Heavenly Dao Child - Chapter 506

Nuwa studied the figure of her apprentice who was more like a son to her before she narrowed her eyes for a brief moment seeing the distressed look on his face.

‘Did the meeting with his birth family shake him that much?’

Ryuu blinked as he quickly stood up before bowing as he spoke, “It is good to see you teacher, though why are you here?”

Nuwa could feel the bitterness in his voice as she replied back to him, “Can we not visit our disciple?”

“Of course teacher you can visit me anytime you want I was just surprised.”

Nuwa occupied the chair that Ryuu had placed for her while Ryuu occupied another as Nuwa spoke, “You seemed quite distressed Ryuu, we know that you know we have been watching over the entire proceeding but even then we wish to hear it from you.”

Ryuu looked towards the ground as he spoke with a sigh, “What is there to speak about, you have already seen and heard everything.”

“How did it feel when you learned about their identity?”

“I was shocked at first then annoyed, yes annoyed and few times a bit angry at them but nothing else.”

Nuwa tilted her head as she spoke, “We saw that and we were a bit astonished that you did not show any outright hatred for them.”

Ryuu paused for a moment before he spoke, “I do not feel any hatred for them.”

His words made Nuwa frowned as Ryuu continued to speak, “All I felt was annoyance and indifference, at the end of the day I do not care about them.”

“We remember a time when a single mention of them would make you erupt like a volcano.”

Ryuu looked up towards the ceiling as he spoke, “Yes, I used to hate them even if I did not know how they looked who they are, I hated them with every fiber of my being but then I learned something valuable.”, he looked at his teacher directly into her eyes as he spoke, “Hatred is a shackle that burns you from the inside, it gives you the illusion that it makes you stronger but it at the end of the day it simply burns you out and chains you down.”

“If I had given to hatred I would be a bitter and spiteful being with trash cultivation level, the hate in me was slowing me down, it was affecting my Dao heart and thereby preventing me from achieving my true goal in life.”

“I promised mother to be the strongest cultivator and if I followed the path of hatred I doubt I would be able to keep my promise to my mother, as such over the years I managed to find peace within myself and my hatred for them, and I believe I succeeded owing to the fact that after for the first time I had finally met them I did not act with immense hatred except for being annoyed with them.”

“So you will forgive them.”

Ryuu looked scandalized at the thought of it as he quickly spoke, “No I will not, though I will only get my dues and justice and not try to pursue revenge.”

Nuwa had a proud look on her face as she spoke, “You do us proud Ryuu, your mother would be so happy to see how you have grown to be such a fine cultivator, no a fine man.”

Ryuu blushed under the praise as he ducked his head as Nuwa continued to speak, “Though I am curious justice could be exacted by various means you could have banned them from doing business with you but why did you not do as such.”

Ryuu blinked owlishly at that as he spoke, “I forgot.”

Nuwa simply deadpanned upon hearing his reply as she spoke with disbelief, “Really.”

Ryuu gave a nod as he spoke with a shrug, “Even if I remembered it, it would not do any good as this is not related to Shangri-la, as such it would be abuse of power, but more importantly if I am to borrow the words of my third mistress, ‘Sometimes it is better to keep your enemies alive than to give them mercy of death’, as such I will punish them slowly.”

“I see then what about those who attacked your mother, who is responsible for your aunt’s death and your mother’s condition before she died, what about them?”

Ryuu frowned as he spoke, “Did you not kill them?”

Nuwa gave a nod as she spoke, “Of course we did kill those who were present but they were not the only one who was involved, fortunately for them they were not present there.”

Ryuu’s eyes harden as he spoke, “Teacher during my mother’s death I was but a child, a rather distraught child there were many things she told me some of them I might not remember due to my grief so can you please tell me everything, everything you know about the incident that led to my mother’s death.”

Meanwhile, outside Ryuu’s room Yamamoto stood guard, he was asked specifically to prevent anyone from entering, but he soon found face to face with Yu Wu.

“Is something the matter deputy? Is there something wrong that requires His Highness’s immediate attention like the existence of the branch being threatened?”

Yu Wu shook her head as she spoke, “No senior, there is nothing of that sort happening.”

“Then you may leave, please come back later.”

Yu Wu looked towards Yamamoto as he spoke, “Actually senior can I ask you something.”

Yamamoto frowned as he spoke, “I will try to answer the best of my abilities though nothing confidential.”

