The Everlasting Realm
Episodes. 04: River Styx Part I
Ji Nie Tian opened her eyelids, revealing a pair of eyes that were different colors — silver and purple — shone in the sunlight that entered through the window. At first he was amazed to see a roof that was so foreign to him, then his memory was drawn to a day ago.
Right, he was taken in by his father, Immortal Ji.
This is the first day of training.
"I wonder if it will be as usual or………"
"Lazy, wake up,"
As Ji Nie Tian looked out the window, his father appeared beside the bed with his emotionless gaze.
"Dad?!"
Ji Nie Tian leaped in surprise, fell off the bed then looked at Immortal Ji who was wearing plain white daoist clothes with a hint of a somewhat old silvery blue color.
"Why do you see ghosts? Get up quickly, it's your first day of study." After saying this, Immortal Ji turned around and walked out.
"Yes.." Ji Nie Tian scratched his head, got up and walked after Immortal Ji.
In his new home, on top of a nameless mountain, there were only 3 rooms and one pavilion with one mysterious hut.
The two rooms were his room and his father's, and the third room seemed to be a living room yet it seemed to be designed to cultivate rather than to welcome guests.
After walking out of the house, Ji Nie Tian felt a gust of wind whipping through his usual thin clothes and his hair that was along his back.
The singing birds welcome morning, the beautiful sunshine is like the reflection of a crystal ball of light, and the fresh air makes all the dirty thoughts go.
Fiercely with that peace, Immortal Ji continued to lead Ji Nie Tian without stopping to their Pavilion. There had been provided a short round table with cultivation pillows.
On the table, there are two teas that have opposite positions.
Immortal Ji told Ji Nie Tian to sit down and take a sip of tea before starting.
Ji Nie Tian complied and drank some tea. As the tea flowed through his throat, he could feel that something was strange and his expression was somewhat wrinkled.
"What is the taste of all the poisons in the world?" Immortal Ji smiled faintly. "That's one of my masterpieces, so you should make good use of it."
"AGHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!"
In just a short time, the entire liquid had spread throughout Ji Nie Tian's body, gnawing at him to the bone, making his mind unable to think calmly.
The bomb!
When the pain did not go away, he banged his head against the table very strongly.
The bomb!
Twice, twice,
The bomb!
Three times, though,
The bomb!
Prak!
The table was destroyed when at the fourth time.
But the pain did not go away.
It's not missing.
All pain is like endless suffering.
He wanted this pain to go away.
"GO LAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!"
Ji Nie Tian pulled her hair tightly. But free.
Want him to claw his face, hit his body and hit his head on the floor, the pain did not go away.
He continued to do what he could to ease the pain, while Immortal Ji sat down while drinking tea quietly, as if it was no big deal.
At the moment after his entire consciousness was pushed to the limit, Ji Nie Tian closed his eyes as hard as his eyes until he no longer moved.
Immortal Ji looked deeply and he let out a long breath.
"Fight on."
………
"Huh?"
Ji Nie Tian was surprised to find himself sitting on a boat, which was sailing on a long river, full of mist and dew with cherry trees that seemed to have flowered by the river.
"You're up." That's what Grandpa said to paddle the boat. He turned his head for a moment looking at Ji Nie Tian, and looked back at the road.
"Where am I?" Ji Nie Tian without him noticing, asked.
"On the River Nyx."
Hearing him, Ji Nie Tian took a deep breath and his face immediately turned pale. Then he laughed softly, "So I'm dead?"
"true."
"And the one who killed me was my own father………"
"true."
"So where am I going?"
"Not anywhere. You will sail with me until the Six Realms Era returns brilliantly."
"Six Nature?" This was the first time he had heard that name.
"really. Formerly, the universe was divided into Six Realms, Demon Realm, Hunger Ghost Realm, Beast Realm, Human Realm, Half God Realm, God Realm. Formerly.....right, long ago, cultivators only needed 300 years to become Immortal, the former cultivators were able to become Gods, the former Eternal Realm was wide open. But now...the dragon fell, the phoenix was extinguished, the immortal gate was tightly closed, the inheritance sank and only a few cultivators in millions of years could become Immortal. Young man, accept, you are not one of the people destined to become an Immortal."
Ji Nie Tian was silent. His heart trembled and his entire desire seemed to disappear. "Yes, outside, there are many things that I have to do...... it is heavy...................." Ji Nie Tian then smiled bitterly, "I want to grant my father's wish. I want to become an Immortal and take down the Heavenly Tao. I want to avenge my mother."
"Your mother...... haishh, she is a very beautiful woman...... and kind-hearted......." The old man sighed heavily, "Young man, your mother's problems are more complicated than you think. Heaven did not drop the Immortal for no apparent reason."
"I don't care what the reason is," As Ji Nie Tian heard it, his eyes shone with a purple and white color, blazing like a flame that carried. Slowly, he said coldly, "Heaven snatched my happiness, Heaven snatched mine, I just need to drop it and take everything he took away from me."
The bomb!
The bomb!
The bomb!
The sky exploded, the river surged. Slowly a devastating mysterious force pressed down on the entire Nyx River, scattering the starving souls and ghosts into the sky.
The scattering Souls and Ghosts slowly realized the existence of Ji Nie Tian and when they saw that opposing aura, they shouted and threw themselves at Ji Nie Tian.
