Ye Yuyan tapped out into the air and it rippled out like a pond. The skies started to roar as colors flashed past it, red, blue, green, yellow, cyan, purple, orange, white, and black!
Suddenly the rippling stopped and then a strange humming came from Ye Yuyan's body. The world went silent except for the humming, and then from his body burst out seething red mists.
Then a blue mist emerged complimenting the red mist and auras started to gather together as the sword forces followed suit. The red mist created a funnel of wind as it took shape forming lotus leaf after leaf.
The funnel started dying down as each leaf formed, the first, second, third, and then finally the ninth. Above Ye Yuyan head was a red lotus formed from the mist, it looked extremely ethereal as if it were about to fade like a candle.
Suddenly the blue auras gathered together and engraved on the first leaf with a nomological inscription. The inscriptions seemed to follow according to a heavenly principle releasing a nomological hum.
At the stamen of the lotus appeared an illusory blue moon that swayed before disappearing. Then the crimson sword forces around Ye Yuyan gathered onto the second leaf. Each sword force was like a sword mark each landing a slash onto the leaf.
The sword forces seemed to howl with the blood-curdling screams of various beings as it landed on the lotus. The sword marks formed together leaving a blood symbol on the lotus. The lotus stabilized as it took physical form and suddenly expanded.
"What the hell is that?!?" Nesilia yelled with confusion as the red lotus exploded out. It started to rapidly grow as it completely engulfed the entire valley. From a top-down view, one could see a massive red lotus bloom as it slowly rotated over the valley.
The tribulation clouds rumbled with anger at the Red Lotus' provocation, the 9 colors blasted all over the valley trying to suppress it.
At that moment the pillar of light coming from Han Yi died down. Yet Han Yi couldn't be seen his body had been completely absorbed by the pillar. So once the pillar disappeared all traces of Han Yi's existence faded away.
"Han Yi..." Nesilia said somberly as she looked at the place the pillar of light once was.
"Its far too late, he was nothing more than a signal to heaven. His will, body, and soul have been completely absorbed by the will of heaven." Maven said shaking his head.
"Enough of this!" Illathar roared out as he jumped towards Ye Yuyan. In his left arm gathered dark auras and in his right arm was a tyrannical frost qi. He slashed down onto the lotus as Ye Yuyan sat with his eyes closed.
His eyes suddenly flashed open and he coldly looked on as Illathar tried to destroy the red lotus with a frenzy. He tightly gripped his bloody palm making more blood drip out. His whole palm looked as though it was dipped into a shura blood hell.
"Scram for me!" He roared as threw a palm at the Illathar, a massive crimson palm flew out and slammed into him and his claws completely destroying his qi.
The bloody palm forced Illathar into the ground burying him in a hole with rubble. Ye Yuyan turned his attention back into the skies, the tribulation clouds had completely formed.
"Hah!" He expelled out as the red lotus swelled and his body levitated. In a matter of seconds, Ye Yuyan was atop the red lotus fused with it. He was sitting atop the stamen in lotus form staring at the clouds.
Thunder rumbled throughout the valley as the colors in the clouds intensified. Suddenly a massive polearm burst out of the clouds towards Ye Yuyan. The polearm eclipsed the entire sky as it slammed down like a judgment from the heavens
"The Dao of Weapons! What kind of tribulation has he inspired?!?" Nesilia couldn't help but stutter in fear. She felt as if the polearm was pointed at her making her tremble from the heavenly prestige.
'Ancestor once said the dao is fading in the world. Truth, laws, and such all originate from the dao. Yet so many inheritances in the west have forgotten the dao.' Nesilia thought as she recounted her journeys in the western lands.
She had been sent here by the Song Clan to be a diplomat with the various powers, and yet now she was in this mess. The canon in the eastern lands had stipulated there are 3000 Daos split into 3 categories.
