A hole suddenly appeared in the ground, swallowed a person, and then disappeared as if to confuse it's existent or say that it wasn't there in the first place.
Dì Xié Liàng stood frozen in surprise, staring at the spot where a mysterious cultivator and a mysterious hole, appeared and vanished, swallowing the cultivator along with it giving a person no time to think. Dì Xié Liàng's eyes darkened.
Since his rebirth, a lot of unknown factors and discrepancies has been happening that makes him uneasy and uncertain. This unknown feeling, as if everything is not within his control, gives him dark emotions that he does not know how to express and does not like.
Dark emotions rose up in Dì Xié Liàng's mind, clouding his vision making him hate. This feeling of losing control, he's felt it before in his previous life. The feeling that the world has a set trajectory that he must follow, that his birth was pre-ordained and his existence was destined to bring disaster. This uncontrollable fate. Made him HATE.
Dì Xié Liàng's aura began to surge, bringing with it a feeling of darkness and gloom, hate and resentment. His emotions became darker and darker, polluting the cultivation that Jìang XiángShèn wanted to save, turning it red. A sign of Falling.
The dark creature that was chasing both Dì Xié Liàng and Jìang XiángShèn appeared in the brewing of Dì Xié Liàng's aura, Hissing and branding it's giant pincers threateningly. The dark creature, which looked like a giant scorpion with a horned tail, released it's three hundred and fifty years cultivation of dark aura towards Dì Xié Liàng menancingly. The Horn-Tailed Scorpion which had been chasing them before, had retreated once it realized that it couldn't capture it's prey. But it had felt Dì Xié Liàng's aura that was low and on the rise, and returned to swallow this prey. With it, it could rise it's cultivation out of the stage of Demi-God and ascend to God-Stage.
Dì Xié Liàng frowned. His already unstable emotions surged and broke, upset at being threatened by a mere thing at a Demi-God level.
The Horn-Tailed Scropion hissed, placing pressure on Dì Xié Liàng. It brandished it's pincers in an attack towards Dì Xié Liàng. Dì Xié Liàng took a step back lightly to avoid the scorpions attack, reaching out his left hand behind him. He grabbed the scorpion's horned tailed that had burrowed into the ground for a lethal sneak attack, and then squeezed his hand into a fist. Completely crushing the scorpions' tail. It screeched in pain with a high-pitched sound like a dying bird's, and tried to escape from the underestimated prey.
Dì Xié Liàng raised his hand with a smile that was not a smile. His eyes dark red and pure evil. Black and red energy flew from his fingertips, rushing towards the scorpion ready to devour it. The scorpion hissed and released it's own black-brown energy, colliding with Dì Xié Liàng and using this opportunity to escape.
Dì Xié Liàng's energy wrangled with the Horn-Tailed scropion's and devoured it, continuing it's heightened pace towards it's feast.
Predator now turned prey, the scorpion's daring retreat failed when Dì Xié Liàng appeared infront of it, his two hands holding it's pincers and activating his(DXL) Forbidden arts.
"Forbidden Arts Stage 14: 'Devour' "
Blood red energy swirled around them, rushing towards the scorpion. Cracks appeared on the scorpions shell, and green blood flowed through. The blood-red energy engulfed and swallowed it until nothing's left, then rushed back towards Dì Xié Liàng boilingly. Dì Xié Liàng absorbed the newly retrieved energy filled with the Horn-Tailed Scorpions dark aura mixed with hate and resentment, and felt a rise in his Level.
Darkness clouded Dì Xié Liàng's sight, blocking his senses, bringing a feeling to destroy.
The previously clear sky suddenly darkened. As if an ominous foreboding was being told. Dark-grey clouds rolled on the horizon, blocking out the sun within minutes. Strong winds began to blow. And a surging raise of dark aura rolled into a vortex, forming around it's center.
Dì Xié Liàng's eyes turned the darkest scarlet. Rapidly changing from a light red. Black and red energy swirled around him. Moving faster and faster. Getting stronger and stronger. Swirling into a huge tornado shooting towards the sky.
The ground underneath Dì Xié Liàng's feet trembled. As if protesting. The aura surged faster and stronger. The tornado becoming more powerful.
The ground trembled vigorously, cracks appearing within the soil and harsh winds blowing. Strong enough to uproot trees hundreds of years old with deep thick roots. The sounds of loud and heavy stampeding from various beasts and creatures of the Lost Forest echoed into the valley.
Winged creatures took flight. Soaring swiftly into the clouds as if to escape from some threatening danger.
*Somewhere outside The Lost Forest: Human Territory- Huánghòu City*
"Look! What's that!"
"The sky is getting dark!"
"The light's disappearing!"
"What's happened to the sun?"
*Inside Huánghòu City's Light Temple (side branch of the Divine Temple)
"Have they all received the notice?", asked the head of the Huánghòu City's Light Temple Master Ren (Human Non-cultivator).
"Yes master"
"Then why aren't they here!", shouted the master in a fit of rage, slamming his long staff on the meeting table in a anger, his face turning red.
"Well...", one of the master's apprentice's hesitated to report.
"Speak! Well what?! At least one of the 12 Divine Apostles should be able to attend right?!"
Yes master, but..."
"But?"
"It's like this. The 5 High rankers of the 12 Divine Apostles didn't respond to the request. The 4 Mid-level rankers refused, 2 of the Low-level rankers are already on divine quests for the Emperor and the only other Low-level ranker that can make it is..."
"What does it matter who it is! As long as they kill whatever dark creature that is wreaking havoc near our city, then it doesn't matter even if we couldn't get a high ranker or mid ranker"
"But the Low-level Apostle who could make it is Erite!", shouted the apprentice, his face ashen.
Master Ren swiveled around swiftly, staring at his apprentice with his pale blue eyes, his face visibly losing color.
-Meanwhile-
Somewhere in the distance, a blurry vague figure's moving rapidly through the skies, heading in the direction of the swiftly accumulating darkness, an eerie and chaotic aura surrounding it.