The lightning Roc was exuding his riatsu and it was focused entirely on Yon. Although those inclined in the supernatural were able to feel this, they were far from feeling the pressure Yon was experiencing. Even normal humans were all sleeping soundly.
Yon who was the focus of the lightning Roc's riatsu could honestly say: 'Is this the weight of the world that atlas was cursed to lift for eternity?'
His heartbeat pounding loudly upon experiencing such pressure. Although he's slain a lot of hollows, the spirit beast in front of him is a whole new level!
Was he nervous? Maybe. Sweat rolling down his face would indicate he was not having a good time. But the smile that was plastered on his face seems to say otherwise.
"T- this, this is fun! Hahahaha!" Yon's spiritual energy which was already in full throttle exploded to oppose the lightning Roc's riatsu.
"Break for me!" he shouts in pleasure.
A sound of a wall made of glass breaking could be heard deep within Yon's dantian. He broke through the 2nd order of Xiantian Realm using the lightning Roc's riatsu that was putting pressure on him.
Chouji has long since passed out not far away from him. Sensing that he was fine with his heart still beating Yon was relieved. But he was far from feeling okay about his grandfather passing out because of a spirit beast.
With renewed cultivation while still pressured by the lightning Roc's riatsu he said "Oi birdie! If you don't want to be my slave, then be my subordinate. If you don't have any plan on forming such contract with me then scram! I don't need a familiar that's uselessly hurting my family!"
His cultivation at the early 2nd Order of Xiantian Realm didn't stop there after breaking through. It continued to rise and arrive at mid 2nd order without stopping.
The lightning Roc was surprised the moment Yon made a breakthrough using his very own riatsu. In the world of bleach, cultivation was not a common thing even for spiritual beasts.
So, the lightning Roc was not aware of Yon's breakthrough but he could feel that the child in front of him was getting powerful each passing second because of the pressure he was pointing directly at him.
Upon hearing him offer of becoming a subordinate instead of a slave and even told him to scram if he doesn't want to form a contract, the lightning Roc was insulted of Yon's idea of making him a slave from the start.
"The last time someone was able to call me out I made him my subordinate! And now you're offering it to me? Don't make me laugh! Although your strength is the same level as your predecessor, you still lack experience!" The lightning Roc's riatsu became even more heavier and Yon coughed up blood upon feeling it.
Yon brings out an inscription tag and activated it with great difficulty under pressure. Summoning one of his familiars he formed a contract with earlier, Yon endured and held his ground against the lightning Roc's riatsu while giving orders.
"Basilisk, bring Jisan inside the house and guard him." the ancient spirit beast followed his orders without question. It gently carried Chouji on top of his head and started slithering towards their house.
"Not on my watch!" The lightning Roc has a different opinion as lightning shoots out from his body towards Chouji and the basilisk.
"No!" feeling the great pressure on him, he found it hard to move much less run to save his grandfather. But he persevered and still forced himself while coughing up blood to jump in time to block the lightning.
The attack connected to him, and pain was felt all over his body. All this pressure and energy forced his cultivation to break through the 3rd order without him wanting to with great pain.
The lightning coming from the Roc was greedily devoured by Yon's body in search for energy to fill up his dantian overloading him with pure lightning energy.
"Ahhhhh!!!!!" He shouted in pain. He gritted his teeth, clenched his fist and closed his eyes. Yon was in pain. But the phenomenon of his body devouring the pure energy of lightning coming from a mythical spirit beast didn't escape him.
He endured the pain to the point of disregarding it and focused on absorbing the pure energy that's trying to disintegrate him.
His past life flashed through him. And he remembered how he died from a lightning strike back then. Yon was furious! He opened his eyes and looked at the Roc. Electricity seems to exude from his eyes.
The lightning Roc was a bit confused upon seeing him struggle. 'What's going on? Why isn't he giving up? Even the last one couldn't last this long. And he became my subordinate for the sake of me sparing his loved ones'
"I. am not. Dying because of a damn lightning! Again!!!" Yon lifted his left arm and pointed his open palm, fingers wide apart from each other, towards the Roc.
"Spirit swords!" 10 swords made of spirit energy formed behind him while floating in the air. Struggling still, he raised his right hand and pointed his index finger.
Spirit energy gathered on his index finger along with the pure energy of lightning that was continuously delivered to him from the roc.
"What are you doing? Do you really think you can take me on mortal?" said the Roc in a condescending tone.
"I am not, a mortal. I am an immortal you giant big brain!" Yon declared proudly.
"Eat this! Spirit Gun!"
"Bang!" gunshot was heard as Yon activated his technique. It was probably the biggest spirit gun he's ever shot as his spirit energy was depleted just so he can cover the enormous body of the lightning Roc in front of him.
He barely kept the 10 spirit swords floating. But with great vigor he absorbed the lightning that was supposed to have disintegrated him since earlier.
He pulled back his left hand a bit before pushing it in the air commanding the spirit swords to attack the enemy in front of him.
A spirit energy fired from a human child's fingertips was now on it's way to the lightning Roc making him pull out the lightning strike he shot towards Yon's grandfather.
Before the giant spirit energy made contact with him, the lightning Roc fired off another batch of lightning with the intention to stop the attack.
However earlier when Yon was preparing the technique, he was able to mix in the lightning he caught without knowing. Since that spirit energy has a property of the lightning Roc's lightning, instead of stopping it became even more powerful as it blasted the Roc.
"Whaaaat!!!!!" the lightning Roc was surprised to see his lightning useless. Soon ten spirit swords followed and pinned themselves on the lightning Roc's body.
Since the Roc was a spirit entity, the spirit swords were very much effective against him. With no strength to fight back the spirit energy in front of him the giant bird was sent flying to the sky.
Seeing this Yon struggled to get the summoning inscription he used earlier to call out the beast and tore it to shreds. The lightning Roc disappeared with no anchor in the living world.
The silence of the night returned in peace as the spiritual pressure from earlier was no more. Meanwhile Yon was now sitting in a lotus position recovering himself.
'That spirit beast earlier was too strong even for me. I didn't even think that spirit gun would work on him. I was lucky this time, but what if next time the spirit beast outright kills me?'
'I shouldn't attempt to make a contract with a mythical spirit beast until I reach the 10th order of Xiantian realm or maybe until I reach the saint realm itself.'
Yon was correct in his thinking since mythical spirit beasts' strength ranges from 9th order to the 10th order of Xiantian realm.
The same way the ancient spirit beasts range from 8th order to 10th order Houtian realm. That was also the reason why Yon at the 1st order of xiantian was able to tame them.
This incident has benefited Yon a lot. First his cultivation raised 2 orders cementing it at the early 3rd order of Xiantian realm. Furthermore, pure lightning spirit energy, whether he liked it or not, was now running through his meridians that seemed to have found it's home as it further developed alongside his natural spirit energy.
1:00AM
Yon was exhausted spirit energy wise. He unsummoned the basilisk after confirming his grandfather was now sleeping soundly. He slumped to his own bed and fell asleep; it seems he was also exhausted mentally.
Kurosaki Household
"That was finally over." Isshin heaved a sigh of relief since nothing bad happened to his family.
"I think it came from the Tokisawa-san's home" Masaki said to which Isshin nodded in agreement.
"We'll have to visit them tommorow or shall I say later since it's already early in the morning?"
"Yeah, we'll do that later." Masaki answered.
End of chapter 5
Volume 2: Exorcist Arc