„Your determination has been approved. You will receive from me various types of techniques, but only one shall be your satisfaction."
The cold air materialized into multiple golems and statues of humans transformed in front of him. He had a moment of awe and his eyes met with hundreds of other gazes.
One statue was bald, a body of a bodybuilder and wielded a spear, while one other statue had short hair, muscular body and wielded a longsword with runes engraved into it.
But they all had one thing in common, they were humongous!
„The statue represents the mastery of the technique and the statue of your liking must be your satisfaction. Choose wisely."
Fuji examined every statue in the vicinity and every differentiated in many exterior appearances. Some had green hair and some had blue hair, the color varied with the increasing number.
There was one statue staring the ground with lifeless eyes and black aura surrounded it.
The darkness, he always felt in the past, resembled itself in that ink-black color and like a magnetic devouring wave reached his feet, he couldn't help it, but be curious about the technique.
„Can I see the technique before?"
The white sun in the sky narrowed and spoke in it's typical ancient voice, „Thy eyes are in the mirror. Can you see yourself? This is my answer."
Fuji didn't fully comprehend his philosophical morality, but the message should be to use your eyes and see, what would mirror your personality.
Fuji gazed at the dull and lifeless statue. It looked like it would be bad, but memories of his past reflected itself in that statue and he raised his hand to point at the statue.
„That one."
Once the words fell, every statue glared at the statue in fury and then back at Fuji. They raised their bodies and lifted their heavy humongous weapons.
*Boom!*
Now, all statues pointed with their weapons at him and dominating, but also suffocating auras clashed at Fuji and destroyed the surroundings of him with their auras alone.
Despite their imposing threats, Fuji indicated with his index calmly at the lonely statue and the backside of the weapons hang over the statues heads.
Every statue at once, swung forward with the humongous impact of the weight at Fuji with their weapons and hundreds of weapons with suffocating auras clashed at him.
Suddenly, only one inch away from his head, the impact was nullified and black air hovered around them. The weapons halted and the black air engulfed everything in it with a devouring suction force at once. They tried to withstand it with the aura emanating from them, but the black air acted as nullifier and a metal hand reached them from behind.
*thud* *thud* *thud*
Before they could resist it, the heads of hundreds of statues fell in reality-defying speed and the prideful humongous bodies boiled with revenge, now stacked in bulks of falling body parts on the ground.
The lifeless statue positioned itself in front of Fuji and raised his sword. He pointed the tip of the sharp sword at his throat and swung with full force at his throat.
*Splash!*
A pool of blood emerged near the head of the calm Fuji and the pain he fell from dying, mirrored the exact pain of Truck-kun hitting him. Everything around him lost it's color and blurred, until it vanished completely, but within the fuzzy sight of Fuji, the black statue didn't move an inch.
„You did well, Cultivator."
The white sun in the sky didn't move an inch either and..
Wait..
„It was to test the sturdiness of your determination and you did better than most of the cultivators. Wait..Nevermind."
Fuji raised his eyebrow and stared questioned at the white sun, „So..I wasn't the only one, right?"
The white sun was, by it's gaze, most likely lost in thought and answered after a minute, „Yes, but not every inner disciple get's sent here. However, the most died, after being tested. See it as luck in unfortunate."
Fuji realized the seriousness of the test, before he confirmed it. It's all about determination and if he would have wavered in his willingness, the result would be clear death.
„I never liked doing tests, so I will make it rush. You accomplished the trial with a perfect result. Therefore, you will receive the technique of the statue and can master it with time passing. Good luck, cultivator!"
The white sun's iris radiated multiple ink-black rays and shrouded Fuji from foot-to-head.
Complex compressed information transmitted into his mind and pain caused him to fatigue.
„AAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
The white sun stared at Fuji and silently commented, „Maybe I should have warned him of the intense pain..".
After many minutes, Fuji regained his senses and flooded with waves of sweat. He panted and glared at the white sun with an angered expression, „YES, YOU COULD HAVE!!"
~Registration of new information and unpacking the bytes~
>>Technique of the Fallen Angered Darkness has been added to your cultivation base and can be practiced, once cultivation has been obtained<<
„Ok, ok, leave already!"
The white sun vanished from the sky and simultaneously, every manipulation of the environment as well.
The surroundings changed back to the religious building with the statue of Raijin and Shou Yinru roared at him, „How are you not dead!?".