Enlightenment

Everyone acts casually as if nothing happened, when Li Na has suddenly become dumbfounded.

"Li Jing!?" Li Na yelled, then paused for a moment, then bewilderedly looked around and scratched her head. "Eh? W-what am I doing?"

With Jesus' divine power, he immediately altered Li Na's memory as soon as Lucifer and Li Jing left.

Then Jesus replies to her.

"Madam... Are you OK? Is something wrong?" Nonchalantly, as both of them sat close to each other, he helped Li Na by gently holding her hand and patting her back.

Li Na, who was a little bit confused, looked at Jesus and replied.

"It's nothing... I am OK. "

"Ok... Just tell us if you feel unwell. I wish we could help you more, madam. So don't hesitate to ask for help."

With his smooth voice and captivating smile, Jesus offers Li Na support.

Li Na just awkwardly smiles back at Jesus and speaks as she appends to Jesus's statement.

"Thank you for the offer; I will."

Meanwhile, inside Lucifer space, where Li Jing and Lucifer are.

Li Jing and Lucifer are now completely naked as they latch onto each other deeply.

Li Jing, who is entirely not in control of her consciousness due to the effect of pregnancy, is now totally controlled by her lust.

"Geez... Is this what Mary felt when she was giving birth to Jesus?"

Lucifer looked at her and then smiled gently.

"Lucy — I'll have you know. That.. I'll record this as evidence, so you won't complain to me after. "

While Li Jing's body is on top of him, Lucifer's snaps his finger, and then for five seconds, a video camera appears.

in five different angles: top, front, back, left, and right. Each camera records everything, as if it's a typical porn video.

"Hey, book! I heard that!"

"Shut your big mouth, Luci! I am writing your story!"

"Fine... Just get out of here, already!"

"Whatever dude…"

Thus, they continue their romance on the other side, leaving me, the book itself, unwanted.

Meanwhile, back in the new world, everyone is...

Death himself has arrived!

Death stood casually in the far back, where everyone was sitting, admiring the Colosseum.

"What a sight... Are these products that don't receive a blessing from the 'Tree'? All of them don't have any insight into reality, nor even nature itself. What an unpleasant sight... So it's true that there are benefits to evil. You're truly one cunning being, Lucifer."

Then Death shifted his vision and walked towards where Satan and the rest were.

Upon walking, Death sneers a bit, then speaks.

"What do you want, young one?"

"I thought I was seeing things, but I never thought I would meet you again, Old Man."

A familiar voice...

It's Syra Regnier!

Death comes to a halt in his stride, then turns his back and grimaces at Syra.

"Young one, you should listen to the warning, while I was being nice to you. The person you seek is no ordinary being, not even the person you met before or even now. We're not your typical beings that you see every day..."

Syra sneers at death before speaking softly.

"I had a feeling that you people are different, but... that's not what I am here for."

"?" Death looked at him confused.

Then Syra continues.

"Does the letter ring any bells, old man?"

Death grins a bit, then speaks nicely.

"Oh, that letter... If you're looking for that letter, I burned it."

"Burned it?! You say?!" Syra's veins pop up from his head as he clenches his hands in anger.

Death felt his anger and just simply replied to him politely.

"Relax the letter, young one. The letter doesn't contain much detail or information for you or about you and her. I simply summarize the letter for you, and that's it."

"Who cares about that!!! Don't you know that you shouldn't read or burn someone else's letter?!!!"

Death's mood suddenly became different as he saw Syra's rude attitude.

"One thing that I don't understand is: Are you mad because I burned the letter, or is it because the letter doesn't have the message you expected from the girl you admire, who happens to be your sister-in-law?"

Although his voice is calm, his death aura says otherwise.

he became somber when he looked at Syra.

The gloomy, cold, and heavy atmosphere around Death made Syra instantly nervous and stuttered as he replied.

"T-t-the letter has got nothing to do with you! S-s-so why did you burn it!"

"While I am here trying to help you, and you can't see why. There is nothing I could explain to you why... Let me show you why you need to leave your sister-in-law."

