Exiled Clan - 69 Schemes

The sun hung high up in the sky. Despite this time of this year being the beginning of summer, the heat from the sun was not at all hot in these mountains.

Rudra was sitting in the courtyard, in front of him was a rabbit which was bound to a metal pole completely immobile as Rudra copied its feature onto an ice sculptor.

Rudra hummed a tune and whistled every once in a while smoothly chipping at the ice pillar in front of him, abruptly the pillar cracked as his knife dug into it,

“Hooo!” Rudra breathed a mouthful of air and just stared at the knife in his hand, the knife in his hand flew cutting the ropes binding the white rabbit to the pole and releasing it, The rabbit quickly escaped.

Rudra sat down on the stairs of the courtyard as he mulled over his failure, he had spent the past week cultivating and sculpting, he had already broken through to the 4th stage of Qi condensation.

“Its already been 4 days, how much longer do I have to wait.,” Rudra complained as he thought about the delay in his plans as Iclyn took her sweet time preparing for the travels as she wrapped up her ‘work in the sect’.

“Wait till we reach there, hehe! ” Rudra laughed like an evil maniac as he thought about the escape plan he had schemed, so perfect she would never see it coming.

Rudra laughed to himself like a crazy person alone in the courtyard scaring away all the birds and rabbits that roamed about in the small garden built there.

After some time Iclyn finally arrived with Eira in tow,

“Come let’s depart,” Iclyn said as she took out her White Flying ship in the courtyard.

“Are you also coming with us?” Rudra looked at Eira as he asked,

“No, Sister won’t let me, I must train…..” Rudra only heard what he wanted to know and completely ignored her next words as if she were air.

He jumped up the white ship and turned to see Eira waving her hand from below.

“HEHE!” Rudra also waved his hand back as he wanted it to be their last encounter after he tricked them and made his escape.

“Get inside the chamber if you don’t want to fall off the ship, this ship is going to go very fast,” Iclyn said as the ship slowly rose in the air.

Rudra scoffed as he sat down cross-legged planning to cultivate Wind Qi,

ZOOM!

Rudra felt his white hair blowback and his eyes water as the windswept past him at a very high velocity, he quickly rose to his feet seeing the clouds drift by the sided of the boat at a very fast pace the ground seemed to change terrain every so often.

After so time Rudra got accustomed to the speed of the ship as he went back to his previous position of sitting cross-legged on the floor of the ship, as he cultivated the Tempest Wolf Qi.

Day turned to night and the ship kept on going at a straight path, opposite to him, Iclyn was sitting cross-legged meditating.

The whole night passed in silence and the sun could be seen rising at the horizon,

“That was surprisingly calm shouldn’t be have been attacked by any beasts,” Rudra asked Iclyn who was still meditating.

“I have a formation installed on the ship where the beasts don’t see us also I have taken a detour around the dangerous parts,” Iclyn opened her mouth to explain while she remained in her meditative pose eyes still shut.

“Don’t worry we will reach the western part of the continent in 3 more days,” Iclyn said.

“What was the purpose of your visit again, you wanted to bring along your leftover family members?” Iclyn questioned Rudra as she did not buy into his bogus claims of the family on the western side of the continent after hearing the whole truth from her sister.

But as she had promised him that she would fulfill his one condition as the part of the deal,

“let’s see what schemes you are cooking…” Iclyn said as she looked inside the boat where an obscure shadow could be seen.

Iclyn had prepared many things to not let him slip by, several runic spell formations.

She had even collected his blood to act as a tracing material and finally, she had gotten herself some backup.

As both Iclyn and Rudra tried to outdo one another, three days passed, they arrived at the edge of their destination, the western part of the continent.