Heart Swaying From The Path X

Within this vast desert, a figure enshrouded by a hazy mist could be seen sitting on the sandy earth, his aura peaceful and calm like a still lake or a trickling stream, as the mist pervaded the air Tristan's mind and body sank into a wonderous sensation.

Time passed and he felt his energy being absorbed slowly, . . . just like the flowing of a river or the moving of the wind a day had passed, by this time the skill was merged halfway but it was at this moment a strange feeling arouse within Tristan's heart.

"Was this Evolution? . . . No it couldn't be, it feels too forced, it feels . . . almost artificial, it doesn't feel right, . . . Am I Wrong for thinking this?"

As his thoughts wondered the Dao fragment shook in resonane with him, though the Dao was fragmented the Dao was natural. The Dao encompassed all-things, living and non living, it saw trillions upon trillions of transformations a few leading to pinnacle the majority leading to decline, it could be said that it was the ultimate truth the Dao saw through Tristan's thoughts and annalyzed his path.

The path he wasnt flawd but it was he who went about it the wrong way, now that he had doubts and would soon gain realization it naturaly gave a bit of insight. the Dao was not forceful and it was not indefernt to the path of transformation.

The Dao fragment shook and the hazy mist became chaotic, now before Tristan's eyes was a hazy image, his eyes focused and the image became clear howerver this image seemed to be ever-changing but always flowing like a turbulent river.

Within this ever changing image he saw countless figures that rose and fell with the ebbs of time, after a while Tristan noticed something, those beings that rose and fell with the flow of time had for the most part remained the same.

Few transformed but they didnt take the path Tristan wanted to tred on, he looked on expecting to see something that would make his doubts turn into a strong resolve, the scene shifted continuosly but for the most part Tristan didnt see anything eye-catching as he continued to watch he saw a figure that stood out in the ever shifting scene, it was a slime, though it wasnt powerful it ate, trained and most importantly it tried to survive in the harsh conditions of its planet.

The slime grew up as time went on, and so did its strength, its body had transformed dozens of time it could be said that it was no longer apart of the race of slime, it grew up and it became stronger, not because it was born strong or was given strength, but due to its continuos efforts to survive, it was strong because it made itself strong, . . It wasnt a artificial transformation and it wasnt forceful at that, it could be said to be a natural transformation.

A flame of desire was ignited in tristans heart, his body surged with energy but he foced himself to calm down and stared fixidely at ever shifting scenes.

There were a few figures who underwent a natural transformation but they eventually stopped and took the path of cultivation, and Tristan knew why, . . . it was due to the natural limiting factor of ones structure and genetic make up, even if one trained for a lifetime they would not necessarily be able to break that limit and with that the image faded.

The image faded and Tristan's thoughts drifted to his own path and his current transformations, he reviewed it over and over again until he came to a conclusion the path wasn't wrong but it was he who was going about his transformation in the wrong so in order to rectify this mistake he decided to do something unheard of.

As Tristan sat their motionless his peaceful aura changed into that of a violent ape, he then shouted with all his might. 

"EXPEL!"

The energy stored within his body rushed out, sand flew high into the air but the hazy radiance shown with resplendent light and the sand settled Tristan's figure was swaying like a falling leaf, but that hazy mist sorounded him and suported his person to prevent him from colapse, after regaining himself Tristan gritted his teeth his voice firm as he shouted. 

"BREAK!" 

The countless artificial neves and energy channels shatered, the instant they shattered blood imeadielty poured from his eyes, nose, ears, moth and lower part. His body shook endlessly he looked like he would collapse at any given moment, the hazy radiance rushed forth and supported Tristan's body after his body was stabilized, he gathered himself and raising his head high he shouted, his voice hoarse.

Expel!

His body shook like an old tree in a storm, blood seeped from his pores and he began to cough out chunky fragments of flesh, he destroyed his cultivation and purged the artificial transformation from his body, the Dao fragment shown with hazy light and and the tyrannical aura withdrew from his body, the Dao fragment shook again and resplendent rays of light shown on Tristan's body and healed him.

