章 2: Long Tian
The youth's eyes flew open and he sat up on the bed and clutched at his chest right at the place where his heart was. His eyes were bloodshot and he was panting as if he had just run for an entire day straight.
And in the instant he sat up, the sky across the world, from the Jade Sea in the east to the Endless Void in the west, to the Frozen Sea in the north to Blaze Desert of the south, all turned red. The stars and the moon all disappeared for an instant, and the black sky was dyed red. This phenomenon lasted only for the briefest of moments, but it was enough for the strongest few in the land to notice it. They all stood stunned and wondered what could have caused the sky to change colour, but no one could sense the source of that aura.
But there was also one other thing that happened along with the appearance of the red sky. No, rather than along with it was better to call it the cause of the red sky. A boundless, endless killing intent covered the lands. The killing intent was so sharp and almighty, that it seemed to cover the very world in which they existed and reduce it to ashes. It seemed to look down upon all existence and was only filled with the boundless desire to extinguish everything in its path.
But no one felt that killing intent. Or rather no one was qualified to feel that killing intent. Just like how an ant's body would subconsciously choose not to feel the killing intent of a dragon, every single life form in the entire world chose to do the same. The highest person in this world was only at the third step. They were not qualified to even stand in front of this killing intent.
Bai Yun suddenly sat up. His hand clutched at his heart as he suddenly started to pant heavily. Cold sweat broke out of all the pores in his body. Suddenly a memory of his body being crushed by the devil emperor as he flooded the inside of the devil emperor's body with the essence of destruction dao appeared in his mind.
'What is going on? How am I still alive? I should have died along with the devil emperor after that desperate attack.' The youngster thought.
As his heart slowed down, the youth looked up. And the moment he did, he got another shock. The place that he was in was completely unfamiliar to him. He could not recognize anything here. Even more importantly every item here was of an unimaginably low grade. Even in the middle of the Grand War, where the resources were tightly rationed, he would never have used items of such low quality.
The second thing he noticed was that his body had no perception. Anyone who had ever stepped on the path of cultivation had a perception, no matter how weak. Even if they couldn't sense the outside world due to their perception being weak, or their cultivation base damaged, it was still possible for them to sense the inside of their bodies. The fact that he couldn't sense anything was as if he was a mortal again. Even when he was an infant, his father had given him special medicine that allowed him to step on the path of cultivation. This was a completely new experience for him.
The third thing he noticed was his hands. His hands were completely unfamiliar to him. It felt foreign. They were different from his hands which had been hardened by war. The familiar scars had been lost and they were much lighter. Not knowing what was happening, a sense of panic arose in his heart. Along with a moment of surprise, he quickly suppressed the panic. With his cultivation and will, it should not have been possible for him to panic because of something so simple.
He saw a mirror in the room. The youth quickly pushed aside the sheets covering him and proceeded to stand up. And the moment he did so, he stumbled and nearly fell. A frown appeared on his face. He was not used to this body. The difference in strength was too much. He could not control himself.
After taking a deep breath, the youth started to focus. Then slowly, step by step, he walked towards the mirror. And the moment he reached the mirror, he stopped and stared at it.
The face that looked back at him was completely different. In his past life, he was a strikingly handsome man, who had left many women heartbroken. His features were sharp and distinct, and his stature was tall and broad. He stood like a god of war, imposing before all.
But the face before him was ordinary. But he could still some traces of his former self in it. This led to a startling opposition. At first look, no one could see anything special about him, but yet due to the traces of his former life, a person who looked closely would be unable to look away.
The youth fell into contemplation. He was Long Tian, the son of the God of Trinity, Long Ma. Being the son of one of the most powerful titled gods, and being born with a seamless body constitution, allowed him to cultivate without meeting any bottlenecks. He was given many precious resources since he was young, and trained by the strongest and most mysterious of the masters since his youth. He was brought up far away from the mortal world, and raised in a bubble. And true to the resources given to him, he quickly rose through cultivation stages, and went on to become the youngest ever god in any cultivation system.
