Volu 8, Chapter 4: One Goal, Three Journeys
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“Magic is not sothing you can learn in a short ti.” Gle said lazily, “Since you didn’t continue to ditate in these past few years, there’s nothing I could teach you, because it would be pointless. It would be better to let that Daylight guy go by himself, and you would be a burden to him even if you go.”
“I ditated every night. EVERY-NIGHT!” Kaiser emphasized, “And it’s the special ditation technique found in your house, so it allowed to use advanced magic spells such as White Bomb and Levitation. But the forr could only be used once every three days, and the latter, when used, gives an intense migraine the next day. I also can’t seem to learn lower level or normal magic spells.”
Gle seed more intrigued about sothing else, “How did you find my house? It’s in quite a secretive location, and if it weren’t, the bastard Dragon Emperor would’ve already robbed it. So it couldn’t possibly have survived until now.”
Kaiser grunted, and took out a pentacle necklace from within his collars, “This is the reason. I’ve told you before, I was tricked into being the sacrifice in the arena. That day, after being exiled, I noticed when a blood fell on this necklace, it emitted light. The thin light kept pointing in so direction. Since I had nowhere to go, I had no choice but to follow the light.”
“Who knew, it led straight to your ho.” Kaiser snapped, “It even made cut myself. I bled almost a whole bag of blood before the damned door let in.”
Gle raised his eyebrows, “It’s because your bloodline is rather thin. My eldest daughter is your grandmother, so only one eighth of your blood is mine. It’s already a miracle it only took a bag of blood to open the door.”
“Stop going off-topic.” Kaiser said with dissatisfaction, “Tell quickly, what is wrong with your special ditation technique? When I first found your notes about magic, I was so happy, thinking one day, after I learn all of this, I could rescue my sister. But in the end, the result was horrific.”
“Haha, you are quite lucky.” Gle suddenly burst out laughing.
Kaiser suddenly had a foreboding feeling, “What do you an?”
“I did not invent that ditation technique.” Gle’s face suddenly seed a bit darkened, “When I was in Aklan Academy, I had so disagreents with the Magic instructor on the first class, so I never went to his class. I dug the thod up from the library there.”
“I just grabbed it randomly, but I had no idea it was no ordinary explanation. To this day I have no idea who left it there, it was a certain Magician’s research, and supposedly it was ten tis as effective as normal ditation.”
“Ten tis?” Kaiser asked back in disbelief, “Really?”
“Yes!” Gle said lazily, “But only if you’re still alive after going through with it, otherwise, no matter how many tis the effectiveness, it would be nothing.”
Kaiser seed shocked, “What are you saying? I don’t understand?”
“ditation costs a great deal of spiritual force. When you ditate once, it equals soone else doing it ten tis. Then by ditating ten tis per night, your spiritual force will be ten tis more than others. What do you think will happen?”
Kaiser heard, and he felt numb in his spine. To leave the Dark Street, and to rescue his sister, he had at least seriously practiced Magic for a while. Of course he knew what could happen: if spiritual force increased too quickly, then the result would either be going crazy, or his head would explode.
Kaiser touched his own head, and it was still there! Couldn’t he be crazy? It can’t be, right?
Seeing Kaiser stupidly touching his head, Gle seed to have found it amusing. He snickered for a while before he said,
“That’s why I said you’re lucky. Everyone in my family is natural prodigy for Magic, and their abilities to handle spiritual force have always been extraordinary. Nevertheless, as far as I know, the only person who could handle this ditation was . Everyone else who had tried it, either almost died, or have gone almost crazy.”
“Of course, now, you’re also soone who could handle it.”
‘I really am quite lucky.’ Kaiser thought as he touched his head, but then he thought sothing was wrong.
Kaiser asked hurriedly, “Wait, if we’re trained the sa way, why are you so strong and why am I so terrible?”
“Terrible?” Gle grunted, and said, “Other than Gle family mbers, White Bomb was sothing only senior Magicians could use. Do you know, senior Magicians are mostly old geezers in their seventies or eighties?”
“Can they only use it once every three days too?”
“Well, no.” Gle answered honestly, “If training to the age of seventy only gives you one Divine Fireball every three days, who the heck would want to be a Magician?”
“Divine Fireball?” Kaiser asked blankly.
Gle explained impatiently, “It’s what you call ‘White Bomb’. Shut up, and fire one so I can see.”
Kaiser didn’t dare to say no. He obediently raised his gun, and began an incantation.
Gle frowned a little, and the gun in Kaiser’s hands began to glow. As he completed the incantation, a Divine Fireball shot out of the gun into the sky. It quickly flew through the air, then disappeared without a trace.
