Heavenly Dao Child

Rows upon rows of coffins were stacked on top of one another, in the rather large circular room.

Ryuu narrowed his eyes as he spoke, "There are about a hundred of those coffins placed in rows, and I have a bad feeling about this."

True-Spear gripped his spear hard as he spoke, "Me too brother, I think we should retreat."

Ryuu simply nodded but before they could reach the ceiling on the other side of the room collapsed sealing them inside the large circular chamber.

The cover of the coffins fell one by one as its occupants woke up one by one.

"To the centre", Ryuu bellowed to his companions as they neared the centre, Ryuu quickly kneeled as he spoke, "Keep them off of me, while I work."

With those words the group stood protectively making a circle around Ryuu, who quickly began to work, the first of the undead creature neared them only for it to collide with a pale green barrier, a barrier that not only stopped it but lit it up in green colour flame and soon the creature toppled over and fell on its back.

Ryuu smirked at that as he spoke, "The array can immobilize and it would cause them to burn for some time, so feel free to take a pound their flesh as much as you would like."

A small smile appeared on his face as he saw them dealing with the undead from the safety of the barrier.

"Ryuu what are you doing now?"

Ryuu spared a glance at Frozen Ocean, but before he could speak True-Spear beat him to it as he spoke, "He is preparing for the next phase, I doubt this is the only trap that we might have to face here."

And true to his words, the undead creatures that had been permanently stopped by re-killing them suddenly became bloated, it did not matter if it was reduced to only a finger it bloated and then it exploded as a putrid green gas began to spread around.

The cylindrical barrier turned into a spherical shape, with a slight golden sheen on it, Zywia was familiar with the barrier as she had seen it before, and it was the same one that Ryuu had created to save them during the massacre of the second level.

"Sorry but please stop attacking anyone from inside the barrier, it will break it."

At his words the group stopped their assault as they watched the barrier gained a red glow if the previous barrier only paralyzed the creatures upon coming into contact, this one not only reflected their attacks set them aflame but most importantly made them paralyzed and flung them afar.

"Hmm, the fire will destroy as I have imbued it with the Dao now I think we should safely take to the sky and I hope to find a way out of this place."

At his suggestion the group moved up and so did the barrier, as they looked down they could see the gaseous cloud now hovering underneath them completely hiding the ground.

It was a simple drop at first, and then it began to rain like crazy, for a moment it looked as if a cloud burst had taken place.

But unlike water what rained down was a blackish liquid, which upon hitting the barrier turned into black fumes while letting out a sizzling sound.

Frozen Ocean narrowed her eyes as she spoke, "Poison?"

Ryuu nodded at that as he closed his eyes for a moment before he replied to her, "Yes it is poison, though a c.o.c.ktail of poison would be more appropriate though."

His eyes narrowed for a moment before he spoke with a smirk, "Interesting one of the poisons would flare up and agitate the others upon coming into contact with KI."

Zywia frowned at that as she spoke, "That is dangerous, and it is because of our KI that we can suppress the effects of various poison momentarily, but if what you tell is true then this rain is incredibly dangerous."

Ryuu smirked at her as he continued, "There is another poison that works in reverse, the more KI is used the more it becomes inert but as KI is removed it would become more and more powerful. But the beauty of this poison lies in another part."

Su-Min could help but deadpan at him as she spoke, "Really 'beauty' you find poison beautiful."

Ryuu shrugged as he spoke, "Hey I cannot help but praise when a person can make two opposite things work without any problem, one increase the potency when more KI is applied and the other increase when is the potency when the application of KI is lowered, how can I not appreciate it."

True-Spear whistled lowly at that before he spoke with a sigh, "Well I can understand where you are coming from but I think it is high time for us to get out of this trap."

"I am working on it.", Ryuu grunted out as he closed his eyes again.

When they were standing on the ground, Ryuu had not only created a barrier but also created placed another array whose job was to map the entire room and find possible exist, and it had been running for some time now.

Ryuu's eyes snapped opened as he spoke, "I got it, the entrance I found it."

Frost Flames glanced at him as she spoke, "Where is it Ryuu?"

Ryuu pointed towards one of the coffins at the middle of the topmost row as he spoke, "That coffin is hiding the exit, and we just have to break it to enter the next room."

Everyone raised their eyebrows as they looked at Ryuu curiously but no one said anything as they flew towards a particular coffin.

Ryuu sends a talisman towards it, which stuck to the coffin which was now glowing blue for a moment before the back of coffin slid down opening a door, while the talisman returned to Ryuu.

The barrier touched the coffin enveloping it allowing the group to leave through the hidden door before completely wrapped the coffin and preventing anyone from entering.

The passage was narrow and dark, they all decided to follow in a single line with Ryuu taking the front and True-Spear the rear.

"So is this how Ryuu helped you all to escape the second level."

Zywia nodded at True-Spear's question as she spoke, "Yes, it was so scary you know, I thought we would be dead for sure, it was truly a miracle that we were able to escape."

True-Spear gained a mournful look on his face as he spoke, "Such a waste that was so many talented cultivators died that day."

