Heavenly Dao Child 208 Ryuu's Fate Part-1

Maheswara spoke in an angry tone, "Who had the audacity to harm Ryuu like that?", his aura flaring up causing the duo to become catatonic.

Celestia put her hand on Maheswara's shoulder as she spoke sternly, "Calm yourself, you are making them uneasy."

Maheswara reigned in his temper as well as his aura, allowing Celestia to speak with the fear stricken twins.

Celestia: "Child may I know who you are and what your relationship is with Ryuu?"

Alhma gulped as she spoke completely shaken by the recent events, "I am Alhma and this is my twin sister Aliyah, we are Ryuu's teammates."

Celestia once again spoke with a kind smile, "I see so can you tell me what happened and how did Ryuu suffer so much."

Aliyah and Alhma nodded slowly as they began telling them about the incidents of 'Nether realm Grotto', how they found the prison, about the person they were trying to unseal, they being discovered and the chase, how Ryuu himself suggested to stay behind in order to but more time, while telling them to spread the words about demonic cultivators so as to warn others to leave the hidden space.

Celestia: "I see, but did you girls Ryuu's battle?"

The twins shook their head as they spoke, "No ma'am we did not but we were able to hear it from a long distance away, the killing intent and attacks were too much, we know we should help him but we were so out of place there each all of them were Immortals we could not do anything. Moreover if we stated we would be a hindrance to Ryuu as such we left.", as they spoke they had a guilty look on their face.

Celestia listened patiently as she replied, "Then why did you return back?"

Aliyah spoke in a somber tone as she looked down, "We felt guilty about leaving him behind then the cataclysm happened all of a sudden and we could not stay away anymore as such we made our way we know we are too weak but even if we could provide a little bit of help."

Celestia: "Child the cataclysm can you tell me what happened?"

Alhma: "Well dark clouds appeared on the sky snuffing out all the light, then the ground shook because of a very strong quake and then the horizon lit up with a deafening roar, when we went there no enemies were to be found except a few burn out corpses and Ryuu was lying face down near the middle of the blast zone."

Celestia sighed as she closed her eyes as she spoke, "So he really did use the forbidden technique: Thunder Fire Tribulation."

Maheswara who was listening the entire time spoke, "Those demonic cultivators who were they trying to release from the prison did you get his name or anything?"

Aliyah shuddered upon hearing Maheswara's voice as she spoke, "No we do not know his name but they would soon be able to release him."

Maheswara nodded at that as he turned towards the person who brought them, "Take a few of your men, capture those bastards including their so called Emperor and bring them here alive and intact. Now leave."

The figure simply bowed as he vanished from their sight, before he turned towards the girls as he spoke, "Girls were you there alone or did you have any more teammates."

The girls simply shook their heads as they spoke, "No we did not have any other as our teammates, though our teachers were waiting outside the hidden space."

Maheswara nodded at that as he snapped his finger a couple of people draped in black cloaks and mask appeared, "Escort these fine ladies back to where their teachers are staying."

Alhma: "Excuse me Senior, but about Ryuu.."

Nuwa spoke for the first time, "Children do not fret, our child is in capable hands as such you may return to your teachers they might be worrying about you and as for when Ryuu wakes up we will send someone to inform you and thank you for trying to help our child."

Aliyah and Alhma nodded at that as Aliyah spoke, "There is no need to thank us senior in fact we owe our life to Ryuu had sacrificed so much for us yet we…."

Celestia: "There is no need to feel guilty about that, Ryuu is like that he loves helping others even if his life is in danger."

The kneeled person stepped forwards as they placed a hand on their shoulder teleporting with them.

Meanwhile inside the prison, the people were anxious when their other companions did not arrive but now they were a in a joyous mood, a couple of hours and their master would be freed. But unfortunately their joy did not last long as a huge sound of glass breaking was heard as a humongous pressure landed on them causing them lose their consciousness, as dozens of figures appeared who quickly picked them up before their leader made his way to a glowing array on top of stone, he touched as he pulsed his KI through it, the arrays shone as the stone broke a figure appeared laughing loudly, "Bwahahahahaha, I am free and now…..", he could not finish his monologue as the leader punched him so hard he fainted as he vomited blood, before carrying him as they left through the cracks which appeared on the sky.

