The heaven-rending divine body.
when mastered this technique has the ability to temper the body allowing the user to rend even the heavens itself. Some of the auxiliary effects of the technique are to eliminate all poisons and be immune to illusions.
even though the technique was so strong since it hadn't been mastered yet it couldn't fully cleanse Cyrus of the poison, instead making it so that the poison wouldn't totally stop him from using qi and would make it so that his flow of qi was merely slowed.
Cyrus stared at the more than a dozen pinnacle level martial artists in front of him and sighed in regret. He had always wanted to stand at the peak of the world. Beyond the so-called pinnacle that the people he was facing had reached.
He wanted to be invincible. So strong that even if the whole world was trying to kill him it would only take one slash of his sword to silence them all.
That's why he did everything in his power to reach that goal. Despite being an orphan being trained to be a foot soldier of the cult he slowly climbed up the ranks of the demonic cult gaining the attention of the heavenly demon and soon after becoming his only disciple. At that point the path ahead was already clear. Succeed the heavenly demon and become the leader of the cult himself.
But he was never satisfied with that. If the heavenly demon was so strong then why did the righteous sects still exist. If the heavenly demon was so strong then why didn't the demonic cult already rule all of the martial world.
If Cyrus wanted to truly reach the peak he knew he'd have to reach farther so he devised a plan to get the divine technique of mount hua. And again he succeeded.
Being one of the 8 demonic masters of the cult and the disciple of the heavenly demon it was only natural for the heavenly demon to be monitoring Cyrus somewhat. Because of this the heavenly demon immediately knew when Cyrus raided the greatest sect of the righteous alliance. Seeing that his disciple had managed to get his hands on one of the greatest techniques in existence greed started to overtake the heavenly demon as he tried to intercept Cyrus on his way back to the cult and get the divine technique for himself.
Cyrus was already injured and would have had no chance at beating the heavenly demon in a one-one-one battle leading to him using the forbidden technique 'meridian breaker' to increase his speed at the cost of the destruction of his meridians. Cyrus predicting the heavenly demon to turn on him for the technique had transformed a hidden away cave into a place where he could go into seclusion before hand and stock pilled an enormous amount of body refining treasures to help him learn the divine technique.
With his meridian destroyed Cyrus was no longer able to get his qi to move. not meaning it was gone just that he couldn't use it. luckily for Cyrus the heaven-rending divine body changed the body to accommodate the improvement of ones physique making it so that as long as he can successfully get started with the technique he would be able to use his meridian like normal again or even better than before. this being easier said then done but Cyrus knew that with his talent being at pretty much the highest a human can have he'd learn the technique before long.
And that was the start of Cyrus's 3 year long seclusion. during this seclusion much happened in the outside world. such as the start of the war between the righteous alliance and the demonic cult. just thinking about the frustrated expression on his ex-master's face dealing with the losses of the war without being able to snatch the technique from him made Cyrus grin.
More importantly during the seclusion Cyrus had succeeded in learning the Heaven-rending divine body. This in turn made it so he could use his qi again which helped him improve in the divine technique faster and use all of the other combat arts that had become unavailable with the destruction of his meridians.
Cyrus was the strongest he had ever been making him think that even if he had to face the heavenly demon again he wouldn't lose. this confidence made him think it was High time for revenge.
immediately after leaving seclusion Cyrus went to the library of the divine sea and stole two of the best techniques of the cult. As for the demonic master that was supposed to be guarding the library, Cyrus made short work of him proving to make his ego rise to another level as someone that had been a difficult opponent for him 3 years ago was now not able to hurt him at all.
Even then Cyrus knew he wouldn't be able to kill a demonic master with all their trump cards so easily so he decided to escape as he was still in the center of the cult and the last thing he wanted was to get surrounded on all sides.
escaping from the cult unscathed he went back into hiding and reviewed the techniques he had just acquired.
one of them being impossible to use as it had to be practiced by the heavenly demon within the first five years of birth. but the other proving to be immensely useful for Cyrus.
This technique was inconspicuously hidden in a dust corner of the library when it caught Cyrus's eye making him grab it. This technique didn't even count as a full technique, instead it was the notes of all the heavenly demons at their peak and during their twilight years.
At the beginning these notes all consisted in of a strange feeling that the heavenly demons felt coming from the world itself and the various insanely strong martial arts they made trying to harness this power. none of them succeeded but as each generation of heavenly demons went by they got closer to finding the true nature of this energy the world seemed to be producing.
Cyrus knew how much this book was worth knowing that by now the entire cult must be on his tail trying to find him as he pretty much stole the majority of the heritage of the cult with just the set of notes in his hands.
knowing this Cyrus decided to find an even more hidden place to go into seclusion as he tried to decipher the mystery of the world with the help of notes in his possession.
so for the next 2 years he went into seclusion again working on improving the heaven-rending divine body and his understanding of the world. Finally he left seclusion having found the answer he was looking for.
Now he did it. He became invincible. so he let down his guard and went to a tavern in a nearby city to have his first nice meal in half a decade.
At some point during his meal he felt the flow of his qi slowing down. all he could do was grab his sword before he was suddenly besieged by almost everyone he had offended so far from both the righteous sects to the demonic cult.
And that's how we reached the present.