The Portal of Wonderland - Chapter 209

Chapter 209
The white and grey apes looked ahead towards the garden with excitement . They opened and closed their noses in a continuous manner . It seemed that they were trying to smell something . Their faces were filled with an enchanted expression . But, they restrained themselves, and didn’t proceed further .




There were high and big fences around the garden . There was a door as well . A boy with coiled-up hair was partly leaning at the door-side; he was wearing black clothes . His head was tilted; he seemed to be whistling in his sleep . A faint smile was hung on the corner of his mouth . It seemed as if he was having a beautiful dream .
The two apes looked at each other . They then waved their arms, and made a few gestures .
The white ape nodded its head . It then jumped out of the woods, and started to dance in joy while making creaking sounds .
The black-clothed boy heard the sounds . And, he was woken from his beautiful dream .
However, he didn’t get time to make any movement . The white ape opened its mouth, and puffed out a group of flames . The flames hit the black-clothed boy’s body like meteors, and ignited his clothes .
The white ape closed its mouth . Then, its feet touched the ground with a creaking screech . It had a proud look on its face .
The black-clothed boy became angry . He raised his hand, and red-and-green colored clouds rolled out from it . They extinguished the blazing flame from his clothes in a flash . He then waved his hand, and took out a long golden-red whip . He thrashed it towards the white ape .
The length of the long whip increased with the wind; it stretched-up to ten times of its original size . Then, the tip of the whip started to release groups of red flames .
The white ape issued a strange scream . Its body moved sideways, and fled while pulling out some of the white after-images . It then jumped to hundred or more feet to get out of the danger zone, and dodged the strike of the whip .
‘Bang!’
The ground shook as the long whip hit it . Then, a blazing flame shot in the ground, and a black hole emerged out of it .
The white ape didn’t seem to be fearful . It raised its tail higher, and swung his red butt towards the black-clothed boy . It then turned its head . It looked towards him, and made a wry face . It seemed that he felt extreme hate towards the ape .
The white ape had awakened the black-clothed boy from a beautiful dream . So, he was extremely angry . And, the ape was making fun of him now . This made him so angry that he couldn’t restrain himself . He brandished his whip once again, and shot it towards the white ape .
A proud look flashed through the eyes of the white ape . It issued a loud creaking shout, and ran away towards a distant place . It continued to turn around and kept making various kinds of weird faces . A whip had been shot towards it a moment ago . But, the ape had escaped it owing to its quick wit . And, this made the black-clothed boy even angrier .
The boy and the ape had soon disappeared in the depth of thick fog . Even their traces couldn’t be seen anymore .
A swishing sound was heard at this time . The grey ape jumped out of the forest . Its eyes looked towards a distant place . It then exposed a happy expression on its face . It moved its body, and got transformed into grey-shadows . It then scuttled like electricity, and dashed towards the territory where those various kinds of fruits grew .