Kaiser looked towards Gle, wondering what kind of comnt he would make, but Gle was still raising his head and looked towards the direction in which the Divine Fireball flew. Kaiser saw Gle looked serious, so he didn’t dare to interrupt his thoughts. Kaiser had no choice but to sit down and wait quietly.
Half an hour passed before Gle lowered his head. His face was still expressionless, which made Kaiser feel a bit scared.
“You are indeed an idiot!” Gle swore the mont he opened his mouth.
“W-what did I do?” Kaiser didn’t know what he had done wrong.
Gle pointed at the sky, “Your Divine Fireball took an entire thirty minutes to explode. Do you know what it ans?”
Kaiser shook his head. How would he know what it ant? He didn’t even know they exploded at all. For all the tis he had used it before now, he had only seen it pass through things, and had no idea where they went.
Gle explained coldly, “A normal Divine Fireball should explode the mont it touches sothing, rather than exploding thirty minutes later. Because if you had to wait half an hour before exploding, it would no longer be a Divine Fireball, bit a highly compressed Divine Fireball instead.”
Kaiser asked with hesitation, “Highly compressed? Shouldn’t it be even more powerful?”
Gle suddenly got angry, and yelled loudly, “I omitted words, idiot. You compressed more than thirty Divine Fireballs in one. Even senior Magicians couldn’t possibly do sothing like this.”
“So, I’m really strong?” Kaiser opened his mouth. So he’s actually more powerful than a senior Magician?”
“To an ordinary person, really strong, and really stupid.” Gle said with disdain.
“You used every last bit of your spiritual force to compress these thirty Divine Fireballs, and of course you wouldn’t be left with enough force to control such a Super Divine Fireball. As a result, it has to be shot in a straight line. If your enemy were to avoid such a linear Super Divine Fireball, you would be left without any spiritual force and beco a sitting duck.”
“Control it?” An idea dawned on Kaiser, could it be… “Super Divine Fireballs could turn?”
“It will turn if you make it turn.” Gle glanced at Kaiser, “But of course, only if idiot like you has enough spiritual force to control it.”
Kaiser’s jaws dropped. ‘My god! A turning Fireball?’
“Right!” Gle suddenly rembered, “This must be why, your spiritual force grew too quickly, and I didn’t teach you, so you had no idea how to control your force, which result in your magic being extrely unstable.”
Other than Gle secretly praising him, everything else he said was a blur to Kaiser. But Kaiser thought it was fine, because what’s important was how they could resolve the problem.
He asked hurriedly, “So what should I do?”
Gle thought briefly, “Practice, and this.” He raised his right hand, and there was an erald on his palm.
“With this?” Kaiser’s eyes widened; the jewel he found on Liola?
“This belongs to Maylee. She’s the best Alchemist I have ever known. Do you really think sothing she made would be an ordinary jewel?”
The perfect erald reflected in Gle’s blue eyes, while a smile ford on his lips: a smile which previously made Liola’s expression change, and was now creeping out Kaiser.
“Catch.” Gle threw the erald casually.
Although he feared for his life, Kaiser had no other choice. He fumbled to catch the erald, then carefully carried it.
Kaiser knew nothing of Alchemy, but he knew full well it was never a leisure activity. In fact, every material used by Alchemists were extrely dangerous, and explosions were a common occurrence.
It was a blessing from their ancestors if the explosions didn’t spread corrosive material everywhere, and it was a blessing from other people’s ancestors if the explosions didn’t carry poison that would spread for miles. Rumors had it, prices for land and houses near Alchemists were all scarily low.
“Use your spiritual force and control a bit of magic elent, then pour it into the jewel.” Gle said lazily.
Kaiser did as asked, and the erald suddenly exploded with light. Kaiser, who had been surprised when he first saw it, covered his eyes and moaned in pain. It was a long while before he stopped and finally escaped from the status of being legally blind.
Kaiser suddenly realized his surroundings had changed significantly: from the rays of light shining in through the window, a few balls of light the size of fingernails were floating in the air. The wooden table and chairs were also emitting a faint yellow light. When he walked up to examine it, he realized there were small yellow balls of light on them.
Kaiser looked inside the teacup on the wooden table, and saw many blue balls of light floating in the tea.
Sunlight were white balls, wood were yellow balls, water was blue balls… Kaiser had an epiphany.
Gle did not give any explanation, and instead he said lazily, “I’m going to take a nap. Before I wake up, you have to use magic of different colors as paint, and put a picture together. If it looks ugly…”
Gle laughed coldly, “You will be responsible for whatever happens.”
Kaiser widened his eyes. ‘Use elent to put together a picture?’
He yelled hurriedly, “Wai—…”
Before he even finished the simple syllable, Gle’s figure faded, and disappeared in front of Kaiser’s eyes. No one knew where he went to take a nap, and left Kaiser behind, who only had half a clue; he was so frustrated that he wanted to pull his hair out.
