Chains Of Heaven

After the altercations of the day and bringing everyone together to talk Enkidu did the introductions of everyone he was now basically responsible for.

One amnesic cripple, two beasts, an semi-blind Beastkin (her eyes were still healing), a suicidal brat who did not understand the world 'limit', and a run away genius who wanted to go explore the world and apparently liked romance novels more than most if the book she had in her hands was anything to go by.

Enkidu felt like chuckling, he had brought together quite an interesting bunch of misfits if he could say so himself.

"Very well, I want to hear from you all your ideas on where to go after here. I have a destination I wish to visit if at all possible in the future but I do not necessarily need to rush it there right now so if anyone has a destination they must go to soon please tell." Enkidu said diplomatically. He might be the unofficial official leader of this ragtag of misfits but he would not force others to go along with him if there was somewhere they wanted to go first.

Honestly speaking, while he would make it a point to do all in his power to obtain the Life Creation God inheritance he could take his time for that. He wanted to help everyone, but he knew he was lacking in experience around the world since he spent most of his life either with his clan, which was pure torture for him plain and simple, or with his teacher who was respected and treated well by mostly anyone he meets. Enkidu had no clue about what sort of test it would be but there was bound to be a big challenge for one to obtain this inheritance. How could it ever be easy?

The test would likely take a long time, Enkidu could not tell how long it would take or what it would entail so he could not simply force the others to wait for him for who knows how long and they still needed his help for now.

No one had any specific d.e.s.i.r.e, except for one.

"If possible I would like to go back to my home." Medusa said calmly, making everyone turn to her.

"That should be fine. Where is it exactly?" Enkidu asked to which Medusa pointed to a location on the map that made the others feel their scalps go a bit numb.

Enkidu felt like this was probably a bad idea, but he had already promised anyway and he could work something out.

"That should be fine." Enkidu said, shocking everyone else since they expected him to deny this likely ridiculous idea.

No one would even blame him if he denied such a request, it was just that ridiculous.

Enkidu continued.

"To go there we would need to first increase our general strength and especially obtain some special herbs to produce antidotes. I can also teach you all a poison profound art that helps mitigate or even eliminate poison from your body, it is not particularly far away, probably around three to four months to get there depending on how fast we move. Would that be acceptable?" Enkidu asked.

"Yes." Medusa said, leaning back in her chair calmly and clearly pleased.

"Very well, anyone else has any requests?" Enkidu asked for confirmation.

No one spoke up, silence all around as Enkidu nodded.

"Good, we will be leaving right now." Thankfully, Enkidu had received a flying carriage for winning the Blacksmith test. Truth be told he was presented with many weapons and items and offered to choose what he wishes for, he chose the carriage in the end even if most were a bit shocked by his choice. They expected him to choose a weapon or perhaps an armor, those were much more common for people in his position to choose considering the high quality of the item, but in the end, he chose for this one instead. A means of transport was more relevant for him, all things considered.

Deciding that he would one day come to investigate what exactly was wrong here he left. They moved to a forest not far from the exit, entering it he used the method to travel through the ground, moving about 6 kilometers away from where they were before and after making sure that no one was nearby he brought everyone out and brought out his carriage.

He directed everyone inside and began directing it to where their destination was.

"Oh, I almost forgot. I have created cultivation methods for everyone, listen carefully." Enkidu said as he began telling first to Levy who was looking bored before.

Now that he had this chance though, he immediately turned 200% of his attention to Enkidu and listened to all that was said with absolute seriousness. Nodding his head he closed his eyes and began to cultivate.

Enkidu repeated the process with Medusa and then started to look over Cai'er to see how her body was doing. It was clear that the damage for her profound veins was quite extreme, almost as if a part of it was removed from her body entirely. Enkidu concentrated in those missing parts, trying to use his meager understandings of Life Profound Energy to help heal her.

He could only hate the fact he wasn't able to help her better. He might have a Sacred Heart, making him able to use Light Profound Energy as he could sense it acutely well, but his body was not a Sacred Body thus his actual usage of Light Profound Energy was not quite that good.

A Sacred Heart allows one to be able to sense and understand the Light Laws, meanwhile, a Sacred Body allows one to use Light Profound Energy naturally. Having either is enough for one to use Light Profound Energy since one can still force it, but only if he were to have both could he truly have any chance to truly master it. He could only hope that, by obtaining the inheritance of the Life Creation God, his body would change to be the so-called Sacred Body.

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Traveling through the skies was quite boring after a while, having been traveling for about 4 days now it became even more so. Thankfully Enkidu had someone to talk to as Cai'er slept after a tiring healing session (she was currently sleeping with her head on his l.a.p, almost like a cat really) and with Medusa and Levy deep in meditation neither could talk with him for now.

This time, he was thankful for Bibi Dong who sat beside him. Looking out of the window she could see all the views that before she could only ever see in books and as her golden hair moved behind her it was like she was an angel looking out in the world with wonder in her eyes.

She would look over the outside and then go to talk animatedly about the book in her hand. She was in love with romance books and Enkidu was only so happy to give her another one after she read Romeo and Juliet.

This time she was reading Angel Beats (Enkidu needed something to write and this was something he knew well about). To say she was enjoying it was putting it mildly, she was completely enchanted by the work of art.

Enkidu was only to happy to talk to her about it, she cried especially hard when she saw the final scene where the protagonist cried out as he tried to hug a girl that vanished in his arms. He had even drawn the scene for practice in painting, it worked too well if Bibi Dong's expression was anything to go by.

"This, this is just so unfair." She said, closing the book. "Why do they have to suffer like this? Why does anyone have to suffer like this?"

