Ye Xiao drifted along with the river. There was nothing he could as he was already unconscious. The river was flowing to an unknown direction and every once in a while, a sound of wave was echoing in the river. That river started to bring Ye Xiao along with it to an unknown place.
Just like that, time slowly started to pass and Ye Xiao's body still floated in the river.
One day!
Two day!
Five Day!
It is been one week now since Ye Xiao floated in the river. During this time, countless strands of strange white energy circled around his hands. It was actually the energy from the Dragon-Shaped Core which formed with the mixture of three types of energy.
When Ye Xiao became unconscious and fell in the river, this energy emerged from his dantian and started to circulate itself around Ye Xiao's hands. Because of this, his hands, which has already lost almost half of skin and flesh, stopped corroding.
After a week, Ye Xiao finally washed to the shore by the river.
Coincidentally, four young men and women were passing by from there. One of the women had sharp eye and noticed Ye Xiao.
These four people were outer sect disciples of a sect known as the Thunder Cloud Sect. The women was called Lu Xiaoran, and the two young men and a women in beside her were her eldest senior brother Lu Qing, second senior brother Lu Feng, and third senior sister Lu Ran.
"Seniors, there is a person lying there?"
Lu Xiaoran pointed at Ye Xiao and asked.
Lu Qing and Lu Feng looked at each other and walked to Ye Xiao's side alertly and said, "Eh? This guy looks badly injured."
After discovering that Ye Xiao was badly wounded, they immediately started to search Ye Xiao's body.
Lu Xiaoran saw this and said in a dull tone, "What is going on? Eldest Brother, Second Brother, this is not good, is it?"
"What is not good about it? Anyway, he is already seriously wounded and he will die very soon. What is left on his body is better to let us have it. Can not you see the situation in our Thunder Cloud Sect now? In the future, there will be fewer and fewer cultivation resources as competition between us disciples is starting to become more and more intense. So, we have to make plans for ourselves. Lu Xiaoran, I think you sound not be this kind otherwise this kindness of yours will become your strongest weakness in the future."
Lu Qing said.
Lu Xiaoran frowned when she heard him and fell silent as what his eldest brother said was the truth.
"Poor guy, there is nothing on him" Lu Feng spat in anger. Lu Qing and Lu Ran also failed to find anything on Ye Xiao's body.
At this moment, Lu Xiaoran's gaze fell on Ye Xiao's fingers and there, she saw a ring shining.
"Spatial Ring!"
Lu Xiaoran instantly recognized that this was actually a spatial ring but she did not made any moves to take this spatial ring instead she tried to divert the attention of her senior brothers and sister.
"Seniors, let's go from here since this person did not have anything on him. It will be dangerous for us if we stay here for longer."
After hearing her, others thought that what Lu Xiaoran is telling is the truth so they agreed to not stay here any longer and left.
Lu Xiaoran also turned and left with her senior brothers and sister but before she left, she snapped her finger and an unknown pill shoot out and directly went into his mouth.
All four of them left.
After some time, Ye Xiao also woke up. When the four of them were here talking about taking his things, he was slightly conscious at that time and when a pill suddenly landed in his mouth. He swallowed that pill with great difficulty as he was only partly conscious.
After he swallowed that pill, he immediately felt that he was regaining his strength and his mind also started to become clear. Finally, he woke up.
"Lu Xiaoran!"
"Thunder Cloud Sect."
Ye Xiao muttered these two names. When he was still only partly conscious, he heard these two names. He was not able to clearly hear the previous group of people's conversation but he was still able to hear these two names clearly.
He had also guessed that Lu Xiaoran was the one who helped him.
"I will remember your kindness and I shall return this favour in the future if we met again." Ye Xiao vowed in his heart.
"Woosh!"
With a 'woosh' sound, he disappeared from where he was.
_The World Of The Heavenly Pearl_
In the middle of the Grassland, on the Jade Path that went in four directions, a figure suddenly appeared. This figure's hands was disfigured and looked very terrifying.
Who can it be if not Ye Xiao.
Ye Xiao once again came into the world of the Heavenly Pearl. He walked toward the Jade Lotuses and plucked off one of the Jade Lotus. Without wasting any more time, he crushed the Jade Lotus in his mouth and swallowed it.
Immediately after he swallowed the Jade Lotus, a current of warm energy started to move inside his body, Be it physical injury, internal injury or hidden injury, It started to heal every single injuries on his body.
His hands also started to recover. His flesh started to reform on both of his hands.
The process was very slow but even so, his hand which already became like an skeleton's hands started to reform its flesh.
Ye Xiao once again swallowed a Jade Lotus. With the help of additional Jade Lotus, his recovery speed increased suddenly.
Not long after that, both of his hands became just like how it was before.
Ye Xiao raised his hands in front of him and practiced some hand stances. Seeing that there was no more injury and everything was back to how it was before, he heaved a sigh of relief.
"Damn barbaric bulls' king, one day I will return and definitely serve Little Yellow with your corpse as her food." Ye Xiao cursed at the barbaric bulls' king in his heart.
When he thought about the barbaric bulls' king, his heart immediately filled with anger. At this moment, he wanted nothing more than increasing his strength and taking his revenge on the barbaric bulls' king.
"Grrr!"
Suddenly, Ye Xiao's stomach let out a voice as it reminded Ye Xiao that he did not ate anything for many days. He immediately felt hunger attacking him.
Ye Xiao once again appeared in the outside world as he felt very hungry and there was nothing in the Heavenly Pearl which he could eat.
"In the future, I will raise some magical beasts in the forest of The Heavenly Pearl. Then if I became hungry again in the future, I can eat them, hehe." Ye Xiao thought and started smiling.
When Ye Xiao once again appeared in the outside world, he was shocked to find that there was no forest here.
He still remembered that he was running from the barbaric bulls' king and when the barbaric bulls' king attacked him, he executed the Mountain Collapsing Fist with the help of his Beast Fire but still after that he was unable to save himself and fell unconscious after taking the barbaric bulls' attack head on.
He did not remembered anything that happened after he became unconscious. And now that he woke up, he found himself on an unknown place.
Since I am already here, maybe I can find some place where I can eat and ease my hunger.
After thinking this, Ye Xiao started to walk straight. He did not walked for long when he saw a city wall a certain distance away from him.
"It looked like a city is there." Ye Xiao muttered and ran toward the city wall.
When he reached there, he saw a huge gate which was the gate to enter this city. He walked toward the gate and stood in line as there was many other people lined up there and their intension was also the same as him as they also wanted to enter this city.
Ye Xiao was really hungry and he just wanted to eat something at this time. Because of this, he did not even thought of asking someone the name of this city. He just lined up there. Some time later, it was his turn to enter the city.
"Stop there!"
Just as he wanted to enter the city, he heard a cold voice coming from his left side.
He stopped and turned left. He saw that there were two guards looking at him coldly.
"1000 Gold Coins." One of the city guard said.
"What?" Ye Xiao still did not understood what was going on. He turned around and saw that all the people present were also looking at him with a strange gaze.