He didn’t know how long Gle would sleep either. Kaiser secretly prayed he would sleep for a really long ti. At least, he knew he loved sleeping, so he believed, as his ancestor, Gle must also be a sleepaholic.
“Fine, d-drawing can’t possibly be hard for .”
Kaiser murmured, digging through the magic knowledge he had taught himself: spiritual force could control the magic elent present everywhere in the world. The stronger the spiritual force, the more magic elent could be controlled and, of course, the magic spell used as a result would be stronger.
After having thought about it, even his ancestor said his spiritual force was enormous, then it shouldn’t be hard for him to put the magic elents in a picture, right?
Kaiser took a deep breath, and decided to start with the most stable elent: earth. He recollected the way he used spiritual force during the casting of a spell, and gathered the elent of earth.
Under the control of Kaiser’s spiritual force, the elent of earth moved as expected: a large quantity of earth elents suddenly rushed into the room, and they broke the normal flow of elents into chaos. The collision of the elents in the air caused a series of fireworks in the air.
Kaiser had no idea it would end up like this. He quickly hid himself under the table, and covered his ears. After a while, the fireworks had finally finished, and Kaiser carefully climbed out from under the table.
His surroundings looked terrible: the walls were covered with fist-sized burn marks, the teacup and tea pot on the table had already broken into pieces, and even the table under which Kaiser hid just now, had suddenly broken two of its legs, then crumbled into wooden planks.
Kaiser had a feeling this would’ve happened. When he was practicing magic before, he had countless encounters like this. He had never been successful with the lower level magic, and it would usually end in destruction. Had it not been born with the elent of fire, he might not have even be able to use fireball.
[T/N: In archaic beliefs (and often in martial arts novels), there were 5 elents: tal, wood, water, fire, and earth; each creature was often believed to be aligned to one of these elents. So Kaiser was born with an attunent to fire.]
“If my spiritual force is really powerful, why do I always fail?” Kaiser sat depressedly in the ruins.
“Wow! What happened?”
Suddenly soone spoke, and Kaiser was surprised. He turned around to find Void slowly getting off the ground while sweeping off the planks on him.
As soon as Kaiser saw Void, he snapped, “You surely are a deep sleeper. Even though the world was exploding around you, you were still asleep!”
Void seem shocked, and asked, “Exploding? What happened? How did I fall asleep, did I get drugged?”
“Sothing like that.” Kaiser answered casually. He didn’t want to give himself more trouble by explaining magic to people of this world.
“Then… where are everyone else?” Void knew Kaiser was in a bad mood, so he asked carefully.
Kaiser was still frustrated with his magic. But to him, he could think and talk at the sa ti. So while thinking about magic, his mouth never stopped; he explained everything thoroughly.
Luckily there weren’t much to talk about: he explained Liola was Silver Moon, and now got caught by the Leader, so he must beat Liola in three months with the help of Daylight, or otherwise Liola will die, so he was now frustrated with controlling his own power…
“I understand.” Void knitted his eyebrows. Though he wasn’t familiar with the quiet Liola, he didn’t have any bad impressions of him. When he heard Liola was an Assassin trying to repent, how could he not help?
“Tell , what is up with your power?” Void wanted to help, “Taoism is also quite a mysterious power; perhaps there are sothing common with them.”
Kaiser hesitated briefly, then explained in detail, “My power is called magic. The world is filled with a power known as magic elent, and although your world has far less of it compared to mine, it has enough for magic usage. To drive these magic elents, one must use spiritual force, which is…”
Void got more and more confused. It felt like Kaiser put a stick in his head and began to stir everything together, and he no longer understood anything.
Kaiser glanced at Void, and probably knew he didn’t understand. But it didn’t matter to Kaiser, since he didn’t really have any high hopes. It would be ridiculous to ask soone with a sword to help him with magic.
Kaiser continued his thoughts. If he couldn’t paint a magic picture before Gle woke up, perhaps he wouldn’t have to worry about whether Liola dies in three months, instead, he’d be in hell waiting for Liola.
“Master said, no matter how you put it, every power is a path leading to the sa thing…” Void said hesitantly, “Judging by what you said, spiritual force sounds like Ki, magic elents… are sort of like your arms and legs. We use Ki to bring agility and strength to our arms and legs, much like you use spiritual force to use magic elent.”
This did seem familiar. Kaiser stared blankly for a mont, then began to listen intently to what Void was saying.
Void took a mont to collect his thoughts, then continued, “So what you’re saying is, your spiritual force is very powerful, but you can’t use it to its fullest extent. It’s like if we were to give a child powerful Ki, but he doesn’t know how to use it. Instead, he might overexert his Ki, and break his own arms and legs and beco crippled as a result.”
