SWNOVELXO Chapter 7: 10%
"Urgh!"
Demon Lord Tian Zun looked at his hand as he was forcefully broken out of his meditation.
"W-what is this!?"
His sense of danger which he had been honing for ages told him that something was very very wrong!
However, no matter how he checked, there was no poison, qi deviation, curse, or even a minor injury.
Yet the more he tried to find, the less it made sense. The less it made sense, the more worried he got.
"For 10,000 years, I have relied on my gut feeling and it has never been wrong!"
He stepped out of his cave in search for the answers! That was all he could do.
Tian Zun was one of the most powerful cultivator, but he only knew how to destroy. If he wanted to be diagnosed...
"Red flame, blue flame!"
Two figures appeared in front of him as they kneeled.
"Here!"
"Immediately take out 500 men and scour the continent! Find any precious medicine, physician, and fortune tellers!"
"Yes!"
Even though they thought it was a strange order, they didn't dare question him at all. His word had their reasoning and they would never dare ask.
They vanished to do as they were told.
Demon Lord Tian Zun himself headed towards the Heavenly Medicinal Valley.
Some might think this was overkill, but Demon Lord Tian Zun was never one to simply ignore a threat!
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Shen Yuexin, granddaughter of the patriarch felt her heart almost burst. She quickly diagnosed herself, but she couldn't find anything wrong at all! Her white cloth that covered her lower face was flowing against her rushed breathe.
It was like it was just...a feeling.
However unlike Demon Lord Tian Zun, she only thought that it was nothing more than a migraine of sorts.
Still, she didn't leave it to chance.
Even if she couldn't diagnose herself, she had to check with her grandfather.
"Grandfather."
"Yuexin?" Noticing her pale face, he quickly got closer to her, "What's the matter!? Why are you in such a state!?"
She couldn't understand her grandfather. Although she wasn't feeling well, it wasn't like she felt like she was going to die at any second.
Her grandfather with his aged wisdom immediately noticed her perplexed expression.
With a flick of his wrist, he brought out the Medicinal Valley's treasure, The Radiant Mirror!
Shen Yuexin was instantly shocked as she saw her face! It was like she she was turning into a mummy!
Pale skin, baggy eyes, and a broken body!
She caressed her face and looked at her hands to find that there was nothing wrong with them!
How could this be!?
"Grandfather, is this!?"
"Hm, that's right. This is our sects treasure, the Radiant mirror. No disease, ailments, or even curse can hide from its site. Not only that, this treasure can stall any danger for a limited amount of time! Yuexin take it with you!"
He held it out to her.
"B-but that belongs only to the sect leader–"
"How can I be the sect leader if I can't even protect my own granddaughter!?"
Without saying another word, he forcefully made it enter her heart veins.
"Until I can find treatment for you, you must stay here! Thankfully you came to see me! With my heavenly eyes, I almost couldn't see through your ailments."
"Just what is harming me?"
"Sigh, I'm not sure. The Radiant Mirror doesn't show the cause. Which means that this is something that goes beyond the heavens! It's a calamity!"
She gulped in horror and fear.
"Will I..."
"...No, I won't let it happen to you."
He hugged her as he caressed her head like a little child. "Nothing will happen to you. Grandfather promises you."
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"GAUAAH!!!!!"
BaoBao woke up in the middle of the night covered in sweat.
"I-It was only a dream. Only a dream!"
However his arms and legs were shaking non stop.
BANG! BANG!
BaoBao jumped up from his bed.
However he instantly relaxed.
"Shut the hell up! Don't you know what time it is!? Open the door!"
"S-Sorry senior brother, I had a nightmare!"
Hearing that it was his senior brother he...wait...
Slowly.
ZZzzzzzzkuaaakkk shhh
Slowly turning his head.
Hmmm..
He looked at the bed next to him.
Right there was...
But is shouldn't be...
After all....
Right outside was–
BANG BANG! BANG!
Countless slams on the door roared out!
BANG!BANG!BANG!BANG!BANG!BANG!BANG!BANG!BANG!BANG!BANG!BANG!BANG!BANG!BANG!BANG!BANG!BANG!BANG!BANG!BANG!BANG!BANG!BANG!BANG!BANG!BANG!BANG!BANG!BANG!BANG!BANG!BANG!BANG!BANG!BANG!BANG!BANG!BANG!BANG!BANG!
It was a nonstop barrage of constant slamming!
"LET ME IN! LET ME IN!"
BaoBao felt his sweat drip down as he rushed to his senior brothers bed to wake him up.
"Senior brother! Senior brother! Wake up!"
However, no matter how hard he tried, it was to no avail.
His senior brother still continued snoring through the night as if the constant banging was only in BaoBaos mind.
BaoBao got a weapon in his hand as he looked towards the banging door.
If he had to die, he would die fighting!
However, as soon as he picked his weapon up, the banging on the door left.
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The dead silence was frightening yet also causing his heart to race like never before.
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"Huah~"
His senior brother blinked his eyes open to a figure standing over his bed.
"HOly!"
But as soon as he realized that it was only BaoBao he relaxed.
"What are you doing in the middle of the night!? You almost scared me to death!"
"Senior brother! T-theres a demon outside the door! I tried to wake you up, but you just wouldn't wake up!"
His senior brother looked at him like he was talking to a crazy person.
Still he looked around and even used his spiritual sense to search the surroundings.
Nothing. Nothing at all.
"You must've had a bad dream, go back to sleep."
Waving his hand, he tried to make BaoBao go back to sleep.
"I-Its real senior brother! You can't sleep right now!"
His senior brother scoffed at him.
"We're immortals disciples that are meant to kill demons! What are you so scared of?"
Looking at BaoBaos shivering figure, he clicked his tongue and walked to the door.
"S-senior brother!?"
"Look. If I open the door and something eats me, you can run out the window okay~"
"Senior brother!!!"
As his senior brothers hand reached towards the door, BaoBao couldn't make it in time.
Creak~
The door....
Was opened....
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10 seconds went by...
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3 minutes passed...
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5 minutes passed....
Nothing.
Not an ounce of a sound nor anything happening.
"See? Theres nothing there!"
BaoBao couldn't believe it!
He quickly got to the door and took a peek outside.
There....really was nothing...
"Yawn~ go back to sleep. We got things to do in the morning."
BaoBao took one last peek before he closed the door.
Creaaaaak~
BaoBao breathed a sigh of relief.
His senior brother had already gone back to sleep.
ZZzzzzzz~
BaoBao threw his weapon to ground.
He felt really tired!
As he laid on his bed, he looked at the ceiling for a split second.
There he saw it.
Grk, gurk!
Crunch, crunch, gulp!
On the ceiling was a pasty white figure with teeth like fangs. It had long hair that was like it was hung on the ceiling.
As BaoBao tried to move, he realized...he couldn't.
He could only stare at the figure as it lowered itself.
Bit by bit.
It lowered.
However it didn't go towards BaoBao first.
Instead it went to his senior brother.
As it stood by the side of the bed, began cackling.
Grk, grk, grkhahaha.
Its voice was like knives screeching against one another.
BaoBao could see its every movement as it breathed in from above his senior brother.
A white wisp of energy flowed out from his senior brothers mouth entered its mouth.
But Baobao knew.
That the white wisp was...
His soul!
Moving his body as much as he could, he tried to escape, to run!
Before!
Before–
The figure stood silently still as it watched him by the side of the bed. It looked down with complete black hollow eyes. It's mouth twitched into something of a smiled as it leaned in closer.
closer
Closer
CLOSER!
Until. It. Was. Right. In. Front. Of. His. Face.
It opened its mouth.