Tiger Trials

Cross entered a dark space once more and a booming voice sounded "So you've finally come!" Cross looked up and saw a pair of blood red tiger eyes, full of bloodthirst. Cross smirked and the voice said "I am extremely disappointed you went to see the two chickens before me! Plus! I might not even give you anything! If you don't pass my trials... Hehe, I will kill you myself!"

Cross said "Well lets go then." the Tiger spirit chuckled and the scenery changed.

Cross looked around to see he was actually at Hogwarts, standing outside. He heard a scream and looked over to see Cho's hanging body, the Tiger voice said "Such a young girl. Do you feel not remorse?"

Cross sneered and said "Hmph, my wife almost died because of her. She's lucky I didn't kill her with my own hands!" the Tiger spirit chuckled and the scene changed to a house with a man and woman crying over a coffin with Cho's body inside. Cross looked on without emotion, not bothered at all as he yawned "Little cub, is this your trial? I don't regret the people I've killed. I only regret I didn't kill they slow enough!"

The Tiger snorted and said "We'll see." the scenery changed again, Cross saw all the people he has killed being killed over and over again. He saw their families crying over their corpses, their loved ones being forced into unfavorable situations, etc.

Cross didn't change his expression once, until the last one. It was Zephyr and Pandora, they were playing happily with Luna, until their expressions turned vicious and they killed her in cold blood. Cross narrowed his eyes and his killing intent soared before calming down, the Tiger spirit said "Oh? You won't kill them?"

Cross chuckled and said "Even if they could kill their mother, they wouldn't. Most likely they would come for me, but even a Lion doesn't eat it's own cubs. Of course, even if they tried I would give them a good spank and seal their cultivations. Hmph! I gave them life, what are they mad about?"

The Tiger was speechless before laughing and saying "You passed the first trial, though to be honest with you... It was supposed to be more impactful, but you have absolutely no remorse whatsoever so it was pretty underwhelming..."

Cross chuckled and he landed on a giant body of calm water. There was a small island with a single tree and a pitch black figure. The figure stood up and turned to him, it was surprisingly himself! But the shadow him had blue eyes instead.

The Tiger spirit said "Defeat yourself and you pass the trial... Hehe... This you is 10% stronger that the you now. Hopefully you don't die~" Cross chuckled and suited up, grabbing his mace out of thin air before charging at himself, who did the same.

They traded blows straight to the head and both went flying. Cross chuckled crazily and suppressed his strength to the Sovereign Realm Peak, the Tiger shouted "What are you doing?! Are you crazy?! Do you know the difference between Divine Origin Realm and the Sovereign Realm!?"

Cross cracked his neck and said "Naturally. But this is more fun! Hhahahaha" before charging at his clone and swinging his Mace at the clone's feet, the Clone smashed it's mace at Cross' head. Cross chuckled and the Mace changed direction to the ground, while Cross was sent flying.

A crack opened up under the Clone and a burst of Void Energy blasted the clone from below. Cross appeared in the air and slammed his mace down on the clone in mid-air. He took another step and smashed the clone again in a different direction, his steps got faster and faster until all that was seen was his clone getting smashed back and forth like a pinball machine.

Cross opened his second vein skill and spun the mace in his hands, Void Energy gathered on the mace and he threw the energy towards the Clone "Seal of the Void!" The clone was wrapped up in Void chains and couldn't move.

The 3 vein opened and Cross' aura sky rocketed to Divine Origin Peak, he un-suppressed himself and went to Half-Step Divine Soul Realm. Cross trembled in pain and spun his mace, shooting towards the clone extremely fast. His mace spun under him and Cross grabbed hit with two hands, bringing it over his right shoulder.

The fourth vein opened and cross slammed the Mace down roaring "Beginning of the World!" the mace cracked, clearly not able to support such a thing. But it still did it's job and smashed the Clone before exploding.

The Clone shot down to the ground and slammed into the water, creating a massive explosion. Cross closed his 4 veins and was breathing heavy. The Tiger spirit started laughing happily and said "You! Hahaha! You didn't disappoint me! Hahhahaha! The 1st level of the Divine Origin Realm, able to fight against the 5th Level of the Divine Soul Realm! Hahahahaha!"

The scenery went back to darkness and the Tiger spirit showed himself entirely, not just eyes this time. He was a giant White Tiger with blood red eyes. Cross coughed up blood and grinned. The Tiger spirit gave him a thumbs up and said "You know, 'that person' demanded me to give you a bunch of things but honestly if you disappointed me I wouldn't have given them to you. I'm not like those other geezers, she can kill me for all I care!"

Cross scratched his neck and said "I assume you're going to tell me, I don't need to know who 'that person' is yet if I ask?" The Tiger grinned and said "You're catching on quickly! Alright, Let me give you the prize for passing the trial."

He waved his paw and a small ball of blood appeared, it was white! The Tiger said "En. I'd give you my soul origin but... I think the monster wouldn't be too happy with that, so I'll give you something else. For now though, take this." the blood floated into Cross' body and the Tiger pointed at him, a bright white light shot into his forehead.