“Then how do you resolve it?” Kaiser asked hurriedly.
Void scratched his face, “Teach him slowly on how to use Ki. At first, let him exert a small bit of Ki, and get used to the feeling of Ki filling his limbs, then increase it slowly…”
“A small bit… use magic elent to paint….” Kaiser jumped up as if hit by lightning and yelled loudly, “I understand now!”
Void seed to be shocked, and asked stupefied, “Understand what?”
Kaiser touched his head with embarrassnt, “I had thought more spiritual force was always better, so I use all my power to use magic every ti. But because the strength of my spiritual force, I always end up with a big explosion or turn fireballs into super Divine Fireball.”
“But now I understand. My problem is the amount of spiritual force I use. It’s the reason why Gle wants to use magic elent to paint, because he wanted to control a minute amount of elent to draw, so I can learn to control my spirit force.”
Kaiser’s mouth was wide open, he hadn’t thought the devil would have such bizarre ideas. Had Void not been here and coincidentally reminded him, he would’ve thought the devil was trying to make things difficult for him.
As soon as he thought of a way, Kaiser imdiately began to act on it. He attempted to use a miniscule amount of spiritual force to control a bit of water elent. Slowly but surely, the water elent began to move bit by bit. At the sa ti, it didn’t seem to affect any other elent.
Kaiser was so excited that his heart was beating out of his chest. He put down the water elent, and reached out his devilish claw at earth elent… no, reaching out his spiritual force. As expected, earth elent slowly moved to water elent’s side, and stayed there obediently.
“Great! I did it!” Kaiser cheered loudly.
“Oh? Congratulations.” Void smiled blankly. He could neither see nor sense the elents, so he had no idea what Kaiser ant. But since Kaiser did say so, Void assud he was successful.
Kaiser sighed, “Luckily I have the jewel from Auntie; this jewel actually allows to ‘see’ the elent, this is just too mystical! If I couldn’t see it with my eyes, I wouldn’t be done so quickly.”
“What should I paint?” Kaiser thought. A light flashed across his mind, ‘This one!’
Kaiser began to paint carefully. He had no idea, Gle already appeared while yawning, and he glanced at Void coldly.
Kaiser put on the last bit of fire elent and clapped, “Finished!”
Gle poked his head over, and surprised Kaiser. He examined it with narrowed eyes, “This Guernica by Picasso is not bad, it does look like it.”
“Picasso?” Kaiser scratched his head. He had no idea it was drawn by Picasso, because he knew nothing of paintings. It was just sothing he had seen on inan’s clothings.
He asked skeptically, “Isn’t this painting called the Last Supper?”
‘L-last supper?’ Gle slipped a bit, and with his lips twitching, he examined the painting. He saw twisted bodies, warped faces, and so of them don’t even look like humans. No matter how he looked, it looked more like the Spanish Civil War. If this were the last supper… then there was only one possibility: this little runt’s painting skill was worse than a three year-old!
“Last Supper?” Gle asked with narrowed eyes.
Kaiser imdiately felt sothing wrong in the air, and the devil’s ambience was already spreading in the air.
He answered solemnly, “I’m just kidding! What is the Last Supper anyway?! You know, I’m a big fan of Pikoso, especially the Spanking Civilian Work. For his work, I could even give up the Last Supper… assuming there will be midnight snacks.”
[T/N: Intentional misspellings]
Gle examined Kaiser with skeptical eyes, whom looked back firmly at him, without the slightest hint of a blush for his lies.
Gle didn’t really want to punish Kaiser, and instead touched his chin interestingly, “Since you’ve already learnt the basics of controlling your spiritual force, we will be training next.”
“Training? No problem, you can be as harsh as you want!” Kaiser thumped his chest and promised.
Gle laughed slightly, “Don’t worry, it won’t be harsher than Li’s; that thod was a bit high with the mortality rate. I still look forward to your fight with Li, so I don’t want you to die first.”
Kaiser’s hand on his chest suddenly stopped, “H-how high is ‘a bit’?”
Gle tapped his face with his finger, trying to rember, “I think I caught about six to seven hundred children. After training for a few months, those without innate talents were thrown out, sa with those who were crippled during training accidents, and of course those who died. After twenty years, only Li remains.”
‘699 out of the 700 were thrown away, so the mortality rate was 99.8%. T-this was just “a bit” high?’ Kaiser’s arms and legs began to shake. Would he… also get thrown out… after three months?
* * *
“Master, which way do we go next?”
Daylight yelled back anxiously at his master. Wanyuan was one who had seen just about everything and faced every dangerous enemy. Despite never sitting on such a fast-flying Dragon, he didn’t seem any different other than his face being slightly pale.
