Gudong family's Antique Villa
The villa as its name is the place where the antiques are show cased. One can see a bronze broken armor of a distant era. The antique symbol used in ancient era. Ancient swords, Ancient spears , Axes e.t.c.
One can also find ancient portraits here. Some portraits depicts wild beasts, some portraits carries the dazzle of kingdom toppling beauties. One can also find antique formation circles. Alas,they are nearly useless due to their high degree of incompletion, Although useless, they still serve the purpose of research the gudong family earn 10 percent of their income through renting these circles.
There are also some unique treasures from old era although they can not be used upto their full potential, but passion of owning unique is the favourite stuff of rich and influential. This accounts for almost 30 percent of the villa's income.
The majority of income comes from the auctions, the gudong family carry out for useful objects.
Guang de shui is sitting in the room asessing, the new findings, when a knock came from the door, followed with a voice,
"Father, can i enter", said fenghuang
"Yes ", said elder guang with a smile. Who knows whether it came for the fact that fenghuang called him father, or for what happened yesterday, i.e. D.U.A.L C.U.L.T.I.V.A.T.I.O.N
"Father, you called me ", said fenghuang
" yes.... sit down...., last time you were looking for ancient scripts, so i checked the list of findings we had till now, and this is something i got", He said while pointing on a certain material on the desk.
"Animal hide", said fenghuang after looking at it.
"Yes, animal hide of the eastern continent.
The seller found it in one of the caves in the north eastern border of the northern continent. The cave is located in the northern continent, but the seller found some Foot prints of people entering the cave, and when he followed the footprints he reached the river, which flows between the two continents. So it is a possibility that he must have come from the western continent", said elder guang
"Can you decode the language on the hide, father", asked fenghuang
"No", said elder guang with straight face
"Before i continue, i want to know what exactly do you want", asked elder guang seriously
".... Father, you know my glorious, but tragic past, the tragedy has blinded me for revenge, so i wanted to get stronger as soon as possible. After a lot of research i finally got a way that could make me stronger at the fastest speed ", said fenghuang
" .....", eleder guang patiently waited for him to continue
"By absorbing the aura of fire god relic", fenghuang said
"You found the relic ", asked elder guang with astonishment
"No, not the whole relic but one of the space crack from which it was coming out", answered fenghuang
"The one related to fire ancestor", asked elder guang
"No", said fenghuang
"How did you find it then", asked elder guang because if it is so easy to find many people would have already found it.
" Good begets good, evil begets evil ',
' In the distant past when the fire clan established the fire kingdom. The shadow clan's ancestor refused to serve under him and so the whole clan was banished from the continent's mainland. The shadow ancestor while looking for a stay for the clan, luckily came across an old hidden temple. In the whole cold mountainous region. It was the only area with a warm surroundings. so he settled the clan there. From then on it became the home of the shadow clan, ofcourse as their home they naturally protected it, anyone who would come close to the area will be asassinated or after going through their illusion trap move towards some other place. With all the efforts, they were living happily there. But, some years back the area was flooded with intense, hot heat waves. This made the clan's peoples,not able to live there. so the clan left to find some other place to stay.
The wandering clan members met me, while i was looking for the method to improve my strength. I provided them with shelter at my Desolate territory.
once, while we were chatting, they told me the reason of them leaving their home. I had some doubts, so i went to check, and found that the temple actually serve the purpose of supressing something", fenghuang told the story
"But how can you say that it is not related to the fire ancestor", asked elder guang
"Actually, how everyone percieve the reality of the story, is different from what really happened", answered fenghuang
"So, the beast, that fire ancestor found was not connected to the fire god's relic", said elder guang
" It was related, but not how everyone thinks, the beast truly had the aura of fire god relic, but it was not what he absorbed from the relic, it was his natural aura", said fenghuang
"But how is this possible how can a beast have the similar aura as of the fire god's relic", said an astonished elder guang
"Well, if we forget that it is a fire god's relic, and just consider it as a source of high quality fire, then it is possible", said fenghuang
"What are you trying to say", said elder guang with a bit confusion
"From my conclusion, what we consider a relic is actually a beast. The beast is suppresed, but just like every container has its limits. The amount of power the supression can hold must be at its limits, and as a result of that the power is releasing from the cracks.
