30 Their Past [2]
It took a year for Long Zhang to be able to accept that his caretaker has disappeared. He killed every cultivator that knew his identity as a painting since that was a promise that he made with the elder.
After the elder that took care of Long Zhang disappeared, the young man lived in his home like a lost person until a huge white dragon with black whole eyes, the guardian of the Mystic Continent told the man to explore the outside world.
"Perhaps, you will find what you seek."
Aside from the elder that took care of him, the dragon is another being that he is familiar with.
Without thinking so much, Long Zhang took the ring that the elder personally gave him when he first able to cultivate and leave the boundary of the Mystic Continent guided by the dragon.
As soon as he flew across the sea on top of the solid painting, the first land he found in the Broad Continent is the place where Tian Xuan was born as a blade of silver grass.
A mysterious energy is attracting him to land on the Celestial White Forest.
He was attracted to walk into a certain place where the unknown source of energy is attracting him. There, he found an odd single blade of silver grass among the common grass under the huge tall tree.
Long Zhang leaned closer to the grass because he felt his world is changing but when he could feel that the little grass has a consciousness, he stepped away. He has learned the lesson that everything that has consciousness cannot be underestimated.
However, just as he stepped back one foot, the silver grass suddenly grew and tied around him.
He tried to burn the grass but he felt hurt somewhere inside him when he did so.
The silver grass is naturally Tian Xuan but the boy had been clueless that the qi that he has been sucking from came from Long Zhang.
To breakthrough from 5,000 Year to 10,000 Superior Realm, Tian Xuan needed an abundant amount of pure qi.
He listened to the system as it told him that there is a source of pure qi next to him and was recommended to absorb from it. Tian Xuan doesn't know what is next to him or what is he absorbing.
All he knew is to follow the system instructions.
Because the silver grass sucked the spiritual energy that is from inside of Long Zhang, Tian Xuan was able to speed up his cultivation and released Long Zhang after a year of absorbing him dry.
The man wanted to cut the grass but no matter what, he couldn't bring himself to hurt the grass. He felt weird in his heart as if his heart going to be torn open by something if the grass was hurt by him.
He also noticed that whenever he is at the limit of being sucked dry, the grass would stop absorbing the qi but still continue to tie his hand. Which mean, the grass also has a conscience of its own.
Once the man recovered, the grass will suck the qi from the man again. The process repeated until the grass breakthrough 100,000 Year cultivation stage.
Only after a year, the grass stopped tying up the man and he felt that the grass consciousness getting even more evident and stronger. This is when Tian Xuan breaking through to 100,000 Year cultivation stage and Tian Qiu told him that he could stop absorbing.
In exchange for the qi that he absorbed, the grass [the universe] gave Long Zhang the silver grass ultimate ability and Tian Xuan unable to inherit that ability.
Long Zhang can absorb other people qi. The universe bestowed the young man wisdom inside his dream to impart the ability of the silver grass.
One would have thought that after being released by the grass, he would leave the place. Yet, Long Zhang never truly leaves the silver grass.
He is always around to observe the grass curiously.
Not only that, the young Long Zhang even killed whichever beasts that wanted to devour the silver grass. The young man himself doesn't realize that he has developed something in his heart toward the silver grass.
Tian Xuan does remember that when he just founded his core, demon beasts came to eat him but they mysteriously disappeared before the universe protection activates itself.
Looking at the memory, he finally knows why they disappeared.
Long Zhang is the one that has been protecting him from the demon beasts as well as the immortal that wanted to pluck Tian Xuan off the ground.
After a long time, Long Zhang never neglect his cultivation and has created his second soma.
His soul traveled to pin his reincarnation point in the cave where Tian Xuan and Long Zhang just met in their human form. It was the only place that gave him a sense of assurance.
In this world, everything that happens is no coincidence. For Tian Xuan to meet Long Zhang in the same cave in the future has been written all along in the book of fate.
However, no one knows what will happen until it has passed.
Not too long after the man created his second soma, something huge occurred in the Celestial White Forest.
It was the day the Devil Lord of Calamity from the devil tribe came to subjugate the land where Tian Xuan was born at, the Celestial White Forest.
It is also the first time Tian Xuan ever feels dreads overwhelming him. The Lord of Calamity has the strength of at least Ten Billion Ding. His soul is trembling in fear when he first encountered with the devil lord.
Even when he is terribly wounded, the lord will be able to kill Tian Xuan in one slash if the universe ultimate protection is not available.
Hundred thousands of devils of General and hundreds devil duke, ten devil kings and exactly three devil emperors were deployed under the Lord of Calamity orders, annihilating a huge part of the divine forest.
The demon beasts Four Grand Lords that have never been seen together made an appearance to protect their home and fought against the devil tribe.
The war went on for more than ten years.
Many places around the forest were burned and turned into the barren land from the evil and deadly aura that the devil brought upon the land. Both party ruthlessly fought disregarding of their own lives for the sake of the forest.
The demonic beasts fought to protect their home while the devils fought to subjugate the forest.
At last, one of the demonic beast Lord ascend to be a saint and won the long lasting war.
Even though half of the forest already turned into a wasteland, the demon beasts won and the devil army retreated back to the underworld.
The wounded devil Lord purposely stayed behind to let the devil army retreat safely and coincidentally escaped to the place where Tian Xuan is at.
The silver grass is a healing grass that could heal any races including devil tribe.
Long Zhang has been taught by the elder about many things including the apothecary.
"No!" He shouted and rushed to protect the little grass that he has been taking care of for many years.
He pulls out every moves that he knows from watching the war between the beast and the devils to fight the devil lord. He fought the enemy that is stronger than him by folds, barehanded.
Despite the devil Lord is wounded, Long Zhang lacked fighting technique so at the end, the man died and the devil Lord is killed by the universe protection system.
