Chapter 234 - 234.To explain what happened

Three days later the next Day of Trades was set so Kendra sends the group of people up to cultivate and most of the rest were set up to go to the castle. They left only a few people in the castle as Kendra set up new protection formation.

On the first moment, it looked just the same but if someone stirs trouble, he would be caught up in his own illusion in his head until they don't take him out. So trading there and in the nearby surroundings was the safest ever.

As soon the people came in they felt comfortable temperature and had a feeling of comfort and security. 

Laura saw Kendra already from far so she went straight to her. ''The other day...''

Kendra just gazed at her for a long time and then shook her head. ''Those girls were from your sect?''

She nodded. Her eyes wandered around and then she sighed. ''I don't know what happened to them. Are they ok?''

Jason snorted as he passed by when she was talking about it and coldly laughed. ''Your girls tried to kidnap Kendra with some other people together. They didn't have to do that. If they needed our help, we would have helped anyone. Kidnapping is just annoying. And no, they are not dead. The main culprits were sent to the other continent and are punished to stay there for the next 25 years and your group was just extended only 5 more years on some island. The Taskmaster was pissed off. He actually planned to come and add some benefits to your village as you finished your basic task, but who would have thought your people would be so foolish.''

Laura was surprised. ''I thought Tskmaster won't be coming back next 5 years.''

Kendra shook her head. ''Grounding fairy was angry as some fools attacked the Saint Animal of this world. They tried to bleed it to death in try to become cultivators. Not only that they ate live animals, literally. That is just too cruel. We almost all lost the ability to be cultivators again.''

Everyone surrounded them as they heard their loud talk. Someone from the crowd asked. ''What are you talking about?''

Jason was louder than others so he shouted. ''Quiet, if you want to hear it!''

Isaa brought her the table and she stepped on it. She looked at hundreds of people looking at her and even more arriving to hear what she has to say, curiously. 

''Everyone is now aware that this world is a new world. Our duties are to handle basic tasks so we can see if this world is liveable just as it is or is there a need for some changes.'' Kendra started and everyone nodded. They all realized that much.

''But that is not all. This world is as well for you to strengthen your own minds. How can you plan to go to the next level if you don't have calmness in your minds? Don't you think it is kind of strange that everyone is actually strangely acting up?'' Kendra looked at the people in the surroundings.

Seeing their confused faces she just sighed. ''Indeed, I am a child but my mind is at it seems better than yours. You all act up as your inner self is. All your hidden desires, all those strange feelings that were hidden inside will be shown in this world. But that is not the top of it. I fear that every new world is like this.''

A sign of realization could be seen on their astonished faces. Laura was suddenly serious. ''Then what is the real reason... ?''

''Ther are so many sects and so many cultivators. This is a real test for all cultivators. To cultivate a clean state of mind and not give in their negative needs and thought to take over. If that happens trough transition, wouldn't all the collected energy turn you into something unsightly?'' She stopped to see their expressions and suddenly another voice could be heard so everyone turned their heads to him.

A young man with black hair and different kind of color of eyes stood there with worry on his face. ''My Elders told me that long, long time ago there was a big war between the dark and light cultivators, are you talking about that?''

Kendra had no idea what he is talking about but kept straight face. ''Unfortunately, I know only a couple of stories about that war, anyone has the real information to share?''

Everyone started talking at the same time so she had to stop them. ''Ok, we will talk about that another time, could you please now tell me, did anyone understand why we all almost lost our cultivation completely?''

Talk stopped and they looked at her with curiosity. The young man from before voiced what everyone thought. ''Why?''

''Every new world has its own protection animal. Sometimes it is a dragon, tiger, wolf, bear or fox. But as this world should represent peace the holy animal was a white deer. He has a power of healing and had absolutely no defensive abilities as no one would have expected that someone would attack holy animal. Not even grounding fairy or Taskmaster.'' She could now see their faces paling.

Laura not only paled her face became ashen. '' Wait a moment! I hard old stories about the tenth worlds. They started existing when cultivators destroyed half of the world and even killed the protection animal. Don't say... ?''

Kendra nodded. ''There is one more content that is bigger than this one. On that continent there is a large sect, I have no idea what it is but it has thousands of people. Well, that sect became... filthy. They changed completely doing all kinds of atrocities. One of those atrocities is to drink sain animal's blood every day and then drink blood and eat meat from alive animals. That is the reason about the blood rain. If the saint animal was bleed alive to death, this world would turn into the tenth world and we All would become commoners without one bit of cultivation. We would live just a short span of time and that's it. At that time not even Taskmaster would be able to help us.''

Suddenly everyone erupted while Jason tried to calm them down. Strangely everyone suddenly had huge smiles on their faces. Kendra was confused as she looked at Laura and Jason that was the closest. ''What is going on?''

Jason chuckled. ''That was the biggest guild in whole middle world. They are famous having sent many people to the next level and having many God's and Fairys form their sect. Ha ha ha ha ha.''

Kendra blinked in confusion and stared then at Isaa. ''Why are they then so happy?''

Isaa sighed. ''That sect is famous Oula sect. They always have extremely many cultivators that rise in their rank and almost always win on competitions. But not only that, they are famous for their peaceful expressions and standings. Never getting in fights unneeded and never losing their composure, frustrating many people.''

There was still confusion written all over Kendra's face. ''I still don't understand why are they so happy...''

Jason and Laura chuckled. ''This shows only that they were only pretending and who knows how they were acting in their sect really. Maybe deep inside them, they were always like that.''

But they saw Kendra shaking her head. ''I am not confused about that. How could people with dirty minds shave so many people ascended to the next level then?''

''Well, ascension is hard so not many cultivators ascend. They indeed had many people ascended, but that happens only once every few hundreds of years. They had many cultivators, some of them might have ways to calm their minds or were not included in their ''practices''. Who knows what is really going on there...'' Jason shrugged but still had that naughty expression on his face.

Kendra shook her head. ''I love our sect. Our people just are pure minded. Love that. That old man knows how to choose. I am sure that many of us will be able to ascend.''

Laura shook from deep inside. Does that mean that none of them became violent or aggressive? She had to ask. ''How... how could not even one of you change?''

Kendra just calmly blinked, while Jason patted her back and answered on her question. ''We cultivate every day. You can't just think about your survival. Cultivation is just centering your own mind to the next level of calmness. It is good for people that feel aggression welling up. We feel those things as well, but we chose to not become aggressive and use too much of our energy to live good and properly. Why do you think this castle was build up so fast. Pent up aggressivity... It is better to use it for something practical. After that you sleep better.'' His playful tone and loud voice were heard by everyone and then now they finally realized one strange thing.

Everyone from Grounding Fairy Sect was calm, with huge smiles and friendly. But not weak. No, they seem to spread some sort of strong pressure over all of them but it didn't seem intentional. It was their natural elegant bearing. Like kings between commoners. Higher than them and looking at them at the same time with benevolence.

Such a feeling was not comfortable... at all. So in many people's minds a small grudge appeared against them. Even tho they knew deep in their heart that this sect was literally filled with good people, they couldn't stop darkness to seep deeper into their hearts. So grudges were born but how far they would take them.

Who knows, only the future can show it...