Heavenly Dao Child - Chapter 504

Ryuu tilted his head in a moment of brief confusion as he tried to understand the reason why the people were suddenly tensed and more than one of them had suddenly sent an annoyed look at the younger of the two women.

Before he could not help but let out a sigh inwardly as he felt pity for the woman, ‘Poor woman, her mental disorder is annoying her family, I will see what I can do to help her, as a family should not treat one of their own like that and hence I will help them for a price.’

Yujie looked towards Ryuu who wore a confused look on his face, as he hurriedly spoke, “Well you see our family did a large injustice a long time ago, we made a horrible mistake.”

Salazar suddenly looked even older than before as he spoke with a sigh, “When my grandson born we did something that haunt us to this day, we thought him to be bringer of misfortune and we wanted to kill him, my brave and wise daughter, she was different she fought against us and ran away with my grandchild.”

A silence descended in the room with the only sound of Ryuu’s pen moving furiously against the paper when Fang decided to continue, “My sister was right, she was right all along because of our, no my narrow-mindedness I would have lost my son, we later learnt of our mistake but it was too late, our enemies found them my sister and my son first.”

Salazar sighed as he continued to speak, “When we reached there we found my daughter’s best friend and spirit beast Zhu Zhu dead, as well as the attackers but my daughter and grandson were missing.”

AS they spoke Ryuu had lowered his head his eyes hiding behind the bangs of his hair, while he had stopped writing the grip on his pen tighten.

Yujie sighed as he spoke, “I am a Celestial, and being one enabled me to sense my descendant though the senior who took them blocked me from finding him as well as Xiao Xiao.”, he then took a breath as he spoke, “When you arrived here I was finally able to sense you and find you Ryuu, we want you to return home, please let us make amends to you.”

Ryuu sat completely still to the point that to everyone he was just a statue as Sabine spoke with concern in her voice, “Ryuu, are you alright?”

Ryuu did not even look up in their direction as he began to work on the piece of paper in front of him as he spoke, “Are you all done? Then you may leave.”

Sabine quickly spoke with her eyes filled with tears, “Please give us a chance, I know what we have done was criminal but please give us a chance to make amends.”

“Why would I want to make amends with you at all? you gave me away when I was just a new born, have you ever thought I would want nothing to do with all of you.”

“Son, please I…”

Whatever Fang was about to say was stuck in his throat as Ryuu snarled at him as he spoke, “Never refer to me with so much familiarity, mother name is Xiao Xiao and she was, is and will always be my parent, so this is the last time I warn you do not call me in such a manner.”

“I am you mother, I gave… ”

Sabine was prepared for many things but she was not prepared for Ryuu to roar out with laughter, in fact, all of them were taken aback at his behaviour.

Ryuu wiped the tears that appeared in his eyes from laughing too much as he spoke while trying to control his breath, “You know how to tell a joke, ‘you my mother’, how laughable.”

Fang’s fist clenched as he spoke, “This is not the way you talk with your mother.”

Ryuu let out a growl as he spoke with a snarl while trying his utmost not to kill them where they sat, “My mother raised, she protected my life from the likes you, today whatever I have become is because of my mother, and her name is Xiao Xiao, I do not know in fact I do not wish to be known by the likes of you now get out.”

Ryuu’s words broke both his birth parents’ hearts but he did not care in fact he was greatly annoyed at them and their behaviour.

‘I hate this, they must have some ulterior motives for trying to bring me back to their home but what is it? Even more is the fact that my teachers and even my sisters might know about it, I see that is why they sent me here but why? Why after all these years that I am forced to face them, especially when I had even forgotten about those filths.’

While Ryuu was deep in thought his birth family begun to bring out all sorts of items in order to try and make amends, and as his senses returned he was taken aback at the sight of various items being placed in front him.

In another place and another life, the items would be like heavenly treasure for someone who was about to break into the Immortal Realm, but for someone like Ryuu who had seen much better treasures, those items were akin to trash not to mention he had no need of them at his level.

