(Unknown Alternate Dimension)
(3rd Person Pov)
Acnologia stood before four beautiful women. His body covered in scars from the enemies he had been fighting for an unknown number of time. His back, shoulders, arms, waist, was littered with scars from his fights.
And standing before him, each with a different outfit colour that matches the colour of their blades. The one with the sharpest Aura of the four women.
One who looked to be in her 20's, with long black hair and a curvy figure. In her hands was a shiny double edged blade with a white and light blue hilt. The hilt consists of a short gold guard with a blue orb in the center, a white handle and a gold pommel with a blue tassel attached. The Celestial Executioner Zhu Xian
The next was a young attractive lady wearing an elegant black dress and arm gloves. In her hands was sword that has a pitch black blade with red inscriptions running down it. The hilt has a black grip, a small golden guard and a golden pommel with a tassel attached. The Celestial Slayer Miu Xian
The third spirit resembles a young petite girl. She has long, black hair which was tied up into pigtails. She has a green emblem on her forehead and light green eyes. In her hands was a leafy green, double-edged blade with a gold and green hilt. The hilt consist of a short green and gold guard with an orb in the center, a green handle and a gold pommel with a green tassel attached. The Celestial Severance Jue Xian.
And the last was a fierce looking woman who's face resembles a female demon with long nails, pointed ears and sharp teeth (but no tail or horns). She has long brown hair and a curvy figure. Along with red coloured eyes and vertical slit pupils. In her hands was a red shiny double edged blade with a white and gold hilt. The hilt consist of a short gold guard with a red orb in the center, a white handle and a gold pommel with a red tassel attached. The Celestial Demise Xian Xian.
And one thing they all had in common was the disdain in their eyes as they looked down upon Acnologia. Who merely hummed a grin stretching his face.
"Well now. This is quite the welcoming gift for the last enemies of this dimension. The four celestial swords if I recall correctly. I had an idea what I might encounter at the end of this dimension due to the enemies I fought. But really, just my luck I'd encounter such spirits!"
Zhu Xian narrowed her eyes as she spoke with disdain.
"For a Lizard, your strength isn't half bad. We've been watching you since you arrived, and though your strength and abilities were an impressive performance…. You're still much to weak to dare and stand before us "Devourer"."
Acnologia tilted his head intrigued.
"Devourer you say? Do you refer to my ability to consume energy?"
This time it was the Celestial Slayer Miu Xian who spoke up.
"That's not entirely wrong. What Zhu Xian meant wasn't just about your ability to consume energy, but of your origin. It's as empty as the void itself. That is what grants you the power to consume energy and souls. An infinite void of nothingness that threatens to consume all that stands before it and return it all to nothingness."
Acnologia stroked his chin fascinated.
"So that's my "origin" you say? That's quite the discovery. I must thank you black blade for the insight."
Miu Xian's eyes narrowed dangerously at the name Acnologia called her.
She raised her blade to Acnologia and fired a concentrated blast of pure sword intent energy at him. Acnologia's grin stretched into a Cheshire like smile as he opened his mouth and the blast was consumed. Seeing this Miu Xian huffed.
"How rude. You should have just allowed my attack to kill you."
Acnologia's grin faded as his face turned serious. He wasn't planning on playing around any longer. And the four Celestial Swords sensed the change in Atmosphere as they watched Acnologia vanish from where he once stood.
"Hmph. At least the lizard is intelligent enough to take us seriously from the start."
Xian Xian snorted as she too vanished from where she stood cratering the ground she stood upon.
"This Lizard is mine to tear apart! You three stand back!"
(Boom!)
Acnologia and Xian Xian met in the middle both their fists collided with each other causing a massive shockwave to travel throughout the entirety of the dimension. Both their strengths were relatively equal to one another as Acnologia gave a mocking praise.
"For a piece of scrap of metal you sure can hit hard!"
Acnologia's words angered Xian Xian who retorted.
"And for a lizard, your surprisingly weak if your being stalemated by what you dare call scrap metal!"
Xian Xian and Acnologia leapt away from each other as Acnologia's senses roared at him. But he couldn't do anything as a large diagonal cut appeared on his body.
(Blergh)
Acnologia coughed blood attempting to restore his body to it's previous state with time magic. However….
"!?"
Zhu Xian coldly spoke.
"Don't bother trying to restore yourself with time manipulation. My unique ability is that I am able to strike any opponent regardless of distance.
You could travel into the past, or the future but my attack will have already have struck you at every point in time. Thus attempting to restore a wound that was already present in your past and future becomes a waste of your energy."
