Chapter 366 - The City of Caves(Part-2) (1/2)

Ryuu reclined on his seat in the hot spring as he let the medicinal pill work his magic his opponent had managed to rearrange his face and he had offered the same courtesy to him, but now they both chatted like they were good friends for generation, a sensuous woman attended to him as she rubbed some form of ointment over his injuries. The woman had her face covered by a veil but she even then the state of her dress and looks would have driven any man to act on their baser instinct even if her lower half was that of a scorpion, yet Ryuu did not pay any heed to her as he was busy relaxing.

The ointment felt like cool water after a particularly scorching day, as his host and previous opponent spoke with a frown, ”Brother if I may ask what happened to your left arm, it feels a bit tainted.”

Ryuu sighed as he spoke, ”Well before I arrived in your land we were attacked by a very dangerous creatures one of them poisoned me, I have managed to deal with it, but it left some unwanted scars on me, but it would heal with time.”

The person who had questioned gave him smirk as he spoke, ”That is good warriors should have some scars on them it looks nice.”

Ryuu nodded at that as he spoke in sage like manner at that, ”So true my friend but sadly enough after I return home my mother would find some way to remove it.”

His new friend Dhaeq looked scandalized at that as he spoke, ”That is preposterous but what is this 'mother' thing?”

Ryuu frowned as he spoke, ”The one who gave birth to me.”

The person seemed to realize as he spoke with a shake of his head, ”Ah you mean the bearer well then you give up there is no force that can go against an angry mother.”

At this retort both of them burst into laughter as another attendant filled Ryuu's glass with wine.

The others from Ryuu's group had received a nice welcome but none had received anything remotely similar to that of Ryuu apparently his fist fight with the Chieftain of the clan had managed to impress him as such he had the honor of healing in his private ho spring.

A few hours later a very happy Ryuu went to his room with a skip on his step as he was humming a particular anime theme from his previous life, even if outside of the cave was scorching hot, the inside of the place was another matter entirely, it was a pleasant temperature and the hot spring as such was refreshing, specially the wine and the succulent meat that was served along with it, 'Hmm this people are nice specially the food I liked it, I cannot wait to go back home and feast on the delicious food cooked by my teacher.', drool escaped from his lips only to be brought back to the harsh reality that he only has a few more years to live, as he feel on his knees he wanted to curl up and wanted to cry only to jump with eyes burning with determination.

A couple of his fellow cultivators looked at his antics warily as one of them spoke, ”Is he touched in his head?”

The other looked at him with deadpanned eyes as he spoke, ”Point to me a cultivator that is right in his head, but even then it seems he is more deranged than us at least we do not act like him in the open.”

The other one snorted at that as he spoke, ”That is an understatement of the millennium.”

As Ryuu entered the area of the cave that was set aside for their use every eye fell on him as he spoke, ”What?”

Zywia frowned as she spoke with concern laced in her voice, ”Where have you been Ryuu?”

Ryuu gave her a grin that infuriated her as he spoke, ”Well the Brother Dhaeq was kind enough to allow me into his personal hot spring, it was so nice the temperature was nice and it worked wonders on my injuries not to mention healing ointment was refreshing, the wine was wonderful and meat so succulent.”, his eyes sparkled like some kid in candy store.