The Rose

Shrek academy regarded as the premiere soul master academy that has been raising geniuses since ancient times and one of the oldest entities in Douluo star. The school is located in Shrek city, a rising metropolitan with exceedingly growing popularity and population. It was founded more than 3600 years ago during the inception of the Spirit Pagoda. It has continually expanded since then reaching it's current state with high rises here and there plus are more coming along being built currently reaching heights structures have never reached before. Except in this city they are dwarf by the grand Eternal tree at the city's center.

The tree pierced through clouds and glittered with a greenish golden hue. People would come and go near the base, teachers and some inner court students would go here to cultivate or come for advise. The Sea-God Pavilion the house of leaders of Shrek and the place of it's highest seat the Pavilion master. Here a n Old woman with a crooked back gaze down the city from her high balcony. The weight of the years and the vicissitudes of life show on her age face but unlike her appearance her eyes radiate the fires of life. They are trained on her city but her mind wanders somewhere else, her mood gloomy for she has been given a premonition by the Eternal tree. She grasp tightly on the tree branches shaped like balcony railings trying to make sense of the vague images shown to her but alas she could only understand where it would happen not when or how, but to her this was enough as she trusted the tree's wisdom and sent Tang Jian Ci to send the message to her friend from another lifetime.

The messenger Tang Jian Ci thought back to his train ride earlier, he was having such a good time. He even felt that he was mistaken of his mission's difficulty and easily found a way to contact the old whale. Explosions engulf him and the train killing the common folk instantly including the girl he was currently speaking to and just had the great luck of getting to know, they were even planning to meet up in another city.

Unfortunately things never seem to be that easy and he could only sigh and let go of the corpse in his hands. His eyes coldly staring at the arriving evil soul master ahead of him. Tang Jian Ci did not hesitate and released his battle armor and domain from his blue-silver rose martial soul. He called his armor "blue flames scattering wind" after someone he like but never dated because she deemed him a womanizer.

Not long after releasing his armor and domain the battle quickly develop and he now found himself the center of attention from both foe and friend.

'Why do I always end up in such situations? At least I don't have to look for Senior Lin anymore.'

He thought to himself jokingly to alleviate the boiling anger he was feeling at this senseless loss of life. The Tang Sect and Shrek have always been his home and he grew being thought to abhor such atrocities and uphold the greater good. Disasters like these rarely happened now a days and the populous has forgotten the horrifying actions of evil soul master since their decline from Huo Yuhao's attack. Humans and soul masters felt the peace and have grown use to it and are unprepared for such acts of terror.

Thankfully he has been training and cultivating most of his life wether it was classmates or the life and death missions he experienced during the Tang Sect's assigned mission. He himself was no stranger to seeing slaughter, but it was never to this extent. Tang Jian Ci felt colder and colder as more people died and their spirits taken by the strange artifact. It had been merely been minutes since the start of the attack and untold destruction has already spread throughout the city block; from what he could tell, back up would soon arrive but it won't be soon enough.

Decisiveness flashed in his eyes as resolution appeared on his face. He crossed his arms near his chest while forming fist with his hand, he then summoned his martial soul that appeared as two tattoos on the back of his palms. They were of the image of a blue silver grass than seem to be have more thickness than regular grasses and had thorns. Roses could be seen growing along the vines separated by a few decimeters each time. The twisting vines coiled around each other forming a network of helixes, they were surrounded by nine soul rings all of which were either red or orange red signifying that Tang Jian Ci was a genius of his era. The 4th ring of his tattoos glowed and blue energy gather in his tightened fist he drew back leapt higher. Then with beautifully swift hands as if the thousand hand Asura himself descended to the mortal world; he threw countless of thin blue lights towards all directions bombarding the rampaging evil soul masters as well as those who were fighting the 1st responders and the reinforcements.

'Hundred weapons thousand separations.'

A parabola of lights filled the desert sky, their attack trajectory curved wildly striking with peak efficiency. They blind sided most of the targets and circumvented the defenses of the more adept combatants.Then the sharp blue lights struck the leader's body with the majority of it's numbers.

The Leader defended himself by activating his third soul ring causing a transparent two layers of scales to appear as armor for his fish body. Most of the attack got fended off by the scale armor but a few slept through the cracks like parasitic worms hungry for a host. They stabbed deep into the flesh of everyone struck, those who were hit felt no pain or discomfort from the attack causing the weaker people to relax their guard but the enemies with higher cultivation could sense the danger and immediately used their soul power to expel the needles out with maddening haste. Their actions though were ultimately too slow and they could feel the cold sweat on their faces drip down in slow motion like time itself had become still. Tang Jian Ci shouted in the air as the same soul ring he used to launch the attack glowed once more.

"Dark Infestation!!"