Lord Shadow

The more he fought the more he understands and sense the energy.

Then the question is how did he sense such energy? He should not have been able to sense any energy.

He had tried for the past five years to sense the energy of this world but he could not. His body was sealed and even his divine sense was sealed.

He had waited thinking that when his entire seal unsealed he could finally sense the energy of this world

But now that he is in contact with the way this people cultivate themselves, Azief realizes…no he understands some things.

First, he understands about his seal.

The seal was the sealing of the Stairway. That he understands.

But then if it is only the sealing of the Stairway, then why is it he felt such repression and suppression on his body and soul even after the seal on his palm and hand were lifted?

He did not think about it too much before. It was like something as obscuring his mind from realizing the truth

It was then he remembers the experience he had accumulated on Earth

The Heavens.

The Heavens of this world is also suppressing him.

Now that he recognizes it, he could now feel it.

The energy he brought and the dimensional energy around him were incongruous with the laws of this world.

It made him felt even more weak, his mind duller and that is why he felt like he had to wait for a long time until his seal were all unsealed.

But when he clashed with Yu Rong before he remembers that he could feel that the seal on his chest unravels. It only unravels slightly, but without a doubt it unravels.

Then he realizes on one thing.

He was about to think more when he suddenly was shocked a bit by the sudden change of Xu Meng and Feng Xiao attack breaking his moment of pondering.

Feng Xiao and Xu Meng suddenly change the way their sword moves as they move their swords in different directions and launched a storm of attacks upon him

The sword moves pique Azief interest suddenly.

Because he did feel the internal energy of the people of this world could be projected outward and even imbued in their strikes and attack.

Before he did not feel it. He knew it was there because he could see a faint outline of it. But he could not feel it. Azief smirks.

It is not laws or concept, but energy that ultimately come from themselves. Azief suddenly was reminded about his Undying Physique and an idea light up in his mind.

His Undying Physique could be considered the most perfect body in the Universe.

Yet, other than fast regeneration and almost an invincible body against physical harm it did not seem to be more than that.

As Azief grew stronger and this understanding of the world and the Universe increased, he felt something else could be done.

He felt like there is stills something else to discover. Like the Path of his refinement of body did not yet end

He thought when the energies from his Disk comes out from his Inner World and form into Law Bodies on the Supremacy Stairway, it had mark the end of the path for his physical body.

With Law Bodies, he would not be afraid of Laws and Concepts to assault his body.

He might still suffer injuries from such attack of Laws but he surely would not be affected by it too much.

He had the idea once to Perfect his Physique but he also recognizes how hard that is for him to achieve.

He need more fortuitous encounter but Azief himself knew he is not that lucky. He might have used all of his luck meeting Alsurt and Azul.

His body could already be considered unrivalled in terms of defense and sturdiness. He should have been satisfied. But if he was satisfied, he would not be the fearsome Death Monarch.

His seeking for his Grand Path is what led him to his current height of power.

Even if he was compared to the many small deities of the Universe, Azief would even trump some of them.

How could he not?

He walks the path that is once trodden by many Grand Supremacy from many epochs ago in search of their Grand Path

That alone tells the Universe something.

Unless he dies before his time, Azief would be someone that have a shot at being a Grand Supremacy and maybe even actualize his own path and cut through the Source Wall and go beyond the constrain of the Omniverse.

And Azief believes that once you are satisfied, then he would have lost his path.

At least that is Azief path. He could not afford to slow down not because he was forced to. Because that is what he chose to do.

There are some that walk the Path of Acceptance.

And for those that walk such Path, they would be weak…at least at first.

But when they actualize such path of Acceptance, their power could make the whole Universe bows to them voluntarily.

Such path would create a paradise where life is eternal and all evil is vanquished by the light of righteousness

But that was not his Path.

And as such, he did not need to meditate under Bodhi tree or hanged himself on the Yggdrasil to gain such Path.

His path is the path he forged using his own blood, sweat and tears. And Azief have never lost his sight of his Path.

Because he believes even his path has value.

But as he ponders on the nature of internal energy he seems to captured with an idea.

He had his own source of energy in the form of Death Source.

It is derived from the people he killed, the death he experienced, the death other people experienced around him.

Each aura of the dead could be converted into a Death Source. Each soul is only a boost to his power and the more dead people around him the more he become powerful

It could do almost anything regarding death and life. To extend one life using Death auras or to accelerate one death.

But since it is called a Death Source, even though the Source is independent from other source in the world, which mean Azief did not have to invoke some ancient names or call upon the Source of the Energy like Will with Asargan and Raymond with his Terra Force, but Azief does have one drawback of using such Source of power.

In a Universe where only Life blooms and no Death, his Source would be cut off.

He learns of The Destroyer and Creator from many tales and myths of the Universe when he was with Will when they were both trying to find a way back home to Earth after being stuck in a dimensional limbo.

(Check Earth two arc for those who have forgotten about this.)

Both of those two mythical, at least they were thought to be mythical before their reappearance in the Universe, being might see his ability as trifling as ants trying to perform in front of a human.

It would be beneath their attention and probably would not hurt them even a bit

While the Destroyer brings Death to any Universe it descends to, it is not the kind of Death that Azief could take advantage off.

Those who saw the Destroyer powers would experience true annihilation.

They would be erased instantly without any hopes of reincarnating or existing in other forms.

Not even the trick of splitting oneself into countless of Avatars and existing in other timelines simultaneously would work against such an almighty destruction powers.

From the story Will told him, that is how the Temple of Asargan comes about. It is the only way for the Savi’krian people to preserve their legacy and hope.

And even that requires the powerful source of the Universe to fought the encroaching power of the Destroyer.

If not for the Creator mercy in pushing back one finger of the Destroyer, even those Temple would not survive destruction in the hand of the Destroyer

Death Source would not be able to be used in such circumstances where there is nothing left of the dead.

After all, even the dead still have souls. And it is that lingering energy that turns into a Death Source.

But the Destroyer power seems to transcend Death as it erases everything without a trace. That is a true annihilation and true destruction

As for the Creator?

In his presence, all life will prevail and worlds would bloom like flowers each time he breathes. For such powerful being endowed with such divine almighty power of Life and Creation, Azief knew his Death Source could not be activated at all.

How could Death come in a paradise of Creation and Life? Death Source ah its limitation.

It was then Azief thought of his Undying Physique. He always felt that there is this hidden energy inside his body. But he never knows how to draw that out.

‘Internal energy’ he muttered under his breath. Could it be this path? He thought to himself.

Without laws or Concepts but using the power that is nourished inside one body to project it outward to move in accordance with nature and one own wills?

A source that truly come from oneself.

He could absorb the essence of the world and the Universe and trapped it inside his body.

When he is in a dimension or a sealed state, he could use the stored energy in every fiber of his being to extricate himself.

His eyes brightened the moment he thinks of it. His mind is making a simulation in his head right now.

His smile widened. But in this dark and with the sword light criss crossing and sparks of fire of the steel no one notices that smile.

‘I could feel it now’ Azief thought to himself.

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