Yulie, however, had already given up any etiquette of a lady, and desperately held onto Daylight’s leg. Little Grass also gave up the dignity of being an elder brother apprentice, and held onto his master with both his hands and feet.
Little Baolilong was sitting blankly on Fla’s head. As much as it loved flying, without Liola on its back, to Baolilong, flying had lost its appeal.
“We’re almost there! The mountain range in front of us is our destination.”
Wanyuan said loudly, his trembling voice seed to be intertwined with surprise, “Good apprentice, fly over slowly. The surrounding is beautiful. Cultivation of the mind is just as important to anyone who studies Martial Arts, and we don’t have to rush like this…”
Daylight looked ahead, and surely enough, there was a mountain range entrenched in clouds. Without saying anything, he commanded Flas to do a diving rush.
As for what Wanyuan said about cultivation of the mind, he ignored completely. Even Yulie or Little Grass’s screams could not interrupt Daylight’s determination to get to Divine dicine Valley as soon as possible, to find a way to increase his strength, how could Wanyuan’s calm voice stop Daylight?
When Flas’ giant figure appeared above the Divine dicine Valley, it caused quite a rumble underneath.
A dozen or so n and won with straw baskets beneath scread as they ran every which way, obviously being terrified of what was happening.
The houses made out of bamboo in the Valley also began to shake, as if they could fall at any mont. The people within the houses also ran out, and glared at Flas with widened eyes.
As soon as Daylight saw the people in the Valley, he thought they must be the people of Divine dicine Valley his master had talked about. He imdiately commanded Flas to land in an open area. After receiving the command, it went down directly into the Valley.
Since the people underneath had already ran away, it wasn’t afraid of stepping on any humans. As for their belongings, such as places to hang their clothes, they were as aningless as grass to Flas, so it stepped right on them.
As soon as they landed, Daylight yelled excitedly, “Master, we’re here, let’s begin with the training!”
Wanyuan’s head was covered in layers of sweat, but at least nothing like Little Grass or Yulie. They practically fell off the back and began to show their appreciation by kissing the ground.
Nevertheless, Wanyuan did prefer to have his feet on the ground. He jumped off Flas’ back with elegance, and as soon as he did a rude comnt ca behind him.
“Old Rock, what’s your problem?! Bringing such a large monster to my Divine dicine Valley to cause troubles. Are you trying to bully because I don’t have many people here?”
Wanyuan turned to find a middle-aged man with a ruddy face and a wide hip. He looked exactly like a farr with his crude clothings.
There was a gathering sickle on his waist, and he had a large bamboo basket on his back: so large, it was the twice the size of anyone else’s. There were a dozen or so young n and won behind him, and they were all looking at Flas with apprehension.
“God of dicine! Old friend! How could I dare to bully you? Even if no one is here, all your strange dicine here would drive crazy.”
Wanyuan laughed loudly. He knew very well had he not been God of dicine’s good friend for many years, there probably be a few hundred types of drugs being thrown at them.
Although the people of Divine dicine Valley were passionate about dicines instead of Kung Fu, with the help of dicine, their Kung Fu was actually not any worse than any other factions in the Martial Arts world, not to ntion they all carry dozens of drugs for defense. There weren’t many people in the Martial Arts World who would want to trifle with them.
God of dicine walked in a full circle around Flas, and examined it carefully, then praised it,
“Such a beautiful big thing. It’s so majestic and mighty, calling it a demon was actually belittling it.”
He turned and looked at the only person who looked still composed — Daylight. He asked, “Little guy, is this big guy yours?”
Daylight nodded, “Yes, it’s my Dragon. It’s na is Flas.”
“Dragon, hmm?” God of dicine habitually patted his bamboo basket, and looked like he was deep in thought, but he didn’t seem to refute Daylight.
God of dicine asked Wanyuan with an objectionable tone, “Old Rock, there’s definitely a reason why you’re here. Every ti you’ve been here at the Divine dicine Valley, it has always been because of sothing troubleso. Spill it! Why are you here this ti? Don’t tell you ca here just to let see what a Dragon looks like?”
Wanyuan cut straight to the chase, he pointed at Daylight and said straightly, “In three months, make his power comparable to Silver Moon’s.”
God of dicine stared blankly, then asked back, “The very sa Silver Moon Assassin from Shalong Hall?”
Wanyuan nodded, and God of dicine practically scread,
“Impossible! Silver Moon is a prodigy in Martial Arts unlike any I’ve seen, and he has received special training. He’s always living between life and death. Having that kind of power at his age, let alone seeing it, there hasn’t anyone in the history of Martial Arts who would even co close.”
Daylight felt deeply depressed upon hearing, not because he wasn’t comparable to Liola, but instead worried that, in three months, if Liola dies because of his failure, Daylight would never forgive himself.
