Sylvana:"Oh my Grandma, what did you do to our baby brother."
Antariskh bristled at that, "Shut up you old hag."
Shamiran:"My my granny is angry what will I do if she injures her back, Oh what will I do."
Antariskh:"How about I throw you inside a dustbin", exclaimed while gritting her teeth in anger.
Sylvana:"Hahahaha, the kid is a riot, I am taking him to mommy", with that she picked up Ryuu,"Bye bye grandma.", with that they left Antariskh alone to stew in anger.
Antariskh:"Come back here you dim wits I will tan your hide."
They teleported to where their parents were,"Mama please heal Ryuu big sister went a little overboard."
Veena quickly gave Ryuu a check up, and then started healing him.
Maheswara asked curiously,"What did Ryuu do anger Antariskh."
Sylvana while trying to reign in her laughter replied,"Well big sister tried to impress Ryuu him stating how long she has been cultivating well it back fired on her, Ryuu being the polite boy he is decided someone who is older than his mother should be addressed as such."
Shamiran:" Ryuu started calling big sister, Grand ma, well she did not take it well and Ryuu is now unconscious."
Hearing that everyone had a hearty laugh.
Suddenly Antariskh came in, "Evening Father, Evening Mothers."
Maheswara in a serious tone greeted back, "Evening GrandMa~."
Antariskh stiffened at the greeting, she whined at her father,"Not you too father."
Nuwa:"Sorry child but it is funny."
Ryuu woke up,"ugh What happened?"
Veena:"Ryuu are feeling alright now, do you remember anything?"
Ryuu:"No I was speaking with big sister but then I do not remember anything."
Antariskh let out a sigh,"Oh baby brother I think you were tired and fell asleep."
Veena gave Antariskh a glare before giving her attention to Ryuu,"Child you go and take a rest today , tomorrow you have lesson with me and also a very important day for you."
Ryuu looked confused and nodded before leaving,'adults are weird people. When I grow up I will never be weird.'
Next day,
Ryuu had just finished having breakfast, when she saw his teacher Veena speaking with his mother who looked tense for some reason.
Ryuu:"Good morning First mistress."
Veena:"Morning Ryuu, lets go it is going to be an important day for you."
Ryuu:"Bye mommy"
Xiao Xiao beckoned Ryuu towards her, then gave him a hug and kissed his forehead,"Stay safe my Son."
Ryuu nodded,'Adults are really weird. I do not want to grow up.'
Veena brought Ryuu to a secluded place, where he saw Nuwa, Maheswara as well as his elder sisters present.
Ryuu:"Good morning Master, Second mistress, Elder sisters."
Everyone nodded at his greeting.
Veena:"Well i am going to make some last minute preparations, Sister I leave you, the job of explaining to Ryuu.",with that she left.
Nuwa:"Come here sit here.", she beckoned Ryuu to sit beside her.
Nuwa began Ryuu's lesson,"Every cultivator has something known as Spirit Roots in their body, whether they be human or non-human they have spirit roots. The spirit root inside a person, looks like a bunch of threads running throughout the body starting from the dantian moving to various body parts, specially around vital organs , they are known as Spirit branches, each branch then give rise to even smaller branches known as Spirit Vein, which ultimately connects to the surface or skin of the body.", taking a deep she continued,"Spirit Branches are total of nine in number, and each spirit branch gives rise to nine Spirit Vein, so Ryuu can you tell me how many Spirit Veins do we get in total."
Ryuu frowned,"There are 9 Spirit branch and if each of them have 9 Spirit Vein each we have, 9 X 9 that is ...umu... 81, yes there are 81! Spirit Veins.", while bouncing.
Nuwa tousled his hair,"Good boy, now you see, Spirit Veins and Spirit Branches are the pathways through which we gather Ki from our surrounding which we store in our dantian. But the spirit veins have a fatal flaw, no person has all of his/her spirit veins open that is during Houtian period not only a person cleanses his body, bone marrow, organs and blood, but also they try to open up their Spirit Vein as much as possible, as the more higher you go up the chances of opening the Spirit veins decreases exponentially to the point anyone above Zifu Disciple can never dream of opening one without permanently crippling them even through artificial means. There is also the fact that the more higher your realm is the more quality of the spirit vein degrades as such it will cause less and less amount of ki to enter the body. Thus it is advisable to open it before one reaches Xiantian for maximum effect. Even with normal means a person no matter how talented is he can never open all of his Spirit VeiRns, thus they use artificial methods to open them up. Ryuu we hope you are getting what I am saying."
Ryuu nodded,"So is First mistress going to open all my Spirit veins."
Nuwa:" Good now the thing is for those who have God tier Divine body like you, they are a bit different, for each sub level increase they have an extra Spirit branch and Spirit vein. As such unlike others you have 13 Spirit Branches and 13 Spirit Veins bringing your total Spirit veins to 169."
Ryuu was about to whoop with joy but a glare from Nuwa stopped him,'Adults are now weird and meanie, he thought with a pout.
Nuwa's brow twitched,'Brat is really disrespectful.', "Ryuu, you have 104 Spirit Veins, Veena is going to do the procedure on you to open the rest, it will be painful, you might have never felt so much pain, so prepare yourself."
Ryuu gulped at hearing that.
Veena came back soon,"Child remove your clothes, fully and lie down here.", Veena pointed
Ryuu to lie down on some array.
A soon as he lied down she put a wooden stick wrapped with earn on his mouth between his teeth before tying it tightly.
Veena put a her hand on his hand on his hand as she reassured a frightened and trembling Ryuu,"Child, do not be afraid we are all here, we will keep you safe, it is for your own good."
She nodded to others who took position surrounding Ryuu.
To this day I am grateful to First Mistress Veena, even though I suffered through nightmares because of it for a very long time