"I cannot answer this for you." Enkidu said simply. "Each person can think of it in a different manner, it is up to each one. If you ask my opinion, they are like that because they truly lived."

"Huh?"

"They all truly lived, they enjoyed their life and now have difficulty letting go of things. That may be painful for them, but compared to the other students who were not even alive, who don't even realize this fact and just follow their destiny perfectly and without any real emotion, they definetly are much better off." Enkidu said, a faraway look to his gaze.

In his head, he could well understand how the characters, even in the height of pain and solitude, were better than those who were little more than fancy dolls. He had lived as one such 'doll' in the hands of the Heaven Smithing clan before and he could see how that was worse off.

Bibi Dong didn't quite agree, but she accepted Enkidu's opinion as she decided to read this book once again, finding it fascinating.

She then looked outside, noticing a yellow field underneath her and looking enchanted at it.

"Wow, can we stop here to take a look?" She asks as she points to the ground.

Enkidu thought for a moment, Medusa didn't say she was in a rush and this was a good chance to stretch their legs a bit. Enkidu was honestly starting to understand why so many cultivators would look for servants because, if nothing else, they could at least drive the carriage and let the cultivator, well, cultivate.

Deciding thus Enkidu moved to the ground. When he touched the ground again after spending days without it he could fully enjoy the ground, his feet on the ground he sensed the pulse of nature for a moment and felt like he should go and cultivate for a little bit. A unique aura permeated this air, rich with essence to the point that even breathing was capable of making one feel like they are outside of the mortal world and entered a divine land of immortals. Auspicious light was everywhere and entering this place was enough to make Enkidu sigh at how, in this world, some unique things truly exist, breaking from the norm and making one sigh in admiration for the grandeur of nature.

He turned to the others and spoke up.

"We will do a stop here for a while. I feel like I need to cultivate for a moment so, if possible, do not disturb me." Enkidu said as if he was a teacher talking to his rowdy students in a school trip. Realizing that, he felt like chuckling from this fact but instead just shook his head and moved on.

Everyone got out and Enkidu moved around a bit. Setting up a simple but effective formation to make them invisible and one to detect intruders Enkidu felt confident that it should be enough. There was little chance someone would have been able to follow them so he moved along to find a corner of this place. He had to admire the flowers all around and how they swayed with the wind.

The flowers were golden, reflecting the sun and making the place look as if it was surrounded by gold, all those flowers were normal ones but they all carried a rich fragrance as if they were about to become medicinal herbs, grand treasures despite being normal items.

Deciding to try something Enkidu thought of the characteristics of this body of his. Amongst them, there is one ability he knows he must have but never really got to try out. He never felt like those would be a good moment but, for some reason, he found this moment as perfect for it.

The original Enkidu's personal skill Transfiguration. It relates to a redistribution of one's 'stats' as one d.e.s.i.r.e. It is similar to techniques that sacrifice one aspect to gain more on another, sacrificing speed for strength or using the profound strength to focus on speed count for such a thing too. As he would be going to cultivate now he decided that he should transfer as much of his attributes to perception. About 70% was transferred for it while 30% went straight to his luck, in cultivation many times one depended on luck for breakthroughs so having more of it surely wouldn't hurt.

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Enkidu's P.O.V.

Before sitting down to meditate I enter the Library of Heaven's Path.

With the 'update' on the many books, I have the number of things I have to learn rose in all fronts.

Thanks to this I have much to learn. Thinking so I sit down and begin my studies, my focus now is on one element I am compatible with but that I didn't really focus on until now.

Of the elements, Light is decidedly the best element when it comes to healing. The one after it being Wood, the Great Mystery of Regeneration seeing to that. But there is one more that is great at healing.

Water.

The Law of Water is the most flexible and stable of them all, being decent in all things and is one which I have almost as high a compatibility as what I have for Earth.

Opening the Heaven's Path Water Art I look over the Profound Mysteries that I have written down.

2) Profound Mystery of Ice

3) Profound Mystery of Primordial Sea

4) Profound Mystery of fog

5) Profound Mystery of Waterbody

6) Profound Mystery of Circular Softness

Looking at them I go straight for the third one, the Profound Mystery of Primordia Sea. This seems to be the one more close to relating to healing, so this one ought to do.

I open my eyes before I start, looking around I notice a small lake at the very center of this field of flowers. I feel like there may be something in there, but it is not prejudicial to me so I don't really mind. Moving to it I again have a strange sensation, as if a predator is looking at me attentively but calmed down after taking a good look at me.

Would this be why, despite this place being one that should have profound beasts, none are around and there are so many flowers here? Well, that is not why I am going there so as long as it doesn't trouble me I won't trouble it either. I only am looking for a body of water, I want to test if I can understand and truly comprehend better this Profound Law.

I want to become an even better healer, if I can then perhaps I can help heal Cai'er's profound veins. That ought to be for the best and what I intend to do.

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? P.O.V.

'... Someone, someone actually is around there? Strange, truly strange.'

'For them to find that place, are they lucky or is it the other way around and I am just unlucky? I only hope they do not take that being away from there. Who knows how great a disaster would happen if that beast were to get out and be raised by someone unworthy? Besides, if they take that then this whole planet and most likely over half of the Eastern region of the Realm of the Gods will be over.'

'Why did master and mistress had to get THAT thing and do that anyway? I told them, get her a nice, simple, GOOD pet, a dragon or perhaps a phoenix even a Qilin or some other beast is fine, but NOOOO master and his wife needed to go overboard. They just had to try and be the best parents they possibly could, not thinking as much as they should have. The two loverbirds always were stupid when together, after all. Sigh, why did things end up so badly back then? Damn Mo E, if I could I'd smash you to pieces under my hooves I would! If not for you, would I be troubled by this sort of thing now?'