Death walks closely towards Syra, making Syra back off a little.

At a close distance, Death pointed his finger on to Syra's forehead and struck him with his power.

A beam of dark light has struck Syra's forehead.

"!" Syra immediately became cautious and alert!

As a result, he asks right away.

"What did you do to me?!"

"You shall see..." Death's gloomy reply to Syra as he speaks.

"w-wha-" Annoyed and anxious, Syra speaks.

However, before he even says anything, a sudden darkness ruptures his vision. making him totally blind.

But... it doesn't just end there.

The sight of Hell, the underworld, prison, and cells rose in Syra's thoughts.

The torture, the terror, the horror, the dreadful, the punishment and torment, each of them rose up as if Syra was the one who experienced it.

Syra lost his strength and vigor to stand up still as his consciousness and sight finally came back to normal.

heavy breathing, cold sweat, and trembling from fear.

Everything Syra saw, all of it, made Syra open his eyes to heed the warning.

"W-w-what the hell are you? A-a-are you… perhaps… From underworld?"

Death Smile then speaks softly.

"Perhaps, perhaps not… It's up to you which one you believe. But... There's something you must know. " Then Death leans forward towards Syra's ear, and then whispers to him. "…Act wisely, or else someone will make you do it for you."

"!" Syra flinched then gritted his teeth due frustration, then yelled back at Death!

"Stop telling me what I must do and must not do! I love her! I don't care if she was my elder brother's ex-wife. I will take her from him! And I will do everything to make her notice me!"

Death leans back and stands still, mischievously smiling at Syra.

"You're quite an interesting young one. Your determination is quite relentless in the inevitable fate of someone."

Then death turned his back away from him.

"...You know what? It's up to you. If you think my message is nothing, it's best for you to think of it as advice or more like guidance. Who am I to tell you what to do, right? I can't decide your fate... Just remember. Act wisely."

As a result, Death abandoned him and continued walking towards Satan and everyone else.

Syra, who was left behind, tries to stand up, but even his legs still tremble from terror.

"I will surpass them! everyone! That guy! And my brother!"

Meanwhile, where all the competitors are, the triplets have found themselves in some difficult situations.

a very difficult situation.

Li Baihu has stumbled into some stalls where cooked foods are displayed for free.

"Brother… If this isn't heaven, I don't know what is."

Standing behind him, his elder brothers, Li Qing Long and Li Xuan Hu, looked at each other puzzled and confused.

"Brother, why don't we just stay here and forget the competition?!"

Li Baihu turns and looks at his brothers with gleaming eyes and with his mouth drooling.

However, as soon as he turns, his brothers have a special answer for him, and that is...

A straight, hard punch to his face.

With their power blocked, Li Baihu immediately felt the pain and nosebleed from his two brothers sudden punch.

"w-what was that for?!"

"Shut up with the food, and focus! The ceremony is about to start!" said by Li Xuan Hu as he dragged Li Baihu away from the stall in anger.

As they move on, and head outside where all the competitors are.

Li Xuan Hu and Li Qing Long, along with their brother Li Baihu, who is still being dragged, immediately got awed.

cheering, loud noises from weapons clanging against each other, fireworks made from magic, and a loud voice from a person.

"Welcome Everyone! For the 10th Heavenly battle competition!"

A young white male wearing long white exquisite silk clothing, adorned with black layers of sky design with golden edges, has a blue crystal in his hand and is floating in the sky.

"Hello everyone! As an announcer, allow me to say on behalf of our Empire and to our Great Emperor: Thank you for coming for this year's annual event! Enjoy and have fun!"

With such a short introduction, it is then followed up with a roar from the crowd and the competitors from various people, beings, and demi-humans.

Then Li Xuan Hu looked around him and spoke softly.

"Will we be alright? Even our power block?"

Then, out of nowhere, a kid, the same height and physics as them, walks behind Li Xuan Hu's back and speaks nonchalantly.

