Ryu lost consciousness after killing the assassins, when Ryu lost consciousness, the stone and the dragon resonated and started talking.
The dragon said "master is just too inexperienced he let the last assassins he killed last be unchecked while he was killing the remaining assassins, he doesn't even know when one of them is sending transmission crystal, humph... too immature, too immature, and he will be saying I'm childish when he's the one doing such a fatal mistake...humph"the dragon complained and snorted childishly.
"well his eyes are clouded with rage when he was killing the assassins, and yeah he is too inexperienced in fighting as he didn't understand them, assassins can't be petrified that they won't even be able to send just a transmission crystal before they die, so let just let him suffer the consequences for now..." the stone and dragon continue to discuss Ryu shortcomings when they heard a groan and they shift their attention to it.
Ryu woke up and felt weak as he had overdrawn the strength from his physique as he hasn't cultivated the indestructible primal body techniques before drawing strength from the physique.
He groans and slowly sits up when he asked little long "how many hours have I been out"
"just a little more than 2 hours and that's fast as you haven't even cultivated the body techniques, you should have used more than that, your body and mind are quite strong as they can withstand the usage of the body without the body techniques"little long tell ryu and explained about his body to him.
Ryu nodded and looked around at the moist ground from the blood from the last killed assassins as he didn't burn them but tortured them cruelly, there are scattered bodies of some assassins with dislocated joints bent erratically, ryu was surprised that he was the one that did all these, he was quite cruel to this slews, but he immediately accepted it as the cultivation world is cruel, if he wasn't thrown inside the ravine by his mother and his mother wasn't saved by Arnt they would have died and forgotten from this world, every one of this assassins has killed innocent people so they deserved to be killed too.
He got up and moved toward the direction he came from which is the ravine but felt weak as if he should just sit down and sleep but he can't as this place is no longer safe for him, people would be here soon and if they see him here, they will spread the news and his enemies may figure out it's him so he got to leave here quickly before anybody reaches here.
He got up and moved toward a large tree he saw when he woke up earlier, the tree has large branches and quite some leaves which can cover him so as not to be seen by the herbs pickers from the forest, he climbed the tree weakly to recover his strength, it was quite hard for him as he was physically and mentally weak but he eventually climbed up and sat down on one of the leafiest branches and sat down to cultivate.
After sitting down, Ryu direct his thought to the worldly fist canon techniques and the technique opened to the mortal realm cultivation which depicted a scene of a man breathing in a strange and rhythmic pattern, the man's face was blurry but Ryu can still figure out that the man is lyan as he was the one who made the worldly fist cultivation techniques.
when the indistinct figure of lyan was breathing rhythmically strangely images of fists Manifested around him they seem to be bowing down to lyan and ready to listen to his order as if lyan is the God of the fist, ryu was surprised, now he knew how powerful lyan is, it was just bad luck that he was trapped in the natural formation made by Mo Ren as he was less powerful compare to Mo Ren and his knowledge in formation is less than Mo Ren also, though lyan knowledge too about formation is wide he just hadn't lived enough compare to Mo Ren and cultivation in this era has declined so lyan knowledge in the array is not deep compared to the ancient time.
Ryu regained clarity from his thoughts and followed the pattern depicted, he breath imitating the scene displayed and an imaginary fist also appeared around him but the fist images are fewer and more faded than the ones displayed in the scenes in his head and the fist doesn't seem to bow to They looked more like they are mate resonating with each other. Ryu understands that this means that he is not still perfect in the techniques as he just started, of course, today. Since Ryu became a cultivator he hasn't cultivated any techniques except the skills contained inside the worldly fist canon techniques when he was coming he too kill the assassins, he is still new to cultivation and so it's normal not to be proficient in the technique.
Ryu continued breathing according to the images in his head and he started regaining his strength, before long he regained back his full strength and was even more energetic because he broke through to 5th stage of the earth realm after fighting the boss tard and overdrawn his strength when he was killing the assassins.
Ryu stands up and stretches his body as he was refreshed after regaining back his strength 'being weak is not pleasant' Ryu thought. After stretching he jumped from the tree to land on another and from there to another and he continues like that till he was far from the first tree to where the herbs pickers usually pass to erase his track as he knows the ruckus he caused will soon reach the enemies but if he knew it has already reached them but through his carelessness what would his expression be like? Earlier when ryu was jumping from one tree to another, they trembled from the weight of his body since Ryu awakened the indestructible primal physique his body weight had doubled and he becomes formidable in body strength and hardness which makes his body have more weight which he can't control before he cultivates the indestructible primal body techniques and leaves dropped from the trees which he didn't notice and lead to his hard covered track to be exposed but as he dropped on the road people passes always, they didn't track him to the ravine but only knows he is still in the forest but this is for the near future.
