The Void Emperor 32 The Devil's Domain - Part 4

"The place where you two are now is called The Devil's domain. If you're wondering why is it called as such, you will find out when you clear all the tasks that you're supposed to do in order to 'graduate' from there. After finishing the training inside The Devil's domain, you shall proceed to The Void Academy which location is contained within this pearl, as well as all of the information about the mentioned academy. Don't rush with your decision which part of The Void Academy you will choose because both of you are very special and may even be allowed to enter the 'Cursed Asgard' which is its nickname, for its real name, you'll have to actually pa.s.s their a.s.sessment first and then you will know more about it.

Take good care of Xingyue, Ryuu - Long Haoran."

Ryuu pondered about the information he got about The Void Academy from that pearl and was unsure which court should they choose within the school because there are plenty of them and each specializes in a different direction. The only thing he was confused about is that there is no information about the 'Cursed Asgard' which Long Haoran mentioned.

Asura Ryuu: "There must be a reason why he left out that exact part, I wonder what it is exactly..."

Asura Ryuu: "Well, there's no use in thinking about it if you don't know, let's just ask the one who made the entire academy, ke-ke."

Asura Ryuu: "Master, was there anything called the 'Cursed Asgard' when you made that academy?"

Little Dragon's voice came in from inside his head: "Hm? I don't think so, actually - I don't even remember because it was so long ago. Surely something changed for such a long period of time, otherwise, it wouldn't be the strongest academy on the continent, would it?"

Asura Ryuu: "Hmm, you got a point there. But what about the data in the pearl?"

Little Dragon: "I don't know, that wasn't there when I was talking with the one responsible for managing its creation."

Asura Ryuu: "So it was made afterward after all..."

Little Dragon: "Don't think about it too hard, don't you have to do something else right now?"

Asura Ryuu: "Yup, I need to cultivate or I'll fall behind Xingyue. She's already level 20, how worthy of top-level Soul Spirit."

Little Dragon: "Hmph, compared to you she's like a speck of dust even if she's faster at cultivation."

Asura Ryuu: "But there wasn't a 6-year-old kid with level 20 before, was there?"

Little Dragon: "There were, in the era of G.o.ds."

Asura Ryuu: "Eeeh? Seriously?"

Little Dragon: "But that era was only two or three hundred thousand years after we made this world so it pa.s.sed a long, long time ago. I was still in my young days then."

Asura Ryuu: "Haha, young days? Aren't dragons immortal?"

Little Dragon: "Hmph, thanks to you now I have to begin everything all over except for this little power I've left and yet you are still mocking me. You ungrateful b.a.s.t.a.r.d."

Asura Ryuu: "No - no. I wasn't making fun of you, I just said that you're eternally young so there's no need for you to get so angry all of a sudden."

Little Dragon: "..."

Little Dragon: "Hmph, shameless."

Asura Ryuu: "Hehe."

And so, Ryuu and Xingyue continued training below the waterfalls further onwards until they clear the pa.s.sing condition for this segment of the eightfold area. What they needed to do in order to pa.s.s was to hold out a week under the kilometer-high waterfall which would mean that they pa.s.sed the first out of the eight tests.

Xingyue finished first, lasting only a month. Ryuu could've overtaken her anytime he wanted but he had to let her keep up the image of the elder sister as one of the reasons, and the other reason was that he wanted to push himself as far as he could to not use the Spirit Energy and hold out only with his body. There was a reason for this as well, that was because his master told him that there is a high probability that he'll undergo a tribulation when breaking through the 20th level because of his world-defying prowess and unique features.

The scariest part was that the tribulations usually only appeared when someone was breaking through after level 50, but there was a high possibility that Ryuu would go through that so early which meant that he's one-of-kind.

Ryuu took a month and a half to clear the test in which his sister made him company by staying under the waterfall all day with him. The worst part was that there were no animals for them to catch and eat throughout this test and they could only eat Spirit Fruits and even then they had to be careful in order not to be caught by the evolved Spirit Plants.

The good thing was that Ryuu got more familiar with his Soul Spirits and the Spirit Energy absorption process sped up, but each time he reached the breakthrough to the level 15, his Spirit Energy got absorbed by the black hole and disappeared which got on his nerves quite a bit. What Ryuu was wondering about was whether his sister would go through the tribulation because of the inheritance and her awakened divine-level Soul Spirit, but when he asked Little Dragon, she told him not to worry because her tribulation will remain normal, after all, she has a normal Spiritist's const.i.tution with low Spirit Power and normal body and bones, unlike Ryuu who was 'made' from the true Heavenly Dragon King's body and veins. While at it, the reason why Ryuu could absorb so much of the Spirit Energy without hurting his veins was exactly that his veins were made from the cells of the dragon and almost his entire body was forged that way since the day he was born.

Long Xingyue explained a little about how Soul Spirits related to dragons were in this world, which she heard from her father. What surprised Ryuu was that the full-body scale armor appeared only on true dragon type Soul Spirits, and it wasn't as exaggerated as with himself - it started from one part of the body and slowly spread more and more the further the Spiritist reached with their cultivation.

This made Ryuu realize that what he possessed should not be revealed to the world under any circ.u.mstances, that's why Ryuu decided to only use two of his Soul Spirits officially - in other words, to the public he'd only reveal two Soul Spirits, while the rest would remain hidden unless he encountered the opponent so strong that he'd force Ryuu to use them.

