IMMORTAL DAO CAULDRON.

He sat there beneath the tree that was almost withered up. It was as though he was oblivious to the rain that was accompanied by the winds. It couldn't be described as a storm but it was not far from that. There was also the lightning that struck once in a while.

It had always been his dream to become a powerful cultivator and fly high in the skies to see the height of the heavens but now all hope was gone. He had been robed of his dantain. All this while he had thought he had no dantain like the common people and just when he found he possessed one the elder from the village casted a bizzare magic technique on him and removed his dantain to fuse it with the chief's son, Rong yi. Perhaps the elder wouldn't have done this if his dantain was only low grade but it was medium grade which was almost uncommon to appear in this part of the continent. Most of all, when it was lighted by the spirit fire, the green glow it gave which signified that it was medium grade was so bright that the elder felt it was a waste for a common member of the village like him to possess such a dantain.

One who possessed a high grade dantain and spirit root will be able to absorb more spirit qi and refine it into spirit towers using the five elements in his dantain.

Blood continued to leak from the huge hole on his torso. He moved his right hand lying by his side and brought it near his chest to fiddle with the spherical metal that hang around his neck . On it was his name, Chen Liwei. Chen Liwei always thought this was given to him by the only person who cared about him in the village, Uncle Luo. In fact, Uncle Luo was the one who brought him up since childhood and protected him till he breathed his last breath. Perhaps this wouldn't have happened if he were around. Uncle Luo had told him about his birth before he perished.

He smiled bitterly as he laid there."Why...?", he questioned. It was unknown who he was referring to though. Perhaps he was referring to the woman who left an innocent and fragile child in the wilderness. Mayhap he was inquiring Heavens about their inequity .His heart was filled bitterness.Tears trickled down from his cheeks and mixed with the rain that continued to batter him. He knew it was just a matter of time before he died. At least he gets to reunite with Uncle Luo.

BOOOOOOMMMM

Just when he was about to close his eyes for his last breath he heard a loud noise coming from the skies. It was hard to tell whether that was thunder or not. He struggled to lift his head and look into the skies and was immediately bewildered. From where he was lying he could distinctly see two individuals in the skies that were surrounded by blinding light in the skies. In fact if it wasn't the light surrounding them he wouldn't have been able to detect their presence in the sky. They were like two Suns that occasionally hit each other. Although it was like this if you paid careful attention you'd realize that one was actually pursuing the other.

"Pei Jinghe! ", shouted one of the men engaged in the battle up there. "You dare to steal from the Li clan. Even if I'm not able to kill you, the Li clan shall not rest until you're dead in body and soul.!"

"Li Meng, even the Heavens shall bear witness that I only took what's rightfully mine. I refuse to bow my head to the.....", just as the other cultivator was talking he trembled and stopped mid-speech. Shock colored his face as he trembled as though he had just seen something. This only lasted for a few seconds though and he turned back to face the person who had been pursuing him for God knows how long. Previously he looked very much exhausted as though he could not sustain his flight in the sky but because of whatever it was that he saw, he seemed to have suddenly changed into a different person and started attacking head on with the person he previously addressed as Li Meng with ruthlessness.

Even Li Meng was initially shaken by this sudden turn of events. Although he did not see the change in Pei Jinghe's facial expression he knew that something was not right.

Chen Liwei who was lying there heard the shot conversation that ensued between the two beings engaged in the battle in sky. His ears were continuously assaulted by loud booms that kept on reverberating from the skies. This was his first time to have ever seen cultivators that high in the sky. Although he had seen cultivators fight before, Chen Liwei had never seen one like this. After all, he only lived in a village where the cultivators there did not even number up to ten. And none of them had advanced from the qi refining stage. This made him awed.

He knew he could not keep on for long though. The dantain of a cultivator was his basic foundation of life and once removed that would mean the end of his end. Although Chen Liweihad not cultivatored in magic technique yet, the bizzare technique used by the elder destroyed most of the organs around his torso thereby endangering Chen Liwei's life. It was with difficulty that he had ran to where he was currently lying, also where Uncle Luo had been burried.He was even considered lucky to have lived up till now.

As Chen Liwei continued watching, he suddenly saw something very huge descending from the skies!

The thing was so huge that Chen Liwei couldn't see it's end. In fact if one didn't take a careful look he'd think the Heavens were descending. However as it descended it became smaller. When it became small enough for Chen Liwei to see it's shape, he realised it was a huge cauldron! It's colour was emerald green and it emitted a bright scintillating light that was so bright! If the two beings still engaged in the battle were considered as stars then this cauldron was like a sun!

Chen Liwei was completely shaken by this! He began to wonder why he had to see all these things when his life was almost over. Just at that moment his heart thumped in his chest. He was not sure but he felt like the huge cauldron that was gradually becoming smaller was descending towards him. His heart continued to thump even faster.

However, as the cauldron got near he could barely make out some words written on the cauldron. Initially it wasn't clear but as the cauldron got nearer he saw the words on the cauldron clearly and he was shaken!

On it was written.....

"IMMORTAL DAO CAULDRON!".