Demonic Core

In the courtyard of a Ye Clan Pavillion, a white-robed young man suddenly stood up. His blue eyes glittered with radiance as they looked out on the blooming garden. Behind him, a wraith-like figure distorted in and out of existence.

The young man looked around before taking steps off the house and into the courtyard. His bare feet stepped onto the grass, with the grass shooting through his toes and wrapping around him. The slow embrace of the grass made it seem like the garden didn't want to let go.

The young man looked down and his long black hair cascaded down his shoulders. He looked at the flowers that swayed in the wind towards him, and the grass that wrapped around him and felt a sense of desolation.

Even the tree mumbled something into the wispy wind as if trying to talk to him. All the surrounding nature longed for him as he longed for it. But he shook his head almost tearfully, his eyes glittered with determination as he raised his feet escaping the grip and kept walking.

He reached the edge of the courtyard and looked back at the swaying vegetation once more. He saw standing amidst the sea of flowers and beauty was the wraith, it coldly eyed the young man as its dark essence spread into the wind.

"Hah..." The young man sighed as he looked away at the wraith and stared into the sky. Inside of the young man's blood, esoteric symbols and runes flashed.

Nomological powers burst out of his body, a flood of bloodline energies surged in his body. On his skin, a matrix of runes flashed and intertwined and behind him, something manifested.

As the space behind the young man violently distorted, his eyes shined with violent intent and he roared into the heavens: "YE TIAN, YOU BASTARD GET OUT HERE!"

At that moment the space behind the young man suddenly ruptured, the void ripped open from the crack but something was strange. Unlike the normal dark and empty void, this void was white and plain as a sheet of paper.

Space ripped in a rectangular motion, it opened up like the unfurling of a scroll. At the ends of this spatial scroll appeared two tassels, one white and one black. The young man raised his thumb and pointer finger and materialized a calligraphy pen in between them.

He held the pen lightly and stroked the air once, leaving a trail of darkness with each stroke. Behind him, on the scroll, each magnificent stroke manifested as if mirroring his.

The young man repeated his motion adding four more strokes until a complete mark formed on the scroll. The character shone with light and the young man's body shone with the same light. The runes on his body resonated with the scroll as a mark flashed in both his eyes.

As the young man elegantly wrote, the blue sky changed. On the edges of the horizon, a white light emerged like the sun rising from the east.

The light eclipsed all things in the sky as it devoured the blue, a gigantic ocean of white filled the sky as the white light consumed all things.

The white light gathered towards the young man's villa, the coalescing light landed in front of him. In the sea of white, a figure flashed as the light wrapped around him like a cocoon.

A voice echoed from amidst the light, the deep sonorous tones of the voice echoed throughout the clan as it said: "Ye Yanrui, so this is your decision? To forsake the rules of the bloodline for a mere mortal woman?"

Ye Yanrui stared down the obscured figure with his piercing blue eyes not saying a word. At that moment, Ye Yanrui's aura filled the skies pushing back on Ye Tian's energies.

Wordlessly he tapped his calligraphy pen on the air, igniting all the white Qi in the skies. The white Qi seethed with excitement and suddenly it rushed down from the sky towards his body.

Ye Yanrui closed his eyes as the vortex of Qi shot into his body and under his breath he said:

"Ye of the bloodline.

In pursuit of truth

Losing sight of

Destiny and desire,

The past and present.

What remains?

What you have taken,

I will reclaim...

One-hundred fold!"

Ye Yanrui's intense aura wrapped around him encasing him in a cocoon of white. The white Qi filled his entire body, not a single bit of it leaking out.

The white cocoon crumbled off revealing a white-haired and calm complexion. A gentle light coiled in his eyes into a symmetrical floral pattern, in both his eyes the floral pattern formed over the radiant blue. His white hair flowed down to the back of his white robes blending in with it.

His radiant floral eyes sparkled with beauty, his calm expression and demeanor calmed the skies and his white hair and robes swayed in the wind. He was the definition of nature's beauty and immortality!

"This is about more than just her." Ye Yanrui intoned calmly "This is about who or what I am, what you made me..."

Around the white-cloaked figure, the intense immortal Qis disintegrated and turned into ashes in the wind. The peeling Qi revealed a gray-haired young man in white robes, his serious and cold gaze glistened with silver as he stared down Ye Yanrui.

"It's a shame, I had hoped you would reform." The grey-haired Ye Tian sighed as he shook his head. Ye Tian's pupils violently dilated in an instant and a surge of immortal Qi erupted from his body. He clenched his teeth and balled his fist without hesitation and channeled the almost infinite Qi.

"Now you'll die!" Ye Tian roared as he shot out a world-shattering fist, space distorted and crumbled under his might as the fist hurtled toward Ye Yanrui.

Ye Yanrui stared blankly in front of him, the fist eclipsed all things in his sight. Making even the land around him split in half as the intense fist ripped apart space as it passed. The floral pattern in Ye Yanrui's eyes flashed, and the pattern began revolving in his eyes.

Ye Yanrui calmly rose his hand from his side palm forward, with this gesture the scroll behind him expanded. The fist bore down on him at that moment and the scroll of the void shot past him standing in front of him as the fist came down.

The white light of the fist engulfed Ye Yanrui's form as it crashed into him, the scroll stood in front as the immense power of the fist transmitted into the scroll. On the scroll, a character shone rapidly absorbing the transmitted force.

The energies from the fist depleted as the scroll sucked up all the white light, Ye Yanrui was quick to capitalize on this instant. As he mustered up all the key inside of him, a white aura wrapped around his right fist as he balled it up and released a punch of his own.

Ye Yanrui punched out as the scroll furled, his fist shot through the cracks in the void maneuvering through space towards Ye Tian. Ye Tian's eyes narrowed as the gentle fist cut through the spatial cracks like butter.

Ye Tian tried to move back but was too late as the calm fist struck into his gut.

BOOM!

Ye Tian's eyes bulged as the force of a mountain range transmitted through his body. His body trembled violently as Ye Yanrui readied himself to strike again.

"What is this power..." Ye Tian grumbled as he put his hand over his gut. The moment he saw Ye Yanrui raise his fist again, he stomped on the ground and shot off into the air cutting through the spatial cracks formed by the strikes.

His form quickly reappeared in the calm white sky, but Ye Tian was not calm he stared down at the pavilion looking for Ye Yanrui.

Their battle had destroyed the area in front of the pavilion, all that remained of the area were spatial distortions which hid the cracks in space from their confrontation.

Ye Tian's eyes scanned over the courtyard when he noticed something that instantly made him shocked! Amidst a sea of flowers, there was a wraith-like figure standing calmly as he overlooked the battle.

Space began trembled and distorting in front of Ye Tian and Ye Yanrui's form suddenly manifested. Ye Tian clenched his teeth as he realized where Ye Yanrui's power was coming from.

"You unfilial little child, to think you sold yourself to a devil!" Ye Tian roared as he clenched his fist until they were shaking from anger!

Ye Yanrui's blue eyes remained frighteningly cold and calm as he said to Ye Tian: "The moment you killed Song Qian, I resolved myself that no matter the cost I would kill you."

"EVEN IF IT WILL COST ME MY LIFE!" Ye Yanrui bellowed from the top of his lungs, his fury rumbled through the air as his calm eyes turned rabid and angry in an instant.

Inside of his body, at the core of his being a core of darkness spun rapidly engulfing the immortal Qi around him.