Thundering Dragon!

Chapter 14: Unexpected turn of events

The sky gradually shifted from daylight to night. The planet was still warm, during the summer solstice it would keep a consistent temperature all the way through.

Leiming was soaring through the sky, his robe fluttering in the wind. His expression wasn’t anxious anymore. Leiming, travelled to the upper planet to investigate, he was in search of certain type of Qi on the planet, this Qi was hard to identify and would require pursuit.

“There is no point, worrying about Wenrou right now. I should focus on finding, the corrupted Qi on the planet, I can’t waste any more time here. Who knows, when the Martial arts federation will track me to this planet, I am not prepared to fight them just yet.”

Leiming arrived above Crater City. From his view, he could see the vast land beneath. The aim, is to find a master whose been affected by the cataclysm. The additional objective of the search, is to quickly dispose of the martial artist before the corrupted Qi, awakens and begins anew calamity on this particular planet.

Hovering in the air, between the clouds looking down at the planet, Leiming was basking in the moonlight adorned by the glowing sun, opening his garment to reveal a wound on his chest, the size of a nut. Focussing his attention on the city beneath him, feeling the wind brush past him. A faint glow around his eyes, the wound that is the size of a nut, began to slowly expand.

Extending his right arm in a relaxed palm motion, the black wound began to flow through his veins, through his meridian down to his palm. A pained expression shrouded his face, his right hand gently moving around the city, slowly being drawn to a mass accumulation of Qi. These mass accumulation of Qi, would be the schools within the area.

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Chihong and Ban Ban, had rested within the area of the camp. Chihong had taken the initiative to inspect Wenrou, to her surprise, Wenrou was masked by an inky coal glow when she tried to use her eyes to see investigate his body.

“Ban Ban, are you still awake?”

Ban Ban, never replied though. He had also, long fell asleep pretending to sleep play with Wenrou, and had led to the eventual inevitable sleep of his.

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“Where am I?” Wenrou, was currently fully submerged within the dark waters of the black room. His body, felt cold and he kept feeling this chill pass through every so often. He wasn’t able to explain the feeling, it just felt like he shouldn’t be here at all. It felt wrong.

The further he descended, the colder it got. The further he drifted away, the more it felt like there was these invisible hands pulling him in to an unfathomable, bottomless hole. However, what seemed like forever, slowly stopped he felt a suction from below, the dark water was constantly rotating around a sphere.

Wenrou’s most senses where obscured, although he felt like that something willed erupted within him. A burning sensation from his abdomen, looking down he say a tiny black flame. Seeing this flame though, he didn’t feel any pain... it was just there.

The closer he drifted to the sphere, the more his consciousness began to fade. He was soon, completely drowsy unable to even look straight ahead an extreme amount of need to sleep intoxicated his mind and body. Wenrou surrendered himself.

His eyes closed, soon he kept being pulled closer into the dark rotation...

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“Eh?” Chihong, was slightly startled by the turn of events. Wenrou’s face looked extremely grim, his body was profusely sweating. The covers thrown over him, already soaked to the extreme.

Chihong jumped up, and removed the blanket. The moment she removed the blanket, it was like a dark spark within Wenrou’s Dantian erupted, his body looked pained and twisted from the inside. Suddenly, Chihong felt her pouch rattle violently.

“What is going on?” She slapped her pouch, and out came a nail sized pill. The moment the pill entered the area, the trees slightly stressed towards it, the air immediately began to draw around this pill, the plants and vegetation in the area swayed back and forth.

The earth also trembled, bulging closer and closer to an epicentre. At the epicentre, was this pill? The whole planet, was shaken, trembling from within to the surface.

“Ahhh? Earthquake!?” Many cries of shock began to fill the various cities on Yin Long Planet.

“Quick, let’s go into the underground shelters! Grab the essentials only fast, fast!!” Alarmed citizens began to execute their own personal safety measures.

“This pill has finally reacted to something after all these years? But, why him? I don’t understand!”

Wenrou’s body was beginning to twist, and coil around his own abdomen. His veins now as clear and thick as tree roots. His face extremely darkened in pain, his body arcing of the ground, his body pressing hard into the ground. He wasn’t crying out in pain, just grunting.

“ANHHHHH”

“NMHHHHHMHHHHHHH” depraved sounds kept coming forth from within his closed mouth. He kept tossing and turning, his body was in immense pain, but he wasn’t awake to fully realize the pain.

His mind was still submerged in the water, just listlessly attached to the inky coal sphere, which was now attached to his abdomen, his body wrapped around that small sphere unwilling to it go!

The pill within Chihong’s hand, was now fighting her grip at every inch and quarter, wishing to be released. However, she wasn’t willing to let go, forcefully enduring the pull and tug and keeping it within her hand!

“RUUUU!” Ban Ban awoke, and seeing the depraved expressions flush across his face, left him sad, confused and angry! Why was this happening? He couldn’t understand, but looking over at Chihong, he was extremely angry, why wasn’t she helping him and just standing there?

Ban Ban in a fit of rage began to furiously bash into the surrounding area around him. Kicking up a dust and caving in the ground.

“RUUURU! RUUU!” his cries muting the constant shifting ground, the stressed trees cracking due to amount of gravity like pull the pill produced.

Chihong snapped awake by Ban Ban’s cries. Looking at the situation, the pill was in full rotation now, nothing could stop it. The only option would be to crush it with her full abilities, but it would be such a waste!

