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Chaer-9 The choice{part II}

Chaer-9 The choice{part II}

Granny Yu felt happy as she took the young boy towards the testing pagoda,

She smiled at the thought of the boy smiling and jumping around. Ever since that day 5 years ago,

the boy had woken up one day and started asking questions before that day, she didn’t even know he could talk before that day.

Ever since that day he became normal, her guilt over destroying him had eased up a lot, but she didn’t ease up because of that

She became even more dedicated to taking care of him; she spoiled him every way,

everything he asked for, she gave him everything he didn’t ask She gave him that too.

Most of the things she gets with the authority of the eldest miss and the things she couldn't get she had decided to use stealing as a method to get them.

Granny Yu was scared at first that the child might get into some bad habits but nothing of that sort happened.

The child had asked for books, stories and such only in the last 2 years that he start asking for resources, but she didn’t mind

she gave him everything, even the inherencies of a senior she got all her savings everything she owned she gave him

As she got closer to the pagoda, granny got a little anxious the seniors of the sect had told her to come to the inner pagoda instead of the outer pagoda

Why would the elders change their minds this year when

five years ago they had refused her request to use the inner pagoda for the child?

now this year, they came here on their own, telling her to use the inner pagoda?

Earlier she had chalked it up to the sect wanting to train a new diviner.

Granny Yu felt a little uneasy now, but she pushed it down feeling that her old age was getting to her.

Granny Yu urged the carriage to descent Infront of the entrance of the pagoda

As the carriage settled down, the boy jumped down.

He had a dazzling smile on his Face

she could tell he was excited,

she also got down and put away the carriage into her ring and she turned to the child deciding to calm him down

Granny Yu felt even more uneasy, she felt that the reason must be that the boy didn't have spiritual roots;

She couldn't sense any in the boy and today might confirm her worst fear

she thought that because of the damage done to him in his early life his spiritual root must have been damaged

Granny Yu didn’t want the boy to find that he couldn't cultivate Dao and lose his bright smile

As she was about to speak, she saw a group of people coming towards her

The group was led by Liu Wen the boy's father

She felt even more uneasy after seeing this man

As the group came closer

Liu Wen increased his pace with a smile on his face, he came Infront of the child

“Hello son,” he said stunning the buzzing child

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“Hello son”

These words shocked me, the first time the man meets his son, and the man said

“Hello son” like I should know him like I should say back “hello father”

10 years in this world being tortured, being depressed and then living my life

this was the first time I lay eyes on my so-called father in 1o year and I felt disgusted

If I had to describe him, I would tell you about the sleazy man who I saw selling himself as an important man.

The man came and greeted me and then stood Infront of me waiting for me to greet him back,

but I wasn’t going to and but just stood there in awkward silence.

Granny Yu came to rescue “greetings master wen”

“Greeting, sister Yu” he said shifting from one phase to another

“Asshole,” I said in English.

Nobody commented on that they moved on

“let's go master Meng has been waiting for a long time” my father said and turned around and began to walk toward the giant pagoda.

I looked toward granny Yu waited for her to give the okay

She did give the go-ahead, but she hesitated, which made me a little curious

Before I could decide what to do granny Yu just rushed past me

I also ran after her putting pushing the brief hesitation behind the back of my mind

Today was a day to be happy.

today I was going to start my journey to become a superhero,

a man who could do things that in my previous life I could just dream about

As I ran toward the giant daydreaming where I can shoot lasers out of my eyes.

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Master Meng looked at the group coming in the baby from back then was now a grown child.

but his gold eyes hadn’t changed a bit. They were those same piercing bright gold eyes.

He felt happy when he saw the boy enter the building

He nodded towards the other men standing next to him,

soon he took out a formation disc out thin air

and he injected it with would energy and a formation sprung to life beneath the feet of the group.

The moment that happened, 12 men came down from the top of the pagoda and surrounded the group

“What are you doing?” the old woman next to the boy shouted.

She took out a green umbrella from nowhere

Master Meng felt shocked when he saw the wooden umbrella,

he recognized the 'wind-breaking umbrella' of that woman how could this nanny have that

she must have a spatial ring or a storage ring that she could carry a 4th order artefact, he thought.

This new situation complicated things

before he could adjust to this fresh development,

true monarch red rabbit jumped from his side to the side of the 12 women

“That’s an interesting thing you have there little girl, you should hand it over,” he said with a greedy look on his face

master Meng cursed at this red rabbit,

this fooled must have seen that this artefact was extraordinary but didn’t recognize its origin

“What do you mean by this?” the old woman, instead of being scared by a nascent soul cultivator, opened the umbrella and took a defensive position

Master was furiously cursing at his bad luck he knew he couldn't stop was about to happen

He retreated to the shadows

True monarch red rabbit laughed

“Little girl named Yu you were not even born when this seat had already slaughtered entire families, Give Up,” he said

Granny Yu still did not back down. instead, she took out a lot of jade slips

“I will ask again what you are doing? Do you know my mistress? The power behind me?” granny Yu said in an icy tone

