Age of Heroes (Age of Heroes Chronicles)

Chapter 411: The emperor strikes back (3)

The three energy is Heavenly energy or heavenly Qi. Human Qi, and earth Qi. Heavenly Qi includes the Qi or energy of all the planets, stars and constellations as well as the energy of creation. 

At least that is what most martial artist in Ming believes about the Qi.

Human Qi is the energy that exists on the surface of their world and it sustains human life, and the earth force includes all of the forces inside the world as well as the five elemental forces.

But for people practicing Killing Qi and reach at a level where the Qi seeped out from the body they can train in what is called the Blood Absorbing Heavenly Technique, a forbidden and rare technique only for people of the Killing Qi. 

The book is rare and buying it cost an astronomical amount of money but it is meant as a gift from the Huangdi Zhu Yian. 

Huangdi is the title of the ruler of Ming continent. In a way it is almost an equivalent of Emperors. 

Anyway since Arial express to research killing Qi the Emperor lent it to Arial. 

Of course how could that emperor know that Arial has such a tyrannical Killing Qi. If he knew surely he would not lend it to Arial. 

All the Emperor of Ming continent knows about Arial is that Arial is a great Emperor scholar, who dabbles himself in many areas and have a fondness for researching martial arts. 

At least this is the opinion of Huangdi of Ming towards the Emperor of Eden.

Watching the red liquid and the smell of blood, Arial then jumped back onto the bathtub and then he sits cross legged on the bathtub.

Slowly he closes his eyes, taking a deep breath and then from his dantian, another term he learned from Ming, his dantian seems to be fill with chaotic energy.

Suddenly the blood in the bathtub begins swirling around Arial body. If anyone could see they would be utterly shocked at what is happening right now.

Every pore in Arial body is open and from this pore the Blood Absorbing Heavenly technique is activated, drawing all the blood into Arial body while his dantian is refining the energy contained in the blood into Chaotic Energy. 

If anyone who does not have great internal energy attempt this method, their body would surely break down, paralyzed, or they even might get their Qi reverse in their meridian and injure themselves, never be able to practice martial arts again. 

But this is Arial! 

Of all the experts in the Human Continents there is no one that could match him in the amount of internal energy. 

In techniques and knowledge of techniques he would lose to experts that studied their whole life about martial arts like the Four Immortals, but in terms of internal energy? 

There is no one that can match him in terms of internal energy. 

The blood in the bathtub keeps swirling and one could see that Arial face is getting redder and his vein is showing.

But Arial is smiling. 

He could feel his body is strengthened, energy constantly streaming inside of him, until finally the last drop of blood in the bathtub finally all is refined into energy that is stored deep in Arial dantian. 

But Arial did not get up from his cross legged position. Instead he is still sitting; sweat beads is forming around his forehead. 

Using blood. killing Qi, a chaotic type of energy, one that is not of heavenly or earth, practicing in such an unorthodox and possibly dark technique could not possibly have no adverse effects whatsoever even for the Celestial Emperor. 

This is the reason why people rarely practice the Killing Qi technique. 

To kill even one hundred people is hard enough without alerting the authority or even the martial art fraternity and all the righteous heroes but to kill hundreds thousands? 

Surely such a man would be hunted by everyone, despise and hated by all beings of earth. 

Everyone will want to kill such person, skin them, burn them, and torture them with the most torturous way.

But it is different if it's a warnot to mention if the one that kills such amount of man the Emperor itself, a war hero, a conqueror. 

After all it is war. 

Not to mention rarely anyone achieved even the first form or the first stage to learn Killing Qi technique.

Killing Qi techniques can only be felt when the practitioner has killed a lot of people, reaching thousand, a killing intent that emanated from killing numerous life, sending souls to the Netherworld, a person that live their lives surrounded by killing intent and the person itself have great killing intent. 

Surely such a man is feared as a demon, and a great Demon of the Seventh Hell. But Arial had fulfilled the requirement. 

Not counting the people, he killed during the war of succession, he has killed many living beings during the Civil War of the Orc and even more when he set out to conquer Vangua. 

And now with Zettelian also conquered imagine the amount of people he has already killed. 

How many people become war orphans, widows, losing their loved ones? In the Orc war Arial was a savior. 

In the Succession War he was a defender. 

But what about Vangua and Zettel?

For Vangua he was a conqueror. And a conqueror holding a conquered country by the force of the sword cannot afford to be squeamish.