Cross assimilated the blood and a Divine Art appeared in his mind [White Tiger slaughters the Gods!] he started comprehending it and the Tiger got serious before a big ball of glistening White blood appeared and entered a bottle before hovering there, a bundle of fur, and a stringy piece of flesh appeared.

The fur and flesh merged into Cross' body. He immediately felt all his muscles and tendons convulsing in pain, being torn and healed over and over.

On his back, at the West side of the black ring, under the golden wings, a White Tiger tattoo appeared. It looked bloodthirsty and vicious even though it was a tattoo!

The entire diagram started shining and all the tattoo's roared. The ring spun faster and finally finished a single rotation. A low 'boom' came from Cross' body and his body shined before it exploded with black impurities.

Cross suppressed the energy and forced it to circulate with his existing energy. His energy was being purified to the extreme! Becoming extremely dense as his entire body swelled, Cross roared and his body contracted.

He opened his eyes and punched out, a sonic boom was heard. The Tiger chuckled and said "You could've advanced, why didn't you?" Cross said "Someone will benefit from it too. I'm suppressing it for now, when the time is right I will let it go."

the Tiger chuckled and said "Very well. Here you go." A bottle of blood appeared in from of him, along with a long white bone. Cross looked the blood and looked at the bone in confusion, the Tiger said mysteriously "Perhaps you'll need it very soon... Your string mace is insufficient for your strength now..."

Cross nodded and the Tiger said "Very good! Now go! I want to sleep! Remember! No matter who the enemy is, White Tigers never run!" Cross grinned and nodded before being sent out of the space and landing outside.

Cross sighed and looked at the white bone, he called out his mace and looked at the two in confusion as he muttered "He mentioned the white bone being useful and my mace in the same breath..." Cross took out the Turtle spikes and added "He wants me to make a new mace?"

Yun Che and Artemis looked over, Artemis' eyes lit up and she flashed over. Cross smiled but it stiffened, Artemis ate the white bone, the Turtle spikes, and his mace before biting on his finger and drinking a drop of blood.

Yun Che was stunned and said "Aiyo! Another Hong'er?" Cross turned green and signed "Artemis! Why?!" Artemis just trembled and she lit up a bright white light before turning into a giant black mace. It looked the same as the Mace did before, except the handle looked to be made of bone and the spikes gleamed.

It still had it's long hexagonal shape but instead of strings it was made of Artemis! Cross grabbed the mace and grunted at it's weight. It was extremely heavy! He picked it up with both hands and inspected it. He found that on the bottom of the mace there was a little ball with a mini Artemis inside!

Little Bell and everything! He dripped a drop of blood and Artemis shined before going into his body. He suddenly trembled and his Prayer Beads made his armor, but it was different this time! The Red bead turned into a cape, the White bead turned into fur, and the Gold bead turned into the engravings on the armor. (I changed Feng Xue'er's Color to Gold, just makes more sense)

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Yun Che said "Fuck! That's cool!" Cross chuckled and said "How was the Darkness seed?" Yun Che chuckled and said "Got rid of the Devil orb... Plus I advanced to Peak Tyrant Realm!" Cross gave him a thumbs up and dispersed the armor, returning it to the beads.

Artemis popped up and signed "Now I can leave with Big Brother!" Cross patted her head and smiled softly as he sighed "You didn't have to initiate a Master-Slave contract..." Artemis replied "The Bone and the Spikes completed my soul and allowed me to transform, your blood made me whole and without the contract I would die!"

Cross signed "But.. You're life is connected to mine now..." Artemis signed happily "I'm happy! Big brother is a good person!" Cross sighed and ruffled her hair, getting a pout from Artemis. Cross laughed and signed "Go meet the big sisters in the castle." Artemis turned into a white beam of light and entered Cross' body.

Cross walked over to Yun Che and said "Ready to go back up?" Yun Che nodded and Cross teleported the two up to the top, before taking Su Ling'er out of the Castle and into Yun Che's arms. Su Ling'er looked at Yun Che with love and affection in her eyes as she called out "Big Brother Yun Che..."

Yun Che froze and looked at Su Ling'er with a pale expression as he stuttered "Y-Y-YOU!" Su Ling'er kissed him saying "We.. We won't separate again will we?" Yun Che shook his head and said firmly "No! Absolutely not!"

Cross smiled and they went back to the Grandwake clan.

When they got there, Cross said "I'm going to do something, enjoy your time little bro... Hehe... Go easy on her, yeah?" Yun Che chuckled and Su Ling'er blushed, Cross tapped a green finger on her stomach before saying "Jasmine, come with me."

Jasmine appeared and Cross said "It's time." Yun Che said "Eh?!" Cross chuckled and said "I got this don't worry, go do what you gotta do." he pointed at Yun Che and took three drops of blood essence before snickering "Byeeee~" before disappearing with Jasmine as Yun Che shook his head and left with Su Ling'er.

Cross and Jasmine appeared in the forest and Cross took out all the materials, she needed. He already took them from the Pearl before. He looked at Jasmine and said "You ready?" Jasmine smiled sweetly and nodded. Cross took a deep breath and said "Alright then let's get started."