Holy Dragon Totem - Chapter 3
Chapter 3
A Black Dream
The Five Lords Meeting did not end until midnight, when Ruohua went back to Purple Kyrin’s House.
In the moonlight, her red dress seemed darker, and she herself seemed much older than just a few hours ago.
She never seemed so exhausted. She is strong in nature, but not when compared with man, and even less when such a disaster happened today.
Only when she saw Jiang Zizai and the other youngster, she appeared less stressed. She tried to put on a smile, and said, “Why don’t you all go to rest. It’s so late.”
Jiang Zizai could see her stress.
He did not want his mother to be so tired while at the same time had to comfort the children first.
Jiang Zizai went to her and said, “what is the situation now?” He sounded calm. That was the best he could do.
“No definite solutions yet. But you don’t need to be frightened. There must be some misunderstanding. As for Junjian, I believe your father will help him out. I will do my best to save him too. The truth will be known to all one day.”
She knew more than anybody about Jiang Yunting.
“What really happened? Anyone has an idea?”
Ruohua shaked her head, “no, I don’t know.”
But she did know that how much Jiang Yunting cared for this family.
He had “run away in betrayal”, but he was not dead or in prison. So he would not sit idle while his elder son is in danger.
“Go to bed now. You need to go to the Temple of Origin tomorrow.” Ruohua said gently
Jiang Zizai had too many questions to ask, but he knew she wouldn’t let him.
She preferred to take the pressure by herself alone.
“All right.”
He went back to his room to wait for Lu Dingxing and Ruo Xiaoyue.
He had sent them to collect news about the Meeting.
They came back as he expected, that is, very angry.
Ruo Xiaoyue broke into tears again, “they are so mean.” she said.
“They” Jiang Zizai knew, must be the other four Kyrin Lords.
Lu Dingxing said, “Boss, I heard that none of them doubted the Emperor’s Decree, and all condemned your father as if he is responsible. They are already treating everyone in the Purple Kyrin House as guilty.”
It was not surprising for Jiang Zizai. They would side with the Emperor, and they would take the opportunity to destroy the whole Purple Kyrin’s family.
Several hours earlier, no one dare to behave like that.
Ruo Xiaoyue said, “they also said that you are the son of a guilty man, and said that if you can not get a ZT tomorrow, and if Junjian is hanged, they will kick us out of the Kyrin family. They talked as if they had written the talking points together.”
She was so angry that she could not stop crying, though she was a very proud girl.
“Son of a guilty man?”
Jiang Zizai smiled coldly, they wasted no time in giving me a label.
They did not even pretend to be patient.
He thought of mother now, and imagined how she must have been insulted.
He hated those who hurt her!
He patted Xiaoyue’s back and made an oath.
“If I survive this time, I will do all that I can to be a strong man.”
……
It was not easy for him to fall asleep and when he finally did, it was in the small hours of the next day……
But suddenly, he was awakened in a piece of waste land!
There were very tall mountains around, as if they are glaring at him.
The air is filled with the smell of blood. He lowered his head and saw bodies littered around and blood flowing like river.
The bodies were not intact ones, as the essence beasts would not leave bodies in one piece. A head here, an arm there, but all bloody ones. It was really scary!
He was in a place near Huangtian Pass! So what the Emperor said was true!
How could I be here?
He felt goose bump on his body and looked around at the mountains.
Suddenly, the grey sky broke apart, and a man in armor and surrounded by nine thunder beams appeared from the broken gap.
The man looked majestic but at the same time kind and gentle.
“Father!” Jiang Zizai could not believe his eyes. It was father!
But the man did not say anything. He looked tired. But when he looked at Jiang Zizai, he smiled.
Jiang Zizai noticed that he had a box in his hands. The box looked as if it was from ancient times.
The man opened the box.
Suddenly, the earth and the sky seemed to lose their color.
The huge mountains started to collapse. The flow of water in the rivers far away were reversed. The earth cracked and engulfed the bodies on it.
The dark sky broke like glasses, and black evil air rushed in from the cracks.
That was all because the box had been opened!
Jiang Zizai lowered his head to look inside the box, a tiny pitch black snake was inside, looking straight at him.
He looked closer. It was not a snake, it was a black dragon!
Its appearance stirred the sky and the earth. It had enormous power!
Hua…
The black dragon opened its mouth, and Jiang Zizai saw that a black petal inside its mouth.
At that moment, Jiang Zizai instinctively felt that the black petal was even more powerful than the dragon! Even the space around the petal were collapsing !
And the black dragon’s mouth is filled with blood.
Jiang Zizai was totally stunned, what were these things?!
Before he could react, the black dragon suddenly rushed to him toward the center of his eyebrows.
“Ah…..”
