Chapter 148 - 148. Isaa is punished

Cian and young Lord stood stiffly as huge gale started surrounding Kendra and Isaa. Cries suddenly stumped as the gale reached all the corners of entrapment. 

Everything ended in just a few moments. People looked at the two children that held hands with fear. 

Kendra resumed again her stoic manner and with calm face spoke not even loud, but piercing to their hearts. ''Those of you who have hatred towards me, I do not care. As long as you do not do any heinous crimes I will not touch you. That is the reason I left you alive. Now you are free to live your life as you wish.''

She turned to the elder that looked around and couldn't find not even one drop off the blood. People disappeared, not even dust was left off them. ''What happened?''

She smiled. ''I disintegrated their bodies and souls so they will never again be reincarnated. What is the point of them living again if their souls are so dirty that I had to do that?''

He slowly approached her and mildly patted her head. ''Child, you should let go of your hatred as well. I am already old and have seen so many good and bad things. My eyes almost dried inside of my head from crying, as so many of my tribe's people were tortured to death. But I still feel that hatred just consumes time and energy. Hatred means nothing.''

Kendra took his hand and smiled at him. ''I know. Thank you anyway for your kind words. Now it's time for us to go home. There are people waiting for you there, go and gather your peopel. I will take you with me. It's faster than by carriage.''

He nodded and slowly walked back, but suddenly stopped and a single tear slowly went down his cheeks. ''You took the curse of our tribe, thank you... thank you...''

She smiled and turned towards Isaa. ''Youuuu... What should I do with you?''

Isaa looked at her like she didn't understand while mischievous light went through her eyes. ''I have nooo idea what you are talking about.'' She planned to run away but Kendra held her by the collar.

''Seriously? Give it to me.'' She held open hand in front of Isaa's face.

Isaa sighed and slowly opened her hand. Inside was a small stone. It looked just like any other stone, but Kendra could feel dangerous energy bursting from it. 

Sigh cam out of her mouth and she knocked Isaa's head. ''Do you plan to live longer? This thing is maybe interesting at first but the acc.u.mulated energy inside it is quite unstable. It could even kill half of this continent if it bursts. From who did you steal this?''

''From that man. He had it on his body.'' Isaa held her forehead as Kendra this time used a bit more energy to knock her head. It seems she is a bit angry this time. She suddenly held her hand tightly and looked at her with big eyes. ''Sorry.''

''Isaa, I would never slight you with energy intake. You are my little sister. In the future, your decisions could harm you or hurt your beloved. Even you could feel such a great amount of energy but what? Greedy to grow your powers? Sigh. What is biggest rule in cultivation? Speak!''

It seems this time she really made blunder so she pursed her lips and mumbled. ''Slow cultivation.''

Kendra pulled her ear and hit her but out fury. ''Now speak! Why slow cultivation?!''

Cian wanted to say something but Kendra looked at him forcefully that he just had to shut up. Even if his heart bled he knew Kendra would never really harm Isaa. 

Isaa now knew that Kendra was really furious and started acting pitifully. When she looked at Kendra with teary eyes she could only see Kendra's angry countenance and cold expression. This time she can't pull any more tricks so she straightened her back and weakly repeated what Kendra taught her.

''Base of every cultivation is slow resonance. If you cultivate to fast the resonance in energy wisps would change and you could harm yourself, harm cultivation or even die. So slow cultivation is like pressing slowly layer after layer slowly and steady so if later any other resonance happens it will be strong like stone and durable like steel. The fast cultivation or cultivation under the big influence could destroy all that cultivator worked for.'' 

Kendra stroke her head and turned around. ''When you go back home your punishment will be inner cultivation for ten years. Your base is still unstable and your mind as well. How can I let you gather more energy if this little bit you have isn't even stable? Let's go home, mother and father probably are waiting for us.''

Isaa stared at her with mouth wide agape. ''Ten years? Wow. Isn't that a bit harsh?'' 

Kendra looked at her and smiled wickedly. Isaa stepped back and held her mouth. She knew she should not have spoken the last line. 

''Harsh you say. Oh, then let em be harsher. You will stay in closed cultivation for 15 years and won't able to use space. Your space bag I will leave as you need food, but your space will be locked until you don't learn to be stable. End of discussion, or do you want me to add more?'' Her eyes narrowed as she looked at Isaa's small paling face.

Isaa shook her head in desperation. ''No I don't mean that. I just...'' But suddenly a warm hand appeared on her shoulder. 

Cian looked at her and shook his head. ''If you say more Kendra might punish you to something even worse. Stop talking.''

Isaa nodded and put her hand on her mouth while grievously looking at Kendra.

''We will go back home. I need to stabilize my cultivation as well. You know that I grew my powers to fast as well. Now its time we stabilize it so we can pass the tribulations. If we don't do that, we can't even pass the next test. So, do you want to do that test with your set of body and mind or you want to what I told you?''

Isaa slowly let go of her mouth and slumped her shoulders. She knew that Kendra meant well for her. A small smile appeared on her face as she gave up arguing. ''I know. When I held that stone I could literally feel the fluctuations in my body. I thought that it was time for me to gather more but seeing how angry you are... It seems the energy inside would have killed me, right?''

Kendra pulled her up and held her body tightly. ''I suddenly felt your core fluctuating. It scared me so much... Isaa, don't you ever be greedy for power. If you do, the bad thing will happen to you. I don't want to lose you. Please.''

Isaa hugged her back and a stream of tears appeared on her face. ''I promise that from now on I will strive to become strong. This will never happen again.''

Kendra held her tightly as her heart slowly became steady again. She put Isaa again on the floor and patted her head. ''Let's take these people back.''

She turned her head towards the young Lord and smile at him. ''Let these carriages to those people to go back home. I will take you and your people to my town and extract the bugs safely. Your fathers included.''

He stepped forward and looked at her expectantly. ''He is still alive?''

Kendra nodded and pointed one of the carriages. ''I left him alive, but after I extract the bugs he won't live long. His doings backfired at him and his body is deteriorating. We need to go back to my town fast if we want to save the bugs. Tell your mother to come out, I know she hides in one of the carriages. ''

He nodded and quickly everyone departed from carriages. They shared food in carriages evenly to everyone for their trips. Kendra gave everyone as well some silver money to have for the future and most of the people departed. 

Only those that had bugs and the tribe were left standing and looking at carriages leaving in different directions.