One Sword to Immortality - Chapter 3

___________

The lady’s eyes widened in shock, her open mouth forming an “O”.

“You mean he was a human? And he awakened his blood pulse?”

Grandma Huai nodded her head and replied lightly:” I’ve lived for over six thousand years. This is my first time witnessing such a strong awakening, and the type of awakening is exactly the same as us. Girl! This is a great opportunity! The rest would also notice this boy.. and if you take your time.. he might be taken away……”

Grandma Huai giggled and the dark aura surged around her. In this instant, the ugly yet amiable grandmother disappeared, vanishing within the dark aura.

The face of the lady in bluish-white turned slightly red and pouted:

” Grandma Huai! How could you laugh at me!”

She stamped her foot and wrinkled her brows, frowning.  Then she shook her head lightly and thought to herself: “Come to think of it, he seems rather familiar. As if I’ve seen him before.. but who is he?”

………………………………………..

On the other side of the city

A young punk was strolling down the street with a cigarette between his fingers, humming a song as if without a care in the world.

Suddenly, a green light lit up on his forehead. A small shape of a bird could be seen as it emerged out of the green light.

The young punk let out a bitter smile. “Sister Cui! What is it today that I can help you again?”

The little green bird perched on his shoulders and chirped for a few times before pulling his hair with its beak. It then hovered into the air in front of the punk before transforming into an attractive, seductive lady clad in a light coloured silk. She gave a sly smile as her feet landed gracefully on the ground like a falling leaf in autumn.

“Duan Tian Lang! I know you are wise, yet with the most scheming set of eyes. Can you tell me, your sister, what exactly did that young man awakened in his blood pulse? His ability to absorb the Emperor’s Stream Serum was on par with Grandma Huai, Yun Shuai and your sister myself!”

Duan Tian Lang raised a brow. Only after a while, he responded with a sigh:”Sister Cui! This may be something troublesome, are you sure you want to know about it?”

The attractive lady eyes turned cold, smiling evilly “Duan Tian Lang! If you dare play games with me, I will not mind tearing you apart!”

Duan Tian Lang did not dare to drag the conversation anymore and revealed it almost immediately:” The Undead Tree Blood Pulse!”

The expression on the attractive lady’s face froze. By the time she had woken up to her senses, Duan Tian Lang had already escaped.

“If this guy is going to be such trouble, all the demons and legions must have already noticed him, I can’t afford to get into all these damn troubles.”

Meanwhile, at a certain corner of the city, waves of gossip had already spread about Xu Liao. The mysterious non-human beings were starting to get interested in him. However, Xu Liao was oblivious to what was happening.

Xu Liao became the center of discussion of these mysterious beings. How could the fatty whom nobody wanted to talk to expect that this day would come?

………………………………………….

The very next morning, without his mother nagging at him, Xu Liao woke up on his own. He felt as if his body was cleansed and was totally refreshed. The energy in his body was overflowing. Usually he will oversleep because of his studies. His school work and daily curriculum would have drained his energy entirely.

If the incident that happened last night didn’t reflect in his mind as clear as day, Xu Liao would have thought that it was just a fantasy dream.

The moment he reached home last night he fell asleep and did not have the time to consolidate his thoughts on what actually happened. Now, when he woke up, all the questions seemed to flood in and started to make his brain hurt.  “ What exactly happened last night? What were those bizarre meteors? And those beings that absorbed the meteors.. either they are demons or devils.. they don’t look like humans.. where did they come from?”

Xu Liao put both of his hands on his bulging stomach, he could clearly feel that there is “something” pumping lightly as if it was another heart. This mysterious “organ” would swallow a tiny strand of the “meteors” cold breath that were absorbed previously, and followed by emitting profound energy. The cold breath of the three hundred meteors that were absorbed last night was almost completely devoured by it. Due to this, up to 90% of Xu Liao’s body was occupied by the new profound energy.

Xu Liao slowly manipulated this new found energy within his body. He formed a small spherical shaped dark aura on his palm. The aura could change its shape freely with just a thought. He felt it was much easier than trying to control the cold breath within his body. Not knowing what the dark aura could do, he pointed his palm towards a nearby tin can.
“Go!”

The dark aura sphere shot towards the tin can and did not stop there, it passed through the can and the walls behind it. At that moment, he realized he could not retrieve the tin can using the ability of the dark aura sphere.

Xu Liao was embarrassed. He summoned the dark aura sphere back into his palms and kept it. He then rubbed his eyes and shouted in his mind: ”Open the third eye!”

A second passed, yet nothing happened. However, his eyes were covered with a dark aura.

He employed his worldly knowledge from all the novels, comics, movies and dramas… various psychic and physical martial arts but was of no use. The dark aura sphere could not do anything. It could only phase through any matter and change its shape. It couldn’t do anything special.

The only coolest idea he could think of was by mimicking famous iconic figures using photos on the internet, using his dark aura sphere, he could transform it into a mystical suit and armor, or cosplay himself as Darth Vader from Star Wars. He could even form a pure black light saber that looks more evil than the Siths’.

Xu Liao can’t help but laugh bitterly, murmuring to himself: “It’s not totally useless. At least I can mix around with Qu Lei and the rest. I could even have my own character. This is even more realistic than their props! Without the aid of backstage effects, I can easily display it myself.”

While he was busy entertaining himself by improving the details on the Darth Vader suit, someone knocked on the door. “Xu Liao! Are you awake? Come have your breakfast and go to school!” A gentle voice reminded. It was Xu Liao’s mother.
“Alright mother, I’m coming right away!” Xu Liao exited his room while being immersed in his thoughts.

His door was shut.

If Xu Liao’s mother had not had her back turned towards the door, she would have fainted in shock. It was only after a few seconds had passed that Xu Liao realized that he actually walked through the door…..