13 The Five Days |Part 3| (1/2)

XieRong spent her time with her grandfather learning new things.

He told her about his days in the cultivation sect and how they operated.

Anyone who had turned thirteen or was above thirteen had to go to the sect festival which was held every year and show their prowess by participating in a series of competitions. If a sect was interested, they would announce the number of the jade slip which is given to each competitor before the competitions begin. Also each victory would be recorded as points in the jade slip and the participant with the highest number of points would receive special gifts from the masters of the top three sects, prime minister houses, ducal houses and the emperor himself.

She promised him that when she grew a little more stronger she would definitely try and win the competitions.

When XieRong worried that she'd spent too much time in the ring, she was told that time passed very slowly inside spatial rings. So while she felt that a Shi Chen had already passed inside the ring, only a quarter of it had passed in actuality.

”Grandfather, can I steal things from the great treasure room while I'm returning from the ancestral treasure hall?”

XieRong felt happy just imagining the look on Fa Boqin's face when he would learn that all the treasures he'd been collecting and vying for had fallen into someone else's hands.

Fa Yongnian patted his granddaughter's head fondly.

”It's not stealing anymore if you have taken my permission,” he said, ”or if it belonged to you in the first place. But, you can take as much as you like if it makes you happy.”

”Grandfather, will you be here forever? I want FeiHong to meet you and I have so many things to learn from you.”

”Dear, child. Nothing in this world is forever. Only when you become a god can you stay for eternity, and I, a sky realm cultivator, had only trapped a part of my spirit in this ring so that I could meet you. I have already been trapped here for more than half a decade. My spirit will vanish completely from the mortal realm after two more years in the real world have passed.”

XieRong felt sadness grip her heart.

Would she have to lose another one of her family after two years?

”Don't be sad, child. I am already happy to have met a granddaughter like you.”

”Then can FeiHong at least meet you? I want her to know that there was someone in the Fa family who loved us and still does.”

”Hm. I suppose if you sleep holding hands and will her consciousness into this space then she can come here.”

Fa Yongnian may have looked calm but he couldn't wait to meet his other granddaughter.

”Grandfather, can you show me what all is in here in the remaining time we have. I'll be leaving for the West Province tomorrow.”

Fa Yongnian smiled as he showed his granddaughter around, answering any questions she had for him.

”Grandfather I'll come visit you in tomorrow night with FeiHong,” XieRong said, as she willed her consciousness back into her mind.

As soon as XieRong woke up, she felt the pain. Her treatment had not been completed yet.

XieRong opened her eyes to see the thick, gooey, black poison being sucked from her Dantian.

”Come back, have you?”

The Poison master hadn't known her disciple had taught herself meditation. It took extreme patience and suffering to learn.

”Be careful with when and where you meditate, child. It is a technique that improves your cultivation greatly, but leaves you vulnerable to attacks. First learn how to feel for presences with your mind then you can start to meditate without leaving yourself open to attacks.”

XieRong saw the the last of her poison leave her Dantian and when it was done, she felt something like a dam within her break, allowing a river of energy to flow to all the parts of her body. She could feel her wounds and scars heal, her bones strengthen and all her senses grow sharper.

”Jie! Your hair!”

XieRong turned her head to look at her sister.

”What happened to my hair?” She asked as she brought her ponytail to the front to see what had happened. She saw that it had changed from jet black to a beautiful dark brown.

”Young miss, it's not only your hair,” Hui Nuo said looking at XieRong with awestruck eyes.