《Exchange Cultivator》Chapter 7: Big Brother Nightmare !!have mercy
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Black veins gradually formed at the corner of his forehead, his vein throbbed as he thought about 'crazed middle-aged man', peace was not a solution his body tensed up, furiously pumping his blood, the man could have explained him sophistically but had chosen violence as he had dashed toward him, outing for his blood in their first meeting.
The crazed man intention was not pure from the start, he was probably looking for a chance to impress little loli, as fate would have it, an inadvertent opportunity arrived-him, nut job took that as a chance to kill two birds with one stone, first to make her head over heel in love, second to kill him over his petty jealousy. That ugly toad wanted to feast on swarm flesh, but did that happen-no, he felt a little better felt deep hatred.
But what could he do, Ye Hao stored all his anger, frustration in his heart.
It had been a few days since that incident took place as he was still recuperating, It was fine for the first two nights where he was calming recovering taking long naps, as days passed the pill he had ingested had been absorbed he felt stronger than before, it was past daylight he took a heavy meal, the food here was much more appetizing and so damn tasty, he only stopped when his tummy couldn't take anymore, his eyelid was heavy as a wave of fatigue hit him after the meal he said his thanks and appreciation of the food, he took his leave, he entered his room and jumped on his bed and instantly fell asleep.
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All you could see was the two great detesting boundaries, and this was the all their to it, one was the great wall of absolute clarity and another one the defiant abyss obscurity, they had antagonist relation fighting for supremacy. Their clashes slowed coming to a crawl, as the meta-physical golden spherical source, situated at the peak of the world shook, a hole opened up on the outer surface releasing a purple mist that seemed to hold a mysterious force displaying its overbearing might to the world, it was domineering. The two quivered upon seeing this, their previous battle came to stop, the antagonistic nature of their power created a clean separation, the wall of separation came to existence, under the alarming pressure from golden spherical source, their previous majestic, prideful demeanor was gone, but to be replaced with dismay and despair. During this whole ordeal, the two didn't act up, showcasing, no sign of disrespect to the golden light halo that covered the spherical sphere, it seemed uncaring, the wall of separation started to show signs of merging, the helplessly antagonistic force unwittingly came together under the same banner, all this happening were some of the most common things that happened unsurprisingly.
The domain of subconscious expanded,
Under the two banners,
Cherished reality perished,
So what was great about reality now,
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What as once real faded,
The two merged to become one,
What was once, one birthed nothing,
Nothing gives rise to chaos,
Chaos, what was nothing,
But chaos was nothing,
But chaos was more,
So what was chaos,
Unsated with the answer,
Chaos delved to the origin,
That's right, the origin was chaos.
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Ye hao startle awake from his nightmare, he dreamt about that nut job trying to kill him again but he woke up. The past horrific event he never wished to happen again was gifted to him in a nightmare, they were the worst, nightmares were very cruel in their own way, all that time, sleep for nothing as one felt unrested, unsettled as they wake up, in a sense they were even more frightening than real life daunting situations. He felt dizzy and his spine felt sore he was covered in sweat his heart tightly pounding in his chest, he took a shower but didn't sleep.
Over the next day he was haunted with the same nightmare, because of that he didn't get enough sleep. His situation was deteriorating his complexion was darker than his usually bright skin.
He had set his heart to get his revenge. ...his sweat revenge but that was for the future when he become a bigshot and first he cursed when he jolted awake from his nightmare but now he did this in his free time- wasn't he free all day?
Yes, he cursed the Fucker day and night and wished for his misfortune. He even burned incense burner and prayed to benevolent buddha, his head down and down on both knees he prayed
"O Blessed One, Shakyamuni Buddha
Precious treasury of compassion,
Bestower of supreme inner peace,
You, who love all beings without exception,
Are the source of happiness and goodness;
And you guide us to the liberating path...."
He bowed in front of the statue and got up when he thought of something and again got to his knees and head down "Oh Great !!!Big Brother Nightmare"
He raised his head and bowed his head again "!!Big Brother Nightmare Please have mercy" he did this again two times more, a total of three-time, a bit of good luck, and left.
"..."
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Little loli watched the whole act, she came here following the delightful scent of lavender incense found him to be the culprit, the door was not closed and she ended up watching the whole thing play out, she didn't enter immediately just stood there dazed comprehending what she had seen, was the difference of life between commoner and cultivator that Big? that different??
she couldn't make head or tails--no.
