KEEP BUANA (Rise of Darkness)
The Five Straws
The black fog continued to clump together and formed a tall, smart human figure.
However, the mist seemed to continue flowing until the existence of the body figure was covered by the black fog that enveloped. Imply the mysterious atmosphere that surrounds the presence of the figure.
Seeing the appearance of this tall figure, Lei Ziang immediately knelt down with his knee sati touching the ground.
“Lei Ziang, welcome senior Fifth Cuckoo!” Lei Ziang said, kneeling down and bowing his face to the floor. Not daring to stare at the figure he referred to as the Fifth Frog before him.
“Have you managed to get the Clan's head lightning seal?” A slightly hoarse voice sounded from the black figure behind the fog.
“Numbers, senior”
“Then why did you call me?” this time, there was a displeased tone in the sentence of the black figure.
“There is more important than the seal of the Clan's head, Senior Jerangkong. It's about Sabrang Geni's son that the Sect chief wants.”
“Sabrang Geni's Child? Didn't the report state that he may have been killed because he had not appeared since more than two years ago in Dwipantara? Then where is he?” The eyes of the fifth stump swept through the room, looking for the whereabouts of a person.
“Hahahaha.that's the problem, senior. Who would have thought, today the rat had appeared in front of the lion's mouth.. He and his friend, daughter Nakano just entered the lightning forest.”
“Did he come because of the issue of the appearance of the mysterious lightning cloud? Why don't you just catch him? Stupid!”
“No, senior. From the looks of it, he was unaware of the issue that the clan juniors were spreading.He only declared borrowing a place within the lightning forest to practice. Huh, ita.”
“Then, why don't you just catch him?”
“That's the problem senior. Despite being young, it was unexpected that his strength was no weaker than my current strength. I was worried, things would end up being unexpected if the old men realized it” Lei Ziang simply shook his head helplessly.
Despite training for hundreds of years, he even failed to catch up with his younger brother Lei You Won. His position as one of the outer elders was currently obtained thanks to luck because his wife was the daughter of the clan head of one of his concubines.
On the other hand, he did not want to provoke the suspicions of the Lightning Clan elders by acting alone.
As the fifth Jerangkong seemed to frown upon hearing Lei Ziang's reasoning, Lei Ziang himself smiled bitterly given the lightning cloud news incident several years ago.
“Hah! That issue is really embarrassing! How could there be a lightning cloud appearing all of a sudden?
Even in the Great Lightening Mountain range of the Lei Clan things like tiu never appeared, how could the presence of such a divine object possibly appear in a place like this?” Lei Ziang shook his head again.
There was an annoyed hue on his face because of the event he was almost removed from his current position.
Had the news been true, Lei Ziang would have been considered a traitor for hiding such an important matter from the clan. Or at its lightest, he would be labeled as a person who paid no attention to his affairs.
Fortunately, all the news about the appearance of the mysterious lightning cloud turned out to be unproven and was just a figment of the thumb.
“Again, the clan elders have also checked many times the truth of the issue before sealing the fake news so as not to spread. It's really embarrassing and hit the reputation of the Lightning Clan if such ridiculous news is spread out!”
Lei Ziang remembered very well when he was interrogated by the council of elders under the threat of removal from his position as an outer elder who took care of this lightning forest. The council of elders even threatened him with severe punishment for allegedly hiding information from the Clan.
It all began, from the failure of nine out of forty generations of lightning clans in outdoor training held every three years.
Those sent to this lightning forest in Hidama were less talented individuals, yet still qualified as an inner clan family. While those who were more talented, would enjoy training in the great Lightning Mountain Range within the territory of the Lightning Clan.
The nine people claimed to have failed to reach the minimal level as the younger generation of the inner clan, namely the sky swordsman level, after training for eight months.
They confessed, that not only were they unable to absorb Qi into their bodies, even the Qi in their bodies was precisely absorbed by the mysterious lightning clouds.
The mysterious lightning cloud itself, believed to be limited to myth and written in the legendary books of the Lightning Clan because of the absence of records and evidence of its appearance since tens of thousands of years.
Further investigation by the clan later found that the nine younger generations were poisoned with a type of red fungus with severe hallucinatory effects.
Luckily the healers within the clan discovered the presence of fungal spores within their veins and immediately blocked them. Otherwise, the bodies of the nine people will turn into new hosts of the red fungus.
“If he comes not because of mysterious lightning cloud issue, then because what?” The living hornbills seem to doubt the motive of Gentayu's arrival and Nakano's daughter to just practice.
“I don't know for sure. But he and the woman said they wanted to practice./”
“Hah! The greedy young man! Practice what? Does he think that lightning can come to terms with other elements? Even the genius of his ancestor Alehah did not last more than an hour of lightning at that time.
I've lived a long time, and met a lot of silly people. But a person who did not come from the lightning affinity wanted to train in the lightning forest? Hahahaha..” Loud laughter The fifth hornbill sounded creepy behind the black smog.
“Good. Because that's the problem. I just have to wait for him here, and catch him as soon as he comes out in a moment. No need to suck in and deal with lightning!” The hornet to Lima voiced his simple idea.
According to him, Gentayu and princess Nakano would obviously come out in a weak condition after being struck by a sea of lightning in the lightning forest. Dealing with them back then, it would definitely be as easy as flipping a palm, rather than him having to barge in and suffer from the ferocity of the lightning.
The fifth hornbill also appears to have no problem with Lei Ziang not trying to capture Gentayu and Nakano's daughter again. He understood that things could turn bad if the news of Lei Ziang trying to catch the Ap Clan people spread out if Lei Ziang failed.
The risk does not need to be taken.
At least, not for the time being since Lei Ziang should still be seen not to be involved in any affairs with the faction behind this Fiveth Stronghold.
“Liet me, you'll still get a big boon from the Sect chief when I bring the boy back later. Hahahahahaha..”.
The black figure within the fog was slowly fading away as his sinister laughter sounded.
Lei Ziang was only able to breathe a sigh of relief after the human behind the mist slowly disappeared within the shadow of one corner of the room.
‘With the presence of these Red Skull people, I don't have to bother to intervene on my own to settle my grudges on that damn Fire Clan!
They have caused my sister to end up in a miserable state! That brat was also the origin of my sister's misfortune!'
Lei Ziang's fist became extremely violent as his eyes turned red full of fury once again. A killing intent flashed within those two red eyes.
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Meanwhile, Gentayu's group had just been at the gate of the lightning forest that was in the form of two silver stone pillars a hundred meters tall over.
Lei Wei and Lei Ming used a type of jade token that served as a badge to open the energy curtain that closed the gate of the tall pillar.
“Young people! I don't care what your status is that makes Elder Ziang give you permission to enter this forest.I just advised, be careful of the old criminals inside there. They were indeed very weak right now, but they were still a threat. Hope you guys can come out later with your lives.”
Despite being fierce and indifferent, Lei Ming was actually very sincere when he said his message before letting Gentayu and princess Nakano enter the lightning forest.
Gentayu and Nakano's daughter nodded and thanked him for the harshly voiced advice. They did not say much before turning around and starting to enter the lightning forest.