Nevertheless, Daylight was not the type to stay depressed. Even if everyone told him he did not even have the slightest hope, he would still do it without ever turning back.
Wanyuan glanced at his apprentice, and saw his frustration and despair dissipated in the blink of an eye, what replaced those negative emotions was surprisingly an even a more intense look of determination.
Wanyuan was quite amazed, even if Daylight’s innate talent didn’t match Silver Moon’s, his will was unmatched. Perhaps so day, he could be a match to Silver Moon? But due to the lack of ti… Wanyuan sighed, for his apprentice, he planned to put in everything he had.
“Didn’t I find a Millennia Ginseng and asked you to help process it?”
God of dicine frowned, “Millennia ginseng is mainly used to increase your longevity and return you to your youth. It’s also the best dicine to treat wounds. Even if a person is hamstrung or have internal organ damages, it could be used to revive them. As for its effect on power, it has so, but it’s nowhere near Millenia Snake Pill.”
Wanyuan said freely, “Okay! Then the Millennia Ginseng is yours. Do whatever you can to help my apprentice.”
God of dicine looked deeply surprised, “Old Rock, didn’t you spend over a hundred years to find Millenia Ginseng? You gave it to a decade ago, and now it’s almost done being processed, you are really willing to give it up?”
When Daylight heard Wanyuan had spent so much effect on the ginseng, and was willing to give it up for a new apprentice; he felt tears in his eyes, and gratefulness in his heart.
Daylight interrupted, “Master, Daylight will train hard, no matter how harsh the training is. Please don’t abandon your years of effort because of Daylight.”
Hearing his apprentice say this, Wanyuan felt warm in his heart, but on the surface he solemnly denounced, “Your master is talking, apprentices have no right to interrupt. Go stand on the side!”
“But…” Daylight anxiously tried to stop Wanyuan.
“Silence!” Wanyuan yelled even more loudly.
Daylight was anxious, but at the sa ti he didn’t want to disobey his master. In that mont, he was helplessly standing still.
He looked at brother apprentice Little Grass, with anxiousness and pleading in his eyes. Little Grass didn’t seem to understand, and tried to comfort him, “Don’t worry, master will definitely prepare you to defeat Silver Moon in three months.”
Wanyuan nodded at God of dicine, “I’ve made up my mind. Please help my apprentice.”
God of dicine looked at Wanyuan, then at Daylight, and began to laugh, “Old Rock, Old Rock! No matter how rare your Millenia Ginseng is, I think I could probably make a substitute in a hundred or so years, but your strange apprentice isn’t soone who cos by so easily. How about this?! You let your apprentice tell his story, and if I’m happy from listening the story, I will help you however I can!”
Daylight heard him and was ecstatic. He said hurriedly, “I’ll tell you! I’ll tell you anything, please don’t take anything from my master.”
God of dicine looked at Daylight, and saw his face was filled with anxiousness and sincerity. He patted his bamboo basket and said, “No wonder Old Rock likes you so much. Other than people in wicked factions, who wouldn’t want an apprentice like you?”
God of dicine actually made Daylight laugh bitterly. Going by what he said, wouldn’t Liola and Kaiser, who was on the evil side, hate him?
God of dicine hurried again and again, so Daylight began to tell his story. Although he hadn’t been with Liola and Kaiser from the start, he had heard the story before.
Since the people hearing the stories were all from this world, they were already surprised enough when Daylight said they were from another world. They kept asking him about the other world, and seed to not be very interested in the actual story of the Assassin Silver Moon.
Daylight had gotten thirsty from talking too much, and he had to often drag the topic back. He even had to explain magic, Knights, Maxuns, etc.
While its master was busy telling a story, Flas was also having a headache because, every ti Daylight ntioned Liola’s na, Baolilong would start bawling on top of Flas’ head, and it looked pitiful with its small body.
Flas desperately tried to comfort Its Highness, saying things like “You will see Liola in three months”, but Baolilong’s cries got even more intense, “Papa, won’t co back, or you will get killed!”
Flas was speechless. Despite having confidence in its master, the difficulty of the task at hand was incredibly high. It knew full well the power difference between its master and Baolilong’s master was astronomical. It would be very difficult for them to close the gap in three years, let alone three months.
Both the storyteller and the listeners had their attentions attracted by the sound of Baolilong’s cries. Everyone examined Baolilong with a frown, and Yulie even wanted to go up and hug it to comfort the cute little guy, but she was afraid of getting anywhere close to Flas.
Baolilong slid down from the Dragon’s neck, and with its chubby legs, it ran up to Daylight. It asked desperately, “Daylight will beco very very strong, right?”
Daylight nodded seriously.
“Daylight must beat papa~!” Having said this, Baolilong held out its little fist.
“I will defeat him!” Daylight promised seriously.