"It's time to go back to the ravine and after that to the fierce golden tiger continent and after getting stronger, revenge!" Ryu thought out loud as he map out his plans. when reached the 'revenge' part hatred appears in his eyes but he conceals it back and moved in the direction of the ravine when he was on the way he picked out some medicinal herbs as he knows about them now and even before their family was destroyed by the enemies as he can't cultivate then so he used to read about things, professions, maps and so on.
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When Ryu was going back to the ravine
Inside a majestic big room, decorated with chairs with a long golden table, and at the other end of the chairs and table was a pure golden throne, and on the throne sat a middle-aged man with a goatee with, a domineering and commanding aura as if the man has been in a high position for a long time, the man was the emperor of the sky firebird kingdom who was part of the enemies which destroyed Ryu family and killed them all, opposite him is a man that was quite handsome but feminine, he looked evil and crafty, he is sitting in one of the chairs around the table facing the emperor, he's the crown prince of the sky firebird emperor.
"It was reported to me that our assassin's stronghold was destroyed and from the investigation, by one single person as the marks and footsteps are for one person, they tracked the person's footsteps but they disappeared when they got to a large tall tree, they guessed that the person climbed the tree and jumped from one tree to another to avoid detection but was later found out by the leaves he falls on the ground and the track ends on the road, so it means the person is still an amateur in concealing, but how is it possible for a single person to destroy a stronghold"the middle-aged man who is the Emperor explained and asked calmly without emotions as if the matter doesn't concern him.
"Father, I received a transmission crystal from one of the assassins I send to hunt the Han family Ryu and his mother who escaped and he said in the transmission crystal that it was ryu who destroyed the stronghold by burning them cruelly, I was surprised too as I know he was not a cultivator about a month ago but now has the power to kill dozens of my trained assassins" the crowned prince Huo Nian explained, it's unexpected that the crown prince is the head of the assassins and he trained them, it's not surprising that he is also feminine and crafty looking as he cultivates a yin techniques suitable for assassination.
"So it's that 'heaven-defying boy', he's really lived up to the prophecy but he must also have an opportunity as he can't grow up fast without it so we must quickly kill him to rid us of trouble in the future but if we can get the opportunity..." the Emperor looked at his son and both of their eyes shone with greed and the Emperor quickly ordered Huo Nian to go and called his general to send the army to go and capture Ryu.
Huo Nian do as his father said and quickly moved out of the throne hall to call the general, a while later the general with the crown prince Hou Nian enters the throne room and the general saluted the Emperor by bowing and cupping his fist to the emperor. If it was another person he would have kneeled but the general was exempted from kneeling by the emperor as the cultivation stage of the emperor and the general is close but the emperor is much more powerful with his cultivation at the 8th stage of the spirit realm than the general's cultivation of 6th stage of the spirit realm as the distance of mid-stage spirit realm to the late stage spirit realm is huge because when a cultivator reaches the mid-stage of any cultivation stages it becomes hard to climb up as the qi needed to reach the late stage is usually enormous and the emperor is also powerful because of his cultivation technique as it's powerful than the general's own.
The general saluted and said "I was summoned by you, your majesty"
"yes, I want you with your army to go and capture this boy" saying this he uses his qi to make a life-like image of Ryu in the air, when a cultivator reaches the spirit realm they can draw images with their qi anywhere they want and it will be like life as spirit relates to the soul.
"Okay your majesty, I will immediately gather the troops and search everywhere for the boy as ordered by your majesty," the general said, saluted, and moved out of the throne room.
"I can't wait to find out the boy's opportunity and snatch it from him, who knows, maybe I will break through to the spirit awakening realm," the emperor said while clasping his hands-on anticipation.
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Back to Ryu, he arrived at the ravine looked down, and said "Hmm...I'm back here, or I should say home as this place is like my home now cause I'm pretty homeless now and my master and mother is here, so this is home" Ryu said sadly but immediately conclude and 'whoosh' he jumped down straight into the ravine and disappeared into the darkness