Chains Of Heaven

From the sky Gugalana was stunned at what he was seeing. The boy, Enkidu, was facing enemies from all sides without any fear and was even defeating them one by one.

Enkidu had just finished killing one more enemy, that one was once a heavenly genius of a well known clan in the Realm of the Gods, a descendant of the Star clan if memory serves Gugalana right, known all over as a shining star known for all.

Gugalana sighed to himself, Enkidu was born in the wrong era. Gugalana was sure from what he could see that, should Enkidu have been born early on, when the primal chaos was not so corrupted and where one could reach the God level, then he would certainly become one.

The first trial was one to test several things, first is Enkidu's resolution to keep going forward and not back down. Should he have back down then he would fail the test, but he never once moved back even a bit. This test also served to test his body constitution, to see just how good it is.

The results honestly impressed Gugalana who has rarely ever seen anyone with such a good constitution when still so young. Gugalana only sighed that Enkidu had no real understanding over Thunder and Wind Laws, otherwise he would be even more fitting for those tests and take benefits from it, the lightning and wind laws there were extremely deep there, he would have been able to learn much just by passing through there.

Now it was the second test, this test was to see his battle accomplishments, see how good in a fight he actually is when compared to heroic talents of the Age of the Gods. They were ones who tried to obtain some of his lord's teachings, but failed the test and could not enter the sect, if it could even be called a sect. It was just a thought his master had after he saw his friend creating the Master Teacher Association, wanting then to create the most powerful sect but rarely anyone could actually enter it as the requirements for entry were just too high.

All those who tried to enter would be tested and al those who failed died on the test, their souls then becoming fragmented which would later be collected by Gugalana's master and used in several ways, this formation being one of them. Able to recreate the powers of those youths back then, the energy being the power of Gugalana himself but they properly fought like if they were alive, great fighting dolls.

And Enkidu was decimating them faster and faster. The more he thought the best he could eliminate them, that alone would have been enough for Gugalana but he needed to test him a bit further, force Enkidu to dig up every last bit of his potential. Thus he decided to let one more enemy before he could pass, one who came extremely close to passing the test back then, if he could win or not was up to fate then.

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After killing every one of those in my path I finally am free to move forward, but before I do so I first close my eyes. I gained much during this fight, the information that those souls carried with them was vast and profound.

I am not yet able to put all this to proper use, I will likely need some time to properly process it all and make it part of my own strength, become able to use it in tandem with my other techniques. As I look over those memories and understandings I sigh internally, the Magic Cube really is something that could make even Gods green with envy.

It is a shame I have no control over the cube and the rest, but they still are extremely powerful items to the point they are a bit unfair. I can't wait until I can activate and use them at will, when I can do that I would certainly be able to walk unhindered across the Realm of the Gods.

As I finish examining the information on my mind that I just gained and make it into a more logical form I start to move again, I will probably need at least a week of meditation before I can be considered to have learned everything from the memories but it is still a worthwhile matter.

Rising up I begin to move, only to come face to face with a youth sitting on a great lotus flower, he had an ivory white skin and light blond hair, he was calmly sitting there but my instincts were screaming at me that this was not an ordinary person.

As he slowly opened his eyes I could see how his eyes are extremely deep, his features smooth as if he came rigtht out of a painting.

"You, are not worth it." This male said, his voice quiet but reached my ears all the same. Frowning I looked at the book about this being in the Library of Heaven's Path.

Name - Ning Shuan

Race - True Qilin

Age - 17

Cultivation Level - 3rd level of Emperor Profound Realm;

Flaws - Simply an apparition based on the original being, cannot be called really alive; arrogant; not able to display the full power of his race; in human form his defensive strength is lacking;

Those... are very few flaws. This person is definetly strong to a ridiculous level, but he is not beyond me.

"If I am worth it or not, why don't we fight and found out?" I challenged as I moved to him. "Pulse of the world!"

I shouted loudly. My fist shone, and at the same time, waves of power started to spread from my hand as the power of pulsation emanated from my hand, able to break any regular defense. My understandings of how to use this power increasing as my fighting experience grow, the power now much stronger than before.

Heaven and earth seemed to be pierced through. The lightning was forced back, the pulse of energy spreading with great intensity. My fist carried the principles of the pulse of earth and the growth, both powers smashing down and striking towards Ning Chuan.

"Heaven Diagram Severing Past and Present!"

Ning Chuan shouted. A Heaven Diagram rose behind him, the supreme being technique he had since birth if what was on the Library of Heaven's Path was correct. That diagram was engraved into his back, within it the sun, moon, and stars, the starry sky and cosmos, all turning into nothing.

As I saw this and the power it emanated I changed from one powerful punch to several weaker ones as what could only be called a meteor shower came down on me, pure destruction in each of those stars.

