Riluo City (Blue Phoenix Book 1) (6 page)

Hearing that it was possible to be turned from human into a divine beast  stunned Hui Yue . Although this world was already far above his expectations, there were still certain areas he thought was predefined, such as one’s race or gender.

Another point  was how easily this phoenix answered any questions that he might have. It did not seem to matter whether the answer was something incredibly personal or uncomfortable or if it was something related to the world they now resided within.

These instant answers caused a slight guilt to arrive within Hui Yue. He was a person who always considered himself fair towards other people, unprejudiced in judgements towards others. . However, for some unknown reason, he was currently incredibly prejudiced against Lan Feng.

Lan Feng had claimed that he did not kill Hui Yue, he also claimed that he had not summoned the truck to try and endanger Li Fen. Although Hui Yue always had gone for innocent until otherwise shown. For once, he had completely ignored those thoughts and blamed everything on the bird.

He had arrived within this new world where everything seemed so absurd and unknown to him, and he had been scared and worried about how he was to survive, but this time the phoenix had stepped forward and helped him understand.

But even when Lan Feng had offered so much help, Hui Yue could not help but feel annoyed with the damned voice within his head. The smugness and haughtiness was

simply annoying. The arrogance in his voice made Hui Yue dream about giving him a thrashing. The perverted thoughts were simply too vile for the newly reincarnated human.

A sigh escaped the infant’s lips and slightly stirred the sleeping mother, allowing an approving sound to appear within Hui Yue’s head again. This sound was enough to wash away any feeling of guilt that Hui Yue was currently feeling, and a sternness replaced it instead.

Although it was interesting, now was not the time to go into details about Lan Feng’s past, nor was it the time to worry about humans turning into beasts as it held no future prospects for Hui Yue Instead, since he could not cultivate, he would try and gain information about the world he was supposed to be a part of in the future.

‘Are there many magical beasts in this world?’ Hui Yue asked. After he thought things through Hui Yue concluded that divine beasts ought to be fairly rare.   However for a beast to turn divine an evolution was needed, this thought caused him to have some assumptions he wished to clarify.

However, although this was a question which Hui Yue had asked after different considerations, it still caused Lan Feng to snort. For him this question was silly.  Nonetheless, no matter how silly the question was to him, he still replied with a serious answer.

‘Of course there are magical beasts,’ Lan Feng  replied with a certainty that made Hui Yue feel rather stupid for asking his question. ‘They live everywhere. Some are tamed and domesticated, but the majority of them live in forests and mountains.’

Hui Yue nodded as he understood this concept. It sounded exactly  like the animals within his old world. However, he now started playing with the thought as to whether or not there was any non-magical beasts. Although Hui Yue wished to ask this question, he still waited until Lan Feng had finished the explanation about the magical beasts.

‘The beasts which have been domesticated  will always be weaker than the ones roaming around in the wild. If you are strong you can force some magical beasts to serve you. Most of the breeded magical beasts are either for mounts, guard dogs or something similar to that duty. . There are definitely a lot more magical beasts than there are humans in this world.’

Hui Yue was not surprised when he heard that there were more magical beasts than humans, however he was slightly surprised by hearing how the bread beasts were of a lower strength than the wild ones. He had a feeling that this would turn into useful information later on.

‘Then are all beasts in this world magical beasts?’ Hui Yue finally asked as he knew that Lan Feng was done with the explanation. He continued to try and grasp more information, but once again he heard a snort, and suddenly a feeling of pity washed over him.

Lan Feng was pitying him for being so dumb! This caused another wave of rage to surge within Hui Yue. But even if Hui Yue was angry, he had no intention of giving voice to his emotions. Instead, he kept quiet. He needed the phoenix to explain to him, and forthose answers the phoenix provided he would swallow his anger.

‘No, only the beasts that are capable of cultivating are considered magical beasts.’ Lan Feng replied. Once again, even if he did pity Hui Yue, he gave a very satisfactory reply,

‘But every beast can turn into a magical beast if it learns cultivation. it just rarely happens since they are too dumb to try it out.’ Hui Yue nodded, it made sense in a way.

Cultivation was a very interesting aspect. Hui Yue felt astonished as he thought about how this cultivation was something which all the living creatures were capable of doing, but while some where talented others were not. Some knew how to cultivate while others did not, or they simply did not care.

Nonetheless, there was no time to reminiscence in the world of cultivation, instead he quickly regained his focus and paid attention to the following explanation by Lan Feng.

‘Wild magical beasts are usually hunted by cultivators,’ Lan Feng continued his thorough explanation of the magical beasts.

‘Humans gather their cultivation base in the three dantians, but magical beasts gather it in a core which is located within the beast’s head. It looks like a gemstone. The cores can be used in different medicinal recipes that can help increase cultivation or the strength can be  extracted and used to enchant armour and weapons. They have a lot of ways to be used, but it is never eaten. Rather, if one eats a core  it will absorb all the Qi you have patiently cultivated.’

Hui Yue nodded again. All that information given was very valuable. It seemed that the gemstones were of high quality though he was not silly enough to go hunting them down anytime soon.

Lan Feng was laughing when he noticed Hui Yue’s piqued interest, ‘magical beasts are split into the same levels of cultivation as humans are; however, a human needs to have a much finer refined qi to be able to take on a beast of the same level. Well, to be honest you could win if you have good martial art skills. I can help you with some of those I guess.’

