Morning time, the sky is clear and bright. It can be seen that, there nothing happened at night time. Xiu Luo was laying down near the lake. He endured the painful process which exhausted his mental state and fell sleep. After some time Xiu Luo opened his eyes sat down and stretched his hand while yawning.
Crack crack
The cracking voice could be heard from his body. Then suddenly his expression changes as he frowned.
"Hmm.." Xiu Luo started waving his hand in front of his eyes.
"This... was that a dream ? Xiu Luo doubted whether last night phenomena was just a dream, because last night he could clearly see but now he can't see. Then he sent his consciousness in his dantian suddenly he was more shocked than before.
"This... spiritual sea" he was shocked because spiritual sea can be open only after hollow spirit realm but he is just in spirit gathering realm, it does not make sense. Then in his spiritual sea he saw the reflection of phoenix and thunder beast, he raised his eyes and watching them and now their appearance were like last night phenomena because after phenomena they were at last breath but now they regain their appearance and towering above the spiritual sea.
"Hello hello phoenix thunder beast " he tried to call them but they didn't even moving like they were statues and Xiu Luo was completely ignored.
"Cough..." Xiu Luo coughed awkwardly
"Now they got their appearance are they ignoring me."
"You pathetic bastards" he shouted towards them, if anyone had seen the appearance of phoenix and thunder beast they would have frightend but Xiu Luo was shouting towards them because he knows that this is his spiritual sea and he is the boss here.
Suddenly a shocking scene happened because the golden flame and black lightening came from under the spiritual sea and they were reverberating as if they were frightend like the kids who made a mistake. Xiu Luo stare toward them and above projection back and forth, and then he settle his gaze towards them and coughed.
"Are they your just projection?" Xiu Luo asked them pointing his finger towed their projection.
The golden flame and black lightning vibrated like they were nodding.
"You can't talk?" They nodded again.
"Is it because you used your remaining power to help me open spiritual sea?" Xiu Luo aked frowning. This time they didn't answer. From their silence Xiu Luo can guess thats what happened. Xiu Luo fellt some guilt towards them. But they rotated around him as they were consoling him that it does not matter. Suddenly Xiu Luo looks towards them his expression is serious and said.
"You trusted and decided to follow me and if I ever get the opportunity to recover your power back I don't hesitate to walk on sea of fire and mountain of sword." While slightly bowing towards them.
They were rotating around him happily. Finally Xiu Luo glanced at their original appearance and clenched his fist.
"It will difficult to retore them to their glorious peak age.
"Hey Why don't you forget what i said just now and consider it as a joke ok." Xiu Luo said jokingly but the flame and lightning are hitting Xiu Luo like children complaining their parents.
"Hey stop, stop I was joking joking heeeheee..." he replied laughingly. And they stop hitting him. Their behaviour were like small kids but he know they were not, so again he asked in a serious expression.
"Who is the one who betrayed you guys?" Xiu Luo questioned them and the atmosphere became silent again. Both of them are thinking for something, but again they looking towards each other as what does that question means. Seeing their reaction Xiu Luo frowned, he can see that they really don't know but they clearly ask him last night 'did you also get betrayed?' But now from their reaction it can seen that they really don't know and their behaviour was also like the spoiled kids. Then Xiu Luo broke the silence
"If you don't know, then don't need to think about it." Xiu Luo consoled them as he crassed above their surface. And they nodded happily and start roaming here and there jumping and circling in his spiritual sea And he left his spiritual sea and brought his consciousness back to his body.
Xiu Luo felt his body sticky and can guess that these are the impuries removed from his body and then he checked his cultivation. He jumped from the the ground excitely because his cultivation is back and he is now at fourth rank of Spirit gathering. He was excited becuse till yesterday he was waste and now he was back to cultivation. He took out his storage bag and from this he removed one more storage bag that is Bai Tong storage bag which he hide it inside his storage bag.
He circulated spiritual qi and used his spirit sense method as he can sense that there are some scrolls, cultivation techniques and two swords are present. Beside this there is thousand three hundred spirit stones are present and the exotic herbs that they collected during the mission.
"Hmm.. sniff sniff ... these may be three to four pattern pill making herbs. As he stored them back in the the storaage bag. Then he refined all spirit stones but it only reach peak of fourth level.
"Is it because of spiritual sea that it requires too much resources. Ah what a headache."while this may be vey good to every one but for Xiu Luo it is a headache because he never get resources in the sect and Ningxue used to to give him from her share. And now he require too much resources to increase his cultivation.
"Haa.."he sighed.
"Well first I should take a bath, hmm." He checked the surrounding with spirit sense but got excited because his senses is reaching five hundred meter of radius, and before when he was at peak of spirit gathering stage he was able to sense five hundred meter of radius in his surrounding. So he was excited that now he can activate the spirit sense of same distance while at lower realm.
Then he checked his surroundings then found no one in the spirit sense range then he removed his cloths and jumped into the lake.
After taking bath Xiu Luo wore the black cloths which looks ordinary and he was holding black eyefold and thinking about last night that when he got his eyesight back how bright was the world but now it was just too black for him. And covered the eyes with it.
The spirit sense method is like a small field of circle in which he can see the light in the shape of people and objects which has spiritual energy. And it's a law that everything has spiritual enegy in the cultivation world whether it is trees plants animal or an object or else it will become decay or die.
He developed the spitit sense method by his own when he lost his eyesight and when everyone gave up on him except Ningxue but now she also
"Haa...Ningxue..." he sighed while remembering her name, the mood will become complicated when he think about her, he don't what emotions are there when he thinks about her whether it is sad /angry/ doubtfull but his heart get ache whenever he thinks about her. The chilldhood sweethearts of the mortal world became indifferent to each other in this cruel world. Suddenly his face became serious and clenched his fist and the nails were penetrating his palm but he didn't care.
"Holy dragon sect you wanted me to be dead haa. Then I will remove your sect from the vast cultivation world." The one who tried to stop me will be killed ;God blocks kill god , buddha blocks kill buddha" he roared looking towards the sky. Like he was telling the heaven and earth his commitment.
And immediately his face changes from seriousness to the frown
"Resources resources... " muttering again and again moved away from the lake. Suddenly he halted is footstep and came back in front of broken sword piece and coughed awkwardly.
"Cough ..... well I will take you with me." He picked up the broken piece and left towards the direction of Immortal world.
Holy dragon sect-
Ningxue boudoir
Li Ningxue was still sitting emotionless like a doll since three days but her beautiful eyes were moist and red because of parting with Xiu Luo. Time passed seconds after second minute after minute and she was sitting like that till evenings then her eyes shows coldness and all the surrounding temperature become drop the floors and the walls start freezing.
"Xiuluo told it was enemy sect who had crippled him, I will remove that sect from vast cultivation world." She also made the same proomise but she does not know that the holy dragon sect was the one who
crippled Xiu Luo.
What will happen between the two when they meet again? Whether they will go back to their relationship or will become strangers?