2hours later Tristan's external wounds were healed and just like that he became ordinary, no aura, no energy flucttuation, no heaven defying killing intent, he was completely ordinay then as his internal wounds began to heal, the Dao fragments shook and his body began to absorb the hazy mist in the soroundings.

As the mist entered Tristan's body his mind shook and buzzed incesently the will power he had gathered turned tangible and began to move up his spinial cord and to his brain, sharp pain asaulted his senses and he blanked out the Dao fragment shook and endless hazy radiance pervaded the air making the curent sandy earth look like an auspicious land an unknown time later tristan regained consiousness his sharp senses scanned his body for any abnomalities after sometime he spoted a slight abnormality within his brain.

But before he could investigate, the Dao fragment shook and endless radiance poured out Tristan mind went blank and the compressed aura that was hidding in Tristans body was suddenly extracted, it resisted feircly.

The Dao fragment shook again and the aura completely broke down to its very essence, endless radiance poured down and this essence transformed into a mysterious fluid, the liquid flowed into Tristan's chest and into his heart and bones, Tristan felt his heart expand and a indescribable fear seeped into his bones, but in a shocking turn of events, The chains that linked Tristan to the little pink demon suddenly shattered.

After removing the shackles the mysterious liquid began to spread into his blood and merged with his cells endlessly. Endless mist surged and some remnant energy within Tristans body began to gather below his navel, this remnant energy was left due to him evolving into an energy being.

The Dao fragment shook and the energy took on a fleshy form, the fleshy substrates began to wrap around each other and as a resoult a flesh ball was formed, countless nerve endings streched and weaved about and conected every part of his body.

In the next moment a thick nerve ending shot up Tristan's spine, after passing the brain stem, the nerve ending moved towards that pea sized lump at center of his brain, and in the next moment Tristan's head jolted back as if struck by lightning then a moan of pleasure escaped his lips.

The stone mumbled chants incessantly and dense mist drifted about making this place seem auspicious, in the distance a powerful golden vortex could be seen it size shrank as it approached this area then it dispersed into the air the scorpion god stopped at around a hundred meters from this place it looked at the auspicious scene with reverence then it knelt on one knee and paid its respect to the great Dao then its massive scorpion body scuttled over then it rested on the ground and began its comprehension.

From the heart to the four limbs and from the head to below the navel it seemed like the energy circulation was natural henceforth the three transformations followed suit, sometime passed and Tristan's mind had cleared from that euphoric state he then decided to check out his transformation.

Now that he no longer had any powers, he pulled up the system but instead of the same old system panel it seemed to have change and it seemed simpler he felt amazed as he scanned through.

<Notice >

Status

[Sp] (0)

[Will] (0)

[Physique] (0)

[Energy] (0)

Natural laws

[Ice]

[Wind]

Mutation panel

[Mp] (0)

Titles

[Ruler]

[Holder of Dao]

"Natural laws?"

As he said this a memory came rushing in, . . . it was of the time when they were at the realm wall of ice that natural formation had engraved itself into him he thought about something for a while then his mind was brought back to the sudden comprehension of wind.

"Could it be?"

A light flashed and the ice formation floated up and rotated in the air then rushed to the area below his navel, The light merged with his 'core' Tristan began to feel a biting cold sensation spread through his body merged then that biting cold began to travel Tristan's spine causing his body to shutter endlessly 

That biting cold sensation began to spread through his brain cooling it after that the cold energy drifted to that small lump (second brain) Tristan could sense it clearly his will power was as cold as the snowy Tandra his body shook and his and a layer of skin was shed his black hair grew out and and turned grey half grey half black turning ash grey transformation 

What appeared next wasn't an image but a scenery of violent winds rampaging throughout the lofty mountains and the vast continent, the scenery dropped down and rushed to the area below his navel and in an instant his cooled nerves became sharp and as fast as the wind his hair shook then it became transparent it floated about like the wind making him look incomprehensibly majestic

His will power now possessed another attribute, 'wind'. After thinking for a while Tristan spoke.

"System, is it that when I comprehend the natural 'laws' of the world the traits become apart of me?" 

