20 Feng Tian Explains, Part One

Yun Tai suggested they go out to the courtyard to talk, he felt stifled being inside and wanted some fresh air. He wanted to unwind and calm down . It's good he would go to the cave of enlightenment tomorrow and begin cultivating.

He had been practicing his meditative breathing but his chi was in flux and he needed to refine his qi.

Feng Tian was the first to notice when they sat down outside the stars were in a strange formation that resembled a lotus, Yun Tai looked up at the brilliance of the stars and shape.

He was a bit shaken recalling the last time he had seen that he was only sixteen and he had met that girl down by the stream.

His mind was tired from all these strange memories and his head was beginning to throb.

"Feng Tian enough! Let's hear what you have to say!"

" Tai, I'm sorry to have disrupted your return. I know you are physically and mentally tired. I wouldn't have brought them here if I knew you would be here. I assumed you would be in seclusion.

"Who is that girl? What sect is she from I didn't sense any cultivation at all. Is she your betrothed?"

Feng Tian almost spit out his wine. How did Tai come up with that assumption. But, the way he looked at her earlier maybe Feng Tian shouldn't directly answer that.

"Her father and her were sent from another world".

Before he says anymore Yun Tai interrupts, "Another world, what world?"

"That I don't quite know yet I only met them two days ago"

Yun Tai is thinking two days and she is your woman? I know women are easily taken with you but two days? They were rather intimate in the kitchen. Was she from a brothel there?{if XiXi could hear this she would kick him directly in his manhood. I'm in High School and have never kissed a boy!}

"Go on with the story."

" So they were sent here by the Sorcerer Society, well her father was, she just for some reason got caught into his transporting spell. They are to extract the core from the Zehran Water Dragon and return with it to their world" Feng starts from when he first met them.

Yun Tai abruptly stands up knocking over his wine cup and slams his hand on the stone table reducing it to pieces on the ground.

He angrily is looking at Feng Tian and screams at him.

"You are accompanying them to do this vile deed!. Have you been enchanted by that girl? Are you insane!"

Killing intent is emanating from Yun Tai's core right now shaking the trees around them.

" No,,.No.. calm down Tai let me continue..please it's not what you are thinking!" Feng Tian is momentarily frightened Yun Tai might lose it right then.

"Of course I wouldn't let them harm that old fart of a Dragon, I don't even think they have the capability to make it through the Forest of Illusions" {or even across the woods beyond this courtyard he is thinking.}

" But there must be some underlying evil force that sent them here on this task. He is just a third grade Sorcerer and I don't sense even any cultivation from her body. I'm thinking they are merely a distraction for some real Beast Hunters to gain the core."

That's true Yun Tai didn't feel any aura from her at all and her father in the other room to be knocked out for two days since he has arrived here reflects on his ineptitude.

"Go on" Yun Tai is watching his friend's face for any indication he is lying, although Tian is a terrible liar in the first place.

"Yes, at first I thought it would be fun to watch this debacle unfold and then take care of the real culprits before they could harm the Dragon{not that the old fart doesn't have his own tricks, Feng Tian vividly remembers his robe on fire as he flew away from the Dragon}

The little beauty though I can't let be a chess piece in this game. I want to help them figure out a solution and send them back to their world.

The father seems reluctant, the girl is just a girl who got thrown into this mess."

"So what do you plan to do " Yun Tai is picturing the girl who fainted from fear into his arms.

"I'm not sure" Feng Tian has been too caught up in the crazy misadventures of the last couple days to think that far ahead .

"This isn't a game Tian! Are you clueless after just hanging around the palace playing?"

"..." Feng Tian

"Have you ever sat in on a High Council meeting? You are one of the most noble families, your brother Feng Che is the Chief Council", Yun Tai is incredulous at Tian's carefree attitude.

Oh, that's right my brother is coming back in seven days to go with us, Feng Tian thinks should I tell Yun Tai, he hates my brother.

"Well no they are so boring"

Yun Tai feels as though his head is about to explode.

"So you have absolutely no clue about the main Mythological Beasts of the Seven Kingdoms" he asks incredulously.

"What do you mean?" Feng Tian is feeling very foolish in front of his friend right now.

Yun Tai is holding back the urge to send Feng Tian flying.

" Let's go over to that other table" he looks down at the crumbles that were once his favorite table. It had been given to him by an official after he rescued his daughter from being abducted .The jewels and gold he had tossed into the cellar as useless items, but he loved the feel and sturdiness of that table so he put it in his favorite spot in the courtyard.

My precious healing lotion, my tea (I really don't like torturing people for information) and the Old Master is so demanding for his potions and elixirs, and now my favorite table. You have been here two days!

While Yun Tai is itemizing and calculating how he will receive payment from Feng Tian, that man is feeling shamed by his friend's words. Feng Tian knows he hasn't taken any responsibility since he returned from the mountain.

Yun Tai says to Feng Tian, "Go fetch more wine get the one with the skull imprinted on it"

"A skull", Feng Tian.

"Yes, and on second thought bring two", Yun Tai.