3 Lotus Form
"GRRR!" The Blue Demon roared as an icy mist radiated from it. The grass and foliage surrounding the mountain died as the freezing mist passed by.
The Beast opened its mouth and shout out a piercing icy beam at Ye Yuyan. Ye Yuyan seeing the beam coming closer rapidly raised his dagger and sliced vertically. The icy beam split into two from his slash and it went past Ye Yuyan in two different directions.
On Ye Yuyan's dagger was a little of frost but only on the tip. Ye Yuyan furrowed his brows as he noticed the frost.
'Illathar, Evil Form: Abyssal Minotaur, Slaughter Qi: Frost, Origin Force: Mid Ranked Fiend.' Ye Yuyan analyzed from the frost on his dagger. The dagger runes shone, and the frost dissolved entirely.
In this world, there are myriad paths of cultivation. One of those paths is the fiendish path, it like many other paths is a triple fold path. One cultivates the body through their innate evil form, they cultivate their magic through their slaughter qi, and they cultivate their origin force through authority.
Each path has different requirements and ultimately grants different powers. Humans have access to some of these paths and a few of their own but the mixing of various paths is dangerous unless one is a special existence.
"Damn exorcist! Where is my offering?" Illathar growled as his blue fur sharply stood up.
"Do you mean this?" Ye Yuyan said as he removed a scroll on it was an old tree stump.
With the sight of the scroll, Illathar's body shook with rage. It knew exactly what Ye Yuyan had done to Li Nan.
"Kill my hell warriors!" Illathar commanded instantly the hundred shadow warriors cloaked in black flames turned their attention towards Ye Yuyan. They rushed out of the village at high speeds and in moments they approached the cave Ye Yuyan was waiting at.
Ye Yuyan's eyes narrowed into intense blood red slits as the Hell warriors approached. He jumped forward with his dagger as a warrior approached. It reached out with its claws inundated with black flames.
Ye Yuyan's dagger shined with white light and runes and he slashed down on the claw. The black flames extinguished as he cut off the claw. Then with one swift motion, he decapitated the hell warrior.
He moved to the next one, this one held a blade made from the black flames. The hell warrior sliced down at Ye Yuyan's incoming dagger.
Ye Yuyan sliced the flame blade then turned and kicked the warrior. Then proceeding to stab it in the throat. With increasing speed, he cut down more hell warriors while also descending the mountain.
As he neared the bottom of the mountain, a squadron of twelve hell warriors cornered him. They screeched as they each formed various weapons from the black flames.
A giant ax-wielding hell warrior slashed down on Ye Yuyan as he approached the village. Ye Yuyan was quick to dodge as the ground exploded into black embers. Then as he dodged back, he noticed six incoming arrows. He spun his dagger in a swift motion cutting all the arrows while retreating.
'A squadron of hell warriors.' Ye Yuyan thought as he looked around trying to determine the formation.
'Six arrows, they have six longbow users.' Ye Yuyan introspected as he looked around and noticed the six longbow users hidden in the trees. He looked in front of him and saw four long swords users hiding behind the two ax-wielding warriors.
"I don't have the time for this…. I need to end this quick." Ye Yuyan said as he gritted his teeth. He took his dagger and stabbed it into his shoulder until it was fully inside his shoulder. His blood dripped out onto the grass like morning dew.
His already bloody eyes became demonic and a powerful bloodlust came from his body. It completely eclipsed the bloodlust of the hell warriors. Ye Yuyan ripped out the dagger and his blood pooled into the blade filling it with power.
The dagger grew turning into a thin dual-edged sword. He raised the sword and pointed it towards the squadron. The moonlight shimmered off the blade like a holy light as sword howled with a murderous lust.
"By my blood, Ye of the bloodline; Lotus Form: Blooming!" Ye Yuyan chanted as he swung his sword in a crescent cut.
As Ye Yuyan sword sliced across the air, it left a thin red line. The line pulsated with energy until it burst into a whole new world, a world of blood red slaughter. As the blood world manifested, It annihilated everything within 30 meters of Ye Yuyan. Everything from the shadow warriors to the trees turned into nothingness before Ye Yuyan.
