56 Demonic Core (1/2)
In the courtyard of a Ye Clan Pavillion, a white-robed young man suddenly stood up. His blue eyes glittered with radiance as they looked out on the blooming garden. Behind him, a wraith-like figure distorted in and out of existence.
The young man looked around before taking steps off the house and into the courtyard. His bare feet stepped onto the grass, with the grass shooting through his toes and wrapping around him. The slow embrace of the grass made it seem like the garden didn't want to let go.
The young man looked down and his long black hair cascaded down his shoulders. He looked at the flowers that swayed in the wind towards him, and the grass that wrapped around him and felt a sense of desolation.
Even the tree mumbled something into the wispy wind as if trying to talk to him. All the surrounding nature longed for him as he longed for it. But he shook his head almost tearfully, his eyes glittered with determination as he raised his feet escaping the grip and kept walking.
He reached the edge of the courtyard and looked back at the swaying vegetation once more. He saw standing amidst the sea of flowers and beauty was the wraith, it coldly eyed the young man as its dark essence spread into the wind.
”Hah...” The young man sighed as he looked away at the wraith and stared into the sky. Inside of the young man's blood, esoteric symbols and runes flashed.
Nomological powers burst out of his body, a flood of bloodline energies surged in his body. On his skin, a matrix of runes flashed and intertwined and behind him, something manifested.
As the space behind the young man violently distorted, his eyes shined with violent intent and he roared into the heavens: ”YE TIAN, YOU BASTARD GET OUT HERE!”
At that moment the space behind the young man suddenly ruptured, the void ripped open from the crack but something was strange. Unlike the normal dark and empty void, this void was white and plain as a sheet of paper.
Space ripped in a rectangular motion, it opened up like the unfurling of a scroll. At the ends of this spatial scroll appeared two tassels, one white and one black. The young man raised his thumb and pointer finger and materialized a calligraphy pen in between them.
He held the pen lightly and stroked the air once, leaving a trail of darkness with each stroke. Behind him, on the scroll, each magnificent stroke manifested as if mirroring his.
The young man repeated his motion adding four more strokes until a complete mark formed on the scroll. The character shone with light and the young man's body shone with the same light. The runes on his body resonated with the scroll as a mark flashed in both his eyes.
As the young man elegantly wrote, the blue sky changed. On the edges of the horizon, a white light emerged like the sun rising from the east.
The light eclipsed all things in the sky as it devoured the blue, a gigantic ocean of white filled the sky as the white light consumed all things.
The white light gathered towards the young man's villa, the coalescing light landed in front of him. In the sea of white, a figure flashed as the light wrapped around him like a cocoon.
A voice echoed from amidst the light, the deep sonorous tones of the voice echoed throughout the clan as it said: ”Ye Yanrui, so this is your decision? To forsake the rules of the bloodline for a mere mortal woman?”
Ye Yanrui stared down the obscured figure with his piercing blue eyes not saying a word. At that moment, Ye Yanrui's aura filled the skies pushing back on Ye Tian's energies.
Wordlessly he tapped his calligraphy pen on the air, igniting all the white Qi in the skies. The white Qi seethed with excitement and suddenly it rushed down from the sky towards his body.
Ye Yanrui closed his eyes as the vortex of Qi shot into his body and under his breath he said:
”Ye of the bloodline.
In pursuit of truth
Losing sight of
Destiny and desire,
The past and present.
What remains?
What you have taken,