Not long, Xiao Lin suddenly appeared out of nowhere and began to plummet to the ground from a great altitude in the air.
And as his consciousness slowly faded away, what his mother said kept resounding in his head.
Then his eyes closed.
***
Few days later, Xiao Lin's eyes suddenly snapped open.
Then he saw that he was in a room.
"How did I appear here?" He asked himself.
Then he remembered that he was falling to the ground from the sky. But he couldn't remember anything else after that.
"Did someone fly to save me?" He asked.
Xiao Lin still couldn't understand how he was still alive.
But he guessed that someone must have flown to save him.
"I must be in one of the vacant rooms owned by a powerful master" He said.
Then his eyes glowed brilliantly.
"Perhaps he can accept me as his student and train me how to use spiritual energy." He said further.
Then when he recalled what his mom told him, his eyes shone sharply.
"Mother, your son will come for you soon. And I promise that I will embarrass father. No matter how strong he would be, I will kick him out of that palace and the rest of his wretched wives and the sons that they birthed for him. Then I will make the palace mine and you the ruler of the armies that he had spent many millennia to build. But if he dared to touch a single strand of your hair, he will replace it with a limb" Xiao Lin said resolutely.
Creak!
The door of the room suddenly creaked open and then someone stepped in.
Xiao Lin saw this person and quickly bowed humbly.
From the person's aura, Xiao Lin could confidently say that this person was the one who had flown to save him when he was dropping from the sky to the ground.
"Young one. You have finally woken" The man said.
Xiao Lin then clasped his hands together and said "Senior, thanks for saving me"
"Don't mention young one. But what really happened? Why would someone as young as you fall from the sky? Did a great disaster occur back at the place that you are from?" The man asked.
"Actually senior, my father chased I and my mother away from his house and even sent killers after us. His reason was because he felt that I was trash. So, he didn't want me again since he had many other amazing sons who will be very useful to him." Xiao Lin said with a strongly melancholic tone in his voice.
"Hmm. That your father is really callous." The man said.
Then he gazed at Xiao Lin and asked "But why did he call you trash?"
"It's because of the Animal Spirit that I summoned. He felt that I had summoned a trashy one. Unlike my brothers who summoned ferocious and mighty Animal Spirits" Xiao Lin replied.
"Hmm" The man uttered.
He then proceeded to ask "Do you mind if I take a look at it?"
"No. I don't" Xiao Lin replied.
Then he closed his eyes and focused within himself to eject the Animal Spirit that he summoned.
After sometime, a bright red light appeared and a red-skinned, wolf-like creature appeared.
It appeared so cute and meek that anyone that saw it will see it as a harmless and beautiful creature.
But when the master saw it, his eyes surprisingly widened in shock.
He looked at the beast and back at Xiao Lin who was beginning to wonder why the senior was looking at him in that manner.
"Alright. You can take it away" The man said.
Xiao Lin nodded.
Then he closed his eyes and focused once again.
After sometime, the wolf-like creature vanished from their presence.
"Boy, your father was actually very wrong about your Animal Spirit. You didn't summon a trashy Animal Spirit. Instead, you summoned a grandly phenomenal one." The man said with adoration in his eyes.
Despite being a Sect master, he was amazed by Xiao Lin's Animal Spirit
Xiao Lin gave a smile.
"Thanks to senior for trying to cheer me up." He said and clasped his fist.
The man smiled.
But he didn't say anything else.
With time, he believed that Xiao Lin will be greatly shocked by what he had summoned.
He didn't need to tell him anything more.
Then with a wave of his hand, a robe appeared in his hand.
He then threw it at Xiao Lin who immediately caught it.
"There's your robe. You can change into that. And don't worry too much about where to stay and what to eat. You can stay here for as long as you want. And there are many delicacies to choose from. Just see it as your dad pushing you from a lower heaven to a higher heaven." The man said and smiled.
Xiao Lin nodded his head.
"Thank you very much, senior. I don't know how I am going to ever repay you for this kindness." He said.
The man smiled.
"You don't need to repay me. I don't need payment. Just focus on growing strong so you that will be able to fend for yourself out there when you go into the world" He said.
Xiao Lin nodded.
Then before the man could turn to leave, Xiao Lin quickly asked "Senior, can you please teach me how to cultivate spiritual energy?"
Once Xiao Lin asked this question, the man looked at Xiao Lin with a gaze that Xiao Lin couldn't quite understand or describe.
"Well, since you have asked me to teach you how to cultivate, there's something I must tell you. I wanted to postpone it for later, but I think I must tell you now." The man said.
Still looking at Xiao Lin and wondering how best to deliver the news to him, the person said "Actually, you won't be able to cultivate spiritual energy again. Your dantian has been badly damaged. I am sorry"
When Xiao Lin heard this, it was like a bomb went off in his mind.
He could almost collapse to the ground upon hearing this.
"B-But how?" He asked in a very sad tone.
How would he become strong to go free his mother from her incarceration and wickedly deal with his father for all that he had caused him?
He then became intensely morose that a forlorn expression was visibly evident on his face.
"I don't know too. Perhaps something happened to you the moment before you appeared in this region." The man said.
Xiao Lin who had begun to emanate the aura of sorrow and misery from his body remembered when he was struck hard by some waves that had suddenly appeared from nowhere when he was sent into that spatial hole that his mother created.
'It was those damned waves I guess. But where did they come from?' Xiao Lin questioned within.
Then he asked further within himself when a gloomy thought suddenly flashed in his mind 'I hope my mother is fine. Father, if anything should happen to my mother, I swear you won't live to regret it'
When the man saw Xiao Lin in a deep thoughtful state and one that also radiated misery, he said "Kid, don't worry. You will be fine. I believe"
Xiao Lin nodded his head.
"I would be fine, senior. Since I still have life, all hope is not lost yet. I will surely find a way to cultivate again. Then I will go back to that monster who calls himself my father and teach him the greatest lesson of his life for all that he made me and my mother pass through"