Lan Feng once again sounded so self-satisfied, but this time it only caused Hui Yue to chuckle slightly. Lan Feng did have the right to be self-satisfied as he most likely did have an extensive amount of treasures hidden within that flaming head of his.

‘Death really does sound like it is a very common occurrence in this world,’ Hui Yue commented with a sigh as he thought about the information he had been given by Lan Feng, and for some reason it made him feel slightly hesitant.

He had grown up in a world where murder was frowned upon, but to survive in this world he would without a doubt have to kill at some point.

This thought alone made him feel repulsed. His stomach contracted and he was close to vomiting. Killing should be no real deal, but thinking about hacking down another human made his complexion pale and nausea swept over him.

The thought of blood splattering everywhere. The imagination of flesh being torn. Everything made Hui Yue feel sick to the stomach and he had no interest in wondering  how it would be to kill anyone.

‘You need to forget your old world,’ Lan Feng said with a gentle voice as he felt the discomfort in Hui Yue. ‘We have a goal and to achieve that goal you cannot be soft.’

Hui Yue knew that Lan Feng was right. Thus, he fortified his determination in achieving his goal. Although t Hui Yue currently felt sick to the stomach, he knew that there was no turning back . Even the slightest hesitation would end in his death, which in turn would result in him no longer being able to be reunited with Li Fen.

A chilling coldness appeared within Hui Yue’s eyes as he said: ‘if anyone wishes to kill me, I will kill them. If they stand in our way I will remove them. If you are ready to kill you have to be ready for death. But I refuse to massacre people, and I will not touch those who do not cause me trouble directly.’

‘What will you do if family members or friends will go against you for revenge?’ Lan Feng asked. The phoenix was of the philosophy that showing mercy would turn into injury later on in one’s life.

‘Let them come. I will fight whoever f fights me, but I will not touch those who have not gone against me directly.’ This was the rule that Hui Yue  set himself, so he could  retain some aspect of his humanity.

Hearing this made Lan Feng slightly shake his head. Nevertheless, he did not say anything as he knew the current state of Hui Yue’s mind. The chaos and discomfort was still present, and although Hui Yue said that he would accept killing, it was one thing to say something, another to actually do it. . Now was not the time to pressure him with Lan Feng’s ideals.

‘I am happy that you at least accept killing,’ Lan Feng said, the laughter back in his voice, ‘there are some things we can do, although we are in the body of an infant.’

Hearing the laughter within Lan Feng’s voice made Hui Yue leave the thoughts of murder behind and instead sighed in despair, fearing that the tit-discussion from earlier was resurfacing.

‘The reason that children do not start cultivating before they reach four years old is because it is really hard to grasp the method needed to cultivate.’

Lan Feng said slowly, enjoying the hope he felt growing within Hui Yue’s mind. ‘The most important part of cultivating is to make sure that the qi you absorb is refined into pure energy. The purer it is the stronger you will be. Do you remember me telling you that before?’

Lan Feng asked, suddenly his usual haughtiness and arrogance was gone, replaced by a newfound seriousness. Hui Yue nodded, he did indeed remember that he had been told about this earlier.

Hearing the seriousness within Lan Feng’s voice caused Hui Yue to understand just how important their current conversation was. Thua, it seemed within his heart some of the enmity between the two was finally slowly evaporating.

‘What we need to do is to make sure that you are building a very strong and refined energy foundation. Usually to gather essence that you will turn into Qi you need to meditate.As well, the meditation needs a specific position at the start to help the refining process. The more used to the refinement you get, the easier it is to absorb essence constantly, even on the move.’

Hui Yue nodded, this information made sense, however he was still not certain why it would help him, as he had years to go before he would be able to start meditating.

‘I know another way of gathering essence,’ Lan Feng said slowly, ‘however this way is very taxing and it is going to take a lot longer than if you were able to allow your body to meditate.’

Hui Yue had stopped breathing as excitement overtook him. When he heard Lan Feng mention another way to refine his Qi hope grew within him.  He quickly let his breath go, and asked breathlessly,‘So, I can start cultivating now?’ The expectation was evident in his voice, and Lan Feng was very pleased with the eagerness he was showing. His revenge and revival was depending on Hui Yue’s strength after all.

‘It is possible,’ Lan Fang continued, ‘but I need to tell you that it really will take a lot longer than anyone else when they start cultivating. When a four-year-old or five-year-old starts meditating they will reach the rank of a first-star student within the first day of proper cultivating. With this method it will take you between half a year and a year to reach the same level. And we need to reach that level to be able to perform the soul contract.’

Hui Yue was a little surprised about the big difference in essence gathering, but he was still determined to go through with it. Even if it did take him a year, it would still be better than waiting until he was four. Thus, he patiently waited for Lan Feng to explain the procedure. .

‘Our current body is really small so the amount of essence it can absorb at a time is minuscule. However,  this is actually not a bad thing,’ Lan Feng started explaining, ‘the smaller the amount of essence you absorb the more attention you can pay to it when you are going to refine it. Remember, you need it to be refined to the highest quality or we will never be able to reach the rank of  Emperor.’ Lan Feng said strictly.Hui Yue  nodded, he understood how important the foundation was.