During the 3 months Chen HaoYu was gone. Zhao Congming and the others had searched for him.
The sprout had also grown to a small tree, the height of a child.
Chen HaoYu sister's, Chen ZhiYa, school had already started having their vacation this week and Chen ZhiYa planned to stay at Chen HaoYu's house for the vacation.
Chen HaoYu's parents had agreed to it since they also plan to visit Chen HaoYu and see how he is doing.
Naturally, Zhao Congming and the others didn't know but they knew that Chen ZhiYa was close to her brother.
Although Chen ZhiYa hasn't been actively talking to Chen HaoYu recently because she still remembers what happened during the accident and she felt guilty for forcing Chen HaoYu to go to her school at that time especially when Chen HaoYu's school was about to have their exam.
Yes, Chen HaoYu still went to school before the accident and at that time Chen HaoYu didn't want to go to his sister's school because he was practicing his magic for his exam but out of love for his sister and that they were close since they were kids, he went to her school.
After that incident and that his magic core couldn't be repaired, he stopped going to school. His parents had already discussed about him dropping out of school to the principal.
Chen ZhiYa even thought that Chen HaoYu wanted to stay away from her when she heard that Chen HaoYu wanted to live alone.
So now that it's vacation, Chen ZhiYa wanted to compensate and accompany Chen HaoYu to help him in whatever he needs.
...
At midnight. The moon hung high accompanied by the twinkling stars illuminating the world.
In a cave hidden behind the waterfalls. A young man lay peacefully inside the pond with his eyes closed, as if he's in a coma.
Though he looked peaceful. In the illusion Chen HaoYu is in, as of now has listless eyes and muttering nonstop just like those whispers.
In the past months, he was shouting and been swimming around and around looking for a way out. As time passes, he gradually became numbed with the whispers and even started muttering, he no longer has perception of time. He was just floating around in the dark space as if becoming one with the illusion and even his voice started becoming illusory.
But throughout the past months of suffering, his body had undergo a change.
The chaos energy in the pond had seeped to Chen HaoYu, making his muscles stronger, his skin got fairer, and even his short black shair was smoother and softer. All in all, his appearance had change even though he still had the ordinary face and body proportions but because of the integration with chaos energy, he is much more different from others.
Of course, those are not the main points.
The chaos energy that seeped to his body had filled up his magic core with chaos energy, now he is able to cultivate with chaos energy. It has also strengthen his spiritual veins making it suitable for absorbing chaos energy.
Though these are benefits but there are also disadvantages.
With the chaos energy filling up his magic core, it had made his magic core illusory so Chen HaoYu would have a hard time seeing if his magic core is depleted during a battle.
Not only that, with chaos energy swirling inside Chen HaoYu. This had also made him illusory so people might not even recognize him or they might just think that they're hallucinating and this illusory feeling will affect both foes or friends. People will also tend to forget Chen HaoYu existence because of the chaos energy characteristics.
There are also danger with having chaos energy, because Chen HaoYu would always hear those whispers whether he sleeps or not. As long as chaos energy is within him, the whispers will not go away.
If Chen HaoYu succumbed to the whispers, he could die or become an evil chaos beasts.
Evil chaos beasts are called to those who have succumbed to chaos energy. Having chaos energy is both a blessing and a disaster.
The few primordial creatures that had obtained the power of chaos energy are the only creatures that can say how terrifying the chaos energy is.
Yes, chaos energy is not something that can be obtained easily and even if one can obtain it, it will also depend on how one can survive with the chaos energy.
Many primordial creatures and even ancient humans had the desire of obtaining the chaos energy but if they were to know the consequences of having chaos energy then they probably would not even dare to see it, let alone have it.
As for those who knew about the consequences. Well, probably only their generations knows but even so, how can we guarantee that the later generations would follow the warnings of their ancestors? They may even thought that their ancestors just don't want them to have chaos energy.
That is why no one knows about this and everyone still try to seek chaos energy.
Probably the only ones who are not affected by chaos energy are the Aeon Wisps, since they were created and born from chaos energy itself.
...
The dawn was breaking.
Chen HaoYu is still inside the pond.
Suddenly, the still pond that was full to the brim started evaporating.
If a cultivator stood beside the pond, they would notice that the magical aura or that illusory feeling when staring at the pond had disappeared!
The chaos pond had become an ordinary one and for some reason, it started evaporating filling the cave with white mist.
Soon it became a dried pond with Chen HaoYu lying in the middle of it.
2 hours later.
Chen HaoYu finally got out from that dark space. The dark space had also faded along with the pond.
When Chen HaoYu opened his eyes, white mist is the only thing he could see.
'Am I in heaven?' He thought.
Suddenly, he felt something jelly under his palm when he sat up. Lifting his hand, he saw a blue teardrop just like the deep ocean.
Looking at it would make one feel an illusory feeling.
Carefully picking it up, it is really jelly. As holding one end vertically causes the other end to droop due to gravity.
Standing up, he stretched, "I wouldn't do something like this again, good thing I'm still alive but I don't know if I can be alive again next time something like this happened. I'll have to be careful with everything I do."
"There's not even a benefit for suffering like that!" Chen HaoYu stomped his feet in anger. Chen HaoYu currently didn't know about what he had obtained here.
Chen HaoYu strode out of the cave, planning to go back home. He didn't know how much time he had spent here but he hoped that it wasn't long.
Unbeknownst to Chen HaoYu, he was muttering and his eyes were listless but if someone stared at him in the eyes that person would hallucinate. The same goes if someone tried listening to what he was muttering.
He had learned his lesson, he would be cautious with everything that he is going to do.