Ji Nie Tian gasped in shock. As if being chased by time, he jumped into the Nyx River, shocking the old man in the boat.
"That kid?!"
Ji Nie Tian swam within the Nyx River, as his soul was slowly being torn apart by the Nyx River's tidal currents.
"No! Nah! I can't die here!" Ji Nie Tian who saw his soul shred, started chanting the Great Purity Spell, hoping it would help him.
His connection with Tao outside the Nyx River was cut off when he came here.
Ji Nie Tian who felt despair, continued to push his head to spin until he reached a conclusion — drink the water of the Nyx River!
Those who drink the waters of the Nyx River will have their souls gone!
But those who manage to survive, will gain long life and not be restrained by Death!
Ji Nie Tian knew this was the worst idea he had ever thought of, but between dying without a fight and dying with a fight, he still chose to die with a fight!
But before Ji Nie Tian could create the action, his soul disappeared from the Styx River and appeared in the red sky.
The wind blew on the clothes, hair danced and he was shocked.
Ji Nie Tian threw out the entire water of the Styx River from his mouth and looked at the Moon standing beside the sun.
It was the sky of the realm of Death!
When he was in the air, the entire soul and hungry ghost realized his existence once again and stormed over.
Thousands of souls and ghosts flew around the sky like a storm, towards Ji Nie Tian's dim soul.
Ji Nie Tian bit his lips and was forced to chant a Great Purity Spell.
Inwardly, he hoped to find a connection with the true Tao, but it was useless.
There was no response.
"Damn! Am I going to die?"
Ji Nie Tian's expression became bitter and he closed his eyes.
"This is the last time!"
Ji Nie Tian slowly cast a Great Purity Spell. His mouth twitched as the air continued to blow.
The pursuing starving souls and Ghosts had approached.
After he finished reading the Great Purity Spell, he read the Purple Sky Spell. And after that he read again the Great Purity Spell and so on.
When he sensed that something was cracking in his mind, he opened his eyes again and read the final verse of the Great Purity Spell even louder.
[......... The Beginning and the End]
When the temple ended, the light shone brightly and the space distorted, opening a very small gap around it.
All the gaps appeared above, and there was only one gap that was below.
Ji Nie Tian's body continued to plunge. With a slightly whining top, he attempted to reach that small crack, which was only as big as a head.
However, when his right arm went inside, the gap disappeared along with his right hand.
Ji Nie Tian felt no pain. But when the right hand was restored, his soul light grew dimmer.
Seeing the light of his soul then onto the other starving souls and ghosts, he inevitably gritted his teeth.
"My soul is this weak! And you still want it?" Ji Nie Tian frowned loudly. In a short period of time, souls and ghosts reached for him, yet Ji Nie Tian struck every soul and ghost that was trying to eat his soul, not only that, he was even trying to eat souls and ghosts.
"Aggghhhh!!!" Like eating meat, Ji Nie Tian tore the soul and starving ghost with his mouth and hands as souls and ghosts tried to eat it.
The other souls outside the perfect storm, who wanted to also eat the soul of Ji Nie Tian, had a pale face.
"This boy!"
"He is as sinister as King Yama!"
The soul and the ghost were different, while the soul still held its will, the ghost had already lost its mind and only wanted to eat the Souls that had just come to the River Styx, especially the souls that were unguarded by the Soul Anglers.
Returning to Ji Nie Tian's side, all that only existed in the young man's mind was to tear!
Shreds!
Shreds!
Shreds!
Shred every part of them trying to eat it!
Eat up!
Gluttonous!
Swallow up!
Whatever comes near, go crazy!
When Ji Nie Tian's mind was pushed to madness, the souls still had the desire to live, retreat while the starving Ghosts and souls who had resigned themselves to fate were still trying to eat Ji Nie Tian.
Ji Nie Tian still did not stop. When only the remaining ghosts starve, he jumps onto the ghosts and attacks them!
Eat every part of the body of the soul!
The soul is not the body. So even if it's torn or split, it won't bleed.
It didn't look too horrible, but what made things terrible was how Ji Nie Tian tore every part of the soul that came at him.
"Hhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!"
The powerful roar accompanied by a mysterious aura finally made the starving ghosts retreat in a daze, leaving only one extremely crazed hungry ghost.
When only one starving ghost remained, Ji Nie Tian punched, kicked, clawed, tore and banged his head against every part of the starving ghost, while pushing it down into the River Styx.
Before he could reach a distance of 10 meters, Ji Nie Tian pushed the starving ghost's body and managed to make it land on top of the forest of the Styx River.
The bomb!
Dust and sand are scattered.
Ji Nie Tian lay down with an exhausted expression, with eyes that looked at the red of the sky.
"Uhhhh," He saw his palm quite clearly. It was likely that he was getting a lot of nutrients from those ghosts.
"I want to go home."
Ji Nie Tian muttered then laughed bitterly, "Is it my destiny to be trapped here?"
Destinies.
Is correct.
One of the shackles that held all of humanity, the absolute, unbending shackles, the absolute unbreakable shackles.
That is destiny.
It was likely that his father sent him to the realm of death to fight against destiny and return.
But, seeing how Heaven was blocking him, it was clear he had no chance………
Ji Nie Tian bit his lips and stood up, "No, I have to move. There are still people waiting in the outside world. There's gotta be a way out."
That way, Ji Nie Tian began his journey in the realm of death.
