122 Chapter 121: Higher Power

Xiu Ye stared out of the open window, staring blankly at the blue sky as birds sing and fly out into the clear sunny sky.

His face displayed no emotions except calm indifference.

He was in bed, a white blanket over his entire lower body from the waist as he was sat upright. He wore a white hospital gown, but there was no bandages around his body to show for his injuries except for the gown's left sleeve that fluttered around to show his left arm still gone, his other injuries having taken more priority to heal so it would take several more days for his arm to regrow.

"It's been a few days now, huh..." Xiu Ye sighed.

To be accurate, it's been ten days since the incident with the cultists, undead and the eldritch god that was about to invade the Douluo Plane through the ritual that Na Nali had used with the Blood Suppression Formation as a medium; sacrificing all of those with a cultivation base with Soul Douluo and above, with the exception of evil soul masters and the undead, to create a small connection with the void and established a dimensional tunnel between the two dimensions.

The chaos, death and destruction else that the zombie plague had spread had been what strengthened the connection of the dimensional tunnel and slowly opening it wider. Making the door for one of the most powerful being in the multiverse enter into the soul master reality.

Thankfully however, it was all over, but at what cost though?

After the battle with Na Nali and the Outer God, Xiu Ye was brought into the hospital secretly owned by Tang Sect, though he couldn't remember how that happened since he'd been unconscious for a couple days after the battle.

Xiu Ye gripped his right hand, remembering what he had heard about during his encounter and then fight with Na Nali from teacher Wu.

When the pillar of red light appeared, it had caused every undead and evil soul masters in the city to have an overall increase of their powers and physical capabilities, making them turn the tables around against their enemies.

Both Tang Sect and the Federation military army had lost more than fifty percent of their field agents and soldiers respectively. Their numbers reaching ten thousand or more, and that wasn't even counting the civilians before and during the full on attack against the Holy Spirit Cult and the undead.

'Yet, despite how even Soul Emperors experts have died or crippled for their entire lifetime, my friends are still alive and in one piece; a little injured but fine.'

Despite how that sounded, Xiu Ye didn't want his friends getting harmed. He'd rather die than kill anyone of them after all.

It was just that, he just couldn't help but recall what Cthulhu spoke to him before he pushed the octopus god back into his own dimension.

.....

"So, you are one of them..." In the basement of the Black Orchid Hotel, where gigantic pillars of fire and flames burst out of the floors, a strange voice echoed out through the cinders.

It was strange because the voice was like it was meshed with many different voices; male and female, young and old.

Xiu Ye panted heavily as he stabbed both Ryūjin Jakka and Yamato to the ground as a crutch. His Battle Armor was cracked all over and was just a touch away from breaking apart. Several types of weapons: swords, spears, axes and daggers, all radiating their respective types of mysterious powerful, floated around him.

"O-One of what...? Also, I thought you couldn't talk you slimy bastard." He stuttered out, blood sipping out of his lips as he felt his spiritual sea cracked once more.

The battle against Na Nali hadn't been easy. Not only was she a Titled Douluo, a task that was already hard enough, but she also gotten a power up from the Outer God that made her spiritual power reached the peak of Spiritual Domain Realm and just a step away from reaching the Divine Origin Realm! Add to the fact she has a Third-word Battle Armor. So of all else, he shouldn't have been able to hurt her and much less kill her. Not unless he used Bankai, which he won't yet because he needed to release more flames to use his bankai at its fullest.

So how did he manage to do the impossible? Frankly, it was just pure. dumb. luck.

Na Nali sent her spiritual avatar, her whole spirit in fact and not a trace of it, to invade Xiu Ye's inner world: in order to destroy his spirit and kill him in the inside, essentially making him a vegetable.

Unfortunately however, that didn't happen. Instead, her spiritual avatar was shredded by all the weapons in his inner world until there was nothing left of her.

"How, surprising. The last one of your kind that appeared in this universe was merely some time ago, it shouldn't have been enough time for another to spawn. Or, did something changed? No matter." The eldritch god responded.

