In that moment where the passage was opened and I saw her lagging behind, I began to feel a bad premonition in my heart, then my concerns were confirmed when I saw that the passage had collapsed while neither the two of you were in sight .
Trying to reach her even if I had to dig a passage with my Flesh and Blood, I was pulled back by the guards as that Song Che had already set another trap for those who might be able to survive the collapsing of the inner area collapse, so I was pulled back just a second before the whole place collapsed on itself .
Again, I'm in your eternal debt for saving Ji Xi, she is a bit stubborn and quite hot tempered but she is my sister, so thank you for saving here, I believe now that her fate might have indeed shifted a little thanks to your help, if you excuse me, I want to go and check on here .
I gave him a nod while I was completely engrossed in trying to understand what he just told me, my brain seemed to be completely offline, I don't know if whether I was still suffering from exhausting my soul power or whether I had just overworked it enough for today's already .
After he got out, I felt my eyes get quite heavy, I understood that I was in need for some good sleep, a day or two had passed while we were down there, I was beginning to have all sorts of cravings, hunger, bath, sleep, rest, I was in a complete mess .
I was unable to stop myself from falling asleep, thinking that even though this place shouldn't be called completely safe, I wasn't in the right mind to go anywhere else, so this place would do for now .
I let my eyes and body rest and even though the pole I was leaning on didn't make a good pillow or a nice bed, for the me now, finding something to rest on was already enough to make me feel like I was in heaven, discarding all of my other cravings, I let myself be drifted to the land of dreams .
~Roar~ .
At least that was the plan, but just as I closed my eyes, the face of a Dragon with red eyes came into my point of view and it almost headbutted me, jolting me back to reality, at least I thought that I was jolted back to reality, but this wasn't what actually happened, I was still dreaming, the dream was the only thing that was different this time .
In this dream I have, I saw two people in front of me, a man and a woman, the man had horns stick out of his forehead like antlers, his face was kind and he seemed to be happy about something as he looked at me in his hands .
In this dream I was a little baby held in the strong arms of a strong but seemed to be a kind man, his face was quite similar to mine, or maybe I was the one similar to his, his red eyes looked almost identical to mine, but his was deep red, while mine on the other hand was close to a brighter shade of red .
His hair was black and seemed to be combed, but even though it was combed like this, it still seem quite long, the man face seemed to carry a hint of brilliance and the face to my eyes seemed to be actually gleaming, I was feeling at ease just by looking at his face that seemed to carry a hint of determination that was enough to shake the Heavens .
The arms holding me put me at ease and implanted a sense of comfort deep inside me, I felt in his hands that even if the sky was to fall on me, those two hands will be enough to support me and push them back, it was an addictive feeling, a feeling that I had long lost, the feeling of belonging and having someone to support you, I had only got to feel something like this back in my previous world .
It's as if my memory of the time I spent there became more or less foggy, I only remembered that this exact feeling was how I felt when I got embraced by my parents for the first time after I was born, a memory that I shouldn't normally have been able to recall, but this feeling was missing something .
Husband, you had already held him for more than enough time, let me held him, now .
A soft voice that sent the me in the dreams chills, but it wasn't the chills that came to be out of fright, but it was craving for the piece that I felt missing, maternal love, the man seemed to be reluctant to part with me, but the woman seemed to have already lost her patience with him and snatched me out of his arms directly .
For a second, I felt as if I had lost all the sense of comfort I was feeling, but then it was replaced by an even more intense comfortable feeling, I felt as if I was a block of ice that was exposed directly to the sun, I melted in that woman embrace without any surprises .
Warm, the feeling I got from being embraced by her was the absolute warmth, she was a woman that seemed to be quite young, her eyes were gleaming brilliantly and innocently like a child who was given his favourite toy to play with, she was a woman of great beauty, but her eyes still seemed to carry some sadness in them, she was a woman with her very own experiences and adventures it seem .
She was like the sun to me, smiling brightly while cooing me in her embrace, trying to make me laugh, I felt the me in the dream reach happily to her face and she leaned down and rained me down with kisses, I didn't know whom I was dreaming of, but I was able to tell that this dream was a happy one .
My eyes got heavy after playing for so long and I found myself closing them down, then after some time I opened them up and thought that I might wake up and come back to reality, even though I didn't want to, but that wasn't the case, once I opened my eyes, I saw that I was flying in the air and the air around me was so refreshing that I felt like I could never get used to it .
I was still being embraced by the woman in my dream who should be my mother, she was holding me more closely than ever and for some reason, her face seemed to carry a hint of concern planted on all over her face .
Suddenly from behind us, there was a loud bang voice as if the world was being destroyed, then a few shadowed figures appear and seem to be chasing us, wherever they went, a grave black color would swallow the horizon and they will increase their speed even more .
My mother was urging her husband to move more quickly, the father of mine was the golden Dragon that we were currently flying on its back, golden and sharp like scales, a body that was as steady and big as mountain, a head that was majestic and as big as the truck that have hit me, or even bigger, my current state didn't allow me to see how big he was .
All I know was that the dragon's eyes suddenly gleamed with red and the next thing I know, the horizon that was turned black just now suddenly was illuminated by the appearance of bolts of devastating lightening that hit those creature hiding in the shadows and did quite the number on them, their bodies kept flashing with golden lightening that wanted to devour them whole, but that wasn't still enough to get rid of all of them .
Then a great circle of golden energy appeared before us, then we were back to the scene I saw before, colorful skies, different ball of lights like fairy dancing around me, a complete contrast to the scene I witnessed just now .
