Chapter 6 What world is this 2

What world is this?

Solim was busy bandaging his wound when he saw a big monster hand him the last strip of clothing he was searching for to complete his bandage. The big fellow was looking at him with curiosity-filled eyes, quietly waiting for his next move as if the little boy was a famous magician who was about to perform on stage.

" Thanks... eh?? Aaargh!!!" solim shouted at the top of his lungs but no one was there to come to his aid. He jumped up from the root he was sitting on and started running towards the entrance of the forest. The wolf ran after him, but it always left a space of 10 meters and it wouldn't cross that boundary even if the boy stopped to catch his breath.

Solim soon realized that the monster was toying with him, but there was nothing he could do than to continue running, with the hope of getting a miracle.

Suddenly, the night sky was filled with lightning. Everywhere became hot all of a sudden, the ground they were standing on was scorching hot to the point of burning the sole of solim's feet. There's a cackling sound ten meters behind solim. The huge wolf monster let out a loud howl before his body disintegrated into dust. A silver space door appeared in its place, and a very beautiful woman came out of that door. She looked like someone who came out of a painting (well, she just came out of something), her beauty is otherworldly.

In all the little ten years he has spent on Earth, he has not seen any woman who's as beautiful as her, she does not belong to this world.

It was as if the whole forest was mourning the departure of that big wolf, or they were not happy with this beautiful newcomer, the air was filled with the sorrowful sound of different animals and creatures of the forest. All the plant life in the forest lost its lush green color in an instant and withered at a speed visible to the naked eye. Solim was also affected by this strange atmosphere, he was losing body fluid at a faster pace, up to the point that he was now looking like a malnourished kid.

There was nothing he could do than to silently wait for his death. He was about to lose all hope before he remembered the Genesis of what brought him to this evil nest; the black necklace in his purse. He dipped his hand into the bag and brought out a pure Black, star-shaped gemstone with a fine black thread that was inserted into the hole in one of the angles of the gem.

Solim quickly wore the necklace on his neck. His father had told him not to let the necklace leave his neck at all times before, but what if there were people who know the true value of this protective amulet and wants it for themselves?

Immediately the necklace touched his neck, the aura of death that was lingering in the forest was curbed and half of the life force stolen from the surroundings was restored, the other half that belongs to the dead trees and animals all rushed to meet solim, he was engulfed in a whirlpool of life force as they were entering his body through every single open pore. The life force materialized, to form a shell-like covering on his body, the giant shell isolated him from the outside world while he absorbed the life force.

At the same time, the beautiful intruder was going through a new kind of hell. Lightning flashed in the sky and the wrath of heaven descended on her. This type of lightning strike doesn't look like the normal heavenly tribulation; it's pure gold, the legendary heaven's punishment for unrepentant evildoers, and the final tribulation for those who chose to go against the heavens and become gods.

The woman looked up at the heavens and opened up her arms as if she were about to embrace the heavenly punishment. This is a taunt to the tribulation of lightning.

Lightning strikes rained on her, one after the other without giving her a chance to catch her breath. At the seventh bolt of lightning, her clothes were in tatters and blood was flowing down her face as she had already become Bald. The blood was flowing out from a cracked Red core at the center of her head... it is the very source of her powers, and she was using it to resist the heavenly punishment.

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Unbeknownst to him, the necklace on his neck had started to attract the heavenly punishment to strike his "eggshell", giving the white oval-shaped she'll a tiny of gold with every strike that landed on it. The heavenly punishment was now shared by solim and the "beautiful intruder", giving her breathing space.

The egg starts to show signs of cracking at the 16th strike, and the beautiful intruder was already exhausted. She looked at the cracked egg with worry in her eyes, there were still 5 more strikes left before her tribulation ends.

The shell finally cracked open at the 20th strike, disturbing solim's peaceful rest. The last strike caught him off guard as a fat, golden lightning rained down on him, turning his newly repaired body into a rag-like appearance. His internal organ was displaced and he was covered in blood But, a few seconds later, all the blood on his body mysteriously disappeared, it was absorbed by the black necklace. The necklace then glowed brightly for a second before turning into tiny particles that were absorbed into his body, then... he fainted.

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Outside the strange strander forest...

A group of men was standing at the entrance of the forest, waiting for something or someone to come out. They were the people chasing after solim, they wanted to snatch the protection amulet in his hand. Their leader a bald man, is a bandit who chanced upon a cave where an immortal cultivator was dying, he gave him the last blow and took all his belongings, so the cultivation manual beside the cultivator naturally became his and he became a qi cultivator from then on, and he had found a Small village to settle down and live a normal life till he became strong enough to go to town. He had sensed a strange and abundant amount of spiritual energy in the necklace this morning while solid was passing by his house to sell fruits at the market.

So he sent four of his men to secretly tail him and snatch the amulet from him when no one was looking, and that leads to them chasing him to this evil forest.

"That bastard sure knows how to run!! Fu*k! Boss had instructed us not to go home empty-handed, what should we do?" a one-eyed man who seemed to be their leader swore loudly.

Suddenly, lightning flashed in the sky and the air around them became unbearably hot, the trees in the forest withered before their eyes. Immediately after, the ground emitted a hot heat as if they were in the middle of an active volcano. Before any other strange thing could happen, they took to their heels and ran as far as their legs could carry them.

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Karan city, 10 kilometers from this small village...

an old man was sitting in a lotus-shaped position while chanting some incomprehensible words when golden lightning flashed in the sky, he also noticed a change in the atmosphere.

"death aura? and it's not from the lightning, what sorts of creature is undergoing tribulations?..." the old man stroke his beard for some seconds before a strange glint flashed in his eyes.

"a treasure must have been born, I must get it before any other person could notice this strange phenomenon..." he said and his figure flashed as he disappeared from the room.

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at the entrance of the stranger forests...

the once quiet village now looked like a meeting point for immortal cultivators, they were just arriving one after the other, and some of them are even forming a group to explore the forest after the heavenly punishment subsides.

shortly after the old man reached the forest entrance, he saw some familiar faces, some are his good old friends, others... though he does not wish them bad, he'll be happy if they suffered deviation during cultivation and give birth to mental demons.

"hey, old bones! how come you're still alive? when I didn't hear from you or see you around, I thought you were finally gone for good" a bald man with a big scar on the middle of his head approached the white-haired old man.

The old man looked at the giant scar on the bald man's head and laughed. "Your injuries healed too quickly, no wonder you have the mind to wish me bad. if I had cleaved you into two that day, you wouldn't have the mouth to say those words, bald donkey."