Chapter 5: Beast Companion

"Quickly! Let's get away from here. The ground under us might collapse at any moment." Minister Ming shouted. The abyss appearance in the Silent Forest had always been unpredictable.

"NOO!" Long Bohai hollowed like a monster. Long Bai who was beside him showed complicated emotions. Those two were his brother's grandchildren and his niece's children. If not for the order from the Four Mountains Alliance, he wouldn't have come here.

"I will kill you all!" Long Bohai pointed at everyone while crying in a hysteric manner.

"Sigh! Long Bohai, we only executed what the Four Mountains Alliance had wanted. If you want to blame someone, then just blame the alliance higher-ups." The martial artist who had waterdrops above his head said in a hurry while retreating.

Under the constant collapsing of the ground, the minister and martial artists retreated back. Long Bai carried Long Bohai forcefully and retreated back, and the bulky man carried Red Shadow with him.

Soon, the group was standing afar from the abyss location.

..

"WHOOSH"

Meanwhile, Qin Yun and Qin Qing were falling into the abyss like a heavy rock falling down from the sky.

"AHHH!" Qin Yun and Qin Qing screamed as They saw the river at the end of the abyss. What frightened them was that the river was filled with bolts of lightning.

"We will die!" Qin Yun thought while holding his little sister in his embrace. They might survive the fall due to the river, but they sure won't survive the bolts of lightning.

"ZzzZzz"

Suddenly, Qin Yun heard a strange sound. He looked at the source of the sound, only to see a fast, shining object flying towards him and entering his mouth.

"What!? What is this!?" Qin Yun's thought to himself before falling into the lightning river.

..

"What a stupid boy, if he handed over the girl earlier, he would have been survived. Well! He deserved it for acting so heroic" Cao Li thought to himself with a smirk. His task was only to kill the girl.

"Minister Ming, do you think they have a chance to survive!?" The old woman from before asked.

"No! it is impossible! There is no one had ever survived after falling into the lightning Abyss in the Silent Forest." Minister Ming answered back with a confident smile.

"If that's the case, then I think its time for us to go on our ways." The man who has waterdrops above his head suggested from the side.

"I think so!" Minister Ming said in agreement.

"Everyone! Thank you for participating in this mission, I will ensure to tell your own respective sects about your good deeds. We shall meet again in the future!" Minister Ming thanked the martial artists and bid goodbye to them. Every one of them was a famous martial artist, so they were busy and had their own responsibilities.

Soon, the entire area became empty. Only Long Bohai, Long Bai, and the bulky martial artist remained there. Long Bohai looked towards the abyss from afar with a lifeless face.

"Yun'er, Qing'er! Your grandpa had wronged you! I let you down!" Long Bohai murmured with tears in his eyes. He was the one who raised them. So, he treated them more than grandchildren. It was hard to see someone you love dearly die in front of you just like that.

"Long Bai, my friend! Its time for us to send Long Bohai to his home, the Sky Palace Sect." The bulky martial artist said. He had stayed to help Long Bai in escorting Long Bohai. After all, Long Boahi had defied the commands of his superiors by running with the children without taking permission.

"Mm." Long Bai nodded in agreement. Soon, they disappeared from the scene.

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The next morning. The chirps of the birds filled the entire Silent Forest. Slowly, other creatures also began to crawl out from their nests to search for food. The forest was now more lively except the areas surrounding the lightning abyss. No creature dared to enter or even get close to those areas.

Inside a particular cave in the abyss areas, a boy aged nine-years-old was laying motionless seemingly unconscious. Suddenly, the boy began to move his closed eyes slightly.

Qin Yun began to open up his eyes in slow motion. He tried to remember what happened. The last thing he remembers was that he fell while holding Qin Qing in his embrace. He remembers falling into the abyss that was filled with bolts of lightning.

"Seems like I'm still alive!?" Qin Yun thought after opening his eyes.

"What is wrong with my body!? I feel so tired that I can't even lift my own hands." Qin Yun thought to himself. His body felt extremely powerless right now. he could only make minimum moves.

"Where am I?" Qin Yun thought as he looked around him by moving his head slightly.

"Is this a cave?" Qin Yun analyzed. What he saw right now were walls of black rocks around him that resembled a cave interior.

"Wait!" Qin Yun suddenly remembered another memory. While he was falling, a shining ball had suddenly fallen from the sky like a fiery meteor. Not only that, the shining ball had actually entered his body through his mouth.