True monarch smirked

“Are stupid or pretending to be stupid?” he said

Granny Yu did not answer

instead, she looked at the gold eyed boy

“Behind me young master”

The boy immediately moved behind her

Master Meng was surprised at the boy. this boy did not question just moved

Granny Yu threw the hundreds of jade slips and

as each jade slip broke, forming a purple fireball

and soon hundred purple fireballs formed,

In a blink of eye, there was to see hundreds of fireballs behind granny Yu,

Granny YU raised her hands toward the men

even at the group supposedly standing with her

True monarch red rabbit cursed and shouted “Tier 3 jade talisman, take cover”

Someone shocked master Meng again,

with the formation active, it wasn’t possible to stimulate and gather any qi

Which course meant that any lifesaving method given by Xing Yufei would be useless

but jade talisman doesn't require any qi to activate even a mortal could use them

They had fallen into their own trap,

As hundreds of purple fireballs fell toward everyone like rain,

no one had any capability to defend as no one could use any Qi.

Everyone under nascent soul would die. Master Meng was sure of that

And that’s what happened.

True monarch red rabbit summoned his soul and formed a red shield in Infront of him

as the entier place became a sea of purple flames

Master Meng could hear the wails of every single one caught by the attack

these men were all core sect members with the lowest cultivation base being the mid gold core formation stage

Master Meng doubted if anybody survived

True monarch seeing the death of so many of his people became angry

“You bitch”

he jumped into the air using his soul energy to form a red-coloured rabbit phantom and sent it straight towards granny Yu

Granny Yu raised her umbrella, and blue energy poured out of it,

The blue energy clashed with the rabbit phantom causing a gigantic explosion

The explosions knocked granny Yu and true monarch red rabbit of her feet

granny Yu in mid-air took out another jade slip and threw it toward true monarch red rabbit

As the jade slip broke and white tiger phantom full of killing intend rose in air

attacking true monarch red rabbit

True monarch red rabbit was scared out of his wits

he quickly gathered his soul energy, and a red beam of light appeared

the red energy clashed with the white tiger barely slowing the tiger down

“Old Huo, Old Meng help me” the true monarch Red rabbit shouted

As he did so, A red-coloured tripod appeared floating in the middle of the room

The tripod started to spin

it gathered the purple fire in the room

then a purple firebird appeared above it and pounced toward the tiger

The tiger phantom shrank visibly after the attack

Seeing the opportunity, master Meng took out a jade talisman of his own and threw it out

A golden thunderbolt shot straight out toward the tiger destroying the phantom

As the true monarch true dragon breathed a seif of relief a giant water snake appeared

It was a giant snake made completely out of water and this snake was coiling like a vortex

in the middle of this vortex stood granny Yu with the gold eyed boy

This water Snake attacked true monarch red rabbit again causing him to panic

He tried to run away but it was futile

As water snake crashed in true monarch red rabbit,

he let out a wail and was thrown to the edge of the formation

As the giant water snake was about to finish off the man

The red tripod reappeared Infront of the true monarch red rabbit and blocked the blow of the snake

After the giant snake retreated,

a giant fire snake twice the size of the water snake appeared from the tripod

like the water snake, it was completely made of fire

Master Meng took the opportunity of the weak state of the water snake and took out his flying sword

and directed it toward granny Yu fearing she might take out another trump card

His sneak attack succeeded as the sword whizzed through the air pierced the heart of granny Yu

As soon as the sword killed granny YU,

the water around the snake disappeared and think it presented azure blue cloth

“NOOOOO, grannnny”

Master Meng heard shrill scream

He turned toward the source and found the Gold-eyed boy holding the corpse of the old woman and wailing

He felt no sympathy for the boy, that woman almost kill them all

As he watched the melodrama of the boy, true monarch fire breath appeared beside him

“Are you happy now?” he said

Master Meng just scoffed at that

“I will be,” he said and started to move toward the boy

In this instance, a red flash rushed past and reached the boy

It was the true monarch red rabbit

“No, you fool stop” master meng shouted

True monarch just laughed at him

“Do you think I was just born yesterday old meng” he said in a mocking tone

“There is only one pair of eyes how can the two of us benefit" he fiercely shouted

"you just want these eyes so that you can enter the nascent divinity leaving me and others behind”

“No, you fool listen to me...

Before master could say anymore true monarch red monarch soul phantom picked up the boy

He took both his hand's thumb forefinger and middle finger as and turned them into a claw-like shape

He then inserted the hand like claw around the eye socket of the struggling, wide-awake boy

He popped the eye socket of the boy and pulled out the eyes of the boy

The boy fainted, probably due to pain as

the mad old man then he threw the boy's body away

The true monarch held the two yes in his hands and turned toward true monarch fire breath and master meng

Seeing their horrified expression, he began to laugh maniacally

His laughter was cut short when he felt an oppressive force cover him.

he started to suffocate

He felt as if his entire body was being shredded to pieces, the pain became unbearable

He looked d at the duo of master meng and fire breath

“What is happening to me," he asked

"heavenly backlash” was all master meng said

Now it was true monarch red rabbit to show a horrified expression, as he about pleads these two men to save him

A black aura appeared on his body, consuming him.

