The Heavenly Road: God Hunters

Ch79 Flowering Grassland

Flares who was sleeping soundly in the ring until jolted in shock when Asta suddenly shouted furiously.

“Asta! Hey, Asta! Be calm! Explain to the teacher what happened.?!” Flares tried to resuscitate him. He could not understand why Asta was hugging a goblin while crying.

“Teacher! What exactly happened..?!” yell Lira worried.

Lira was worried about the sudden condition of her teacher like this. Asta did not stop shouting even after they came. Lira shook her body trying to talk to him. Surprisingly they were the same thing, why was Asta crying while hugging the body of a goblin?

Flares patted both ears hard, Asta was silent for a moment when he felt his ears suddenly buzzing.

“What are you doing?! Aware!” said Flares.

Asta was silent while watching them for a moment and then he suddenly laughed.

“Why are you looking at me with such a gaze?” said wonder.

Lira and the others gawked in astonishment as she who instead asked back like that.

“What does the teacher do isn't he a goblin?” tanya Lira pointed at Jiu Gal who was still hugging her.

Asta glanced at Jiu Gal then at them again, The story is long to explain now,“ Asta explained then asked them to help him collect wood to cremate their corpses.

“Explain to the teacher what happened during the teacher sleep,” Flares said asking him to explain about before.

“They shouldn't die,” he said.

Flares immediately understood what he was thinking,“why are you just now saying this? Before you didn't even feel sorry at all,” Flares said.

“Before different and they also deserve to die. But Jiu Gal and his subordinates were good people, they were only victims of this era of chaos. They didn't even touch a single bit of man and his stuff. Jiu Gal set up a camp here not to mess up, he just carried out the Tian Wei order so that his children could live in peace. But then,” Asta could not finish his words.

His heart still ached considering the previous incident, it still stuck in his memory.

“Teacher understand what you mean. He must be a world peace, right? He must be telling me about a life where all races coexist in peace and prosperity,”

“How can teacher know?” ask Asta wonder.

Flares smiled thinly,“guru has lived longer than you, of course teacher knows,” he said.

The cremation process was also carried out. The smoke produced by the cremation process soared high into the sky.

“Someday I will definitely come back and bring his head here, Jiu Gal,” Asta muttered inwardly.

“Before the three of you return to Blue Gem City I will tell you something that happened before, listen carefully,”

Lira and the three of them listened to him very quietly and finally they knew why he suddenly shouted. They did not expect such a thing and even Lira herself did not believe it but Asta could not force to believe it either. He just told them what they wanted to know beforehand.

Thus finally the journey of Xiao Jun, Fen Shan and Chen Yan along with Asta was finished. Asta gave them a storage ring containing half of the booty they got on them.

“Senior isn't this too much?!” xiao Jun said after seeing the contents of the ring.

“If you feel that it is too much then share it with the people in the city also do not forget, say my greetings to everyone,” Asta said.

“Senior, after this you want to go where.?” chen Yan asked curiously.

Asta seemed to think for a moment to answer,“there are some things that I have to finish in the Valley of Stone Country so I will continue my journey to visit somewhere that from the beginning is my destination,” said Asta.

The three of them looked at each other,“what was that place? Maybe we can tell senior the fastest way there,” Xiao Jun said.

Asta held his chin,“the name of the place is the Dwarf Mountains. I heard that in the mountains there are Dwarves who are forging nations,” Asta said.

Xiao Jun looked surprised to hear it as well as the others,“turned the Dwarf Mountains. Those mountains are within the protection of our sect even because of the agreement between the current Ancestral Sect Elders and the Dwarven Elders others should not enter the area without the permission of our Sect Chief or without an invitation of the Dwarven Elders,” was clearly Fen Shan.

“Do seniors have an invitation card from them? If senior doesn't have a senior can go to our sect first. We can help the senior as well with the identity of the senior sect leader will definitely allow the senior to enter there,” Xiao Jun asked.

“I don't have the invitation but maybe I'll ask your sect head for help. You do not need to help me for that, you go back to guard the Blue Gem City,” Asta said.

They nodded in understanding,“ alright I hope senior is fine during the trip. We went,” said they then went back to Blue Gem City.

Asta looked at Lira's face and then looked back at the backs of those who had been away,“why are you still here? Don't you want to come back?” ask Asta.

Lira immediately put on a pouting face and pinched her stomach,“try the teacher say once again! I didn't hear it just now,” Lira looked at him sharply.

“Aahh..iya! Aye! Teacher wrong! Teacher wrong, okay,”

Lira also let go of her pinch while snorting annoyed,“basas men. Their words are not trustworthy at all,” he said breezed away.

Asta and Flares were speechless with words that pierced their hearts. They continued on their way to the Dwarf Mountains.

The sun was getting down and unseen again, they decided to stop first.

“Are you ready.?” ask Flares.

“Sure,”

Asta was preparing to perform Divine Realm Refining, the previous fight had made his spirit refining go by so quickly that he could finally try to break through to the Great Divine Realm.

“Remember the teacher's speech! Don't let the devil of your heart take over your consciousness!” message Flares who then replied a nod of the head by him.

In the purification of the Divine Realm there was something different compared to the refining realm normally which only had to endure pain. When doing the habitation of the cultivator himself will enter the Sea of Souls to face the Demon Heart.

As long as the Cultivator could not defeat the demon of his heart then he would never be able to ascend to the realm of Gods. So not only physical readiness and sufficient spirit level also required a strong mental strength to make a breakthrough of the Divine realm.