The Kid approached Li Xuan Hu with long white hair and eyes covered with a dark scarf, wearing a long white robe with baggy sleeves.

"Then allow me to open it for you, for free?"

"!" Li Xuan Hu got startled and immediately turned to see who was it.

"With just physical strength alone, I am afraid you'll die if someone takes serious action with you." The blind kid smiled.

"Who are you?" Serious and yet alert, Li Xuan Hu became wary of the kid.

"Oh my... How rude of me. I AM* Samael."

The boy introduces himself just like a superior being, instead saying 'My name'. An introduction that shows no regard to those who are beneath him.

Li Xuan Hu, who never notices the arrogance of Samael, just casually replies to him.

"Oh is that so…?"

Samael is taken aback when he hears Li Xuan Hu casually respond to him.

Then Li Xuan Hu speaks once again.

"You said: You know how to open it?"

"Yeah, I know..."

"But my father said, it can't be opened by force. So how will you do it?"

"Certainly it can't be opened by force, but that doesn't mean... No one can open it. Allow me to show you."

Samael walks towards Li Xuan Hu and then immediately hits Li Xuan Hu's body from the exact same spot where Lucifer hit him.

Thus, immediately after, Li Xuan Hu's power surged in every part of his body like raging water!

"w-wha… How did you... What exactly are you?!"

Confused and shocked, Li Xuan Hu shivered from excitement and fear.

He's overjoyed due to the fact that his power has been regained once again. However, knowing that their mother and their father, Lucifer, block their meridians as punishment, Li Xuan Hu thinks that just accepting this support from an unknown child, named Samael, would only make things worse.

"See?" Samael just softly spoke, then smiled at a shivering Li Xuan Hu.

Li Qing Long saw that everything had immediately intervened and spoke to Samael.

"Samael, yes?" was soft and yet politely from Li Qing Long as he tried to converse with Samael.

"Indeed, that's what MY FATHER named me."

"I am just wondering... How did you manage to see which parts of my brother's body were blocked? You're blind, yes?"

"Indeed, I am blind." Samael lifted the scarf that was blocking his eyes, then removed it.

A dark, hallowed eye socket, which contains nothing but darkness and emptiness, has been presented before Li Qing Long, Li Xuan Hu, and Li Baihu's eyes.

"!" Li Xuan Hu, Li Qing Long, and Li Baihu, who only saw his empty eye socket, were shocked and stunned by what they saw.

Then Samael immediately put his scarf back and spoke softly.

"Excuse me if I frightened you guys."

Li Xuan Hu gulped for a moment, then spoke politely.

"No, it's our fault that we carelessly asked something inappropriate."

He bowed his head to Samael sincerely.

By doing so, Li Qing Long and Li Baihu also followed their brother's action and lowered their heads in seeking forgiveness.

"I am really sorry!"

As they lay their heads down in front of him, Samael smiled in amusement.

"You guys have been taught well. Even though it's given that each of you has your own flaws within, at least you guys are aware that you made a mistake. Then allow me to give you a gift as for my rudeness, which I've done and as thanks for today, as well."

Li Qing Long and Li Baihu, who are standing next to each other, are anxious as they notice Samael walking towards them nicely.

With just the blink of an eye, Samael moves so fast that he opens Li Qing Long and Li Baihu's meridians so quickly.

Just like Li Xuan Hu, Li Qing Long, and Li Baihu, power surges in every part of their bodies just like raging water.

"This is my gift. And this is the last time we can talk like this, kids."

Then, Samael snaps his finger and disappears in an instant!

"!"

"That moves… It's the same as our father and his friend do! Don't tell me…"

Despite his surprise, Li Xuan Hu tries to brace himself and simply collect himself from the situation he and his brother find themselves in.

"No, I don't have time to worry about others. I needed to think! Or else mom and dad are going to see us using our power!"

Then Li Qing Long and Li Baihu, who noticed Li Xuan Hu's anxiety and troubled actions, tapped their brother's shoulder and said:

"Brother... you don't have to worry. With the knowledge of our father bestowed on us, I think I can do what mom does. The spiritual body overflow control: enlightenment."

