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Chapter 17 - the prison

" thank you for helping me , brother ken ! " zhao bowed his head a little and shook hands with ken . this thanks was from his bottom of heart which ken felt so ken was glad that he helped zhao which was slightly out of his character . zhao then left the alchemist guild from the front door but this time his presence was completely different and attracted many glances from the crowd .

ken had seen many injured or severely poisoned disciples inside alchemy guild before and it was pretty much a daily occurence. but he didnt help them himself and only refined some pills if he was requested by superiors to do so . ken just simply despises selfish , arrogant and shameless people . unfortunately most of the cultivators in the sect whether they are disciples or elders are the people ken despises . but zhao was different as ken saw pure light blue aura coming out of his body when he first glanced at him .

this ability to see the natural aura of beings is Ken's extra ability which had awakened when he reached the foundation realm . dragon bloodline is the cause so ken whose bloodline is in the infant stage but pure can see the aura very clearly like all dragons . he had known about this ability because it was mentioned in his knowledge about the art . zhao's aura was pure which meant that his soul was pure and kind so ken was happy to lend a simple helping hand to him .

his veins were clogged because the extremely small parasites had a distinct quality . they resided in blood and had cloning ability which was fearsome . zhao's spirit veins which were connected to spirit root had been clogged almost fully so ken had taken him to elder gentle inside the building immediately.

the parasites all die when the veins are totally clogged naturally as it was the nature of parasites produced by the tri coloured snake beast . but the problem was that when the veins are totally clogged then only a special reconstruction pill can allow the cultivator to have the ability to cultivate again . but the main problem was that this realm was small and the reconstruction pill was a tier 7 pill and in this realm there was no alchemist above tier 5 due to the limitations of realm . so the cultivator whose veins are corroded and totally clogged due to the parasites pretty much become mortals in this realm left with no choice.

but if the veins are not totally clogged yet then the situation can be solved . the parasites were simply helpless against pure fire element and die easily when come in contact with it . so ken took zhao to elder gentle and the elder immediately used his somewhat pure pure pill fire to kill the parasites and zhao's blood was purified and returned to normal again . without the parasites the continuously supplying energy the waste that had clogged the veins dissolved easily and was secreted out from the body . when the parasites completely die naturally after fully clogging the veins, their body actually becomes a vile substance which makes the waste completely inseparable from the veins. so the veins the seize to exist thus leaving the cultivator with no veins connecting to the root from where they can absorb energy . but before completing their task and naturally dying just a pure flame can easily solve the whole problem .

Ken's flames were much purer than elder gentle due to his naturally much pure qi but he wouldn't show his talents so gentle was the best one for the job . his flame was pure now because he had absorbed an essence flame and with rise in cultivation the energy naturally becomes pure slowly .

but now after zhao was gone , Ken's attention was fully concentrated on a small locket inside his hand . it was silver in colour and no different from an ordinary accessory except the fact that runes were inscribed on it . zhao had gave this to ken as a gift. ken wont have accepted any gift for such a small involvement but when he looked at the locket he completely changed his mind and accepted it easily .

zhao had told him that it was a some sort of artifact but he wasn't able to find anyone who could recognize the runes . well nobody in this realm except ken could recognize these runes because they were special . the locket was only half the size of his palm but the runes were millions and a technique called overlapping was used when inscribing it on the locket . ken could tell the difference with a glance because his knowledge was vast .

this technique was used when sealing something and from the complication runes ken could see that this locket was actually a key to some kind of dimension prison and this small artifact was forged in the upper realm that comes after this small realm and before the divine realm .

ken was too curious to know what did the prison contained now . he studied the runes for a total of 3 days before finally knowing the purpose of this key . to decifer these runes mental power was required and even though Ken's mental power was too huge but it still wasn't enough for him to quickly study the artifact easily because it was from upper realm . naturally the runes were more complex and ken had to be careful because he could trigger the traps the locket contained if he did not focus properly .

ken knew now that the prison was actually sealed inside this locket . it was a small locked dimension and the main formations inscribed were energy draining, withering etc . from these formations ken could deduce that the person who was sealed was definitely a powerful one from upper realm and had something to do with wood elemental energy. maybe their bloodline or the art they practiced had wood element . ken was sure because a total of 17 main spell formations were inscribed along with thousands of supporting formations to seal the being and 9 of them had function to suppress wood element.

this number was not necessary if the one only had wood elemental energy so the only possible beings left were race that had bloodlines strongly related to wood like elf , plant race and spirit race . ken was totally confused now because with his knowledge he knew that all the three races were friendly and only lived inside their own private realms. they only had connections with the outside world through occasional trade or visitors who are allowed in their realms.

their numbers were small and even the too large divine realm only had thousands of each of the 3 races . but ken also knew that most of the cultivators only see these races as resources . their corpse and core can sell for too much and those cultivators only think about benefits. ken now had been meditating for few hours since he had finished analyzing the locket artifact . he was actually too angry and his disgust for cultivators increased too much now which even affected his heart .

now he was calming his heart because otherwise he could suffer from cultivation deviation and even die . his disgust and contempt was changing into hatred which could become a heart demon . and the worst enemy of a cultivator is his own heart demon . well ken couldn't be blamed because his mindset was naturally different from cultivators as he was from earth . that's why he dared to cultivate the devouring dragon art that other cultivators didnt even consider .

ken finally opened his eyes and looked relaxed now but his forehead was filled with sweat because he was desperate right now . he has too much knowledge about cultivation deviation and heart demon as almost every cultivation method have mentioned about them . so his easygoing attitude was immediately replaced with fear because he could feel the changes in himself before ..