Chains Of Heaven

In the stadium, everyone was looking from one side to another in wonder, in the stage one of the participants was looking highly irritated.

Sheng Cai'er, who was excited that this was a chance for her to fight against Enkidu, was quite irritated now as he didn't show up to their match. Their names for the next match was decided the day before after Enkidu had long left and she spent the whole night imagining ways to defeat him. And now that he didn't even show up, it really was a tad annoying for Cai'er.

In the stands, Yun Gu frowned and turned to Medusa.

"Medusa, if it is not too much could you go and find Enkidu in our place? I am sure he is fine, but perhaps this might be for the best as he might be too focused on his training to notice anything else, he has a tendency to do that sometimes." Yun Gu said and Medusa nodded her head before leaving in a flurry of movement.

She moved through the streets quickly, she knew that Enkidu's name would not take that long to be called for the Loser's bracket and he needed to be there for the fight or his performance in the tournament would end then and there.

Entering the house she was not stopped by the arrays there, but when she actually got to the back where Enkidu was she felt that she would rather it had stopped her. Seriously, she did not think that Enkidu would have slept letting it hang and enjoying the sun on the nude. She was NOT used to male nudity, not in the slightest, so this was a shock for her and her yelp in shock ended up disturbing Enkidu in his meditation.

Honestly speaking, if left by himself he would probably continue meditating about nature for the next year without even realizing that it has been more than 5 minutes, such was how enamored he was about the Laws of Earth and Wood, not to mention how he didn't even begin to try his hands by himself on the Laws of Metal and Water, he really had a lot to look forward to and he most certainly did look forward to.

With a nonchalant disposition, being used to be seen n.a.k.e.d thanks to his years with his family where he was forced to stay n.a.k.e.d during winter while being thrown cold water (he subconsciously hates cold thanks to this as well) he put on his simple clothes and then turned to Medusa.

"Well? What happened?" He asked calmly, Medusa took a deep breath, trying and failing to not copy the image of small Enkidu in her mind. It was quite a different sight to what she was used to after all.

"The tournament, you lost this last round from disqualification." She said.

"I see." Enkidu said, not minding it that much. Just this small training session more than made up for it in his opinion, his understanding about Earth and Wood grew so much, the chance he got was so great, that even if he could not obtain a Divine Might he would not overly mind. "So, I am on the Loser's bracket now." He asked to what Medusa nodded. "Very well, let's go then as I would rather now lose if possible."

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Enkidu's P.O.V.

Moving through the stadium I could still sense every step, I foregone completely the use of shoes for a while now but never really understood myself why it felt better this way, now I know.

It is to sense it, the pulse of the world. It is such a supremely refreshing sensation and how with each pulse I feel myself grow and expand, like a plant that has deeply ingrained roots in the earth and is nourished by it while nourishing it as well. With my feet on the ground, I feel like one with the planet, if not more.

I absentmindedly step in the stage, people are talking about but I simply do not care about that. I close my eyes one last time as I visualize my discoveries of the fused principle of Pulse of Nature (Profound Mystery of Throbbing Pulse of the World + Profound Mystery of Expansion from the Earth and Wood Laws respectively). I can sense that I only scratched the surface and even with my low cultivation level (to fully master any Profound Mystery one needs to be at a high enough level, even me touching upon them should well be impossible as normally only those in the Emperor Realm or higher can even dream of begging to understand anything of them) I still have much I still can understand of it all. However, right now I focus on what I can do with it, many ideas come to mind but one of them gives me pause and makes me smile just a bit, that would do nicely.

I hear an annoying little noise in the background for a while now so I decide to focus on it.

"- and that is why my victory is inevitable."

"... Sorry, could you repeat it? I didn't get some of that you spoke about." I told honestly, I really didn't get some of it.

"You, how DARE you who is just a lowlife -"

Yep, let's focus again on sensing the pulse of nature and continue trying to integrate it on my fists. I can spend a few hours after this fight and before my next one on the spear I made.

I only snapped back to attention at my opponent when he attacked me. I guess the battle started now, very well them.

I dodged to the side as he advanced quickly in my direction but failed to hit me.

"So you do have some speed. Very well, try and not die from this one then. First Star, Great Horn!" He says as he crosses his arms and a gust of air with the power of a raging bull went in my direction. I move my arm, using Ars Magna: World Embrace I move the earth up and block the strike but the gust was too strong and the rock is destroyed regardless. I create more stone walls and after about 5 of them I finally stop it.

As I see this I move forward, with one move of the hand I send a wave of earth up towards him.

"Second Star, Stardust Revolution!"

As this guy said that he acc.u.mulated power in his hands before hundreds of quick blows rain down on my direction. None come close to the raw power of his first attack but the number in and of itself is a problem.

There are too many, but I will not back down. It is not yet perfect, but it will have to do.

I put my right fist behind me and concentrate on an image, one that actually is quite fitting for what I intend for this technique. In my mind the image of an old man who was gigantic in every sense of the world and that never backed out from a fight appeared in my head, it really is funny how despite my attack not being the same as his in nature the effect is still quite similar so trying to imitate it should work somewhat.

In my fist, a ball of concentrated profound energy of perfectly mixed Earth and Wood element surged. I concentrate on it for a moment more before punching forward.

"10 Beats of Nature Pulse." I say in my mind as my fist hit the air, a small shockwave as if the air was broken started from my fist. the shockwave, however, began to expand and grow from there as it continued moving forward. Bigger and bigger it pulverized all on its path, my opponent began to feel troubled by it.

"Oh yeah, then try this! Third Star, Lightning Plasma!"

He punched and arcs of thunder elemental energy launched from his fist, they quickly reached scarry speeds and they pierced the shockwave, or, at least, its first layer, as seven more were behind them and the thunder elemental attacks were all broken apart in the end anyway.

The audience was stunned but it was no issue for me, I just noticed how there are still some discrepancies between my strike just now and what I imagined it should be like. Frowning, I continued to punch out and release even more shockwaves at him.

He continued trying to avoid them with his speed, but the more time he took to be defeated the better, I want him to survive longer to work more like a life target for practice. With each punch, I adjust it a bit better and now the shockwaves are faster and stronger than when I started.

"If taking distance really is a bad idea, then I will go up and personal!" He shouted as he began to approach me quickly.

I welcomed him by not attacking him in his way, when he got close enough he took out a pair of short swords and began to fight close combat with me. A flurry of blows going one after the other on intricate paths but extremely quick, most strikes were more aking to flashes of lightning than anything else.

He doesn't seem to personally understand the Profound Truth of Explosive Speed from the Thunder Laws, but someone from his sect must have had in the past and created a technique more suitable for him. He is extremely fast, I can't keep up at all.

I avoid some of his strikes but some still graze me and light scratches appear in my body. I didn't mind it in the slightest, I suffered much worst in the past so this is nothing.

I moved the ground around us to open up some space between me and him, he used his blades to cut the earth moving him and tried to continue his attack but I have had enough of this fight. I aimed a punch at him who was still close, before releasing the punch I turned the earth beneath him into a liquid state, making him unable to escape nearly as well as before.

I punched with my best move so far, sending him flying away while spilling blood and ending the match.