Chapter 415 - Terror (1/2)

”Master!” Alex exclaimed in absolute joy as he looked up to the person in front of him. Ma Rong was sitting ahead of him wearing a dark green robe.

”Master, you're awake,” he said with a large smile on his face.

Ma Rong's face which was initially a melancholic smile soon turned into a genuine, happy smile. ”I see you've made it back alive. I believed you would,” she said.

”Yes, Master. I got back a few days ago,” Alex said.

”I heard. I woke up about 4 hours ago, and the elders told me everything,” Ma Rong said. ”Still, give me your own recollections of what happened,” she asked.

”Oh, about that…” Alex explained everything that he could remember. There was not a single thing he left on the table, except for the figure in his spiritual sea that spewed out the yellow fog.

”I see, so it was him.” Ma Rong's cold voice sounded almost ethereal. The grass she was sitting on slowly started to stop moving as they froze solid and the ones a little further away, started getting frost on them.

”Master, are you okay?” Alex asked as he stood up and walked towards Ma Rong. Suddenly, as soon as he got close to her, an intense feeling from deep within him came to the surface making him stop then and there.

His legs refused to move a single more step as his body started shaking without any hints of stopping. His eyes were wide with fear in them like he had never felt before.

To him, this felt like his world would collapse at any moment, and that he would no longer be able to live in it.

Ma Rong's eyes flashed a hint of worry when she saw him frozen in fear. She immediately controlled the anger she was feeling towards Zexi and the cold aura around her disappeared.

The frost on the surface of the grass blades disappeared and the frozen patches of grass started moving again. Finally, Alex could grab hold of himself and move.

While he knew that there was no danger, his heart still betrayed him as a deep sense of terror appeared in his mind when he saw Ma Rong a little in front of him. This wasn't to the same level as just moments before, but it was still very fearsome.

'What just happened? Why did I fear Master of all people? And why did my body not respond to the fear at all? I thought it did so with every suppression,' he thought.

”I'm sorry. I still haven't reigned in my unlocked Constitution yet so you had to feel that. It must especially be bad for you considering your body is a yang-type constitution,” Ma Rong explained.

”Is… that so?” Alex thought. He felt like someone just dumped a bucket of ice-cold water on him. His body he was starting to get so confident in was actually so inferior to his master's that it froze at the slightest hint of terror from her.

'I guess that settles it then. My body is in fact only divine grade,' he thought.

”It's okay now,” Ma Rong said as she walked towards him. Alex instinctively put one foot back to move but stopped himself.

'I can't get scared of my master,' he thought. Ma Rong smiled and placed her hands on his head to teach pat his head.

The moment she touched him, it felt like he had lost all control of his body and dropped to the ground. For a second, he felt his vision blur and he nearly lost everything in sight.

”W-What's wrong?” Ma Rong asked while all flustered. ”Wh-What's happening to you?”

Alex finally got back to his feet and huffed. ”Ma-Master, I think your body's Yin is suppressing me way too much. It might be better if you don't touch me now. Just standing near you is making me terrified,” he said.

Ma Rong's hands stopped where they were and slowly folded back as a sad face appeared on her face.

Alex stood up to see tears in her eyes and realized how what he had just said came off as. ”It's okay master. You will just have to learn to hold your aura in and I will be fine. Or I can just enter the True realms soon and can maybe not be so useless against your aura, haha.”

Alex tried to think of ways to stop Ma Rong from feeling bad about him. ”Uhh… oh yeah, Master, why did you go to the Forbidden Fields? I heard that you took a hoard of elders there too,” Alex asked.

”That was… I was worried about the desert encroaching on our lands and wanted to see how much closer they had come,” Ma Rong said.

”Huh? Can't you just check from afar? You should be able to see if you fly up high, right?” Alex asked.

”Yes, but I had only ever seen it from far away and thought that I would get a much better understanding of the situation if I saw what was going on up close,” Ma Rong said. ”Unfortunately, it turns out I should not have gone there. That place nearly put me in a coma.”

”Well, it also made you quite strong now. If not from it, I don't think your body would've unlocked its constitution,” Alex said.

”Sigh, I guess so,” Ma Rong said and simply shook her head. ”Alright, continue what you were saying about your life inside that formation.”

”Ah right, so…” Alex told her that with nothing else to do inside the formation, he made a small furnace and tested the different ingredients just like she had said.

Ma Rong's eyes shone in surprise when she heard that. ”So, you did learn it just like we first intended. Good,” Ma Rong said as she praised him.

”How much did you learn?” she asked.

”I experimented with the different ingredients everyday master and made 9 different types of pills,” he said with a proud face.

”9?” Ma Rong said in surprise. ”How many of them worked?” she asked.