Illathar's pupils constricted suddenly he saw into the red singularity. Inside of the singularity, Ye Yuyan wielded a blood red sword, intense malice filled his eyes, and blooming behind him was a blood red lotus. The lotus partially opened revealing a serpent coiled around the stamen of the lotus.
"You…. what are you?" Illathar asked in complete and utter terror, he had recognized that lotus.
Ye Yuyan gripped his sword harder as he got into a fighting stance. He raised his blade as the lotus behind him released a massive amount of red fog.
"Die!" Ye Yuyan roared as he slashed down, the red fog followed his blade as it became a wind blade as big as Illathar. The massive red sword slash cut apart the mountain as it moved closer towards Illathar.
Illathar's hands became filled with frost qi and he reached out to rip apart the sword slash. His frost arms slammed against the sword slash making his massive body shake and move back.
His feet cut apart huge swaths of trees and dirt as the sword beam lost force. The frost on Illathar's hand guard cracked and shattered in an instant but the sword beam became disordered from the strike and dissipated. Illathar looked at his palms and saw his blue blood dripping and then he noticed a strange redness to his cuts.
"What?" He couldn't help but blurt out as he noticed red mist was seeping into his palms.
"You damned thing, I'll kill you!" Illathar roared as the blue mist around him formed into a massive barrage of icicles. He blasted hundreds of icicles at Ye Yuyan.
Ye Yuyan coldly looked on as the icicles closed in on him.
"Lotus form: Wilting!" The red lotus behind Ye Yuyan fused into his body and expanded to protect him. Then it sealed itself and produced a red mist. The incoming icicles hit into the lotus unable to puncture it.
The red mist then dispersed the frost qi increasing its own strength. As soon as the icicles faded, the lotus opened.
"Your frost qi is powerful…. Your evil form is also strong. You are a perfect choice…." Ye Yuyan said with a supercilious smile as he stared at Illathar.
"What did you say?" Illathar said in a loud bellow not masking his fury.
"I said you are delicious!" Ye Yuyan laughed as he swung his sword agitating the red mist and forcing it to rapidly expand. The mist completely sealed the area around Illathar in a thick red wall of fog.
"This is…. slaughter qi! What the hell are you?!?" Illathar roared out as his vision became filled with a red mist. The mist rippled as screeching faces and devil eyes suddenly appeared all around Illathar.
"You are no exorcist! What the hell kind of thing are you?" Illathar questioned as he released his blue mist to protect him.
Illathar noticed a strange phenomenon the red mist was forming leaf after leaf all around him. He could notice the pattern from this height, the mist had formed a 9 leaved red lotus!
At that moment a serpent appeared in front of him. On top of the serpent made of black flames was Ye Yuyan gripping his sword.
Illathar's body trembled with a primordial fear, he knew the three paths for humanity and this didn't conform to any of the systems.
"This... can not be possible" Illathar stuttered out as he took a step back from Ye Yuyan.
"How could you have the law of kings?!?" Illathar stuttered out, this was the legendary law of kings held by the bearers!
"You talk too much." Ye Yuyan coldly intoned as the red mist pushed down on Illathar's gigantic form.
The serpent beneath Ye Yuyan was even bigger than Illathar, it was around 200 meters long. He was literally and metaphorically looking down on Illathar.
"Lotus Form: Cherry Blossoms!" Ye Yuyan said as the mist congealed into thousands of cherry blossoms. The blossoms were like tiny blades made of baleful energy. They sliced at Illathar, who tried to raise his hands in guard.
The blossoms sliced across Illathar thousands of time and slowly the wounds accumulated. The cherry blossoms slowly obliterated his being cutting apart his demonic origin. Ye Yuyan sent out with each slash of his sword, a hundred cherry blossoms as one.
"Arghh! Your Highness, please forgive me!" Illathar begged he knew that soon he would die.
"You die today...Blooming Moon!" Ye Yuyan yelled as he sent a final massive slash of Cherry Blossoms.
Ye Yuyan made a crescent cut with his sword that stirred the cherry blossoms. The blossoms cut a crescent moon across Illathar's body sending pieces of the mountain and village to the air with a single indomitable sword strike!
