Chapter 5: Meeting a Powerful Cultivator! (1/2)

Gu Auntie saw Du Chan and immediately went to her room, where his dans were, and fetched them. She found that only 2 pills were remaining in the drawer. Also, there was a slip in the back corner.

The paper was given to her by the traveling doctor 5 years ago. The sect's address in the town was written on it.

'Let's feed him these pills first and then go to the sect' Gu Auntie thought quickly, her decisions bearing a heavyweight when it came to Du Chan's life.

After she took the pills and the slip, she called all the children and teenagers of the orphanage and told them that she would return in 5 days.

She called an emergency transport and initiated the journey to the nearby town. She fed him a pill but his condition was nonetheless the same. Du Chan was in very excruciating pain that he couldn't care what happened right now.

The ache in the abdomen increased again…..Du Chan felt his heart might stop anytime soon, and with it, the chilling energy began to spread from his abdomen to all his body. Du Chan's limbs became like ice. Even Gu auntie who sat beside him, felt the chill coursing all over her too.

'W-Why is this happening to me? I didn't do anything wrong...why am I receiving this punishment…I don't want to die…I don't want to die…I DON'T WANT TO DIE!!!'

Du Chan was screaming inside of himself….he was clearly distraught by the sudden onslaught of his current illness.

It was then that a golden light kicked in and started radiating on his forehead. Golden energy was flowing from the light and down the rest of his body. He felt the chilling energy slowly disperse but the golden energy could still not enter his abdomen.

Du Chan, although floundered and sickening, could clearly perceive that there was a black and strange force near his chest. It was akin to a black hole, sweeping everything within it, and when the golden energy got near it got sucked in effortlessly.

The pain alleviated but he couldn't open his eyes or mouth yet.

Seeing no progress, he was pulled to read the undying physique's words for no apparent reason. A few sentences in and the golden energy received a major boost and gave shape to a dragon that swallowed the black energy in whole. But upon doing so, that foreign energy blasted.

BOOM!

The dragon was torn into pieces and the black energy circulated in his abdomen just as before. The golden energy, fearing for its current master, gave attempt once again and regenerated, giving shape to a bigger dragon.

Larger than the one before, it swallowed the energy easily but it was torn again and was even stronger now.

Du Chan's internal organs were damaged in the process. Blood came pouring out of his mouth.

There was a furious battle happening where the illness festered. The dragon spawned endlessly and swallowed the energy in an attempt to neutralize it, but it failed each time and got blown up.

The golden energy was similar to a child learning from its mistakes. After a few times of failures, the dragon didn't swallow the threat but instead encircled it...Du Chan saw all of this unfolding inside of himself. But, being the inexperienced child he was, did not understand what that dragon was trying to do.

In his abdomen, the golden light increased and broadened even more, and always at the last moment would it get blasted again.

'SHIT! It wants to blast everything with..…'

All of these attempts were happening in a blink of an eye. Before he even gave another thought, it blasted yet again. This time…

Both energies were destroyed and disappeared completely. That blast totally damaged his internal organs and left him severely injured.

But…

'I'm alive…' Du Chan was relieved, his mind unhindered by the suffering of his corporeal form.

'Xiao Chan…Xiao Chan…'

Du Chan heard his auntie calling him, but he lost consciousness after his battle was over.

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Above all worlds, in God's realm!

In a vast land full of mountains, within a cave, a man was sitting in the middle of a lava pool. He looked like a middle-aged man. He was only wearing trousers and was naked at the top. His body was full of muscles and if one-eyed him long enough and very carefully, one could notice that his body wasn't wrinkling nor aging. He had an ageless body so to say.

Suddenly, the man opened his eyes, a devilish smile arched on his face. He started laughing.

”HAHAHA! FUN! THIS IS FUN! HAHAHA!”

His voice resounded like a furious dragon's roar that shook down the whole mountain range. Some smaller peaks even collapsed.

After he was done, he called out to someone who came instantly at the request.

”SHEN!” the man with the laugh of a dragon shouted.

A person appeared beside him. Everything was normal about him but the only god knew where he came from.

He looked like an assassin according to his attire. He covered his face with a black cloth that wrapped around his neck.

”Yes, Master?”

”Shen. Protect this kid. Do not reveal yourself unless it was a life or death matter” he instructed the shady fellow, sharing with him, through thoughts, the image of the child he mentioned.

”Okay, Master” Shen said, his voice void of emotions.

”Ahh. He is yet too young right now but give him this cultivation technique when he's reached his fourteens” the middle-aged man added as well and a book appeared on his smooth palm.

Shen took it and vanished after bidding his master farewell.

The master left to his own inside the lava-filled cave continued his monologue and laughed loudly yet again.

”Hehe, I want to see how this little devil rises to the top! HAHA…..”

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