Heavenly Dao Child

The rain fell on the ground as two armies glared at each other, the sky was overcast as one of their Leaders spoke with a gruff tone, "We both are here for rare resources we could work together as such there is no reason to fight amongst each other."

"What about the cultivators from Manushya Realm?"

"Well, they can take whatever we leave for them after all they are only a handful compared to us. Just think of how much further we could move and how many levels we could conquer and how much rare resources we could gather."

The other side listened to their argument as their Leader smiled as he spoke, "Hmm, you give a compelling argument, extremely compelling."

"So do we have an accord?", hearing the question the other side simply smiled.

Ryuu sneezed hard as he spoke, "Damn I hate this place, who creates ~achoo~ a maze ~achoo~ within ~achoo~ another ~achoo~."

"You should stop talking Ryuu, whatever you inhaled seems to be making you snee.. aahh ~achoo~", Zywia sneezed hard as did many others amongst them.

They thought they had completed the maze and were resting when all of a sudden the ceiling rumbled as fine white dust seemed to fall from the top making them dash towards the only door available to them which let them to another maze and by them, they were all tired, enraged, then the competition on who could sneeze the most started.

Ryuu seemed to have been hit the worst as he could not even close his mouth as he sneezed now and then, with his eyes red, 'Damn it is this some sort of allergic reaction that I am suffering from, it is horrible the last time I had such reactions was my previous life.'

As he moved Ryuu grimaced a bit as he pushed down the bile that rose down his throat, 'I feel so sick, I wish I could rest a bit, I feel like throwing up.'

As they moved Frozen Ocean who was nearby whispered to him, "Ryuu, how are you feeling? Do you need a place to rest?"

Ryuu's only reply was a nod and a loud, "~achoo~"

"Everyone I think we should take a break, and heal ourselves, the dust seemed to affect us badly we should deal with it soon, Eden is not a place for some simple sneezing powder."

Meanwhile back into the battlefield, the person closed his eyes for a moment mulling over the offer before he spoke with a smile, "Your offer is very very tempting and I would love to accept it.", hearing that the opposition leader broke into a smile as did many from his group only to morph into a frown, "However, we have a small tiny problem."

Hearing that cultivators of Deva realm frowned as the other continued, "The higher-ups in the Preta realm have strictly ordered us to slaughter every Deva and Manushya realm idiots we come across, but you are right fighting against you would lower our chances of advancement whereas working with you would increase as such I have a counter offer.", as he spoke the jovial look on his disappeared as he spoke, "What I am about to offer you would perhaps cost not only mine but all of our fellow cultivators lives."

The Deva realm cultivators tensed momentarily as their Leader spoke with a worried look on his face, "Brother please you do not have to cause problems with your superiors for us."

"Thank you for your concern but I insist."

With a sigh, the Leader of the Deva realm spoke, "If you say such words, who am I to stop you?"

With a smile that showed his pearl white teeth, he spoke, "Swear to be our slaves for the rest of your miserable pathetic lives and we might let you live."

A pin-drop silence fell on the battlefield and for a moment it seemed even the sound of the rain was muted as the Deva realm cultivator snarled in anger as he spoke, "How dare you insult us?"

"Very easily though I would like to point out that you are too ugly to be my slave so please step aside."

The callous words further enraged the leader as he bellowed out in anger, "How dare you demean us?"

"Very Easily.", his aura increased as did the others, as the aura between two groups clashed the cloud was blown apart, while the ground cracked and spewed lava.

"You worthless mongrels from the failure of a realm dared to think us as equal the only place you are beneath our feet like good little pets, now come and die."

With his shouts, the area was soon filled with various lights as the two groups attacked each other with the intent to erase the other from existence.

Ryuu sat on the ground with his back resting against the wall, he closed his eyes as tried to sleep, and many of the fellow cultivators followed his example and tried to take a nap, while many others decided to gossip or meditate before venturing further into the maze.

A small drop of water feel on the face of a small boy of six, he opened his eyes as he was greeted by the sight of the dark moss-covered ceiling one he was accustomed to, his stomach rumbled from hunger as he sat up, 'Me food.', and with the thought, he left his cave.

A small snow-white figure jumped on him as he stumbled before a wide smile broke on his face, it was his best friend and companion for as long as he could remember, and they were a small family of two who had each other's back.

The rabbit snow white, with its eyes shining like a sapphire, squealed in what seemed to be happy as the red-haired child tilted his head as he spoke, "Eally, me want apple, me follow."

With that the rabbit jumped and ran with the child following swiftly after, his mouth salivating for the juicy apple that his friend told him, as he passed through a stream he bends down as he drank some water from it, he looked at the water he saw a face looking back at him, the face had mismatch eye colour and red hair, a face he always saw whenever he looked down at the water.

