Xiao Yan had finished his training as he had been feeling some weird sensations within him. It was like his energies were chaotic and needed to be balanced. He went to shower and ended up soaking himself inside a bath tub for some time. He took the little free time he had to think back of how far he had gone, from being a normal martial master to a magnus with awesome powers.
At some point, he remembered when his father told him that when someone is about to die, he feels all his life stages passing by, Xiao Yan stopped thinking. He stood up to leave but couldn't get up right. He tried hard to stand up and ended up falling down. Suddenly he started sparking up and flaring up before his wind energies blew violently wrecking his bathroom.
"What is happening to me…." Xiao Yan hurriedly sat in a meditative state and accidently fell into a trance.
The entire platform was white all over. There were four doors standing in front of him. One was blazing red, the other was sparkling with different colours of lightning energies, the third door blew violently that it was even stronger than his own wind energy. The last door was the strangest door among all. It was partly black and partly grey, although the dark part of it had overshadowed the grey part of it. It was shadow energy.
"What the fuck is this? Where is this place?" He looked around in a confused manner trying to know where he is or at least confirm an exit place.
"Who brought me here? Where am I?" He continued shouting in frustration.
"So you are the inheritor of my power huh.. Not bad. Reaching this point at such a young age. Am surprised." A voice rang in his head.
"Telepathy…. This is telepathy. Only someone stronger than the Demi God level can be able to use this kind of power, that's what my Dad told me… does that mean…" Xiao Yan thought within himself.
"You may be wondering who I am, am I cor6rect? You may also be wondering how you got in here and how am able to use telepathy huh? Humans are the type that have abundant of questions. They have questions before they even try to figure the answers by themselves. Also it's not a bad habit, it sure is troublesome."
Suddenly a shadow passed by so fast that Xiao Yan could only feel it for a minute. He had a shocked experience.
"There are four doors in front of you. They represent the energies stored within you. That bastard Habaek, despite only having a soul body, he had been helping you immensely. Hehehe that bastard. These doors represent four trials you're gonna take. You have the trial by flames, the trials by lightning, the trial by wind and lastly, the trial by shadow. If you're able to complete all these trials, you will be able to create your own concept. I wish you luck, my inheritor." The voice said as the presence was fading away.
"At least tell me who you are. You call me your inheritor, but I don't know who you are and how I inherited you're power." Xiao Yan complained immensely.
"When you've completed all four trials, I will show myself to you. Lest I forget, the time here is slower. In your world, time is moving extremely slow. You may take years to finish even one concept. There is a surprise waiting for you at the end of each door."
Suddenly, the presence disappeared leaving Xiao Yan puzzled. He was surprised at what just happened.
"Am I really gonna spend years inside this space trying to create four different concepts….. fuuuck this" Xiao Yan was very frustrated. After some hours of frustration and thinking, he decided to pull himself together. He thought that if he could give it his all, then he won't need to spend a lot of years.
[KUROGANE]
His sword did not appear this time around. Xaio Yan now was more frustrated than before. Before, his challenge was the time that was gonna take, now was he gonna fight without a weapon? Was that bastard telling him to go kill himself or what?
"Let's take a deep breath and think of it in a more positive light. If it's a trial to create a concept, there should be less fighting right? plus am a martial master. What is there to be scared of? Let's just go get this shit over and done with."
Xiao Yan decided to enter through the flame door. Immediately he entered through, he saw himself in a grassland covered with red blazing flowers all around. He was lost looking at the wonderful scenery when he heard roars coming towards him at a quick pace. He knew that trouble was near. What he didn't know was that the trouble wasn't one he was expecting.