102 The little creature that flew high
Han Li looked at her black eyes and took a deep breath. "What do you want me to do?" he asked.
A cloud that hid the sun's rays from their faces moved away, and its blinding light hit them on their faces, making them squint. "What do I want you to do..." Yue Li pondered aloud and then shook her head, "Why should I be the one to decide that? Are you not the smarter one?"
Han Li looked at her with a sigh. Her black gaze looked the same as yesterday while her looks appeared as refreshing as ever, but on her, he could feel a bit of hopelessness. Of a lack of meaning.
She looked almost like the ones who lost their way—The Lost, the cultivators who couldn't handle the recurring dreams after each breakthrough and chose suicide instead.
He felt his heart clench, and his anger almost soared—had he been the young and idiotic man he once was, he would have already wanted revenge, but he was not that naive, nor was he so optimistic.
'This is quite irritating, though,' he thought.
"Mom, what do you actually want me to do though? Yell out loud that I care for you beyond anything or marry you?" he gently questioned.
"I don't know Xiao Li, that's what I am telling you... do something," she replied while sniffing his clothes. They smelled so much like her.
But beyond that, she could feel his heart pump.
It seemed... anxious?
"I know how to do it," he sighed. "We'll link our hearts."
"Link... our hearts?" Yue Li's heart rate quickened.
"I told you earlier about how I am bound and couldn't speak much about the enemy that came the other day, right?"
"Yes. Xiao Li." nove(l)bi(n.)com
"That binding was made using something that only the Transcendant Cultivators have. Using Heart Qi... We can just bind our hearts together in a way, and it would change your fears forever and might even..." he paused, "Honestly, Mom, it might even actually complete my own Heart of Cultivation."
Yue Li looked at him with bright eyes. "I am having trouble understanding everything, but it means that you will bind your heart with mine, and you can never go away after that, right?"
"Yes, in a sense. But more than that, it will also fix your confusion and fears without any doubts."
Suddenly, Yue Li's eyes darkened, and she shook her head. "That is such an enticing deal. I almost want to lunge at it. But for one, we don't have any Transcendent person to help us. Moreover, I don't like it. It almost feels like I am forcing you to be with me when you don't like me... and I want you to like me naturally."
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Suddenly, Yue Li's eyes darkened, and she shook her head. "That is such an enticing deal. I almost want to lunge at it. But for one, we don't have any Transcendent person to help us. Moreover, I don't like it. It almost feels like I am forcing you to be with me when you don't like me... and I want you to like me naturally."
"That's dumb. You do know I love you, right?" he asked, feeling really pissed and rather confused himself—maybe, women were as hard to understand as the wise sages of the past said. His mom was also a woman in the end, even though she seemed different from everyone.
She pondered for a while and said with a sigh, "You don't have to worry. I feel like my motivation will be back whenever I feel like I want to train. I am just rather unmotivated today. This Heart of Cultivation becoming confused can't be that hard to get rid of if I want to train."
Han Li thought for a while and spoke, this time, for the first time in this life, about cultivation: "Mom, there is a legend that speaks about Motivation, Heart of Cultivation is something vague and not very understandable till you have one solid heart like the Transcendents, but this heart decides what kind of emotions we have as mortals...."
Of course, it couldn't.
The Tree's tremble seemed to have stopped all motion in place as it screamed inside in agony.
In its sharp senses, it could feel little organisms that it had ignored till now race towards the fruit.
They were so small. So tiny.
Why could they move when all else couldn't?
They always vanished after some time of looking at them. Why won't they vanish now?
Why were they going there?
It couldn't make out what creature it was that finally reached the blue and crystalline delicacy clung to the branch, but finally, it saw the Fruit's meat vanishing. It saw the two orbs of light in the sky changing again and again from the gentle one at dark and the harsh one at light as the Fruit became little and little.
It screamed shrilly and suddenly, a red light blasted out from its heart.
"I want it! I want it!" it said in its hoarse voice.
Then, it broke out of the restraints holding it back and headed towards the fruit but sadly, the moment it reached near the fruit, the restraint came back, this time, strong enough to hold it back.
...
Yue Li looked at Han Li with a pondering gaze. "So what is the moral of this story?"
Han Li smiled, now calm. "It means only one thing, Mom. There were restraints in this world which even the Sacred Demons couldn't break apart but at the end of the day, it was because its heart was weak at that point. The red light is its Heart Qi, and that is as strong as the strength of its heart. If the Demon had a stronger heart, it could've broken that barrier too."
"...I am confused again..." Yue Li drew on his chest. 'I really am so dumb...'
"This is not your fault mom, let me explain first. The essence of the story is, that brute forcing things like training without motivation to build a routine and discipline is a good thing, but what is even better is having a heart devoid of flaws. Heart aiming for something. If it wants something strong enough, it won't need motivation."
"So I have to fix my heart before training?"
"Yes, and I know how to do that. Even though it is quite the thing to do."
"What is it Xiao Li?" she asked, rather curious.
Han Li smiled and whispered something to her ears.
She was stunned, and a crimson hue spread whole throughout her face and body. "You are going to do that? That's... that's..."
Han Li shook his head. "It is nothing if your training would get back into motion and your heart would be back to normal."
Yue Li gulped. She was not gonna lie—That was such a disturbing but hot thing for Xiao Li to do... but he was really gonna do that?