The Nine Skies Swordsman

Episode 50's. Fanfan, Where Are You?

The day was just before noon, when Gofan had finished making extra body soul soup and stepped out of the kitchen.

"Encestors. Huhiite. Please, I've prepared some body soul soup with some new herbs added"

Gofan said, as he arrived before Mouhuli, Bailaohu, and Xionan.

"It should be that the smell stings more. Then if you'll excuse me, I'd like to taste your soup"

Bailaohu, who had been waiting for a long time, was very excited, he immediately stepped into the kitchen and took out an empty bowl and began to eat extra body soul soup.

"Gofan, what about you? Why are you leaving?"

Asked Mouhuli, who also stepped into the kitchen. He saw, Gofan was about to leave.

"I've eaten, now I'm going to start hauling some of those stones"

Point Gofan towards the pile of boulders on the edge of the trees next to the hut.

- No need, I see your physical body has improved a lot, now try to absorb the energy of heaven from mental stones, do it like this.

Mouhuli said through her mind, she sent out a flash of memory, about how to absorb heaven energy from mental stones.

- So that's how.... Ancestor, I have a bamboo jade core, before I could not absorb this jade energy, what should I do?-

Gofan asked through his mind. Gofan took the time to ask him how to absorb the mental energy of the Bamboo Jade Core.

Previously, despite having joined Xionan, nothing had happened, the mental energy they absorbed leaked out and caused chaos.

- You have a bamboo jade core!? So the tornado that happened before was you?-

Mouhuli knew about the tornadoes that drove many Bamboo Bears crazy, but she did not expect that it was Gofan.

-iya. Excuse me. This jade energy was too great that it caused that tornado to happen

Gofan passed through his mind.

- Yes Already, this.... You should use this way to absorb the bamboo jade core, go now, there!-

Once again Mouhuli sent out a flash of memory. A flash of memory, about how to absorb the mental energy of the Bamboo Jade Core.

Mouhuli hurriedly entered the kitchen, she was afraid that the Little Cat had eaten a lot of Gofan-made soup and had not left her in the least.

Gofan had not had time to say thank you, but Mouhuli had been inside the kitchen and started arguing again with Bailaohu. Hearing the debate, Gofan thought that Mouhuli and Bailaohu, like dogs and cats, could never get along.

Following the flash of memory given by Mouhuli, Gofan went down the hill and headed towards the lake, followed by Xionan.

- Why is this kid going to the lake?, isn't he going to continue his training?-

Xionan hovers following Gofan down the hill. Although he wondered, about what Gofan was going to do, Xionan just kept quiet and continued following Gofan, until they finally arrived at the edge of the lake.

"Fanfan, what are you doing? Why are you taking off your top clothes? You want to swim?"

Xionan was astonished to see Gofan who immediately took off his clothes when he reached the edge of the lake.

"No. I want to dive, according to the memories that the Ancestor conveyed, I must do this, in order to absorb the heaven energy from the mental stone"

Gofan did a hand seal and coated his entire body with the green glow of the demonic eye power.

"What connection? Has he taught you anything?"

Although from the beginning, Xionan had always been beside Gofan, he was unaware of the conversation Gofan and Mouhuli were having through their minds.

"Yes. He conveys it through the voice of mind. He also told me how to absorb this bamboo jade core...."

*zyuut*

Gofan took out a Bamboo Jade Core from inside a special box and directly swallowed the jade slip.

"You!? Why did you swallow?, you want to die?"

Xionan was aware of the awesomeness of the mental strength of the Bamboo Jade Core. As Xionan watched Gofan swallow the jade, he was worried that Gofan's body would suffer an internal organ injury.

"Silent....It's okay, it's the way the Ancestor told you, I go first...!"

*Kecebyur*

Gofan said after swallowing the Bamboo Jade Core, which felt like swallowing a salak seed.

Gofan swam, dived into the lake, until he reached the bottom of the lake and took a cross-legged position after landing on the bottom of the lake. With a layer of green light from the power of the devil's eyes, Gofan was able to breathe as usual at the bottom of that lake.