Hearing Daylight’s promise, Baolilong wiped away its tears, and yelled loudly, “Baolilong will go find papa! Tell papa not to beco stronger, or Daylight can’t win against papa.”
Daylight was shocked, and said hurriedly, “You’re going to go find Liola? You know where he is?”
Baolilong tried to sense for a while, but it seed to be uncertain as it pointed in a direction, “Over there?”
Seeing Baolilong’s large eyes filled with doubt, Daylight laughed bitterly, “I thought Dragons could usually pinpoint exactly where its master is? Or is it because Baolilong is too young?”
‘Master! It’s not because Its Highness is too young, but because there is soone interfering. This interference is quite strong, perhaps it’s from the Leader.’
‘Is Gle interfering?’ Daylight thought briefly, and it was definitely possible.
If Gle wanted them to fight each other to death, they must not want them to look for Liola, right? And there’s no way for Gle not to know Dragons could find their master, and thus he could be interfering.
Daylight wanted to try explaining to Baolilong, but as soon as he turned around, Baolilong had already transford and ready to take flight.
Daylight yelled anxiously, “Flas, stop it!”
Flas imdiately rushed up. Being older than Baolilong, its body and strength was slightly greater than Baolilong’s, and it was how it stopped Baolilong so it wouldn’t disappear into the air. Its flying ability was nowhere comparable to Baolilong, as it was the child of the Sacred White Dragon.
Although uncertain where papa is, Baolilong didn’t seem to care. It desperately struggled, hoping to quickly go find papa. This made it hard for Flas to hold him, despite being slightly stronger, but the difference wasn’t much, especially since Baolilong was using all of its strength to struggle.
Everyone looked with shock at these two giant Dragons entangled, and the ground felt like an earthshake. Those timid ones had already ran off, and the only one remained were just God of dicine and Wanyuan, whom were both in awe.
Daylight ran up and yelled, “Baolilong, don’t be like this. You can’t possibly pinpoint Liola’s position, and you can’t see anyone in the air anyhow. No matter how far you fly, you may still not be able to find him.”
Hearing Daylight, Baolilong stared blankly for a mont, then stopped struggling. But after thinking for a while, it used a Dragon roar with determination, “Baolilong will walk!”
Then, it actually stood up, and even carried Flas on its back.
Seeing the spectacular scene of a Dragon carrying another Dragon, Daylight didn’t know whether to smile or cry.
He went up to stop it, “No, if you go like this, as soon as you go, people will attack you.”
Baolilong shook its body, and Flas fell from its back. Then it turned back into a small child, and said with determination, “Baolilong will go find papa.”
Seeing Baolilong was really about to walk away as a 5 year old child (while naked), Daylight wanted to go up and stop him.
Baolilong pouted its face, and spit out a bolt of electricity as it yelled, “You’re not papa! You can’t touch Baolilong.”
Daylight had little ti to react, and as he was about to be hit by the bolt, a figure jumped in front of him and yelled, “Your Highness, please don’t be mad. Master didn’t do it intentionally.”
Baolilong probably also knew Daylight was just worried about it. But as a Dragon Knight, Baolilong thought Daylight should know not to touch another’s Dragon.
Baolilong stood still though still pouting. A figure also walked to Baolilong, and took it up into its arms. Strangely, Baolilong didn’t seem to resist at all.
The figure slowly turned around. It looked like a young person of about fifteen or so of age, and it had an elegant face. Its golden eyes seem to suggest a sense of maturity a person of this age shouldn’t have.
One could call it a young man, but it had no characteristics a male should have, or one could call it a young woman, but its chest was flat, and it had no breasts either. It had a head full of long and dense red hair, reaching all the way to its knees, covering its naked body.
“Flas…” Daylight sighed in relief. Luckily Flas was there, otherwise, not being able to touch Baolilong, Daylight really didn’t know how to stop it from leaving.
Since Flas hadn’t matured, and therefore had no gender, the people standing by didn’t know where to put their eyes on its naked body. By this point, Yulie had already tilted her head with a blush.
Daylight, on the other hand, carelessly walked over. He had already seen Flas in its human form, but Flas’ capacity to maintain human form was a bit low, and therefore could only transform into a person for a short ti. It was also difficult for Flas to maintain in this form, so it usually preferred not to.
“Master, since you will be training, how about I take Its Highness to find its master?” Flas suggested.
Daylight seed shocked, “You can turn into a human for a long ti now?”
Flas nodded, then explained, “With so effort, I could probably do it for five to six hours. When I’m sure there’s no humans nearby, I could take Its Highness as a Dragon, and if there are people, I will take my human form.”
Daylight thought with a frown. Flas and Baolilong would indeed have nothing to do while he’s training, so it would be better to let them to find Liola in the anti. If they really do find him, Daylight could use his telepathy with Flas to talk to Liola for a plan.