A felt half awakened by the pain while he heard his father’s voice, “son, you are not a shrimp in the pond, and once you are awakened, you will rule supreme.”
“Don’t leave me alone…” he cried, trying to reach his father.
It was this moment that he woke up completely. He opened his eyes and found himself still on the bed.
His forehead was full of sweat while he looked at his quilts.
It was a dream. He told himself.
But he had never had such a dream. Everything felt so real.
He looked at himself again and was assured that it was indeed a dream.
But the quilt was on him. He remembered kicking them off sometime during the night.
The door cracked open and Lu Dingxing and Xiaoyue came in.
“Brother, it is almost time.” Xiaoyue said.
“Mother was here?” Jiang Zizai asked, feeling the warmth of the cotton quilt covering him.
“Yes. She wanted you to sleep a bit more, and she has already gone to the Temple of Origin first.
Mother is still the only one who can represent the Purple Kyrins. On such an important occasion, the Worship Day, she had a lot to do.
She came and covered him up with the quilt I kicked off.
Jiang Zizai was still thinking about the dream. The box, the black dragon, the petal, the broken sky and the cracked earth, everything felt so real.
Dreams were like this. He thought.
And it is now September 5th, the Worship Day.
On this day, all the boys and girls in the Da Jiang city from 9 to 15 who have not been blessed with a ZT are all eligible for worshiping, so as to obtain their own ZT.
The day that had disappointed Jiang Zizai for 7 years came again.
Because of the Royal Decree yesterday, it felt a bit strange today. But people knew the importance of this occasion.
That’s why Ruohua had to arrive early to put everything in order.
Maybe it was because of the dream he had, he felt a little bit more confident of himself.
After washing himself up, he went to the Temple of Origin with Lu Dingxing and Ruo Xiaoyue.
The Pillar of Origin is there. And it is the center of the whole Da Jiang city, like in every city that has a Pillar of Origin.
To be close to the Pillar of Origin is a symbol of power and capability.
Those places without a Pillar of Origin, no matter how wealthy or prosperous, are not even considered a proper city.
And in this world, the nations fight each other not only for the land, but also for the Pillar of Origin. And the PO is even considered as a more valuable booty.
To have one more PO means that a nation can have more Totem Martial Masters(TMMs), and more TMMs meant stronger army, and stronger nations.
All the TMMs starts with obtaining the ZT from the PO and then embark on their journey of Evolvement.
For example, Lu Dingxing got his Panda Totem from the ancient gods through the PO.
When he was 13, his father found him a proper Evolvement fuel and his Panda Totem evolved to a Juli Panda Totem.
The Evolvement of Totems is essential for the TMMs, the more evolved the totem, the more benefits it can bring to the TMMs.
One Evolvement means a full-scale of upgrading of strenthen, potential, and talent.
Evolvement fuel, of course, is not easy to come by.
Since ancient times, numerous ZTs came from the POs, but there had been no new type of ZT recorded for tens of thousands of years. All ZTs can be found in the Book of Totems, a historical record of ZTs.
According to the power and potential of the ZTs, the compilers of the Book of Totem divided the ZT into 4 categories: the Heavenly, the Earthly, the Mysterious, and the Yellow.
The Heavenly is the most powerful, and the Yellow the least.
The Panda Totem is a Yellow ZT, and the Juli Panda Zt is a Mysterious ZT.
And there are Eight Super Totems, which are even more powerful and do not belong to the four categories of ZT.
Jiang Zizai had seen his father’s Nine Sky Kyrin Totem, which was like real gods!
He also knew that his elder brother Jiang Junjian got his ZT when he was only eight years old. And it was a Heavenly ZT!
Only the most talented could be blessed with a Heavenly ZT at such a young age.
With this Heavenly ZT, Jiang Junjian’s evolvement had been very fast, and made him outstanding among his peers.
Of course, the higher the level, the more difficult it is for the ZT to evolve.
The other sworn brother of Jiang Zizai, Monkey Su Qianyu was also very talented. He was born in an ordinary family. But he got his ZT, “Qianyu Flying Sword Totem” during his first Worship, and weapon ZTs were rare.
Su Qianyu’s ZT belonged to the Mysterious Category.
However, for many years, he had not been able to find the right fuel for his ZT to be evolved to the Earthly Category. Otherwise, he could have been more powerful than he had been.
Su Qianyu was for the moment in Retreat (a status of Evolvement, when the TMM exercises in solitary confinement). Maybe he did not yet know how dramatically things have changed outside.
To have a Heavenly Catefory ZT at 8, Jiang Junjian was really outstanding. It was rumored that in Yanlong City, the most talented got a ZT of Earthly Category in his first Worship Day.
Today, it is the seven’s time for Jiang Zizai to touch the PO!