As the boy grew so with him did the ugliness he was exposed to.
Skies of grey, rains of blood. They all followed him like a sick curse.
Yet he was oblivious to it all.
An invisible and inaudible voice spoke to him.
"Kill that bastard."
"Slap that bitch."
"Break his bones. Hehe."
Yet he never heard any of it.
Yet perhaps although he didn't hear it, perhaps his soul did.
Perhaps he became a bit warped.
Perhaps he became a bit mad.
Nothing ever changed, perhaps the boundary between the two voices just got a little blurry.
Perhaps it's that they realized they were...
...
Won opened his eyes in the cave.
He was greeted by a magnificent yellow blinding light.
After a few moments of his eyes stinging he found the source of light.
Upon his neck where three necklaces were.
On the necklace with a black ring with a ruby inlaid, a drop of yellow magma moved left and right as he moved.
Won's eyes dilated as he stared at the drop of liquid fire that buzzed ferociously.
Won held it in his hand and contrary to what he thought the drop wasn't scalding, instead it was a faint warmth, similar to the spiring Sun.
Soon the drop evaporated, seeping into Won's pores and slithering through his Meridians.
Yet instead of being violent, it tempered Won's body. His veins, organs and Meridians they all became clean and large, far surpassing the power of a normal one. His muscles became fierce and it was like every movement could break trees and crack Earth.
Finally the energy settled in his compulsory Heart Acupoint, where orb was.
Won's head buzzed for a bit, and soon his vision became clear and he could feel the fierce fire energies around him all the more clearly.
Won touched the ring around his neck and mumbled, "Auntie..."
Won sighed as he left the underground place he had built for himself.
He released his Demon Idols and then went to kill or enslave all the beasts in the forests.
Won was currently fighting a gigantic snake who lived in a small pool of water, a lotus grew from it's head.
It's green scales shone brightly in the moon's radiance, the glow of the pool below it similarly making it looking fierce and majestic.
Won was to the side, on of his sleeves had been torn and a deep gash was left in his arm, with dark green poison bubbling on the surface.
Won said, "You're really being a bother."
Won shot a palm out, it splintered into a million such golden Palms and smashed into the snake smothering it.
Yet just when it should have been defeated, the lotus atop it's head glowed in a yellow light.
From the sky lotus leaves fell, turning into sharp swords they formed a storm of leaves.
Won's skin was stabbed and cut.
Won snorted and focused on his heart.
Thick yellow flames drove out of Won's body, they fluttered like butterflies razing everything to the ground.
A great explosion of flames devoured the plants and flowers surrounding them alongside the lotus leaves.
A small beam of fire rose the ground, turning into a slithering yellow colored cobra.
It hissed as it drove down, turning left and right and leaving behind deep pits.
The green scaled snake slammed into the fire cobra, the two encircled each other.
The snake hissed in pain, and from it's fangs a flood of green fell upon the yellow cobra.
The two continued on rising to the sky, they looked similar to dragons as they coiled around each other and bit into each other.
A deep haze of heat and poison filled the air.
Won put his hands together and a Golden Buddha surrounded him, the poison rippling against the Gold boundary.
Won split his focus as he concentrated on controlling the flame cobra.
Won clicked his tongue as he retrieved two daggers.
He jumped up.
He held the daggers close to his chest and used {Duality collision} the upgraded martial arts of {Dagger slash}.
Two silver lines followed the tips of the blade.
As the daggers met at the middle, a blinding flash of silver light.
The sky crumbled and the air stilled.
Won fell to the ground and collapsed.
From his arms blood sprouted like flowers.
His hands were mangled with the bones all twisted and the muscles torn.
Won snarled, "If it wasn't for that damn bastard trying to evolve into a Wyrm I wouldn't have needed to use that Technique."
Won used {Undying Warrior} and the wounds on his body healed.
Won winced in the pain that still remained, shooting through his nerves.
"Really it wasn't hard enough with it being Absolute General Stage Beast, it really nearly went through an Evolution in it's bloodline."
In the foliage a young girl wearing a plain white Taoist robe, with the emblem of a snake coiling around a blade on her chest.
She shuddered in fear, and tightened the grip on her mouth.
She was a disciple of one of the seven great Righteous sects the Heaven Love sect.
As she tried to walk back, a voice interrupted.
"My miss where are you going. You've come so you can't leave without a greeting."
Two hands shot out and one held tightly around her throat and the other held her mouth tightly closed.
Won pat his hands and said, "Hello Miss. I wonder if you could give me some information. Hungry Ghost I'll leave it to you to gather the information."
Won then walked towards the side where a small lotus sat, it was shedding it's leaves and looked depressed and dead.
Won picked it up and injected it with life force and Qi.
Soon the flower brightened and a golden glow shot out of it.
Won looked at the golden screen in front of him in happiness.
[Spring Flower luck.
Rarity: Epic.
Item type: Herb.
Effect: Eating this increases one's luck by a great amount.]
Won smirked, "This isn't too bad. Luck is intangible and loose. Even if I take this nothing too great should happen, but atleast I'll be more comfortable."
...
Won was in a bath as he leaned back his eyes moved dully.
Eventually Won sighed, "It seems that countering the Ying Empire is quite hard for the Ito Empire alone. What to do. What to do... Hm. It seems Hungry Ghost extracted some good information. With this the flood gates will open."
Won reclined back.
His eyes dilated as he thought about what to do.
He had planned all he could to give himself absolute safety. Now the issue was the realization of everything else.
Won's eyes widened he said, "A big event. One single large moment."