She moved close to Wenrou, the closer the got the more tenacious the pill got. Pushing even harder to be released from her grasp. Holding the pill in her right hand, she quickly moved her left hand to hover above Wenrou’s abdomen.

Chihong pressing Wenrou’s body still with her Qi. Next, injecting her Qi directly into the abdomen area to look at Wenrou’s abdomen she was shocked!

“His Dantian is in complete reverse rotation, it doesn’t have enough Qi to allow it to rotate correctly so it is in reverse rotation trying to draw life essence from his body to feed it!”

Gritting her teeth, feeling the pill trying to smash free she understood now. This world pill is able to feed this Dantian and regulate its rotation! How could she have expected this turn of events, she acquired this world pill from a dying sun it is a rare occasion only a few World Pill was ever acquired, however they had never chosen a Dantian to merge with! However, that was until now!

She closed her eyes, and hoping for the best released the Pill from her grasp! The pill reached his Abdomen, sitting on top of his abdomen left even Chihong speechless. Unable to understand what will happen next. Something like this, has never happened before!

Ban Ban, call to Leiming! Quick!

She sore this boy with Leiming earlier, and he had an affectionate smile on his face. He must know what is going on with this boy’s body!

Ban Ban was to furious to listen to Chihong, Wenrou looked extremely hurt. However, his bond with Leiming, master and companion had already notified Leiming of his angst!

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-A few moments before the world pill was released from the pouch-

Leiming’s palm had reverberated with pain, the black wound within his right hand had felt something similar. However, the school it resonated with wasn’t in the crater city directly, it was a smaller location a few miles outside of crater city.

There stayed a boy and an old man. The school was quiet, only one master and one student.

There the faint corrupted Qi, had sewn its roots. However, when he traveled close by, he didn’t immediately attack. Rather, he was just observing both males.

“There is a young boy as well... A bit younger than Wenrou” His face had an expression of reluctance, this boy looked young, probably hadn't tasted a women yet, or any of lifes true pleasures.

Leiming, couldn't see the young males face from his position.

“Ahh, what am I getting soft for. His master killed him, he killed him the moment he began to Qi train with him. There is no saving him now, no way to burn this corrupted Qi, and the only solution is disposing of the corpse!” Scuffling his own hair, in an attempt to reconfigure his feelings.

His gaze turned cold once again, preparing for battle. Qi was protruding from his body, looked like steam rising from his body. The clouds above gathered extremely fast, lightning was slowly coalescing within, his hair fluttering in the wind looking sharper cutting the air that passed by it.

His aura became sharp and powerful, nothing was able to disturb him, only...

‘cuc.. cuccc.. bucuccc...’

Land began to rage. The clouds began to seethe.

Leiming’s gaze reverted, now he looked intently back towards where Wenrou was. He could feel Ban Ban’s emotions flooding his realm, the lighting above that coalesced, was unable to be contained no matter where it was and shot off striking the ground, tearing it up. Followed by a silvery blue faint flash...

Feeling something was up, the school master looked up. His gaze stopped for a few breaths, before he retracted his gaze and continued to talk to the young adult near him.

“Come boy, something feels off. It isn’t good to practice breathing, and Qi during a heavy disturbance of elements. Let us go back inside, and continue to train tomorrow.” The old man with a mask and a hood, took the initiative to leave, heading back into the small building.

“Yes, Master” The boy also looked up, he felt from his gut that something was watching them a moment ago, but nothing was there. Was it just a feeling?

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A faint flicker streaked across the sky, booming sounds filled the disturbed environment.

“WHAT HAPPENED? WHAT IS GOING ON WITH HIM?” Leiming’s anger crashed out.

“HIS DANTIAN! IT WAS IN REVERSE DUE TO NOT BEING FED BY QI, LEIMING... I HAD A WORLD PILL AS WELL ON ME... WHAT HAPPENED NEXT, EVEN I COULDN’T HAVE EXPECTED!” Chihongs plead went unnoticed!

"DAMN! HIS DANTIAN WILL IMPLODE IF THIS KEEPS UP!"

Leiming quickly landed next to Wenrou.

Looking at the boy with ghastly expression, had no time to think about it.

“Let me see, just how strong your Dantian is Shenyuan descendant! HehehahaHAHAHA!” His voice turning crazy at the end, sounding like a man going into his final battle!

He quickly produced his Qi to maximum rotation. His body on full power, both his palms slapped Wenrou’s abdomen without any hesitation. However, the moment his palms slapped, the amount of Qi forcefully entering Wenrou’s abdomen he quickly found out the amount of Qi produced by the World Pill was too much trying to squeeze through a single meridian. His blood stream isn’t thick enough to allow the Qi smooth passageway, leading to a clogged Meridian!

Injecting his Qi, piercing through the abundant Qi In his stream, like a sharp spear. He was able to produce a hole for the Qi to pass through. Too much Qi, and somehow the Black Dantian, rotating the black flame erupted feeling Leiming’s pure Qi.

The black flame began to spread from Qi, to Qi area, enveloping the World Pill. The Qi being produced now wasn’t grey or white, but turned inky coal. Leiming surprised at the scene, had to endure the pain, there was no turning back now!

The Qi, forcefully smashed through amazingly 13 points of Meridians, what Leiming wasn’t planning for was the first dark pulse was at the 14th Meridian. The moment the Qi reached the Dark Pulse, a vibrating feeling emerged from Wenrou’s Dantian, which immediately, intensely transformed into...

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To be continued

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