"so what are you gonna do now? just wait till the war starts?" rahen asked liyan
"no, I'll prepare for the war my own way. " she replied
they continued the discussion till they arrived back at the garden.
"ok then I'll begin my preparations now" liyan entered the room and started her preparations while rahen started his QI practice
"this QI cultivation is much harder. the cosmic cultivation technique is divided into different stages with each stage being further divided into different phases. The first stage consisted of 3 phases related to sensing and absorption of QI while the second stage focuses on developing my sixth sense.
to achieve the first phase, it requires me to be freely able to focus on or ignore my existing five senses. it's basically asking me to create a run down model of 'meditation mode'." rahen was having problems achieving the first phase of the second stage of QI cultivation
all the time he was here he had never neglected his QI training. he practiced it every day without an exception so that he could achieve the first phase of the second stage but he had yet to achieve it.
[ HOST SHOULD REMAIN PATIENT. QI TRAINING IS NOT AN EASY THING TO DO AND TAKES A LOT OF TIME. HOST IS ALREADY FASTER THAN MOST OF THE PEOPLE AND DILIGENTLY WORKING ON IT WILL SURELY ALLOW HOST TO PROCEED FURTHER IN MUCH LESSER TIME.]
"yes yes. I know how useful QI is, so I'm definitely not going to slack off with this one." he complained and resumed cultivation.
*THE NEXT NIGHT. AT A HIDDEN LOCATION
inside a small room a man could be seen working with some chemicals. he was wearing a dark green cloak covering his whole body while a red mask did the job to perfectly cover up his face. the whole room was a complete mess with things lying around everywhere.
there were a lot of different chemicals placed in a very organised way on the shelves unlike the whole room.
knock knock!
"yes" the man replied to the knocks on the wooden door
"they've arrived" the person standing outside said
hearing the reply from outside the man stopped his work and slowly treaded through the room and arrived at the door.
"let's go" he said as he came out of the room and started walking through the dark hallway with the other man silently following behind him.
after a short walk they arrived at another wooden door which was guarded by 2 people whose faces were not visible due to darkness. seeing the man arriving there they opened the door for him allowing him to pass through.
passing through the door both of them arrived at a well lit and big enough Hall unlike what they passed through just now. it was furnished well enough that around twenty to thirty people could easily sit there. other than the door that they arrived through, there were six others. five total on both side of the hall and one opposite to the one that they used.
a few sofas were placed there leaving a path passing through the centre connecting the two doors opposite to each other.
four people were sitting on two of the sofas placed on the left side while seven others were sitting on the ones surrounding them.
of those four three were wearing white cloaks.
as the man with the red mask arrived the man who was sitting opposite to the white clocked men stood up to give his seat to the red mask
"so why did you call us?" one of the people in white cloak said.
"our intentions have been leaked to the kingdom. and now they are preparing their armies in secret" red mask said.
"what! how could that be? the only time someone spied on us was that little girl and she was chased away before anything related to our revolt could be revealed, so how is this possible?" One of the white cloak said
"yes, and how are you so sure that that is true. our spies are keeping an eye on every moment of theirs ever since we've put our plans to actions. could it be possible that you've received false information?" another of the white cloak said
"I don't think that Liyan was the one found out about us, but the information is hundred percent true. Do you think I'll joke around with this, this was my plan to begin with. I've been planning this for so long so why would I want to run it now, huh?" The red mask replied.
"why could you not wait for a little longer then? we were already telling you to not start anything yet, but you didn't listen to us and made us start the plan early. Your men could not even deal with that little girl. who do you think is responsible for the situation we are in now?" the white cloak who was silent from the start said
"don't you forget that you were the ones that came to me begging for help. I've never been the one to do so, even without your help I would have completed my plan so don't you dare say a single word more" the red mask lashed out causing that man to go silent.
"he is sorry. let's not fight amongst ourselves and discuss what we should do next" the white cloak at the centre tried to calm the situation down.
"why else do you think I called you out here. we've made a few minor changes to the plan and have decided to start the next phase sooner than planned" red mask said while handing out a container like the ones that Liyan saw with his men but this one contained red coloured solution.
"I've completed my preparations, I'll be able to mass produce this in around ten or so days after which we will execute our next stage of the plan" red mask said while handing the container over to the white cloaked man in centre.
the meeting continued for a while before the red mask man returned to his laboratory while those three cloaked men left.