"!"

Li Xuan Hu flinched as he heard Li Qing Long's voice.

"That's right…! That technique that even Grandma couldn't use."

Li Xuan Hu turned and smiled bemusedly at his brothers, Li Qing Long and Li Baihu, who simply nodded.

Thus, the opening ceremony ends with them ignoring everything else besides themselves.

Going back to the lounge area, Li Xuan Hu, Li Qing Long, and Li Baihu look around and then head towards the corner where no one's around.

Thus, they sat down in a circle and then cast a protective barrier around themselves and started to cultivate.

Upon meditating, the triplets begin to feel their spiritual core.

However, they believed it would be simple. It's not!

None of them could feel a single thing inside their spiritual core.

"Why?! Why is it so hard?!" Thoughts by Li Qing Long as he starts to get irritated.

"...Mom said it's the same feeling as the surroundings, as you feel your core. But... I think it's hard!" Just like his brother Li Qing Long, Li Xuan Hu got irritated as well.

However, Li Baihu, on the other hand, had tapped in to activate the spiritual body overflow control: enlightenment.

Li Baihu's body starts to glow, then as it gleams, the lights turn like slime, wrapping into his body and slowly until it sucks inside his body.

As the light slowly fades away, Li Baihu opens his eyes.

"Brothers… I feel light as a feather!"

Although Li Baihu was ecstatic as he activated and controlled The Spiritual Body overflow control: enlightenment, his brothers were envious and frustrated as they stared at Li Baihu.

"w-wha... Why are you guys looking at me like that?!"

Shocked and frightened, Li Baihu moves back away from his brothers.

"You… how did you do it…?" Li Xuan Hu's speaks with hazed eyes and a cold tone in his voice.

"W-what do you mean, brother?!" Li Baihu is frightened and afraid when he replies to his brother.

"How did you easily achieve the technique?" Li Qing Long spoke, as he had an expression like Li Xuan Hu.

"Wait, wait!!! Calm down, you two! I'll explain everything!" Agitated and frightened, Li Baihu walks out of the barrier they created.

As Li Baihu walks out of the barrier, Li Qing Long and Li Xuan Hu stare, then finally calm down.

"Fine."

said by Li Xuan Hu, then immediately followed up by Li Qing Long.

"…Get in here."

Li Baihu carefully got inside the barrier and sat down.

"…So how did you do it?" Li Xuan Hu spoke firm and serious while staring at his brother.

Li Baihu takes a deep breath, then speaks calmly and firmly.

"Remember what Mom told us? She said that every person has a spiritual life force within. It's a power that both external and internal essence Qi are required to integrate both. Just like the aspects of reality and life have to coexist at the same time. It's the same thing... you have to calm yourself, and begin to feel your spiritual life force within and slowly let it out and control it."

Li Xuan Hu and Li Qing Long calmly listened to Li Baihu and then nodded at him.

"…I understand."

Li Qing Long and Li Xuan Hu exhaled deeply and resumed cultivating.

As they close their eyes, both Li Qing Long and Li Xuan Hu follow what Li Baihu said, which came from their mother's lesson to them.

It only took a moment after that as they finally achieved it!

However, Li Xuan Hu and Li Qing Long have a hard time controlling the spiritual essence qi that they let out of their bodies.

As a result, it exploded from within the barrier!

Although it didn't make any sounds nor tremors outside of the barrier, inside where the triplets were... The floor, which was made with a large marble floor, has totally pulverized into smithereens while Li Qing Long and Li Xuan Hu's clothes rip apart due to the explosion. On the other hand, Li Baihu had his clothes protected due to his safeguard cloak on his body and clothes.

With their spiritual essence out of control like a raging fire, their clothes start to tear apart and fade into smithereens.

"We finally tapped it out, but it's hard to control!"

As Li Xuan Hu is having a hard time controlling his spiritual essence, Li Baihu shouts!

"Don't force it to control your spiritual essence, brothers! Remember what Mom always says!"

