After all the worry and anxiety they were feeling, the group was about to bombard Sol with life advice about thinking about doing sothing before doing it. But with his imdiate apology, most of their anger died down sowhat.
However, Yoon-Jae was still angry.
"You think an apology is going to wipe away all the stress I’ve been feeling while concocting those pills? I thought if I didn’t work fast enough, you might die!"
Under Yoon-Jae’s glare, Sol scratched his cheek. He then bore the pain and got up to face Yoon-Jae.
Yoon-Jae was still glaring at him, but Sol smiled before he raised his hands and hugged him. However, Yoon-Jae’s face still bore an angry expression as Sol hugged him, so the scene was quite amusing.
"Did I say I wanted a hug?"
"I know what it feels like to see soone you consider family die in front of you. I’m sorry I put you through that, but I’m alive, so it’s okay."
Sol had strangely co to see Yoon-Jae as a brother. Though he had close friends he grew up with in the village, there was a bit of distance between them since they knew he wasn’t from the village.
The only other person Sol shared this kind of relationship with was Amon. Even though it wasn’t explicitly said, he knew Yoon-Jae felt the sa way.
Yoon-Jae’s expression unintentionally softened to his dismay.
He really couldn’t stay mad at Sol.
"Sit down before you aggravate your wounds, Sol."
Sol released his hug and grinned.
"I’m fine."
He then reached up and ripped the slightly bloody bandages off with one tug.
"See."
Sol said as he ran his hand over the large scar that started a few inches beside his heart and stopped above his waist. There were also a few smaller scars on his abdon, but this one looked especially grueso.
"I envy that Innate Dharma, wasn’t that too fast?"
Mar-Dule said as he looked at the healed wound they were once trying to treat without avail.
The wound was bad, but Sol assud the reason why it was so difficult to heal and kept bleeding was because of his Bloodline Energy. He had imdiately lost consciousness, so he wasn’t able to seal it back.
Speaking of which...
Sol spotted sothing in the corner of his eye.
"Ah!"
Grabbing a few strands of his hair, Sol realized it was still in its golden state. He then looked down at his hand to see that the bracelets were still in the form of rings on his middle finger.
’I didn’t even notice it.’
Sol tried to scan his body, though without the Divine Sense of a Spiritual Realm cultivator, he really couldn’t see his body’s inner workings; he only had a vague picture. But he was still able to feel that his crescent moon was still releasing a small stream of energy to his physical body.
’It looks like my body has adapted to the crescent moon’s energy sowhat. So I guess I won’t face a massive backlash when I take them off in the future.’
Thinking this, one of the bracelets on his middle finger expanded and then returned to his wrist.
His golden hair and eyes dimd a bit.
Now, upon feeling the sensation of having one bracelet taken off, Sol didn’t really feel much. Which could only an his physical body had gotten stronger and had fully adapted to this level of his bloodline power.
This was the first ti in a while that Sol felt his strength increase significantly in one go.
When he was training with his Master, he had this feeling every other week. But after coming to the academy, although his strength didn’t stagnate, it was increasing at a much slower pace. Perhaps this ’slower pace’ to so would make one an extrely talented disciple in the Academy, but to Sol, it wasn’t enough.
’I guess my fight with Hyun-Joo was the right choice. But perhaps I shouldn’t do sothing so risky again in the future, since it will worry those around .’
Sol allowed his last bracelet to clamp back onto his wrist. It was after he did this that he realized everyone was silently staring at him.
Sol paused.
They saw his battle with Hyun-Joo, so they must have a lot of questions for him.
"I know I shouldn’t pry since you would have told us if you wanted to, but are you from the Western Continent, Sol?"
Mar-Dule was the one to speak first.
"If you are, then what was that power you used to reverse Elder Hyun-Joo’s attack? Was it a Magic Spell?"
Cheong-Su followed up with a question of his own, but Chang-san turned to his brother and said, while shaking his head.
"No, brother, that would an he’s a Warlock from those Noble Families. But he was using the Church’s Holy Energy, so that couldn’t be the case."
After this short back and forth, everyone turned back to look at Sol.
Seeing his hesitant expression, Yoon-Jae said.
"You don’t have to say if you don’t want to. Also, don’t feel guilty if that’s what you choose to do; everyone here has secrets of their own."
