Wudang: Legends Of Qi Earth 169 Blood Of Ancient Earth Ritual III : It Begins

Alex wiped the sweat off his back as he worked, apart from him, Devonte, Louis, Hideki and Rahim, everyone else were busy attending classes, or in the case of the other Zhang clan members, trying to complete tougher missions in an attempt to compete with their young Master. Within the Span of a week, Alex had more money than they have made in six months, the Zhang clan weren't poor, but it was hard to be able to keep track of the upkeep of all their descendants, especially since the clan itself had a hand in so many unknown and hidden projects.

Either way they had gone of to missions, the girls, with the exception of Miranda who was busy making trade deals and agreement with other towers, had all gone to learn how to kick ass or discover other ways to help the tower grow. There weren't much, being just about fifteen, but they had all gotten close enough that everyone wanted to achieve something great for their organization that until now Alex was no closer to naming.

Alex ducked under the swing of massive plank, and then gave Hideki an shooter glare as the young man sheepishly smiled and moved the destroyed plank towards the cart at the entrance of the sub basement. The cart was tethered to Khan, who was still being punished for running away, safe to say he wouldn't be running away from the battlefield any time soon. Alex bent down and continued working, pouring down blood mixed with sea salt on the ground, drawing a massive pentagram on the uneven soil beneath his naked feet. It was freaky, and quite scary especially when looked at from another angle, but it wasn't as if Alex had any other choice, spirits we're mystical, and yet they had this weird ability to measure their abilities with statistics.

They had spent the time clearing the first sub-basement, it was huge, being about a hundred meters in length and about sixty in width. There were a bunch of useless and annoying graffiti on the walls, probably the work of the previous inhabitants of the tower, but Alex was having it painted over with a special paint. He planned to etch some arrays and wards on them to help the plants grow well.

But apart from having the walls painted over, they had completely cleared the basement of any sort of debris and dirt, and made sure to fill the gardens land properly, even going as far as importing fertile earth from outside to mix in with the soil. They had just finished with the last of the debris, and Alex was already setting up for the blood ritual that would increase the grade and effectiveness of the soil.

The mixture of blood and salt also had a special kind of soil enriching fertilizer called gruutñ, it was a bit hard to pronounce but that was probably because the fertilizer was not native to earth and is extremely expensive. From what Alex heard, the fertilizer was made from the dead bodies of a particular species of lizards that only existed in the forests around the world tree. That was all he was told, but it seems to be from an elven world of some sort.

Right at the middle of the bloody pentagram that had been drawn using the blood of the Hydra and the Arachne, there was a core as big as a fist, this was a gift from Elder Zhang Wuxi and actually belonged to a demonic rabbit in the heaven's gate realms of cultivation.

The power in it was very contained, if not it was not too far fetched to say that the power coming off of it was enough to explode all of them, just for being near it. Rabbits grew fast, and quite so now that there was the existence of Qi and Mana, it took this particular monster a 100 years to reach the heaven gate realms, so it's core is quite valuable, priced at 500 million gold, just as a starting bid in an auction, and here was Alex about to use it in an untested ritual.

The core was the Nexus of the ritual, it would power the entire thing and make sure the soil is not just saturated, but elevated to the point it could give anything planted in it special properties.

Now came the final part of the preparations, and that was the sacrifice of a pure soul. Alex turned to Rahim who walked towards him with a cage in his hands, in the middle of the cage was a fox with snow white fur. It was just born, yet Alex was about to condemn it to death, at least that was what he thought until he heard Ébié's voice.

(Why are you acting so gloomy, it's just a baby fox! All of you have such heavy looks on your faces, what's going on?)

"What do you mean what's going on? Didn't you say that you needed a pure soul and that you had sacrifice one for the entire ritual to work!"

Alex had blasted out in annoyance, drawing looks of surprise from everyone else there, but they were already used to it by now as Alex, sometimes talked to himself or rather seems like he is talking to himself but is actually communicating with his spirit? It didn't make too much sense to them, as long as Alex doesn't go crazy and start spouting things like world domination or human sacrifice, they were good with him talking to himself.

(Yeah that's what I said, but I never said the sacrifice had to be killed! A life for a life, based on my calculations it's not supposed to die.....I think)

"You think 😑😑😑?" Alex asked with a blank look on his face.

(Basically the life would be transformed, it would no longer be what it was before, but will transform into something that would cater to the land, or it could just die, but the probability of it dying is just about 50….no 60!....ummm I think it's about 85% give or take a few Numbers.)

Alex rolled his eyes and shook his head, Ébié was smart, but she could be such an airhead sometimes, it's no wonder she got along the most with Khan, the two of them were cut from the same cloth. Alex too the cage and tried his best to ignore the mewling cries of the fox in it, it was just born about a day or two ago, so it's eyes were still shut. The pentagram had a circle of dead plants, leaves, and seeds around it, this was a last minute addition by Devonte, apparently life and blood would react really strongly with each other, and this should strengthen the ritual if nature was used as an enclosing circle, sort of like a power or energy amplification device for the ritual.

Alex placed the Cage inside the circle before taking a step out, his gaze was on the fox and then on the ritual diagram as a whole. Everything was ready, and now it was up to him to begin the next step, the chant and the infusion of spirit energy.

Previously Ébié had warned him against having Khan out during the ritual as Khan relied on his spirit energy to gallivant about and cause problems, and now trace amounts of his spirit energy was also being absorbed by Devonte. There would have been. Question of if the spirit energy would have been enough, if Alex had not barged his way into the spirit commander realm, now he had more energy than he knew what to do with.

The chant for the ritual could only by created and spoken by him. According to Nezha there was a strict hierarchy in the spirit world, just like earth had it's spirit king, there were other worlds with their own spirit Kings and Mantles. The goal is to fight in a war to become the supreme spirit king of the Spirit world, and in so doing you became responsible for acknowledging and approving new rituals and creating change for them.

Normally this was a duty that each spirit king would have to take care of in their world, if it's too much work, the Spirit king can delegate a suitable subordinate spirit to create the chant, depending on what sort of ritual it is. Alex was Earth's spirit king, from the moment he gained the mantle, no ritual of chants made on Earth would work well or even work at all without his approval.

Nezha had told him that he was the Nexus of all spiritual activity and that he hadn't fully come into his powers yet. At his strongest the spirit king would be able to fully cover his entire world with his spirit energy and observe the actions of each an every single spirit.

The chant or rituals approved by a king always improve by a factor of at least 85%! The king's were the connection of the Spirits between the mortal world and the universe itself, with all three living on and relying on him for leadership, direction, and protection. So it stands to reason that it was better for Alex to create the chant for the ritual.

Alex had no idea where to start from, but Nezha had said to speak from his soul, but to use his anima as the voice. Connect with the fundamental forces of the universe and Understand what this ritual is supposed to do, and then speak your will out the words, for it is the words of the universe itself. It all sounded very eloquent, but if Alex was honest, it all sounded like total bullshit to him, but either way...here goes nothing.

Chapter end