In that one and a half month, both Ryuu and Long Xingyue got past their seventh birthday and Ryuu said that his birthday was on the same day as Long Xingyue since he really had no exact date of birth, or at least he couldn't remember the day he was 'made'. With both of them being seven, they got even closer to the enrollment criteria which was ten years old. Of course, they didn't actually need it because of the recommendation letter to the dean of the academy and their special traits, but it made Long Xingyue happy so Ryuu spent the entire day having fun with her that day. There were several days like that after that one because both of them got used to it and it was a fun experience for Ryuu, as his past childhood wasn't that full as it now could be.

"I'll never waste an opportunity to live life how I want again." was Ryuu's motto in this world.

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Another thing Ryuu developed in that month was a basic martial art combat training that targeted the weak spots on the human body. Whether it was the 'demon' who could transform into something else thanks to Soul Spirits or 'real human' who used Qi to fight, both of them had weak points that they haven't fully discovered yet. After all, Ryuu's previous world was an advanced civilization that conquered a lot of things and even uncovered the secrets behind the world and the universe. He had a daily sparring session with his sister in the lake where the water from a waterfall disappeared magically and it was only a meter deep. To them though, it was deep enough as seven-year-old kids weren't that high anyway.

Another interesting thing that Ryuu did was that he developed his first unique ability which locked out some of his Soul Spirits so that it appears as if he has only the two he left untouched but it wasn't actually like that - it was only sealing them and that seal manifested as chains which pierced his body, but they were not the real chains - they were made out of Spirit Power and Spirit Energy combined, that's why they could safely pa.s.s through Ryuu's body and serve as the seal which kept his Spirit Energy intensity below a certain level. Ryuu may be stuck at level 15 of the second realm - Spiritual Body Forging Realm, but that was only because he couldn't advance his body anything further than he already has because of his unique build. He gave it the name "The Dark Seal of Mistery", which signified that there's more behind the seal than what one would usually expect. The part 'dark' was dedicated to Little Dragon because she's dark as night and Ryuu loves the night and the stars.

More or less, the chains were only serving as the visual part because Ryuu liked something like that, but they also served as the physical medium and if any of them was broken, the corresponding Soul Spirit would be freed.

Little Dragon became used to Ryuu and Xingyue being together every day, and they were even naked almost all the time because of the training they did, but she paid it no attention because she made a decision to overlook this one case, though Ryuu didn't know that and more importantly, Ryuu didn't know that Little Dragon actually liked Long Xingyue a little and even thought of accepting her as her second disciple. If Ryuu knew she wasn't sure whether he'd be happy or if he'd feel down so that's why Little Dragon held back on mentioning this.

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Asura Ryuu: "Why can't I surpa.s.s this f.u.c.king level 15, it's not even the bottleneck yet and I'm having this much trouble. I never thought that making your own way of cultivation would be so hard..."

Little Dragon: "Well, what can I tell you. You chose the hardest path in everything you did, so there's no helping you now unless you want to abolish your cultivation and re-start everything."

Asura Ryuu: "Hmph, of course not. I just don't know where's the problem, if I could find the problem I could solve it easily with your help."

Little Dragon: "... Good luck."

Little Dragon: "I'll give you another month, if you can't fix it yourself, I'll help out.", she thought.

Ryuu wanted to check his Spiritual Sea again, but something interrupted him - Long Xingyue was breaking through. Her G.o.ddess form manifested and took away all the radiance from the surrounding light. In the starry sky, she looked like a real G.o.ddess of the sea and the stars.

Little Dragon: "There it is, maybe it'll help him out a bit."

The water from the waterfalls slowly bent in the direction pointing at the floating G.o.ddess with viridian hair and deep blue trident in her hands. The trident became more and more deep-bluish because it absorbed the water element in the air at a rapid speed, almost the same speed as when Ryuu releases his Soul Spirits outside through the Black Hole to absorb the Spirit Energy.

The shockwave full of refreshing breeze and the breath of water and life shot out from Long Xingyue and her hair full of star-like shining dots resonating with the starry sky and made a small crater in a ten-meter radius around her in all directions. What she did in order to break through is to compress already compressed Spirit Energy at once and release it and then with the utmost effort re-absorb it instantly inside of her core which made its purity higher and helped her breakthrough using the well-known 'shock-burst' method. Although it was well-known, they didn't know about it because both of them were like the people cut off from the world and it was only known in the academies.

Ryuu noticed the changes in Long Xingyue's body with one of his Soul Spirits which utilized his Spirit Power to do various things - in that way, he enhanced his eyes and Spiritual Sense which allowed him to feel even the slightest changes in Xingyue's body, but it took a high toll on Ryuu and he couldn't keep it up more than ten seconds until he used up all of his Spirit Energy. The downside of being a low-level Spiritist is that you have a small amount of Spirit Energy and your Soul Spirit hasn't evolved so that it can absorb more Spirit Energy at once. That's why even though Ryuu may have a high density of Spirit Energy its quality and quant.i.ty aren't like what it is when one breaks through.

For example, the aura which emanated from Long Xingyue clearly had an influence on him, even though she was only 21st level now and he was 15th. The positive side for Ryuu was that Xingyue's cultivation speed and level-advancing tempo will slow down dramatically after entering the Spiritual Core Formation Realm which is from 21st to the 30th level. But that's something that every Spiritist has to go through, so they won't be so far behind the others when they enroll the academy, or that's how it should be.