Su-Min who was just ahead of them spoke with a huff, "Those creatures were not the only one who caused the death, there were many worthless backstabbers who caused many of us to die as well, blocking the portal, sabotaging others when they are attempting to flee. Ugh, just the thought of it makes me sick."

Zywia simply nodded in agreement as an angry scowl marred her face as she spoke, "Sc.u.m the lots of them, if only they had died it would have been great."

As the group ventured further they had to face myriad of temperatures, one moment it was hot and the next moment it was bone shivering cold making it extremely uncomfortable for them.

"Brother Ryuu there is something that I wish to ask you?"

As True-Spear's voice came to his ears Ryuu could not help but turn his head slightly as he spoke, "What is it brother?"

"Well, I was kind of wondering why, why did you two enter together like this, surely you should have other friends who would have entered with you."

Ryuu scratched his chin as he replied to him, "Most of the people whom I am friendly with are either too strong or not strong enough, but who said I entered here with her I was surprised that Zywia had entered here as well, not to mention she ran away from home to enter Eden."

Zywia simply sends a glare towards Ryuu before a small smile appeared on her face as she spoke, "That may be so but I do not regret it even for a moment."

She sent a small glance towards True-Spear as she blushed a bit only to blanch as the next words came to her ears.

"Good for you then Zywia, I hope you can keep it in your mind when you meet your parents after stepping out of here."

Su-Min gained a teasing look on her face as she glanced back towards Zywia while speaking, "Brother Ryuu can I have a front seat when the drama unfolds."

Ryuu stopped for a moment as he looked at Zywia who was rapidly shaking his head as he spoke with a teasing grin, "Sure why not, while they are at it I hope she manages to introduce her 'boyfriend' to her family."

As Ryuu let out a roar of laughter both Zywia and True-Spear turned red from embarrassment as rest of their companions joined in giggling at the embarrassment of the duo.

The narrow passage led to another large room, a room that was large enough to hold a small army within it, the members of the group was incredibly tensed waiting for another trap to activate.

And activate it did, when all of a sudden the ground shook as bones began to appear and join to take the form of a dragon, a hundred-foot tall dragon towered above them before it let loose a roar that seemed to rattle their bones.

Ryuu's blood sung in happiness for a moment upon seeing the beast before a sense of deep disappointment welled up inside him, 'Aww if only it were alive it would be great, the current dragon has nothing in it not even a single drop of blood, it is practically useless.'

Genesis and Requiem both looked ready to dismantle the creature in front of him.

"So how do we deal with it? I have never dealt with such a creature before."

Ryuu simply sent a glance towards Frost Flames as he spoke with a small smile on his face, "We'll find the thing that makes it stay alive and deal with, the creature would die soon after, but most importantly until you have dealt with that particular part it would regenerate again and again."

Another roar came to their ear as they glanced up to see a skeleton Imoogi descending from the ceiling.

"An Imoogi, huh."

Seeing his lackadaisical reaction Frost Flames could not help but ask out loud, "Is there any problem Ryuu?"

Ryuu was brought of his daydream as he smiled towards Frost Flames as he spoke, "Nothing I just remembered how I was once gobbled up by an Imoogi when I was ten."

"That was quite an experience you have, I hope you will have no problem dealing with it then."

Ryuu shook his head as he spoke, "No problem Frozen Ocean, they only thing I hated from the incident was that it took days for me to get rid of the horrible smell, but since it is the skeleton I doubt I would have to be wary about the smell."

Frozen Ocean looked at him as she spoke with a smirk, "Then how about a small competition."

Ryuu tilted his head as he spoke curiously, "Competition? What are…"

He was forced to dodge an incoming breath of bluish silver-coloured beam as Frozen Ocean shouted out, "Who kills them fastest."

Ryuu grinned back at her as he spoke, "Bring it on."

Since that day when he tricked Chasing Winds, Frozen Ocean had begun to show a new side of her to Ryuu, the mischievous side, something that Ryuu preferred a lot over her normal stoic and cold side.

Ryuu moved towards his target, the skeleton Imoogi, he might not have faced one before but from what he had learned about them, the skeleton creatures have what is dubbed as the core, a marvellous use of array that tied the soul of the creature making its skeleton move, as such, there are two not one ways to destroy the dragon.

First just as he had said, to find the particular array and disrupt or destroy it or simply hit it with your soul energy and Ryuu was planning to do both.

The Imoogi moved at an incredible speed towards, and when it was only a few inches from Ryuu, he dodged to the left as he swung his sword, which cut through the bones of the creature like it was made of tofu.

It was then followed by a thrust by the spear which destroyed the bones at the neck, the Imoogi wobbled as it had lost the majority of its face and soon his head had fallen off as well, it would regenerate albeit extremely slow but even then it would not full regenerate, and upon repetition of the same process over and over again they can easily deal with a skeleton.

'The array I have found it, it was too easy.', with another swipe of his sword the bones of the skeleton fell on the ground.

"You lose Ryuu.", Frozen Ocean's voice came to his ears as he looked at the smirking woman stood after already slaying her prey.

Ryuu wanted to know how, but before he could ask another few roars came and now a new group of four appeared in front of them, as Ryuu simply grumbled at that, 'Just like I thought it was too easy.'