The monticore looks at them dangerously, ready to crush them. They attacked him from different places but they didn't even get to hurt the manticore even a little bit. The manticore raised his paw and smashed it against the floor and the floor cracked. It ripped into two and some people began falling into the big crack on the floor.
The building started falling apart because
of the force the creature used, some people dragged Grandmother Xu and Grandfather Xu out of the house, not because they felt the Need to help the elderly but because they will get a reward since they helped them and saved their lives, then the Xu family will owe them a favour.
The house began shaking and Xinyi got down from the tree, she thought her brother was right behind her but when she looks up, she saw him looking at the manticore with his eyes black with something that is flashing in that beautiful eyes that looks like lightning.
"Brother! Come on we need to get out of here!"
She called out his name several times but he didn't even look at her.
The manticore felt someone looking at him, he turns his big head towards longwei and that red eyes of his turned normal, he bowed but he didn't say anything, afraid that the person in front of him will destroy his spirit. Longwei's eyes turned bright gold and the manticore bowed once again before he turned into a black shadow that was surrounded by lightning. The black shadow moves towards longwei and it entered his body, feeling the powerful energy in his body, longwei suddenly lost consciousness and fall from the tree
"Brother!" Xinyi shouted at the top of her lungs. Before longwei's body could reach the ground, he stopped mid air. He was floating in the air and Xinyi quickly went to his side. She looks at her brother's face that was turning black, his legs, his arms were all turning black as if he was poisoned.
Tears began streaming down her face as she looks at him, he looks dead. His skin turned even paler than it already is, she turns her head and saw the blue bird from earlier, she didn't know if it can understand her but she still tried " Please you need to help me, I don't want to lose my brother, I need to take him ho-" Before she could even finish, the bird flew away, Xinyi started shaking longwei to wake him up but he didn't even move his fingers much less move his body.
The bird flew back with a big and fluffy panda. The panda didn't hasitate and it crouched down and took longwei's body and placed him on his back, Xinyi also hops on its back and she told the panda where to go. The panda dashed out of the destroyed area and run fast towards the Xu residence but he went inside the forest and entered through the other door of their house.
The panda opened the wooden door and run inside. "Mom!!" Xinyi said as she entered the room with her tears running down from her eyes.
"Honey what's wrong?"
"Be-brother... He... He's-" Xinyi said with a stutter
Before she could even finish, her mother dashed out of the room and Xinyi followed after.
The panda was still there in the courtyard with longwei on his back. The panda crouched down and Mother Xu went to him and carried longwei. She entered the room and dropped him on the tatami mattress. He panda stayed outside incase they need anything, the bird also stayed on top of the panda.
"Mom what's wrong with him?!" Xinyi asked when she saw her mother heaved a deep sigh of relief. Her mother looked at her and said "He's okay, he just unlocked his new element"
"Element. But he passed out, I've never seen anything like it and look... His body is turning black"
"He has lightning element, he'll be fine, don't worry!"
"Okay!"
They stayed in the room, looking at longwei intently if he move oflr even open his eyes. Suddenly longwei's middle dantain started shiny in a faint golden hue. His mother's face showed pure shock, while Xinyi looked at her brother with curiosity in her eyes.
Longwei's body turned golden but the colour is faint; he floated in the air, the golden hue travelled into his meridians all over his body, his hair turned golden and every part of his body turned gold. His skinny body became nourished, his skin became soft and pearly white his tanned skin long gone. His improvement was not that big but it wasn't little either. Longwei opened his beautiful golden eyes and looked at his mother "Mom...what happened?" he sat as he sat up from the tatami mattress
Xinyi hugged him when she saw he was okay "Brother you're okay"
Longwei was surprised by the sudden hug so he turned towards his shocked mother and said "Mom... Was I injured?"
His mother shook her head, she began roaming around the room searching for a mirror, after she found it, she placed the mirror in front of her son, longwei looked at himself in the mirror and he was shocked.
He looks nothing like himself." What happened? " He asked again
"Brother that... That manti something that we used to see in books, it's spirit entered your body" Xinyi was careful with her words, she doesn't want their mother to get mad at them if she knew that they were in their wicked Grandparents house.
Mother Xu looked at her daughter and said "Do you mean, manticore?"
"Yes mom"
'How is that possible, how is it here!'
'Wait... Wait forget about the manticore, I think my son... Is the legendary golden....dragon!'
"Mom... What's wrong?" Longwei asked when he saw his mother dozed off to space.
"Oh... Nothing honey. And you just unlocked your second element" Longwei's eyes lit up, he unlocked his second element, then that means that he's a genius cultivator. Then he can finally teach the one's that hurt his family a lesson.
His mother seeing this, she became a bit worried, what if he can't control his powers and he ends up causing a problem, if the family knows he's a two element cultivator, they will use him as a puppet for their own selfish needs.
Mother Xu searched for something and when she found it she gave Xinyi and longwei "Here, the nourishing pills. Someone came and give it to me and..." she searched for something again"This is the clothes they've brought me For the heir's birthday tonight. "
Longwei collected the clothes from his mom and suddenly thought of something" Mom, pack the things you need. We are leaving this prison tonight! "