: he dubbed it the Mysterious Light-Shadow and renamed himself the Mysterious Light-Shadow Monarch, sweeping through the Five Continents unhindered.
With his cultivation at the peak of mortality and the technique Mysterious Light-Shadow, Mysterious Light-Shadow Monarch greatly surpassed the strength a Mortal Realm had ever possessed in the recorded history of the world. Eventually, even the top Sects, Schools and Empires were all forced to acknowledge him as a superior and bowed down to him as the overlord of the Western Continent!
Finding himself to be unparalleled even amongst his peak Reverend Stage peers, Light-Shadow Monarch set off to explore the world and experience the adventures life had to offer. As the decades passed however, even this almighty being found himself to be powerless in the face of time. With his lifespan being constantly battered by the river of time, it would soon reach the point where even he would go back to dust.
After a life lived to its fullest, there was only one last thing left in the Light-Shadow Monarch's mind, and that was to leave behind an inheritance, a memento of himself, so as not to be forgotten. He then remembered of a time when, while wandering the Western Continent he had stumbled upon a certain danger region called the Four Beasts Mountain Range. This particular region of the Western Continent had outstanding spirituality, giving birth to a special type of rock that was semi-impervious to even a Reverend Stage being's attacks. There, the Monarch had met four powerful Spirit Beasts that had been reigning as rulers of the mountain chain for centuries, working together to fend off outsiders who were eyeing the precious stones.
He had clear memories of this event because, to slay the so-called 'Four Beasts' hiding within their mansions built of such material, even he had been forced to use a good portion of the Mysterious Light-Shadow's true power to cut through the thick walls of stone.
At that time he went ahead and decided: that would be where he would be leaving behind his legacy and create his own Sect! He worked day and night, excavating the stones out of countless peaks until some were reduced to mounds and valleys. Finally, after many weeks, the outline was complete; a total of seven long walls descended from the sky, dividing Four Beasts Mountain Range into six rings and a plateau in the middle, capable of housing millions of Sect Members: in the very middle would be the Sect Head's private plateau, followed by the six rings for Protectors, Elders, Core Disciples, Inner Disciples, Outer Disciples and Vacant Disciples!
Mysterious Light-Shadow Monarch changed his title once more to Mysterious Light-Shadow Ancestor and announced it to the world: he, history's strongest cultivator, had founded his own Sect!
The Five Continents, from that day forward, would be housing one more superpower, and the name of this organization would be Mysterious Light-Shadow Sect!
Hearing the news, cultivators and mortals from every corner of the Western Continent ran over, be it rogue ones or ones already belonging to other powers, they all fought to be the first to join. Like that, the Sect's might and influence grew exponentially by the day…