Chapter 390 - The Last Piece(Part-3)

"So how do we proceed? The idea is good but how do we cause it to happen.", Ryuu could not help but ask out aloud.

True-Spear smiled back at him as he spoke, "It is very easy brother you already gave us the solution."

Ryuu frowned hard as he tried to find any conversation that he had in front of True-Spear in order to discern what plan was hinting at and seeing Ryuu in such a quandary True-Spear spoke with a smirk on his face, "You already proposed the idea of keeping an eye on them and learn more about them to discern their weakness so why are you getting confused Ryuu we are simply going to keep an eye on them for now nothing more nothing less."

Ryuu blushed in embarrassment at that as he spoke while trying to regain control of his emotions, "Well then we better try to create a rotation system where we by turn would keep an eye on them and gather as much intelligence as possible."

True-Spear nodded at that where as Frost Flames balled her fist her making him curious as such he could not help but ask her, "Sister Frost Flames did something happen that got you incensed in fact I can also feel the agitation in brother Ryuu."

Frost Flames rubbed her temples as she spoke with a sigh, "Nothing brother just that those people are simply savages that should not exist, I counted around over a thousand people in their tribe, they are a patriarchal society but not only that they are highly misogynist pigs to the point that I simply wished to erase them from existence."

Ryuu snorted at that as he spoke, "You simply did not wished you more that wanted to if I had not stopped you, you would have started a war with them and for that I do not blame you it was very very difficult o keep myself under control."

True-spear grimaced at that as he spoke, "Well we have to then work fast and hard in order to make sure the groups are dealt with, the group that Amnon found was a bit more civilized than their counterpart and were less of savage as well."

Ryuu tapped his chin as he spoke, "You see I love to read a lot and in one of books I read it was a story about how a small group of people had not only captured a nation that outnumbered them by thousand to one but ruled over them with iron fist.", as he spoke a small group had once again gathered him which made him pleased inwardly as the words of his sister rang in his mind, 'Remember Ryuu do not show all your hands but at the same time present yourself to be reliable so as to get others to draw towards who knows when you might need a few good followers.

"They used a simple tactic divide and conquer, the idea was simple there were two main groups in that country both had different beliefs but both had learned to coexist peacefully with each other the invaders knew that it would be a matter of time they might unite with the common goal to chase them out of the nation so what they did was to create distrust and misunderstanding between them causing them to fight amongst themselves, like …..", Ryuu spend the entire evening recounting the tale as such also making sure they understood what they might be looking for and how to proceed with it.

They had just finished dinner and they had retreated to their respective corner of the gigantic cave that they were using for their second base, since the encounter with the native the security of the place had been increased by many times using all sorts of traps that they could device.

It had been many days since that day when Frozen Ocean and Ryuu conspired together and had turned the tables against Chasing Winds and her minions and since then there was no words about them and most if not all of them were missing as no one knew where they were and no one wanted to risk their noise and health in order to find some extremely 'stinky' cultivators.

Ryuu decided to relax a bit he felt weary and tired and needed some form of release as such a quick array that was bound not only to protect him but also awake him if any form of danger was about to cause him harm and he knew from his experience if he had managed to judge his companions well he doubted any of them could bypass the array without triggering the other safety measures he had installed like a simple alarm that would trigger if anyone was to try and bypass the array.

Ryuu closed his eyes and for the first time since he had entered this place he truly began to meditate, every worry, every thoughts seemed to disappear like the fog that seemed to lift after a rather cold morning and the sun shone brightly, he travelled down the spirit branches, veins and wells inspecting each of them thoroughly as he made his way to his Dantian, it had taken more and more solid form like yolk floating in the albumen that was being slowly cooked and it had started to harden, this was his core, his power he could see tiny specks of red moving through he could hear the thunder like roar that reverberated his entire being he could spot it as a dragon from a miles away yet it was hazy enough not to recognize which one it was, he was greeted by a swarm of feelings ranging from happiness, from serenity to outright annoyance they were Dao he had learned he always loved to bask in their presence he chuckled inwardly at one particular Dao that seemed to be annoyed at him the Dao of Asura, 'The Daos behave so much like any living being sometimes that it is amazing even after I claim to enlightened in the function of the Dao, I have yet to learn what a Dao itself is why do they exist, why do they behave as such.', his focus then went towards the only Dao that was annoyed of him, 'May be because I actively shunned the Dao when I was younger even if I had tried to get to peace with the Dao later on, I cannot claim I am still not afraid of Asura may be that is why I get the feeling of annoyance.

Ryuu then extended his senses as he felt his soul that was glowing like sun in the distant sky it looked blazing hot yet it gave the sense of warmth that one finds from their closest family members, 'I have not cultivated my soul for sometime it is hard to do so, my entire body is leagues ahead of my soul I should work on it but it is slow extremely so cultivators really are the most patient of beings in the universe.'

He followed through the spirit veins before he approached a certain area, an area he knew too well this branch his consciousness had followed had led him towards his left hand, he looked at the shuddering and severing walls, etched in various glowing arrays but they seemed to be decaying seeing a few flickering and dead and the wall unlike the light translucent glow the other branches had this branch had a murky green color and not to feel the nausea inducing feeling he got whenever he entered the place, he passed through a particular section and grimaced the parts of the array was missing and the entire area was dark and pus had seemed to form to him it felt as if someone had swapped that part of his Spirit Branch with the dirtiest sewer anyone could find, he wanted to hurl but he controlled himself, 'I have to repair', he grimaced at that, he could see tiny green specks were appearing and then it was disappearing into the KI flow something that should not be allowed, 'Since I came to this level it has not only affected our physiology but it seems the poison is also agitated I hope we can move out of this place soon, it is becoming unbearable for me.'

Ryuu did not wish for the cancerous areas to grow and expand especially when he did not know when he would require his full strength and it might prove to a hindrance, he mentally steeled himself before he began to push out the poison and clear and repair the veins and the array, no matter how much he repaired and cleaned them at the end of the day it would reappear again somewhere it was an extremely frustrating work and painful work, no sooner did he tried to work on it he felt as if his enter body was lit with fire, his soul itself seemed to scream from agony, while his skin was getting pealed and his bones was turned to dust it was so agonizing but he endured it.

To what seemed an eternity to Ryuu in reality a few minutes had passed he groggily opened his eyes before he slumped on the wall and closed his eyes again tiredly, he was so tired and worn out he needed his sleep, a few hours later Zywia came across a sleeping Ryuu, "Damn it he once again is sleeping in guise of meditation, when I go out I will seriously complain about this blasphemous mockery to his teachers, hmp.", with her thoughts spoken out loud she stomped away from the place.

Meanwhile Frozen Flames narrowed her eyes at the sleeping figure of Ryuu, 'He spends most of his time sleeping nowadays and I have seen him getting tired easily I hope the poison is not causing him too much problem.'