Chapter 24: Holy Lance

"Okay, now, mind explaining what the hell is going on here?" Xiu Ye asked, now standing on the ground of his familiar inner world. Infinite swords embedded into the land, the bright sun shining, clouds mostly covering the sky while countless lightning bolts move around like dragons in them and alongside gigantic bronze gears.

He had just closed his eyes, mediating, then all of a sudden, he found himself within his inner world.

And this day was supposed to be his day off as well!

"..." Standing opposite to him, a tall figure seemingly made entirely out of flames, shrugged.

"I pulled you in because I figured you wanted to see the changes I had undergone just now." Xiu Ye nodded, staring at the new form of Ryūjin Jakka in surprise but kept his face indifferent.

"Ok, so, explain?"

"It should be because your soul has started to influence me, as I should be your Zanpakutō or martial soul should be the correct term. The process had only started now because I haven't really acknowledged you yet, seeing as you haven't defeated me. Actually, if you had defeated now, this process would already be done in an instant and I'll take in my new form."

The right brow of Xiu Ye twitched.

"...Like defeating you is an easy task you hacks monster."

Ryūjin Jakka shrugged once more, "Well all's fair in battle and war." apparently Xiu Ye's soul has already started to influence him personality wise.

In the years he started training under his spirit weapon, Xiu Ye had tried multiple attempts to defeat him. From honorable battles to dirty tactics and shameless acts of trashtalk.

But unfortunately for him however, Ryūjin Jakka was a part of Genryūsai Yamamoto soul; the founder of Gotei 13 and the captain commander for two thousand years. He has been though a lot of battles and fought a lot of people with eccentric personalities, one of those especially were Yachiru Unohana, the most diabolical criminal of Soul Society turned founding captain and a master swordswoman.

Not only that, he had to also deal with two of his most prized, and troublesome, pupils: Shunsui Kyōraku and Jūshirō Ukitake.

Ryūjin Jakka could swear the resemblance of personalities of Xiu Ye and Shunsui Kyōraku were almost similar.

And so, dealing with Xiu Ye's tricks was easy.

"Don't give up boy. You've made a lot of improvement compared to your previous self. You'll defeat me one day, just be patient." Ryūjin Jakka said, and he would smile if he currently had lips to show in his new form.

"Though in fact, you could defeat me if you used any of the skills in the weapons around us. Even I'm not that powerful to block an attack capable of manipulating casuality." He turned to the side and towards the hill of swords. At the slope of the hill were several spears embedded into the ground, like the other weapons in the world, but Ryūjin Jakka's eyes was specifically on the a certain red barbed spear.

"For three years, you hadn't use any of the weapons' special abilities except only using them to physically attack me. Why is that?"

Xiu Ye turned towards the spear as well, nodded and let out a sigh.

"I'm gonna sound stupid in saying this... It's because it would have been unfair and it wouldn't be called as my own win against you."

"Oh?"

"I want to win. I want to beat you. But with my own abilities, techniques and skills that I learned and not borrowed from another." Xiu Ye narrowed his eyes at him, sounding incredibly serious. The words his spoken being ironic and hypocritic.

Call him prideful, call him stupid, call him a hypocrite, but he wanted the revenge he'd been wanting for three years to be one that he could say that he won without any regrets.

"You..." Ryūjin Jakka stared at him, speechless.

"You're an idiot!"

"Ack! Well fuck you!" Saying that, Xiu Ye went out of his inner world.

Letting out a sigh, he stood up from his bed and grabbed his soul communicator on the small table by his side. Thumbing a few numbers on it, he raised it near his ear.

"Hello?" A familiar nonchalant feminine voice resounded in Xiu Ye's ears.

"Hey sis." Xiu Ye said, standing in front of his window that displayed the clear view of the sky and the moon.

The moon's silver light shone through the window and onto Xiu Ye's handsome face. His golden pair of eyes seem to glow bright under the moonlight.

"Oh brat, how are you doing?" Yu Fei's voice turned slightly softer.

"Just the normal stuff. Trying to become strong while training my little cousin as well..." Both Xiu Ye and Yu Fei conversed with each other for minutes on end of today they'd gone through.

Xiu Ye would call her every night before he sleep or mostly cultivating with the Soul God Cultivation Method, and Yu Fei would always answer and they would both talk to each other about anything.

"Good night big sis."

"Good night, Ye." After the connection was cut, Xiu Ye headed back to his bed and slept.

....

Unknown location.

Yu Fei looked down on her soul communicator with a smile, her hair tied into a bun and her nun outfit gone. Instead, she was clad in silver and blue armor with a cloak, it looked similar to a knight. She stood atop the roof of a large skyscraper building, about 50 meters tall, the shape and light of the moon illuminating her beautiful visage.

She was like a goddess of the moon, with beauty that had no equal.

Her smile that could make many men fall for however, fell and her eyes turned extremely cold as she turned to the side.

Several black hooded armored figures surrounded her, unexpectedly, they were floating in the air. Their auras fierce and reeked of evil. Several soul rings surrounded their bodies, with the most only being nine-rings and the least being seven-rings.

