Soul Angels & Demons

Chapter 11 - Ancient Relic Cave.

"Kraa!!"

The sound of a herd of Fire Monkey Beasts descending from the top of the cliff, immediately walked in groups to where Zee was. Even some of those monkey Beasts, also picked up stones and threw at him.

Fire Monkeys were indeed only as strong as late-level junior disciples. But defeating those who numbered in the hundreds, for an early stage warrior teacher was certainly not an easy matter.

The beast had a body as big as an adult man, with its entire fur being a blazing flame. This type of beast usually only lives near mountain craters or places with extreme heat.

"Kraa!"

Zee was quite overwhelmed to face that herd of Monkey Beasts. Considering he couldn't use his soul attack skills too often. Plus his spiritual aura ability had somehow weakened in recent times.

"Basic fucking monkey! if it's like this, my spiritual energy will be quickly drained." murmured Zee as he looked around, hoping he found a gap from the herd in order to escape.

But the herd of Fire Monkeys, which number in the hundreds, blocked most of the cliff area that leads to the Relik Cave in front of him.

*CLANG!*

Zee who had slashed through dozens of Beast tails, his spiritual aura was further drained. And feeling that there was no other way, he was about to use the rest of his energy, to conduct his soul attack on that Fire Monkey herd. Wish they were crazy for a moment and gave Zee a reproach to pass by.

But Zee is also quite a dilemma, because the side effects of using a soul attack style are fatal and dangerous for him at this time. Moreover, a few days ago he felt that a soul attack turned on him until he fainted until morning.

'Aish shit! if this continues I will also just die eaten by the monkeys!, I think I should once again take the risk.' Zee thought as he closed his eyes and chose to use the dangerous style again.

****SWUGGLED!*

*shooth... Shooth****

Hundreds of spiritual arrows fell onto the cliff, where Zee and the Fire Monkeys were fighting.

"***Cracker!!"

"Cock***!!"

"Stop those damn monkeys that are blocking our way!" shouted a master warrior leader along with the four teacher warrior squads on top of his spiritual vehicle that floated above the entrance of the Ancient Relic Cave.

The arrows that were fed with spiritual energy, pierced through the bodies of hundreds of Fire Monkey Beasts below them. Even Zee had to hide behind the rocks to save himself.

Seeing a strong enough opponent, the Fire Monkey Beast flock finally chose to run backwards to the rock caves, which were around the cliff gap.

After some time, the spiritual vehicle in the form of a spiritual yacht. Landed right at the mouth of the Cave, and descended the master warrior chief along with the four final stage teacher warrior squads who accompanied him.

Visible from the clothes of those wearing war vests, it was clear to Zee that it was a royal warrior. However what made him wonder was, what were they for to the Ancient Relic Cave.

***

Seeing the soldiers enter the Cave, Zee comes out of hiding and immediately swallows some energy-boosting pills, in order to restore his depleted stamina. After waiting for a while Zee, decided to follow in the footsteps of the group of soldiers secretly.

Arriving in front of the mouth of the Ancient Relic Cave that was so large. Zee was able to sense a sufficiently powerful illusory spiritual aura and disturb his consciousness. 'I think every inch of this cave has an invisible and mysterious prohibition, it seems I have to be more careful again' Zee said in his heart and continued down the mouth of the Giant Cave.

After several hundred meters of walking, Zee saw an apparition that would make everyone who had seen it feel amazed.

Inside the giant cave hall was an underground lava river that flowed to another place in the cave cavities. While in front of Zee at this time, is a large stone bridge that divides the lava rivers.

And at the end is clearly visible the ruins of an ancient carved stone fortress, which although most of the building has been damaged, but still clearly looks splendor.

Zee stopped his admiration and started to step forward towards that underground Fortress.

***

The carved wall in front of Zee has a magnificent entrance in the middle, which is flanked by two giant guard statues with a fierce appearance.

NGUONG!

A strange buzz filled Zee's head, and he quickly found out if it was Chi who had awakened.

'Uh, hey you finally woke up too, do you know how long you slept? and try to explain to me why my spiritual aura is weakening' Zee told the newly awakened Chi, and asked many questions.

A black aura shot out from Zee's body forming a silhouette that turned into the figure of a beautiful woman in front of him.

Zee was quite stunned when he saw the figure of Chi floating out and sitting at the foot of the stone statue in front of him.

"How's ka-...

"Of course I can!" cut off Chi before Zee continues.

"I am the Spirit essence, and will freely float out revealing my form as my strength recovers, after all." he continued. "I was lucky enough to be able to purify the Desert Demon spirit essence" Chi told Zee.

"Over with the tartar troupe, I have swallowed a lot of spiritual beast core but still in the morning my body feels sore and like running out of energy." Zee complained.

Chi's spirit then floated down and approached Zee below.

