Chapter 111 - 111 - Escape And Recapture

Inside the water hole, Long Aotian held the tree by its trunk and glared at it. It trembled and whispered, "Please don't kill me,"

Long looked at the ghoul to talk for him.

The ghoul nodded and said, "Master... wants you,"

Long gazed at the ghoul with his eyes wide open. 'What the hell? I gesture for him to ask about Felia and Raijin,' he thought.

With his free hand he gestured to the tree and then drew a shape of a puppy in water.

The ghoul peered at his actions with rapt attention. He nodded. "Master... wants you..... draw," it said.

The tree drew a puppy just like Long with its roots.

Long slapped his forehead. 'This pig teammate,' he thought.

He dragged the tree towards one of the water bubbles and took a deep breath. "Yay, I asked you to ask him about that stupid woman and Raijin. I was drawing a wolf get it," he said at the ghoul.

The ghoul blankly looked at him with its head tilted. "Who... a dog?" he whispered.

"Sigh, there is no use talking to you. You..." he pointed to the shivering tree. "You thought that they were heavily poisoned, so they became an easy target for you right. But you dint expect that woman to be a friend of my lover.... If she dies my Xia will be upset. So spit them out." he said. Then he mumbled, "That stupid maid, how could she not notice you."

The tree shivered and said, "What are you talking? That girl was with a man. And she was at fault first, she destroyed my cultivation fruit. AND I didn't eat her. I just imprisoned her in me."

"Then spit them out," Long growled.

The tree obediently spat them out. Felia and Raijin were covered in a transparent sac.

"Would it hold underwater?"

"Yes, of course. That is made of my spit," the tree assured.

Long felt a little disgusting holding it, so he passed the sac to the ghoul.

"You got the crazy beast, now let me go," the tree mumbled.

The golden dragon squeezed the tree a little and whispered, "Hmm, how could I let you go scotch free. You might come back and try to hurt us," his nails expanded into claws. He dragged it near the face of the tree and made a small slash. The tree's mouth was ripped.

"Hmma hh," it cried.

"Its fine, you will grow it back. This is just a warning," he growled and let the tree go.

It dashed to the entrance of the hole.

Outside the water hole, Xia was in a perilous situation.

With the man's unyielding grip, his throat started closing up. His lungs were aching from the lack of air. He held the hand holding and gasped, "Let go,"

The silver haired man had a crazed look on his face and he smirked. "hehe, why should I? I told you I want to help you, but you refused my help," the man said.

'This .... Crazy person, what the hell is this luck? Ahh Long came back I really need your exponential luck,' he internally prayed.

Prince Gua Jung placed his face close to the angelic man's face and whispered, "I'm gonna let go of you, you have to answer this time, got it,"

Xia nodded, so he let go of his throat. He took a deep breath and panted. His throat was aching badly. He glanced up at him with his eyes narrowed.

Swiftly, he summoned a small knife from his ring and slashed at him. The man dodged the attack, but a small cut appeared on his face.

"Dear dear... why would you do that?" Prince Gua uttered. He glanced back with a demonic look on his face. His face was shinning so brightly that they were completely silver. His hair started glowing silver as well. And a strange sign appeared on his forehead, looked more like a flower.

'Shit, this guy is hard to deal with,' Xia thought. His eyes never left that strange man's path. He followed all of his actions with keen eyes.

The man named prince Gua walked over to him with his hands outstretched. "At first I came here for that trickster tree but I found you. You... are really being difficult. Why won't you become my concubine?" he whispered with his eyes wide. They looked silver with no trace of depth to them.

Xia felt his heart shudder. The dangerous aura the man was exuding made him shiver. This had never happened in his life before. 'How can a mortal be so powerful?' he thought as he peered at him.

Suddenly the small banyan tree rushed out from the swirling hole in the corner. It was panting and moaning as it dashed towards the cave's entrance.

This distracted the silver haired man. He gazed at the tree and whispered, "ah here you are you nasty little thing. Give me the thing you stole," he said.

The tree shivered, but it did not talk at all. It moved its deformed lips, but it was as if it could not talk.

"I will give you a second to answer, where is the girl?" Prince Gua Jung shouted.

The tree shivered and trembled even more.

Prince Gua got so pissed at this. He ran over to it and hugged its trunk.

"Spit it out." he said and started squeezing the tree's trunk.

The tree wiggled around for a while and went unconscious.

"Shit," prince Gua cursed. He shook the tree, but the tree did not have any reaction. He was conflicted now. He kept gazing back at Xia and then at the tree. 'I don't want to miss out on the beauty,' he thought internally.

Xia vigilantly moved away from him and stood next to the entrance of the swirling hole.

Prince Gua Jung saw this and laughed. "Xia dear, I will meet you another day. No wait... I don't want you to escape. What should I do? What should I do?" he mumbled.

"Ah I know," he shouted and sent a small ball of silver semi-transparent energy towards him.

Xia dodged, but he failed to notice there was another ball that was hidden by the first ball's shadow.

When he saw this, he summoned all his energy to transfer to the space pearl given by the old dragon. But still the attack landed. It hit him right near his heart.

Inside the space, he strode towards the bed and held onto it.

The old dragon's soul noticed its master's presence and crept up to him. "Master, are you alright?" he whispered.

Xia held his heart and knelt down. He could feel a strange energy enter him and rush throughout his body. It rushed to his dantian and his meridian and blocked it.

The old dragon touched his shoulders softly. He immediately noticed this abnormality and supplied him with his remaining soul power. This aggraded his body even more.

Xia was mortified. This energy was completely making havoc out of his spiritual energy. His cultivation path of water was a soft type. So the turbulent light energy made a mess of it. Making it even more difficult for him to control his own spiritual energy.

He tried to force through his blockage, but it made him vomit out blood.

"Master, your spiritual energy is very turbulent now. You have to stop trying to open your meridians otherwise your nerves and meridians would shatter," the old dragon soul said in urgency.

Just after he uttered this Xia lost consciousness.