"Wait! How I survived the lightning bolts in this abyss!?" Qin Yun pondered. His body was sound with no injuries, the only problem with his body right now was its weak and powerless state.

"Oh! Qin Qing!" Qin Yun opened his eyes fully and looked beside him. He completely forgot about her.

"Where is she!? Argh! I can't move my body at all." Qin Yun thought worriedly after seeing no one beside him.

Suddenly...

"Ding! Congratulation! You have become the host of the legendary crafting system." A robotic sound suddenly spoke inside Qin Yun's mind.

"Who!?" Qin Yun asked inwardly with a frightened face. Someone had actually talked inside his mind and he was sure about that as he didn't hear the sound with his ears.

"Host! I am the legendary crafting system. You can call me System" The robotic voice sounded again.

"AHH! I was not imagining. There is really something talking to me inside my mind!" Qin Yun screamed inwardly.

"W..what do you want?" Qin Yun asked with some fear. An existence capable of speaking to him directly through his mind must be mighty and powerful.

"Host, My only object is to assist and guide you to become the greatest craftsman in your own world." The robotic voice said without any emotions.

"Assisting and guiding me to become the greatest craftsman in the entire Martial Land!? Why would you do something like that." Qin Yun asked with a suspicious voice.

"My maker had created me for the sole purpose of showing the awesomeness of crafting to the entire universe." The Robotic voice explained.

Suddenly!

"Big brother! You are awake!?"

The sudden interruption brought back Qin Yun to the reality. Looking around him, he saw Qin Qing with tears covering her own face.

"Qin Qing! Don't cry! I am fine." Qin Yun didn't lie as he didn't feel any injuries or anything wrong with his body. But he wondered why he fell unconscious if he didn't suffer any injury.

"Mm! There is nothing." Qin Qing checked Qin Yun's body and didn't find anything.

"See!? Now, stop crying will you!? Where were you?" Qin Yun asked with a cheerful smile.

"I was outside bringing some food.

"Big brother, what about grandpa!?" Qin Qing suddenly asked with a worried face.

"Don't worry! He should be fine. If they wanted to harm him, they wouldn't have taken him as a hostage." Qin Yun said in an assuring tone.

"When are we going to see him again?" Qin Qing asked with anticipation and eagerness.

"We would need to make a plan first, but we will surely see him in the future. Qin Qing! Don't worry, we will see Grandpa again." Qin Yun said with a firm face.

"Okay." Qin Qing nodded with a small smile.

"Qin Qing, what about you? Are you okay!?" Qin Yun asked.

"HAHA! I am fine. Do You want to see!?"

"HA!" Qin Qing made two powerful punches with her hands.

"Good! You look totally fine." Qin Yun said.

"Qin Qing, how long I was unconscious, and where are we!?" Qin Yun asked.

"We got out of the abyss, we are now inside a cave in the forest. Big brother, You were actually unconscious for three days!" Qin Qing replied.

"We had escaped from the abyss! And what? Three days!" Qin Yun reacted with surprise.

"What happened exactly!? I don't remember anything." Qin Yun asked.

"Hmm, I don't know how we survived the bolts of lightning. I didn't feel anything after we fell into the river, and after the fall, Titan saw us and brought us to his cave."

"Titan! Who is Titan?" Qin Yun asked in confusion.

Suddenly, a small, gray monkey appeared above Qin Qing's left shoulder.

"HEHE! Let me introduce Titan." Qin Qing pointed towards the monkey

"Oh!" Qin Yun inspected the little monkey in front of him. Its entire body was covered in gray color except for its forehead which was black in color, its two eyes were white with its pupils being gray. The small monkey had a unique aura around it causing Qin Yun to feel cautious and alarmed.

"Qin Qing, how did it help us with the falling incident!?" Qin Yun felt puzzled. This monkey was extremely small.

"HAHA! Titan, show your true self to my big brother." Qin Qing said with a joyful smile.

The little monkey jumped off from Qin Qing's shoulder in a slow and prideful way. It stood directly in front of Qin Yun.

Suddenly…

"SHWA!"

The next moment, Something happened. The small body of the monkey began to increase in size. Then,

"Roar!" An extremely huge and towering gray ape has appeared in the place of the small monkey. It roared loudly with an aggressive aura around it.

"AH!" Qin Yun was frightened that he let out a small scream.

