Heavenly Dao Child

The desolate sky of level 8 greeted them as the mournful and stale wind seemed to gently caress them.

'Ugh, what is this depressing place? I hate already it.'

"I do not like this place."

Ryuu looked towards Frost Flames as he spoke, "Me too, the atmosphere feels kind of depressing and creepy."

Frozen Ocean frowned as she spoke, "The Yin KI is greatly abundant in this area, and I fear we have to move away from this place fast or some unsavoury creatures might pop up."

Ryuu nodded as the group began to move, the distant howling could be heard that send a shiver down their spine, but what made them feel even more unease was the ground below, it was covered in white powder and upon closer inspection, it turned out to be bone dust, it would have been a bit more tolerable if corpses were not strewn on the ground, it looked as if a huge battle had taken place and billions and trillions of dead were left on the ground.

"You know normally I would not have bothered seeing so many dead but they make me feel unease, it feels as if they are alive playing opossum while keeping an eye on us waiting for a moment to pounce."

Ryuu looked towards True-Spear as he spoke, "So I am not the only one who was getting the feeling, I would love to move away from this place but I do not see any exit all that is in front of us is this graveyard for as far as the eye could see."

"It reminds me of your teacher's library, Ryuu."

Ryuu simply looked at Zywia as he spoke with a scowl, "My teacher's library is not a graveyard."

Zywia simply deadpanned at him as she spoke, "Really what about the statues decorating the building."

Ryuu visibly shivered as he spoke, "I see I get your point the statues really act as if they are living, following your every move with their eyes."

Frost Flames spoke with a slight frown on her face, "Can we not discuss scary things."

Ryuu nodded at that as he spoke, "Of course I would love not to discuss them at all if possible."

Elidyr could feel every bit of his eight millions of age, he felt incredibly old and tired not to mention cold, the last few months he had to spend contemplating his death, he envied his friends that died that day and wished he was the lucky ones, the things he witnessed made a proud cultivator curl up and cry like a child.

The thought of those poor women made him want to hurl, the fate they suffered yet there was nothing that he could do, those damnable beasts had placed arrays on him and now he was nothing but a willing slave to them, 'I heard that a couple of us had managed to escape, like that would be the truth, but now I am about to receive my freedom with my death.'

He eyed at the giant reverse super-tornado that had been set up as a barrier as he closed his eyes as surrendered him to the inevitable, for a moment nothing happened than all of a sudden the constant agony of the pain caused by the array vanished as he heard laughter from his side, "We are free."

He turned towards his right as he watched his fellow cultivator, laughing like mad with tears streaming down his eyes, "We are free.", was all he repeated again and again.

Elidyr eyes widen momentarily as an understanding look came upon his face as he spoke, "Yes we are free."

'I thought death would be painful and scary, but it was a sweet relief though I would think it would be more than snowy ground surrounded by a white mist.'

"At least we can now meet our fallen brethren once again."

The other person looked at him with an unreadable expression as he spoke, "What are you talking about? We are alive you fool we are alive and free we can escape now."

Elidyr was stunned for a moment before he spoke while crying, "You are joking, right? You are joking."

The person simply shook his head as he spoke, "No I do not see he.", with that he turned to show him his neck which lacked any arrays that had been placed on them."

"We are free, FREE! FREE! FREE! The Heaven's have not forsaken us we will go home."

Elidyr hugged his fellow cultivator as they both cried out with happiness, when all of a sudden Elidyra gained a look of horror on his face, "What if they enter this place and capture us?"

"We have to run."

"But where should we go? The entire place is surrounded by those demonic trashes, and if we step out we would get caught and enslaved again."

Before they could speak another few entered the place, a place where they were freed by their burden, as they cried and let out a joyous roar on the outside it was different.

Jethrar looked at the giant reverse tornado with a frown, he had sent at least ten of the slaves and yet all of he had seen was a flash of red going up and nothing more, "This is getting us nowhere."