Besides, Daylight had faith in Flas. After all, Flas was older, and it was mature by nature, so it should be able to take good care of itself and Baolilong.
Daylight then nodded, “Okay, you take Baolilong to look for Liola. But if you don’t find him, co back ten days before the duel at the latest.”
“Yes, master.”
Flas nodded seriously, then turned around to leave. As a Dragon, it had nothing to pack. This world was filled with forests and grasslands, so food could be hunted on the way.
“Flas!” Baolilong yelled.
Flas answered reflexively, “Yes, Your Highness?”
Baolilong looked with skeptical eyes, “What about clothes? Papa said I can’t go out without wearing clothes?”
“Did he?” Flas looked at its own naked body, and tilted its head, “It should be fine? I don’t have a gender yet.”
Baolilong nodded sowhat understandingly. It didn’t care, since Dragons never wore clothes. After deciding not to wear anything, the two “people” happily resud their journey to find papa.
“W-wait!” Daylight tried to stop them, and he began to regret. Perhaps letting these two “people” walk out like this wouldn’t be a good idea…
* * *
“A bit stronger, and faster with the fireballs.”
Kaiser continued to sustain the headache resulting from overexerting his spiritual force. Every fireball he shot, he felt like soone was breaking his head open with an axe, but White Bombs continued shoot out from his gun one by one.
Gle’s cold voice beside him felt like it was coming from afar, almost to the point where he couldn’t hear. The only thing in his mind now was, three months, three months…
‘Liola was too strong!’ This was sothing Kaiser had never thought he’d hate so much. He even hoped Lancelot was here, so he could seal Liola again.
Eventually, darkness fell before his eyes. But Kaiser used the edge of his gun and slamd his thighs, forcefully using the pain to drag his consciousness back. Another White Fireball shot out from the barrel of his gun.
As Kaiser yelled loudly, a larger-than-before Fireball shot out into the sky. It then exploded like a giant firework in the sky, as if it was being juxtaposed with Kaiser’s odd declaration,
“Damn! It’s not your ti to die!”
* * *
Daylight was naked, and soaked in a large, wooden barrel. The barrel was full of nauseating sli, and any ordinary person would want to vomit and get as far away from it as possible.
Daylight, however, didn’t seem to sll anything. He sat cross-legged in it, and exerted the Ki he just learnt around and around his body. Signals of exhaustion ca from his body, and overexerting his Ki made him feel pain in every nerve in his body, but he continued to sit like a statue. There was no pain on his face, instead there was only unequalled determination.
A middle-aged man sitting next to him looked out the window, then said, “The effect of the dicine is gone. Go train outside. I’ll tell you when the next barrel of dicine is done.”
Daylight opened his eyes slowly, and nodded to the middle-aged man.
Jumping out of the wooden barrel, Daylight grabbed his shirt and pants to put them on. He didn’t seem to even notice the disgusting sli on him, and he didn’t bother even washing his hand, because he didn’t have the ti.
He stepped out of the dicine room, and quickly walked to the yard. Wanyuan was leisurely sitting on a bench. Without even looking at Daylight, he pointed his pipe at the four bags next to him, then resud smoking leisurely.
Daylight quickly tied those four bags to his four limbs, then ran up the hill without even looking back.
Wanyuan looked as Daylight ran away. He tapped his pipe, then said to Little Grass next to him, “After supper, you go find sothing even heavier.”
Hearing this, Little Grass said with a long face, “Master, those bags were already filled with iron. If you want sothing heavier, then we’d have to buy gold.”
“Then buy gold.” Wanyuan tapped his pipe again.
* * *
‘Where could I find Anise?’ Liola walked into the Bandit Mountains without any reason or logic. He believed, the place where he first arrived in this world was where he would find the answer he had been searching for.
No matter how much area the Bandit Mountains spans, Liola walked through all of it step by step. His body was not tired, but his soul was more tired than the twenty years of training he had received from Gle.
On one hand he desperately wanted to find Anise, on another he felt uneasy. This dilemma made his soul feel even more tortured.
“Promise , you won’t kill anymore, okay?”
‘Anise, if you’re the White Dragon, you have no reason to ask not to kill, right? After all, didn’t the White Dragon want to kill the Dragon Emperor, right?’
“I lied to you, the necklace can only allow one person leave…”
‘Then, how did Yasha go with ? Anise, would you give an explanation?’
Yandi quietly followed Liola and looked at his back, then into the sky. The intense sunlight had a color similar to Anise’s cream hair. She began to talk towards the sun,
“Sister, please don’t lie to him…”
* * *
The three people who arrived here together, went on three different journeys, all in pursuit of the sa final result.
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