Chapter 36.1 - Message from the old master

Li Xinwen wiped off the sweat from his forehead with the sleeve of his shirt while staring at the ten black and red coloured pills within the cauldron. Halfway through the process, the demonic qi acted up once again and he had to split his attention into two. He cursed An Wuya and his family, all the way to his ninth ancestor.

Taking one of the pills, he quickly stuffed it into his mouth. The pill melted as soon as it entered his mouth and he swallowed it. Li Xinwen closed his eyes as he waited for the pill to take effect. A few seconds later, Li Xinwen could feel that the rampant demonic qi from earlier was subdued and was caged by the pill's effect. As long as Li Xinwen doesn't use too much spiritual energy, he should be fine for a while. Though it's not a solution to his problem, this was all he could do for now.

"Lanyu, help me store the rest of the pills," Li Xinwen ordered the little fairy who had been accompanying him. Lanyu was about to move when he suddenly thought of something and paused in his track.

"Master, how about you keep these on your person?" Lanyu suggested. "What if things like last time happen again? Where I couldn't even reach you..."

"It's too conspicuous to bring along such large bottle with these round pills," Li Xinwen replied with a sigh.

Lanyu who heard this simply flew over to the shelves and pulled out one of the drawers. Taking the item inside, Lanyu went back to Li Xinwen's side and held it up with both hands. In his hands was a simple ring with no visible decoration. "The old master left this! It's new and not bound to anyone. Master can just bind this ring to himself and use it as storage! It's easier than leaving things here in the dimension," Lanyu explained. "Ah, but unlike the dimension, you can't store living things inside. Only inanimate objects."

"How come you didn't give this to me earlier?" Li Xinwen asked as he took the ring.

"Because the door to this room is sealed, ah!"

Li Xinwen realized his mistake but didn't say anything else to save his face. He bit onto his thumb, drawing blood and then smeared it onto the ring. The ring absorbed the blood, and Li Xinwen could finally send his spiritual awareness inside the ring. To his surprise, the ring is not empty as he had expected. There were two letters inside. One addressed to the new owner, the other, addressed to Lanyu.

While Li Xinwen inspected the ring, Lanyu had already worked on putting the pills into a bottle and sealed the openings. He was just waiting for Li Xinwen to store it in the storage ring when he heard Li Xinwen calls him.

"Lanyu."

"Hmm?" Lanyu looked up at Li Xinwen. "Is there something wrong, master?"

Li Xinwen took out the two letters and handed one to Lanyu. "This is for you. Your old master seems to have left you a message," Li Xinwen told the small fairy.

Lanyu stared at the letters and held it with two hands. He could see his old master's handwriting, the cursive way of writing that was uniquely belonged to him. Lanyu hugged the letter close but didn't open it to read the content.

"Not reading it?" Li Xinwen who saw this, asked. Lanyu only quietly shook his head so Li Xinwen didn't ask further. He reached out and lightly pats the spirit's head. "You can go and roast one of the chicken if you like. It's your reward for helping me today."

"Really?!" Lanyu's eyes immediately brightened up the moment Li Xinwen allowed him to have one chicken.

"En. So don't look so sad anymore," Li Xinwen said in a gentle tone. "I'm going outside. Remember, only one chicken," Li Xinwen reminded the fairy before he took the bottle of pills and placed it into the storage ring. He also went back to the main house and grabbed Shuang Ren, placing it into the same ring. Only after that did he leave the dimension.

Once Li Xinwen had left, Lanyu eyed the letter that Li Xinwen had given him. He was still hesitating whether or not he wanted to read it. In the end, he still opened the letter and began to read. The characters written on the parchment brought back memories for Lanyu and as read, a melancholic smile appeared on his face. Halfway through reading it, his eyes became blurry and by the end of the letter, droplets of water fell onto the parchment.

"Master... why did you leave us, ah... If you had told us, we would've gladly followed you..." Lanyu hugged the letter close as he cried his heart out.

Lanyu's sorrow, Li Xinwen who had formed a contract with him could naturally sense it. He had already noticed it after he had confronted An Wuya and Lanyu couldn't reach him, the little fairy had been acting unusual. Li Xinwen stared at the letter that the old master left for him.

In the letter, it mentions that the old master had come from the higher realm called Xiangya Yueliang. Based on the old master's description, it is a higher than Long Xing. Li Xinwen also knew that there are more than 3000 lower realms, 3000 middle realms and 3000 higher realms. And for one to achieve true Dao, they need to ascend through the realms.

Reading on, the master mentioned that while he was cultivating the dimension in an attempt to create a new realm, he had travelled through the realms, finding rare treasures to nourish the little dimension. He was close to succeeding and only needed three more items but during one of the excursion, he was ambushed by several demonic cultivators. Although he survived, he ended up being poisoned.

The poisons were deadly and the old master could sense that it was corroding not only his spiritual energy but also his soul. Towards the end, the old master finally left a message to ask small favour to the new owner.

[I did not tell the spirit fairies that I've raised about my condition. I didn't want them to worry. Even now, I could feel my life slipping. To the one who inherited this dimension. I leave everything to you. You can use them however you see fit, if you wish to help me complete the dimension, I have left the book in the study room but one of my fairies should have already told you that. In any case, even if you are someone from the lower realm, with all the cultivation manuals I've collected throughout my life, you should still be able to ascend all the way to the higher realm. All that I ask of you is to take care of the little fairies in this dimension.]

"There is only Lanyu left though," Li Xinwen said in a soft voice as if he wanted to inform the person who had written the letter. "And since I have benefited from the things you have left me, naturally I would help you take care of Lanyu."

Li Xinwen put the letter back into the ring storage. After that, he got up and went over to the bathroom. Since he had been sweating earlier, he felt that he needed to clean himself up. He had only stood under the shower for five minutes when he suddenly heard his door being knocked, followed by Sun Xiao's voice.

"Xin-gege, Xin-gege! Help! There's something in my room!!"