Chapter 6 - Taking back his pride!

Moon concentrated and dived into his spiritual conscience where his dantian resided. That strange three colored orb was rotating right in the centre. It's three colors, red, green and an evil looking black were all glowing brightly. It seemed as if each color had a life of it's own, and each one wanted to break out and be absorbed into Moons body.

“This strange colored orb, it's obviously from that three colored seed that was given to me by Uriel.. I can sense a great power from it, something I can't even begin to comprehend! What kind of cultivation do I need to unlock its power?”.

Without daydreaming any longer, Moon continued to train his Lonely Ghost Finger by using the Boon tree as his practice target.

Five hours later, darkness had set in and the magical owl beasts were singing a song of the night. The old Boon tree in the field which had been there for over eight hundred years, was currently a mess of holes the size of two conjoined fingers. A black Qi lingered in every single one of these holes, sucking the remaining life out of the tree.

“It's only been a day yet I've already advanced so far with the Lonely Ghost Finger technique, maybe soon I can take on the second stage!”

The second stage of the Lonely Ghost Finger was much more difficult to comprehend than the first stage. It didn't involve just using negative energy that came from loneliness, but something much more sinister. The second stage needed the user to experience the loss of someone whom they truly love! In his life, the only person who he could truly say he loved was Uriel, but his love was unrequited and was more sisterly. There are a total of three stages to the Lonely Ghost Finger, but Moon hadn't even dared to look at the third. After all, what could be worse than losing someone they loved?

A gorgeous smelling perfume filled the air, and a green eyed silver haired beauty suddenly appeared behind Moon.

“So, boy, you managed to gain such control over that technique in such a short time? Your elder sister is truly impressed.” The beautiful girl truly made Moons heart quiver, the moonlight reflected down upon her curvaceous body, making the scene before him feel like he was in a dream.

“Fairy princess, it's only natural. After all, I'm going to become extremely strong one day. Strong enough that I'll protect you and make you my wife!”. His face was completely serious, making Uriel blush slightly as she took the book that was laying on the floor into her hands.

After taking the book, she walked away from Moon quite quickly, hiding her red face and timid eyes. She truly had no experience with boys, and when faced with his straight forward approach at making her his 'wife' she had no idea what to do. “I'll be taking this book off you! Don't even bother to ask for it again until I've managed to master the first stage. Hmph.. make me your wife, keep dreaming.”

Her graceful silver hair waved around in the air as she stomped off. Moon stood there watching her figure depart, “If I really had to lose her to gain the second stage of the Lonely Ghost Finger, I would also kill myself in the process..”

An hour later, in Uriel and Moons room.

Moon was led on the floor, absorbing the Qi in his surroundings. His dantian wasn't even a quarter full, it would be atleast a week or even a month to reach the fourth stage depending on how fast he trained. As he was fixated on his training an idea suddenly popped in his head. “Now with my strength at the third stage of the Nursery layer, I can finally give that bastard Rudan what he deserves. I bet he never thought after all these years of torture, that I'd ever have the strength to overtake him and beat him down like a dog! I'll make him call me his grandfather!”.

Uriel was sat on the bed diligently reading one of her books titled 'Fist of the Southern Star', a biography based on a cultivator named Len. It was detailed that he had reached an incredibly high level of cultivation, a third stage half-immortal. His martial arts technique was incredibly difficult to learn, and it was based on pressurizing the meridians in the body and making the enemy explode from the inside! This Len truly earned his place among the strongest in the entire world of Pan-Gu, not many could contend against such a strong technique.

“Fairy Princess sis, I've decided that now is the time for me to make Rudan suffer for all these years of abuse.”

She looked back at him with a hint of surprise, a year ago, she would have never expected to hear those words come out of the frail little Moon she knew. But merely in a weeks time after consuming that three colored seed, his entire person had changed entirely. He was taller, stronger and looked more like a man! Even though he was only thirteen years old this year, his figure and aura was like a sixteen year olds. Uriel's heart tensed up but only for a second, quickly throwing away this strange feeling to the side. How could she have feelings for Moon who was like her little brother?

“If you're serious, then you have to be careful of his brother Beriel. You must be prepared for the recuperation, that's why I think you should wait! His brother is already at the fourth stage, almost nearing the fifth! If he gets involved, then there's no way you can fight back and it'll just cause even more tension between you both. Listen to me carefully Moon, with maybe a month or two more you might be able to reach the fourth layer, then you could stand a chance.”

The beautiful fairies face had a look of serious concern, clearly she didn't want her precious little brother to go out and be beaten down like a dog by this Beriel. Yet the look on Moons face contained an unshakable will of determination! This wasn't a simple fight but much more, it was to regain his pride which had been destroyed time and time again by Rudan and those bullies! If he was to become a mighty cultivator, his first step was to recover his pride!

“Beautiful wife of mine, thank you for the concern, but this lost pride must be taken back! I can't sit around now that I have the strength. A month to wait til I'm at the fourth layer? I just can't! By the will of the heavens, tomorrow Rudan will be on his knees, begging me to be his grandfather!”.

