Chapter 5 - Ancient Expert

Inside a valley, far away from the origins of Earth, in a huge mountain that acts as a wall between two cities.

An intense and bright red flame sprung up from the ground, it’s soaring burning even the soil itself, creating a 2 meters deep and half a meter long crater. A nearby pond, just outside the mountain, is full of water. The water soon starts leaking towards a crevasse, entering the valley. The line of water gathers in a puddle close to the fire, strangely, it is no problem for the two elements to merge.

The merging of fire and water causes the wind in a nearby area to gush into the mountain, intertwining with the two already merged elements. A leaf arrives in the valley, smoothly flown by the wind carrying it. Before the wind merges with the other elements, the leaf shakes as stones fly to it, losing their hard body and turning soft. Gathering inside the wind, was a leaf and what resembled soil. The soil embraces the leaf, as the wind carries it over to the sphere of fire and water, smashing directly into it.

The sphere made of the combination of fire and water was unmoved by the wind and leaf colliding with it, as they instantly unite with the other elements and fuse into a four colored sphere. A sphere layered by different elements, respectively red, green, blue, and white. As time slowly passes, the sphere transmutes and consolidates into the form of an organ, a heart. The stored and assimilated energy transforms the elements into a real heart, exceptionally strong and divine.

A tremor runs through the space surrounding the heart, as the first convulsion of the heart takes place. The first beat of the heart, this steady beat causes the space in a radius of hundreds of thousands of miles to tremble ever so slightly.The slight tremble of the earth went unnoticed by everyone living in their corresponding areas. With this first heartbeat, all of the nature sent energy towards the valley, letting it converge around the heart. Energy even surged from the depth of the ground, directly passing through all obstacles.

Soon after the energy that nature had transferred into the valley gathered, the heart hovers calmly once more. After a few breaths of time, the arteries on the heart began pulsing just enough to be visible. It was soon after, that the second heartbeat echoed in the valley.

That heartbeat was enough to make all water in a circumference of a million miles radius surge mildly, and it quickly sent its energy on the way. The energy converged. Like the energy of nature, it subtly drifted in a mild rhythm around the heart. This time the experts that were drinking tea, or were simply close to water, could not help but notice the change. Yet despite them being able to visibly see the water, and them knowing something had happened, they failed to track the origin and the cause of this phenomenon.

Small-scale investigations were set out hailing from ancient and powerful sects that were within the affected circumference, but beyond asking around and sharing experiences, nothing was found out. The valley was left uninterrupted as if some spatial energy was rendering this place invisible and impossible to detect. A few days passed like this, the valley was undisturbed and the heart's arteries seemed to continue pulsing more vividly than ever. Over these past few days, the heart had not beaten once.

Ten million miles away, an expert was in the midst of concocting a pill. He had been concocting for weeks on end, enduring failure after failure! But this time, he could see hope, the concoction was soon over with and if everything was left as it was now, the pill would be successfully created.

Feeling an energy brushing him, he could feel changes happening to the flame currently inside his pill cauldron. “IMPUDENT!” the expert shouted as his aura extended, everyone in his sect looked up at the mountain, exclaiming to themselves and lamenting at the fact that their ancestor was fully consumed by pill concocting these past few years.

No matter how the expert tried locking down the flame, it kept surging, wilder and wilder, while sweat ran in lines pouring from his pores. His face had turned ashen-pale from the moment he noticed the interference of his concoction. And yet, whatever he did, it was as if, even if he had the power to lock down space, the flame still surged brutally and by instinct. Soon after, black smoke oozed from the cauldron, and the expert’s face faltered as blood leaked from his mouth. Soon after he bellowed in rage as he roared furiously for multiple days.

Ten million miles, that was the distance between the valley and the sect that the expert resided in. But even ten million miles away, the heart still affected the world before the third heartbeat. It was at this moment, that everyone who was close to a fire, was troubled or afflicted due to the fire going amok. Calamity had yet to strike.

And when the third heartbeat shook, the whole world shivered.

With the third heartbeat, everything was set ablaze. The small incident with the expert and the pill concoction was nothing in comparison to the cities that burned, the ancient items that were devoured by flames, everything was a disaster. All fires roared mightier than dragons, and everyone recorded this moment in their memories for an eternity to come.

A huge heatwave permeated the air for ten million miles as an imperceptible yet strong energy traveled throughout the vast space. Together with the energy from nature and water, it converged into a divine energy.

After a moment of stillness that undulated the countless regions affected by the blazing fires, the heart within the mysterious valley began rotating, commanding the energies. At first, the process was fast, as instantly the outlining of organs were formed, as well as a skeleton.

Over the span of four days, the organs finished forming and the skeleton grew increasingly dense. Even minor details such as the bone marrow became increasingly profound, stretchable yet almost impenetrable by swords and ordinary sharp items.

Just the ambiance around the organs and the bones were enough to cause strife, even amongst the strongest of beasts residing close to the mountain. The lofty and illustrious energies that suffused the valley were more illustrious than any ever seen.

Due to being nurtured, the organs and the skeleton were born with inordinate constitutions, defying the rules and laws restricting mortals’ bodily bearings. This could be underlined, if the organs were swapped with ordinary organs, that body would have a powerful vitality along with a huge stamina boost.

However, as time passed, only a minor amount of flesh had been created, and seemingly the process was close to coming to a halt. Something seemed off. It was as if something was missing. After a few weeks, the flesh was still only one fifth created, yet the speed merely decreased. There were slight transformations to the heart, the pulsing got slower, but the rhythm kept changing and became like a profound and intricate song.

The investigations outside had all come up empty. Finally, a sect specializing in foretelling stepped forth. It can be told that this sect was revered by many, but only held a very little amount of power in comparison to other sects.

One of the elders had mumbled his reading of the situation, a mumbling that shook the nearby sect disciples that hurried and shared the conclusion.

“Mh, if right be right, after this calamity another should rise, causing waves of turbulence even greater than the last. On a whim, it will stop, and a lucky person shall create history!”

And with this, many were preparing. In perspective, almost half had stopped their use of fire, and a fourth stopped going near huge amounts of water. Over time the paranoia that had been built up started diminishing, little by little. It was not until this day when, inside the mountain valley, the heart changed rhythm again, that they realized they had made of mistake, by undermining such an event.

The pulsing caused the wind around it to play some kind of melody, and as the rhythm got faster, the heart convulsed and expanded instantaneously, causing the fourth heartbeat.

The earth shook, the water surged and the fire blazed. People quickly realized that the omen had come true. Yet, although everything was intense, the fire seemed to be milder than the last, only the earthquakes and the small tsunamis were fiercer than ever. It went on for two days, and for two days people kept fire away and stopped from sailing the seas. After these two days, everything settled. But it was only for an instant. The people of this world had no time to feel relief.

A few breaths afterward, the water soared to the heavens madly, fire expanded and almost turned into magma, huge amounts of earth created small floating islands. Another few breaths later, a vast majority of all clouds in a vicinity of ten thousand miles gathered in a group, small tornadoes popping up out of nothing. Luckily, before anything world/devastating occurred, everything returned to normal. The water fell from the skies, the fire turned back to normal and the islands fell down. The wind settled as the clouds dissolved, the sun shining brightly.

What was left unseen was that all the energy from the wind, that had not only been gathering in the clouds but was also the creator of the devastating tornadoes, turned into a servile food source for the body.

The body in the valley. With the wind energy assisting, the flesh was hurriedly created in no time. Blue eyes and black hair, healthy pink lips. The facial features were incredibly feminine.