Kaidrix did not die, The ball after sucking a little more Stopped.
The crystal ball, which was only a palm-sized one, started hovering in front of kaidrix and started glowing a faint aqua blue light, which made kaidrix very comfortable.
Kaidrix was so mesmerized by it that he did not notice an old man, just like him, a Soul body, who was staring at the crystal ball and standing head to head with Kaidrix. He spoke to kaidrix, "What is so interesting about this ball, young man?"
Kaidrix jolted awake from his stupor and dropped the crystal ball on the floor. Pointing his finger at the old man, stammering, he spoke, Wh...Who... Who are you? He stared at the old man with a vigilant eye. Cough, cough, clearing his throat, the old ghost spoke, "Do not be scared, child, I mean no harm to you." Kaidrix stayed vigilant. "I have been watching you since you entered the cave. You are quite courageous." Boy, Nobody has ever at your level entered this cave and survived till now, you are very lucky."
"Senior has been watching me," Kaidrix spoke, not moving his eyes from the old ghost, even for a bit. Watching Kaidrix vigilance, the old ghost became even gentler, "Yes, child, I have been watching you since you entered the cave." This is the very first and oldest inheritance cave of our lineage. Our lineage is as old as this planet. Back then, we had strong physiques and heavy frames, then normal humans. We did not have any knowledge of special constitutions at that time. Our Tribe was strong, and we did not get sick. Then, someday, some people came from space who call themselves cultivators. They suddenly appeared in our homeland and took some people as their disciples. It was our turning point. And from them, we came to know that our tribe was a special one, which was blessed with special constitutions. I was one of them. Alas, everything has an end. Every civilization has an endpoint.
Our family, when it was at its peak they felt the planet could not handle the power that we had, so they decided to leave this place for a bigger and stronger planet, So a lot of us left the planet. the leftovers who stayed were of normal stature, but even those left their mark on the history of this planet.
Old man, look at kaidrix face, then spoke: "My child, I am called Somakai, the first person ever to possess a natural chaos Body in our lineage."
"And I am the first patriarch of the Somakai family." Kaidrix became very shocked; he had no words to use, so he just kept staring at the old man. Listing his words, he became relaxed. He had too much to ask; he got the biggest opportunity of his life. But at the same time, there was no question popping up in his mind.
The minimum requirement for this cave was a golden core cultivation level. But there is no somakai family on earth now, and this cave has remained silent for millions of years. kaidrix was speechless; his facial expression was one of disbelief.
The old man kept talking, it was the softest trial that I could give you, looking at your level. You are the second chaos body, which formed naturally. And I see your parents have tried to create a chaotic body. Offspring of two special constitutions can be powerful, but it can never be a genuine thing. Your parents were lucky, I can only say this. It is a blessing that nature gives people, natural bodies which born with its special heavenly laws.
Only nature can birth a body with a law, and only nature decides who will have the body with a law. And you are my boy, one of them; you have the rarest chaos body, which is so rare that it is like a myth. Here, take this Book and read it. Old Ghost picked a book from the rack and handed it over to Kaidrix. The book was written in an unknown language. kaidrix said, "I can't read it." Old Ghost said: "You need to drop blood on this book in able to read it." You can have this book; it will bind only with blood, drop on it. It is yours now.
This crystal is my spiritual core, and also the formation eye of this tower; you can take it with you and the tower. I have used a lot of my energy. Alas, I am just a remnant of my original soul; I can't keep awake. Your level is also very low. In the future, you have to find something that can recover my soul power, so I can't give you much. You just need to keep that crystal ball in your sea of consciousness. Hope to see you again, my child, happy journey. I almost forgot to give you one more thing here, this is the bestiary, a book that knows about some dangerous beasts and species. I have been seeing you with a hymn, it's not your pet, right? After this, the crystal ball shrank and disappeared in kaidrix brows by itself.
kaidrix tried to read the bestiary, but he was not able to make any sense of any word.
After getting the Crystal Ball, kaidrix came to understand that he can control the tower and its functions. He found the door-like wall behind a shelf, which looked like he came in this way. The design of the tower was made only for spiritual beings. The person who was building this tower forgot to create functional doors that can open and close. So it was kaidrix guess that only spiritual beings can enter and exit this tower. kaidrix went downstairs and saw the hymn was nowhere to be seen, then it hit kaidrix that he had died of hunger. How could he still live?
