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[This is a bonus chapter dedicated to Ingris. Thank you for the gift. Words cannot begin to describe how happy I am.]

I listened. I had nothing else to do but to follow the voice. I drifted down slowly. The little light that I gave out no longer helped me that much. I could not see anything that was more than a few centimeters from me. I had no vision. All I had was the little trust that I did in the words of the mysterious voice that came from inside of me.

Thud.

I felt land. Rather than land, it was more like a jelly. Like a protective barrier. This was no ground. This was probably another barrier.

"Let us just hope that this is the last goddamn barrier. If there are more, then I will run out of time either way, and I do not want to die out here or get into trouble out there. One level will not matter that much. I do not want to do this, but I have no other choice." I resolved in my mind as I tried to pierce the barrier.

Nothing would budge. It was harder than the first barrier that I pierced. It felt like this was one that was stronger and had something backing it up.

"Maybe I could try and use the spear and break the barrier. But what the hell is in the barrier for it to be so well protected?" I wondered.

I poured in a little Qi into my spatial ring. I took out the spear and pointed it towards the barrier. I could not move freely, but I used all the power that I could muster and pound the spear towards the barrier.

Nothing happened. Barely a ripple, from what I could surmise. My lack of vision in the area was also making things very difficult.

"You should go back now. There is something inside the barrier, and you might make it unhappy. It is very clear that you are not able to break the barrier. The spear that you are holding is almost close to breaking under this pressure. You should just leave." the mysterious voice suddenly said.

"Well, that was sudden. Why did you change your opinion? I thought that you wanted me to get stronger." I asked.

"That was before I understood what was behind the barrier and underneath his pool." the voice replied.

"What is below?" I asked.

"The-"

Before the voice could finish what he was saying, I felt a strong repulsive force. I grabbed the spear, but that was all that I could do before I was immediately pushed upward towards the surface of the pool. It took close to half a day to get to the bottom of the pool, but not more than a few moments to get pushed to the top.

I could see the light shining through the surface that I was closely approaching. I put my spear back into the spatial ring and braced myself for impact.

Splash!

I broke through the surface and was out of the pool in no time. I fell onto ground, for some reason. Looking frantically around me, I found that the city lord, Du Xiangling and Cai Lien were sitting with their eyes closed, meditating.

The city lord\'s eyes were open, and he looked at me with a smiling face.

"It looks like you did not heed my advice. Well, there are kids like you everywhere. You can no longer enter the pool. The pool will always repel you. It seems that your destiny with the pool is over now. Let us hope that you have gotten enough gains here. These two are cultivating their gains, while it seems that you have gotten a few yourself. Now, I shall let you go to the city lord\'s mansion and see what you can get for yourself before you can go home." the city lord said. But for some reason, his mouth did not move. I could hear him, but he was not speaking.

"Oh, and I forgot to say this. Be quiet. You do not want to disturb these two. Else, they might experience Qi Deviation and that is not what any of us want." the city lord said with this strange method.

The city lord moved his hand towards me. The surroundings changed, and I saw myself within another place altogether! This was the same way that he brought me to the Spirit Jade pool. The city lord was powerful alright. I looked at where he brought me. There was a huge door, and two guards at the side.

"Your excellence." the guards bowed immediately once they saw the City lord.

"Take us in. This young man here is here to collect his reward for the martial gathering. Now, I did not tell you this, but I need to tell you now. The gift that you will receive, the marital art, is not permanent. You shall get three hours to select a martial art, and another three in a separate room to memorize it. That is all. And under no circumstance are you allowed to leak the martial art that you learn. Or else, you will be executed for high treason." the city lord said with a smile.

"How the hell is he able to say all of this with a smile on his face? This man is a true psychopath. Everything that I saw before was just a facade." I thought to myself as I listened to him speak.

The guards opened the doors to the room that all the marital arts were in.

​ "You will not be allowed to go to the second floor. Stay in this one. That is all." the city lord said. I turned around to nod at him, but he was nowhere to be seen. It looked like he left.

"Well, I certainly did get a few gains from the Spirit Jade Pool. But first, the one thing that is bugging my goddamn mind, is who the hell is the mysterious voice? Was that a figment of my imagination, or was it actually real?" I thought to myself.

"Rest assured. I am real." the voice popped up.

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