"how about I take you south? I know about the forest your talking about, but why did you choose to take refuge there? It has many dangerous beasts"
I said as I picked her up onto my shoulder and took out my flying gadget and took off towards the south
"we have ways to pacify the beasts to prevent them from attacking our cities, back in the age of peace we kept beasts as pets and children played with them, but now at best we can only keep them from attacking our cities"
She said as she sat on my back while we flew through the air
"what happened? Why did the earthquake appear?" I asked
"we don't know, but something changed the Li in the air, it wasn't so volatile as it is now"
She said, when I received the Loved by Li talent I could also feel Li more accurately and could tell how fragile and explosive it was, many of those who wanted to become strong too fast may end up suffering backlashes from absorbing Li too quickly if they were not careful
This didn't happen in the records before the catastrophe that happened in the year 55, 000 BC (means Beginning of Cerulean age)
"what is Altitia, are you really living underground?" I asked
"yes, Altitia is the underground world which is a series of giant caves that have Glow Moss growing on it's ceiling, the glow moss provides plants with sunlight and life flourishes because of all the nutrients that flow down in under ground rivers"
The idea was like some kind of fantasy to me, to me who wanted to explore the world I couldn't help but put this place near the top on my travel list
"are you really not an Elari? Then why do you have the blessing of Elari? Are all 'humans' blessed like us?" she asked
"no, I'm just a little different form others... And now, I'm not even sure if I'm human anymore"
I replied with tinge of conflicted feelings, whatever I had become didn't matter in the end, all I cared about was traveling the world and finding places no one has been to and solving the mystery behind the earthquake
...
"boss, help! Glub glub"
"no!!!"
Upon hearing my another fellow brother sink into the swamp I cried out
"why us! Why must we suffer so!"
Without stopping we carefully marched forward through the swamp in search of our enemy, by now I knew that he had lead us in here purposefully to let us die, what a cunning trap!
"we will retreat for now! Chasing him down like this is pointless, we must build up our strength first"
I said dejectedly as we have been roaming this swamp for several days without finding anything, we have fought beasts nonstop and many had died due to their wounds, especially when we were attacked by strange rabbits who could use Xin arts
But there was also a bright side to this, when those that died they passed on their cultivation to me using a forceful technique, because of this I had been studying this and created a new technique that could steal the power from other cultivators
Unfortunately because I had been getting stronger too fast my Meridians had been warped and transformed, I no longer can show my face to the others because my skin had become gruesome and my veins bulged, but I don't care, as long as I can get revenge I'm willing to go through this pain
But for now I must bring more followers to my cause, I can't do this alone since my opponent is too strong