Morning.

A rooster could be heard crowing loudly, farmers were barreling large crates full of vegetables in the fields and drunkards could be seen stumbling across the street after a hard night of drinking. Moon was stood at the foot of Uriels bed, fully dressed with a look of sheer determination on his face. It was now or never, today he would crush Rudan and his gang or he would die trying.

“Fairy sis, I'm going now.”

“En, I understand that I cannot persuade you to reconsider. So.. good luck.” she said with a face full of concern, yet a new found respect was also found for him. She was proud to have him as her little brother.

Moon was walking again down the desolate streets of Wudao town, his long black hair hung over the left side of his face which covered his scar. After leaving Merry's house, he walked past various shops and farm houses which contained the many inhabitants of the town. They all had a country air about them, as if the country was engraved into their very bones. After walking for several minutes, he arrived at the usual place where Rudan and his gang hung out.

An abandoned farmhouse, probably left behind by the previous owners who either died or fled Wudao town due to unforeseen consequences. The building was rather damaged and looked as if it could collapse at any time, windows were smashed and various graffiti could be seen on the walls. Moon walked up to the entrance of the farm house, concentrating Qi around his leg as he raised it up and kicked down the door sending it almost two meters away.

“W-Who the fuck was that? Moon? The hell are you doing here you little brat, come to ask your grandfather for a beating?”, the red haired Rudan would never expect that the kid who he was to used to tossing around would actually personally come to visit him! He was overjoyed!

“Rudan, this time it's going to be different. You're going to get on your knees and beg for forgiveness in ten seconds, or everyone here is going to be crippled!”. Moons face was incredibly fierce, completely different to how frail and weak he was before. Since taking the three colored seed, he was truly a new person.

An underling next to Rudan let out a laugh, “Cripple us? What kind of nonsense are you talking about? You couldn't even cripple yourself you're so weak!”. The rest of the underlings laughed in unison, they had no idea that right now Moon was at the third stage of the nursery layer.

“That's right, brat! Cripple us! What a joke.. You've truly angered me today, I was going to play with you for a bit longer, but seeing as you're already tired of living then we'll make today the last time we have fun together! Boys, grab him!”.

The four underlings next to Rudan ran at Moon, one with green hair had a small iron knife held in his right hand which he aimed at Moons neck as he charged forward.

Suddenly a dark, baleful Qi transversed around his hand. The Qi contained many different emotions, hatred, regret, loss and loneliness! This black Qi then solidified around his middle finger, a corporeal image of ghosts could be seen rotating around it. Lonely Ghost Finger!

As the Qi was only on his middle finger, the underlings who were running at him didn't even notice as they rushed towards him in an attempt to topple him to the floor.

PIERCE!

His middle finger rushed forward, the unforgiving Qi allowed his finger to pierce directly into the green haired underlings dantian, crippling him for the rest of his life. He would never be able to raise his fist again! He swiftly utilized the Qi and forced it into his legs, his speed increased threefold as he ruthlessly pierced his finger into one, two, three youths dantians! The underlings were laid on the floor, unable to stand up as a look of horror and regret covered their faces.

All four underlings had been crippled, just as he said!

Rudan stood there trembling with a look of anger and fear. “H-How? How the fuck did he do that?!”, he then looked towards the vicous black Qi around Moons finger. “Qi, and such an evil one too! What kind of forbidden martial technique did you learn? What stage did you reach?!”.

“The third stage! And this technique is called Lonely Ghost Finger!”.

A look of horror emerged on Rudans face, but it was too late. Moon slowly began to walk towards him, each step made his heart beat faster as the fragile Moon he once knew now looked like a violent killing god... Seven steps, and he was stood in front of the trembling Rudan. Such a sight was something he will never forget, this was what it meant to be strong! The strong look down on the weak, and the weak look up to the strong!

“W-Wait, I'm sorry! I'm sorry about everything, I was wrong! I'll give you gold, anything, I'll be your underling!”. A small pool of yellow liquid began to drip down his leg, he didn't even dare to fight back. His fire element was nowhere near as oppressive as this dark martial technique Moon was using.

“It's too late, eight years I've been suffering thanks to you! My pride had almost vanished until I found this new strength, and now I'm taking back what's mine! My pride!”.

He shot his finger towards Rudans chest, it pierced straight into it and landed right in the middle of his dantian, dissolving it into a liquid substance. The black Qi lingered in his chest before being absorbed again by Moon. He had finally done it! His revenge went better than he expected and this feeling was one he would never forget in his entire lifetime.

Rudans face was full of tears, still unable to comprehend what had just happened. The only thing he could do was lay there, as he didn't even have the strength to stand up.

“You, you.. what have you done? You bastard! My brother will kill you for this, you bastard! He'll do more than cripple your cultivation, he'll torture you and murder everyone you know! You'll regret this you bas-” - A strong punch landed on Rudans face, multiple teeth sprayed out of his mouth as he was finally unconscious.

“Wow.. that felt great.”