After the shout of Li Baihu, the voice of their mother echoed in their minds with a sweet and soft tone.

"In order to win against Nature and Life, you have to give up and follow the flow through it! Just calm down... surrender yourself."

as they're struggling with their spiritual essence. Li Xuan Hu and Li Qing Long take a deep breath, then stay calm and relaxed.

Then moments later, both Li Qing Long and Li Xuan Hu's spiritual essence became calm, as if like liquid slime starting to wrap around each part of their bodies... and so on until it sucks inside their bodies.

Moments later, as their spiritual essence disappears completely, Li Xuan Hu and Li Qing Long open their eyes.

"So this is what it feels like..."

Li Xuan Hu softly looked at his left hand and then clenched it tightly.

"...the True Martial Art Path." As Li Xuan Hu felt the calmness yet firmness in each part of his body, he smiled and stood up.

However, with torn up clothing, Li Xuan Hu didn't expect that what few remaining pieces of his clothing hanging on him had fallen off, making him naked from top to bottom.

"Oh. My bad..."

Unfazed by his situation, Li Xuan Hu simply opened his dimensional space and grabbed a pair of clothes. Like him, Li Qing Long also grabbed a pair of clothes from his dimensional space. However, he didn't stand up but simply opened his dimensional space, took a pair of clothes and put them on.

Wearing a pair of shorts and a top tank, Li Xuan Hu and Li Qing Long stretch their bodies inside the barrier, gazing outside of it.

"Guys... It seems the events are starting; we need to hurry."

While Li Qing Long and Li Xuan Hu pondered, their brother, Li Baihu, followed up with a firm statement.

"But before that, there's something I'd like to say to both of you…"

Li Baihu, who also gazed outside of the barrier and then bewilderedly took a glance at his brothers, had suddenly lost his strength just looking at his brothers' ridiculous outfit.

Li Xuan Hu and Li Qing Long turn around and look at their brother, Li Baihu.

Confusedly, they asked.

"What is it?"

Li Baihu sat on the ground and said,

"Please... you two... Please change your outfit for something more appropriate! I am begging you two!"

Disgusted, demoralized and dejected, Li Baihu, who is always enthusiastic, has instantly lost his joy just by looking at his two brothers outfit.

"Why?" Li Xuan Hu and Li Qing Long, who are in sync, respond at the same time nonchalantly.

"!" Li Baihu lifted his head up and yelled immediately as he heard the response of his brothers.

"Why?! You are both seriously asking, why?! Just look at yourself! You guys look like idiots wearing that here!"

Li Qing Long and Li Xuan Hu look at each other dumbfounded and confused about what they are going to say.

But, Li Qing Long, on the other hand, came up with a reply.

"Brother… We came here because we wanted to test our power, not to display our outfit. To get work up a problem like this, don't you think it's a bit redundant?"

Then came Li Xuan Hu, who immediately removed the barrier around them.

"His right, brother… Instead of worrying about our clothes, shouldn't you be starting to worry about yourself and how you will hold back?"

With such a blunt reply from his brothers, Li Baihu couldn't help but to get frustrated and pissed.

"Fine!!! Do what you guys wants!"

Li Baihu walks past his brothers with a frustrated look on his face.

Li Qing Long and Li Baihu simply follow their brother, their faces puzzled.

When they went back, the triplets immediately received their first notice from the coordinators.

A young man waiting and standing in front of them, looking down upon them, speaks firmly.

"You three… I assume you don't know what's going on yet, right?"

The three nodded like nice little kids.

"…Then, I, as one of the coordinators of the event. I hereby tell you that you must go to the counter and have a lottery box, so we can assign you to which group you are going to be. Is that clear?!"

Although the man shouts, the triplets don't take it as a rude attitude from him but instead as an order to remember that he's above them.

Thus, they nodded once again and said firmly.

"We understand, sir!"

"Great! Then go line up, now!"

The triplets bow down and immediately run off to the queue to line up.

Upon arriving at the line, Li Xuan Hu saw a familiar face in front of him.