Encountered Fate 3.5 - Chapter 20

~Sounds of Cicada chirping~

~ Breeze blowing~

~Sounds of rocks breaking~

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"Triple-Tiger Slash Formation of the Sovereign Water, beneath the sun, under the moon Hiyah!"

~Bang~

"Under the sky, ~slash~ Through mountains and river ~slash~..."

"Water flows, Earth revolves,

~After 10 minutes of martial arts honing, he leveled up~

"Phew! ~pant~ Finally, we have leveled up the Triple-Tiger Slash ~pant~ to the full-extent (peak), I need to drink water! ~Gulp~"

"Alright! I feel refreshed, It's time to eat! Oh yah I forgot I don't have any reserved food, hehe, I'll just gather ingredients for a minute! Readers be right back :D"

~~~~~~Bang~ Slash~~Goes Back to his home~~Chop~ Chop~ Chop~ Splatter~ Frying sound~ boiling Sound~

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Table squeaking~~Chair aligning~~~~

"Wow! I'm getting hungry just by looking at it ~saliva drips~ hehe.. let's savor this while it last! haha, anyways Itadakimasu~"

~~~~~~~~Nom~Nom

~~~~~~~~And After 30 minutes of eating, Li Xiao Wang left his abode to wander around the streets of the ivory blossom pavilion, to find certain equipment for his journey, then continued and left further away to the east, and stumbled upon an Old Totem with a scripture carved into it

"Why is this totem lying here in the Middle of the forest?"

~Goes near~

"There is a scripture carved into it, but I can't seem to get a glimpse at what it says?"

~He then proceeds to wipe it with his barehand, but little did he know as soon as he wiped the totem, a faint purple light glowed upon the backside of the totem and then glowed suddenly at the front side stumbling him afar~

"What the it suddenly glowed! My butt hurt from hitting this rock, anyways why did it glow as soon as I touched it?"

(Well duh! It's a genie inside a totem hehe just kidding)

~And suddenly, a message interface projected near the stone, and said~

[Thee who have stumbled upon this crescent grove, Seek thy mind for the accolade, Seek thy heart for the pity, and thee shall be bestowed the crescent grove of the almighty, oh and don't forget to retouch the stone to close the panel, don't worry you are the only one who have touched this totem in 350 years since I descended here, so it is connected to you know]

"What the it's so bright! my eyes almost got blinded by it, luckily as soon as I saw that I swiftly closed my eyes at a brink of a time, can you be more pitiful for my dear eyes!" rumbled Li Xiao Wang

"Anyways, what did the message say, Seek thy mind for the accolade, Seek thy heart for the pity, and thee shall be bestowed the crescent grove? I don't get it ~He then pondered and pondered what it means, but didn't get a clue about it, and he stopped~"

"This is crap, who want's this old totem anyway....who want's....~Looks down the grove~, Oh wow! there's a door attached to the land, it has a symbol of that a crescent moon, this creator much be jacked up to the moon, that he couldn't think of something like symbol of wolves with crescent, but he chosed a plain as! crescent with no star when it landed here! anyways I wonder how do you open this door? Is it due to the message that I have to decipher it again, crap! I don't know what that means, but let's think for a while, I may not be the brightest of the brains out there, but I swear that my mind drifts afar when I'm hearing stuff, like puzzles, and anecdotes, since I was growing up, the only book that I have learned is all about martial arts books, and not some scholarly stuff"

"hmm.....wait, I think I got it, seek the mind for the accolade, ~Thinks back on his memories to relieve some of them~, (think about the things that give birth to glory in my life, aha!, there was one time when I'm 6 years old, I was living my life like a silver spoon, and suddenly after years have passed, after years to another, I....(Memories intensified)....No, No! this is not glory this is sadness....~Thinks of some memories that contains glory in his life~....Hmm? What about the trial where I totally beat the hell out of that first disciple, yeah! but the essence of glory isn't there...I guess I shall seek what is the meaning of accolade in my life then"

~He then retouched the totem, and the panel immediately closed~

"Thank you sir totem! ~bow~"

~He then quickly dispersed and wandered around some more in the forest, until he was met by a group of bandit scouts~

"You kid what are you doing in the territory of ours, Secular Sacrificial Hideout!" said by the first scout

"Yeah! What are you doing here little branch hahaha" laughed by the third scout, whose an ego-maniac who likes to torture little kids

"Stop it Torturer! The little kid, struck in fear hahaha, anymore else he might pee his little wee wee in his pants" said by the 4th scout annoyingly

(This bunch of buffoon's cultivation base is only at the Qi gathering realm, the first one is actually peak realm, about the rest of the 4 are only mid, and low level, they should be easy to handle, but I must be cautious, what if they have something hidden up their sleeves, anyways the one who attacks first will be my first target)

"Hehehe! I can't wait to to torture kids like him, who acts so high & mighty but on the inside is like a little wussy" said by the third scout while laughing

~Bush Rustling~

"Be cautious! I think I heard something nearby, you check the bush, and report to me if you find something, I will be handling this kiddo" said by the Bandit Scout Leader

"Yes Leader!" said by the second scout bandit

"Well! Well! then kiddo, If you don't surrender right now I would be hanging you high to a pole, where anyone can see, how that arrogant face of yours, manage to trespass against the Secular Hideout Hahaha! come show me what you got kiddo"

~He then plunged forward towards Li Xiao Wang~

"Tiger-King Water Slash!!"

~Swoosh ~Swoosh~

~Trees Cracked, Stone flew due to the current of the winds emitted by the slash~

~Li Xiao Wang Dodged~

(I wonder why this bandits have sloppy arts, it seems that they just copied it without the essence of hard work, the stance and the formation of the sword is sloppy, well to begin with, this is frankly easy for me at the Soul-Wandering Realm, well I just suppressed myself to qi-gathering mid-level as soon as I got out of the place where the totem is, I don't want any necessary problems from facing beast, but I got unlucky with bandits, anyhow let's finish this quickly, they moved so slow considering how high my realm is, I don't want to try my martial arts with this, he is not a worthy opponent, let's just use his skill)

~He then plunged forward towards him~

"Tiger-King Water Slash!"

~The bandit was shocked~

"You are not qi-gathering! How is this possible! You are suppressing your realm! and....and How did you know that arts?...."

~He then was chopped to pieces due to the turbulence of the winds emitted from the sword of Xiao Wang with his fellow teammates at his back~

"Our job here is done, but let's be cautious, I believe there is more of them, considering them bandits, their hideout is somewhere near west, huh? why is there a house in the middle of the forest, is this the same as the old totem that I saw recently, but why is it so high up the tree? (I'll go check it out)"

~After several bruises from running in the forest, so far so good, he didn't manage to meet wild beast that are roaming everywhere in the forest, and got near the house while hiding near a bush~

"I hear chattering, about 20.....hmm wait who is that!"

~Looks at the person near the river~

"Is he the same guy that I met in my mind at the trials? He has a hair as white as ice, skin as smooth as ice jade, that's him! I should meet him, he said that if fate align he would tell me what happened to my family, I'll go to him right now! This is my only chance at finding the answer for my families death......"

"Hi what are you doing there!! You said about your family?" said by someone

"Ahhh!!" shouted Li Xiao Wang while stumbling his foot and fell ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Continued at next chapter~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~