Chapter 82 - Inside The Cave

A few minutes ago, in a very remote place...

A man, sitting on a large rock with a silently flowing river beside and lush forest behind, accompanied by the singing sounds of the birds, he opened his eyes slowly. This man was wearing a long white robe with dazzling jewels and elaborate embroideries. This man looked like about forty to fifty years old, but despite this, he did not have not a single white string on his short black hair or a wrinkle on his face. When this man opened his eyes, a surge of profound energy aura rippled around. But instead of causing the surrounding birds to flee, this aura surge made the small birds, that sang intriguingly and cheerfully, huddle next to the man in the white dress.

The man in the white dress was careful not to make a move that would hurt the birds that came next to him, so he slowly stood up, and then shook his hand slightly and moved the birds that landed on him. He then gently shook his hand once more and eliminated the dust grains on his robe. Later on, still sitting on the big rock by the river, looked beyond the river and spoke to himself: "Sirius, you said that you want that boy with the Black Sun Symbol to take their test, then I will help you a little. I can't help him directly because it can attract the attention of the enemies of the sect. But I can at least prolong him being noticed. My friend, I hope you can make good use of our time together."

If Asil had been here and seen who was this talking man, he would certainly have been in a great shock. Because this man was the Skinny Man who was embedded in Asil's mind with a man with weird moves!! But there was not the slightest awkwardness in his current appearance, and even the aura emanating from his body was shockingly different from what Asil had seen. The aura emanating from Skinny Man's body at this time was very gentle but also glorious.

After the skinny man spoke to himself, he turned his head and looked towards the forest, smiling slightly, and spoke calmly: "Tell the sect leader that I'm going to leave the sect for a while to take care of my personal affairs. And I don't know how long this leave is going to last. So tell them that if I don't get back in time, they can start the sect meeting without me. Understood?"

After the skinny man's speech, suddenly a light wind blew through the forest behind the big rock and two white-robed men appeared in the direction skinny man was looking. The moment these men emerged, they kneeled and respectfully saluted the Skinny Man, and then the man on the right spoke respectfully:

"Great Nukro, your words have been heard and will be passed on to the sect leader smoothly. You can trust us."

After the man's words, Nukro gently approved with his head. After Nukro's approval with his head, a light wind appeared again, and the two men in white robes disappeared.

After they left, Nukro looked up to the river again and spoke to himself: "Hmm... If I know Sirius, he'll want to do risky things once he finds out about his brother's condition. I felt the aura of a dragon in that area. But that aura was so weak. It was as if the owner of the aura had been seriously injured or recently died. Sirius also felt this aura even though he was sealed. So he will probably go to the cave, the source of the aura, somehow to try to strengthen the child in a short time by using the Dragon's power. But there were two different auras in that cave beside the Dragon aura. One of these was an exceedingly evil aura, while the other aura had no characteristics. Sirius may not have been able to sense these auras because he was sealed. I hope there won't be any trouble."

The skinny man sighed after speaking and disappeared with a light breeze...

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A few seconds after Asil started walking to retrieve the profound core of the Muscular Mountain Gorilla.

Asil quickly came beside the profound core that was on the ground and picked it up. The aura of this profound core was much more denser than any profound core he had ever seen before. After Asil retrieved this profound core, he put it inside his spatial ring and then proceeded to the cave that his master Sirius had mentioned before.

There were no profound monsters in the vicinity, as the area he is now in was the area of the Muscular Mountain Gorilla. So Asil was much more comfortable walking than before.

Asil proceeded quickly and came to the entrance of the cave that was about two hundred meters ahead. The entrance to the cave was wide enough to fit ten people side by side and about four meters long. It was almost impossible for someone to come here and find it by chance since it was completely surrounded by trees.

When Asil arrived in front of the entrance to the cave, he did not immediately enter and waited outside for a while. The reason he didn't go in right away was that it was too dark to see anything, and there was a creepy breeze coming out of the cave. When he felt this breeze, Asil had goosebumps and a few drops of cold sweat had formed on his forehead. He didn't know the source of that breeze, but he understood it was definitely not a pleasant one.

Asil immediately spoke to Sirius in his mind: "Master, I do not like this place at all. Even that wind makes me feel bad. Are you sure that there is a dragon inside? I don't think anything that feels like that would be a noble thing."

After Asil's question, Sirius answered seriously: "Child, I had felt a slight Dragon aura before, and so I thought there was a black dragon here. But when I got here, I realized there was another aura inside. While this is a high-level aura like that of a dragon, it is also a characteristically villainous aura. Child, this could be a lot more dangerous than I thought. If you want to back down, now is the time."

After Sirius's serious words, Asil remained silent briefly and said nothing, and then spoke decisively: "Master, it will be of no use to either of us to retreat now. I'm going in."

After Asil spoke, he took a deep breath and entered cautiously.

Since it was too dark inside, Asil proceeded by taking his steps very slowly and carefully. As he progressed, his bad feeling grew stronger and the number of cold sweat drops on his forehead increased.

Asil moved forward for several minutes, and as he moved forward, the surrounding darkness gradually subsided. Under normal circumstances, it was supposed to get darker and darker as he moved deeper into the cave, but the situation now was the opposite of what would normally happen in a cave. Asil found it unreasonable, but he didn't want to think about it right now. He had been walking for a few minutes, but there was no sound, no living thing inside the cave. It was as if he was heading to the end of a dark cave with nothing in it.

Asil continued his walk and stopped suddenly about five minutes later as he saw something strange on the ground ahead. Asil was now able to see about ten meters ahead, and at the furthest point he could see, something had appeared. He didn't understand when he saw what this thing was. All he knew was that it looked like a line with a red color.

After Asil gulped, he approached what he saw with much more cautious and slow steps. When he went near the red line-like thing on the ground, the inside of the cave was bright enough that Asil could see quite far. Asil understood that at that moment, as he went deeper into the cave, the reason for the light of the environment was the red glow that radiated slightly outwards from this red line.

Asil leaned slowly and looked at this red line. But the moment he looked at it carefully, his eyes widened in amazement. At that moment he understood that this was not a simple line that was on the ground and radiating light. This red line resembled a large vein with the same capillaries entering the ground and heading further inland into the cave.

After looking carefully at this thing, which looked like a red vein, Asil asked Sirius in his mind: "Master, what exactly is that thing that looks like a vein?"

After Asil's question, Sirius remained silent for a short time and then answered in an unexpected way: "Child, even if there are many things in this world that I have not seen, I have heard most of them from somewhere; so I know what they look like. And yet, naturally, there are very few things I do not know. But I have never seen or heard anything like it before. I do not have the slightest idea of what this is. These vessel-like things radiate a faint aura that is very difficult to even feel, but this aura has no characteristics. So, it's hard to say whether this is a good thing or a bad thing.. It's really interesting to come across something I don't know about in such a low-level place."