Divinity

underground Cave

"I'll collect your body downstream kid"

Gue Fenlong calmly walked from behind the tree, he headed downstream as if walking in his own backyard. With the wildly burning flames around, it was as if it had nothing to do with him whatsoever.

With his strength being at 8 meridians and with his talent to fight above his level, Gue Fenlong was confident that only those at 10th meridian and True Master could contend against him. This wasn't arrogance but sure facts from his various achievements in the martial arts world.

"Damnit, Gue Fenlong got to him first. Now we won't be able to do anything to the kids. This is so frustrating"

Gue Henxe gritted her teeth in frustration, even Gue Man was feeling add about the issue at hand. He was beaten and humiliated, Gue Henxe was beaten badly, even worse than he was, but now, the person who had done all of this was killed by someone else instead.

The level of frustration was real. Not to mention that Gue Fenlong had a very high status within the Gue tribe, and his grandfather was the grand elder. He was seen as the next rising star within the tribe and both of them had to look up to him when he passes by, but it went without saying, Gue Fenlong was indeed very strong for his age.

To date, he was 17 and it was it first coming of age ceremony because he chose not to take part in the previous ceremony due to close door training set by his grandfather several years back.

***

At time continued to pass, several elders rushed out of the Bia Tribe, all using various means to put out the forest fire at their fastest speeds possible. Bia Suyu's anger spiked at the moment, this was because he could sense fire elemental energy in the air and the use of spiritual energy. With these findings, the thought that it could be Bia Xiao was washed away and the thought of someone trying to take advantage of the Bia tribe was birthed.

"Any outside members found within the forest, I want their heads, regardless of background, now!"

Bia Suyu shouted with growing furiosity. One had to know that the forest was one of their natural source of food as well as a source of wood for houses and bridges and the likes. If the forest was destroyed, then the tribe would have truly taken a hit. It would have then taken the next 10 years or so to regrow a new forest, life stock would be lost during that regrowth period.

The currents of the river couldn't be considered as calm, the river was 200 meters wide and it's length unknown. Bai Xiao's body was washed away by the currents, hitting several rocks at the bottom.

He was holding his breath with all that he got, the nameless energy inside his body still circulating without pause, he could feel every cycle it took within his body without him needing to do anything. Even at death's doors, it was strange to him, he didn't know he had this strange energy within his body nor can he remembered if he had trained this energy either.

The only thing he remembered training was the Raging Tiger Art. And the funny thing about the Raging Tiger Art was that it was given to him by his father and wasn't anything special or was it?

While Bia Was being pulled by the Raging currents, the nameless energy inside of his body started to go out of control, his body seems to be working with the currents, changing directions under the great river.

But even in doing so, his body was badly beaten by the rocks underneath. Blood flood out of his body none stop as he almost lost consciousness a few times. His body was then sucked underground between two rocks and lost in darkness.

After what seemed like an eternity, Bia Xiao could hear the dripping of water every few seconds. He tried to open his eyes a few times but ended in failure, his body was too weak and badly wounded to do so.

"At least I'm not dead"

Bia Xiao thought inside if his head. Even though he couldn't open his eyes, he could still feel a strange source roaming around his body. It made his blood excited, it twisted his emotions and he felt like he wanted to shout in a big fashion, as if ready to roar at the endless heavens.

"What is happening to me"

Bia Xiao's braining was running through the experience of his life and all he could think of was the Raging Tiger Art his dad gave him.

"Could this energy by from practicing the Raging Tiger Art. But how I didn't do any meditations are anything, no breathing techniques or the likes so how"

Bia Xiao was lying beside an underground river, his body had stopped bleeding a long time ago. The broken shoulder bone though not healed, was starting to show signs of healing, his leg and chest were also showing signs of slow recovery, though extremely slow.

After a long three whole days, Bia Xiao finally is woken up and was able to sit up with great effort. His body was in all sorts of pain, with several cuts all over his body from the sharp rocks that were on the river bed. It was a miracle he was killed within the river and had the fortune to make it this for. 

***

Two days before**

***

While Bia Suju was using his flame arts to absorb the fire, the was running to and from within the forest. On the second day of hard work, the fire was also put out with the great half of the forest, being lost.

While doing his best the forest fire, he ran into Gue Fenlong by the river. Gue Fenlong without even saying a word dashed away with the quickest of speed possible while set ablaze the rest of the forest as a form of distraction.

But what he didn't expect was that Bia Suju was a Master realm expert and he had almost died while trying to escape. Bia Suju in his raging had almost set the whole forest ablaze and was drawn back to the outage of the forest thus Gue Fenlong was able to escape.

In Bia Suju's rage, he swore to destroy the Gue tribe someday. Gue Henxe and Gue Man escaped with half their lives after running into a few weaker elders. This goes to show that they had a vast amount of battle experience, thus when Bia Xiao had brutally beaten them, they felt endless shame. 

*** 

Bia Xiao painfully got up to his feet, feeling a world of pain all over. He looked around to find that he was in an underground cave, which was dark for the most part. The reason for the slim source of light was coming from the deeper parts of the cave and strange enough, this slim glance of light was warm and blue in color.

"How strange, this light feels so warm and comfortable. It's as if it was made for me"

Bia Xiao thought that the small blue light coming from the deeper parts of the cave was strange and the feeling it gave him, made it feel even stranger. It was as if his body very much needed this light and couldn't live without getting it.

"I wonder how long I've been here"

Bia Xiao thought to himself as he slowly started to make his way towards the light source. The closer got, the more comfortable he felt. His excited blood started to calm down as his heartbeat started to slow down.

Even after an hour of walking, Bia Xiao couldn't see the end of the cave or the source of where the light his coming from. He continued to walk onwards nonetheless, after one day of walking, he found that his body was healing much quicker than expected. It was as if the closer to the light source he got, the faster his body would heal, and the stronger his spirit would feel.

"What going on here. I haven't even entered the meridian opening, so how could this be"

Bia Xiao could feel the nameless energy getting stronger with each passing day he got closer to the light source. But the shocking thing was, the closer he got, the hotter the heat and environment became. Even the river had to change course and headed off in a different direction than where the light was coming from.

Six days later, Bia Xiao started to realize that he hadn't eaten and that even now, he didn't feel hungry. It came at a great show to him. Humans had to eat, it was their only source of energy, only those who had broken through the 6th stage of the meridian opening realm and could connect firmly with spiritual energy could bypass this obstacle but even so, they could only go for a month the least.