The dao of weapons, the minor Daos, and the Daos of derivation. Each category held 1000 Daos and not every dao was as developed or as strong as one another. The canon has it that the Dao of Derivations is the strongest, the dao of weapons next, and the minor Daos last.
But each dao can develop into a supreme school. There are fundamentally no weak Daos just weak cultivators.
Above the 3000 Daos is the five element dao, which are Fire, Water, Earth, Metal, and Wood. These are the foundational dao for all matter in the world.
Then is the dao of transformations, which includes Lightning, Thunder, Rain, and Wind. Lightning and Thunder are one dao, and Rain and Wind are another dao. These Daos transform the five elements into the 3000 Daos and beyond.
Finally, the dao that stands supreme above all is the black-white dao. This legendary dao was lost to the ages until Nesilia saw it today in Illathar's left eye.
As Nesilia thoughts rapidly fired, the polearm came down onto Ye Yuyan who gripped his sword with his bloody palm.
"Call to Slaughter!" He quietly intoned with a coldly ethereal voice that stood above all mortal affairs. The whole valley seemed to cry with him as the sword forces rapidly gathered taking a crimson hue. Each transformed into a terrifying sword mark that gashed the skies.
The polearm slammed down onto Ye Yuyan's sword marks stopping slightly but still proceeding.
"Hah!" Ye Yuyan exhaled as he rapidly started slashing his sword sending out more and more sword marks. The polearm received slashes all along the pole as it started to atrophy from the sheer number of slashes.
"Piss off!" Ye Yuyan roared as the remnant sword forces along the massive polearm burst out. Blood rained down from the sky as the polearm exploded. Yet this blood wasn't regular blood instead it was sanguine sword forces. Each drop dyed the valley making the soil start to turn red.
The heavens roared with anger as an unending 9 colored light formed ten-thousand weapons. Polearms, Swords, Daggers, Axes, Spears, Lances, Sabers, it was every weapon under the sun. The sky became completely covered with a rain of weapons that threatened to devour everything.
"This...This...This!" Nesilia couldn't even say a word as every weapon dao in heaven appeared in the sky.
"Rise!" Ye Yuyan roared as the weapons flew down from the heavens ready to engulf him. Every drop of sanguine aura flew into the sky from the valley. The auras created a crimson sea without end, which was formed from 3000 independent bloody sword auras.
Each aura rushed at a weapon and rapidly fused with it, in a few moments the meteor shower of weapons decreased by 50%.
Ye Yuyan guided every sword force to devour a weapon and seal it off. The blood sea shined with a 9 colored light in various spots as the weapons tried to escape by slashing away at the blood membrane.
"Return!" Ye Yuyan said as he squeezed his bloody palm, the blood sea suddenly seethed as it drained towards the red lotus. The second leaf shined with a blood light as it accepted the incoming sanguine auras.
Every one of the auras formed a sword mark but this time each sword mark shined with a 9 colored light and formed different weapons. At the very top of all the weapons was a sword mark shaped like a sword it looked like a slot for something.
The weapon aura in the skies disappeared making the clouds not as sharp or domineering. Ye Yuyan looked to the skies as the next tribulation started to form.
Nesilia couldn't help but wryly smile at the sight of Ye Yuyan. This entire time they had been fighting amongst themselves constantly switching power and vying for supremacy.
But Ye Yuyan hadn't even put them in his eyes. He used less than 10% of his strength and conserved it for the real goal. His goal was to confirm his dao using the power of heaven. She couldn't help but marvel at his incredible method.
"Who the hell is he?" Nesilia wondered as she stared at his immaculate form sitting atop a red lotus.
Ye Yuyan looked at the sky with a faint smirk blossoming on his lips and his eyes flashed with a profoundly cold that regarded all lives as grass.
"My eyes are as cold as heaven. Let me confirm myself once again!" " He chuckled as the 9 colored light frenzied once again. Ye Yuyan reached inside his robe and removed a scroll and a calligraphy pen.