I Hate Systems

"Aargh….." Li Qiu shouted in frustration over the repeated failures.

Li Qiu wanted to try again but stopped his umpteenth attempt when he realized his Aria running dry.

Li Qiu finally opened his eyes as he saw both Prakash and Enbi Arin still silently trying their best to purify their Aria.

Li Qiu got up and walked towards their kitchen to find something to fill up his belly and restore his Aria.

Li Qiu found some meat pieces of the Alligator neatly cut into small pieces for storage. Li Qiu took them out and roasted them a little with his thermal flames and began gorging on them.

He barely consumed any Aria to roast the meat ( his Thermal Flames got more powerful with the increase in his Aria Quality ) so his Aria eventually started to recover as he continued eating.

Once he had his fill, Li Qiu silently lay down atop his bed to think up a possible counterattack against the pale golden egg while he waited for his Aria to recover as his stomach began its digestion process.

"Wait a minute…Why did I never use that….damn…." Li Qiu began to get excited as he remembered about something that could be used as a possible solution against the pale golden egg.

Li Qiu immediately curbed his excitement because he didn't want to screw up this only opportunity due to a lack of Aria.

After approximately an hour had passed, Li Qiu felt about half of his Aria had recovered and he started to feel hungry again.

Li Qiu went back to the kitchen and roasted another piece of Alligator meat with the help of his Thermal Flames and began feasting upon the roasted meat.

As he felt his tummy fill up to the brim Li Qiu stopped eating and lay down on his bed as he awaited for his Aria to make a complete recovery.

After about another hour had passed, Li Qiu felt his Aria completely fill up. Li Qiu once again consumed another slab of the Alligator meat so that he may have enough Aria refilling him while he tried to burn up the pale golden egg.

When Li Qiu sat atop his bed prepared to finally destroy the pale golden egg, he saw Enbi Arin open her eyes.

"Were you able to create a skill" Questioned Li Qiu.

"Yeah, I could create one. It's called the 'Soul Wave Pulse'. Actually, there was another skill I created with my 'Butcher Beam' innate ability called 'Intent Slasher' but its efficiency in purifying my Aria pales in comparison to the skill 'Soul Wave Pulse' which I discovered through accident. This skill sends a soul wave pulse throughout my body which directly disintegrates the Aria Intents. I could only use this skill due to the presence of my miniature soul" Replied Enbi Arin.

"A soul wave, huh….." Li Qiu's eyes immediately widened in realization as he had finally figured out an even better method to destroy the pale golden egg.

"I am still only at 71% Aria purity, so, I'll go back to purify my Aria" said Enbi Arin.

Sitting cross-legged atop his bed, Li Qiu first activated his 'Essence Sense' innate ability and was once again greeted with the all familiar black world.

Li Qiu concentrated on the pale golden egg with obvious scorch marks inflicted by his Spirit Flames on its previously smooth and shiny surface.

Li Qiu slowly willed his Spirit Flame to approach the pale golden egg. But unlike before, the Spirit Flames didn't come into contact with the pale golden egg but covered over its entirety like a snake that swallows a mouse.

Since the Spirit Flames hadn't touched the pale golden egg till now, the egg too hadn't retaliated with its disruption sounds.

"Materialization" Once he saw his Spirit Flames completely finish enveloping the pale golden egg, Li Qiu activated his 'Materialization' innate ability and started to harden the Spirit Flames and form a shell over the pale golden egg.

The current scenario was like this: There was a translucent blue coloured shell that enveloped over the pale golden egg while maintaining a certain distance between them. There was still Spirit Flames burning over the translucent blue shell's outer surface. The Spirit Flames were slowly consolidating into the translucent blue shell while Li Qiu was supplying a constant flow of Spirit Flames to the translucent blue shell's outer surface where they constantly burned.

Once the translucent blue shell gained a sufficient amount of thickness, Li Qiu heightened his concentration and vigilance to the maximum level.

"Burn to nothing, you piece of variant parasite" Li Qiu mentally bellowed.

At the next moment, the inner surface of the translucent blue shell which Li Qiu called as the Spirit Dome instantly released waves of Spirit Flames at the pale golden egg.

The waves made of Spirit Flames collided with the pale golden egg and instantly started to burn its surface.

The retaliation of the pale golden egg proved to be futile as it was getting attacked by the Spirit Flame Waves from all sides.

On noticing the effectiveness of his strategy, Li Qiu increased the intensity of his Spirit Flame Waves which collided with the pale golden egg like Sonic Booms.

At first, a millimetre of the pale golden egg was burned off, and then it started to rapidly burn like ignited camphor.

A couple of minutes later the pale golden egg was only left with two-tenths of its initial size with the Spirit Flames doing a fine job in containing its resistances.

