Lie Wei Ying dodged to the side as a ghastly feeling seemed to pervade through his body.
It felt like his soul was being pinched by a mysterious force, and he felt himself falling to the ground as his attacks clashed with the second part of the tribulation.
This was called a ghost tribulation, and what it did was use the souls of those you killed to distract you from focusing. Hence, as seven other gigantic cosmic weapons flew down from the sky, he could only see the memories of the thousands of people that died because of him.
He had imagined most of the people he killed were purely evil, but at this moment he realized there was good in them along with the bad.
In his mind, he saw their life experiences. Their souls contained memories on everything from when they played with their children, celebrated birthdays, and there was the bad memories too that made it easier to handle. They, after all, killed a lot of people, and he experienced a lot of gruesome memories in addition to the sweet memories. Yet, all of them seemed to be screaming with desire for one thing, and it was a strong wish for Lie Wei Ying's demise.
Unfortunately, the developing boy had never spent much time in soul training, and felt his defenseless soul start to vibrate. This was an extremely uncomfortable feeling and caused him to start shaking in the air.
At the same time, Several weapons made from the seven celestial clouds shot eagerly towards him.
During the ghost tribulation, all the people in the Seven Gambit Lands screamed for Lie Wei Ying's victory. They knew their only hope for survival was that boy, whomever he was, and didn't wish for him to succumb to the tribulation.
"Please… We'll do anything for you… Just help us live," One outlaw girl yelled as she bounced up and down with regret filling her lungs.
She watched the gigantic weapons, made out of either coruscating flames or Luciferous flames, barreling towards the young man. From where she was, he actually looked quite mature, and was giving off an aura of sadness.
….
A millisecond passed and Lie Wei Ying's body started to stop shaking. It now began to fall as he tried to learn to protect his soul.
However, it was much harder to breakthrough in the ways of the soul.
Basically, once you were in the World Sovereign stage, soul attacks became extraordinarily important. The soul was purely an area considered a man's own universe. Hence, in order to grow stronger in it, you had to master yourself. However, there was also items that could be used in soul defense. One of them was called a soul guard. Without that guard he was just like a sheep for the wolves.
Yet, surprisingly, a voice he recognized entered his ears.
"Master…! I will handle this for you," The inferno yelled with a deep tone. It, right now, seemed to have finished its evolution, and it caused Lie Wei Ying to grin over the pain. At this moment, the inferno turned into a physical form and shot out the swords hilt.
....
"Congratulations, your Extremely OP daggers of the Inferno have finally finished their metamorphosis. Current name for them is Extremely OP swords of the Inferno."
"The swords have gained sentience and are at the Sovereignty Brandishing Stage."
"They have learned a new skill, corporeal foundation. For one second, they are able to take physical form beside you and mimic 30% of your power."
....
Inside Lie Wei Ying's body, as he heard this message, there was a vast expanse where his soul was. It was sort of like an ocean, and his system was able to visit it. Interestingly, that area was formed from his Sovereignty. Yet, there was also areas from all his other stages. For instance, there was a small ember he got at the Nascent stage. It was a very layered, and complex process growing in power. For instance, there was also a white soul sea in that ember that had his purple infinity core floating inside of it.
At that point, in his soul, a small boy that resembled Lie Wei Ying was there taking a new shape. And as the souls invaded he seemed to transform from boy to weapon.
"Hmph, you dare go inside my master's soul… Well, this is sort of part of the O.P. world! I'm about to tear you into complete death!" The overpowered system laughed before he finished his transformation into a cannon.
Since he was level 2, he was able to do things like this now. The souls were shaking in fear.
"They didn't tell us he had a soul guard!" One of them screamed before a gigantic golden ball burst his bubble.
"Ah, this must mean we're doomed. Everyone, do as much damage as-"
"BOOM x 500,000"
O.P. operated the soul cannon inside Lie Wei Ying's soul causing this whole confusing situation to start becoming much simpler.
....
A second after the souls were dispelled.
Lie Wei Ying turned his head up towards the fires in the sky. His eyes flickered open before he saw the Inferno in his physical form.
"AAHHHH! MASTEERRRR! THIS FEELS SO GOOD," The inferno said as he flew from luciferous fires into the coruscating fires.
Lie Wei Ying, in disbelief, chuckled a little bit. Regardless, with the inferno out of his swords, he had no choice but to return it to its sheath.
"Well, time to end this tribulation," Lie Wei Ying said before spun his wrists.
He made some really cool hand movements before nearly a million [Law and Dao Mega blasts] were unleashed into the sky.
"Boom x 55,000,000"
The little blast remnant like rain drops of fire trickled down onto the earth as the girl Ai Mei pat her brother on her back.
"Brother… What happens next?" She said with a curiosity only younglings can have.
He smiled at her before he patted her head. "Little Kitten, this is when we celebrate our new hero. Perhaps we can even give him lots of good food for completing his tribulation." He knew that the hero would likely not come back to their place, however, for his Bunny Bun, he decided to humor her with that idea.
"Yay, I'll cook moms favorite dish. Dad used to love that dish, right?"
Her brother, Wang Bo, nodded his head at Wang Ai Mei. "Yes…. before the King of the Alter took him from us," he said gently before his little sister pushed him hard.
"H-He-He's not dead! The king only takes men away for a hundred years! There is no way he's dead regardless of what you guys say!"
She turned her little hands into fists before a distracting light appeared above her.
Her gorgeous long hair dropped down her small body. It was nearing her toes and was a characteristic of her people from Zandavria. However, what could only be described as a second sun appeared in the sky heading towards that small boy who was defending the planet.
….
Lie Wei Ying sighed as the inferno's new body appeared in front of him.
"Master…. I'm sorry… I truthfully just wanted to help you… I didn't mean to."
He guiltily put his head down completely misunderstanding Lie Wei Ying's expression. "You helped me out there inferno. Why would I care if you absorbed the fire?" He sighed before the inferno's image appeared back in his blade.
"Ha… my benevelolent master doesn't punish fire bathing! I'm so glad!"
Lie Wei Ying could only imagine the strange trends they had in the seventh hell, but he stopped thinking about it as ten suns and twenty planets were birthed from the cosmic clouds.
Immediately, he tensed his muscles as he gathered all his strength into one point on his blade. His transcendent energy caused the blades to glow with a blue fire. A second later, he swung his arms forward before he suddenly disappeared from where he was.