6 Tang San (2/2)

How could she know that this Lightning was the signal from the heavens themselves that the destruction of the Spirit Hall was imminent and nobody could prevent its destruction now.

Ryusei was thinking 'Now, what should I do? I think the first thing is that I should find about my current location. Where am I? Which forest is this? How far is the nearest civilization from here?'

He then went towards a nearby tree and searched for a hole and found one, and put his ear on the hole and concentrated to hear something. He heard the sound of water falling on some rocks.

He was pretty familiar with this sound and knew that this was the sound of a nearby waterfall. He knew that the most important thing that he should have right now was a source of water and food.

He thought 'The food should be no problem, I will just have to kill the beasts in this forest while I guess I have to find that waterfall. From the faint sound of it, it seemed as if it was pretty far away, perhaps 10 Kilometres or so towards east.'

He then started to make his way towards the direction of the Waterfall as he wanted to be close to the source of water. It was essential for survival after all. While going along the way, he was careful enough to mark the tree from where he came so that he could come back to this direction if he wanted.

After travelling about a kilometre, he once again checked for the direction of the sound of the waterfall and found out that he was correct and started travelling in that direction.

After walking for about 2 hours, he finally saw the waterfall. The water was flowing down the mountain to a lake in front of Ryusei. The water in the lake was very pure, clear and shiny as a mirror. He bent down and started to drink water from the lake.

The water entered his body and soon enough, his body started to give off a pungent smell and he frowned as he stripped down his clothes and washed his entire body in the lake. What he didn't know was that the Lake in which he was bathing was the Spirit Lake.

It has been so long that someone found it that even its legends were forgotten by the people. This Spirit Lake's water had the capability to enhance the body and remove all the impurities from the body.

The cleaning of impurities improved his speed of absorption of Spirit Energy by about 10 times. His skin became much fairer than before and his Black hair seemed to become much more beautiful and shinier. It was like his old skin had shed itself and the new skin took its place which was much fairer and smoother than before.

His spirit rank also broke through from rank 14 to rank 15 Spirit Master. After thoroughly washing his body, he once again wore his clothes. He then thought 'Maybe I should climb this tree and see if I can find something about where I can go, like a nearby village or something. There should be someplace where I can live for some time.'

He was pulled out of his thoughts when he heard someone hitting a tree, he knew what this voice was, it was the sound of a palm hitting the bark of the tree. He knew that this sound was produced by a human as no Beast will do this type of thing.

He thought 'Perhaps the person is practising some kind of Martial arts and testing its result. I should meet this person and find out about the nearest civilization.' He then started following the direction from which he heard the sound and was soon there as the place was pretty close.

When he reached the place, he saw a young boy of around his own age looking at his hands while mumbling something. He was pretty astonished as he thought that the person who would be training their martial arts would be at least a teenager.

He could also see the palm marks on the stem of the tree and knew that they were freshly made, so he knew that the person who made these palm marks was the young boy in front of him.

He called out to him and said, ”Hello, I am lost right now. Could you tell me where can I find the nearest village?” The boy turned to his direction with a curious expression and asked him, ”Who are you?”

”My name is Long Tian, and yours?” He replied with an alias as he didn't want the world to know that the Young master of the Lei Clan survived. It would be a pretty stupid idea to use his name from this world. (Meaning of his name: 'Long' means Dragon in Chinese and 'Tian' means Heaven. So, it is Heavenly Dragon)

”My name is Tang San.” He replied me with a smile but Ryusei could feel that behind his smile he was cautious of him