Elijah''s sword pierced the heart of the Wudang Sect Master.


    ''What?''


    Elijah, taken aback, tried to retract his de but the voice of the Wudang Sect master made him stop. He had not expected it would go like this.


    "Don''t."


    The Wudang Sect Master stopped Elijah from retracting his de. His voice was peaceful, as he finally gained rity…he finally found peace.


    The aura of the mountain changed from destion to a calm breeze.


    "9 Strikes."


    The Wudang Sect master coughed up ck blood. His body would have fallen to the ground if not For Elijah''s de supporting it.


    "It took you 9 strikes toprehend the flow…"


    He sounded d, proud, ecstatic.


    "..."


    Frankly, Elijah still did not fully understand it. At least he didn''t think he understood it.


    What did he just do? He just followed the trajectory of the Wudang sect master''s de and…reverted it,


    Changed it.


    "That''s the flow."


    The Wudang sect master''s voice echoed in his ear. It possessed a tranquil feeling.


    "To understand what the Opponent means to do, and to return or disrupt it by acting like a small disturbance."


    "Not fully taking control of their art…and going with the flow."


    His words were confusing to Elijah. He struggled to understand but at the same time, it was as if he knew the meaning behind them. It was certainly a strange feeling/


    "It is simple andplex at the same time, but you have understood it…your body has. Your mind awaits."


    Elijah''s sword left his body and he fell to his knees, bearing a happy face on his face.


    The sight around Elijah changed. The deste sect was now filled with people. Old,Young…all of them,


    The disciples of the sect, and the elders, all happily ran around doing their daily tasks. The cracked marble and shattered floor repaired itself and Elijah could finally see the lush, pure white beauty of the Wudang Sect.


    He was taken aback by the sight, the Mountain of Wudang had revisited it''s most prosperous era. The pristine, white marble, the maintained buildings, and also the lush and beautiful flowers and trees.


    The previous scenes of decay and rot were all gone, now…it was beautiful.


    "..."


    The Wudang sect master strained his dying eyes to see the beauty of his sect one more time, a faint smileced his face, a smile he had not disyed in a long time. A smile that also contained a sea of sorrow within it.


    "You did it faster than even the Heavenly demon…"


    Praised the Wudang Sect master.


    "Heavenly demon..?"


    Elijah inquired, unaware of the name of the Heavenly demon. Who was this man that the Wudang Sect master mentioned?


    "The strongest of us."


    Elijah suddenly felt as if a mountain had been ced upon him.


    "On the highest mountain of Murim."


    The weight of the ''mountain'' increased as the Wudang sect master continued his words.


    The pressure…was making him fall to his knees but he endured with all his might. He was doing his best to keep standing upright,


    "That is the end, that is your destination."


    Hey t on the ground. Relishing the clear blue sky endowed with the light of the sun onest time.


    He cared not for his clean white robes being dirtied…he just wanted to enjoy it.


    Hisst words left his lips.


    "The heavenly demon awaits…"


    And then the Trial clear notification appeared in front of Elijah.


    [You have cleared the 22nd floor, The Trial of Wudang.]


    [The tower congrattes you, you have shown a satisfying ending.]


    [Transporting to the 23rd floor.]n/?/vel/b//in dot c//om


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    The mountain of Wudangy destroyed, an entire mountain removed from the surface of the Ground. The surroundingsy devastated. Deep crevices and craters filled thend, it was as if a sh between two monsters had taken ce. A sh so devastating the entire mountainy decimated, the Wudang Sect was no more.


    The earth was melting in some ces and frozen in others, except for those particr spots of molten earth the entire ce was frozen. ciers were driven deep into the ground as if someone had thrown them from the skies, It wasn''t just ciers.


    Spikes and Spears of ice, each the size of a house, also littered the ground, some so deep only a part of them could be seen.


    Just what had caused such destruction?


    The ability to decimate an entire mountain to ash?


    The ability to cause such destruction…was possessed by none other than n, who in the center of all this chaos had impaled the Wudang Sect Master with his tail.


    He threw the body of the Wudang Sect master away, he had a wide hole in his chest.


    "Cough!"


    He coughed up ck blood.


    "Why?"


    n asked, confused. The reason he was asking this was because…


    "Why did you hold back?"


    The Wudang sect master had held back. He did not fight n with full power.


    "Would it have mattered?"


    He coughed up blood. It wasborious to utter even a single sentence now.


    "..."


    n remained silent, his eyes looked at the Wudang Sect Master with a gaze of disgust.


    A gaze of disappointment.


    "I would have lost anyways…"


    Yes, even if he went all out he would still have lost. Indeed!


    n was too powerful for his dead corpse to handle, he would have lost no matter what.


    "Are you satisfied?"


    Suddenly, n asked a weird question. Why was he asking if the Wudang Sect Master was satisfied?


    "..."


    The Wudang sect master strained his eyes to gaze at n onest time.


    "Yes…I lost as a martial artist…to a martial artist."


    n went back to his Human form, he went over to the Wudang Sect Master.


    The light in his ck eyes was gone, and the color of his skin was fading. The man was dead.


    n bent down and closed his eyes, giving him his final rest.


    [You have cleared the 22nd floor, The trial of Wudang.]


    [The tower, although reluctant, says you have cleared the trial in an interesting manner.]


    [Advancing towards the 23rd trial.]