As I finished smashing all of them I realized that this person no longer was where he once was located, his body moving fast and I barely had the time to avoid his punch, moving to the side and retaliating with pure physical strength.

A fist smashed down, he turned to the side and avoided my punch but I used the momentum of the punch, moving my body forward I twisted my center of gravity to deliver a kick at him.

POW

It landed fight at his face... is what I would like to say but he caught it in his hands and with a tight grip he turned around and threw me away violently. As I was flying away I looked at him, now changing tactics and producing out my spear, unfortunately it has started to break at some points but it can probably hold until I win this.

With spear in hand I moved at the enemy, as I move I create several chains around myself as I advance while also coating my spear with the power of Metal Laws, increasing it's sharpness considerably.

"You dare point killing intent at me? Lowly bug, prepare to be slaughtered!" Ning Chuan shouted in anger.

His killing intent overflowed. A snow-white Qilin roared after he produced a fist imprint, vivid and lifelike, rushing forward murderously. At the same time, there was the divine diagram on his back, waves of flames surged beneath his feet, all types of precious techniques being displayed.

To his side, a Golden Crow cried out, dragons and tigers struggled in a complex pattern. Of course, it was still the white Qilin that took the lead. The scene was extremely terrifying as several powerful techniques were shown at the same time.

As I looked at those images, at the many techniques he was showing, I felt a bit frightened. Normally any one of those would be enough to make one be the strongest in this current world, I lacked any of those unique techniques and instead had to rely on only the most basic use of the laws and techniques born from it.

"Even so, so WHAT? I can still win this!" I shouted as we clashed, the chains locking the precious techniques taken form as my spear hit his fist carrying the power of the Qilin.

CRACK

I could clearly hear the sound of cracking, the spear not able to take the power clash ended up breaking in the end but it at least blocked his strike. Moving forward I began exchanging punches and kicks with him, movements quick and powerful as we fought with pure martial arts.

His body is absurdly tough, to the point that hurting him is not easy in the slightest. Exchanging punches, however, it became clear that my body is better than his.

But, it was not by much and he was still not yet going all out, he has not used his clan technique more than in one exchange until now and he did not yet release his true form.

Gritting my teeth I began using my palm as a knife to cut him, using what I could manage of the sword arts I have learned through it.

After I had my bloodline evolve my Dongfang side didn't gave me much, not yet able to display the innate power I should have, but for the Heaven Smiting devil bloodline things are not like that. Fragments of understanding regarding the sword, the inheritance understanding that my ancestors left behind after over one billion years of studying the sword, it began flourishing and despite not wanting anything to do with it I still learned much from it.

Even as I feel myself want to vomit just at the thought of using such powers that make me anywhere similar to those beings, I still have to do it if I want to win this.

Raising my hand up I speak the name of the first of the nine sword strikes from the Heaven Smiting sword arts.

"Mountains of Bones and Corpses in One's Palm."

As I release this strike my understanding about the sword is released, the cut even with just a single palm is clean and a dense killing intent wash over the entire place. With one strike all the techniques were cut in half and Ning Chuan's body was almost bisected into two, bones visible and damage deep. That, however, was not all the attack did as even the storm clouds around us were washed in a black light from the strike, the aura of blood and death dense to the extreme.

As I released this strike I felt it deep within myself, my blood rolling and moving as if celebrating, a deep happiness clear to see from within my body that made me want to throw up. That was my devil blood, the side of me that I wish was gone entirely, and it was celebrating it.

"You!" Ning Chuan shouted as he moved away, his eyes releasing lightning and light as he glared at me. "You are from that clan?! Someone from that caused blood, in the name of my race, of one of the Ten Vicious beings, I will kill you! Accept death!"

As Ning Chuan said so his body started to change, going on all fours his hair grew, neck became longer, his face becoming similar to that of a horse but with a single horn in his head, a tail appeared and scales grew all over his form. Quickly he turned from a human into his true form, a Qilin, and not only that the wound I inflicted on him closed when the transformation finished, as if I never even grazed him.

As the Qilin appeared before me I quickly check in the Library of Heaven's Path all the information regarding this race.

The Qilin is one of the Age of the Gods strongest Divine Beasts, their scales are extremely sturdy and the horn in their heads is a material able to easily fight a weapon even a Creation God would consider great, they have extremely low reproductive power but in exchange every single Qilin is easily able to reach the God Realm, they are nearly perfect beings with great speed, defense, and offensive capabilities and they can quickly develop all sorts of unique powers to their race. They are also considered the strongest horse-type race in existence and the strongest of them all was part of the Vicious Ten. They are also known for being able to vanish in space and have power that does not lose in the slightest even when compared to the Dragon Race or the Peng race.

I barely had the time to avoid as he moved at me again, his speed more than three times that of before and despite moving to the side to avoid his trust I still got several lacerations on my body from the sheer air pressure.

That does not look good, not at all.