Soul Angels & Demons

Chapter 08 - Red Banner of the Demon Desert!

In a mysterious desert, filled with tens of thousands of bones the creatures that once passed through it. Zee stepped over while occasionally covering her face with a cloth to protect her from the sand dust that sometimes blocked her view.

"Huh. huh... Gosh, is this desert really endless? And also didn't I pass this place more than 6 times ago?" gerutu Zee frustrated while occasionally sighing because his legs had started to ache.

"Huh. Know this I'll go down the cliff path that used to be."

Zee circled his gaze around, but still the final signs of the mysterious desert he passed by were not yet visible. While he who has been walking for almost 3 days, also began to fatigue because of depleted stamina.

As the day grew darker, Zee decided to stop and rest for the night. He was looking for a stone gap that could possibly be placed in shelter for a while, in order to avoid the sandstorm that sometimes hit him.

After that, Zee began to cross her legs while leaning against a rock in the crack she had found earlier, and began to meditate.

Within his subconscious, a beautiful woman appeared and began to walk closer to him.

"I see you in trouble" he said.

Zee's eyes that had been closed now began to open, he looked at Chi who was walking around his place sitting meditating. It can happen because after the awakening of the spirit as well as the union of himself with the black sword, you could say Chi has become another part of Zee's present self.

Zee, actually still a little uncomfortable and not used to the existence of Chi in his body. However, he realized it was useless for him to reject Chi, considering that if he had not fused with the black sword essence back then, it was certain that he had died a few days ago.

"Have you been three days and three nights circling around here and you're still quiet?" Zee who was asked pretended to ignore Chi, but actually he always listened and paid attention to every word.

"Hmm. It's free I advise a stupid boy like you."

Swuuungg!

A mysterious scroll of light shot out from Chi's forehead and floated in front of Zee.

"This is my spiritual scroll, which contains the 6 skills of the mysterious ancient saint beast I learned."

"Initial stage, you learn the soul skills of consciousness, and try as much as you can to understand them."

"After you understand the basics, I will help you a little and you will get out of this desert."

And after saying that, Chi again disappeared from sight. While Zee began to open and pay attention to the writing on the scroll that was in front of him.

'Hmm. This light scroll contained the 6 secret moves of the monster snake.'

'But after I see, the way of his cultivation is very different to the way that ordinary cultivators do, ' Inner Zee while reading the scroll.

'The lowest cultivation stage in this world was the warrior level master and disciple, arguably this warrior level was the basic level for cultivators to embark on the path to immortality. The developmental stage of each level of improvement is divided into 8 namely 1 - 3 initial stages, 4 - 6 intermediate stages and 7 - 8 late stages of title and strength turnover. Warrior master, king, and emperor stages were both intermediate and upper level stages. Whereas the spirit warrior realm and the saints were at the highest stage under the Immortal warrior realm, it was extremely rare for cultivators to reach them.'

"I think my journey is really long! Huh!" and after a long time of thinking Zee, went back to reading the contents of the first scroll and began to learn the soul consciousness skill.

Time passed by so quickly that it was nearing midnight, while Zee only understood part 8 of the 31 spells in that skill.

"This soul consciousness skill has 31 types of spells and is the most important science when learning to cultivate Gods" Zee said.

"According to this record, the consciousness of a cultivator is the strongest control of his soul, in response to a complicated problem, even in a desperate state is by awareness and understanding the essence of that consciousness energy and controlling it. What does that mean!?"

'Consciousness is the best start in formulating something, without the awareness of people who train great skills will take longer to understand it, ' said Chi who again buzzed in Zee's head.

'By realizing everything, good and bad is actually just a kind of delivery procedure, a quiet fire will be useful to warm the body but can also burn the forest and create chaos,'

'Basically there are no dark or light streams, they are just reactions from the conditions that occur, we holy beasts cultivate to the extreme in our style. Perhaps to humans, it was a cruel or deviant move. But for those of us who are trapped in an uncertain condition, the so-called extremes in the way of cultivation are common and commonplace, Chi continued.

'If you want to become a great cultivator, don't just look at one monotonous stream, but look out. Then you will realize that the world you have been living in is only a small part of the strand of dust in the universe.'

Lee, who heard Chi's words in his mind, finally began to understand. He realized that what he might have learned in the Emerald Sword Mountain sect that had always emphasized the discipline of the stream of light, had affected his mind a lot. So that he only considers what is outside of the doctrine of the sect that he follows is the flow of evil.

In fact, although from outside the Emerald Sword Mountain Sect declared themselves a sect of light, in fact it was the sect that eradicated all members of his family. At that time there was no trial or determination to defend the Xiao clan, all their eyewitnesses were silenced. Even worse, the matter of what made the Xiao clan from Sword Mountain town to all its members was wiped out, was still a mystery...

And that is also the affirming, sometimes called the flow of light does not mean always behaving rightly. Because of what the Emerald Sword Mountain Sect was doing back then, it was more akin to what the dark-flow sects used to do.