“What teacher will do the breakthrough?” ask Lira who just came to finish the shower.

Flares nodded his head,“take this Book of Soul Reperators and train together with Ace and Zaru,” Flares said.

Lira took the Celestial Book and opened her first page where there was the same cultivation technique she had learned with Flares.

“Your cultivation technique is indeed the Soul Formation cultivation listed on the first page of the book. Inside there are several strong fighting techniques as well as very strong domain area techniques,” explained Flares.

Lira's gaze was still not diverted staring at the page of the book. Flares remembered something.

“I don't know why the spirit of the true god of destruction was born to you, just so you know the one who wrote the book was your ancestor. People born with the same spirit essence as you, even though you are not a direct descendant,” Flares said.

After listening to him, Lira went to meet Ace and Zaru who were practicing a match not far from where they were.

Lira asked them as Flares taught them and they nodded in agreement to become her current coach.

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Asta enters the sea of his soul which turns out not to look like what he was thinking. The sea of his soul was more akin to a savanna with well-kept flowers and also some shady trees.

“This is my sea of souls?” mumbling slowly.

Asta continues to walk down the sea of his soul in search of the demon of his heart that may be hiding somewhere there.

I don't know how long he has been walking and looking, it feels like he has spent months but he still hasn't found his heart demon anywhere. Surprisingly, he felt no fatigue at all.

Asta did not want his struggle to end in vain and bring no results, so he tried to shout loudly to challenge him. As a result the way still failed, which there was a scream sound echoed in his own ears.

“What happened actually and where the devil of my heart lives,” Asta wonders why he has not found it until now.

One year, two years, and ten years later Asta hasn't found him. He wanted to think that he might not have a heart demon at all, but the events of five years ago when his heart demon spoke directly to him made it hard to think he had no heart demon.

Asta suddenly remembered his teachers, Ace and Zaru, Lira, Father and Mother. He wondered if they were okay in his heart, especially Lira he was quite worried about his safety. But somehow the one he was most worried about and most wanted to meet right now was Asila Moegi. His heart was agitated when he thought about it at this moment.

“Uncle! Where are you hiding for real! Quickly out! I have to get out of here as soon as possible!” asta shouted to him but there was no word.

Asta also let out a light-eating fire in his hand,“because you don't want to come out then let me force you out.!!” he shouted again while directing his fire at the tree beside him.

A person with a severely handsome face and extremely similar to Flares appeared to stop the action.

“Hey, Son! Burning forests is not a good activity,”

“Master Flares.?” said slowly.

He looked upset when Asta called him that,“doesn't I tell you, I'm your ancestor. Don't call me by the name of that brat,” he said pointing up.

Asta looked up but found nothing but a cloudy sky above him.

Asta gasped to remember something and hit him straight away, but the man smilingly received the blow.

“You're too weak. This punch of yours doesn't even hurt me, son,”.

The man clenched his hand and then smacked it slowly, but in fact Asta felt like he was hit by a rock that was very fast and strong. Asta was thrown thousands of meters away.

Asta felt a tremendous pain sensation throughout his body, but not a single drop of blood came out of his mouth. He was astonished by that.

“Did you forget? This is your sea of souls, you will not bleed here because the wounded is your soul not your physique,” the man suddenly appeared beside him and kicked him to a great extent again.

True as he said, his skin did not even blister after being knocked down and fell again like that twice. The man came back next to her and helped her to stand up.

“I told you that even though I am the devil of your heart, but on the other hand I am also your senior. I hope you won't end up as pathetic as I will one day, so hit me hard then go out and be stronger,” he said allowing himself to be hit.

“I can't beat you with one punch. You must be trying to trick me and thinking about taking over my body, right?” asta said.

The man sighed with a breath,“then want to till when are you here? Fighting me will only make you die from not moving. I am like an exception to you, the heart demon is something born from the traits of the cultivator himself. They had the same understanding and experience as the cultivator, no more no less. While I am a reincarnated spirit, Heavenly Fate set me up to become a heart demon of my descendants with the achievements I brought during my life. Not your achievement”, obviously.

Asta did not understand the meaning of what he was talking about, he only knew that he had to kill him to get out of there and penetrate the realm of the Great Gods.

“Before that you also definitely did not know my name for sure right? My name is Liu Shan Shi, but then my best friend from Overseas Country called me Atalist,” he explained to introduce himself.

“I told you to hit me hard now if you want to go back and become a divine cultivator. I won't die, but that doesn't mean I'm taking your consciousness. I'll just see you unite this continent just like I did back then,”.

Asta was speechless in disbelief hearing all of that from his mouth, Liu Shan Shi? The atalist? Country Over the Sea? What the fuck. He doesn't believe in that at all.

“Whether you believe it or not, my bad student Flares will definitely be silent hearing my name. Just mention Liu Shan Shi to him and he will be speechless. Even though he was a naughty student but he was my pride, but unfortunately I couldn't see him grow up.”.

“Do you dare swear not to take my consciousness with Heavenly Fate?” ask Asta to make sure.

“Heavenly Destiny is everything. Alright I swear by Heavenly Fate as a witness that I will not take your consciousness,” he said in agreement.

Without waiting any longer Asta directly hit him hard, the shape of his body instantly faded in the air. He smiled before completely disappearing from sight.

A moment later Asta's vision became pitch black and he came out of the sea of his soul. The light re-entered her eyelids.

“How long has this been going on. Ukhh.. shit! My body stinks! Is this what you call body shit?”