Pathway

The grand elder brandishing his luminous sword launched his own attack.

"Space Walls."

Pillars of emptiness manifested and collided with the phantom heads to produce a wailing screams. The phantom heads dissipated into nothingness and the space walls disintegrated too.

"Revenant, I don't have the time to play hide and seek with you."

The grand elder let go of the sword in his right hand. He clasped his right hand over his left hand that had been holding a seal.

"End Time."

The revenant could feel something was wrong. He tried to teleport again but it wasn't working. He knew his life was in danger so he quickly took out his life saving talisman. He was activating his life saving talisman when the sword had appeared at his front locking him in place but he had managed to activate the talisman.

"I hate this stupid world."

The sword started to rotate and like emptiness passed through the revenant. Totally obliterating him but his soul managed to escape into limbo. He would have millions of years for his soul to find a way out before his soul enter reincarnation. He would take the chance. When he comes out, he would do his own 'end time' on that stupid human. He only hoped the souls here don't drive him crazy before escaping.

Meanwhile, at the other side of the premises.

Elder Wang Xiu was the first to appear in front of them. They didn't even know if it was teleportation or steps. They only saw him appeared from the thin air. Why was everybody appearing out of the thin air?

She bent down to check on Ju Feng who was still lying on the ground. She put one hand on his forehead and the other on his chest and started sending healing energy into him. She moved to attend to Su Ming who was also unconscious. She was doing this, when the other elders started to arrive.

"Wang Xiu, what happened?"

"What caused the disturbance?"

"I just arrived too and saw this."

They brought all the disciples to the haven and placed both Ju Feng and Su Ming on the large mat at the centre of the haven.

As they were placing them on the mat, the grand elder suddenly appeared. He was in meditative seclusion when he felt the slightest energy vibration. The energy that was sent out when Ju Feng walked into the force-field and was sent out flying. It was so minute that he almost missed it but it's resonance with his Jumping Spider talisman, a heavenly artifact, made him to detect it. He had left his seclusion to look for the source but couldn't locate it. He knew something was wrong but couldn't put his fingers on it but he had waited on top of his mountain with his spiritual sense covering the whole premises. He had hoped for another slightest vibration.

He knew that it couldn't be a cultivator inside the sect premises that initiated the course of the manifestation of this energy. He had seen this type of energy before. It had to be a Revenant. He had prepared the seals in case of confrontation because revenants were very difficult to deal with. Especially those at the Hegemon level. He could loose his life if he wasn't careful hence he had prepared more than necessary.

He looked gravely concerned at Ju Feng and Su Ming that were being placed on the mat. With one step, he appeared beside them. He quickly checked Ju Feng's condition, took out a pill and pushed it into his mouth before doing the same with Su Ming.

"Wang Xiu, take the girl into the Seven Spirit pool. Give her the bloodroot pill every hour. She's lucky to be alive."

Elder Wang Xiu carried Su Ming to the pool room and placed her inside the pool. She sat beside her holding the medicinal pills she would be administering every hour.

In the haven, the grand elder look at Ju Feng and sighed.

"We are fortunate we didn't loose any cultivator today. We have to be extra vigilant from today onward. Good things there are energies working inside his body to repair the damage already. The damage was serious enough to be a mortal wound, as a Zhuji cultivator, he should have been dead. He's surely stronger than he looks and the Crust Yellow pill really helped him at that time if not he could have died."

"Crust Yellow pill?"

"Su Ming gave him the yellow pill."

Shao Chen who had found his voice, said slowly.

All the elders turned to look at the other three disciples. They had forgotten about them.

"Well, she really saved his life."

"He will live. Take him to the misty fountain. Keep giving him a drop of the life elixir every hour."

The grand elder glanced at Ju Feng again. He was wondering how a Premier, a Zhuji cultivator, could survive a Revenant force-field. It wasn't something that a Premier should be able to achieve in the first place.

He turned to the other three remaining disciples.

"Did you see what happened?"

"Yes grand elder. We tried our best but he was too strong."

"He said he was looking for the Sinnughar core."

"The Sinnughar core? I see."

"We thought we were going to die."

"We are truly sorry for what you went through. Take these pills and go wash yourselves in the lake of stream light. I will see you all after that."

"Yes, grand elder."

The three of them replied at the same time and left the haven.

The grand elder with his hands behind his back, shook his head as he turned to the remaining elders. He knew the revenant could have caused a great destruction to their sect, had he not be checked at that time.

"We are truly fortunate."

"What happened grand elder?"

"It was an ascendant level revenant."

"What?"

"How?"

"It was a long story. I should have told you this before now."

Then, grand elder started to narrate the events that took place.