8. Facets: The voidbane physique

The creature that came towards him was hideous with six arms and humanoid. It was like huge round gumball on top of two legs which had six arms and no face.

Silas felt the energy flowing into his entire body and then as the creature neared him, he forcefully broke out of what got his legs stuck and he punched the creature hard, sending it flying away.

[You have used chi for the first time.]

All of a sudden the screen with those words appeared in front of him and he suddenly felt something inside him awaken. A wave of coolness washed over his body and then he breathed out as he looked around and saw another notification screen in front of him

[Your physique has been awakened.]

[You have harmonized the emotion of serenity.]

[You have achieved Serenity attunement.]

[New facet unlocked: Tranquil clarity]

[New passive traits; mental clarity, precise focus, and heightened intuition.]

[310 points of chi generated.]

[You have broken through to the chi generating stage; Hp raised to 1000]

Silas was amazed with how strong he could be just now. The creature in front of him stood up and ran away and Silas finally looked around.

It was like a wasteland all around the castle, destroyed buildings, debris everywhere, and demons roaming about aimlessly.

Silas looked around and then he entered into the castle and sat back down.

'I see, facets are like special additional benefits I achieve from harmonizing my emotions.' Silas nodded in understanding.

'The technique needs me to harmonize the seven key emotions for me to begin with memory resonance and dream weaving.' Silas thought before he closed his eyes again.

From the stairs leading up the castle, Juliet looked at Silas and smiled as the image of a man with the same looks sat in that position too.

"Master is hardworking as usual." She mumbled before turning around and climbing up.

Up the stairs, there were tens of rooms in the long pathway. She skipped across the hall way and then she went towards a smaller stairs that led up to the ceiling and she climbed up.

She reached outside to see the reddish sky and dark clouds. She looked around to see the destroyed city and then a dark horizon.

'There used to be a lot of life here.' She thought as she imagined the castle and the city complete and no destroyed buildings anywhere and then she sighed before smiling.

'Master is back anyway, there's nothing to be worried about. This place is going to be as good as new soon.' She thought and she jumped down and went in through the castle.

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[You have achieved Resilient Equilibrium.]

[New Facet Unlocked: Inner Balance]

[New passive traits: Harmonious equilibrium of emotions, adaptation flexibility]

[You have generated 1230 points of chi.]

[You have broken through to the chi master stage]

[Hp raised to 3000]

Silas breathed out heavily as sweat dripped from his body.

His purple pupil glanced around and then his eyes met a mirror at the end of the hall before and he walked towards it.

'The emotion of resilience, it might be different cause in the real world, I think resilience means tolerance or something. Is that even an emotion?' Silas thought as he gazed at himself in the mirror.

"My skin looks a bit clearer than before..." He mumbled, and then his hand went up to the scar on his left cheek which was the shape of a 'Z'.

'I guess this one is staying with me for life.' Silas thought as he smiled bitterly.

He looked at his hands. On his right hand's ring finger was the hell's gate summoning ring, and on his left hand's ring finger was a blueish ring which had multiple engravings on it, the celestial grade dimensional storage ring.

He pulled the cloak he was wearing to reveal himself in a yellow underwear and he remembered how he was robbed of his clothes a few days ago.

A black trouser with a shirt appeared in his hand and he wore them. He also wore a coat which was black and weirdly enough, it had the symbol of two silver wings with a sword in the middle.

"I would need normal clothes." Silas said and then he found a whole pouch of throwable weapons in the little pockets within his coat and trouser.

'What the... It's like it was made for me.' he thought as he checked himself out in the mirror.

He buttoned the two buttons which had a cross buttoning pattern, the button holes were attached to long straps so Silas tightened them to be free enough and also not too tight.

"Master." Juliet called Silas' name from behind and he turned around to look at her.

"Where did you go?" He asked as he looked back to the mirror and she walked to his side.

"The castle seems to be in good condition." She said and Silas nodded and then turned to her.

"Can you tell me about the Harmony Ascension challenge." He said and She nodded.

"It's a competition between sects held every ten years with the grand prize of techniques and resources from second heaven." She said and Silas was shocked as she kept everything in one sentence.

Silas opened up his status screen to check his current stats.

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[Player name: Silas]

[Physique: Voidbane physique]

[Bloodline: Not awakened]

[Title(s): None]

[Cultivation level: Chi master stage]

[Chi: 40/4000]

[Hp: 3000/3000]

[Quests - 3]

[Techniques - 12]

Silas smiled as he saw that he was actually going somewhere with this game. He smiled as his brows raised and he tapped on the physique.

[Voidbane physique]

[Rank: Forbidden]

"Juliet. Do you know about the voidbane physique?" He asked as he made his way towards the castle stairs as he wanted to see his humble abode.

"Ah, master, you finally awakened your physique!" Juliet jumped excitedly and the black ears on her head twitched too.

As they explored the castle, Silas was both amazed with how sturdy and huge it was and how overpowered his physique was as Juliet told him about it.

'Isn't this cheating? I got a help and all these items.' Silas thought with a chuckle and then he shook his head as he wasn't supposed to even think that.

He and Juliet walked out of the castle and then he summoned the gates of hell and returned back to the heavens.