On My Way: The Demon King Made Me His

"You very well can, live another thousand years, you came to the right person, and the right place, Water Realm will never disappoint the guests who come in search for help," the girl replied. 

"Thank you, " he said back and watched Hawk wondering if he is noticing him. "What are you actually? The goddess here?" He asked her funnily.

"Well, you could say that, more like the guard here, one among those powerful statues you are seeing before you, " he got up quickly as he heard it. And he moved towards the enormous statues before him. He checked for the lady. He tried to concentrate and listen to see if the voice is coming from the inside. But no it wasn't for the here. 

"Can you see me?" He asked.  He got no reply. "Can you hear me now? Still there was no reply. "Who are you?" There was no longer any replies coming from her side. He walked back and went to the same place he sat before. "Can you hear me?" He asked once again. 

"Yes," she replied. "I can, " so he understood the communication break when he moves to another place. For some reason he trusted the voice since she is the keeper here in the lands of Water Realm. He did not feel like she would trick him.

He made sure he was in the communication circle walking around the particular point to see the radius he can stay inside. He drew a circle and asked Hawk to keep out of it.

"Why?" Hawk asked back confused. 

"It us going to be my mediating area, I don't like people walking into my space," he lied and walked into the circle. 

The reason behind the particular point was because it is entrance to the underground cave that has been shutdown for the intruders to not get in and it connected to the power resource cave all the way which carries the sound waves all along. One reason why Huo'er heard the music all day and all night. 

Hawk set up the bed for Huo who was looking far way down the mountain. He did not seem to he in high spirits. 

"Why don't you go to bed your highness? " Hawk asked his king. 

"Am not sleepy," he said. 

"I have a way," she said suddenly. Huo smiled. "What kind of fairy are you helping the trespassers so much?" He asked inside his head. "Am finally breathing well, leaving that cold chamber that had the heavy medicinal scent all the time that always made me feel am sick," he thought.

"Why were you imprisoned?" She asked him. "Are you a criminal?" 

"I don't know, maybe not, I met with an accident and I was brought back to life my guardian said, I don't know about myself and it's important I regain my strength back immediately, I must be someone as they say i am but I want to remember them myself, I want my memories to be restored, " he told her just a jist of it and hid all his other information. 

"Then why don't you seek help and start cultivating well?" She said to him. She started playing the harp. It was one of the tunes he had heard on his way to Mount Precious. 

"I heard this the last night," he told her. 

"Only a true celestial being can hear this music am playing, so you are not a demon then," she said. It made him worry. He is half and half. He had completely forgotten about his father's secrets. 

"Hmm," he said and remained quiet. Hawk felt weird watching the king sitting quietly in that special point he mentioned before. The music continued for a long time and he began to feel sleepy. It did work. 

"Sleep well, " she whispered and continued with her music. He did sleep well that night with the lullaby playing continuously and he did not know when it stopped. But for hours he did not hear from her. 

He started meditating first to bring back and improve his level of concentration. Hawk advised him to not stress himself wandering around alot but strictly dedicate to training.  They were not asked to report back on any specific day but he did not want Volca to be coming around the place exposing them to the Water Royals.

Huo started working out. And practicing his sword. He felt glad to have the best swordsman with him. He would sweat all over and settle down inside the circle. 

"Practice mixed martial art, " she suggested. He was surprised.

"What?" He asked her. He remembered how he had heard about thus suggestion before. "Why?" He asked again.

"You will need it to maintain your adapting meridian," she said. " You said you have problems with them," she reminded him. "And rest in water behind the falls for two hours, you will heal," she said. She led him to the pools nobody was allowed to enter. She had no idea why she was doing it, but she wanted to help him, for the voice he had, even though she was sure it is not who she think she is, unaware of the fact. She walked into the pool inside the cave and stayed there for a long time. The only place she get some sunlight from upon the roof of the cave. She looked up from there above her head where there was a small circle that opened to the skies. She saw the clouds moving in the bluest sky she had seen after a long time. She just laid there in the water, floating, in the middle of the water lilies and pink lotus, her eyes closed. 

While on the other hand, Huo tried reaching the backside of the caves circling around in the woods and found the pool. 

It was cold and surrounded by the rocks. He took off his clothes and walked into the water that made him shiver in the beginning. Coldness getting to his bones. He clenched his fists and gritted his teeth to not give up on the treatment the voice suggested him. 

"Easy, easy," he said to himself. "Relax, " he kept breathing hard. Around half an hour later he body did not feel cold any longer. He put his hair back that fell on his face and settled down.  He crossed his legs and he meditated. He felt something new. He felt too energetic. He felt his wounds healing quicker than it did before. He practiced some moves and unlocked some of his power by accident. The felt the blood flowing faster than it did before. He felt that something just charged inside him. 

Huo started meditating once again this time he travelled outside his body. He looked around the place and he saw the cave behind the falls but it had no entrance. He then travelled back and to the top if the falls. There was an opening. He slowly moved forward. It was a circle where the sun light entered the cave. He moved closer towards the opening and saw someone peculiar. 

There was a girl lying in the water among the lilies that made her look too irresistible. He could not see the face clearly though with her long black hair that blocked her view. She got up slowly. The water was dripping from all over her. The wet dress revealed her figure accurately. All the curves. He called her out. He was unusually feeling familiar. He wanted  to know if it was this girl who has been guiding him and doing favours to him. By then, his head began to hurt and he felt his blood inside the veins hurting him like he was being pricked with the needles all over. He tried to enter the cave amidst of it. But there seemed to layers of protection in the entrance and it threw him away instantly as he moved closer.

Huo opened his eyes, entering back to his body. He was panting.  He couldn't handle the pressure and he collapsed.

As he closed his eyes, he saw something like a palace and a lotus pond, being carried and pampered by someone he knows well. He also one scene on a river and an old man and doing manual work along with him. The visions looked too vivid. 

When Huo woke up, he was with Hawk. He had no idea about how long he has been unconscious. He looked around and saw he was inside the hut, in his bed under layers of quilt Hawk arranged. 

"What were you doing your highness?" Hawk asked him. 

"Nothing, " he said. "I was just meditating, " he lied hiding the part where he traveled out of his body.

"Please don't tire yourself all at once your highness, " Hawk warned him again. 

"I won't, " he said and asked the general to leave. 

Once Hawk left, Huo quickly checked his body to see if he has been hurt. But no, he was not luckily but felt the body aching at some parts. Also his head that was splitting with pain again. He recalled the vision he had seen before he lost his conscious. His heart pounded as he tried to recollect them one by one. 

He closed his eyes and took a deep breath. He couldn't understand why some parts of his brain suddenly flashed scenes from some of his past but then never showed anything to him again except when he gets in in real danger of hurting himself. The memories flowed to him very easily.