She walked for almost close to half an hour and the first sound she heard was the sound of flowing water, and thereafter, a gradually brightening ray of light. As there was water present, the surrounding air was rather sticky, and she bit down hard with every step, tolerating the almost unbearable pain, taking step after step, till she reached the flow of water.
It was a deep pool, the bottom not visible, but the water was crystal clear. The water was moving and flowing, but she did not know where the water flowed out to.
There were no other routes that she could see from here. The diagonal light rays were coming from above her head, seemed like she was at the bottom of a deep canyon. As water flowed down the steep walls in thin rivulets, green moss and algae, covered them, and while red vines hung down.
Close to them, there is the lower part of a tree.
She gave them one glance, and she turned her eyes back. What she needed to do now was not to leave this place, but to be concerned about the wounds and injuries upon her body.
A flash of brilliant golden light with a powerful aura flared outbound from the spot it had crashed. Shock waves visible to the naked eye shimmered and rippled like water as it swept outwards, toppling a swathe of trees with its powerful force.
And she didn't know that, that golden light had shot down from the Heavens, it had actually landed right next to her, directly into the egg.
The overwhelmingly powerful oppressive aura and the shock wave swung the enormous tree that had a size larger than five men with their arms extended could go around, and the golden light hit the tree, causing the tree to crack in half and the complete exposed root of the tree get damaged.
The shock wave had naturally knocked Xiao Ling, who was so close off the tree to fall towards the ground, to roll into the large hole created by the loud crash landing.
Caught in the powerful, oppressive aura, she was suddenly finding it hard to breathe, and she was suffocating. She was feeling the pain on her face as the shock wave tore past her, and she could not open her eyes.
"Oof!"
As she fell deeper down the big hole in the ground, her tiny body hit against something dropping out, causing her to groan out in pain. And at that same moment, the surrounding oppressive aura began to gradually dissipate.
As the suffocating feeling lifted, Xiao Ling could finally stand up and when she did, she saw the glittering golden egg shining!
"Is that some kind of Mythological egg or something, like the legends I read? Was that golden light some kind of phenomenon affecting the sky? Will Grandpa know something and hide it?"
It tinged her gaze with curiosity, and with surprise, suspecting. Mount Hulu was such a big place will some High-level cultivators or High-level beasts found out about the phenomenon in the sky.
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Her guess is right, right now, Old Master Long is suppressing the aura of the golden light with his, mixing his cultivation with his magical core. This way, it might seem like he is breakingthrough or something like that.
"I hope that this phenomenon in the sky can keep hidden and no one notices her. If so, she will be in danger…" He can't hide the worries in his eyes.
He knows that his granddaughter is meant to be someone domineering and a full powerhouse in this realm, however; to become one successfully, she needs to grow up.
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"Well, since it's right here before me, it will be a shame if I do not pick it up. And since it was fate to our encounter, then that means it's mine to keep."
She thought about it only a moment, and then she cradled the egg in her arms to take a look at it. She saw the glittering golden light diminishing, and the complicated-looking red and purple runes that were initially visible on the egg's shell were disappearing as well.
Besides, it is golden, and with it being several times bigger than an ordinary egg, the egg is taller than her. She found nothing else about it to be extraordinary.
She left the egg to the side, and she come closer to the pool, she needs water to clean her wounds, and more so, for the paste, she will use, she is a lady, and she didn't want any scar on her body.
Coming close to the pool, Xiao Ling crouched down, and with a finger's touch, she felt the biting chill from the pool's water and the pain from the multiple wounds on her body making her close her eyes. However, after the initial pain, came a feeling of soothing comfort, like a warm stream was softly passing over her weary body with gentle strokes.
'Warm stream?' she frowned.
She suddenly opened her eyes and looked at her body in the supposed to be chilly water. At that moment, she seemed to be able to detect a faint aura over the water's surface.
'Not Qi power, but pure and untainted spirit power!' she remembers the feeling when she wore the ring for the first time. She knew it was different.
Some time ago, she asked her grandpa, and he told her about the difference between Qi, Mystical, and Spirit power. The last being the stronger, and the former being the weak. She knows the Spirit's power is lacking in this lower realm because her grandpa says this realm is too weak, and it seems that the heavens' law suffered a heavy blow in a war.
Looking at the pool that was emanating with faint traces of golden, green, and purple spirit power aura, she thought back to the heavy atmosphere she had encountered outside previously.
'Was it due to the spirit power from this pool that had caused the beats to fear and not coming close?'
'But why would there be such pure and untainted spirit power aura in a place like this?'
As she fell deep in thought, the golden egg she had placed on the side of the pool suddenly shifted a little, and, with no other warning, it rolled towards the pool.
If Xiao Ling looked at the scene, she could have laughed.
~Ploom~
~POOOP~