Heavenly Dao Child

Jethrar opened his eyes with great difficulty his entire body was aching badly, it felt as if he someone had crushed every bone of his body, 'Ugh what happened.'

~sizzle~ ~sizzle~

A painful sizzling sensation jolted him fully awake, 'Ah remember the explosion…'

He trailed off as he looked at the completely different sky, gone were the blue sky it was now covered by blood-red cloud, black lightning rained down from it, and the rain was highly acidic to the point that it even managed to harm them.

He quickly tired to stand up but he failed rather spectacularly, 'Huh why can I not stand, in fact, why can I not feel my legs.'

He somehow with great difficulty managed to sit, and then he was greeted with even more grisly sight, parts of his body below his waist were missing.

"Ahhhhh!!!!", he could not help but scream out in fear and pain.

"Lord Jethrar, are alright?"

A voice came from one his retainers and he could not help but lash out towards the person, "Shut up trash! Can you not see how injured I am, hurry up and help."

The person fearfully nodded while he himself was not wholly uninjured but his current priority was his Lord's health.

He quickly fed Jethrar some pills before looking at the lower part of his body before grimacing, 'Lord Jethrar's legs from just below his waist has been cut off, and then it looks like that someone had used fire to seal the wounds, it looks so bad.'

"Hurry up trash, carry me away from here."

"Yes my Lord.", as he was about to leave with Jethrar on his back he suddenly stopped upon seeing a familiar figure lying half-buried on the ground he hesitated.

"What are you doing? Move you, idiot."

"But my Lord, Lady Ithrura is .."

"I do not care about that wench, you are my retainer and you will look after my interest, now move trash."

"Yes My Lord."

With that person left hurriedly but not before discreetly sending a medicinal pill towards Ithrura's mouth, as he left.

A roar of came to his ears, a roar that made his heart tremble with fear a roar that made Jethrar completely restless, and as such, they sped off leaving behind the rest of the dead and injured behind.

An hour ago, Ryuu staring into the horizon looking especially towards the gate where the explosion took place, his face morphed into a confused one, 'The arrays at the second gate are working perfectly fine, and according to them, there has been no intrusion, but even after the explosion sometime has passed yet their army has yet to appear, how long will I have to wait, it has been ages since that explosion took place, damn it the suspicion is killing me I simply have to scout them then.'

With that plan in mind, he turned towards True-Spear as she spoke with seriousness in his voice, "Brother True-Spear, catch this."

With that, he threw a talisman towards True-Spear, which he promptly caught, as Ryuu kept on shouting, "I have a bad feeling about this, it has been ages, yet they have yet to arrive I am going to scout and see if I can find something, do not follow me though I will definitely contact if something happens."

With his piece being said he left promptly before anyone could say anything to stop him, and with his speed, he was soon out of sight of most.

True-Spear growled as he spoke, "Damn that idiot, it has only been half an hour at best and he ran off like that."

Even Shivering Saber who was nearby scowled as he glared towards the direction Ryuu had run off, "That impatient idiot, it is only half an hour does not know the importance of patience, how did he cultivate to such a level is beyond my understanding."

Ryuu moved fast, as fast as he could towards the gate, when he arrived at the location of destruction he stopped to admire it for a moment.

'Damn that was a nice explosion the ground is has melted off completely, what did those people use in the first place, the air is ripe with KI, though it is a chaotic mess after it settles down in a few years it would be the great material spot to harvest, but sadly it is not possible for us, we do not have that time.'

'I should do a quick check before proceeding further, and maybe I would be able to discern what might have caused the explosion and I could plan accordingly.'

A quick check of the vicinity later, Ryuu stood floating in the air with his brow scrunched in deep thought, 'They used brute method to break the array, my array had held on well till it was overcharged and had collapsed making the entire area unstable then something had entered this place that destabilized the region and triggered the explosion, but why and what did they use.'

Ryuu shook his head as he looked towards the gate that was tilted somewhat emerged partly into the pool of molten surface.

���Well no gain without any risk, but first let me become invisible.'

Ryuu stepped through the gate and gawked at the scene in front of him, 'What is this?'

Gone were the luscious green meadows, the entire region as far as the eyes could see was a scene he would like to describe as hell.

'Is this what hell looks like? Well, it certainly does according to the Bible from my previous life.'

The ground looks completely scorched and in some places it was molten, and the sky was red as blood with black lightning raining striking the ground now and then, not to mention the acidic rain.'

His eyes then fell on a half meted gigantic cannon like structure lay broken a few distances away, his eyes searched the surrounding as he soon found the dead and almost dead bodies of the Preta Realm cultivators, making his breath hitch.

'What did they do that caused such a thing, and how, maybe I should check that destroyed cannon part but before…', a sadistic smile blossomed on his face as he looked at the deplorable state of the Preta realm cultivators an idea formed in his head, 'I should poke around for a moment before calling reinforcement, we should wipe them out as fast as possible.'

Meanwhile back at their fort True-Spear cowered under Frost Flames glare, "Brother you disappoint me, you let RYUU GO ALONE."

True-Spear mustered as much dignity as he could he spoke out hurriedly, "But, he said not to follow him and he is so fast."

"That is no excuse."

With that shout Mount Frost Flames erupted but before the lava could drown him the talisman vibrated which True-Spear quickly activated and Ryuu's voice came loud and clear for everyone to hear.

"Gather your weapons, and descend to the Eleventh Level, today we are wiping out those sc.u.m, I repeat every cultivator gather your weapons, and descend to the Eleventh Level we are wiping out those sc.u.m."