Instead of the usual reply from the system, all he got was silence Tristan was bewildered then as his eyes glanced at something he shouted "wait! were did all my survival points go?" The Dao fragment shook as if replying Tristan stared at it speechlessly then an unfamiliar voice sounded out and broke the peaceful atmosphere.

It is but the law of equivalent exchange it is only natural you lose something to gain something Tristan nodded but his gaze became sharp as he quickly backed away she didn't look the same but that terrifying pressure was still their

Tristan stared at this woman but his mind couldn't help but wonder in front of him was a beauty beyond words she had a slim waist, broad hips, her breast ample and full and her rear was fat and firm, her face was perfect beyond measure the only odd thing were the two protrusions at the side of her mouth.

As her cold black eyes stared down at Tristan she couldn't help but smile but it was cold and void of any emotion her voice then sounded out like a cold machine "I will not bring harm to harm to the one who holds Dao, but that doesn't mean I wont teach him a lesson"

In less than a second she was in front of Tristan the next thing he knew he was in the earth and sand was flying high in the air then a laughter filled with unknown meaning echoed out after that her machine like voice spoke again may our paths cross again on our remolded world"

Tristan's ears didn't seem to grasp the words coming from the figure because he was thinking about that terrifying display of power, that speed and that level of control was near transcendent, as he analyzed the encounter his eyes shown with light as he resolved himself to become stronger

Poof!

Zanier broke out of the sandy ground her figure disheveled her senses spread outward and she sensed Tristan but their were no powerful fluctuation he seemed so ordinary! Tristan spoke as if knowing she was there "I'm going to train in this area for a while.

Zanier nodded then she sat cross-legged

There was no rush, he just had to become stronger, now that Tristan was ordinary he began to exercise his body, . . . two hours passed and Tristan's body was drenched with sweat, his hand reached into his storage and he grabbed a spear after 30 minutes of handling the spear, his hand reached into his storage again and he grabbed a sword only god knew where Tristan acquired these but for our sake he just had them. 

Now that Tristan wasn't blinded by power he took on a new approach to training, instead of rushing in and building strength, he would first, acquire the required knowledge and skills, next he would temper himself in these things, then he would refine these skills and his strength to perfection and the last and the final step would be to engrave all that he learnt into himself making it truly apart of him.

Time moved onward its momentum sweeping away all things the dark clouds seemed to have stretched out endlessly and just like that a 6 months had passed.

In this span of time Tristan trained like a madman sometimes he wouldn't even take any rest days to the point were he stopped taking them entirely but his advancement was rapid his (3 states) will power, physique and energy were steadily rising. 

As Tristan trained he realized the more he trained the more energized his body became his recovery rate had increased to an almost inhuman extent, He also noticed the more he practiced his weapon handling the stronger his will power became and the stronger his will became the more energy he could store within his core.

At this moment Tristan sat cross legged his will power circulated inside of his core and the 2 two imprints shown with dim light their output gradually rising, his body shook and a black substrate was expelled from his pores causing a stench to spread out it was the systems voice echoed in Tristan's ears at this instance giving him a pleasant surprise 

<Notice >

-Host's weapon proficiency has reached the halfway point into breaking the limits of body and tool when host has mastered weapon handling mysterious traits can be developed.

Training proficiency has reached the halfway point into breaking the limits of flesh when host training proficiency reaches the limit the host will go into a state of metamorphosis.

Tristan nodded in agreement, he was already sensing that anytime he swung his sword or stabbed out with his spear he felt an unknow force, his body was also transforming constantly and the impurities in his body were being expelled almost every day, he was getting stronger and stronger to the point he scared himself.

Now that he got back in touch with the system Tristan decided to roam the vast desert to gain more experience in combat and to increase his strength to a profound level Tristan's body shook and the black liquid froze and a gust of wind blew scattering it in the wind, Tristan looked to a small sand mound and saw Zanier sitting there here body covered with a layer of dust 

She hadn't moved an inch during this period of time and at this moment her body shook and that layer of dust fell from her body revealing her beautiful figure she moved and appeared next to Tristan she then spoke in a soft voice are you ready Tristan nodded, the two then set off into the distance.