Xionan also dived and entered the bottom of the lake. At the bottom of the lake, it was completely dark, only occasionally did sunlight penetrate into the bottom of the lake.

*Bluup Bluup*

Waves of air rushed in and out of the green light layer of Gofan's mental energy. The small fish immediately ran away from the location of the cross-legged Gofan, the green light from the power of the devil's eyes scaring them.

As a spirit, Xionan did not experience any obstacles while silently drifting to observe Gofan. Xionan saw Gofan repeatedly perform hand seal movements, and a bright green light was seen flashing from Gofan's stomach.

- Is this right, is this the right way?-

Xionan thought, as he watched Gofan who started to absorb the mental energy from the Bamboo Jade Core that was now inside his stomach.

- According to the memories of the ancestors, I must direct the heaven energy from the reincarnation stone to absorb this jade energy, I must also do my mental energy processing, this.... I'm already on the third level!?-

When Gofan examined his mental energy, he was slightly surprised to find, that the mental energy level of his Demon King Science, had already reached the third level, the Pure Mental level.

- Is this because of last night?, Good, this way my mental strength is increasing.

Gofan had never intentionally cultivated the Demon King Science. So, when he checked his mental energy level, which had already increased by one level, he was a little surprised.

The increase came thanks to the heaven energy that was inside Gofan's body. Thanks to the heaven energy, Gofan's mental energy grew stronger by itself, along with the time he processed the Nine Heavens Book of Heaven.

Right now, the heaven energy from the Heavenly Crystal residing at the core of the Octagon Cube began to glow and absorb the mental energy from the Bamboo Jade Core that was inside Gofan's stomach.

-Arggh... It hurts, my stomach hurts so much.

Gofan endured the pain of that absorption process. The pain, like a hook pulling out all the organs in his stomach, his stomach was torn apart. However, Gofan persisted.

Pressed continuously by the absorption power of the heaven energy, the Bamboo Jade Core eventually melted and instantly absorbed into Gofan's body.

*wuuzz Wuuzz*

That state lasted for hundreds of breaths, before Gofan's still cross-legged body floated low in the middle of the whirlpool. As a result of the pressure from the lake water, the whirlpool did not become larger, only as large as the size of two adult male arms stretched out.

Xionan swam by, away from Gofan's whirlpool. He almost got dragged around by that water current. Xionan had tried to break through the whirlpool and tried to get into it, but it failed. Xionan was bouncing away.

Gofan who floated low inside the whirlpool was unaware, a change was happening to his hair Gofan hair that was previously black, gradually changing color to white.

The day outside the lake, it had changed from noon to afternoon, when Gofan's entire hair had turned white, just then the round of water currents stopped and Gofan stopped drifting, landing back to the bottom of the lake.

*Bluup Bluup*

Now, the situation was calm again as before, the white-haired Gofan, still sitting cross-legged at the bottom of the lake while closing his eyes. Gofan's discolored hair is a side effect of the absorption of large amounts of mental energy.

- Here!?, Hair?-

After learning that the whirlpool had disappeared, Xionan swam by, returning to Gofan's place. Xionan was shocked when he saw Gofan's hair that was entirely white.

*zyuut*

-what's that? A merfolk? Or did I see it wrong?-

When Xionan was busy observing Gofan's white hair, he caught a glimpse of something swimming quickly across Gofan and himself, thinking it was a mermaid, a fish demon.

where possible, this would be only an artificial dimension, where there might be mermaids here-

Xionan denies that. As Xionan knew, the mermaids or fish-stealers, lived in the north sea, in the Ocean of Elves. It was very far from the Drought Bamboo Forest, so, it was impossible, there was a mermaid in the Mouhuli dimensional space.

- Concentrate my mental strength and compact it, then an arm will form.

Gofan continued the next process. The green light that still enveloped Gofan's body, solidified and formed two arms of light. Then, one of those arms of light, grabbed the mental stone from within Gofan's space pouch.