Those words stunned those people, as an argument broke amongst them only to stop as Frozen Ocean shouted out in anger, "Shut up! Shut up! When has he led us into a trap, when has he failed to fulfil his promise, never so why are you all doubting him, especially you the Deva realm did you forget your companions that are currently held as slaves, do you wish to rescue them or not."

"Well said Sister Frozen Ocean, well said.", Frost Flames patted her on her back before she roared out, "What are we waiting for this is our chance no more hiding, no more cowering, this is our chance to avenge our fallen, this is our chance to permanently remove their stain from Eden, let us all travel forth and vanquish them."

With a roar of victory the group descended into the lower level, the Eleventh level, led by True-Spear who was glad that he was able to escape from the evil glare of his sister and his lover, 'I have to thank brother Ryuu, twice has he saved me from those evil glares, he is like the true brother that one can dream off, like a …'

His inner monologue came to a halt as he neared the gate, he let out whistle full of appreciation as he looked at the area near the gate.

"That is some destruction."

True-Spear nodded agreeing to Devaraj's words as he spoke, "So true Brother, now let us see what surprise Brother Ryuu has prepared for us."

Devaraj nodded as True-Spear stepped into the lower realm via the gate, only to be stunned speechless at the sight in front of him.

"What is this? What happened to this place?"

True-Spear looked towards Zywia as he replied to Zywia with a shake of his head, "I have no idea, and I hope brother Ryuu is nearby to help."

"What are you all waiting for, most of them are down, look over there.", everyone's eyes travelled towards the speaker who was pointing towards a certain direction, as they followed his direction, they were greeted by the Ryuu who was pointing towards a certain direction.

Frozen Ocean could not help but let out a gasp as she spoke, "So many cultivators are either dead or are dying."

Frost Flames narrowed her eyes for a moment before she turned towards Ryuu as she spoke, "I have so many questions for you, but we do not have any time for now let us give the mercy of death those."

Ryuu looked at her for a moment before he gave a nod but her next words made him sickly pale, "Upon saying that I have not forgiven you for your latest stunt, after everything is over we will have a one to one talk."

Ryuu quickly pulled out his sword and pointed towards the sky as he shouted out, "Charge!!!!!"

With a roar of victory, the group descended like an avalanche on top of the Preta realm cultivators, with the intent of slaughtering them.

Ithrura slowly opened her eyes, 'This unimaginable pain, why do I taste iron in my mouth and something sweet as well.'

"That one is alive kill her."

The loud shout caused her to open her eyes wide and was greeted with the sight of a person with spear drawn charging towards her with murder in his eyes.

'What! How did this happen...'

Her internal thoughts came to a halt as her body was soon wracked with pain, 'I am so greatly injured, I cannot even move properly.'

Her eyes gained a blazing look of fury as tried to move again but she failed, 'Damn it, I am too injured to even move an inch.', her eyes fell on the spear-wielding cultivator as anger rose in her heart, 'How dare he try to kill me that no name trash, UNFORGIVABLE!!!!!!"

As such the KI in her dantian spurned with full force as her aura slammed on the cultivator stopping him in his tracks as Ithrura bellowed out in anger, "Die trash."

A purple colour mist exploded from her body, trying to devour everyone and everything in its path.

"Get out of the way, you idiot.", a shout came to the person's ear as he was forcefully flung away from his position.

Ithrura grinned as she felt her poison spread through, 'Soon they would all perish from my poison.'

Her grin was soon replaced by a frown as confusion marred her face, 'Huh, why is my poison behaving as such? Why is it concentrating on a single region?'

Her questions were soon answered as he the purple disappeared, more importantly, sucked in by someone, Ithrura looked at the person as her heart sped up uncontrollably her face was completely flushed while her head felt dizzy.

He watched the person lap up every bit of her poison, tasting them, as his tongue licked over his lips, Ithrura felt a jolt of sensual pleasure pass through her body, 'Who is he? So handsome and the way he licked his lips it was so sensual I want him, no I need him.'

"That was so tasty, I never tasted a poison as tasty outside my family, you have my thanks for feeding me some, and I will remember this unique pleasant taste."

'Such a dazzling smile, who is he and he said that he liked my poison!!!'

If Ithrura could she would blush a teenage girl and hid her red embarrassed face after being complimented by their crush, but she was a high-level cultivator who was over a million years old, as such with great difficulty she pushed back her thoughts as she stuttered out, "Wh-who are you?"

Ryuu could not help but deadpan at her words, 'She is halfway to her grave and she blushing and acting like a shy maiden, ugh sometimes I really hate my face.'

Ryuu with a sigh spoke, "Sorry about that Ithrura, but it seems my true face was too much for you.", with that he simply gently moved his hand over his face as his face suddenly was not as devastatingly handsome anymore, while he continued to speak, "My name is Ryuu, yes 'Rain Sword Ryuu', and you are about to die."

The action jolted her awaked from her fantasy, she did not waste any time as her 'Blood Escape' technique activated as she disappeared just in time for the entire area to be torn asunder by sword force.

Ryuu looked at the small red blob at the horizon that was fast disappearing from his sight as he spoke, "Tsk, Ithrura escaped."

"Ahem"

The sound of clearing throat sends a shiver down his spine as he slowly turned he was greeted by a glaring Frost Flames who spoke with anger in her throat, "Are you done flirting with the enemy so can we finish our job?"

Ryuu could only hang his head as he spoke meekly, "I was not flirting I was trying to deal with her poison."

"Oh, and that would include making your enemy blush, and look at you with l.u.s.t-filled eyes, and speak while stuttering like a teenage girl.", Ryuu could only hang his head as Frost Flames glare deepened.

Meanwhile, in an unknown location, Orizu let out a roar of anger as he read the stone stele in front of him, just outside of Eden.

Number of Cultivators alive: 4,000.