Chapter 9 - Krune wants to be forgiven (2/2)
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After ignoring the little Lizard Draons, Krune went to the small lake to take a look, inside he could see a crystalline white spiritual vein rooted in the earth, the water had the same limpid azure color, the concentration of spirit energy around was the highest he has ever felt, and this is just a very low level spiritual vein, it made Krune wonder how good the high level ones are.
Krune was planing to stay here until he breakthrough to the Foundation Establishment, only after doing that would he be able to attain his human form, but first he had to recover his spiritual energy, the amount used to set up those traps back then used more than half of his reservoir, it's always good to stay at peak state in case the train went out of the rails, those who are prepared live longer. After recovering he will immediately start his cultivation, he needs to create the third meridian, with that his cultivation speed will go a step further again.
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One week later, Krune had reached half way through the 7th stage of Qi Condensation, he thought it was about time to create the third Spiritual Energy Meridian, when when he was about to start the process, he heard cries coming from the little Lizard Dragons, it was different from before, he wondered what was it about, he got closer to take a look just to see that the small guys seemed a little weak.
'Why is it happening? I don't remember to have done anything for them to turn out like this.'
It didn't take long for Krune to understand.
'Of course! How could I have forgotten? They aren't wisps like me, they need to eat in order to grow up.'
Krune felt like a headache was coming, the lizards looked at him as if they were waiting for him to do something, he was dumbfounded, he wasn't their parents, they should be grateful that he didn't kill them to end all the trouble. Krune decided to ignore them and went back to the lake to prepare for the third meridian creation, the cries didn't stop though, he kept ignoring it at first, but with time it started to really bother him, he couldn't concentrate at all!
'Ahhhhhh! Fine! I will get some food for you, fuc*ing sake, why am I even bothering with it?!'
An hour later Krune came back with a demon deer corpse, he couldn't use that demon bear corpse anymore, it had already rotted quite a bit and he didn't know it it would affect the lizards. The demon deer was an ordinary beast of the 6th stage, usually demon deers walk in groups, although it was a little dangerous to provoke a big group, with Krune's intelligence, it didn't take long for him to get one of them to separate from their group, after that it wasn't anything hard for him to kill a 6th stage ordinary beast anymore as long as it was only one.
The pack noticed that they lost one of their group, but since their where close to the Lizard Dragons nest, they didn't dare to enter the lizards territory to look for it, it will still take a very long time until other beasts notice that the Lizard Dragons are gone, their aura could still be felt around the mountain range.
When the little ones saw the deer corpse their eyes lit up, Krune simply threw it close to them and let nature play it's course, their cries finally stopped, even the big bother of the group looked a little more intimate now, Krune didn't care though, he went back to the lake to restart his third meridian creation, but he couldn't help but think.
'Is it me or they all grew up quite a bit?'
Krune threw this thought to the back of his mind, so what if the grow even more? It has nothing to do with him.
An hour later Krune was ready to start again, the demon cores were ready as well...
The demon cores were ready...
The demon cores...
Demon cores...
Cores...
”WHERE ARE THE DEMON CORES?!”
He was sure that he left the demon cores beside the lake before, he immediately spread his Divine Sense to its max range coverage, everything in a 500 meters radius could be seen, but other than the Lizard Dragons there wasn't anything else.
'Could it be that some beast came in earlier while I was out and took the cores away? Impossible! With the Lizard Dragons aura still in place only a 9th stage of the Qi Condensation beast or above would dare to come, and usually they have their own spiritual veins, they wouldn't look for a fight without reason, furthermore, if they saw that this spiritual vein was empty, they definitely wouldn't have left.'
Suddenly, Krune remembered that the little ones seemed to have grown quite a bit while he was out, not only that but their auras are stronger than before too, when he checked their cultivation he felt like crying but had no tears... Well, wisps have no tears to start with.
All five of them have had a cultivation breakthrough while he was out, their big bother was even at the peak of the 5th stage of the Qi Condensation!
A minute later all of them had already finished eating and sprinted in Krune's direction, he was already fuming and they even dare to attack him? Courting Death!
Just as Krune was about to shoot wind blades and get rid of them, he noticed something weird, different from all those who had attacked him until today, those little ones had no hostility on their faces, let alone hostility, they looked very... Happy?
Once they got close they started jumping around him and crying in his direction as if trying to court his favor, Krune looked at them and his angriness deflated like a balloon, in the end he could only sigh.
”Feifei, my love, please forgive your fiancé, seems like he has got some kids of his own...”