Goodbye Ruins

Long Yu began with a heavy sigh, " 'árbol que chupa sangre', is tree that is raised by demonic cultivators, they usually feed their tree living cultivators who acts as the nourishment for the tree, every so often these tree gives birth to a fruit which when consumed strengthens the soul of the person who consumed it."

Helen: "I do not see the need to strengthen my soul, why should I strengthen my when my own body is strong and it protects my soul."

Long Yu sighed for the umpteenth time, 'seriously this people are really from some backward place.', what he did not know because of his upbringing he had access to knowledge which were not readily available to others so easily even his own team 'Shadow Wolves', maybe knowledgeable than others they still lacked in comparison to Long Yu, "Well soul is a very important component of us, and in certain cases we have to strengthen our soul, like those who are undergoing tribulation to ascend to Immortality, the tribulation not only affects the body but also the soul if the soul is not up to the mark it can be easily get destroyed. Not to mention a powerful cultivator has ability to attack with what is known as 'Soul Force', which can only be achieved if one's soul is strong and can only be blocked by a person with equal or greater soul strength.", he took a deep breath before he continued again," There are a genre of Ki cultivators known as 'Puppeteers', they use soul force to command their puppets to their bidding and are mostly of two types

a) Construct puppeteer: this type of puppeteers usually create puppets using various precious items which they use for battles or any other purpose.

b) Corpse puppeteer: they are actually puppeteers who refine the body of a deceased cultivator using their secret technique to create puppets.

As I said this fruit can strengthen the soul of a person it also helps in gathering of massive amount 'Yin ki' for the person who ate the fruit, as such they are coveted by both corpse puppeteers and Jiangshi masters."

Tina:"Long Yu I have heard about 'Corpse puppeteers', but what is this 'Jiangshi master' cultivator is?"

Long Yu frowned as he answered, "They are cultivators who can reanimate the dead person as their obedient slave. A very powerful and talented Jiangshi master can even keep the conscious of a their Jiangshi slave completely intact, so just think about it a person who was your family but was raised as a Jiangshi to combat against you, that person talks and behaves just like he used to towards you when you were alive but now you are forced to fight against him, will you be able to face your loved one, your family at life death duel."

A shiver ran down on everyone's spine at that, the thought of being forced to fight against their precious person in a life and death duel.

Kyouki: "I never knew there were people like that in the world of cultivation", she spoke out with a hint of fear.

Ryofu: "So soul cultivation helps people with Yin type cultivation more?", she asked a little confused.

Long Yu shook his head, "No Soul cultivation does not favor 'Yin' type cultivation more in fact it enhances both 'Yin' or 'Yang' type of cultivations a little, normally body cultivators are lean towards 'Yang' type where as Ki cultivators lean towards 'Yin' type mostly only a few cultivation techniques or skills are opposite, but in case of Hybrid type they are different as they have to always maintain a delicate balance which most fail to maintain as such they end up leaning towards Yang or Yin side making them difficult to make any progress with their cultivation anymore, but if they can cultivate their soul it will be much easier to maintain balance."

Everyone was listening to his explanation earnestly, as such Ruth himself could not help but ask, "How, how does it help to maintain balance?"

Long Yu simply shrugged his shoulder, "I do not know".

Rong Niu, "What do you mean you do not know?", she could not help but ask out irritably, Long Yu was a goldmine when it came to information spending time with Long Yu they learned many things as such they could not help but try to squeeze out as much information from him as possible, but as such when he said he did not know something it caused frustration in him.

Long Yu:"I am very young as such I am not allowed to start cultivating my soul, because I might inadvertently end up damaging my soul, as you know a damaged soul is very difficult to heal and in some case it can lead to be permanently damaged. As such I have only basic knowledge about this stuff. I would also like to explicitly warn you do not I repeat do not try to learn some Soul cultivation skill from unknown or dubious sources as it will affect your future greatly."

Ryofu: "So if we were to consume this fruit from that we would gain strong soul.", as she spoke her eyes were again shining with greed, even some of the women mostly from her group had the same look in their eyes.

Long Yu gritted his teeth, he started to feel nauseated thinking about how greedy this people were again and again they were trying to take shortcut to gain strength without thinking about the side effects of such shortcuts, he himself knows there are various mystical items, fruits and medicinal plants which can greatly improve one's constitution their strength he himself has consumed many but this girls were shamelessly trying to consume without giving a second thought about the origin of the item nor are they thinking about the consequences that may occur by consuming such an evil fruit.

As such he could not help but speak out loud towards Ryofu in a cold tone which send shiver down everyone's spine, "Ryofu", in the entire time she was with Long Yu she never heard such a cold voice from him not only was it cold he seemed to as calm as ice, "I know you all want to acquire some form of heavenly fruit or medicine to increase your strength, I myself have consumed some I will not say anything to you for consuming as it make me hypocrite but please pay attention to the origin of such item, the fruit is created by sacrificing hundreds of cultivators, the tree only eats live prey, and it uses everything from his victim their body, their blood and even their soul, do you think you can safely eat such a fruit without damaging your karma, if you eat so much take a small bite of the said fruit you will become a demonic cultivator your karma will change from good to evil on top of that as soon as you step out of this ruins any righteous sect will hunt you down and kill you even your own sect included.", he saw Ryofu looking depressed at that being scolded like that by him really did brig her mood down greatly, sensing her sadness Long Yu sighed as he replied, "Ryofu I did not mean it only for you but also others as well, I singled you out because you were vocal about it I can see many of you desire to do the same but were not vocal about it, so please forgive me if I caused you some grief but as a friend I want the best for you."

Ryofu gave a tight hug to Long Yu, "Do not worry Long Yu, I am not sad at you but thank you for protecting and helping us.", she finished with a smile but as soon as Long Yu's head turned towards others her eyes became clouded as she was staring intently at Long Yu as a small smile etched her face, the others specially people from the Shadow Wolves did not like the look in her eyes.

Bashista: "If what you say I true then someone purposely left such a creature in the herbarium but that was eons ago even if they left it here how would they harvest the fruits."

Ruth: "Who knows it may be some member of the original 'Nine Headed Dragon' school did it as such they were killed. But unfortunately we do not have resource or skill to figure it out."

Soon the time flowed like a river and they suddenly they started glowing with intense light, soon they found themselves outside the school just outside the stadium where their journey began.

Before anyone could speak anything, a loud voice bellowed out in intense anger, "Long Yu you bastard child of a whore get here and receive the divine judgment."

Long Yu was pissed off at the person who insulted his mother before he gasped at seeing the person in front of him, the person…..