A crippling fear and dread struck Alm and Bruno like a celestial bolt. They quickly held onto Ruri almost in desperation, then employed their divine soul to the fullest in search of the cause of it all.
It took two seconds for their hearts to calm down. Their whole soul, mind, and life force seed to have been sucked into the rune on her forehead. It was sothing gentle and didn’t seem to have malicious intentions... in fact, it was so compatible with Ruri that it seed like a part of herself that had co loose and was now rging back again.
The rune was already fixing itself into her ntal sea; she would soon return to normal. Once they confird that, they turned to the demon. Suddenly, the entire forest seed to freeze, the world grew darker, and the demon felt as if a god of death was glaring furiously at him.
The air in his lungs froze, and he felt an unmatched pressure coming from that cultivator much weaker than him; his instincts warned him that if this human attacked him, he would never leave alive, no matter what he did.
"Sir, please calm down," the trembling demon murmured, prostrating himself on the ground.
The whale responded dryly, "I hope you have a good explanation for this..."
"Yes, please, see in my mories. I won’t resist; you can check for yourself," the demon quickly spoke, distressed.
The whale snorted and, with gentleness, placed Ruri on his back. In the next instant, his eyes shone. A divine power pierced the demon’s forehead, and he accepted to have his entire soul and mories turned upside down without any ceremony.
The demon’s life was observed by them calmly. The beginning was identical to the other two; he was born completely dominated and as a unique part of a unity with the behemoth’s avatar. In one of the countless battles of the first war, he and the other two were captured along with dozens of others.
In the past, Yamar was soone twisted and imrsed in hatred and rebellion. He was born as a slave without even the freedom to think. After being captured and enduring indescribable and hellish torture, it shaped and created his personality and gave him a "freedom," which was like throwing oil on the flas, distorting him even more. The three demons were the only ones to survive this process; and the three were enough to kill his father.
However, shortly after, when he thought he would finally live free, he felt sothing calling him and trying to dominate him again; it was the behemoth. His mind was never at peace, and he never knew what it was to be himself without soone trying to control him. He hated the world, hated his destiny, hated... hated... wanted to destroy everything and everyone. Surely, he was the most affected of the three demons.
People like him could never live in peace with others; therefore, the second war happened. The change in Yamar occurred in the middle of the second war when he encountered a figure that changed everything... he fought against a human woman who changed his life forever.
This woman had the ethnicity of the Montide people clearly visible, but Alm and Bruno were shocked... she was very... very similar to Ruri. Her aura was quite different; she was like an ice fairy, without emotions and without will... exactly as Almin described Ruri before they returned.
She fought with ntal power and sword techniques like no other. Despite being much weaker than the demon in terms of cultivation, she left him in a desperate situation quickly.
Her talent for combat, her intelligence... everything about her seed terrifying... she only lacked technique; she used her ntal power in a crude and unrefined way. However, her will and power were so extre that the demon was suppressed and almost killed.
He fought out of hatred for everything; but she clearly did not fight for herself, but for her entire people and family. In the end... she died, and he was gravely injured... but he did not erge victorious; sothing inside him changed.
At the height of the battle, she unleashed a power that eclipsed the world. It was a ntal technique, which she clearly developed on her own. The demon even felt the celestial laws of the world focusing on her attentively, as if they were watching and judging her. That was her own Dao, created by her.
With a swing of her sword, the entire existence of the demon seed to tremble. The power she unleashed didn’t use her Qi... the fuel for it ca from another source... sothing subtle that was connected to her since birth... her karma.
Karma wasn’t a clear energy; it was like a marking generated by celestial laws on individuals. Karma could be sothing good or not, but it was always connected to celestial laws.
Alm and Bruno had never seen in their long lives soone who could use this; only after coming to this universe did they see in action Alm’s karmic flas. And then the celestial fla that could interact in different ways with it. But this woman; all the power of her Dao, was fueled by karma, not of others, but her own.
Alm and Bruno understood how she got to this point; the Empyreans family cursed all the people of Montide with their dark karma. This talented woman must have at so point realized this abnormality; then, with such dense karma contaminating her, she managed, with her ntal power, a miracle, and interacted with it.
A talent capable of sothing of this level... was terrifying to the point that the two ancestral beings were stunned.
But what happened next was even more shocking; she didn’t use this Dao to attack. Seeing what the demon saw and feeling what the demon felt, they realized clearly. She was using all possible power for another purpose; she connected with celestial laws through karma.
At that mont, it wasn’t possible to know what she did; she just attacked the demon leaving him in a near-death state. Her sword pierced his heart, and in his eyes, sothing emptied; it was as if she had cut a part of his soul away.
The demon fell to the ground completely defeated. Then, he noticed the dark skies covered by deadly black clouds; it was a celestial annihilation. In the next instant, a black lightning bolt fell like the end of the world... directly at the woman... she died a bloody death at the hands of the heavens.