The pain was so intense that a veteran immortal cultivator started to scream

In front of master men and true monarch fire breath

True monarch disappeared completely, being consumed by the black aura \

After the true monarch red rabbit was gone, there was a deathly silence

“What now?” a voice called behind them

Both the men turned ready to attack only to see Liu Wen Liu Tuan and Liu Kong trio standing behind them

“Shit eating motherfucker” master meng cursed and relaxed his pose

as did true monarch fire breath

“Good question what now?” true monarch fire breath turned around and asked master meng

Master Meng's face turned ugly

“That bastard triggered the Dao backlash the eyes are unusable by me now” master huffed

“So, all this was all for nought” true monarch fire breath asked

“I'm afraid so” master meng replied

“This isn’t good” Liu wen shouted forgetting his identity

“Xing Yufei will come in six years if she finds out we tried to kill her son she will destroy this place”

Master Meng's ugly face became even more unsightly

“We haven’t killed the boy yet,” Liu Tuan said

“You are not suggesting we heal the boy give his eyes back and train him and say hey no harm no foul"

"not to mention we destroyed his spiritual roots,” Liu Kong said

“A deep hatred has already formed there is no way the child will just let it go”

master meng said he remembered the child crying over the dead old woman

“What do you suggest then,” Fire breath asked

“WE can’t fight the Zhong dynasty’s king of the east now can we”

"The Xing clan alone is capable to slaughter us," the true monarch asked with an expressionless face

Master fell into contemplation, staring at his shoes with his head down, rubbing his chin

Suddenly he picked his head staring at Liu wen

“Do you have any other children” he demanded

“yes” Liu wen answered feeling puzzled

"Around his age" master meng pointed to the boy

Liu wen shook his head

“It can be five years here and there” master meng said in an anxious tone

“No none like that”

Liu wen answered honestly

What about you do you have any another child his age or five years younger or elder

Liu wen thought his not knowing the celestial diviners plan he nodded

“Good, we will give the golden eyes to your son then through my technique I will adjust his bone structure and make him look like this boy and present him as Xing Yufei’s son” master said in one breath

All the people were visible stunned at this proposal

“What about the Dao backlash,” Liu Tuan asked concerned

“I can fool the eyes because of the close blood relation, so there will be backlash” master meng explained

“Even without with the damage these are world seeing eyes"

" they will help your son understand Dao of heaven much better

making his pathway nascent soul initially with no bottlenecks” master persuaded

Hearing this Liu tuan immediately nodded then had another doubt

“What of this Yu woman? She was her subordinate”

“We will tell she sat down” it was Liu wen who answered

Everyone nodded and agreed

“Okay let's kill the kid” Liu Kong flexed his muscles

“NO” master shouted and interrupted Liu Kong

“Why not master meng” Liu Tuan asked confused

He doubts master meng grew conscious and was sparing the child out of kindness

plus his son's future depended on the death of that child

“We can’t kill him, in fact, heal him” master meng said in a temper

Seeing the nascent soul ancestor getting angry true monarch fire breath stepped in

“Please guide us ignorant fools master meng” he said

Seeing true monarch asking master meng suppressed his anger and explained

“Killing the child or ordering the killing even benefiting from his death might bring a Dao disaster that is 10 times worse the Dao backlash you just saw, that isn't something I want to face” he paused then continued

“killing a child protected by the heavens is not so easy as you might all think, he needs to die no doubt but without any interference from us” he explained

The words of master sunk in there as pin drop silence

True monarch fire breath took out a red and white pill and threw it towards the boy

The pill entered the mouth of the child

Then true monarch Fier breath turned towards Liu Tuan

“Bring the child to the ‘emerald gold mine’ and put him with the rest of the mortals there” he instructed

“I will immediately obey” Liu tuan rushed to the unconscious boy picked him

Then he stood in the side and waited for master meng to open the formation

Understanding the man waiting there

master meng took out formation disc and cut the qi to it deactivating the formation

The three Liu family members bowed and rushed out

Master meng looked at the three disappearing figures before turning to true monarch fire breath

“Old Huo I want the umbrella, don’t fight me over it”

“it’s yours if you can find it” true monarch fire breath replied

“What do you mean?” Master meng asked

“I just searched the place with my divine conscious there so object except those rags of clothes on her,” fire breath simply answered

“What!!” master meng shouted

“Most likely it was a lifeblood treasure"

"We must have destroyed it when we ended her life,” true monarch fire breath said

he waved his hand and collected the azure blue long cloth

Then he too turned around and left leaving the dazed master meng

Master broke out of his daze and rushed toward the body of granny Yu tearing her clothes

searching everywhere then he started to savagely tear limbs and open up the chest of the woman

As Liu Wen flew away from the pagoda he heard a very loud and shrill scream

He shuddered after hearing,

"The right choice," he said to himself, looking solemn