Chapter 82 - Backlash

Ch-82 

Everyone followed the kula guru. He took them to a conspicuous space in the garden's corner. He fisted his empty hand a small flicker of golden light flickered which was hard to grasp by a naked eye. But everyone noticed it. After all, they were all people who were practicing things from their childhood. 

The Clan Guru opened his palm and looked at the Shakti. "Dig a pit!" he said. Shakti was about to dig a pit but was stopped by Bhairava. He went and dug the pit instead of her. The Clan Guru stayed expressionless. He put the seed in the ground and asked Bhairava to close the pit. He sprinkled water on it from his kamandalu (it's an oblong water jug made of copper to carry water). 

The moment the water touched the soil where the seed was there, a small sprout appeared from it. And soon the small sprout turned into a small plant. Greenlight started emitting from it along with the golden light, making it shine in the early hours of the day. The whole temple felt like the divine light emitted from it surrounded it. The divine light emitted from the small plant shined as bright as the sun as it dominated the dark sky. They doubted that even if there was sun right now; the light emitted from the plant would have dominated the solar light. In front of their eyes, the small stem of the tree stretched as the green light turned brown, and the light emitted from the leaves turned to gold. The elders were almost blinded by the light and they immediately closed their eyes. Bhairava opened his eyes and saw something on the ground; the dead plants beside the tree came back to life when they came in contact with the light emitted by the magical tree. He thought of something. The Clan Guru smiled helplessly when he heard Bhairava's thoughts. 

The small stem of the tree stretched broadly. When the onlookers saw it, the light came from the middle of the stem, slicing it deeply so they could see the other side of the tree. They thought the tree would die. But the stem turned dark green, and it turned greener as seconds passed. And it finally turned black and then from black to dark brown. While the leaves initially apart from the thin midrib, there were no veins in it. As seconds passed the leaves grew wider, bigger, while the midrib of the leaf turned to thicken and the veins in the leaves started appearing till they reached the sharp end of the leaves. The tree grew thicker and lengthier. The height of the tree reached thirty feet from the ground. After the tree grew, the tree shined with golden light brightly divinely and then stopped glowing suddenly as it returned the entire world to the darkness. But there was a thin glow of light in the tree that made it look rich and divine. 

"Kulu Guru, itad….. (Clan Teacher, this…..)" before the elder could speak something the clan guru cut him off. 

"I heard you made a Daivata dwadasha Dhatu Golam (Divine twelve elemental sphere) and with the help of Shakti's soul energy, she froze it. She brought that to me and I turned it into these things. Since You all lost your soul energy, I will make you recover it!" The Clan Guru said. 

All the elders were excited to hear that. Because they wanted to recover the soul energy, they worked hard to gain them. 

"But…. It will only give how much you lost. If you try to force yourself to fill yourself to the brim, I will burn you all!" the Clan guru said. 

"Guruvarya, why do you need to do that? More power means more strength!" Bhairava asked. 

"Too much of everything leads to doom!" The Clan Guru said nothing more than that. 

Bhairava fell silent and asked nothing after that. 

"Stand under the tree. Keep two hands' distance from each other! Around the tree!" The clan guru said. 

They did as he said. They stood in a circle and waited for his instructions. 

"A Vein will appear in front of you, hold it, and don't let it go no matter how much pain you were in!" Everyone stood as he said. But no vein appeared. The tree has no veins at all!

"Touch the root with your feet!" Clan Guru said.

When they touched the root, a vein appeared. The vein grew instantly from the tree and stopped just above their heads. They held it with their hands. 

"Close your eyes! Feel you were alone! Concentrate on sucking the energy. Don't be diverted from the pain. If you leave the vein in the middle, you will lose the soul energy from the thing you have! If you don't feel like doing it, you may just come out right now voluntarily. If you think you can take the bet, only then stay here!" The clan guru warned them. 

Hearing them, three elders came out. They don't want to take the bet. They saw how the tree grew from the sight; they knew it wouldn't be an easy foot to get back the soul energy. 

"Were you already?" Clan Guru asked for one last time. 

"Yes!" Bhairava said firmly compared to others. He knew only the strong have a place in this world. 

"Fine! Close your eyes! And hold the tree vein tightly," he said. 

They did as he said. 

"Try to awaken the vein with your soul energy. Send some of your energy to it!" the clan guru says to them. 

Everyone tries to do that. Bhairava was the one who was quick to do. He instantly started sending the soul energy to the vein, but it seemed to be so strong the energy he sent was not enough. 

"Bhairava, send all the energy you! The more you spend, the more you get!" he heard his sister Shakti saying him through mind-linking. 

He gritted his teeth and tried to do as he was told. 

He felt a searing headache in his brain. He felt like someone was squeezing his brain with their vicious hands. 

"CONCENTRATE!" Bhairava heard his sister's shout. 

He tried to ignore the pain he was feeling. It took two-and-a-half minutes to deviate himself from the pain, but it almost sucked his soul. He raised his left hand too and held it tight. The vein was making waves. 

"If you feel your vein was making waves, then your energy was not enough to awaken it!" He heard his Clan Guru was instructing everyone at a time through mind-linking. 

Bhairava tried to send as much soul energy as possible. The vein was still making vibrations. Bhairava gritted his teeth and shouted, "AHHHHHHHH!" he screamed as he burst his soul energy into the vein. When he did, the vein jerked violently, making him raise thirty feet to the tips of the tree in the air. Bhairava clenched it; he didn't dare to let it go. 

A golden light appeared from the tip of the highest leaf in the tree. The light ray was the energy that coagulated from the earth as it gathered the energy from all the five elements in the surroundings and passed through the trunk of the tree and directly entered Bhairava's body!

Just like Bhairava, they burst their soul energy into the veins. Some couldn't withstand the pain when they burst out their soul energy to the vein they immediately left their grip on the vein. While the remaining people were jerked violently and directly flew into the air, it shocked them because of such sudden action and they left their grip on the vein. They directly fell on the ground, coughing a mouthful of blood. Apart from Bhairava, none was sucking the soul energy from the tree. 

"Kula Guru, Everyone left their veins apart from Mu Sheng. The veins were still exciting. Wouldn't it be a waste if they weren't sucked!?" she asked. 

"As long as he spreads out his soul energy, all the veins would be attracted to him and he can suck all of it. But maybe he couldn't withstand it!" The Clan Guru said. 

"I will tell him!" Shakti said. The Clan Guru gave a mysterious smile and said, "try!"

Shakti tried to connect their mind link, but she felt she couldn't, and then she used more energy to connect. Only when she used her soul energy, she could connect him. But she felt like the tree was sucking her soul energy and passing it to Bhairava. 

She felt a headache coming through her, but she just gritted her teeth and endured it. 

"Bhairava! Spread your soul energy! Withstand the pain!" she said and disconnected their mind link. 

This tree was an absolute soul energy sucker! 

She held her head in pain as she staggered a bit, but she bit her tongue and stayed awake. The tree was more formidable than the two soul energy-developing swords she absorbed from yesterday. No wonder the Clan Guru let her absorb two. 

In a minute, she felt she was back to normal. But when she raised her head and saw the scene in the air, her jaw dropped! 

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