Youth and Old woods

Walking to the door, Santhan opened the door and found Rakshika waiting outside with a tall and handsome black man whose long dark hair reached his shoulders. He looked at Santhan with his deep black eyes as his lips turned into a smile.

"It has been a long time, brother."

"How have you been?"

Santhan twitched as he looked at Rakshika, who had an expression of helplessness.

"Sorry, Uncle. "He found me when I was coming towards your house."

"Sigh, Surya. As your elder, let me give you advice, don't you dare say anything about where his parents went before Chandraka. He is not powerful enough to know about their present condition, nor can he help them. So, if you want to tell him about them, you may try, but don't blame me for being impolite. "Believe me, no one will be able to stop me from biting you."

"Relax, brother; you don't have to be like this. I have only come to meet him because I have had some free time in a long time, unlike you, who run away from your duty."

Listening to Surya, Santhan can only raise his hand and surrender.

"It has been fourteen years since I last saw him. It's purely coincidental that today is also the day his seal has started to break; in a way, it's a good thing. The only thing that can temporarily save his life is our household treasure, and without my permission, you will not be able to open it."

"Yes," said Santhan helplessly. He couldn't deny that he would have to meet his brother eventually. His presence today has saved him from a lot of trouble.

"Come on, it's not safe here." While getting in there, he explained to them that he was going to give him that household possession, which could temporarily stop his body from breaking down until he mastered and unlocked his nine seals and himself. "Proving himself worthy of knowing more about himself."

Inside the room, Chandraka was observing the box with curiosity in his eyes because he couldn't find any openings. Instead of a box, it looked more like a piece of wood.

When several footsteps entered the house, led by his grandpa, accompanied by his aunt and an unknown man,

He checked his memories and didn't recognize any figures matching the person in front of him. He looked at his grandfather.

" Chandraka, you may not remember him as you have only met him once, when you were only two years old. This man here is your granduncle and my younger brother. Surya."

"Granduncle????"

It came as a great surprise as he looked at his grandfather and granduncle and couldn't help but ask how the age difference between them was so great. One is in the tree with bright green leaves full of vitality; the other is a dried-up old wood on the gate of dying any time.

'Grandpa. At least you can try to come up with a more convincing plot if you don't want to tell me about the real identity of the person.

The suspicious look on his face was completely visible to both men, causing Surya to look at Santhan mischievously.

" Chandraka, it's hard for you to recognize me. But your cheap grandfather is telling the truth. He and I are brothers from the same family. As for why your grandpa looks so old, it is due to the specific cultivation art he practices. "Truth be told, my current age is eighty-nine years old, while your grandfather is ninety-two years old." Surya said with a gentle smile.

"Are you really as old as my grandpa?" asked Chandraka again, though he knew that his family was not as simple as it looked. He cannot help but ask.

"What reason do I have to lie to you?" But let's put that aside for now. "We have some major issues to deal with." Surya walked to the table and picked up the wooden box.

"Elder brother. I need your help to solve the array on top of this box. Rakshika and Chandraka go to the upper floor. The process of opening is a little complex and may even lead to unintentional harm."

Hearing that, Rakshika suddenly held his hand and dragged him upstairs. She closed the door and took a long breath.

"Finally, I am free," said Rakshika as her legs gave up and she fell to the floor.

"Aunt, are you right?" asked Chandraka with a concerned voice.

"Don't worry, I am already just a little tired after a whole day of working."

She didn't tell him, mostly due to the air of authority and power around his granduncle, which was suffocating her.

"He really lives up to his reputation; a person of his level is not able to control his power property. Probably he is about to break through to a higher level of cultivation," thought Rakshika as she slowly tried to get up. The next moment, they both felt that the entire house was shaking lightly.

One must know that it is not easy to cause the shaking of wooden houses in this world unless there is a powerful force or an earthquake of a high magnitude of more than seven.

[Inside the dining room]

Both Santhan and Surya's foreheads were covered in sweat as it dripped through their noses and fell on the ground with a wooden body suspended in the air with small silvery rune code letters forming a zigzag puzzle all around its surface, releasing a faint power of destructive mental corrosion.

"Guru ji really has to place such a powerful mental array around it with such a corrosive effect." Now, I understand why he said that without insufficient strength, we must not try to open it up, or only death will be the result," said Surya with lingering fear in his eyes.

"I have to agree with you on this. But let's not get lazy. Only the last part remains if we don't take action. The entire puzzle will rearrange itself, and we have to start from the beginning. I don't want to experience the pain of the erosion of my mind."