At the next moment, as a last-ditch effort, the pale golden egg shone a golden l.u.s.ter with strange runes covering over its surface.

Once the runes completely covered its surface, they shone with a dangerous red coloured radiance.

On noticing these changes, Li Qiu increased the Spirit Flame Dome's thickness and immediately materialized 3 more Spirit Flame Domes over it using his 'Materialization' innate ability.

While Li Qiu was still in the process of constructing a fifth Spirit Flame Dome, the runes radiating with a red radiance suddenly lashed out with powerful disrupting shock waves filled with Aria Intents of confusion, fear, death, and destruction.

With the same overbearing momentum, they clashed head-on against the second Spirit Flame Dome, cracking it instantly and seeping through its gaps.

The shockwaves filled with Aria Intents immediately clashed with the third Spirit Flame Dome and was trying to rapidly corrode it.

The size of the third Spirit Flame Dome was shrinking at a visible rate.

Li Qiu panicked due to the situation but immediately executed the contingency plan he had formed on the spot.

Li Qiu began reinforcing his fifth Spirit Flame Dome while simultaneously creating numerous spheres made from his Spirit Flames inside the fourth dome.

One Spirit Sphere, two Spirit Spheres, three, then four and so on.

All of this occurred within a couple of seconds as Li Qiu gushed the entirety of his Aria into his Spirit Flames to reinforce the Fifth Spirit Flame Dome and create the Spirit Spheres.

Li Qiu could only create 57 Spirit Spheres when the third Spirit Flame Dome was breached through.

It was at this exact moment that Li Qiu willed his Spirit Spheres to explode.

At the instant of their collision, both opposing forces reached a momentary stalemate. At this exact same moment, Li Qiu willed his fourth Spirit Flame Dome to radiate the entirety of its composition as a singular Spirit Flame Wave.

This Spirit Flame Wave was a 100 times more massive and powerful than the initial waves unleashed by the first Spirit Flame Dome which instantly toppled the stalemate towards Li Qiu's favour by burning the runes into nothingness.

Once the runes were disposed off, Li Qiu sighed with relief and then willed his Fifth Spirit Flame Dome to unleash regular sized Spirit Flame Waves to finish off the remnant resistances that the pale golden egg could muster.

It seemed like the pale golden egg could no longer resist as it was silently burned into nothingness.

"Huh? What's that in there?" Exclaimed Li Qiu mentally as after the pale golden egg was burned off, there existed a white coloured egg inside it.

"No matter, I'll still burn you" Muttered Li Qiu as he unleashed another set of Spirit Flame Waves upon the white coloured egg.

Shockingly, the Spirit Flames unleashed by Li Qiu just passed through the white coloured egg as if it was just an illusionary existence.

Li Qiu had a helpless expression on his face since if even his Spirit Flame couldn't deal any damage to the white coloured egg, then the other flames in his arsenal wouldn't do any good either and he instinctively refused to use his Soul Essence Flame.

But at this time, Li Qiu came to know through his Aria Core that the white coloured egg was infact called as a 'Soul Egg'.

"Soul Egg… the purest form of a soul that one can create only when their Aria Quality reaches 4th Stage i.e. they become a Soul Commander" Li Qiu muttered in astonishment.

Instinctively Li Qiu shattered his fifth Spirit Flame Dome and guided his Soul Flame towards the Soul Egg.

The moment Li Qiu's blue coloured Soul Flame touched the Soul Egg, he was instantly enveloped by a feeling of being purified, like he was an existence untainted by mortal d.e.s.i.r.es and filth.

Li Qiu's Soul Flame immediately fused with the Soul Egg creating a blue coloured egg atop which a tiny wisp of his blue coloured Soul Flame was burning.

Li Qiu felt all the filth immediately get cleansed out from his body and moreover, to his surprise, his unstable emotions and thought process got rectified instantly.

"A Nascent Soul" Li Qiu exclaimed in wonder and happiness.

Forming a nascent soul implied that one's soul can be further cultivated to higher stages, while the least of its wonders was an increase in the life-span of the soul.

"Hahaha, I did it" Li Qiu shouted with his hands triumphantly raised to the skies.

"I'm finally rid of all the parasites plaguing me"

"I'm finally the sole bearer of my own fate"

"I burned the hell out of that blasted maggot"

"Who's the grandpa, huh, let your master teach it to you"

"Hahahaha" Li Qiu bellowed with laughter as he rolled around on the floor.

Without losing his laughter, Li Qiu picked up both Prakash and Enbi Arin who were still in the process of purifying the Aria inside them from their lotus positions, one on each of his hands by holding their h.i.p.s and spinning crazily while standing atop his bed with jovial laughter.