Husband, what should we do, Tian'er would be in danger like this, can't you do something ? .
The man who magically transformed into a Dragon before, or maybe he was a Dragon that turned into a human, either way had a bitter and still comforting smile on his face, but his eyes were gleaming out of anger, but even though he was quite angry about something, he said in a low voice :
Tian'er was born like this and now the whole clan decided that they didn't care about his life and death, they will refuse to help him even if I were to offer items of the same values for the thing that could help him at least able to practice normally, without him having to relay on his bloodline .
They are even eyeing my position as a heir to my father's legacy, being the head of the clan, Cai'er, how would you feel if we were to leave this place and start taking care of Tian'er elsewhere .
But in that elsewhere, wouldn't they able to reach Tian'er and hurt him .
It's at least better than staying in this unkind place, I also feel like I reached a bottleneck with my current technique, so I will need to give making rapid progress some rest .
The two looked at each other and both understood the thoughts and intentions of one another, then after they embraced one another and me, the scene changed yet again, I was in a Grand Hall, even more massive and majestic than any that I had seen, the walls were decorated with dragons carved into them .
My parents suddenly bowed down in front of an old man, he looked like an old man with his white Beard and gray hair, he sat on a throne that was magnificent to say the least, the man looked at what was happening with a frown on his solemn face, he then said :
Give him to me .
Even though this was just a dream, the unquestionable authority in that man's voice was enough to make my parents hand me easily to him, the old man with antlers similar to the ones my allegedly father have held me in his arms, then without any warning, his solemn face transformed into the most ridiculous smile that I have ever seen on anyone's face .
It made him lose all his majestic air around him and he now even looked a bit silly, I couldn't help but think like that, seeing the wide grin on his face as he started making weird faces and pull even some childish tricks to try and make me laugh .
The me in the dream seem to have liked what he saw or maybe this was just a reward for the effort that old man had made, the child started to giggle a little, which made the old man face brighten as well and his grin widened even more, as he lent me one of his fingers to play with, he turned to look at my parents and said a bit grimly :
So, have you two made up your mind, Cai'er, Long'er? .
The two of them remained silent, before the husband finally knelt down on the floor, followed by his wife and he Long'an said :
Forgive me for being unfilial son, Father, I promise to come back and hopefully you would still be willing to have me share your burdens again .
The old man seemed to fall silent for a while, letting the scenebecome quite heavy, then the old man suddenly let a cry as the kid who in his arms bit his finger, the old man then smiled joyfully and said to the baby :
Even though you don't have any dragon bloodline in you, you are still a dragon of my Long Ni tian lineage, hahaha, oh Aotian, I had no doubt that even heaven would have feared you being born with Dragon bloodline, but your grandpa still hope that you will surprise him in the future .
Long'an, you need to raise your head up, else you would really make this Father here lose a lot of his face today, I know how those bastards have been treating you all these years, but me as your father was unable to do anything to help, I should be the one apologizing to you and your family .
The old man was serious about it as well and he was about to kneel down when the two people on the floor hurried up and stopped him, each holding one of his arms while saying simultaneously and in unison :
Father, please don't .
The old man after some struggle from the two had finally allowed them to help him up, he then punctured his finger and a drop of Golden Blood the size of a massive watermelon appeared, then it started to shrink more and more until it had become the size of a sesame seed, then it sunk into the boy forehead, the two parents were shocked at this and seemed to berate him for doing this, but he raised his hand and stopped them both .
Then his forehead lit up slightly and that light entered the head of the child and all that I was able to hear was :
Maybe this was destined to you all along, I hope to see you completing it Aotian, your grandpa is cheering for your success .
The the light sunk into the child mind, his vision blurred and his scene changed for the last time, his parents were living now in a shabby hut of their own making perhaps, but they were so happy about it, the smiles had never left their faces and even though they were living in a place that made people frown, they made that shabby hut, a Palace .
The baby grow up and grow up in this happy atmosphere, then his mother suddenly surprised him with the news about him having a younger sibling soon, then all this happiness they were living in vanished when his mother was about to give birth .
People dressed in dark cloaks appeared and the last thing that boy remembered were two messages left to him by his parents :
You remember the story I used to tell you about how you acquired the name Tian Long, telling you how a dragon appeared when you were born, You Are That Dragon, My Sweet Little Dragon .
That was the message he heard the tired voice of his mother gave him, his father's message on the other hand was one that filled him with determination and pride :
Remember son, you are my pride, we in the Dragon Clan don't throw away our pride, I will always be by your side, the minute you need me to, you will find me there to help you in standing up on your feet again, Aotian, we might be away for a while, but only for a while, we will come back for you, I hope that next time we meet you, we won't be putting you in such danger, farewell Aotian .
The next scene change was me walking up back to reality while feeling my heart pounding so hard as if it want to escape from my chest, I want to calm it down, but I wasn't able to do so, my heart wasn't the only part of me which acted this weirdly, my eyes started to become watery, even though all that was nothing but a dream .
A quite realistic dream, but it just my subconscious making something to cheer me up, yet at the end, it seem that it turned to be quite dark, dark enough to make me react like this now, the faces of the people whom I met in that dream, I found myself itching them into my mind .
Ready for the banquet .
Just as I was engrossed in my own thoughts, I heard Chu Jian calling me and asking this, forcing me out of my thoughts, maybe that was for the better, I stood up and said :
" Could I be allowed to visit Chu Ji Xi first, on our way to the banquet ? .
Sure thing, let me lead you there .