But, an oppressive feeling coming from the laws still remained. The demon saw a completely fragnted soul floating, completely chained by black things that made his entire existence tremble. It lasted shortly, and the soul of the woman disappeared...
Only after she died did Yamar feel that he wasn’t her target. But it was belatedly that he felt sothing within his ntal sea. It was a rune that was firmly sealed in his soul by an unbelievable power.
An infinite ntal power was within his mind; shortly after, he felt all his troubles, pains, and extre influences disappear. All his tornt was healed... that woman did it for him; but she left behind a violet rune, and along with it, so mories and words.
In the mories, he learned, stunned. She didn’t want to kill, but to save her people, no matter the consequences to herself.
She used all her power to do sothing considered taboo; she connected to the laws to glimpse the future, through the world’s karma. Her self-created Dao was made with that intention.
She knew of the fate awaiting her family and people at a very young age, so killing the demon was irrelevant. She rely awaited the opportune mont, she saw in the demon an opportunity; she didn’t sense real malice in him, only pain. So she risked everything to help him, trusting that he would repay the favor.
Her power was for single use and at that mont, she saw the future... a distant future... saw a round figure erge, on a night when the bloody moon was in the sky.
She saw and felt, the destiny and karma of her people were linked to that figure. He was like a god walking among mortals, all the laws and karma of the world moved with him. If he were provoked, the entire planet and life would be destroyed, if he wished, even the celestial laws would bow; but if he desired, even the one responsible for the curse of her people could be destroyed as if it were an insect.
She knew the consequences and didn’t care. Upon seeing the future, she broke a black rule of celestial laws. She would die... but not only that, she would be marked by celestial karma and would be punished for countless reincarnations until she rid herself of it.
This karma created by celestial laws was severe. She, even as a cultivator in other reincarnations, would live very little and was dood to suffer and die indefinitely. This was if she had the opportunity to cultivate herself; being a fragile mortal who couldn’t cultivate and living to be humiliated was sothing that would inevitably happen.
She would suffer and suffer... but... she saw the future. A bleak and hopeless life was sothing that few souls would have enough karma to live through, so she would inevitably return to this planet and live several tis among her people again. After going through countless cycles of hellish lives and incarnating in various universes, at the exact mont when that round figure would erge, she would be incarnated in the sa universe and planet.
Despite the severe karma and being very young, she would have the unlikely opportunity to interact with him... just a little help was needed. That was the only way to fulfill her goal, even if she didn’t rember anything, instinctively her soul would seek it.
Reading this through the rune, her last words to the demon sounded. ’I broke the shackles that bound you, in return help . I will be born as an orphaned little girl, daughter of the royal family of Moonlight. My destiny will be terrible; but, he will be in a clan called Divinestone. Make sure I am near him.’
In her voice, a determination erged, then an emotional feeling that didn’t seem to match her surfaced. ’On the day of the blood moon, if all goes well, she will co to et you. I left my rune for you, just return it to . He is a divine being, but... I feel that we will get along... the Heaven’s Will told he is kind and good-natured, but at the sa ti intense and bloodthirsty; it’s like he’s two opposite people.’
The woman and her entire people suffered from a curse imposed by higher beings. Even so, she didn’t revolt against the world or beco evil, she used her talent and her curse to find a way; even if it cost much more than anyone could bear.
Yamar examined his body and mind ecstatically. An endless ntal power still resided within him. The woman gave him everything she had, and he no longer felt any shackles on his body. His mind stabilized and strengthened, he was now free. And he no longer felt any hatred or distortion... he was completely healed.
After that, he showed himself willing to repay. He lived only to fulfill the wish of the woman whose na he did not know. He tried to redeem his karma by secretly helping and saving various races. To the surprise of Alm and Bruno, even the Grassrunners who currently lived in the sect were saved and taken there by this disguised demon. Without his help, there would be no Grassrunners on this planet.
He protected the people of Montide until the day the Divinestone clan moved to attack them. Officially he couldn’t help, but that was just a convenient excuse. Because of the promise with the other demon, he couldn’t destroy this clan, but he could kill the strongest of them secretly; if he did that, the Moonlight clan would win the invasion.
Obviously, Yamar allowed and quietly observed the entire royal family be killed, except for one orphaned little girl who remained alive. He made sure it was her!
Then, he simply watched from afar and felt the intentions of those humans. Those who intended to kill her were eliminated, including the leader of the Divinestone clan at the ti, who was quietly killed by him. Thus, the current leader took over, soone who thought long-term and wanted to bring Ruri to the clan.
Undoubtedly, this thought did not arise in him on his own. The demon, using the ntal power received from the woman, influenced that low-cultivation human. After so long, he learned to use that ntal power and developed himself, clearly this was only possible because of the existence of the monolith. The power left to him served as a study.
So, all that was left was to wait...
Ruri was left as agreed upon in the Divinestone clan, at the sa ti when he would erge. Then, the demon waited for the night of the blood moon, so everything would co to an end.
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