It looked towards the fruits in the surroundings, and issued a creaking sound in excitement . It then tweaked its ears, and scratched its cheeks .
Then, its figure scuttled to a fruit-tree in a flash . It stretched out its hands, and picked a fruit . After that, it took a mouthful of bite from the fruit .
The eyes of the grey ape flickered and shone . The flavor of the fruit seemed to be fabulous and satisfying .
Suddenly, a screeching shout was heard from a distant place from outside the garden; it was the white ape’s voice .
Suddenly, the grey ape raised its head . It still had half of the bite of the white fruit in its mouth . It then looked towards the place from where the sound was coming . The shadow of a man with an anxious face was rushing towards it with a very fast speed .
The grey ape was surprised . It swung its arm, and threw away the fruit . It then searched its body with its other hand . It was unclear how it took out a big piece of cloth from somewhere . It then wrapped it up to make a pouch . After that, it began to collect fruits in that pouch . It picked all the fruits quickly, and hurriedly stuffed them into the pouch .
The pouch was soon filled with fruits .
The grey ape tied the pouch to the back of its body . It then jumped out from the entrance of the garden . It quickly scuttled out of the garden . In fact, it was so fast that it seemed as if it was flying . After that, it went towards the platform near the forest .
The black-clothed boy was too late . He looked helplessly towards the escaping grey ape with the pouch full of stolen fruits . He angrily issued a scream . He then chased after it while issuing several loud sounds in anger . He covered some distance in anger, but eventually stopped chasing the ape .
It was impossible to chase after a swift ape in a jungle . Moreover, that despicable white ape was perhaps nearby as well .
The grey ape jumped through the mountain-forest smoothly; as if it was treading on a plain land . Its face was filled with happy expressions . It then issued a roar in excitement .
It arrived at a river beside a valley after a short period of time . It stood still for a moment, and a sly color flashed through its eyes .
It then put down the pouch from its back . It took out few of the biggest fruits from it, and hid them in the bushes beside it . After that, it tied the pouch on its back, and stood-up to enter into the valley .
The white ape was already in the valley . It looked towards the grey ape and the big pouch on its back . The white ape became happy, and started to dance in joy .
The grey ape came over with quick steps . It put down the pouch from its back, and took all the big fruits out from it .
The white ape drooled with desire . It extended its hand to take a fruit, but the grey ape pushed its hand aside .
The white ape was startled . The grey ape took out all the fruits from the pouch with a very fast speed . After that, it divided them into two halves, and put one half in front of the white ape . It then put the remaining half into the pouch, and tied it on its back .




The grey ape shouted at the white ape . It then waved its arm, and walked in the direction of the exit of the valley .
The white ape didn’t seem to be concerned about the departure of the grey ape . It looked towards the pile of fruits on the ground with a delightful expression on its face .
It grabbed a red fruit, and readily bit half of it . It gradually swallowed down the entire fruit . Then, it picked-up another fruit .

The white ape ate to its full appetite . And, it ate quickly; so much so that it had gulped down that pile of fruits in just a few breaths’ time .
Its lower abdomen swelled-up . It touched its mouth, and exposed a satisfied look on its face .
But then, the happy expression vanished from its face . It covered its belly with its hand . It then exposed a painful look on its face .
The fruits had changed into cold and hot streams of air inside its belly . The streams fled, and entered into the Qi of its body . It felt as if countless knives were being stabbed into its body .
The complexion of the white ape turned blue and white in pain . Then, the golden light in its eyes started to flicker .
The white ape hopped-up from the ground . It then started to climb-up to the mountain that lay on its side at a very fast speed .
It was so fast that it had reached the summit in a few breaths’ time .
The fierce sun hung up in the sky . The white ape sat down cross-legged; its arms lay prostrate . It raised its head upwards, and opened its mouth . It then took a long breath .
After that, a strand of white light converged in midair, and got condensed into a white light beam . It then rushed forth, and entered into the mouth of the white ape .
Colors of suffering became visible on the face of the white ape as soon as the light beam entered its mouth . It scattered in its body, and pacified all the streams of air inside it . It then got transformed into a warm stream of air . It slowly flew inside its body .
The white ape continued to maintain this posture . And, that beam of white light continued to become brighter and thicker with the passage of time .
The white ape opened its eyes after an unknown period of time . And, traces of a golden blaze started to appear in its pupils .
Countless golden characters of various sizes appeared in its mind at the same time . Then, they got converged together . They then condensed, and took the form of a piece of paper . The paper had some characters written on it .




