The Hidden Myth of Ji Dara

When one considered the fact that they'd already almost run out of Qi and were only barely resisting the repulsive force of the Qi Sensing Trial, one would realize that their situation was nigh hopeless…

'Shit, will Sam now sacrifice himself for me and then settle for less… No, I'm unwilling to let that happen!'

Dara thought to himself as he began to think of the box to find a solution but just couldn't due to the chaotic state of his consciousness, thus he decided to calm himself…

He shut his eyes and looked deep into his consciousness as he calmed his chaotic state of consciousness…

He search his inner consciousness for a way out, and the moment he did that, he seemed to enter into a new realm and the first thing he noticed was that he lost all sense of touch, hearing and everything seemed to drown out except from the sensation of free fall he was having…

Everything was pitch black until he had almost fallen through the barrier which Long and Sam had already passed through already…

But just as he was about to fall through the barrier, a single silvery rope appeared in the corner of his eyes;

'Unh!?  Is that!?'

Dara exclaimed as he stretched his hand within this dark space and attempted to grab onto the silvery rope as his consciousness within the Spirit Scape also stretched its hands through the host of Empty Links and surprisingly approached a very dim Silvery Link which was so obscured that it was actually there in front of everyone to see; just at the entrance of the Spirit Scape, but seemingly invisible to the consciousness…

It was truly representing the term 'Hiding In Plain Sight'…

Tap!

Prrrrr!

The moment Dara caught it, everyone vanished instantaneously;

[Eh? We are back!?] Sam was stunned when he saw the three of them back within his mindscape;

[Did any one of you pick an Empty Link!?] Long asked with a frustrated frown that was bordering on anger;

[I was just about to pick up a Bronze Link!] He slapped his forehead in total disappointment…

[It was me…] Dara confessed;

[What!?]

[How could you do that!?]

[After everything we have discussed and the amount of times I've told you how important this is to both of you!?] Long felt utterly disappointed…

He was a person who always desired to achieve whatever he had set his sight on, and whilst he had even chose to settle for less today because they missed out on the Silver Link they saw;

He was determined to pick a Bronze Link for Sam, but right when he was about to catch one, he suddenly found himself back within Sam's mindscape;

[But I picked a Silver Link…]

Dara spoke with an unconvinced tone as he had begun to doubt if he had truly picked a Silver Link…

Perhaps, he had fallen for the illusion effects which arises as a result of having his consciousness go through a lot of workload in a very short period of time…

[You picked a Silver Link!?]

[Then how come we can't see the effects here!?]

[Look around you and tell me again, do you think you picked a Silver Link!?]

Long was yelling already because he felt Dara took the situation lightly or perhaps got a little complacent and carried away;

[It's alright Long, we were here for him in the first place, and like I said earlier, I don't mind not getting anything either…]

[Getting to experience this new world is already a great achievement for me…] Sam defused the tensed situation as Long vented all his frustration with a deep, heavy sigh;

[I'm sorry…] Dara felt annoyed at himself as well;

[It's fine… But if you really want to make it up to me, then you must at least grab a Silver Link when it's your turn, that way I can experience what it feels like whilst you cultivate…] Sam added with a smirk…

Meanwhile…

In the outside world…

It had almost been about six hours since Dara had picked the Qi Stone and Aunt Lin had returned from her daily tasks and had been searching for him for reasons unknown, until she came upon Ji Wang who told her that he would most likely still be within the Qi Stone Room…

Thus, Aunt Lin came over to check up on him as she always loved to stare at him whenever he was unaware, that way she usually get the full natural view of Dara's handsomeness which usually made her heart flutter, and she most often did that whenever he was asleep and she managed to wake up before him…

But on getting to the transparent Qi Stone Room, she saw him there sitting cross-legged with an utterly dim Qi Stone in his grasps whilst there were nine bright ones in front of him;

"Are you so tired that you have fallen asleep whilst cultivating?"

Aunt Lin muttered to herself with a love smitten expression when she saw the situation; so she walked into the Qi Stone Room and squatted in front of him with eye glazed over with love, before removing the empty Qi Stone from his grasp and putting a bright one on it…

Boom!

Instantly, the group of Sam, Long and Dara felt Sam's entire mindscape tremble as Qi burst out of his cultivation into the root connected to it, as they saw insane amount of Qi stream into Sam's Dao Tree which trembled before absorbing all that Qi and dispersing it into the atmosphere when it reached the top of the tree, as the area began to brighten like dawn was just appearing;

[Eh? What's going on?] Sam was stunned;

[Oh my world… Oh my world… Oh my- It's really a Silver Link!]

Long was so ecstatic the amount of words in his memories were fading so fast that he became speechless after his first statement;

[Silver Link!?]

[What do you mean? I thought you said he picked an Empty Link?] Sam asked as Long finally found his words back;

[Yeah, but I think I might be getting too old that my memory is failing me after all…]

[Naturally, once someone connects to a Spirit Realm Link, the person's mindscape would begin the reconstruction of the mindscape instantaneously, but I totally forgot that your Dao Tree wasn't a native of this plane of existence…]

Long explained with a beaming smile as he gazed over to Dara who seemed too caught up in his own thoughts to even hear a single word he was talking about;