Lord Shadow

The first one that arrived in front of Azief was Yu Rong.

Behind him the pair of couples seems to be delaying their moves.

Yu Rong might have not noticed such act by Azief did. Such act could not deceive his eyes

He only chuckles inwardly and then decided to deal with the one that has already come

Y Rong thrust his saber with all of his strength in the saber, his nerve went tense as the stream of wind around him was pierced apart.

Azief look at this attack calmly because Azief knows that thrust attack would turn into a slashing attack.

His eyes are shining as he looks closely at Yu Rong swordsmanship and the way he moves, attack and even defend.

This information all help him to make a preparation to defat him,

Smiling, Azief casually forces that strike to remain a thrusting attack to the horror of Yu Rong.

Stabbing and thrusting is not the saber powerful move.

But yet, every time he is trying to change his thrust motion into a slashing motion, that branch of stick somehow is able to force his move to return to a thrusting motion.

Xi Feng who was thrown to the other side, try to get up but his knees get weak almost instantly and he stumble and had to lean on the cave walls.

Azief even while he is trading strikes with Yu Rong, his eyes could see Xi Feng on the other side of the battle. Gently he said

‘Xi Feng, look!’ he said and Xi Feng listen and straightened himself up. He looks at Azief strikes and attack and it amazes him.

‘This is how you should have executed the Flowing Sword Arts’ Azief said, as he calmly fighting Yu Rong.

It was funny that Yu Rong thought he could defeat that expert Xi Feng thought.

After all, just because he is disabled in the feet, he still has his hand.

‘And if that expert could guide him to break Yu Rong saber moves before, why are Yu Rong so confident he could take on that expert?’

Humans sometime, to fight off fear turns that fear into aggression. However, channel it unwisely and it would lead to one doom.

Azief was relaxed as he broke every saber moves that Yu Rong employed. He himself was opening himself up to new possibility.

That is because he notices something else as he fights Yu Rong.

With each strike, with each movement of his hand, with each understanding of the energy of this world, Azief could feel his fifth seal on his chest is unraveling.

It was not unraveling quickly but Azief felt movement in his chest.

The vein lines that embedded in his entire body felt like it was unraveling.

Could it be that by stimulating his senses he would quickened the unsealing process? He thought to himself.

He did not think that movement is the only factor for this sudden change in his sealing.

It is contact.

Contact with the energy of this world.

While he notices that the people of this world possess no magical energy or any powerful Laws or Concept embedded in their attacks and strike like of that energy that existed in his world and other realms of the Three Thousand World, there is energy.

It is pure, almost primordial, like it was recently being born, which is why the people of this world is still strong.

Azief could feel that the way they gather energy is different from the way he gathers energy.

Gathering energy and transcend levels is easier on Earth. Azief felt that if he could gather energy, he would devour every energy in this world, voiding this world of its energy.

But doing such thing would create an unbreakable karma between this world and him since he would probably woe every single lifeform of this planet.

Unless he mastered such power that he could ignore or cut Karma he would not do such thing without thinking carefully.

To overcome the levels is easy and so is devouring or gathering energy and every one could easily pass the Pillar Forming Stage if they are an adult.

At least that was true in the beginning of the fall. But Azief also knows the truth.

That energy will someday run out.

It is the reason why he wanted to be the first to break through and why he obsessively seeks power.

He fears that one day, the world won’t have enough energy for him to transcend his level. And the more he become stronger, the more he was aware of that reality.

That is why he pursue the Perfection Path and why he did not hesitate to walk the Supremacy Stairway, leaving his world and confining himself inside the cave and this world.

The Supremacy Stairway use external source of energy. That energy comes from the thirteen Supremacy that once walk that very same step.

That is one reason why he could transcend the limitation of the shortage of his world energy.

Right now, the energy of the Earth still seems abundant.

And the World Orb still provides.

It heals the world each time a great battle is waged.

He remembers that mountain that was cut by the power of the world will slowly reformed itself after a few months.

He realizes that trees grow easily and fast while poisoned areas would slowly heal itself after being left alone.

This all comes from the power of the World Orb energy that provides life

But…. that is only because there was nobody yet that requires the full energy of the World Orb to transcend the levels. But what if such existence was born?

Will the energy be enough then?

It was that question that motivated him. If there is anyone that is to tap that energy and knows the answer to that question it will be him.

If there is such existence, then he would rather that existence would be him. That is the only way he knows to protect the people he loves.

To become the strongest of them all is the easiest way to protect all the people dear to him.

The World Government and the Republic talk big, about laws and rules, but Azief knows that nothing could beat ultimate power.

After all he was the prime example of that.

There is a reason why none of the factions of the world dares cross him. It was because he was the strongest.

But the moment he is not, Azief knows what would happen to him and the people he loves.

He had enemies. A lot of them

Some, that he made, some were the byproduct of his rise.

That is the invisible pressure on his shoulder.

And as he moves through lives, he found that the more he walk, and the more people he knows, there is more things he wanted to protect.

Some people could not stand the loneliness of this cave and the boring chore of doing nothing. But he could. Because his mind keep thinking about them.

For some reason as he trading blows with Yu Rong, his mind did not think at all about his opponent. Such thing should be a mistake.

But for some reason, the more he thinks about other things, the freer his movement becomes in deflecting and changing Yu Rong trajectory of attack.

While he is fighting on the mortal world, on the Supremacy Stairway, his Law Body of All Source seems to be reacting to Azief fighting.

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