Acnologia leapt backwards as a green energy sword construct pierced the ground he stood upon as Xian Xian cursed her sisters.
"Oi! I called first dibs on the lizard! Why are you getting involved!?"
Zhu Xian and Jue Xian snorted dismissively.
"It doesn't matter, if I kill him forst, it just means you were too slow to kill that lizard."
Zhu Xian spoke dismissively as she waved her hand in front of herself as her sword qi sliced through the blasts of energy shot at her.
"Hrrm. It seems like this little lizard is much more durable than we gave him credit for. Still willing to fight even knowing my attacks can bypass his defences."
Zhu Xian mused to herself as Acnologia eyes glowed with a maniacle light. A large grin stretching across his face as he took on his hybrid form.
"I'M GOING TO PULVERISE EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU AND MAKE YOU SUBMIT TO MY WILL! "
Acnologia vanished from where he stood, charging straight at them as Jue Xian erected a barrier. But that didn't stop Acnologia, if anything, it only made him push himself even more. Even when Jue Xian, Miu Xian, Xian Xian, and Zhu Xian attacked him with their sword qi, he ignored the pain, ignored his injuries, and focused solely on dominating their wills to obey his.
(FRACTURE)
Jue Xian's eyes narrowed as her barrier began to fracture. A second construct, a mallet appeared in her hands disabling the barrier, she slammed it against Acnologia who met the attack with his draconian claw. And once again her construct fractured.
Miu Xian appeared behind him and slashed at Acnologia's back only for his tail to strike her elbow from below sending her arm into the air before Acnologia kicked her in the face sending her flying his left claw swiping at Zhu Xian who took a step back, and a large gash appeared along Acnologia's claw. But that didn't stop him as his claw grabbed the Celestial Blade Spirit by her face, and slammed her against her fellow sister Jue Xian into the ground beneath them leaping forward and rolling as he leapt onto his feat and crossed his arms as a heavy fist crashed against them. Xian Xian laughed in glee swiping Acnologia's tail away only to be chopped at her throat leaving a moment of opening as Acnologia then grabbed her hair and threw her in the direction of Miu Xian crashing into her sister leading to them both arguing against each other. Acnologia's claws struck against Zhu Xian's blade causing sparks to fly as she broke the clash and made distance a cardinal formation where each of the four Celestial Swords is stationed at a specific "gate" or direction.
North: Celestial Slayer (Miu Xian)
East: Celestial Executioner (Xian Xian)
South: Celestial Severance (Jue Xian)
West: Celestial Demise (Zhu Xian)
Soon, the four of them chanted at the same time
"CELESTIAL KILLING SWORD FORMATION!!!!"
The swords emit spatial barriers that connect to one another, effectively creating a massive, square-shaped domain of doom. Acnologia clicked his tongue as he attempted to use his space-time magic only for his eyes to widen as the magic was destroyed by the array. Then before his eyes a seemingly infinite number of blades manifested in the array courtesy of Jue Xian's qi. While the other three conceptual attributes of the others were imbued into every blade.
Acnologia fired a breath attack only for it to be destroyed as the infinite number of blades came shooting at Acnologia. They bypassed his durability, wounding him physically and spiritually.
"AGHHHHHHH!"
Acnologia was in genuine agony. Even if he could ignore the physical wounds, the damage being done to his soul was agonising. Still, he tried to push through. Tried to counter. All for naught as the onslaught of swords attacked him from every direction. He was dying. Genuinely dying with no ability to fight back. He hated this. He hated it all! He wanted to live!
His memories were being erased, his soul was being shredded, his physical body was starting to fade from existence. And then, the attacks ceased.
But, it wasn't at all over as Acnologia's blurry vision saw the blades condense into one giant great sword that pierced straight through Acnologia's partial draconian abdomen, and he ceased to exist. His body, origin soul, memories, and very concept of existence completely wiped from reality. They do not just die; they are erased so thoroughly that the universe forgets they ever existed.
However, just as the array was about to be dismissed, the entirety of the Dimension shook.
"He's alive!?"
"No way!"
"That's not possible!"
"He shouldn't even be on the level of cultivation necessary to survive our attack!"
