The leader asked Julie where the painting was. Julie immediately took it out and handed it to him. The painting hadn't even been opened yet, but the leader was astonished by the power emanating from within. The painting made him feel a sense of pressure. He slowly extended his hand and took it from her. After taking the painting in his hand, the leader realized that the feeling he had felt while Julie was holding it was nothing, and when he took it in his own hands, he felt immense pressure. He then looked at Julie, holding the painting in his hand, and said, "Your senior, he must be at least as strong as our ancestor." He thought for a while, then abandoned his thoughts and began to open the painting. As soon as he opened the painting, he froze in place. He felt as if the painting had become real, or he had entered a new world filled with immense cultivation energy, where he could cultivate freely and increase his power. However, he also felt as if he could never escape. Although the place was beautiful, he couldn't absorb even a drop of cultivation energy because it was imprisoning him. He felt as if he were a hungry man with food placed before him, unable to eat or let go. He sat there, trying to cultivate and absorb energy forcefully, but he couldn't. No matter how much strength he exerted, he couldn't absorb even a tiny bit of cultivation energy. He was extremely shocked by this, and couldn't believe that even on the platform he was on, he couldn't fight the painting, let alone absorb even a drop of cultivation energy. Then he tried harder and tried to look at the painting more closely, but he couldn't see it clearly.
It seemed to him that the painting was like a deep well, and he couldn't understand the nature of that painting he was looking at. But because the leader was old and a knowledgeble person, he could guess that it was some divine-rank treasure.
After a while leader gave up on trying to absorb cultivation energy and then decided to get out of the painting, As he focused his will and moved his body in an attempt to get out he felt a sudden shock and back in the painting when he opened his eyes he was still inside, he tried again and again but couldn't get out then he applied his full power which made him get out a little but can't take him out fully.
From the outside, Julie could see that her father was frozen, so she suddenly reached up and gently pulled him out. As soon as he came out, the leader's face was a little red and flushed. He coughed a little and was looking tired, feeling worried Julie asked him if he's ok? He should go and rest, to which leader replied to her, no it's ok, I'm fine then he looked at Julie and said, "I want to know who that senior of yours is "I want to meet him, tell me where did you find him?"
Julie said "okay father, I will tell you but before that tell me are you okay? Did you got stuck in the painting?" To which leader replied, "yes I was a little stuck, it is not that I could not have gotten out on myself but still it would have taken me a little more time.
Thank you that you pushed me and I was able to get out quickly.
Julie and he started talking about the senior julie started telling where he lives in which town he can found him and then she said goodnight and left.
While sleeping the leader was thinking whether he should also take his two useless elders or not.
On the other hand, our character Dev is still busy in his game, "taking it here and there".
The girl was walking on the mountain, watching sky change it's colour,
suddenly the match stuck on again, dev sat back on his chair "oh no see, how do i go against this one" he sighed "this is one of my traps i still have to find solution to" 'falling in the middle of the sky, but how to cut it, I have not figured it out yet, maybe I will have to think a little about it,' after that dev decided to gave up, Dev stopped the game and left, went inside to cook his food.
On the other hand, when the girl was walking with her maid on the mountain, she suddenly felt something strange and because of this, both she and her maid were scared because suddenly the color of the sky was changing a lot, this made the girl shocked and thought to herself
'this should not have happened, nothing like this was written in the book,'
but after that she continued her journey.
After a while, she and her friend climbed the mountain, there was a strange rock in the middle of it. It was a strange transparent crystal rock with many weird symbols and carving across it, one can see a wooden looking rectangular box or something inside middle of the crystal. It seemed as if something like a small stick had been made by mixing stone and iron together. Perhaps it should not even be called a stick, but a stone which was very small. It was a flat, square shape, although it wasn't square, it was rectangular.
When the girl saw that rock she knew that this was the thing she wanted, but she was not able to understand how to do it. Although she knew that she would have to break the crysal in the middle of the hill, but the problem was how to break it because the book had it mentioned that crystal was very tough.
Martha asked, "Is this that box thing you were looking for?" the Girl said yes "i came here for this, and I need your help to take it. My strength isn't enough to break that crystal and take it out. you're on a higher stage than me.
Although you won't be able to do it either." But then she took out something, it was a short sword with carving across it, the blade was so sharp that it can cut through air, it was shining very brightly. There was a scratch on it. The scratch wasn't a part of carving or it's design. The sword seemed to be slightly broken. The part that held it seemed to be slightly broken, damaged, and worn. However, this didn't diminish the sword's dignity at all. It could still be seen that the sword was extremely powerful. Seeing that sword, Martha was surprised and said,
"This is one of the most powerful treasure in your family. why have to brought this here? Are you planning to use this?"
To this the princess while touching the sword's blade lightly and said with a smile "I'm not going to use this but you,"
Martha quickly rejected the offer "thank you my lady but i can't do this, this is your family's one of the highest valued treasures and as much i know only cultivators who are at the peak of karantha stage can use this sword and I'm only at half of it so i can't help you anyways even if i want to."
The girl glared at her with anger "But you can absolutely do it because I'm telling you what to do and this is not me asking you, this is my order so do it."
This made martha silent after a while she took the sword and could feel it's power "ok miss if you insist".
Hearing this, the girl got happy and then told her to use the sword martha listening to her carefully then went towards the crystal and holding the sword tried to attack as her miss told her, she held the sword tightly in her hands and slowly started gathering power in it. After slowly gathering power for a while, the sword suddenly started shining very brightly and it seemed as if it was drawing all the power from around it. The sword looked very strong and powerful. It seemed as if it could cut a mountain in a single strike. Then Martha opened her eyes and then attacked the crystal with her full power.
Although nothing special happened, only a very small scratch was made on the crystal.
When the girl and martha saw it they felt dissapointed and sad, specially the girl, she couldn't believe it, although she had hoped that it will take them to strike a few time's to break that crystal but a scratch like nothing made her sad even more to that she was feeling quite embarrassed because that attack was made using one of the strongest sword of her family, the maid was also sad. But the maid said, I will try again and she tried again. But this time the scratch was smaller than before, on this her maid started trying again continuously but gradually the scratch became smaller and sometimes the scratch was not even visible and after some time she got very tired, on this the girl told her to stop, maybe we will not be able to do this right now, it seems that this time the journey will be a waste of time and saying this she turned back sadly and was ready to go, martha was not dumb so she also did not think of stopping her and started walking back with her.
Before they can get far from the crystal suddenly an slash eith very high spped came with a voice "moving the mountains while breaking the sky" eith this the slash directly went to the crystal and stuck it, breaking it like it was some low quality thin glass, it's pieces scatterd all on the ground and the box fell out, it all happened in less than a second which made both girls shocked and stunned.
After a while the girl stopped staring there and looked around to find the person who has done this, when she didn't saw anyone she hesitated and asked "who is it? Who attacked that crystal come out.
But she received no answer "if there is no one here I'll take that box with me, mister thank you for this, I'll remember it.
After saying that she waited a while again then told martha to collect the box and left with her and the box in her hand.
When they got off the mountain, martha took out her sword which was tied to her waist and they both flew on it, back to the capital city of their country.
There they directly went to a very big mansion or house which was so huge, it was kings castle after all, the girl and Martha landed in private garden of that girl.
There marta said "we're back my lady, anything else you need me for?"
The girl said "no, you can go now" and sent her then she went to find some other maid in there and when she saw one she asked her.
"hello miss what can i do for you? "
The girl asked "where is my father and mother, do you know?"