Indeed, this wasn’t sothing Sol wanted to share about himself, and he did feel guilty for not wanting to.
After a mont of silence, Sol said.
"I’m neither from the Western Continent nor the Eastern Continent. I’m from the Ibbian Mountain Range."
"Ah! You an the Demonic Forest?"
Cheong-Su blurted and looked at Sol in shock, and so did the others.
However, Yoon-Jae was relatively calm.
"No wonder you don’t resemble soone from the Barbarian Race. Even one of your parents being from Jianghu or the Land of Shadows doesn’t seem right as well. So, you were from the Demonic Forest."
Sol turned to Byeong-Ho, who spoke, and asked worriedly.
"Are my looks that obvious?"
Mar-Dule shook his head.
"If you didn’t confirm you’re from the Demonic Forest, then we would have assud you’re from the Eastern Continent. You don’t have to worry about soone discovering your identity; however, try not to reveal that golden hair color. That’s a different story."
Everyone in the group nodded.
However, a thought also crossed their minds. If Sol wasn’t from the Western Continent, how was he able to use Faith Energy?
But then again, soone from Jianghu could cultivate Faith Energy given the opportunity. The real issue was cultivating both it and Aether Energy at the sa ti. Surely, sothing like that should be impossible. Once Aether Energy is cultivated, it should be hard to introduce a foreign Energy into your body. It was likely the sa with Faith Energy.
Despite their many questions, no one pushed Sol to answer. They place this matter at the back of their minds.
However, Mar-Dule was slightly disappointed.
’So he doesn’t have my Barbarian Race bloodline, but it’s way too similar. I still want him to et father.’
anwhile, Sol suddenly caught a whiff of sothing foul, and before he could crinkle up his nose, he paused and then slt his armpits. He was imdiately hit with a deadly sll that left a stinging sensation in his nostrils.
Yoon-Jae, while holding Little Zeel, took a step back when he raised his hand to sll his armpit.
"Just how long have I been unconscious?"
Sol asked as he pinched his nose.
"Almost four days."
"Wah! Really? No wonder I stink so badly. Why didn’t you clean ?!"
Sol was shocked upon hearing Yoon-Jae’s response, and before Yoon-Jae could scold him for being ungrateful to them for treating his life-threatening injuries, he asked again.
"Wait, what happened to Elder Hyun-Joo, and also, why don’t I see Brother Dae Han?"
"I’m here."
Dae Han’s voice echoed out in the room despite being nowhere to be seen.
Sol traced the voice back to Little Abdu on the bed, and a weird expression appeared on his face.
"It’s a long story. The Yin and Yang Celestial Stones are reacting to Second Brother’s Innate Dharma for so reason. We had to isolate him as a result. As for Elder Hyun-Joon, her body is also with Little Abdu, sir."
"The Yin and Yang Celestial Stones reacting to my Innate Dharma is an understatent! It’s like they’re trying to suck my Innate Dharma dry! This has never happened before when the Sect Leader gifted the Yang Celestial Stone, so I don’t know why this is happening now."
Sol’s ears twitch.
"Master was the one who gave you the Yang Celestial Stone?"
"Yeah, he just appeared and tossed it to before disappearing."
"Second Brother is the only one of us to see the Sect Leader."
Cheong-Su said, but Dae Han refuted.
"I didn’t see him, I barely saw his shadow."
"W-Wait, what? Go back for a second. Did you just say, Master?"
Mar-Dule just processed Sol’s words, and he was shocked. However, seeing that no one reacted, he realized he was the only one out of the loop... again.
Though as upset as he was, Sol’s revealing this now ans he trusted him sowhat.
’Why does everything involve Master?’
As Sol was thinking this, a loud bang suddenly echoed out, followed by the pavilion they were in trembling violently.
"What was that?"
"It’s coming from outside."
"It’s the Teleportation Array."
Everyone perked up when Little Abdu said that, and they all rushed towards the balcony of the two-story pavilion to look outside.
Just a few buildings away was the Multidinsional Teleportation Array leading to the Outer Region of the Hundred Plants and Herbs dinsion.
A bright white pillar was seen shooting up into the firmant.
"The Outer Dinsion is opening!"
Cheong-San said excitedly.
"What took him so long?"
Byeong-Ho said with pursed lips and folded his arms.
"Maybe it was difficult for Eldest Brother to open it."
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