Strength comes from your beliefs and what drives you forward, for those who want to practice the Way of the Tao soul have to first pass this test of the heart and soul.
A clash of auras and momentum from their forces clashed head on as they stared at each other and evaluating the opponent's weakness and strengths.
The beast glared at me with its red ruby eyes and breathing heavily ready to pounce on me.
"Hey buddy, what does your meat taste like, I want to barbecue you," I asked teasingly as i thought of how it would taste in my mouth.
Its face darkened. It seemed to swell up. The beast exploded at me. Just launched itself forward with its right arm scything around in a giant roundhouse strike. I sidestepped its body and ducked under its arm and bounced up again and spun around. it stopped short on stiff legs and whipped back toward me. We had changed places. Now I was nearer the sect disciples than it was. It growled and came at me again. Same move. Its right arm swung. I sidestepped and ducked, and we were back where we started. But it was breathing a little heavier than I was. Thanks to the breathing exercises taught to me I was able to handle myself for a while without using too much energy.
"You're a big lump of meat," I said.
I had no idea it would work really well, with a certain type of beast. It worked really well with the previous ones I hunted. IT came at me again, no hesitation. Same exact move. This time I crashed an elbow into its side as I spun under its arm. It bounced straight off of locked knees and came right back at me. I dodged away again and felt the breeze as Its giant fist passed an inch above my head.
It stood there, panting. I was warming up nicely. I was beginning to feel I had some kind of a chance. It had not yet started to utilize its inner energy yet. Lots of very big guys are either using their sheer size which is so intimidating it stops fights from ever starting in the first place, or else it lets them win every one directly after their first punch lands. Either way, they don't get much practice. They don't develop much finesse and practice strengthening their physique and that's where I knew I had a chance, even though it was a demon beast king they only knew how and care only for enhancing their realms only.
I blew the beat a kiss and licked my mouth as I was salivating after its meat.
He swarmed through the air at me. Came on like a pile driver. I dodged left and put an elbow in his face and he connected with his left hand and knocked me sideways like I weighed nothing at all. I went down on one knee and got back up just in time to arch around his next crazy lunge. His fist missed my gut by a quarter inch and its wild momentum pulled him past me and downward a little which put the side of his head right in line for a left hook. I let it go with everything I had from my toes on up. My fist crashed into his ear, and he staggered back, and I followed up with a colossal right to his jaw. Then I danced back and took a breather and tried to see what damage I'd done.
No damage!!!!Huuuuh is it made of iron or what??
I had hit him four times and it was like I hadn't hit him at all. The two elbows had been solid smashes and the two punches had been as hard as anything I had ever thrown in my life. There was blood on his upper lip from the second elbow, but there was absolutely nothing else wrong with him. Theoretically he should have been unconscious. Or in a coma. But he showed no pain. No concern. He wasn't unconscious. He wasn't in a coma. He was dancing around and smiling again. He was relaxed. Moving easy. Huge. Impregnable. There was no way to hurt him. I looked at him and knew for sure I had no chance at all. And he looked at me and knew exactly what I was thinking. He smiled wider. Got balanced on the balls of both feet and hunched his shoulders down low and held his hands out in front of him like claws. He stamped his feet, left, right, left, right. It was like he was pawing the ground. Like he was going to come and get me and tear me apart. The smile distorted into a terrible wide grin of pleasure.
He came straight at me, and I dodged left. But he was ready for that maneuver, and he landed a right hook in the center of my chest and unleashed a forceful fist of true flame. It felt exactly like being hit by struck by thunder eight times as my chest ached all over from the impact of the true flame. My sternum seemed to crack, and I thought my heart would stop from the shock. I came up off my feet and went down on my back. Then it was about choosing to live or choosing to die. I chose to live. Rolled over twice and pushed with my hands and levered myself upright. Jumped back and sideways and dodged a straight drive that would have killed me. He (the demon king beast) seemed to have known my weakness which was i had little experience when it came to cultivation and cultivation based martial arts as I only relied on my own physical strength and body too.
After that it was about staying alive and seeing what the next half-second would bring. My chest hurt badly, and my mobility was below a hundred percent, but I dodged whatever he threw for about a minute. He was fast, but he wasn't talented. I got an elbow in his face. It cracked his nose. It should have punched it out the back of his head. But at least it started bleeding. He opened his mouth to breathe. I dodged and danced and waited. Caught a huge roundhouse punch on the left shoulder that nearly paralyzed my arm. Then he near missed with a right and for a fraction of a split second his stance was wide open. His mouth was open because of the blood in his nose. I wound up and let go with a boneless spindle punch. A trick skill I had learnt some time ago while I had been caught by a boneless spider demon. You throw a spindle at your opponent to confuse him and as it lands on him you time it right and strike at your opponent real hard at the exact point of target focus which mine was his mouth. It slams his mouth shut and breaks his jaw and busts his teeth and maybe he bites his tongue off. Thank you and good night. I didn't need to offer the beast another spindle because his mouth was already hanging open. So, I just let go with the uppercut. Gave it everything I had. It was a perfect blow. I was still thinking and still steady on my feet and although I was small compared with him, I'm really a very big guy with a lot of training and experience. I landed the punch right where his jaw narrowed under his chin. Solid bone-to-bone contact. I came up on my toes and followed through a whole yard. It should have broken his neck as well as his jaw. His head should have come right off and rolled away in the dirt. But the blow did nothing at all. Absolutely nothing. Just rocked him back an inch.
He smiled foolishly as his mouth hanged loosely, I knew if I wanted to end the fight it would take a lot more than just the bone spindle.
With the twitch of an eye lid his speed increased and crossed voids to surpass my speed and I couldn't keep with him. All this time i had been able to keep up with him purely with my own strength and now with him using his cultivation base and skills it was no longer a matter of raw strength or power. I loathed the fact I didn't know the slightest about cultivation, I was really at a disadvantage now.
I was staring straight at deaths door when the demon king beast unleashed. Blue rock technique that sent me crushing to the earthen ground and knocking me almost unconscious.
"TO UNDERSTAND THE TAO SOUL ONE MUST FIRST UNDERSTAND THE WAY AND THE REASON OF HEAVEN, FEEL THE LAWS OF HEAVEN AND EARTH AND BUILD A BRIDGE TO BEGIN THE PATH TO IMMORTALITY. FOR THE TAO SOUL IS INEVITABLE AND DEATH IS THE BEGINNING." I could hear a voice inside my head, but I couldn't recognize it for some reason. I opened my eyes to find myself in a distorted space which was breaming with heat and surging with water waves.
"THIS IS YOUR SEA OF CONSCIOUSNESS AND WHAT YOU SEE IS YOUR TAO SOUL THE YIN AND YANG, MAINTAIN THE BALANCE AND YOU"LL FIND YOUR PATH THO FOLLOW AND FORGE A NEW WAY" The voice faded gradually, and I was left puzzled and stuck with no way forward.
Join for the next chapter as Reece discovers the way but will he be able to understand it and step into the world of cultivation??