Heaven redeemed | xianxia | 天堂已赎回

The first chaos

Jiang Feng laid his hand on his pinching forehead, he could see lights penetrating across his face as he strives to stand on his feet, it was not what he expected, he reeled almost instantly as he tries to straighten up his body.

A sudden wave of pain gushes through his spine as he finally settles on his weaken limb, hence stimulating throbbing pains all over his torso, he couldn't bear, but wince unwillingly. He felt numb in his arms and legs, tightness in his chest, was it because he had fallen so hard?

He pushes his thoughts aside and attempts to regain his vision, squinting his eyes promptly, he managed to examine half picture of his surroundings.

"Goddddd", he hissed in pain.

He places his hand on his temple and heavily exhale to incorporate his internal 'Qi' energy and as soon as he senses an abnormal flow in his meridians, he quickly blocks his pressure points.

likewise, the tension on his shoulder only worsen up every time he tries to move them, it had been emitting indescribable pain, almost like a band was squeezing up his tendon, the dizziness was fairly extreme, it made him so nauseous, he nearly gave up and slump back to wherever he was.

He scrutinized the area with his half-conscious mind and mentally thought," rice field ".

An old man in a grey robe perk up from afar, on his robe were patches of rag sewn unevenly distributed with punctured holes scattering at the corner of his rough sleeves.

He then slowly pace agitatedly with his eyes narrowed as he proceeds to come forward, assuming that he was forcing a sight, Jiang Feng waves his hand in return.

The man was holding onto a wooden cane, old and crook, almost too feeble, too fragile for him to rely on, his skin was rather pale and dull, he had deep wrinkles visibly protruding on his face and his eyes sagging severely downturn, seemingly to have blinded him, which could also be the reason why he had been staring so intensely at Jiang Feng, even though they were just a meter apart.

The man sloppy appearance had offered him quite a touching surface to his indigene life, poverty and lack of resources, could this be why mortals had wished for endless wealth?

His pupils narrowed as he observes the youthful man, "Why are you laying here childe?", he asked in a weak voice.

"Oh sorry, I fainted ", Jiang Feng replied, obviously he can't just say he had fallen off from heaven, what a heaven crime if he did so.

He raised his eyes, "I see....you are not from..this town".

"Um... I lost my way during the night, I think I was tired and fainted here".

The man plastered a shocking expression, "are you sure you merely fainted ?".

"yes", Jiang Fen hesitantly replied, and that was the second lied he made, enough for his conscience to bulk up eventually.

"What a surprise, a dashing young man like yourself fainted here, I haven't seen travellers passing through the field for months since the breakdown, except for those annoying cultivator, who had been pestering me for weeks now", he sighs in annoyance," are you one of them too ?".

"no, I'm not".

"phewww, you aren't.. well then young man, hurry up and return to wherever you came from", he urged.

"Excuse me, but can I ask where is this place? and what is the... breakdown?  Sorry, I'm lost".

The man face-harden again," word of advice young man, go back now if you want to live a long life".