“What do you with these things?”

Salazar looked at his grandson and as time passed by he was getting more and more curious as well as stunned the reason was fact that, Ryuu according to their common sense should be at least someone who has just become an Immortal was talking down even a Celestial in his home planet such a scene was unthinkable as well as suicidal in his mind.

‘Just how was he raised? To act with such impudence, or is it because he is angry at us or he has someone protecting him, but why would someone protect him.’

Meanwhile, Yamamoto simply looked at the confrontation while drinking his tea, but the moment the group had entered he had activated a special array that let Ryuu’s teachers have a perfect view of the confrontation taking place.

Ryuu growled as he spoke, “You are trying to bribe how disgusting you lot are, out get out I have enough of you.”

Beatrice seeing her grandson quickly losing patience spoke hurriedly, “No you misunderstand we are not trying to bribe, we are just trying to give you gifts for your birthday, please do not misunderstand us.”

With that, she promptly took out another item, which turned out to be a painting, a painting that was infused with Dao, but what drew his attention to the picture was the face that was drawn on it, the beautiful face of a beauty that would make everyone’s heart skip a beat before they noticed the giant piece of metal that the woman had hoisted over her shoulder with the handle held tightly with her right hand.

Ryuu sighed as he pinched the bridge of his nose, ‘All I need is for my teachers or Heavens forbid one of my sisters sees this, I will never leave through their teaching.’

“I understand that being in presence of a Dao all of a sudden can cause a great problem, but even if you meditate from a distance it would be possible for you to gain some immeasurable benefits, this picture is a great treasure that my ancestor had stumbled upon and brought back with great risk to his life.”

As Yujie spoke a snicker from the corner of the room managed to draw their attention and for the first time, they spotted another occupant of the room, who was sitting leisurely.

Ryuu looked at Yamamoto as he spoke with a smile on his face, “Is there a reason for your snickering advisor Yamamoto did you hear or see something funny then please share with us.”

Yamamoto quickly sat up straight as he spoke with his head bowed low, “A thousand pardon Your Highness I will not repeat such insolence, I was just shocked to see Lady Neacht, with her rather distinctive piece of  …err I mean her rather exquisite sword.”

Ryuu let out a small chuckle as he spoke, “Between you and me I also think the same every time I see her rather large slab of metal, but always remember never to mention it in front of her as she gets rather incensed when anyone calls it anything other than a sword.”

Yamamoto gave a small nod as Ryuu turned to face Yujie and his group, while Yamamoto sighed inwardly, ‘He is behaving more like the second Princess, the more calm and happy she looks like the more dangerous and sadistic she is with her punishment.’

Yujie looked towards Yamamoto with his eyes wide, ‘So this is the hidden expert who is helping Ryuu.’

While Fang frowned as he spoke, “We asked for privacy.”

Ryuu shrugged as he spoke, “Advisor Yamamoto’s job is to advise me, so that is why he is here, now please leave.”

Salazar who was paying rapt attention to the small talk between Ryuu and his advisor could not help but ask out, “The senior in this picture you know her.”

“Of course I know of big sister Neacht, she is a very good friend of my teacher’s daughters, I have seen her many times and even sparred with her.”, Ryuu then turned towards Yujie as he spoke with a sigh, “You misunderstand the guardian of Xia Empire, I did not feel overwhelmed by the essence of the Dao that has been captured in the picture but rather that someone offering me a picture of someone I consider as my big sister and telling me to meditate in front of her, the teasing I would get if my sister hear about this.”

His words confirmed many of the questions lurking in both Salazar and Yujie’s minds, as they also understood the reason behind why Ryuu was being protected by someone of Yamamoto’s calibre, someone whom they not only failed to detect but after being able to perceive him Yamamoto’s aura felt suffocating to them.

Ryuu narrowed his eyes as he spoke, “Though there is something I would want to know.”