The entire hidden space shook, as grounds caved in, mountains collapsed, lava spewed on the ground, the sky itself seemed to collapse, it seems that apocalypse had arrived early, any remaining cultivators fled for their life as everything was coming to an end around them.

Outside the Nether Realm Grotto it was a chaos the doorway was showing signs of collapse as it shook, more and more cultivators poured out as the words of the destruction of the hidden space spread people were anxious especially Frozen Sky her students have yet to arrive then suddenly the door seemed let out huge amount of groans and glowed before it detonated with a loud bang.

Frozen Sky was stunned before she slowly whispered, "Aliyah Alhma, where are you?"

Frozen Flames held her tightly as she broke down in tears, as many send pitying glance at her, who wouldn't be after seeing their students die.

"Teacher!", a voice came to her ears as she spun around she was greeted by the sight of her students, she quickly held them close as she hugged them so tightly sound of bone creaking came to others ears.

Alhma cried out in pain as she pleaded to her, "Teacher please you are hugging to tight."

As she released her hold the figure covered in black cloak and with face covered in a mask spoke in a distorted voice bringing everyone's attention to him, "Since you two have reached your destination I will take my leave.", with that the figure simply vanished from view before anyone could say anything.

Frozen Flames: "Martial Niece, may I inquire who was that?"

Aliyah: "That person works for Ryuu's family."

By then some people have already arrived near them including Tsuji first princess of Habakar Dynasty, "Where is Daoist Ryuu? Should he not be with you?"

Aliyah and Alhma looked pained at her question as Alhma spoke, "The city inside the hidden space is a giant prison, a powerful demonic cultivator was trapped inside his minions were trying to rescue him, but more importantly if that person is released the entire hidden space would collapse, we tried to sneak out but they managed to find us, we used traps and what not to throw them from our tail but it was all for naught."

Aliyah began speaking from where her sister left off as she spoke as tears appeared in her eyes, "Ryuu stayed behind to help us escape and warn others, each off those demonic cultivators were at Immortal Level, and faced them alone and in a battle of titanic proportion he defeated and killed them."

Suddenly one of the listeners spoke up with disbelieving tone, "You mean to say a person of our age was fighting against so strong cultivators."

Another spoke on listening him, "It was so scary those killing intent, those fearsome aura it was maddening, and then the cataclysm it was otherworldly, he is such a strong cultivator I wish I could meet him."

Alhma spoke in a somber tone, "Ryuu did not escape unscathed he was injured severely one of his arm missing and some of his internal organs are badly damaged, on top of that the cataclysm seemed to be some form of forbidden technique he used. The person who escorted us works for his family, we do not know how but they entered the hidden space and took us back to Ryuu's home. He was so badly injured I do not know if he would even survive the ordeal."

Hearing that many who had met Ryuu felt sorry for such an outstanding cultivator's death at such a young age before he could make any repels anywhere.

Meanwhile in another part of the universe, the Vance clan it was pure chaos for years they were searching for the grandchild of the Clan Head and the nephew of the Emperor of the Xia Dynasty, all searches were fruitless, over the years the only have found a few imposters nothing more, until one day the youngest child of the clan head passed away, the very same person who had taken the child after his birth and fled from the clans.

But today was different, every member of the clan especially the elders were present along with Ryuu's immediate family members most had somber look on their faces as they looked towards a particular name on engraved on the wall.

The room was full of names, every member of the Vance clan whether dead or alive had their names on the room, which also included Ryuu and his mother/aunt Xiao Xiao's name. But a stark difference could be seen amongst the other names, every living person had their name glowing dimly with a dull yellowish hue where as the ones who were dead had not only their name crossed out but lacked any glow like in Xiao Xiao's case.

Ryuu or as the clan knew him as 'Feng', had his name glowing rather brightly for the past hour signifying him in mortal danger. Everyone were tensed none so other than his Ryuu's birth parents, as they watched the glow with their breath hitched. Then all of a sudden Ryuu's birth mother gave out an anguish howl as a crossed out mark was slowly started to appear on top of Ryuu's name.

Chapter end

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