As for the beast, fire ancestor have found, it was a beast which had the similar origin", said fenghuang
"You know the more you are saying the more worried and confused you are making me", said elder guang
"I was also confused, until you told me about the legendary continent. If what we know about the continent is correct, then the possibility of the fire god being a beast is very close to truth", said fenghuang
"Why is that", asked elder guang
"Fire ancestor was the strongest at his prime and his adventurous side made him roam all the continents, but why is that he suddenly found an unknown beast, which was as strong as him, that too in a continent he can not be any more familiar with", said fenghuang with a questioning tone
"What do, you think then, may have happened", asked elder guang
"Just like a seed requires a rightful condition to germinate, the similar case happens with the beast eggs as well. The more strong the beast is, the more stringent conditions it requires to grow and hatch, and as far as i know the aura of beast's mother is one such requirement.
I think, when the mother beast is supressed the egg must not have hatched, and since it requires the mother beast's aura, the egg remained frozen and when it finally got the aura it slowly absorbed it and hatched.
From what i conclude, the beast must be a powerful ancient species and its presence due to its own bloodline pressure and its relation to the supressed mother beast, must have affected the environmnet of the continent. Which has led to the fire ancestor discovering it, and asimiliating it, before it could grow to the point of defeating him.
second thing, fire ancestor actually didnot assimiliated it. Instead he made his brother who was a 4th level martial warrior assimiliate it", said fenghuang
"How can you say that", asked elder guang
"Well, after i reached the temple and found what may be going on. I absorbed the aura, initially the quantity is small so it only caused discomfort to me and not harm, but as i absorbed more, it started revolting.
When i look for the cause, i found that it was due to the difference in the fire properties of mine fire and the fire coming from the cracks. my fire comes from the phoenix which is yin whereas the fire which came from the fire beast is yang.
I have the purest blood of fiery phoenix, similar to the fire ancestor so the fire ancestor would not have been able to assimiliate the beast". said fenghuang
"Then why you didn't discovered it earlier", said elder guang
"We are unknowingly absorbing it, since birth so there is a degree of blendness and therfore a little of it don't cause us harm. but, if we absorb it more, than it will surely cause a disbalance.
Which is what happened to me. When i found out, i tried to stop, but the aura as if it had conciousness forcefully tried to inject the power inside me. This force full ejection damaged my dantian and meridians.
I had to seal it to prevent the meridians and dantian from bursting.", said fenghuang
"Huh... no wonder your condition is like this.
So have you find any way", said elder guang
"Well the dantian has been healed, but since 90 percent of meridians were sealed i could only use some abilities like cultivation supression, domain power, spiritual supression. Not until yesterday, yesterday.... said fenghuang shyly
"Huh..., through dual cultivation", said elder guang with an awkward face
"Yes", agreed fenghuang with shyness
"Ooohhhhoooo.... , ok how long till you cured ", coughed elder guang and changed the topic
"well it will take a year or so to slowly unseal and blend the full energy", said fenghuang
"So will this make you breakthrough the mage king level", asked elder guang
"Yes, initial stages along with the increase in my fighting power and fire abillities.", said fenghuang
"What about ren' er", asked elder guang
"she will breakthrough to the middle stages of 4th level mage", said fenghuang
"Good...., very good..... after this improvement, there wouldn't be many that can be a threat to both of you", said elder guang
"Father, to fight with the entire kingdom, We need two fulfilments,
' absolute dominance in power and a strong army ' ", said fenghuang
"Huh... right, well one step at a time", said elder guang
"Ok here look at this symbol at the back of this hide, what can you comprehend looking at this symbol", continued elder guanv
"Huh... well there is a huge forest, with many eyes. Is this people living on forest", said fenghuang
"Yes, this symbol makes me remind of a tale, miren's mother used to tell her,
'In the embrace of mother earth, live the oldest and kindest creature of this planet, they live on the tree, they laugh on the tree, they enjoy the tree and they sleep on the tree. They are the dearest of nature, they are called elves of elven forest'
This symbol shows that this animal hide belongs to an elf", said elder guang
"Huh... but how does it concerns me father", asked fenghuang
"They are one of the ancient beings, and since you are looking for ancient beings they might have what you need", said elder guang