Sabine gave an eager nod as she spoke, “Please ask away Ryuu, we will answer you anything you wish to know.”

Ryuu snorted as he spoke, “I wonder about that.”, he took a brief pause as his roamed over the group in front of him before he spoke, “I want to why? Why did you all changed your mind from wanted nothing more to kill me, from causing my mother and her best friend to flee, to this trying to make amends bring me back to your house, I want to know why?”

The group was silent for a moment as Ryuu spoke with a tired sigh, “If you do not wish to answer then the door is that way, I have work to do.”

Hearing those words Yujie hurriedly spoke, “Ryuu, we what we did was a blasphemy against Heavens itself, we should not have acted in such a way, even if you were born without a dantian we should not have acted as such the shock of such incident made us react rashly and we made a horrible mistake, one we have been trying to rectify, a simple case of shock and misunderstanding which led to everything after all what parent does not love their child.”

Ryuu looked at Yujie for a moment without blinking before he let out a bark of laughter as he spoke, “Liar, how can an old man like you lie to a junior like me is beyond my understanding.”

Yujie’s face turned to be an interesting shade of purple, never in his life has anyone mocked him in such a manner making his temper flare up only to come to a grinding halt as he found under undivided attention of Yamamoto.

“There are so many inconsistencies about your statement not to mention my office is surrounded by arrays, arrays which informs me when someone is lying and whatever the truth was you skirted away from the truth, the real reason is different.”

Ryuu rubbed his forehead in exasperation as he spoke, “Enough I tire of you lot, I do not need anything from the likes of you, and if you still do not wish to take them off my desk I will have them thrown them out on the streets, I have already given you enough of my precious time now leave.”

Sabine wanted to protest but with a growl, Ryuu shouted out, “Yu Wu, they have already concluded their business so have them out of my building.”

Sabine wanted to protest but was stopped by her husband as the group stood up from their seat, Yujie gathered everything in his space ring as he spoke, “I know you are angry at us but if you want to know more about your mother then please feel free to visit us, we will show you your mother’s home.”

Ryuu did not even acknowledge his words as Beatrice spoke hurriedly, “Ryuu can you answer a simple question to me, please I beg of you.”

Ryuu briefly looked at her and after an intense debate he decided to humour her as such he gave a nod for her to continue.

“How did my daughter die?”

“I do not know who your daughter is.”

Salazar bit back a grown as he spoke, “We want to know how your mother Xiao Xiao died.”

Ryuu narrowed his eyes as he spoke, “How do you know that my mother is dead?”

Salazar contemplated for a moment as he spoke, “Our family has a treasure that my ancestor had found while exploring, a large mural, whenever a new member of our family is born especially of that person is related to the current clan head, the name of that person is inscribed on it, you name is there on the wall.”, he took a small pause before continuing again, “We do not know how it works but it clearly shows when someone is in grave danger and when they are dead their name has a line crossing it.”

“I see, my mother died in her sleep.”

A silence descended before Fang exploded, “That is a lie, my sister was a Golden Immortal and a Golden Immortal does not die in such a manner.”

“Believe what you want but you all asked me how not why and I unlike you all answered you as you truthfully, now leave the door is that way.”

The group quickly left with the men taking the while Yu Wu who had just arrived looked at the scene with a confused look on her face, she had not heard about much except a few words in the end, but alas she has a task given to her boss as such she quickly left to escort them out of Shangri-la.

As Yu Wu was out of sight Ryuu spoke in a serious tone while he stood up from his seat, “Teachers I know you are listening I want to speak with you all, now.”

Meanwhile, the group back in Ayindril was stunned as Antariksh could not help but speak out loud with disbelief in her voice, “Eh, How did Ryuu figure out we were eavesdropping on his meeting? Did Yamamoto tell him?”

Shamiran shook her head as she spoke, “I do not know think so, though how he managed to detect us, but we better hurry and speak with him to find it out.”