What was the reason for even getting this tower and the books? Kaidrix felt sad after crossing the barrier. Kaidrix reached where his body was, but he was shocked that there was only black dust and some smoke remained there. kaidrix cursed, thinking that it was hymn that had eaten his body. But the next movement, His Dantian flashed with brilliant light, and sucked kaidrix soule inside it, which put kaidrix in drowzy state, The black dust and smoke begin to circle his Dantian, which some how became a crystal ball, with weird pattern on it similar to the crystal ball in his head that he got from the Tower, the pattren on His Dantian lit up with blue ligght, the dust and smoke reformed kaidrix body, He felt his body is made out of sand no moister, no blood nothing, but he was alive.
He found no appeal for hunger, no thirst for water. Kaidrix had no idea what had happened to him. He felt his body was excellent; he could move his muscles, and every body part was fine. The only change he felt was that his body was dark and gave a fierce look. He was still surprisingly beautiful, but he was no longer a white person. His body gave a metallic glow like it was made out of iron. With his thought, kaidrix can turn his body into sand, which can carry his core wherever sand flies. He felt sad that his relatives might not be able to recognise him now, especially Lumina. he felt like crying, but there were no tears in his eyes and there was no blood in his veins. It felt like he did not even have blood veins.
kaidrix was heartbroken. Was he still a human? After some time had passed, he decided to explore the tower. The tower had 12 floors, and kaidrix was only able to explore 2, the ground floor and the first one, where he found the crystal ball and Old Ghost. After that, he tried hard, but he was not able to explore even a single floor. Every time he faced a barrier and he was not allowed. kaidrix felt this Tower was mysterious and hiding a lot of stuff in it that he had no permission to look into. Sighing, kaidrix decided to go out.
When he went out, the first thing he saw was a hymn which noticed him immediately, and with his greedy eyes ran toward kaidrix, but as he came a little close to kaidrix, Kaidrix Dantian glowed blue in his abdominal region, and all the life force and vitality of hymn was sucked by it. Kaidrix had no control over this event. Kaidrix felt a little moister in his body. He was shocked by this whole event. He felt his body becoming solid, and his muscles becoming hard; he felt a little suffocated; it was a little tough for him to breathe, in the process of his lungs and other organs were being revitalized. He did not feel any pain, but it was not a pleasant feeling either. Also, he found his soul had recovered a little; he was happy, very happy to finally get rid of that danm hymn, he wanted to end it by himself, but he had no idea how to do it, how to kill that dmn hymn.
The cave was filled with the shrieks of hymns. The predator became food. The hole seen was a shock for Kaidrix. Was this that easy? He suffered a lot in this cave, and finally, he is getting some redemption, but that redemption is not in his control. kaidrix felt helpless. What else could he do besides enduring it? After going a little further, he saw the green monsters still there, and that Chimera who attacked kaidrix back then.
When they saw kaidrix, they tried to attack kaidrix, but all their vitality was sucked dry by kaidrix's Dantian, which was glowing brighter and brighter, after sucking these monster dry bit by bit, kaidrix gain his vitality and spirit energy back, his soul slowly reverting to its solid form, he started feeling his heart beat, blood flowing in his veins. After a while, there were dry corpses around him; some turned to dust, some lost all the vitality in their bodies.
The Chimera wasvery weak, but for some reason, he was spared. He was a bag of bones, kept shivering while looking towards kaidrix with terrified eyes. Kaidrix felt complex emotions. Strong can only bully the weak, but cower in front of those who are stronger than they are.
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Kaidrix checked his body; his complexion was still dark, but it had gotten pretty fair compared to before. Kaidrix has no idea what has happened to him. After he came out of the area, the left side of the main road of the cave was still blocked by the giant boulder. There were few monsters, who attacked kaidrix back then, Now were sucked dry by his Dantian, kaidrix felt his spirit being replenished bit by bit as his Dantian absorb from these monsters, kaidrix found that his Dantian can suck spirit energy and vitality from monsters.
He decided to further explore the cave, so he looked closely at the bolder, which was blocking his advance further in the main road, from the look of it, he thought there was no place further, but after some inspection he manage to find a way to the other side, He climbed the boulder; there was a gap between the ceiling and the boulder, just enough for a person to slide through to the other side.
This side of the cave was also full of red and green crystals, which kaidrix collected a lot.
kaidrix figured that he could store things in the tower on its ground floor, so he did not feel shy and collected as many crystals as he could. He gathered a small mountain of these two crystals and a little bit of yellow crystals; compared to the other crystals, the yellow crystals were scarce in the cave. As he went further in, the area became wider and wider. There were monster houses and an altar, which seemed like a way out. If you go further down to the right side of the cave, you can find another Tower, which was dazzling with colorful light. This tower was not very big, just the size of a palm. When Kaidrix touched the tower, in a flash tower went into kaidrix's sea of consciousness. And started circling the main tower that he just got from old Ghost, kaidrix felt little pain in his head, he felt his soul being drained, and he received a series of information from the mini tower. He sensed through his connection with the main tower that the mini tower was part of a formation, and the tower was its center; furthermore, he needed to collect a total of five towers.