The first three characters were – Sun-Swallowing Art .
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Shi Mu’s body shivered as came out of his dreamland .
He was startled to look at his body . He didn’t know when he had sat-up . He was in the same posture as that of the white ape while it was swallowing sun in his dream .
White light had been falling down from the hatchway above him, and had been merging into his body . Then, it had changed into a warm current, and had started to flow slowly .
However, the beam of white light dissipated without leaving any trace behind as soon as Shi Mu came into his senses .
"Sun-Swallowing Art… "
Shi Mu had already experienced the Moon Swallowing Art . So, he wasn’t amazed . He thought for a while . Then, his heart was filled with ecstasy . He realized that he had comprehended a wonderful cultivation art once again while being in an unconscious state of mind .
However, he couldn’t even recall one character from that slip of paper as he thought about the Sun Swallowing Art .
But, he didn’t worry since he had already experienced the Moon Swallowing Art .
He looked towards his surroundings . Flames were rolling-up under the stove . And, they were issuing stuffy sounds of rumbling in the fourth room of the fire room .
Shi Mu recalled the things that had happened while he was unconscious . He closed his eyes, and tried to feel the state of internal parts of his body . He was startled, and his face exposed colors of ecstasy .
His real Qi had been in a chaotic situation in his lower abdomen . But now, traces of air-masses had been concentrated there . They had taken the form of a silkworm cocoon, and were rolling-up .
A thought crossed Shi Mu’s mind . Suddenly, the rolling-speed of the air-masses was accelerated . Then, tremendous amount of real Qi was released outside his body from the air-masses . It radiated every part of his body .
A piece of thin red light appeared on the surface of his body, and his entire body began to fill with formidable power . He couldn’t help but look up in the sky and issue a long shout . However, he restrained himself soon after .
Shi Mu opened his eyes again . Then, he jumped-up with an expression of ecstasy on his face .
The air-masses in his lower abdomen had concentrated owing to his advancement towards the Xian Tian realm . The Qi palace in his body had officially taken the form of a Qi embryo .
The real Qi in his body had been coagulated to form a Qi embryo . So, he was now only half-a-step away from entering into the Xian Tian realm .
Now, he only needed to continue practicing the seventh layer of the ‘Art of the Flaming Red Ape’ . Moreover, he had to wait for the Qi embryo to accumulate enough Real Qi and be steady . This would allow him to establish the Qi palace and step into the Xian Tian realm .
Shi Mu’s mood was very good . The real Qi surging-up in his body slowly vanished . He was about to sit cross-legged, and continue his practice .
However, the door of the fourth fire room suddenly issued a rumbling sound, and opened .
A third grade disciple was standing outside the door with an anxious look on his face . But, he exposed a happy expression as he saw Shi Mu .
"Senior Brother!" the third grade disciple walked towards Shi Mu, and greeted him .
"Brother, what’s the matter?" Shi Mu asked .
The third grade disciple stared blankly as he heard this . He hesitated and said, "You’ve been staying here for twenty-eight days already . You didn’t come out . So, I’ve come to see you . "
"Twenty-eight days already…?" Shi Mu was surprised .
It meant that he had been unconscious for almost seven days .
The third grade disciple felt relaxed in his heart . It was a trivial matter that Shi Mu had occupied the stone room for more than the predetermined time . But, Shi Mu hadn’t come out of the room for so many days . So, the third grade disciple had been worried that something unexpected had happened to him inside the room .
Shi Mu was a senior disciple of the Black Demon Sect . So, the third grade disciple would’ve been blamed if something unexpected had happened to him in the fire room . Therefore, he was relieved to see that Shi Mu was safe and sound .
"Thank you for informing me, Brother . I was practicing a cultivation art of the Sect with the help of the power of fire, and I got lost in that . So, I didn’t realize when the predetermined time passed," Shi Mu chuckled and replied .
"Senior Brother doesn’t need to explain anything . But, do you still want to continue renting the fire room?" the third grade disciple smiled and asked .
"There’s no need for that . " Shi Mu thought for a while, and shook his head .
Shi Mu patted the clothes on his body . He then turned around, and walked out of the entrance of the fire room .
There wasn’t much time left before he would have to leave for the Heavenly Demon Sect . Therefore, he couldn’t have continued his practice anyway…
Shi Mu departed from the third peak, and started to walk towards his cave residence .

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