CHAPTER 46: MOUNTAIN MIRAGE
The Suaking Continent had existed for too long.
Billions of lives existed throughout its terrain, which expanded to the very horizon.
Despite its long existence, the Suaking Continent was ruled solely by the Human race.
Many say that, from such a place, the first Kings were born who set foot on the Supreme continent. Others claimed that Kings and Sovereigns were born in the heart of the Supreme Continent itself.
No one knew the truth exactly. And with the passage of time many people had forgotten it.
Since the arrival of the Face of the Demon, the human race had begun to decline, now it had enemies everywhere and was struggling to survive.
But the Suaking continent still belonged to human beings.
In this place, two forces rose up wanting to proclaim themselves as the strongest society on the continent.
On the far left of the continent was the Lords of the Holy Word.
At the far right of the continent The Holy Church of Motzu.
Both powers had many differences, as well as ideals.
Power struggles had escalated to terrifying levels in the past, but had recently subsided, since that edict of the Empire.
However, despite being so different, there was one thing that both powers shared, that was that in both superpowers a Sovereign had been born.
Both powers had their legacy, even though it was a long time ago. Even so, they retained most of a Sovereign's legacy.
Something that was even very difficult to find even in the Supreme Continent.
It was for this reason that both forces remained at the top of the hierarchy.
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In a mountain cave, there was a bed and blue chandelier on the ceiling, which lit up the entire room.
In bed a body of a young man who seemed to be 18 years old was still sleeping, until suddenly, he woke up suddenly.
"HA.. HAS... HAS.. HAS.. HA!" – His gasping breath and his blank stare made him see that he had had a nightmare.
This young man was none other than Adrian.
"What happened?" – He said to himself, he had a lot of pain in his head, the dream had been so complex and complete. That it seemed very real.
After a few minutes Adrian began to calm down, it was not the time to keep thinking about the dream, after all, it was just that a dream. Although he would not forget what he had dreamed, what his possessed body had caused.
"Life" – Adrián said, while he could see how his shadow spread and devoured the world, although that was only his memory.
Now she understood that she didn't know anything about the mask she had on her face, while she didn't know little or nothing about it. The Celestial Devil.
However, he looked at the place where he was, he was not alarmed nor did he come out screaming.
Adrián understood that he had been very injured, if someone wanted to hurt him, he would have already been dead. When he looked at his shadow, he could feel his new acquisition, which was that demon, his two mist subjects, were also there, but they were injured, it was what Adrian could feel.
"At least I'm still alive" – was what he mentioned to comfort himself, he could also tell that his left arm was missing.
It wasn't that he cared much, after all losing an arm after such a fight, it seemed like a minor thing. If he got the right plants, or the seeds and impregnated them with his blood, and created more pills. Then I could slowly get it back.
Even so, he was not a big fan of always losing some part of his body.
After seeing that much of his body had recovered, Adrian got out of bed.
I knew that I was not in danger, and most likely I am in a relatively safe place.
But, where he really was, he had to see it with his own eyes.
However, when he started walking towards the exit of the cave. A middle-aged person appeared. He was wearing a blue robe, and he had a calm face, Adrian couldn't feel anything about this person, it was as if he didn't exist, but he was standing in that place. As if he were waiting for him.
Adrian walked calmly towards the exit.
"I see that you are better, come with me" – was the only thing he said, before starting to walk, when Adrian came out, he could see the whole panorama, but there was a thick fog covering the whole place.
Not feeling any kind of oppression, she decided to follow him.
It was a mountain they were on, but there was a thick fog, apart from their cave, there were not many in the place, there was only a stone terrain on which they walked quietly.
As Adria followed him, that person began to speak.
"Fog has always been a present thing on this mountain, but today, it's a bit cloudy, the environmental changes prophesy that something is going to change," said such a person, while keeping his hands behind his back.
"The changes are good, however, this time, I fear that something bad will happen"
"Nature is wise, a pressure can turn even the wisest"
"If we don't choose to see much beyond a simple contrast, how can we continue to say that it is us"
As they continued walking, he continued to comment on random things.
Although their expressions were not always the same.
"There is something that is destiny, or it is simply coincidence"
Adrian just decided to listen, so time passed, the higher they climbed, he could feel that this place was not as simple as it seemed. I didn't know how long I had been walking, but Adrian had calculated that it was a little over 3 hours.
"What is this feeling?" – However, Adrian could sense that something had changed in the environment, suddenly the air pressure had increased, even with his cultivation base, he was not an ordinary human being, but he began to feel that he was short of breath.
He began to breathe deeper and steadier as he went.
He even had to let his aura manifest in order to continue walking.