With a brief nod, Yu Wu continued, “Actually Senior I wanted to know who was that Senior who arrived just now you went out to greet her personally.”

“Ah, you remember once I told you about Ryuu’s teacher.”

As Yu Wu nodded Yamamoto continued with a smile, “She is here to visit him.”

Yu Wu’s eyes travelled towards the door before she spoke, “Also about the business about the business with the Vance clan what happened?”

Yamamoto sent a curious look at her as he spoke, “Ho, how much did you actually hear?”

“Well when boss called me to escort them I managed to hear a bit but not much, they were speaking about the lost daughter of the clan.”

Yamamoto tilted his head as he spoke, “I see, well then I will be frank with you there is a saying, ‘Curiosity killed the cat’ so please try not to pry too much, though you will learn eventually but for now do not pry.”

Yu Wu quickly nodded upon hearing Yamamoto’s warning as he continued to speak with a pleasant smile on his face, “Now, please return to your duties.”

Yu Wu did not hesitate to leave while Yamamoto kept eyeing her with a frown on his face as she disappear from his sight.

Back in Ayindril, Celestia was highly anxious a few minutes since Nuwa had left she was feeling something was about to happen, something that she knew nothing except for a terrible hunch, a hunch that was making her incredibly irritated to the point even her family was keeping her at an arm’s length.

Upon being poked at his ribs by Veena the ever powerful and courageous Maheswara gathered his courage as he spoke, “Love is something wrong.”

His words drew Celestia’s attention as he instantly became the focus of her ire, making him shrink in his seat.

‘Control yourself control, what would your children think if they saw you acting as such.’

Though no matter how much he wanted to show a brave face, his daughters were already present as they had witnessed the scene in front of them, a scene that they had seen countless times before that it bore them now.

Sylvana sighed as she spoke, “Mother instead of making father cower under your glare can you tell us what is bothering you.”

Celestia sighed as she spoke with a frown, “That is what I do not know, all I have is a feeling that something bad will happen soon and it is eating me up, ugh, if only I could perceive what.”

Both Veena and Maheswara shared a look with each other, they knew why Celestia’s power was so unstable, unlike her martial sister who could perceive the future or the possible outcomes of the future Celestia could not, at best she could get an unclear glimpse and at worse just a hunch even then it was sporadic, and the cause of it could be traced back to their youth, the result of breaking rules and restrictions of secret cultivation sutras.

Veena closed her eyes for a moment as she spoke, “The only ones who are not within the safety of Ayindril are us except for sister Nuwa and Ryuu, so maybe we should go to visit him as well.”

Celestia sighed as she spoke, “I think we should at the least do so at the very least for peace of my mind.”

The talk with Nuwa was full of sadness and anger, as he had finally learned about the true enemies the people who were directly involved in his mother’s pain and subsequent death, learned about everything that he might have missed because of the state of his mind or his mother purposefully did not wish to burden him with.

If his teachers had not hammered the need to be always calm, collected and maintain certain level-headedness he would simply go on a rampage and slaughtered them to the last child, but he chose to wait, wait till his sister’s subordinates investigated and learned about the enemies weaknesses, and then he would strike fast and swift, he wanted his enemy to be broken to the point that they could not even beg for death, and then he would kill them.

After all those talks when Ryuu had finally calmed down Nuwa presented him a box of hot steaming buns, which he soon began to chow down with a bright smile on his face.

“Ryuu if you yet to tell us why you were so distress when we arrived here.”

Suddenly the warm aura disappeared as Ryuu found himself being dr.a.p.ed with a gloomy and depressing aura making Nuwa greatly concerned about him.

With a resigned sigh, Ryuu spoke, “I was so angry that I thoughtlessly cut off when third mistress was speaking, and now I will surely get punished.”

A small smile formed on Nuwa’s lips as she spoke, “Do not worry we already spoke with her and she clearly understand why you acted so rudely, and we believe she will not do anything to you.”

Hearing her assurance it seemed as if a mountain was moved from his shoulder as a bright smile formed on his face as began to eat once again with a smile, only to stop suddenly with a frown on his face.

‘Huh, why did my ears become warm? And my ki has started to simmer.’

Then the unthinkable as Ryuu dropped the food from his hand as he spoke in a voice filled with fear and panic, “Teacher my…”

Nuwa who was watching with a warm smile on her face was stunned seeing Ryuu drop the food she had made, but his next words made her deathly pale as she dashed towards his location.