"The matter of your weakened spiritual aura is due to the blood essence pressure of my Hydra Beast.

"We Sacred Beasts, train different ways of cultivation with humans. And since you now have my blood essence, you should immediately start practicing the bone forging technique of the Hydra clan." Chi explained as she sat on her foot in front of Zee.

"But before learning my family's bone forging techniques. You should at least collect 400 violet spiritual crystals, and 3 earth dragon spiritual beast cores or else that unforged blood essence will eat away at your body and vitality aura." Chi continued...

Zee who heard all that, was not at all surprised about Chi's long explanation. Given the soul attack technique he learned a few months ago from him, it drained the entire pill and resources that other cultivators could use for an entire year.

"Oh!"

"I've realized that great ability requires great resources to build it" said Zee.

"But you know, for an outcast like myself looking for that much resources would certainly be very difficult to do, especially now that I'm a fugitive of the sect." zee said as he raised both hands and looked smiling even though it was actually a smile of helplessness.

Seeing the boy in front of him who was starting to soften and was willing to talk to him. Chi was already feeling quite happy, and then drifted towards Zee and hugged him for a moment.

Zee who was hugged suddenly like that, did not move at all and instead slightly raised a smile on his lips.

"Sometimes you have to look a little further at who you are,"

"For now you are my master, and I have said you will be invincible, so remove the face of despair and remember the purpose of your life!" said Chi a little firmly while staring fixedly at Zee's bead eyes.

Zee realized that he was not alone now. Strengthening his heart's intention to continue to fight and grow stronger, in order to achieve all his ideals and goals.

"In the end we just need to understand each other, but by the way why did you wake up in this cave?" ask Zee who was curious why Chi can show his form outside his mind.

"Haah, I am the soul essence that is inside the black sword, while the sword has temporarily fused with you now" Chi said

"Say I am your guiding spirit. Once you've learned all six of my ancient skills you'll know the big secret behind them." he continued.

"But for now, focus on finding the resources to form the body of Hydra, learning body forging techniques is what you need most right now." tata Chi who then turned into a small black snake-shaped Aura that floated into the entrance gate of the ancient fortress.

"Eh, hey wait for me!"

Zee immediately rushed after the floating Aura Chi all of a sudden, until he stopped coming back after going deep enough.

In front, Zee saw a pile of human skulls and bones that may number tens of thousands or even hundreds scattered in the cave hall. He could sense the death aura that was extremely gripping and could be juxtaposed with the aura of the Ancient Holy Beasts belonging to Chi.

"Come here I find something!"

Chi's voice calling from a distance Zee rushed towards the voice. Zee entered a cave door leading to an inscription with an ancient inscription he did not understand.

"This is a relic inscription of a saint from the south, but somehow it can exist in this cave" said Chi who was in the form of a small black snake coiled around Zee's neck.

"Try you to channel a little of your spiritual energy into the inscription and see if it can react."

Zee who heard Chi's interruption then diverted a bit of his spiritual energy to that ancient inscription. And immediately the contents of Zee's mind were filled with memories of the past when this cave building was built.

There used to be an early stage saint level warrior who wandered west, but in the middle of his journey he faced an Ancient Beast who had the power of the earth and fire elements.

The Holy Beast was the fire turtle on par with the final spirit level warrior, and he was tasked by an ancient Buddhist Immortal to guard the legendary Fire Lotus flower in this valley.

But even the saint warrior's early stage ascetics were tempted with the Fire Lotus which was said to be able to prolong life, their fight was both inevitable to make damage in this valley.

The desperate fire turtle escaped into the earth, and due to its large body, the hole he created was also very wide, now it was known as the Ancient Relic Cave.

The Sage Warrior chases the tortoise to several thousand meters in the ground, but the earth spirit barrier holds him back until he realizes his actions are very wrong. Then in order to atone for his guilt with the fire turtle. The Sacred Lord built a palace and a fortress of refuge in the giant hole created by the turtle, so that no one could enter the deepest region the earth prohibition was in.

A few moments later, Zee returned to his consciousness. He only found out that his mission this time was really very difficult to do, even thinking the kick got the Lotus Fire flower was likely very impossible he did.

"I didn't expect that the Fire Lotus flower was really so precious, it was only fitting that the king of the limestone mountains would pay such a high price" said Zee, who felt cheated by the Mission Pavilion.

"The Lotus Fire flower is actually of various kinds in this world, when it is blooming the flowers will give off an aura that even just extracting it my age will increase by several years." chi answered Zee's confusion.

"It is likely that even the royal family who needed this rare plant did not understand the truth about the Lotus flower, and rather they spent time without clear expectations. They told the Mission Pavilion to recruit free cultivators to take the mission." Zee replied to Chi who had already begun to understand the matter.

Tap!

"So someone's coming!" said Chi who felt a movement not far from them.