"Heaven and earth are wise, but only the sky can shine, mountains are simple natural objects to be able to walk on, but they are not the way" – But this didn't seem to matter to the middle-aged man, who kept walking without looking at Adrian.
Even if they continued to walk under powerful pressure. Which increased with each moment, Adrián felt how his blood circulated faster than ever in his body, while his muscles began to stretch.
His organs began to move, which was painful, but after so many life-or-death situations, for Adrián it was nothing.
As he was a cultivator refining his body, he suddenly the Mantra of the Myriad Mountain cultivation technique.
"Since ancient times, the heavens and the earth were united by a common point, the mountains were the medium that one could feel both means converging into one...:"
Adrian was still at the fourth level of Qi condensation, he had completed 4 openings, two in his right arm, and two in his left arm, his fifth opening, had not yet been completed.
He knew that now the strength of his arms was tremendous, if he could complete the openings of his legs, he could drastically improve his speed.
But ever since he had acquired the Heavenly Devil mask, he hadn't been able to continue advancing in his cultivation, in fact, no matter how much energy he sucked in, it wasn't possible to advance, it was simply as if his openings had turned into a bottomless vortex.
But as he climbed the mountain together with that strange fellow, and felt a crushing pressure all over his body, suddenly the words of the Mantra of his cultivation technique, kept being spoken in his mind.
"… the mountains represent more than a point of union, they represent the different paths that one must take in life, only by being true preceptors can we choose the right path" – Adrián did not understand such a phrase.
But being in this situation, suddenly, something had lit up in his head.
The pressure in the air multiplied suddenly, causing Adrian to fall to the floor kneeling.
He could hardly breathe, and his head looked like it was about to explode, suddenly that enlightenment he had obtained was fading from his memory.
But Adrián would not let such a situation pass, without a fight.
"The... mountains are not a means... to choose the path..." – The pressure continued to increase on Adrián exorbitantly. His body crashed to the floor of the mountain sinking, anyone would have lost consciousness. Even someone with a superior cultivation base.
This was not normal at all, what was happening.
But Adrian had been in several life-or-death situations, so many times, that he always tried to put his life in danger rather than give up.
"The mountains... and the sky... they are the same..." – When I say these words. Suddenly the pressure on his body fell like a tidal wave. It began to change drastically,
He even used a little of his strength to stand up.
When he got up, even the middle-aged man, after such a long time gave him a look.
All the energy in the environment began to gather near Adrian, as if it were a spiral. Suddenly he could feel how his four openings began to resonate with the same mountain.
The fifth opening began to undergo changes.
"The mountains and roads are different, there is not just one!" - The man spoke, while he could feel how the energy in the environment changed.
When Adrian stood up, another current of pressure came down wanting to crush him.
But it didn't work.
Adrian took a deep breath to relax. The pressure in the environment couldn't shake him, his fifth opening was madly absorbing all of the mountain's energy.
When the man said those words to him, the mantra appeared in his head again. But this time there were only a few words left.
"The mountain and the heavens crush everything in the world!" – The more he recited it, the more his fifth opening began to fill up. But she was not the only one.
The sixth start in his right leg opened, as did the seventh and eighth.
The whole mountain began to slowly fill with pulses, just as the energy in the environment began to decrease drastically.
But all the openings that Adrian had opened in his body, began to be completed again. Like there was a second cycle, but it didn't stop, three cycles, four cycles, even five full cycles.
This was not detected by the middle-aged man, it was simply something that the Heavenly Devil's mask provoked. By completing five times, all the openings were filled up quickly, from the first to the eighth, none needed more energy, it was as if they had finally been completed.
Now only the openings in his trunk, abdomen and the only one in his head were missing.
Once he completed all the openings, he would reach the completion of the Qi condensation.
Adrian had completed eight starts, four in his arms, four in his legs.
Each one meant progress. He was now at the Sixth level of Qi Condensation.
However, Adrian's breakthrough was something that did not exist in this world. Because of the Heavenly Devil's mask, he had returned to reinforce his cultivation base five times. Although it was only the strength of his fleshly body.
"I see, that's why Elder Sonu assigned me this mission" – The eldest spoke while sighing, he thought that, with so much energy in the environment, perhaps anyone else would reach the eighth or ninth level of Qi condensation, but he knew a little about Adrian's background, he only had a cultivation technique known as Myriad Mountains, which belonged to a low-level sect.
It was normal that he did not know how to effectively absorb the energy of heaven and earth.
To the middle-aged man, the energy that Adrian had absorbed was negligible, or so he felt, after all, the Heavenly Devil mask had concealed all evidence of what had really happened.