For Zettel. he was a destroyer, death that came in the form of fire and iron, the King of Hell that clawed up from the pit of his despair and lay his vengeance, for he promises the one who kills his wife would see that he would raise hell on earth to satisfies his vendetta.

The lives he reaps reaches hundreds of thousand if not almost reaching a million marks with all the cities he burned along the way. 

Right now however Arial is trying to refine the chaotic energy in the blood to refine it into one of the three energies of the Pure. 

Whether it be a heavenly Qi, Earthly Qi or human qi, it has to be converted to one of these energies. 

After about an hour finally all these energies are refining to Earthly energy.

Then Arial open his eyes.

'Humph. only Earthly Energy huh? I thought I could refine it to a Heavenly qi level.' 

He then took the towel and clean the blood on his body revealing his flawless skin, his eyes possess a certain red glint.

His eyes are no longer normal as he is able to see farther than normal humans

his ears could catch every sound near the bathhouse and even miles away he could hear the chattering of his officers

his skin on the other hand has become smooth and yet with that flawless skin, with that handsome face one could feel chaos emanating from his body. 

Even with his handsome face anyone could not hide their dread and fear when confronted something as unnatural as Arial. 

Before he learned the Blood Absorbing Heavenly Technique he was already regarded as the peak expert of the continent in the eyes of the public and the martial art world 

but after he learned the unorthodox technique, anyone who is confronted with Arial would surely felt all their hairs stand up, their heart beating like a pounding of war drum, hard and fast almost like it would jump out from their bodies. 

His exterior contained a killing aura that sometimes could be seen by naked eyes. 

Even though his face has become very handsome compared to his previous appearance which is full of charisma but lacking the beauty of a handsome man, this time he could be said to look like a beautiful man, his appearance is delicate and refined, containing that same noble kingly air but this time it is also invites terrible dread because of the unorthodox technique that he is learning.

The Blood Absorbing Heavenly Technique has 5 stages.

The first stage gives him great physical strength and mental vitality while giving him the ability to give of strong killing aura that would freeze lesser beings or people that only train in internal energy for about five years. 

Such person will not be able to stand such pressure of the first stage of the technique.

The second stage enhances every bodily function and nurtures the Door of Energy or meridians, opening the Forbidden Door and could give explosive power in the risk of some internal injury. 

As long one does not open the Forbidden Door then the body could be strengthening and also at this stage Arial would be able to even refine a person blood just by touching them and activating this unorthodox training.

It would also give Arial the ability to give of strong killing aura that would pressure people that train in internal energy for about ten years. 

The third stage allows Arial divine flexibility to his muscles and Arial body injury whether internal or external will be regenerated by the blood of the other people that is refined on his dantian 

It also allows Arial to control the blood of the people from a distance, bending the blood of other people. 

He could even kill his enemies or control them like a puppet, using his internal energy.

It would also give Arial the ability to give of strong killing aura that would pressure people that train in internal energy for about fifteen years. 

The fourth stage his body will experience a burst of internal energy from every drop of blood he refines but he has to endure great pains every time he refines even a drop of blood this time and this stage is said to be impossible to surpass.

Many of those in the past that practice in Killing Qi have never passed this stage. Many have died trying to break through. 

But even with three stages, such people become peak expert in their own rights.

However, the fourth stage also nurtures mental energy and everything that has a beating heart no matter how stronger he is then Arial could not even resist if Arial decided to kill.

It is a sure kill technique if Arial ever passed this stage. 

It would also give Arial the ability to give of strong killing aura that would people that train in internal energy for about forty years. 

And the five stage? 

Arial is in full control of all of his body and could release the full energy of the technique, giving spiritual pressure just by walking, killing people just by one word. 

This is why people said that reaching the five stage of this technique is said to be impossible. 

Why? 

Because anyone reaching that stage would surely be considered God! 

He can go wherever he wants, he will be unmatched and no one could even fight such person in equal terms.

It is also for that reason the technique is called a Forbidden technique. Fall into the wrong hands, it will spell disaster to the world.

Arial then took a deep breath and rest on one of the chairs.

'In a month I have to return the book back. I can copy it but I don't think that the Huangdi of Ming would not be too pleased if he found out about it' Arial mused. 

He finally decided he will not copy the technique. Instead he will commit the technique to his memories.

Deciding this he cleaned himself and take a normal bath with waters from the Elves spring and feel that his lost energies refining the chaotic energy disappeared the moment he dips himself into the bathtub.

'Now.'he said as he is enjoying the bathtub 'about the betrothal' and then he sighed.

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