They were all evil soul masters at the level of Soul Sages, Soul Douluos, and Titled Douluos! The top cultivation ranks in the entire world! Moreover, evil soul masters are more powerful than normal soul masters at the same rank.

Yet, Yu Fei snorted, unimpressed and unaffected by the powerhouses and their display of soul power.

"All of you, leave, right now I'm in a rather good mood. So if you leave right now, I will not hunt you down and make you all wish you weren't born in the same era as me." She said with a dignified and arrogant voice, her right hand raised, and a beautiful white lance appeared in her hand. Holy light element was released from the lance, covered it and her body entirely. Space seem to distort as the holy aura released was something the world was incapable of handling.

Most of the hooded figures trembled in fear, their auras diminishing into almost nothing. Some of them seem as if they were to fall down. They looked at her in disbelief and fear.

Holy power was the antithesis to evil, so it wasn't a surprise that they were affected. It was the fact that she didn't release her soul rings yet made them fearful.

Her holy power was so powerful that not even revealing her soul rings could affect them this much? They were wearing battle armor for devil's sakes!

Battle armors are like a circuit carved into the user's martial soul that granted the martial soul its own set of armor and sublimating it.

Battle armor masters held a supreme position throughout the entire continent. Even government officials would withdraw from any disputes involving one of them. In the end, they would be forced to call in another battle armor master aligned with the government to settle the problem. Indeed, only a battle armor master could face another battle armor master.

On the Douluo Continent, they were the most regal of existences.

At its core, a suit of battle armor was similar to a super mecha. This was because both were forged personally by a soul master and acted as an extension of and became a major component of the user's strength. A battle armor master would be twenty soul ranks stronger than any soul master of the same soul power rank.

If a soul master had five rings and equipped a one-word battle armor, his strength would be equivalent to that of a seven-ringed soul master. A two-word battle armor master could match a soul master with eight rings, and so forth.

Right now, those Soul Sages had doned two word battle armors, making them equal a Titled Douluo's strength, and the Soul Douluos had three word battle armors, making them equal a Hyper Douluo's strength. While the only Titled Douluo has a three word battle armor as well, but his strength equaled a Limit Douluo! The peak strength of this world!

Yet, even with the amplification of their battle armors, they still felt the elemental suppression of Yu Fei's holy power.

The leader, the one with nine-rings, broke into cold sweat. Cursing at his superior that ordered him to capture the monster in front of him for interrogation of a pair of highly valued targets.

"I-I think that wouldn't be possible–" The leader started, trying for a softer approach, cupping his hands to her.

But he was interrupted. "Then die."

Yu Fei raised her lance, her martial soul was called the Holy Lance, vertically upward and seven soul rings appeared around her body. Purple, purple, black, black, black, black, and red!

The soul rings circled around her body then rose up to surround the Holy Lance. The seventh soul ring lit up in a bright red light, the light element in the air converged around the lance in beams of light, simultaneously, the lance glowed in a golden glow akin to the sun. The golden light brightened into a pillar of light that rose up to pierced the heavens!

The night sky lit up like it was the midday, the people below on the ground looked up in surprise, wonder and awe.

It was like a miracle, no, it was a miracle.

Her eyes turned golden, her armor was bathed in a golden color, from her back sprouted two pairs of golden corporeal feathered wings, her aura turned even more noble and powerful. The golden light gathered behind her and turned into a circle, a halo, no, a golden soul ring hovered facing her.

It was like she turned into a genuine goddess of light.

This was her seventh soul ring ability, Holy Lance True Body.

The pillar of golden light swayed and descended down, splitting the skies and darkness apart.

Not good!

The evil soul masters wanted to block or evade the attack, but they found out that they couldn't move their bodies! Even the Titled Douluo found it hard to even twitched a muscle.

'What the hell was going on?! How is she able to do this? I'm a Titled Douluo with a three battle armor, making me equal a Limit Douluo's strength while she's a Soul Sage! Even if the battle armor she's wearing is a three word battle armor, she would only able to equal a Titled Douluo's strength. So how...' The leader gritted his teeth with narrowed eyes, glaring at Yu Fe. He tried to use his martial soul or battle armor, but even he wasn't able to use them but only remain suspended in air.

Then what about spiritual power...? The leader widened his eyes as sudden realization and horror hit him.

He had been feeling restless ever since he met the woman's eyes.

When did the darkness element around him become so faint? How couldn't he and his subordinates able to control their respective elements around them? And that golden soul ring behind her...

"Divine Origin Realm–" That was the last words that evil soul master had muttered in shock and terror before he and the other evil soul masters were purified out of existence.

The world turned dark once more as the pillar of golden light disappeared.

Yu Fei's eyes, martial soul and form turned back to normal.

"Idiot. Like it's that easy to breach the level of gods." She muttered nonchalantly, a trail of blood slowly dripped from her mouth. She clearly suffered some internal damage

Her ears slightly perked up, suddenly hearing the sounds of different voices from a vast distance, saying to converged in the area she was in.

"Looks like the feds have caught up... time to go."

Standing still for a moment, she disappeared in a blink of an eye.