Kaidrix decided to explore the remaining channels of the cave, which he was not able to do while running from green monsters, and to avoid danger, he came back to the altar area, which, in his thoughts, would take him back to the surface. Then he further came back to the area where the giant boulder was. He climbed on top of the boulder and slid back to the area where he was attacked. This time he went to the left cave channel, at first it was narrow, but after a while the path became larger, as he went further went in he saw large numbe of the red crystals, and a lot of green people, some of them recognized kaidrix, which were the survivers of bolder area, just watching him coming, they rain away and hid thier selfs from him. Scared time to time the peek at kaidrix from their hiding spots, some bulky green people became agresive and attacked kaidrix, But his Dantian sucked their vitality and spiritual energy and replenished kaidrix soul and body, he lost a lot of energy when filling the crystal ball.
After watching some pale green and dried-up corpses, the few other green monsters who were coming to attack kaidrix got scared, and wherever kaidrix went, they were avoiding kaidrix, afraid to get close to him. They started making way for kaidrix as he moved into the cave. The cave channel was big and had some small channels of its own. If we went forward to the right in that area, there was a pyramid-shaped temple. kaidrix went into that pyramid where he felt extreme danger. He saw, at the entrance of that pyramid temple, big muscular green monsters guarding the temple. kaidrix felt he should explore this temple. So he decided to go inside despite feeling a lot of danger. Surprisingly, the muscular green monster did not attack him, but they kept watching kaidrix with furious eyes.
Kaidrix stepped into the ancient hall. The entire temple consisted of a single hall. There was an altar in the middle of the hall. At the end of that hall was a throne, where he saw an old, green monster, fierce-looking and giant. His facial features were heavy, despite being old, this monster had a heavy frame and a dangerous aura around him. He did not even look at kaidrix. A Silence stretched... then shattered. He spoke to kaidrix, "Kraa... tos...!" His voice rumbled like the earth tearing itself apart---low, slow, and endless. In a bit of anger, he spoke again, "Youuuu..... Darrrree Retun.... to bind ussss.... once morrrree?" Each word came heavy and dragged from deep within the beast's chest. The air in the temple thickened as his gaze fell on kaidrix. He clenched his hand, ancient joints cracking like falling stones. "Weee..., the green Drakosss... kneel not..., to fire-born kings." kaidrix felt dizzy just by standing in front of that being; he cursed in his brain Damm it, and somehow mustered up the courage to speak, and kept his confidence barely. kaidrix spoke, "You can speak?" The creature's chest swelled. "Yesss... Tongue of mannn... I know. Old words... from darker days..."
Kaidrix raised his hands in peace. I have no intention of enslaving your kind. Just don't attack me, and I will not attack you, the old monster spoke. "Hrrrhh... We... Drakos... are not fools. Long have men... spilled Drako's blood..." "We attack... Because we must. We endure... because we remember." He leaned forward, shadows draping over his shoulders like a cloak of night. "But youuu... Ka-ra-tosss... "We know that name. If true... then no blades will rise. The Treasure... we guard... not for war... but for legacy." He slowly raised his clawed hand, pointing towards the altar. At the hall's center. "Take... what is fated. The Treasure... is yours." kaidrix tuned his gaze to the direction where the old monster pointed,
There lies an altar. Embedded within, a skeletal hand jutted from stone, its fingers curved inward, and its palm facing skyward, as if cradling something scared. Suspended between bone and air, floated a small golden pyramid, its glow soft but radiant, casting a faint but warm light across the hall. It's light pulsed, like a heartbeat, thump thump thump, quit, ancient... but alive.
As Kaidrix touched the small pyramid, it became dust with his touch, as sand was pushed a little in, he saw a tiny golden crystal the size of a dot. It went into the kaidrix finger, taking all the golden sand with it. The process was extremely painful for him; it took place in the heart meridian, one of the yin meridians in his arm. The whole process was painful. He could feel the connection between his Dantian and the pyramid's crystal ball. He saw his arm covered in golden armor, and it was emitting a black aura. He felt that he could shatter the boulder, which was still blocking the main road of the cave. With a single punch. With a thought, the armor went into his skin. Surprisingly, he could control this piece of armor, and from the look of it, it not only seemed like armor but also could change shapes, a dagger? A shield? You name it, it can transform close to anything. The tiny pyramid in his meridian seemed alive, and his pattern pulsed with his heartbeat. Old Green Monster. guestser with his clawed hand to Kaidrix, "You... now... leaveee"