That was his entire world and this was all he knew, his friend and him against the entire world, even against those mean people who would sometimes see him and try to heart him, and his friend would save him.

The thought of his friend warmed his heart as well as saddened him, his friend always saved his life helped him around for that he was grateful yet at the same time the thought that he was practically useless to help his friend in any way made him sad.

He climbed the tree as he plucked a good few apples which he shared with his friend when all of a sudden an obnoxious came to his ears, "Oh look here, it is the cripple your brother."

The child looked at the speaker, who was followed by five more other people, along with a haughty looking woman who sniffed in disdain as if she had stepped on a pile of dung as she spoke, "Shen you maybe my fiancé but if you insinuate that dirty filth as my brother I would break off my engagement with you."

"Ah sorry my Goddess for offending you, is there anything I could do to placate your anger?"

The woman who looked almost exactly like the child albeit in her late teenage years looked at the child with a cruel smile on her face, "Well I do not understand why my foolish father did not allow us to kill him, and I, unfortunately, was made to promise not to kill him directly or indirectly but I never did promise not to harm him, so be a dear and break his legs and arms then make him crawl on the ground."

The rabbit hissed and the child knew that it was time for him to run, as such he did he ran as fast as his tiny legs could carry, with his friend following soon after.

"Get him.", the male shouted as rest of the companions went after him fast.

A searing pain erupted from his legs as he fell on the ground hard, an unholy scream erupted from his throat.

~thunk~ ~thunk~ ~thunk~

The sound of a sharp-edged object hitting the flesh was heard as the child wailed in pain as tears fell from his eyes, he did not know why he was being treated like this but he knew he wanted it to stop.

"My my look at him lying on the floor, the perfect place for a waste of good air cripple like him."

The man spoke as others laughed at the prone form of the child as he looked up he felt them looking down at him as one of them stepped forward and callously tore of the arrows embedded in his flesh.

"Damn now I have to wash this perfectly good arrow, ugh the cripple's blood tainted it."

Before the person could speak any longer a snow-white creature jumped and latched onto his throat stunning everyone but it did not last long a sabre strike later the child watched his friend fall into two.

"A mid-Houtian beast dared to raise its jaws against us peak Houtian cultivators, death is too good for him.", Shen growled in anger.

The child looked in a daze at his friend that lay on the floor, its life liquid flowing on the ground as the archer quickly applied medicine to his injuries to stop bleeding before he glared balefully at the quite unmoving child.

"Brother Shen let me deal with this piece of shit."

Shen simply shrugged as he went to standby his fiancée's side as he spoke, "Well as long as you make it entertaining."

The man went and picked up the child that was looking forward with his eyes glazed as he slapped him hard, "Wake up, you brain dead idiot."

The child looked up at the smirking face of the person who sneered at him as he spoke, "What is this looking up towards your betters."

He c.o.c.ked his hand back to hit the child, when all of a sudden an inhuman aura hit him hard, he looked fearfully at the child whose eyes seemed to have changed completely, "Xian…", was all he could stutter out as his hand was broken and punch tore his head from the shoulder as he collapsed dead.

The child fell on the floor as it let out an inhuman roar before his vision turned black.

It felt so nice, and warm as he opened his eyes he was greeted by the smiling face of the most beautiful creature that he had ever seen, and she was smiling down at him, her black hair cascading down like a waterfall, amongst them were red strands of hair that looked like blood being mixed, the person looked at him with relief as she spoke, "That was some wakening of your Divine Body, I have never seen something like that….", as the woman rambled on and on the child tilted his head in confusion.

The blushed at that as she spoke, "Ahh, where are my manners, my name is....."

Ryuu opened his eyes with a gasp as he looked a curious face of Frost Flames looking down at him as she spoke, "Are you alright Ryuu you seemed to be having some form of nightmare."

For instance, a look of annoyance flickered in his eyes as he spoke with a small cough, "Well I was simulating a battle in my head nothing more.", while inwardly he groaned, 'Damn it I was so close to learning that woman's name and someone had to intervene, even if her hair was black and not the normal silver colour that I have seen, I can bet my life that it was her.'

Ryuu stretched himself as he stood up before he spoke with a small smile, "Well since we are all done resting if I were to believe then I hope you do not mind if I took a look at the powder that caused us to sneeze so much."

"Why?", was the question that was thrown to him from one of the cultivators as Ryuu smirked towards him as he spoke, "I simply had the urge to make every Preta realm cultivator acquainted to it."

As many groaned upon hearing his words, Ryuu simply moved towards the source of his sneezing problem, with a large smile on his face.