"This is the little monkey!?" Qin Yun asked with disbelief written all over his face. This was not a monkey, this was an ape-type beast.

"HAHA! Isn't it amazing!?" Qin Qing said with a proud laugh.

"Yeah! It's amazing but why it saved us and how?." Qin Yun asked about the key question. Normally, beasts won't do something like saving a human unless that human is its companion or close to its companion.

"HEHE! It says that it wanted to save me. Titan is quite strong and can jump from side to side with amazing speed. He picked us from the river by using his jumping ability." Qin Qing said.

"I see!" Qin Yun nodded his head. The abyss was quite narrow. it was possible for Titan to Jump from side to side without falling into the river. Especially for an ape beast who is famous for its climbing and jumping abilities.

"There are still some important questions, but I will leave it for later. the most important thing is that Qin Qing is safe." Qin Yun thought with relief

"Wait! You can understand it!? Don't tell me!" Qin Yun said with widened eyes.

"HAHA! Yes! I made a blood pact with it. Its now my beast companion." Qin Qing said with a joyful expression.

"What!��� Qin Yun was shocked to the core. A five-year-old child has actually successfully made a blood pact with a beast. This was something new. Normally, a human could only make a blood pact with a beast when he becomes officially a martial artist. Qin Qing had not achieved that level yet. Then, how!? besides that, beasts won't recognize someone as its companion without recognizing its power first. His little sister was still a weakling compared to this powerful-looking black ape.

"Is it because she has the one in ten thousand years talent that she was able to do this impossible feat. Well, it's not important to figure out how she made it" Qin Yun thought to himself.

"Qin Qing! What kind of element you got from Titan?" Qin Yun asked. When a human and a beast make a blood pact, each will gain its companion element without the need to learn and practice that element. Long Bohai was able to use fire element due to him having Red Shadow as a beast companion. Humans and beasts are willing to make a blood pact for this exact reason. Having two elements or more was better than having only one. It was a win-win situation for the two sides.

"HEHE! I learned the earth element!" Qin Qing replied happily.

"WHOA! Amazing!" Qin Yun said. There were people who spend years and years learning how to control a single element, yet Qin Qing learned it in an instant.

"That explains his ability to shift his own body, after all, the flesh and muscles are considered an earth element." Qin Yun added.

"Big brother, I am trying to learn this shifting technique from Titan. This technique looks extremely cool HAHA!" Qin Qing said with a laugh.

"Qin Qing, does is it have any other effects besides shifting?"

"Yes! Titan says that his body strength increases when he increases his body size." Qin Qing said.

"What an amazing technique." Qin Yun praised.

"HEHE! I know" Qin Qing said with a proud face.

"it will be amazing If she can learn this technique, not only her strength will increase, we will also be able to fool people with her appearance." Qin Yun thought to himself. Two children walking alone was not safe at all. Additionally, there are people who want to harm Qin Qing.

"Big brother! Look! We brought some fruit from the forest. Do you want some?" Qin Qing said, pointing towards some scattered fruits on the ground.

"Okay!" Qin Yun replied with a smile. He was hungry. besides that, he needed to replenish his body energy.

"Big brother, can't you stand up?" Qin Qing asked in bewilderment.

"HAHA! I am only tired right now. I will eat while I'm laying." Qin Yun said with an awkward smile.

"Okay!" Qin Qing said while giving some fruits to Qin Yun.

"Qin Qing! Is the place outside this cave is safe?" Qin Yun asked while eating.

"Yes! It is safe." Qin Qing answered.

"That's good." Qin Yun said.

After eating a lot, the two siblings decided to rest for some time. Qin Qing seemed to be sleepy so Qin Yun asked her to have a light nap and she agreed.

"Time to talk again to the system." Qin Yun said to himself.

"System, are you there?"

"Yes, host!" The robotic sound replied.

"Do you know why I fell unconscious?" Qin Yun asked. He felt that the system might be the reason.

"Report to the host. I needed to activate the lightning shield to protect you from the river's bolts of lightning, the only problem was that your body was too weak to withstand the skill's required energy."

"What are you saying?" Qin Yun asked in confusion as he didn't understand anything.

"Host! Let me explain, but first, say status windows."

"Hmm! Okay, Status windows." Qin Yun shouted inwardly as the system guided.

Suddenly...

"SHWA!" A virtual blue screen appeared in front of him. Qin Yun tried to touch it, but it was untouchable. Looking at the content, Qin Yun began to read the information written on it.