3 THE END OF AN ERA.

"Senior, y...you mean this child brought destruction to the milky sea and robbed you of your powers." asked Sun wu kong while scratching his head and looking at the kid.

"Stupid" Lord Shoora knocked Sun wu kong head lightly.

"Ouch! Senior?" cried Sun wu kong while feeling his head.

"I said that child is related, but not directly involved alright?" said Lord Shoora.

"H-how is he related to the things happening then?" asked Sun wu kong.

"I don`t know, all I can see is a faint relation between the birth of this child and the death of the previous era`s 'GOD VENERABLE'". said Lord Shoora.

"What?" cried Sun wu kong who was stupefied.

"W-which era`s "GOD VENERABLE" are you talking about" asked Sun wu kong.

"Of course it`s your era I am talking about" said Lord Shoora with twinkling rays in his eyes.

"Lord Shoora it`s not even a joke, you clearly said it was previous era`s "God Venerable", then wouldn`t that make it your era, after all, you are much much older than me" said mockingly Sun wu kong.

Veins popped up on the forehead of Lord Shoora but he still maintained the never caring expression on his face while swinging his tail around.

"Brat, this is the profound mystery, the likes of you can never understand, humph." Lord Shoora clearly knows that Sun Wu kong is weak to the suspense.

"Senior, enough, please enlighten me" asked Sun wu kong while being annoyed to no ends.

"Wu kong, I said I met you around millenniums ago, didn`t I." said Lord Shoora.

"This again, are you really being forgetful these days?" asked Sun wu kong while interrupting Lord Shoora.

"Brat just listen to me alright, otherwise I will spank your butt till it gets beetroot red." said Lord Shoora.

"Ok" said Sun wu kong timidly.

"You see I had met you before millenniums ago, but you said, you met me around 200 years ago, don`t you understand yet?" asked Lord Shoora while being serious.

"I am sorry, I am a fool, I don`t understand please explain to me" said Sun wu kong with twitching facial expressions.

"It`s because of you crossed space-time gate and came to this era from the dead era." said Lord Shoora while feeling pleased with oneself.

"So, you mean to say that the golden gate I crossed is a space-time gate?" asked Sun wu kong.

"Uh-Huh" said Lord Shoora.

"Oh... Oh-Ohhhh" Sun wu kong didn`t know what to say anymore.

"But why?" asked Sun wu kong.

"No whys.." said Lord Shoora.

"That gate was meant solely for the child but not you, ok?"

"Hmmm.... so that does explain the things to an extent, but what about you and the people chased you?" asked Sun wu kong.

"First you tell me whether you can use your strength here?" asked Lord Shoora.

"No... I can`t ... it seems my cultivation is sealed." said Sun wu kong.

"But I think i can use my physical strength..." said Sun wu kong while throwing his fist towards the cave wall behind him.

"Hey, stop it Idiot you will get..." Lord Shoora tried to stop but it was too late.

"Ow...owowow... it hurts" shouted Sun wu kong while clutching his hand and rolling on the ground.

"My strength... my strength.... I can feel it in my body but I can`t use it." said Sun wu kong while looking with empty eyes.

"It really is like that even for someone who crossed the space-time gate and came to this era hmmm." said Lord Shoora.

"You see, the "GOD VENERABLE" expert who died in your era was Lord Gautama Buddha." said Lord Shoora with regret and sadness.

"What?" Sun wu kong was horrified.

" Was not Lord Buddha a "GOD VENERABLE" expert only below the supreme" asked Sun wu kong whose inner state was in chaos.

"Isn`t his life force almost infinite? How did that happen?" asked Sun wu kong.

"You... " Lord Shoora wanted to say something but hesitated.

"I can only say that Lord Buddha died. I did not witness it in fact I don`t think except for me nobody knows about it." said Lord Shoora.

"On that day I was meditating in my cave alone and when I was in deeper meditative state I got disturbed by shockwaves of horrifying energy fluctuations that nearly shook the entire universe.

When I concentrated my consciousness towards the fluctuations source, my soul got nearly torn in half. There was a battle going on between two "SUPREME" level experts." said Lord Shoora with a horrified face.

"What? SUPREME level experts?" shouted Sun wu kong.

"Yes, I couldn`t sense who the opponent is while the other one was our "BAI HAI" universe SUPREME." said Lord Shoora with reverence.

(BAI HAI is the name of universe, not supreme.)

Sun wu kong gulped the saliva. He had never even heard the SUPREME`s name let alone see him.

"So then what happened?" asked Sun wu kong.

"I don`t know at that time all the 14 universe were trembling at mere fluctuations of energy emitted from the 2 SUPREMES." said Lord Shoora.

"All I know is that the SUPREME of another universe used Dao Rule to seal everyones`s cultivation realm who is above celestial Immortal/Immortal emperor. The higher the cultivation realm is the stronger the seal and restrictions will be." said Lord Shoora.

"At that time I was Half-step GOD VENERABLE expert, even I couldn`t escape from the DAO RULE." said Lord Shoora.

"After that I used many years to investigate the changes occurring around our universe, though my cultivation realm is sealed, I could still use my divine sense and found a way to unseal my strength a bit." said Lord Shoora.

"How did you do that?" asked Sun wu kong feeling anxious because he couldn`t bear the feeling of being powerless.

"It`s simple, I just burnt my LIFE ESSENCE to block the DAO RULE for awhile." said Lord Shoora.

"Is it that serious? did you get weak because you burnt your life essence?" asked Sun wu kong feeling unbelievable for what Lord Shoora did.

"No... I got Injured while doing my investigation. I got ambushed by New Blood" said Lord Shoora.

"New Blood?" asked Sun wu kong as he never heard the name ever.

"New Blood are children of "GAIA"." said Lord Shoora.

"She is creating her own forces." said Lord Shoora.

pfft... Sun wu kong laughed.

"Senior it`s not like they are super experts right?" said Sun wu kong.

"After all "GAIA" is a mere GOD KING expert who is far below you let alone her children." said Sun wu kong.

"Brat, the times have changed, there are DARK forces everywhere, upon my Investigations I found out that Lord Buddha sacrificed his life and sealed away our universe from the harm of other universes." said Lord Shoora.

"So that new generations would produce new experts and defend our universe."

"But the plans of Lord Buddha are inferior to the plans of heavens." said Lord Shoora.

"What do you mean?" asked Sun wu kong.

Lord Shoora left the baby sleeping and took Sun wu kong to outside of the cave.

"It`s been so long since you came to this era, did you sense anything different from our era?" asked Lord Shoora.

With the remind of Lord Shoora, Sun wu kong extended his Divine Sense to the surroundings which clearly showed it belonged to a GOD KING expert.

"This... is...what..the" after inducing things around him Sun wu kong was astonished beyond his sense.