"In the end, everything happens because of the law of cause and effect. Karma also depends on conditions, good and evil, light or dark. All came from the same beginning," Zee said as he closed his eyes, a buzzing aura of consciousness filling his senses.

*YUNG!!!*

A bright golden light as bright as the sun radiated from within Zee's body. For the first time, he leveled up just by being aware of everything around him.

"Damn, less is still!" Zee swallowed almost all of the energy-enhancing pills present in his space ring, which ordinary cultivators could actually use for an entire year.

Swuuungg!

Zee's lethargic body and his depleted stamina, had now returned filled with golden energy flowing throughout his muscles and meridian points in his body. A sense of lightness and relief, as well as a sharpened sense, make Zee feel satisfied and upset. Because, a resource that should be able to be used for a year for ordinary cultivators. Only able to learn the basic skills of soul consciousness.

'It is only fitting that the monster snake has such great soul-destroying skills, learning its basic skills alone can drain so many resources, ' Zee's inner self.

*Swoosh!*

Zee felt a strong pressure of the illusion seal, not far from where it was. "I think I know what's really going on here," with a slight smile, Zee quickly finished her meditation and rushed towards the energy vortex that created the illusion.

"Oh! it turns out that this ripped red banner that gives off illusions to make this desert difficult to pass," said Zee. "I think I should use the consciousness-breaking technique of the old demon snake to destroy the pressure." Zee then uses his soul energy to disrupt the illusory flow of the banner.

*BAAANGG!!!*

The burst of energy that shot out from the strange red banner, made Zee retreat several tens of steps back. And he only realized that with his current body and stamina, perhaps his strength was already at the intermediate stage of the current warrior master.

The strong tremors shook the area around Zee, and tens of thousands of animal and human skeletons began to move and drift toward the red banner in front of him. The red aura from the banner gathered together and formed a gigantic skull-like creature with fiery red eyes as well as two large horns on its head.

The emperor's initial level aura could be felt and it made his breathing so tight, and his already seated body could not be moved. Zee also panicked a little because his flagship black sword was no longer there. He was thinking twice about using the teleportation pendant, considering that it would instantly take him somewhere in the Dragon Country.

I will help you defeat that demonic spirit essence. However, it will make my spirit energy weaken and after that I will fall asleep for a while, said Chi, who started to control half of Zee's body and consciousness. His left eye turned black and a pitch-black aura of death began to ooze from Zee's body.

*GROOAAARR!!!*

The skull giant punched at Zee, and made a deep enough hole from his punch. Luckily Zee, who had been partially overrun by Chi, managed to avoid the attack in time.

Seeing his attack miss, the skull giant opened its mouth wide and sucked in the surrounding wind energy and released it back towards Zee. A windstorm mixed with sand with strong pressure caused Zee to crash back a few dozen meters.

Seeing his formidable foe, Chi who controlled part of Zee's consciousness rushed to condense spiritual aura on both feet to jump towards the head of the demon skull. "The stinking skulls accept this attack of mine!" said Chi while releasing energy in the form of a strange buzz that is not visible towards the skull monster in front of him.

Soul Attack is consciousness-destroying!!

*YUNG!!!*

The soul attack Chi unleashed was able to shake the internal spirit consciousness of the skull demon, tearing and slowly destroying it. Half of Zee's consciousness, seeing how powerful Chi's consciousness soul attacks were, had now only realized that his internal soul was likely above the demon spirit essence in front of him, considering that the skull demon had the aura of an emperor level spiritual warrior and Chi was likely one or two levels above it.

The last essence of the torn demon spirit absorbed by Chi made its giant skull shape begin to crumble tumbling down. The ripped red banner on which the demon spirit took shelter was taken by Zee, and as he held the banner. He also sensed tens of thousands of spirit essences were likely the victims of that demon, which floated freely in the night sky.

After the battle, Chi lost quite a lot of his spiritual energy. It caused him to fall asleep for a while while while absorbing the essence of the desert demon spirit. While Zee who also looked exhausted decided to take a break while waiting for his stamina to recover.

Fajr was rising from the east, Zee opened his eyes after resting for quite a while, and after slightly stretching the muscles in his body, he decided to run back while trying to use his soul consciousness, which he was trying to use, to feel the aura of a living being that was around that barren desert.

A life aura that was strong enough Zee could feel while running. And before long he saw a group of travelers complete with camels and luggage, across the border area barren desert not far from he was.

'Finally, I can get away from this shitty desert, ' Zee thought as she ran hastily towards the group of travelers she had just met.

A few of the early level warrior master guards who saw Zee from a distance quickly condensed their spiritual aura. Two intermediate stage warrior masters shot towards Zee to head him off. They think that Zee is a desert bandit who wants to rob a group of travelers they guard.

"Yeah!"

*BEACH!!*

Zee's hand managed to fend off the blows of the warrior master's early stage bodyguard and made him retreat a dozen meters. The other guards who saw that from a distance were startled and immediately caught up with their comrades.

They were quite astonished and puzzled, how could an early stage warrior martial master cultivator, be able to withstand the blows of an early level martial master stage warrior to the point of making him bounce dozens of meters away?