cultivate for revenge

The Dragon-Serpent

"W-What happened to you?" The old man asked. The sadness in his voice was obvious.

"Take him as your disciple," Jong Ji's father repeated as his body slowly started to disappear. "I leave him in your hands. Take care of him."

"Wait!" The old man screamed. However, more than half of the body of Jong Ji's father disappeared.

Jong Ji's father warmly smiled as he disappeared. The Ice Rose returned to normal and fell to the ground. The ice of the frozen fire broke, and the fire continued to burn.

The old man bent and picked up the sword. Holding the sword, he let out a deep sigh. "I will take care of him, so my friend, rest in peace." He said, looking at the unconscious Jong Ji.

Roaarrrrrrrrrr!

As the old man was about to return the sword to the bag, a loud roar came from afar.

"He is not letting me even be sad." The old man said as he returned the sword to the bag. He rose in the air and flew out of the cave.

...

An enormous figure was flying toward the cave where Jong Ji was.

It was a full moon night. Its body bathed in the moonlight.

A majestic golden dragon-serpent was flying toward the cave. Its body was at least two hundred meters in length. It had a beautiful backward-pointed golden pair of horns.

Despite its size, it was flying very fast.

Swoosh!

A small figure appeared a hundred meters in front of the dragon serpent.

The dragon serpent started slowing until it eventually stopped before the small figure. Now both the dragon serpent and the figure were levitating high in the air facing each other.

Yes, the little figure was the old man.

"Roarr!" The dragon-serpent let out a high dragon roar aimed at the old man before him. The trees swayed below, and the dragon serpent's saliva flew everywhere. But before the saliva could touch the old man, it stopped mid-air. Like there was an invisible wall before the old man.

"Out of my way!" The dragon-serpent roared in a deep voice. "I sensed his presence!"

"Calm down, he..." The old man said, but he couldn't finish his sentence as the dragon serpent cut him midway.

"What do you mean gone! Old monster, don't play with me!" The dragon serpent said in a deep voice.

"He left a message in the sword with part of his consciousness. That's why you sensed him." The old man explained. "Ohh... And I'm in a bad mood. So I don't mind repeating what happened twelve thousand years ago." The old man said with a deadly and cold voice.

" It was twelve thousand years ago! I have improved!" The dragon serpent roared in anger.

The old man had opened his eyes. There were no eyes, or at least not normal eyes. Everything was golden at the place where the eyes needed to be.

Hmmm!

The moment he opened his eyes, a golden light full of holiness came from them and bathed the golden dragon serpent. The night sky shone with golden light. It was like a second sun.

"Aghhh!" The dragon serpent shouted as his gigantic body started swaying in the air. As if he was about to fall. "You old monster!"

"Wanna try your luck!" The old man shouted in anger, slowly closing his eyes.

The golden light slowly dimmed, and the golden dragon serpent stabilized in the air.

"Now, calm down and come down to talk." The old man said.

"What is there to talk about?!" The dragon serpent roared at him.

"The hope we were waiting for twelve thousand years arrived." The old man said as he landed on the ground and quickly disappeared.

Hearing what the old man said, the dragon serpent seemed to have calmed down. It just motionlessly floated in the air for a few minutes.

Crack!

A cracking sound came from the dragon serpent's body. Its eyes shone with golden light. The golden scales all over its body became even more golden, and light was emitted from them. Suddenly, rays of light burst in every direction from the dragon serpent's body.

It didn't take long for the sky to shine a golden color again. However, as it was coming from the body of the dragon serpent, soon as the light became strong like a second sun, the dragon serpent was no longer visible. No, the golden light was so bright that one couldn't even look at the place where the dragon serpent was.

Soon something strange happened. The light was slowly dimming, but there was no sight of the gigantic body of the dragon serpent. Instead, a pair of legs became visible as the light dimmed more. As the light disappeared, the whole body of the creature became visible.

It was a humanoid creature that floated in the air. It had a long tail and a pair of long, upwards-pointed horns. It was about two and a half meters (8.2 feet) high. Its skin was golden in color, including its tail and horns. Something like golden scales were all over its body, excluding its face.

The creature wore only a pair of brown leather underwear. As a result, its stone-like muscles were visible. The wind played with its long golden hair.

