Dreaming for 10,000 years

Chapter 409 Don’t care

Yu Tian woke up with a start on the stone platform, his clothes soaked in cold sweat.

He finally dreamed of Shi Fei, but it was just a dream of Shi Fei.

Looking back, when he left, the small courtyard had already become a large compound. Besides him and Shi Fei, there were also Nie Feng and Xiao Zuanfeng.

Looking at his own hands, he felt as if he could have grabbed Shi Fei in an instant, but he knew that was impossible.

What he dreamed of was just an illusion in his mind.

"Puff-puff--"

His heart pounded violently in his chest, like a drumbeat. Yu Tian pressed his hand to his chest, feeling this strange tremor. The true essence of martial arts recorded in "Taking It From" now clearly surfaced in his mind:
The soul wanders back to its original aspiration.

With pure mental power, a breakthrough is imminent.

According to the records in "Na Lai", it is when martial arts cultivation reaches an extremely high level that the soul instinctively recalls the warmest place in the memory.

That is the place where we started!
Only by remaining true to one's original aspirations can the path of martial arts endure. As a martial artist cultivates, their spirit will instinctively return to the place where they first gained their power, like rivers flowing into the sea and fallen leaves returning to their roots.

When a martial artist begins to frequently dream of the place where they first set out to be, it proves that they have never strayed from their original intention, and it also foreshadows that their martial arts are about to break through a bottleneck.

Outside the cave, the morning light had just begun to climb the rock walls. Yu Tian took a deep breath, the crisp mountain air filling his lungs. He had been cultivating in seclusion in this Mi Mountain region for nearly a year, transforming from a disheveled youth being hunted down into a martial artist capable of maneuvering among the three forces.
"We're finally about to break through."

The inner energy gathered at his fingertips suddenly became scalding hot, and Yu Tian looked at the pale golden patterns that appeared on his palm.

This is the "first appearance of the golden vein" in his martial arts, a stage he has reached at a certain level. His martial arts style originated from imitating others, but now he is slowly forging his own path.

As for how this path will ultimately lead, we'll have to see how he chooses to proceed.

Our original aspirations remain unchanged, and the path ahead is clear. Having achieved this breakthrough, it's time to take the initiative!

A few days later, he sat cross-legged in the cave, his body surrounded by air currents that swirled like a dragon, when he suddenly heard a familiar flapping sound coming from outside the cave.

The eagle owl is here again.

Over time, he had come to know that this eagle owl was one of the older monsters in Mi Mountain, even older than the Lord of Mi Mountain.

Yu Tian finished his practice and stood up. The sunlight outside the cave was so bright that he squinted slightly. He saw the eagle owl folding its large wings and landing lightly on an old pine branch not far away. Its bronze feathers gleamed with a metallic sheen in the sunlight.

"Hey kid, long time no see!" the eagle owl said, tilting its head.

Yu Tian leaned against the cave entrance with his arms crossed and said with a smile, "You don't come here unless you have something to say. You must be here for no good reason."

He and the Lord of Mi Mountain had a tacit understanding and always maintained a sense of proportion in dealing with the harassment from the River God and the Lord of Chu Mountain, keeping them both annoyed and not forcing them to come out in full force.

This level of treatment is equivalent to slowly bleeding the opponent dry, gradually weakening their strength.

"Heh..." The eagle owl let out a strange laugh. "You guessed right. Something's happened in River God City, and the Mountain Lord is asking if you're interested in pulling off a heist?"

"What happened?" Yu Tian asked, his expression unchanged.

“A water demon came from the Huai River, wanting to seize the River God’s water palace, and fought with the River God.” The eagle owl chuckled and said, “Although the River God defeated the water demon, he was also seriously injured.”

"So... Lord Mi wants to take action against Lord Chu?" Yu Tian immediately realized.

"Haha~" The eagle owl suddenly burst into laughter, startling the birds in the forest into flight: "You are indeed clever!"

Yu Tian said, "What's so difficult about that? Lord Mi is a mountain lord, and although he covets the River God's waters, he has no foothold among the aquatic tribes. Lord Chu and Lord Mi are separated by the river..."

“Previously, Lord Chu and the River God were mutually supportive, but now that the River God is severely weakened, it's the perfect opportunity to attack Lord Chu and take a big chunk out of him!” “Yes, yes, yes!” the eagle owl said, “If you are willing to lend a hand, the Lord of Chu will promise you the position of Lord of the entire mountain!”

"I am deeply grateful for the care I have received from the Mountain Lord for so long, it is only right that I lend a hand," Yu Tian declined slightly, saying, "However, if one day I were to take action against the River God..."

"Please help me stop the others, Mountain Lord!" Yu Tian changed the subject.

His target was never Lord Chu, but the River God!

The eagle owl carefully examined Yu Tian. The young man before it now possessed a calm and profound aura, and his every move exuded a formidable power.

Just how far has he grown? The eagle owl didn't know. He said, "I can't agree to this on behalf of the mountain lord, but I will speak to him!"

"Wait for my good news!" Before the words were even finished, it had already taken off, its bronze wings sweeping across the sky and disappearing into the clouds in the blink of an eye!

Before the sound of the eagle owl's wings had completely dissipated, a peculiar whistling sound came from the riverbank.

That was a secret signal blew by the carp using reed leaves.

Yu Tian followed the sound, parting the dense reeds, and the scene before him made him frown. A carp was squatting on the bank, with several floating corpses lying haphazardly beside it. The bodies were swollen and pale, and their robes were still covered with the moss unique to the riverbed.

"What's wrong?" Yu Tian asked.

"It drifted from the direction of River God City." The carp examined a corpse, and when it gently pressed its finger on the deceased's chest, a dent immediately appeared.

"He died from internal bleeding after his internal organs were shattered." When he looked up, an unusual light flickered in his vertical pupils. "It was the work of divine power."

Only a god could kill a person by shock without leaving any external injury.

"There's trouble in Hebo City!" Yu Tian said, looking at the carp.

"Oh?" The carp suddenly sat up straight, its eyes flashing with a terrifying light: "The River God repelled the enemy?"

He learned from Yu Tian that something had changed in Hebo City, but Yu Tian did not take any action, which meant that Hebo had repelled the enemy.

“But he was also injured.” Yu Tian shook his head.

"What a pity." The carp slammed its fist into the muddy ground, its knuckles sinking deep into the silt. "What a pity I'm too weak! Otherwise, this would have been a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity!"

Yu Tian looked north: "I need to help Lord Mi attack Chu Mountain first, and then deal with the River God."

"Great! Great plan!" the carp exclaimed excitedly. "Take advantage of his weakness, clip his wings, and then wipe him out in one fell swoop!"

"Is there anything I can do to help you?" He suddenly grabbed Yu Tian's sleeve: "I want to do my part."

“Not for now.” Yu Tian gently pulled his sleeve back. “Perhaps after we take Hebo City, we might need your help.”

He was already thinking about taking over the River God's Water Palace.

“I understand!” the carp said. “I will go to the riverbank to see if there are any survivors and to find out about the River God City.”

"Then I'll have to trouble you!" Yu Tian nodded.

"It's not hard work!" the carp suddenly said. "If some people didn't want to be human anymore and wanted to be fish instead, would the Cat God welcome them?"

Yu Tian looked at the carp that had opened its mouth and said, "The Cat God doesn't care."

(End of this chapter)