I close my eyes and focus my demonic Qi flow into my soul. This was a method to enter the soul palace that the old man taught me in the case that he's too tired to talk back to me so I can find him.
When I open my eyes, I was inside Sal's part of my soul, but it looks different. The sky was blood red with lightning striking, the gate were rusted, all the trees were dead, and the castle look like a haunted house. This must be due to Sal's dissappearance and the current state of his soul.
I opened the door and enter the castle. Even the inside looks like it has been abandoned for years. Everything is destroyed. I look around and see a blood red light coming from the bedroom, I immediately ran to see what's going on. On the bed was rusted blood-red sword. Even though it look old and rusted, I could feel a huge amount of demonic Qi coming out of it. This amount of Qi that this sword could be more than Eclipse itself. I don't know what causes it, but I really desire to wield it so I grabbed the sword and pick it up. Suddenly a huge amount of a blood-red color Qi rushed into my body and knocked me out.
When I opened my eyes, I was standing on top of a lake in a dark space with just a blood moon in the sky and a shadowy figure infront of me. The figure slowly approached me, when it appear infront of me, I was shocked. That thing, it look just like me in the beserk stage and it is wielding that rusted sword.
"If thou wish to wield the forbidden weapon, thou must pass this trial. Thou must defeat thou biggest fear and that is thyself. Only then will this weapon accept thou as its rightful owner.", The figure said.
"Wait, wait, wait. I'm suppose to fight you in this form? This is suicide in my current condition.", I yelled.
The figure ignore what I said and rush toward me. Guess I have no choice, but to fight.
My "dark" self swing the sword to cut off my head, I immediately dodge the attack. It then punched me in the abdominal at a faster speed. This punch is was powerful enough to blast me miles away. I quickly get up, but he appear and slash the sword toward aiming for my waist, I bend down to dodge and kick his hand to knock the sword out of his hand. I then use the Air-shattering palm to hit his chest. This knock him back, but he immediately regain balance. Without letting him make a move, I dashed toward him and attack with the Air-shattering palm using both hands. My "dark" self easily blocked the attack with his finger and cut off both of my arms. It was too quick, so I couldn't dodge it. There's no way that I can't win again him. But I can't give up! I need to beat it. I need to save the old man. I need to win!!!!
Suddenly, I felt that my blood was boiling and black clouds were bursting out of my body.
These clouds then combine together to form a humanoid figure. It reaches it hands into the sky to call something. Out of nowhere, more and more black clouds gather and form a gigantic sphere infront of it. The cloud figure then fuse with the sphere and blast it at me. Is this the end?
When the sphere enter my body, It has spread everywhere and trying to take over my body. I could no longer control my body. *Scream in pain*. My eyes color became blood-red, horns were growing out of my forehead and elbows, my entire arms(which grew back on its own after the clouds enter my body)and legs were covered with dragon scales, my fingers and toes becomes dragon talons, black magic circles covered my entire abdominal and chest, and six demon wings grew out of my back.
"Thou has been taken over by the evil inside thou heart. This has causes thou to lose thyself and turns into a mad demon who only wants to kill everything in its sight. I shall kill thou so thou can release from this evil and rest in peace.", The figure said.
"Argh!!!", I screamed.
I formed a energy orb of black light in both of my hands and condense them into a energy blade. I rush toward the figure and madly slash the energy blade at the figure. Kill,kill,kill, and kill is all I think of in my head. Hahahahahahaha. Kill, kill, kill!
My "dark" self was able to dodge some of the attack, but he definitely receive a lot of damages from the slash. Once again, I madly rushed toward him and swing my blade nonstop. He block it with the sword, but my attack just keep going. The sword won't last any longer it will break soon. When the sword broke in half, my "dark" self blast a black fire beam at me and knock me down. He then form a black fire on his right hand and a red fire in his left and combining them into a sphere. He's trying to use "Empty World" to end this.
Meanwhile inside Terry's consciousness
"Look at that loser. He lost the love of his life to his cousin.", A voice said.
"There's no future for someone who fails at everything like him", another voice whisper.
"Trash shall always be trash", A voice mocked.
"What a weakling.", Another voice laughed.
No, no, no. I'm not a trash or weakling. I didn't want to lose her. I didn't want to lose her. Please stop saying that. I'm not trash. I'm not trash. *crying*
"Accept it Terry, you've been abandoned by everyone. Let me take control of your body and we'll erase all of them from existence. Only then, shall you get the life you wanted and Rebecca will come back to you. Accept me Terry.", A demonic voice whisper.
"Shut up, shut up, shut up!", I yelled.
"Accept me. Accept me. Accept me. You know you want to.Heheheheh."
"No! I don't want to! Go away! Go away! Please go away!". *Crying*
"You're not alone Terry. You still have me.", A female voice comforted.
This voice is familiar. I know this voice. Where have I heard it before. I turned back and saw Rebecca smiling at me. She's still here, she hasn't abandoned me. My love is still here with me.
"Come back to me my love. Come back to me.", Rebecca smiled and give me her hand.
"Don't listen to her! They all have abandoned you. You only have me left.", the demon yelled.
"Enough! I know you're my inner demon. My friends and family hasn't abandoned me yet! I am not alone in this world, so I don't need you!", I replied and take Rebecca's hand.
I opened my eyes and huge amount of light burst out from my body and light up the dark space and turn the blood moon into a harvest moon. The light from the harvest moon has healed my wound and turned me back into my human form. I grabbed the handle of the broken sword and transfer some of my power into the sword and its edge fly back and attached itself to the handle and restore the sword. When it is restored, the sword suddenly light up and cracked. The fragments all fall off and inside was a new sword. The handle have one black and one white dragons carve on it. A golden dragon head is biting the end of the sword and the entire sword was black in color. There was the phrase "Unrivaled In The Three Realms" carve onto the sword itself. What a awesome sword.
"Time for round 2.", I announced.
"No need to.", he replied.
I tripped and yelled..
"What!?"
"You've passed the test. For millions of years, only person has recovered from being taken over by their inner demon and that is Salamander himself. Never have I expect to see another one who can turn back from being taken over, but you did it. Therefore you are worthy to be this sword owner.", The figure said.
It then transformed into a young women who look like she's in her early 20s. She wore a white ancient chinese dress and has long blood red hair.
"Greetings master, my name is Bai Hua which means white flower. I'm the sword spirit of Twilight. Legend has it that the sword will change it form based on its owner. That form suit you since you are able to control and combine both Yin and Yang Qi. Its unfortunate that there is no sword technique here for you to cultivate, but the best way to use a sword is to understand and connect with it. You can create a sword technique that only belongs to you and this will help you understand your sword better.", Bai Hua said.
"Was the old man your first owner?", I asked.
"Yes he was. Infact he's the one that created me when he was still a human.", she smiled.
"The old man was once human!?", I replied.
"Yes, would you like to hear his story?", She asked.
I nodded.