Number One Dungeon Supplier

"Jin…"

"Jin…"

"Jin… Wake up." The voice was all too familiar to him as he begrudgingly opened his eyes. There he found himself waking up in a bench but the scenery was something that caught him by surprise. Shocked? Stunned? There was no exact words for it.

It was the destruction of the Tree Mall and the surrounding Tian Gong District. The almight tree that stood tall as the pride of Tian Gong District had fallen and was burning right in front of his eyes.

"Jin." The sound made him break the focus of looking at that particular scene.

"Gramps…?" Jin turned to see that his grandfather was in full General Uniform as compared to the usual warm casual clothes that he was wearing. He held a stick in between his legs as he sat beside Jin.

"This image. Is it unbelievable?" Ming asked but Jin shook his head reluctantly.

"… No. It can happen." He admitted.

"Why? How? And What can you do?"Ming asked once more and Jin became serious.

"To prevent this or to take revenge?"

"Heh, for you to even think the other option. Looks like you have seen a fair share of destruction since the last time we met."

"Is this about the last Cardinal that you are going to introduce?"

"Yes. And ot took me some time to calm this Cardinal down to do things on my behalf. Seiryuu. The Azure Dragon. I know that you had see your fair share of dragons in your previous fight but this is a beast of its own." Ming used his commanding stick and point it upwards to the sky. The thunder bellowed and the clouds weeped yet a trace of a dragon was not there.

Jin did not know what Ming was pointing at until a moment later the weeping clouds parted to make way for a circular plate to slowly fall to the ground. On that plate lied a woman with horns and tails of a Dragon. Her face had been blocked off as she held an umbrella that is off nothing of this world. It looked like a simple transparent umbrella and yet scenes of joy, anger, sadness and many other emotions were seen animated in each of the panels in that umbrella she was holding.

"Wait …a minute. Is that…" Jin was so engrossed with the umbrella, he did not notice the girl that was standing on the circular plate as it continued to descend towards them.

"You are Kong Rong's…" Jin was speechless for a moment. "The Umbrella Girl… Ryuli. The one I saw in the dream as well."

"Dream?" Her eyes was still covered in darkness and yet her mouth gave a smirk. "Are you sure that's a dream to you? For me. Its all too real." The lady said as Jin looked at Ming but he had disappeared. "To think that my spiritual essence would be locked within you, blocking me from completing myself in full."

"Oh, the pain you inflict to me would be twice fold onto you. Nay, Ten Fold MAYBE A HUNDRED FOLD!" The Dragon Lady said as she blast her Maqi out, causing the atmosphere to not just be tense but heavily curated to destroying everything and anything. Even the bench that Jin set on had been compressed by the heavy weight of her Maqi. Eventually, the building gave way and so were the surrounding buildings. Jin managed to jump out of the way and land on his two feet but the opposing Maqi was too intense that he felt his knees gave way and broke from the pressure as well. Only right now, once it broke, his healing factor came kicking in and tried to resolve it.

"What kind of Cardinal is this??" Jin asked and at that instance, Ming came in once more right in front of Jin and stomped his crane to imprison her once more. "Is this really Seiryuu? And Ryuli the person I met in my dreams had really happened? What is this space time bullshit?" Jin had so many questions in his mind that he did not understand a single thing anymore.

"Calm yourself down." Ming slammed his crane once more and those thoughts dispelled for a moment.

"This is the next trial you have to face and will be the hardest trial to conquer. I can only give you a hint. What you did was not a dream. You saved that kid but in return, you opened up a Pandora box within you."

"For the person you saved had supposed connections with Seiryuu as well. I do not know whether it was intentional by fate or by some weird freak accident. But one thing is for sure. You conquer this trial, you will find an eternal ally with that lady and you will have the true powers of the Cardinals at your behest when the time is right." Ming said as Shadow Ryuli broke out of Ming's containment. His grandfather once more did the same technique to imprison her as he pushed Jin back to the conscious world.

"Jin…?" The Cultivator felt as if people were pulling his cheeks and pinching him all over his entire body. He slowly forced his eyes to open to find himself surrounded by the people who he called family for the past year or so.

"He is alive!" Qiu Yue said as she squeezed his cheek even harder, as if to pull him out of the virtual simulation pod and get him to see the people all around him without checking on his condition at all. But even if he wants to be happy, his heart felt extremely heavy after what he had seen just now.

That glimpse of Ryuli and her connection to Seiryuu, how does it link?

"Jin! Glad to see you made it!" Lynn was elated that her partner managed to return to the real world as well. Jin tried to keep his wits about him and pretended to be happy even though he had been burdened by this sudden trial.

"Don't think about it for now." He told himself as this was a reunion he had been waiting for a long time.