Light Cultivation
Eps. 2 — Back Life
When Jian Chen had breathed his last breath, the green crystal did not stop glowing even brighter light, now it was not just crystal but Jian Chen's body was also glowing and floating in the air.
The light expanded to the uninhabited Red Land is now bright. Not until there, the green light shot up into the sky, through the clouds to form like a pillar of sky that stuck into the earth.
People from different places could clearly see it. The green pillar was so bright in the middle of the night that it was impossible not to be glimpsed by humans.
The people in his house flocked out, who fell asleep immediately woke up, who was doing the activity immediately stopped because they wanted to see what was shining.
Not long after in the midst of astonishment, the phenomenon of nature occurred suddenly. The gusts of strong wind hit the entire continental landmass, the waves on the sea shook high, the lands they were pounding began to tremble like an earthquake.
The residents who saw it now began to feel fear as if the apocalypse was about to happen.
A mother hugged her child tightly, some residents resigned as if the day of her death was coming, not a few who ran away from the light to save themselves.
Fortunately the frightening phenomenon did not gradually take long, the Pillar of Light then dimmed and then momentarily disappeared slowly. Followed by the pillar of light lost the previous phenomena also stopped, everything has returned to normal.
“Ah, finally ‘That Time’ Penetrating Crystal was used as well, I thought I would wait for him another 100 years.” A middle-aged man smiled wryly at the flashes of light that began to fade. “Jian Chen, about what your world will be like..”
***
“Ah, this is that paradise..”
Jian Chen woke up and found himself lying on the vast expanse of grass while looking at the bright blue sky. On top of his body was a leafy tree preventing himself from the sunburn.
Jian Chen wanted to get up and sit down but for a moment his eyes widened as he felt pain all over his body.
“What the fuck... Aren't I already in heaven?!” Jian Chen cussed when he realized he had a bruise. Before digesting the situation he heard someone talking.
“Oh, I thought you'd wake up a little longer considering the training was so hard. You've gotten a little stronger Chen’er.”
Jian Chen turned his head to the source of the voice and found a man in his 30s looking at himself leaning under a tree.
“Dad? Is that you Dad?!”
Jian Chen's eyes opened wide because that figure was none other than his father, Jian Wu.
Jian Wu was about to approach him but for a moment he furrowed his brows because his son suddenly let out a tear. Jian Chen cried out with a slow sob.
Jian Wu probably did not realize how longing Jian Chen was when he met his parents. Jian Chen always felt lonely when his parents died when he was a teenager, he had no one left in the world except a life determination to take revenge.
Jian Chen regretted that his life in the academy had never returned home in the slightest because he continued to train so that his parents could be proud.
If Jian Chen knew his clan would be slaughtered he probably would not go and choose to spend time with his parents, at least he died with his parents.
The pain left by both parents will not go away despite decades of life until finally someone dies.
Jian Chen rubbed his eyes with the back of his hand, he then shook his head slowly but his brows furrowed slightly hearing something strange from his father's speech.
“Practiced? What do you mean, isn't this heaven why you should practice again? Are there bad guys here too?”
Jian Wu did not understand his son's throws but he immediately took the water and gave it to Jian Chen.
Not yet the water touched his lips suddenly Jian Chen felt a great throb in his head. Jian Chen let out a hysterical scream before then falling unconscious.
“What...” Seeing his son's face so painful and lost consciousness made Jian Wu panic. He did not understand the reason but immediately brought Jian Chen's body to meet the healer.
***
When Jian Chen opened his eyes he found himself in a room. Jian Chen held his position from the bed but only a few seconds changed position, the painful throbbing in the head was felt only not as painful as before.
Jian Chen himself was actually confused, wasn't he already dead but why was he still feeling pain?
“I really don't understand what nature is this?” Jian Chen then gazed around his room asleep, an incongruity started Jian Chen to feel because this place was something familiar to Jian Chen. “Isn't this my room in the Jiang Clan.”.
Jian Chen groped his body then found no wounds in his chest as he died. Jian Chen's body was indeed wrapped in bandages but it was in his hands.
“It..” Jian Chen felt his body feel shrinking like the age of a child's body. Before he digested what was happening, the door of the room beside him shifted.
A woman in her 20s came over while carrying food puffs on Jian Chen's room. The woman was so surprised to see Jian Chen had woken up, she hurriedly put down the napkin earlier and spatter hugging Jian Chen's body.
“Chen’er, you are already aware, Dear.” After a few seconds of hugging Jian Chen the woman wiped her eyes and melastas a hug, she palpated Jian Chen's face gently while smiling warmly.
Jian Chen himself simply remained silent. He did not not not know who was holding him but was confused over everything. The woman who hugged Jian Chen was Jian Ran, her mother
“You why dear, some are still sick.” Jian Ran did not understand his son staring at him without blinking but he felt the look in Jian Chen's eyes had a sense of sadness.
Jian Chen shook his head slowly, he did not care anymore about what happened but meeting his mother already made him happy. This time Jian Chen hugged his mother's body first.
Jian Ran smiled and rubbed Jian Chen's hair, Jian Ran did not understand why his son's nature changed but he realized his son was now crying while hugging him when he felt Jian Chen's shoulders tremble.
Somehow minutes Jian Chen hugged his mother without letting go, Jian Ran also did not budge and returned his child's embrace while stroking his back gently.
“Chen’er rest first, mother has brought your favorite food. I have to tell Dad that you're awake.” Jian Ran stroked Jian Chen's hair affectionately.
Jian Chen nodded. She looked at her smiling mother before her back was lost behind the door.
“I understand everything..” Jian Chen looked at both his palms and body, also started to look around his room including the layout of all the objects present. “Not wrong again, I.. I have returned to the past.”