The four sisters spoke in shock. As a sphere of a void made of nothingness appeared and began to consume everything in sight. It slowly took the shape of a large Western Dragon. The same Black Scales with Blue marks all over. That same menacing presence of an Apex Predator. As his body, his memories, his soul, and his identity were restored Acnologia let out a powerful roar. Strong enough to shatter every single sword Qi in the formation. On the Dragons abdomen, going all the way to his back a massive scar remained from the attack that had erased earlier. Zhu Xian clicked her tongue as she raised her index and middle finger forming the "Sword Seal" (Jian Yin) as she yelled to her sisters.
"Erase this bastard now!"
The other three followed Zhu Xian's gesture raising their "Sword Seal" (Jian Yin). This time, a seemingly infinite number of green coloured swords constructed out of Jue Xian's sword qi and infused with her sister's prowess, of various sizes manifested and was shot towards Acnologia's Draconian form who merely opened his jaw and consumed them all before firing straight at Jue Xian, a concentrated blast of his breath attack. The domain of the Celestial Killing Sword Formation shattered like fragile glass as she created a barrier out of her Qi
"S-SO STRONG!"
Her barrier shattered as she was consumed by the attack. An explosion shook where Jue Xian stood before she fell to the ground returning back to her sword form as she was far too damaged to maintain her spiritual body. The green blade imbedded itself into the ground below.
"Jue Xian!"
The other three sword spirits became furious. As Miu Xian spoke.
"His Origin had awakened completely. He's truly become the embodiment of Nothingness. Of the infinite void that consumes everything. This guy might as well be unkillable."
Xian Xian cracked her knuckles as she spoke.
"That's fine with me! This just means he can take a beating even better! Come at me yo-"
Xian Xian's words failed to come out completely as Acnologia's draconian fist slammed straight into her abdomen causing her to gasp as Acnologia grabbed her by her face and threw her straight to Zhu Xian causing them both to crash straight to the ground right next to their sister Jue Xian's blade as Acnologia casted one of his spells
"YOU WANT TO FACE MY WRATH!? I'LL GLADLY GIVE IT TO YOU! ETERNAL FLARE!"
A cataclysmic spell that summons thousands of stars to rain down from the sky, causing mass destruction. And soon enough the other two transformed into their sword forms.
White and Red respectively. Leaving only Miu Xian, the Celestial Slayer. She raised her blade activating her 3rd Form. The Concept of Total Slaughter. Her energy fully transitions into a deeply compressed black and purple aura that completely envelops Miu Xians strikes. This form is unleashed when the seals on her power are entirely dissolved. Her attacks are imbued with absolute reality-negation laws.
At this level, if it exists within the physical universe, her strikes can fundamentally terminate its existence—slaying physical structures, laws, and dimensional boundaries. Acnologia took the attack head on.
(BOOM!!!)
As the smoke cleared, Acnologia remained unharmed as he swiped his claws in the air, and that was the last thing she saw before her vision went black, and her blade imbedded itself on the ground.
The entire dimension went silent as Acnologia slowly lowered himself to the ground and returned back into his human form. He clenched and unclenched his fist as the sensation of being erased he picked up the black blade and gave it a light swing as the air pressure cleaved through the space in front of him. He decided to acclimate himself to his current strength before he left this dimension.
—(Scene Break)—
[Azure Cloud Continent: Floating Cloud City]
The darkness of night clouded the skies above. Xia Qungyue had just had her marriage ceremony with the "cripple" of the Xiao Clan. They were both 16. Yet she had succeeded in entering the early stages of the True Profound Realm. She had reached the second stage, before cultivation became too difficult due to her profound veins freezing up from the accumulated frost.
Though they had just gotten married, Xia Qingyue had been meditating after Xiao Che had convinced her to let him stay so long as he slept on the floor instead of in the same bed with her. However, after awakening from her meditation, she saw he was nowhere to be found. So, she went to search for him only to find him sleeping against his little aunt leaving her feeling awkward and uncomfortable.
Still, she went back to their room, grabbed a blanket and wrapped it around them both. However, unexpectedly, as she returned to go and get some rest, she froze as she spotted that familiar head of Dark Blue Hair and that Dark Skin tone that no one else possesses.
He was scratching the back of his head seemingly confused about where the hell he even was, as he felt her presence and turned around as he tilted his head, eyes gleaming in recognition. A wide grin spread across his face as he casually waved to her.
"Yo. Xia Qingyue right?"
—[END]—
(An: Here's my excuse for going mia. I was lazy and stressed out by my 4th Semester. It was a genuine bitch. But I've just recently finished. I make no promises I'll update weekly like before. I need to catch up on reading the manga since I last stopped on chapter 50 and I still have a looooooong way to go if I want to keep this story alive. Todalooo~)