Heavenly Rings

"How coud his bloodline was still active after being severed by a grade seven poison, he still haven't made a step in the refinement stage!"

The second elder say nothing as he know that that was right, even a grade ten poison was suffisent to make disappear corpse of normal human, less severed their bloodline. How could a ten year old child could possibly do?

"OK, let see that after, we need to save the younger or else where doomed."

Nodding to him, Elder Dong retire a pill out of is sleeve before feeding it to the young boy while Elder Feng put his two hand on his back, circulating mana in his body and guide the dissipate medicine i his stomach for it to heal his wounds.

After five minutes of constent effort, the wound have close for the larger part, ensuring his survival.

"What to we do now?"

"I need to bring back the young master to the clan to let heal him, you stay here and see if that little bastard is still alive, at least bring the corpse back otherwise master will execute his wrath on us."

"Ok."

Using the path they take to came, the large group soon disappear behind the mountain, leaving only Elder Dong looking at the island covert by blood mist.

.....

Inside the mist, nine large crater have already blow a large patch of the island, leaving only the cracked outline delimiting the water to the large pit profound of few meter.

The large pit was the result of the explosion of the eighty corpse of the child let their. Because of the ignition of Hai Yang blood line, their body already drain of any blood weren't able to support the onslaught of the ignition.

As for the little boy itself, is mangled body have already roll down to the deepest part of the pit. After the blast Hai Yang mind was finally unable to support him and have made him faint. When his bloodline lost the connection to is soul, the mist start to recced, forming drop after blood of dark-red blood rolling to the end of the pit.

Looking at the blood gathering before dropping, Old Dong sigh in relief and wait that he completely condense before joining the island.

When landing on it, he think that it can't really call a island anymore as everything have been blast off, only a rough ring of no more than a feet wide of earth separate the water to the crater. The amount of blood that have start to fill the bottom of it was more than what could content the body of a 10 years old child.

'Surely the result of the eighty other corpse melting in it.' think the Elder.

Inside the gathering pool of blood, the shape of a body could be faintly see. Acting with precaution, the old man approach, making sure to not touch the blood. As an alchemist himself, how could he not know that strange substance are dangerous?

Seizing the body, a large grin broke on his face as he saw the pale drained body of Yang.

"You clearly have make the last five year tough for my your bastard, at least I must thank you for keeping your corpse recognizable or I would have last a layer or two of additional skin while back."

No wanting to lost more time and rejoin with the other group as fast a s possible. Old Dong didn't care about the pool of blood, after all, who would came here without reason? Even if they came, they would just see at best a already vanishing pool of blood being suck in the groud or an large crater, why bother cleaning behind when no one would know what have appen here, and who would interfer with other affair if they have nothing to gain?

What he didn't know was that they where really someone who actually see the complete scene.

Ten minute after the old man have gone, another man appear. While seeming clearly younger that the two elder, patch of grey hair could be see on the raffined sideburns melting with golden hairs. Contrary to the one present before, the middle aged man trait where that of eastern people has Yang and the other where that of Weastern people.

Is dark green eyes directly fix on the pool of blood on the bottom of the pit that disappear at a naked eyes speed. Soon, the last drop of bloods completely vanish, leaving only the tip of a shinning crystal appear out of the ground.

Seeing this, the middle-aged man rapidly appear next to it, looking at the surrounding earth. Not a single gout of blood could be see polluting the sol. With a hand motion, a slight vibration occur on the ground before the earth on the side of the crystal move.

More exactly, it was the crystal that was excavate out of the ground. In few second a five feet tall, three feet wide crystal with a straight shape and sharp superior edge appear. The body of the crystal was of a opaque translucent color.

Because of his expert eye, the man was able to see that only the external part of the body was of an impure color, and what was attracting his gaze was actually, the inner part of the crystal.

Waving is hand again, a sword appear in his hand before slashing at it, cutting throught the external part without difficulty.

With each slash, slab of inpure crystal fall off on the ground, reducing rapidly the size of the crystal to on of a three feet and six inch in high and two in wide.

At the sight of the second crystal, is eyes constrict.

"To think that I would see somhing like this, master have already tell me about the possibility but to think that this small child actally was successful..."

In the quiet crater where the man stood, a clear and pure crystal of near half his size where in front of him.

If other where to see the crystal they would surely be schoked beyond relief, not because the crystal, even if it was of such fine quality, but because in the heart of it, volute of red blood volute where in constant action and in the inner core of the heart where actually a warm ball of light the size of a newborn fist, glowing with a pure purple color.

If one where to fix the ball sufficently long with great concentration, they would be able to see a tender and childish face with closed eyes flash.

Even the blood red volute seem to constanctly revolve around the purple point, forming a protective barrier around it.

While he was looking at the purple point, a clear pained face where on the man.

"To thing those scrum of the orchid country would still allow this heresy. Even if I wasn't able to obtain a vierge soul crystal, I can't possibly leave this poor child here after seeing his burst his own bloodline. Plus, his soul fluctuations are quite weak, if something was not done soon, he won't last long!"

Without a second thinking, the man slowly raise in the sky before the crystal follow, and vanish before long on the opposite side of the group that where totally oblivious that the soul of Yang was still alive quite being on the verge of extinxion.

.....

A few hour after the group have exit the mountain, through the forest, sigh of high walls appear in the wilderness. Here where the wall of Linglong city, state of the Hai Clan. Because being one of the three dominant clan of the city, the gatekeeper let them pass through at the sight of their clan insigna on the chest of the two man and the emblem on the guard chest armor.

Not to long after exiting the range of the mountain, they aleardy regroup on the young master already lay down on the cariage that have brought him there.

Bolting through the street of the city, they dart toward the clan estate, wanting to arrive the faster possible to attend the wound of their young master who was still on a deep comatose state.

Seeing finally the gate of the clan, the two old men sight.

"You go with the young master and heal him, I will take the corpse of this bastard and present him to the patriarch."

Old Dong nod at Elder Feng and separate with them while half of the guard follow him to ensure the security of their young master all long.