Could he have some internal bleeding in his head, mental damage that she made a missed when examining him, impossible she couldn't mistake something like that?
She entered his room without knocking, this time in her defense he left it wide open, so it means anyone could enter. He looked toward her when he heard the footstep, little loli again he thought until she came too close and grabbed him.
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she came closer and grabbed his hand, putting her little thumb to check his pulse by his wrist, she checked his condition and looked toward his face particularly dark pit under his eyes, she seemed to understand as she nodded her head and took a pill from the designer jade bottle.
The medical fragrance from this pill seemed more potent and thicker than the previous pill she stuffed in his mouth that night when the crazed man attacked him.
Yes, this pill was much more expensive than the previous one he had eaten, previous one was focused on recovering from physical injury but had another little minor effect which was negligible for the cultivator nothing noteworthy, but this pill was different it was the kind that forced on mental clarity and serenity of mentality of the cultivator, these pills were indeed rare and expansive, that even cultivator didn't take to save their pocket's.
She had given him such expansive pill without batting an eye, he felt grateful for her kindness, just a little sniff from the pill, his headache stopped. Wanting to express his gratitude he asked,
"do you have time for chin wag"
Seeing her nod, he gestured her to take a seat and sit opposite to her.
The two talked, as he started administering her, she had shoulder-length raven-colored hair which was shiny, she had a calm demeanor, a round innocent face with a small nose atop her face, and pair of earnest-looking big eyes. Yet as he recalled her personality, he felt awkward... She was headstrong.. very headstrong and trouble maker if she had to say, but she was also... Hmm.. .kind...no that's doesn't suit her personality. While he was cooking nonsense, they were talking, no she was, and Yeah, chatty too.
As they chatted he casually asked about what kind of experiment, she performing and how she wanted him to help her because truthfully he didn't know any shit, on about to help and end up messing up, that be bad, he curious about how could he help her in her experiment, if anything he was good at eating tasty food prepared by old man wang, the chief that prepared their food, it was god damn tasty really, he wasn't sure how would he live without that tasty food if they parted their ways someday, you can only wonder what such addiction was caused by taste like.
His headshot killed the guessing game as he was damn right but this time it was not food but a pill he could stuff in his mouth and she started telling how she was looking for a person with certain criteria's, first that the person should not be a cultivator and secondly he should be at the young to get a good start to start his foundation.
And he happened to have filled both of the criteria that she choose him. She didn't talk anymore regarding the topic, not wanting to explain her action. She had told him that she would need him tomorrow after she successfully refined the pill that she intended.
There was one more criterion that she hid from him, third, the person must have trash level spiritual roots and he happened to fulfilled that condition, how laughable, embarrassing if heard about this he would die of shame, he wanted to become immortal with such talent laughable, what a joke, she hid this point when she heard him talk passionately becoming cultivator, if she had told him he be heartbroken without repair, at that point no matter how many pills she feeds him, he would be beyond repair. There is something that could only be done by self, no other could help but provide external help but the external source could not be relied upon indefinitely as they were unreliable but strong self will only help in need of the hour.
After talking, she stood with intent to leave, they said their goodbyes, when he suddenly frowned as he thought 'I don't know her name' after the mayhem happened he didn't get a chance to catch her name.
He remembered how her father call her 'Little Xiao' but do he dare call her that,
'No' he shook his head 'only a retard person would do that or crazed people that liked to live, experience their life at the edge', solemn expression appeared on his face as he remembered that beastial man visage, as he quaked in fear 'No' he shook his head 'that person… No, I will meet my demise if I did that', he controlled his rampaging thoughts as he stopped her and asked her name,
"Sorry, but I didn’t get your name" he stood in his place a forced a neutral expression after a full-length conversation with her, he forget to ask her name, he naturally felt embarrassed.
She stopped in her track and turned with a forced stoic expression.
Oh man she is cute, he thought as she turned around with the same place "I am Yu Xiaolian"
They stared at each other face, seeing similar forced expressions suppressing that bubbly burst of laughter, they laughed staring at each other expression, ye hao dropped to the ground laughing whereas she maintained control of her body while laughing uncontrollably until some time, they laughed with the one goofy and plain elegant smile, a hand covering her face now.
"Xiaolian... " he murmured "a good name... It suits you really well" he praised her name, genuinely as he felt the name get well along with her, 'filial and incorrupt' or 'little compassionate one' he naturally meant the latter one.
"I am Ye Hao" he introduced himself with a goofy smile.
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