William could only smile seeing Silver's pout. But he felt really good speaking to a wise old monk. It was like speaking to his mentor Darren of his previous life.
He turned to see that everyone in his group was patiently waiting for him.
He thought, 'Hmph, they seem to look all tire. It's only natural. This is there first time leaving the palace and the journey was a long one. I must go to a hotel.'
He pondered and came to the place the monk mention. He led them along a long path and expecting a modest one.
But he was intrigue seeing the seven-story brick building in the style of Elizabeth Era. The colorful nameplate wrote as— Heaven Swan Abode!
Silver was the first to jump and reacted, "Haha, are we staying here tonight? After that long month of travel I can finally have some good food and sleep in a comfy bed."
Even the cold Ashley sighed with relieved, "I really need a bath."
William gave order, "Fine. Arrange everything. I'll leave everything about this matter to you. I don't have anything to say as we are all novice rich. We represent the Fire Dragon Kingdom. Get the best services and accommodation."
After that, he left. He'd other business to do. Actually, this crowded night life of the town reminded him of his hometown of previous life. So he wanted to spent his time alone while walking around the town randomly. He would only returned when he was tired.
Meanwhile on the gate of the town. Something was happening because of him unbeknown to him.
It was already late and the gate shut making the visitors who failed to get a token complain.
As usual, War General Crimson-Spear woke up and began to leave without uttering a single word. As usual, he always chose a path where there was not even soul pass. He didn't like noise of the town. So he avoided going through those path.
Actually he was walking through a thick wood in the dark night. More like he was sprinting. But he was just walking using a qinggong technique.
Suddenly, he felt a dreaded blasted over him from the sky.
Even though it was dark, his eyes could easily see because of his cultivation. He frowned sensing danger.
He quickly stepped back.
But the aura was even faster as he was soon trapped within a paste like thick aura pouring down from the sky.
His knees gave in forcing him to kneel over the ground. Still he gritted his teeth and stood up.
He looked up to see that there was nothing in the sky. Or maybe the attacker was too strong.
He called out, "Senior, please reveal yourself. It is not pleasing to ambush me in such manner. If I the Crimson-Spear die then I will give my all before I die and want to know who kill me instead."
He used both his Yuan Qi and Spiritual Ki strengthening his aura to repel another aura. It was either brute force to break an aura or use his own aura to repel an aura.
He gave everything in his own aura, gathering around his body.
A greenish misty aura gathered around him. Then the burden on him was reduced by half and stood up gradually.
"Oh, you can still gather your aura." A sweet voice of a lady chimed.
"Senior, why are you doing this? At least let me know who I offend to suffer today." He inquired trying to remember his passed foes and those he slew in his path to cultivation.
The lady hiding in the air spoke in a domineering tone, "You surprise me. But not good enough. Now I'll increase and used one percent my aura and you only need to use every bit of your strength to bear with it for an hour, if you are able to bear it then I'll spare you. And if you utter another nonsense I'll slap you to meat paste."
Suddenly, another thicker aura beamed showering over the war general.
This was the first time in his life, the war general faced such tribulation in life. Yes, he had faced many life and death situation in various episodes of his life. But this was the first time, his life was completely in the grasp of another cultivator. He felt like he was an ant facing the opponent.
But he was quick witted one. He knew if it was some kind of test offer by the unknown senior. Maybe an old hermit was passing the mountain wanted to take him as a disciple.
However he pondered that all those thought were useless before the trial of death he was facing now.
When the thick beam of aura washed over him he felt like was the sky was against him and wanted to crush him under its weight.
I had to endure. I don't like to stay here in this remote place as some unknown general when there was a larger world out there. This was my last straw to pick.
He quickly calmed his mind, sat cross-legged and began to run his cultivation technique. Soon a thick greenish mist spat out of his every pores and began to gather around his body. His effort was useless as he still felt the crushing weight over his body.
Every bone in his body quack with every second, propping sound of them echoed. He yelled in pain. Still, he was so focus that he used his cultivation technique to gather a large amount of yuan Qi from his dantian.
Next, his skin all over his body began to tear and blood oozed from all over dying red his white shirt.
His screamed only get hoarser with time. He felt every second bearing that weight was like a year. At first his resolved began to dwindle with the pain he bore. But soon, he felt breaking sound came from his dantian. It was like breaking the wall of a dam.
Next instance, a large amount of Yuan Qi began to gather from the surrounding and poured into his body lifting the sensation of the pain.
"Hah! I knew it." The sweet voice of the lady cheered. " If I pressure him a bit he would make a breakthrough which he would never break in his life."