But times change. Soon after he became a god, an army of aliens from outside the universe invaded. And thus the Grand War began. The army of devils, as they were called, was not too large, but they were very strong and unpredictable. They also tempted many people in the universe to fight for them. In order to resist them, all the gods and titled gods banded together. But their leader, the Devil Emperor, was far too strong. He was stronger than anyone in the alliance army. The Grand War lasted for over thirty thousand years. But initially, no one could find the location of the devil emperor. After he appeared for the first time at the beginning of the invasion, it was as if he simply disappeared. Many people thought that he was in seclusion because he was hurt after spending a huge effort to open a rip in the universe large enough to allow the devil armies to march through.
As time passed, due to the tricky nature of the devils and their bedevilment methods, losses started to accrue on both sides. The devil's magic was unpredictable. They also used evil methods to cause great harm to the alliance armies. But with the help of the titled gods, victory was in sight.
And then the devil emperor left seclusion. He immediately started a large campaign against all god and immortal step cultivators in the universe. Over a dozen titled gods died in the span of a few years. Till then many gods and titled gods were sitting it out, thinking this was nothing more than a skirmish and a good way to train their disciples. It was only then that people started to understand the true nature of the war. Much of the devil army was hidden and its true size was not known. They also realized that the devil emperor wanted to destroy them all and was much stronger than they imagined.
Faced with no other choice, all the gods and titled gods came together and decided to fight together.
During this time Long Tian was deployed to the rear of the army. Due to his age and inexperience, as well as the fact that he was seen as the hope of the future, he was told to stay in a relatively safe location.
After he cleaned up the battlefield, he decided to head to the front lines. But by the time he reached there, the battle was over.
He arrived to see an empty battlefield strewn with corpses. The devil emperor was standing in the middle of the starry sky laughing like a madman. He had lost an arm and a leg each and a major part of his head had also been blown off.
Usually, such an injury would be healed in no time, but the devil emperor was too drawn out for his healing to work. And the price they had to pay was also extremely high. Every single titled god, and most of the gods had been stationed here. But in the aftermath, there was only the devil emperor standing. In front of him was a giant rift in the sky giving off strange undulations. It was due to his great injury and this giant rift that he completely did not notice Long Tian approaching the battlefield.
Suddenly Long Tian noticed an arm that was lying near him. Then his entire body froze. He recognized the arm as his mother's. He could sense no life force from it whatsoever. This would have never happened if she was alive.
At that instance, a strange rage took over his mind. Long Tian had grown up in a loving world. It was only after the war started that he saw his first ever dead body. The pain of all that he had experienced, along with all of the friends that he had made during the war who had died had pushed his mind to a breaking point long ago. His mother's arm was the last straw for him.
Suddenly he felt a membrane break in his mind and an intense desire for destruction welled up within him. Then he heard the voice of the heavenly dao whispering in his ear.
When a god steps into the titled god stage for the first time, the heavenly dao will give him a title. This title could represent the dao that the person has walked, his path, his personality, his profession or a variety of other things. For example, the reason his father was titled the God of Trinity was because he was the first person to become a titled god in all three paths of qi, body, and soul. And once a title was given, only after the person who had received the title had died and all traces of his existence had been erased and forgotten by the universe and the heavenly dao, would another person be given that same title.
As he stepped into the realm of titled god, he could sense the heavenly dao working around him, shrouding him, trying to decipher his name. This wasn't a process that could be done in an instant, otherwise, his father wouldn't be called the God of Trinity, as when he first stepped on the titled god realm, he had only reached it in one system, and a person could only be given one title.
In that second, he moved. He reached behind the devil emperor in an instant. The devil emperor was looking ahead at the giant rift. He was too injured and did not have any strength to spare to keep track of his surroundings. But even then he should have sensed Long Tian approaching. But due to the heavenly dao shroud around him and the interference and strong heavenly dao waves coming out of the rift, he was completely invisible. Long Tian drew upon every drop of strength in him and stabbed his sword into the heart of the devil emperor.
The devil emperor, who never expected to be attacked, was stunned and couldn't react for a moment. In that instant Long Tian converted every drop of energy into pure destructive dao essence and send it coursing through the devil emperors body. As the devil emperor turned around and looked at him, they could both see that he was corrupted by the destruction dao essence. His entire being was starting to crumble and it was only a matter of time before he died.
Then a look of utter viciousness appeared on the devil emperor's face. Then he stabbed his arm right through Long Tian's heart. And then without waiting for a moment, the devil emperor blew himself up.
Long Tian didn't even have a chance to react before this happened.
And that was the last thing he remembered before waking up in the body of Bai Yun.
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