9 Good Morning(part 2)

The tribulation for immortality is like taking a test. You call upon the heavens and make it challenge yourself. 'The heavens shall come, a storm will brew and the tribulations will fall. You live to be immortal or fail to be an example.' This is what the people on this world says when it comes to the tribulations one shall face.

Nobody truly knows where the tribulation comes from, all they know is that the tribulation comes when one is ready and when one wishes it to come. They only have to flare their cultivation and the power of their dao to reach the heavens. This will be taken as a call and the heavens shall respond. Of course, you have to face it alone or the tribulations will be twice or even thrice as strong as the normal tribulation.

The man-mist with his copied dao of destiny wanted to face said tribulation to see what it will feel like. But as he was about to call the heavens, he stopped. Most of the time a cultivator will 'feel' that this is not the time to face a tribulation, or that their dao is not ready for it. The man-mist felt the same way. 'This dao is not mine, I want my own one.' He thought.

The man-mist picks up a rock near him. With his eyes, he discerns the property of the rock. It can't even be called a rock, it was just a pebble that has the size of a fingernail. But as he looks at it, he saw a law in it. The law of sturdiness. He threw it upwards and saw it fall. The law of gravity and law of weight was seen as he watches it fall down.

He played with the pebble for a couple of minutes. By the end of it, his eyes glowed and his skin can be seen glowing and turning to stone. He comprehended and formed his dao of earth. He was still not content with it.

While he was contemplating on what dao to look for, it started to rain. He looks up and sees water started to fall down and sees the law of raindrop. He used the dao of earth to create a small bowl and he collected some raindrops. The water inside his bowl gave him a lot of ideas and laws. After a minute, his eyes glowed and the rain that was close to him stopped and started spinning around him. Sometimes slowly like the calm sea in the afternoon, sometimes the spinning water spins fast and dangerously like the raging river in a storm. The dao of water was just discovered by him.

But he wasn't satisfied, he was starting to get annoyed. He kicked the ground. He saw a rock flew but when it hit something, it created a spark. He ran towards it and picks up the kicked rock and the thing that hit it, a flint rock. He picked up the flint and the pebble. He tried to create that spark again. After seeing the spark for the 5th time, the law of spark and law of friction appeared in his mind. He continued doing it because he expects fire to come out the same way as he saw it in Razzeroth's memories. He looked at the sky as it was still raining. Using the dao of water he made an area around him that would expel water. Now that it is dried, he created a spark once more, not from the flint and stone, but by using the law. After the spark, a small fire was created on his palm. He watched it burn. Again, his eyes glowed with fire coming out of them. The fire in his arms, turned into a small ember then into a meter long raging fire that point towards the sky.

He was still not satisfied. This happened for many many times. After an hour he has discovered over 30 daos that are just around him. The dao of nature from the grasses and the trees, the dao of lighting and the dao of wind was found when the rain turned into a storm. The dao of blood when he saw it flowing from the dead body of Razzeroth. The dao of darkness when he looked at the shadow wolf that was nearby. He had more daos that he found, each within a minute or two after finding the law connected to them. He was still not satisfied and knows for sure that all of this wasn't his dao.

He was not just annoyed now, he was angry. His anger can be likened to a child throwing a tantrum when it doesn't get what it wants. His rage somehow cracks that space around him, and he saw it. He touched it at got his arm almost destroyed because of it. It wouldn't matter because it was just a black mist. But he saw it, another dao. More powerful than what he had so far, the dao of space. But as he was meditating about it, he saw another aspect of it. Space with another dao, time. He was intrigued by this. 'How can one dao connected to the other?' He thought. He put that in the back of his mind and continued to meditate upon the dao of space and dao of time. He found another one during meditation. The combination of these two, the dao of spacetime. He found it because of the connection between space and time. 'What is that connection.'

As he was contemplating about this, he felt it. He felt his dao of destiny pointing him towards Razzeroth's body, telling him that his answers are just by the body. He walks towards Razzeroth's body and there he saw, a red string attached to a band around his horn.

In the demonkins' culture, the horn of the demon is his pride. Once a red band is tied around it, it means that the demonkin is married. The man-mist saw the band was attached to something ethereal. A red string that is connected to somewhere else. The man-mist can't see where it leads to as the string goes towards outside of the forest. He concentrated on it for 10 minutes. 1 hour. And in the 3rd hour, his eyes glowed. The dao of karma. One of the hardest dao there is in existence. If there were cultivators watching this man-mist right now, a lot of them would've probably died of envy, jealousy or frustration. He found and stabilize more than 30 daos in a matter of hours. While even the biggest geniuses can't even find a dao within 10 years.

But he didn't stop there, he knew that it wasn't over. He knew that the dao of karma is the actual starting point. He sat down and he started to meditate. The dao of karma has a few laws within it. But the man-mist is focusing on one of its laws. The law that he will abuse to know what his dao his. The law of connection. It was stated that the past, present, and future is connected according to this law. 'But what if those three are not only the connection that the law is talking about? What if everything is connected by said karma?' The man-mist continued to contemplate about this thought of his.

He meditated for 5 days straight. The sky above is now clear. Having the body of a wanxiang adept, Razzeroth's body still looks fresh but the blood has already dried. Animals and beasts avoid this place as they can feel a dangerous threat coming from this small clearing. The man-mist's meditating body is still in view.

The sky suddenly brightened up, the sky became clearer. A particular ray of sunshine is shone towards the body of the man-mist. As if the heavens is welcoming him. The man-mist slowly opened his eyes, one is pitch black and the other is pure red. A golden string is starting to form from his back unto the sky. He looks up towards the sky and said "Good Morning, sorry to keep you waiting"