Heavenly Dao Child 146 A new day

"Nuwa dear are you alright", asked a concerned Maheswara as his other wives tended to her.

Nuwa took a deep breath as she calmed down before she shakily gave a nod but it did little to dispel the concern and worry her family felt.

Veena held a glass of water in her hand in front of Nuwa as she helped her drink from the glass while Celestia just rubbed her back.

Nuwa: "It had been sometime since we suffered that nightmare."

Upon hearing her words her family winced they understood what she meant by it, specially Maheswara while to Veena and Celestia no matter how much they would claim the pain they suffered was paltry in comparison to those two especially Nuwa.

Veena seeing her husband and sister wife falling further into depression she decided to change the subject, "So Celestia what are you going to teach Ryuu today?"

At her question the two depressed people perked up, after all it was the only the four found interesting nowadays after all currently their cultivation had stagnated and as such they have no way of moving forward currently but who knows it might change in the near future.

Celestia hummed in thought, "To be frank I have nothing to teach him yet accept maybe give him some more books to increase his knowledge otherwise nothing for now at least."

Maheswara: "Well there was something I want to discuss with you all about Ryuu."

Which brought his wives undivided attention to him as he spoke, "When we were younger, even our children all of us left the safety of our home ventured into the wild to further our strength. Ryuu is strong, his strength is good enough to fight someone of an entire realm above him but he lacks experience, even if I have sparred with him regularly a spar is a spar as long as he does not undergo any serious fights his growth will stagnate, previously he had the opponents who were weaker than yet he lost in one and almost died and then the last one he was completely berserk. His best way is overpowering his opponents with brute force with the help of his Divine Body."

Veena: "So true but still you are a brutal taskmaster, not only that your sessions are quite harsh I do not think that he requires any adventure currently."

Maheswara shook his head negatively, "No no it is not enough I understand where you are coming from but, I am one person with whom regularly spars but he has yet to put that to test, I have never gone with the intention to kill him and most importantly even if I call it a spar at the end of the day it is an one sided beat down, no matter how talented he maybe even if reduce my strength to his level he is not experienced enough to win against me, sure enough he has caught me off guard rarely but at the end it was nothing spectacular because he still lost. On top of that he needs to socialize a little bit more all he does is eat sleep and train, he needs to venture out and learn."

Celestia: "Well I do not see any harm in that, so who is up for some vacation.", she finished with a smirk.

Nuwa: "Well then let us decide a destination it will be fun.", she replied with a similar smirk.

Maheswara sighed as he spoke, "If you all want to go on a vacation I will take you anywhere including all our children as well as our cute little student, but not this time I want Ryuu to venture out alone without any form of help towards him."

Celestia: "What do you mean by that? He will go out alone he is only a child."

Maheswara gave a deadpan look at her as he spoke, "I recall a certain someone who was of same age as him who ran away from her home kidnapping a pure innocent boy along with her."

Celestia threw a pillow at him as she spoke, "Innocent my foot, you were the one who gave me that idea."

Maheswara smiled as he spoke, "Well he might have no one with him at his immediate vicinity but we will keep an eye on him as always it will also be a good time for him to unwind a little we have been working him to the bone."

Nuwa's face had a serious look, "Beloved you are right, Ryuu needs to unwind a little but it is for his own good we have to be so harsh, he doesn't have much time if he...."

Veena grasped her sister wife's hand giving it a small squeeze, "He will be fine you should not worry too much, I have complete faith in him."

Maheswara stood up as he spoke, "Well I will be going to give him the good news."

As Maheswara left the room he was stopped by Nuwa, "Wait we will go with you."

With that Nuwa got up from her bed as she left with Maheswara with her other sister wives in tow with them.

Ryuu had just turned 15 years old, his hair long blood red hair floated in the wind from the gentle breeze as he sat on top of a large stone currently meditating, his ivory like skin under the morning rays of the sun made him look like a statue one could look at and lost their sense of time itself.

As they neared the garden where Ryuu was meditating his teachers looked at him as he sat there like a statue as a couple of birds flew around him chirping, he was no longer the hyperactive child he once was during his childhood, he was a lot calmer now a lot calmer now.

Maheswara nodded in appreciation at the dedication shown by Ryuu, "Well look at him when he was still a child he would be jumping around like a monkey fooling around now he is an all serious cultivator, and with his good looks it will be difficult from keeping girls jumping on him."

His wives hissed at that, he knew he they were protective of him, and view him as if he was their second son as such they were ready to protect him from any so called hussies sinking her claws on him, he looked at Ryuu who had taken a look of androgynous male easily mistaken by many as a female, but still he was growing more and more attractive as he climbed up the realms, and the skin tone that made him frown it reminded a bit of her.

Maheswara: "Child I hope your mediation had been going well."

Ryuu opened his eyes as he gave a smile as he dropped down from the boulder as he spoke, "Teachers a very good morning to you all and as for my meditation it is going on very well."

Nuwa: "Child we have decided that you will be going on another excursion on your own this time there will be no one with you as such you will have to be more careful and more level headed as there will be none to help you out if you are in danger."

Ryuu was wide eyed at that but he nodded at that eagerly he so wanted to venture out, Ayindril to many including him might seem like a paradise but his daily schedule made it so monotonous that he desired to be venture out of Ayindril and test himself at various challenges that he might encounter.

Veena: "Well we will arrange everything you might require for your journey, you will be leaving within a week, I hope you have no problem."

Ryuu replied enthusiastically, "No teachers I am ready whenever you may wish for me to begin another excursion."

Maheswara teased him, "My my Ryuu has grown up so much, he is now so eager to see new faces did the girls of Ayindril bore you so much."

Ryuu's eyes twitched at that as he shouted out, "Shut up and die old pervert."

The only male role model since his birth has been his master Maheswara and unconsciously he sees him as a father figure and Maheswara treats him like his own child.

His wives one day made a fatal mistake of allowing him to give a young Ryuu going through puberty the much dreaded, 'the talk', nobody knows the full extent of what Maheswara taught him, but Veena overheard them as Maheswara was enthusiastically explaining to him about candles and gags and whatnot.

Veena came to the rescue of a sickly looking green faced Ryuu and because of her timely intervention she stopped him from taking a vow of celibacy with the Dao as the witness, well the fact that whenever he was near any females he used to turn a sickly green and vomit because of 'the talk' and the therapy required to heal him, well it is a story for another time.

But currently Ryuu was on cloud nine as the words echoed in his mind, 'We will provide you with your own Flying Vessel.'

He punched in the air above his head as he whopped in joy as he jumped up and down causing his master to sweat drop at his childish behavior, as Celestia whispered to others, "I take back what I said about him growing up he is still a child."

.As the others agreed in monotone, "It would seem so."

Chapter end

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