Swooosh!

It stopped levitating and started falling, piercing the air like an arrow.

Bam!

It fell to the ground, creating a large crater. As if his body weighed thousands of pounds. The nearby trees were all blown away, and some even shattered to pieces.

Swoosh!

It dashed forward and disappeared in the shadows of the night.

...

Despite the forest covering the whole island, the center of the Drakoniks island was not a forest. It was a plain with a little lake.

Near the lake, the old man sat on the soft green grass. Beside him was a brown porcelain jar with a red cloth tied with a rope placed over the mouth of the jar serving as a lid.

A figure appeared next to the old man out of nowhere.

Possess!

The figure was moving so fast that the wind came a few seconds after it stopped beside the old man. The trees and grass swayed. No, they were almost torn from the roots by how strong the wind was. Waves emerged in the lake as the wind was too strong.

The jar beside the old man almost flew. Luckily, he had caught it.

And the figure was none other than that humanoid golden-skinned creature.

"Old Gu, why are you rushing so much? You almost wasted my hundred-year-old wine." The old man said in a kind of joking manner.

The Old Gu looked down at the jar. A vein popped on his forehead when he saw the jar.

"You dare touch my wine!" He shouted angrily in a deep voice.

"Honestly, no one would recognize you are that noisy snake if you don't speak!" The old man said jokingly as if the previous fight never happened.

"It's a dragon serpent! Dragon Serpent!" Old Gu shouted once again, even more angrily.

"I'll forgive you this time. You said our hope emerged. What is it? When do we attack?" He sat down next to the old man. His anger completely disappeared, or was he just suppressing it? But anyway, he became serious.

"POP!" The old man opened the jar. He took it by the mouth and raised it in the air. The wine fell, pouring into his mouth. The wine splashed all over his clothes. "Aghh! Great wine!" He exclaimed as he put the jar down.

Old Gu just patiently waited by his side and didn't comment anything.

The old man's expression turned serious too. "Maybe in a hundred years. And maybe in a thousand. I don't know. It depends."

"I see!" Old Gu said as he fell into deep thought. They were speaking as if a hundred years was nothing. Before he fell into deep thought, he asked: "But on what does it depend?"

"On his son. His son has the class of emptiness." The old man replied.

Old Gu's whole body shook slightly. "You mean... NO! Since when did you discover him?" He asked as he stared at the old man suspiciously.

"It's not what you think." The old man raised his arms above his head. "Only now did I learn that he was his son. Also, I discovered him only yesterday. I sensed that one of the seven servants of Asmodeus was stirring trouble with a ship again, so I went to check the situation. When I arrived...Ahh." The old man sighed and didn't even finish the last sentence.

"What happened? Is he alright?" Old Gu asked panickily.

"He is, at least physically. His mother died. He is full of hatred. I'm afraid if he doesn't meet anyone precious to him, he will destroy this world instead of saving it." The old man said worriedly.

"For him to meet someone precious, he has to go to the outside world again, right?" Old Gu was clearly nervous. He had not felt nervous for more than a thousand years. But there was too much at stake here. The whole world was at stake.

"Yes, but we can't just let him go powerless. His hatred is dangerous, but it's not like we can't use it. We just need to turn his hatred into fuel." The old man paused for a while as if hesitating to say something.

Old Gu didn't say anything. He had his eyes closed and nodded his head.

"Old Gu." The old man spoke again. "I have never asked for your help, but I was going to come to you to ask you for help."

Old Gu instantly opened his eyes in shock. He was dumbfounded by what he was hearing. "What do you need?" He asked, more seriously than ever.

"You are a dragon serpent..."

"I told you, it's a dragon serpent, not sn...Huh?" Old Gu cut the old man halfway. He was about to correct him, but he realized his mistake. No, that was no mistake. It was more like a habit. After all, the old man had called him a snake for thousands of years, so he had picked a habit of correcting him. "Ah. I'm sorry. Please continue."

"As I said, you are a dragon serpent. Thus, you have more knowledge of body cultivation. I will teach him how to absorb spiritual energy and guide him in raising his realm. Can you teach him body cultivation?"

"Don't worry. I will do everything in my power to help."