Ithrura mumbled under her breath as she spoke, "Why are you not sending one of your corpses, to check it out they are sturdier than even some of the slaves we are sending."

"But they are my precious."

A scathing glare was the reward for his whining as Ithrura spoke, "You try to make a corpse puppet out of anything and everything you can get your hands on, just pick one and use it."

Jethrar sighed as he spoke, "Okay okay I am doing it."

He huffed as a crocodile-like creature appeared by his side, he raised his hands in a manner befitting a king as the creature moved at an incredible speed towards the white wall of the inverse tornado, it entered as Jethrar felt his connection getting lost."

Elidyr eyes widen in horror as he looked at a corpse puppet barreling his way into the barrier, before turning into dust.

"We have to live now."

The others need not be told but the question that resounded in everyone's mind was, 'where would we go?'

"Hey, over there it looks like a red cloth maybe that is where they are hiding their base."

"Then what are we waiting for let us move, maybe they might be able to help."

The group dashed towards what seemed to be the entrance of the cave, as they neared it they were hit with a sense of disappointment.

"It looks abandoned."

"Maybe they are deep inside."

"Hey look over there it looks like some form of a message."

Elidyr, who was the nearest to it, read it out loud for others to hear.

"To those of the Deva Lok, I would like to offer my sincere apologizes as I do not have means to free you all, but I hope that this trap has managed to destroy the slave array and you are free.

This cave used to be our hiding place, I know you all might need a place to hide till the leave, this place has enough arrays to prevent it, but currently, they are inactive.

To activate them move as deep inside the cave as possible, and then send a pulse of KI using the red cloth, it would work wonders for you all.

If you are hungry or thirsty at the deepest pit of the cave there is enough food and water for a hundred for a week, feel free to.

I hope one day we would meet again as free men.

With regards,

'Rain Sword' Ryuu"

"What do we do brother Elidyr"?

Before he could say a loud boom was heard as the surrounding shook he looked at his fellow cultivators as he spoke, "Brother let us move towards the shelter he spoke of maybe just maybe we would survive."

"Are you sure Elidyr?"

Elidyr gave him a pained smile as he spoke, "What choice do we have?"

Elmer regained his consciousness as pain racked through his body, 'Oh I remember we got caught.'

As the memories of being captured and interrogated came to his minds he could not help but remember Ryuu's words, 'He was so right, I should have listened to him and now because of my thirst for revenge I lost not only by men but even got captured.'

He could hear his men screaming and accusing him of causing their death through torture, tears pooled in his eyes yet he could do nothing, 'That bitch really crippled me for good my dantian is gone, my arms and legs have been cut off, and now I am truly a worm crawling on the floor.'

His dreams, his wishes, every triumph, every sorrow passed in front of his eyes, his brothers, his parents everyone's face past in front of his eyes, 'What I would not give to hold them again in my arms again, Ryuu was right I let vengeance cloud my vision, this pain is unbearable if only.', his eyes widen momentarily as a smile graced his face, 'Ah, yes I remember all those painful torture techniques prevented me from focusing and activating it, but now I can and I will.'

He stared up to look at the sky with great difficulty, and the sky itself was cloudy and small flakes fell on him, 'I guess this is it then, sorry big brother but it seems I would not joining you after all.'

"Oh look who decided to grace us with his presence, His Majesty the Worm King himself, everyone please be on your best behaviours.", a seductive voice purred near his ears making him wince.

Ithrura looked at the Elmer who suddenly laughed out loud as he spoke, "Hey Ithrura can you do me a favour."

Ithrura tilted her head in confusion she had thought many different scenarios where Elmer would have shouted in anger, cursed the, begged them but not a laugh out loud and speak like an old friend as such she could not help but as him curiously, "What do you want, Worm?"

"Tell Ryuu he was right and I was wrong, also goodbye bitch."

The look of vindication was the only warning she got as she moved away from him as fast as possible as did Jethrar before a titanic explosion engulfed them destroying a good chunk of the area surrounding it.