Heavenly Dao Child

"EVERYONE READY!"

As Ryuu shouted out he received a plethora of shouts of agreement and a few nods came to Ryuu's ears and eyes as he activated multiple arrays, the array's function was simple it would scan the area and find out a possible route through the wall of flames.

He had once again asked his fellow companions of creating parts of seals on each island, it had taken almost half a day and by then they had managed to cover quite a bit of the island but unknown to all Ryuu had been busy, while others were busy copying the arrays that Ryuu had been busy placing the arrays with a touch on as many Island as possible and their fruits of labour were ripe and ready to be plucked.

Ryuu once again used the Array Weaving method as he activated the entire array cl.u.s.ter as which suddenly shone in a bright turquoise light, for a moment before everyone felt as if continuous drafts of cold air began to pass through them.

Ryuu's brow furrowed as he paid undivided attention towards his array, 'Damn so far there is no way through the wall of flames, and the flames look extremely dangerous, I fear that those Preta Lok cultivators might end up killing a good few of them while trying to find the correct way, I hope this is only a maze made up of flames and not some kind of door that can only be opened from inside the giant worm-like creature.'

He waited and waited as more and more frown began to form on his face, 'We are wasting too much time, too much if we wait the Preta Lok would be here as such I have to hurry.'

"Found a way, it is difficult but I believe we can navigate through it easily to reach our goal.", Ryuu then looked towards Chianyu as he spoke, "Did you remember to destroy the clue that would lead them to the next level."

Chianyu nodded as he spoke, "Yes Daoist brother Severing Saber did the honour."

Ryuu nodded as he spoke, "Good, it would buy us some time."

"Are you going to engage similar traps like that you used in the previous level to separate the hostages from their captors?"

Ryan shook his head as he spoke, "No it would definitely fail not to mention the dangers in front of us, so I will have to improvise even then I am afraid to use something those mongrels have a penchant for using their hostages to scout out problems as such I fear that they might use them to test the traps and seeing such a dangerous flame in front of us, I am kind of hesitant."

Chianyu sighed as he spoke, "I understand."

Ryuu gave him a weak smile as he turned towards others as he spoke, "Everyone this route is difficult to transverse as we will have to move one by one, please keep your eyes opened if you do not wish to suffer death, I urge you all to move forward no matter what happens, and do not stop just keep moving."

True-Spear frowned at that as he spoke, "Are you sure it is safe?"

Ryuu gave him the most innocent smile as he could manage as he spoke, "Nope."

A stunned silence descended upon the group before the cry of dismay rose all around the place while Ryuu looked with a hint of amus.e.m.e.nt in his eyes before it became full of annoyance.

"Are you all done? Can we move forward?"

"But…"

As a few protested Ryan let out a snarl as he spoke, "Can anyone tell me which part of Eden is safe?"

As everyone calmed down at his question Ryuu could not help but speak with a snort, "Thought so."

'I am dealing with children, why do I have to push them on every turn, maybe I should not after all only I am in urgent need to move forward… Nah, I am more important but mostly we are already at the forefront with the blasted Preta charging behind us.'

"I am leading stay close."

Frost Flames quickly followed after him as did the rest of his group moving one by one disappearing into the mystifying fiery maze, while others simply looked at each other before joining them one by one.

"Remember not to touch anything the flames are dangerous."

Zywia bit her lips as she spoke, "I know, just that the narrow tunnel of fire is surrounding us making it so dangerous, a single misstep and we might die, it is scary."

True-Spear put a comforting hand on her shoulder as he spoke, "Do not worry I am here and as long as I draw breath nothing would harm you.", Zywia simply gazed into his eyes losing herself in them.

"Ahem, Ahem"

A loud fake coughing sound brought them back to reality as a person spoke with a drawl, "You would two grace us with your presence in reality and please move forward you are jamming the line.", the embarrassed duo quickly moved as fast as the ones in front of them moved.

Ryuu meanwhile looked around a bit he could see that beyond the wall of flames few items, ranging from weapons to scrolls, stone tablets, precious pills and herbs floating without being harmed by the flames, seeing them his heart shook for a moment.

'Such precious items maybe I can take, of course, I can who else should have such items it not but for me.'

He raised his left hand towards the wall only for a sharp pain to erupt from his hand as he looked at his sword impaling his hand, he blinked for a moment as he felt a fog lift of his eyes as he whispered, "Thank you requiem."

"Ryuu are you alright?"

Frost Flames concerned and panicked filled voice came to his ears as he quickly swallowed a blood replenishing pill before replied, "I am fine though do not look into the flame it would seduce you to touch it with the promise of treasures, I somehow managed to control myself, please pass this message to others fast."

Frost Flames did not hesitate as she passed his message to Frozen Ocean who then went on and passed it Su-Min and thus like chain reaction everyone got the message, 'Do not look at the flame as it might entice you to touch it with the promise of treasures if someone is getting entranced others try to snap them out of it.'

Ryuu looked down as he frowned upon seeing the blood drops that fell on the floor seemed to be absorbed by the flames, 'What it should vaporize but not get absorbed by the fire this place is strange and dangerous I have to leave.'

"Ryuu."

Ryuu simply glanced back with the same reassuring smile on his face that Frost Flames had taken to adore as he spoke with confidence in his voice, "I know, let us move.", and she followed after him with equal confidence.

"Snap out of it idiot."

"Did you just try to skewer me? We are going to have some serious words about letting you touch pointy things."

"WOULD YOU TWO JUST SHUT AND MOVE YOU ARE HOLDING THE LINE MAKING IT DANGEROUS FOR REST OF US!"

Ryuu meanwhile had the sudden urge to bang his head hard, 'I am dealing with juvenile idiots at best, and is it a crime for them not to act a bit mature.'

Sensing his distress Frost Flames simply rubbed his shoulder as she spoke, "Leave them be, it is their way of coping with everything."

It took them a few hours but they had finally managed to reach their destination just a few more steps and they would be in a new level, when all of sudden Ryuu stopped as his eyes glazed for a moment before he shouted out, "They are here, the Preta sc.u.m are here, we have to move fast."

With that, he took a couple of steps and then,

'Grrrrr….'

A deep growling sound like the rumbling of thunder came to his ears as he looked up he saw a giant silhouette of a creature staring at him and growling, and before he could say or act it pounced on him, as he lost his vision a distant voice came to his ears, "RYUUUU!!!!!!"