The two light arms of Gofan were clasped together and a mental stone was between the two palms of the light arm,

- To absorb heaven energy from mental stones, it must be with the mental energy of the person himself, the stronger the mental energy, the faster the absorption process.

- Right now, I'm already at the fourth level, this will definitely be faster.

By the time Gofan finished absorbing all of the mental energy from the Bamboo Jade Core, he realized that he had already reached the fourth level of the Demon King Science, which was the Sky Poison level.

Outside the lake the day had changed by night, but Gofan was still at the bottom of the lake, he had not finished absorbing the heaven energy from the mental stone. Both arms of Gofan light, still continuously perform absorption.

Gofan's consciousness was completely focused on the mental stone that was now being absorbed through the light arm of his mental energy, so he didn't realize how long the process had been going on.

The night changed, the 28th day came. Gofan was still sitting cross-legged at the bottom of the lake, absorbing the heaven energy from the mental stone.

- Why is it that all this time?, the day is near noon, why is it not finished yet?-

Xionan still accompanied Gofan, he swam around Gofan.

Mouhuli had approached Gofan to the bottom of the lake, he hoped that Gofan would soon complete the absorption process and make him body soul soup. However, when he saw Gofan's state, he didn't expect too much.

Bailaohu was also about to approach Gofan, but Mouhuli forbade him on the grounds that it might jeopardize Gofan's training process. Mouhuli did this, in order to keep secret the existence of the lucky stone from Bailaohu. Hearing that, Bailaohu was just annoyed and waited.

Time continued, until finally the 30th day of Gofan practice was reached, and right on that day, a huge explosion occurred from the direction of the bottom of the lake, where Gofan absorbed the heaven energy from the mental stone.

*Twoarr*

*Twoarr*

*Twoarr*

Not just once, the explosion happened many times. The lake water was turbulent and scattered like rain, small fish were pushed out of the lake, coral rocks and aquatic plants in the lake were destroyed by the blast wave. The situation at the bottom of the lake was completely chaotic.

Xionan, who was almost tired of waiting, was now forced to stay away from Gofan, the explosion contained mental energy and it could injure his spirit,

- After three days, Why is it like this?, I hope Fanfan will be fine

The explosions continued for dozens of times before they stopped. It was already night by the time the lake water had calmed down.

"Seniors. Are you sure your students will be okay? Look what just happened!"

Bailaohu pointed towards the many fish carcasses and aquatic biota that live on the bottom of the lake, now lying on the edge of the lake.

Bailaohu and Mouhuli had already darted as fast as lightning towards the lake when the first explosion occurred, they were worried about the state of Gofan. But since it was the process of training Gofan, Mouhuli and Bailaohu could only wait without being able to interfere.

"Let's go, I hope he'll be okay. The lake is now calm again. Come .... Let's see!"

*Kecebyur*

Mouhuli and Bailaohu, entering the lake, swim diving to the bottom of the lake to where Gofan is.

*Bluup Bluup*

- Why stop? Is this really the place? where's your student?-

Bailaohu asked through his mind, who had been swimming after Mouhuli.

- Supposedly, he was here, was it because of the explosion, his position was moved?-

Said Mouhuli whose entire body was already coated in green light.

- We split... Ye...Search over there, I'm going this way-here

Imbuh Mouhuli before darting, swimming in search of Gofan.

- What training did the old grandmother give her students?, to cause such a mess-up

Bailaohu thought while swimming looking for Gofan in the direction Mouhuli suggested.

The situation in the lake was completely chaotic, there were so many blast holes, the lake water became very murky, there was not a single living fish in sight, there was only a fragment of coral rocks, there was only a fragment of rock, carcasses of fish, and lake plants, are hovering in the lake water.

Xionan had already swam around the entire lake, but he could not find any trace of Gofan,

- Fanfan, where are you?, why can't I find any trace of your existence?-

Seriate...