"You are part of a race that all godly beings both hate and love. No matter if they're like gods here or of mine, for your species are known as the chosen ones or destined ones that goes against everything. They are creatures that transcend what is normal and common sense in a universe." It continued on saying, who surprised the red head when it suddenly stopped moving its tentacles to attack and instead let it hover in the air.

"They are the only people capable of defying both the heavenly law and the planar laws without any punishment, and ascend to a higher plane of existence much quickly compared to others. You people have been a mystery for everyone ever since the dawn of creation...except for us. We know what you are. What sort of beings you are." Its big gigantic eye bulged and glowed ominously as flashes of black lightning suddenly sparked and danced across around it and the portal it was still attached to.

"You are beings that has the most freedom, yet are ironically the slaves. You people who wants to control everything, yet you are ones being controlled. You all have the potential to defeat mine kin but I laugh coldly at ye all. For you are all but puppets of a higher power!" The tone of its voice started to change at the end.

'What?'

Xiu Ye narrowed his eyes. Getting his back straightened, he pulled the swords out the ground, the weapons around him moved as well, and pointed them all at the outer god.

"Who and what are you talking about?"

"Ha! If ye want answers from thy self, then ye shall have to retch the answers out of my dead corpse." Then, without saying anything else, the outer god shot all of its tentacles straight at Xiu Ye, who tried dodging all of them with Flash Step.

Hours later, even when he finally got the upper hand against the eldritch god and sent its gigantic eyeball back into its dimension; he wasn't able to get the answers about what the Outer God was talking about.

.....

'A higher power, huh. Judging by the tone of Cthulhu, or what I think is Cthulhu, this higher power might be more powerful than the Outer Gods. Could this higher power be the reason of how I reincarnated into this world? Or possibly even my other incarnations as well?' Xiu Ye shook his head. 'No point in thinking much about it when there's no clue as to what it is.'

'Though, if what Na Nali's nonsense could be understood: Outer Gods could be as powerful as a God King, luckily the one that had gone through the portal only had around 5% of its true power or I would have already been killed by it. So, it must mean that the higher power must be stronger than a God King. Stronger than a king...a God Emperor perhaps?'

'Cultists, zombies and gods. Shit. The world's more dangerous than I first thought, and I thought having Tang Wulin more stronger than canon could make things much easier for me.'

"Haa." Xiu Ye let out a groan as he slumped against the bed, his hair bangs fell over his eyes. His normally red crimson hair now had a patch of white around his bangs, a side effect of overusing his soul and body.

'I'm still too weak. Now that divine beings are going to show up sooner than expected, I have to get stronger. And I'll start by beating up Ryūjin Jakka and mastering Zanka no Tachi, then restoring my soul to its perfect state and access my previous lives' memories.'

"Ohoh? Feeling confident because someone managed to skewer a Outer God out of his world, huh?" Ryūjin Jakka's familiar voice ranged inside of his ears. "Also, remember, you aren't alone in your journey Ye."

Blue lightning flickered across his body, Mjolnir appeared momentarily on top of his shoulder.

Xiu Ye smiled, feeling better that he has someone to accompany him in his path towards the peak.

"Hey! Don't forget about me as well!" Tianguo spoke, tired and dissatisfied in her voice. She had expended a lot of her energy in helping him fight against Na Nali and the other god after all, and to find that she wasn't included of course she'd be dissatisfied.

Xiu Ye chuckled when the door to his room opened up to reveal Wu Zhangkong, covered in bandages, with a raised eyebrow.

"Something funny?" Xiu Ye shook his head.

"Nah. I just thought about Wulin's face when he eats the hospital's food."

Wu Zhangkong blinked his eyes and for a moment a smile formed on his face.

"Yes, it is quite funny."

"Oh? So I take it you've already visited him and the rest?"

"Yeah." Wu Zhangkong's turned serious.

"Xiu Ye, you and your friends have been invited to visit Shrek Academy."

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