Inside the Sun and Moon illusion world, Lianxi was facing a large tiger. It was the same tiger she met on the first day.
However, unlike the first time, this time, she was fighting it and was winning.
And as the fight continued and she kept on getting the upper hand, the large tiger started getting smaller and smaller with each strike to its body.
It was like it was slowly retreating.
Even without understanding the situation, Lianxi suddenly felt the urge to fight the tiger the moment she saw it. Something inside her told her to conquer it and that what she was doing.
Finally, after struggling back and forth with the tiger, she ended the fight with a powerful strike to the tiger's head.
Thud.... boom...
The sound rang through the remote forest.
RAWR.....
With a deafening roar, the tiger's body shrank rapidly. And it disappeared into the thin air.
When it disappeared, Lianix finally fell on her knees and gasped for air. Huh. Huh.. huh...
Finally, she looked at the spot where the tiger disappeared and smiled cheerful. She suddenly felt lightened after that. It was like something heavy suddenly lifted from her back.
However, something happened that caught her off guard.
As she was digesting what happened, the scene in front of her changed. From a remote forest, she was transferred in the middle of nowhere where dessert surrounds every direction with no one in sight.
In that instance, she suddenly felt a headache. And when she came back to her senses, she found out that she could not quite recall what happened.
It was like she was starting all over again from the starting point with no information.
But, once again, she heard the comforting and encouraging voice inside her. It was telling her to not be afraid and keep moving forward.
For one thing, she felt like she was in a trial or something similar.
Taking a deep breath, she for once again trusted the unknown yet familiar voice.
Looking all around her, she stopped in a particular direction and headed towards it. She was ready to see the end of it even if it takes her countless hours.
On the outside world, Li Shen looked at the scene and smiled. He was impressed.
It was his first time seeing someone, other than that person, conquering their fear in just few days of training.
Good. Once this is over, you are ready to face yourself. He said inwardly.
Inside the illusion world, Lianxi kept on walking with determination written all over her face.
It had been 3 days since she started walking in that direction and she had never even stopped once. Also never doubted the inner voice.
It was kind of surprising thinking that the voices were not her own.
Just like that, in the outside world 3 days had also passed. It was already the 9th day. Only one day before she has to leave.
As she kept walking, her will became more and more solid. Constantly on her mind, she kept talking. I don't need them to help me. I don't need their protection anymore. Whether they abandoned me or not, I will find my own way with my own feet. If not with my feet, I'll crawl there with my hands.
Suddenly, when that thought hit her, Lianxi suddenly remembered what happened. All those memories came flooding her mind.
Whoosh.....
In that instant, she immediately opened her eyes in the outside world.
As soon as she did that, the surrounding atmosphere seemed to change, and a gust of wind blew in all directions from her.
When Li Shen felt that, he smiled. Success.
After that, Lianxi immediately went back to her usual expression.
With a surprised tone, she asked. "Did I just break out of the illusion on my own!? Unbelievable." Her cheerful voice contained the happiness and surprise she was feeling at the moment.
"Congratulations, you have successfully completed your first part of the trial. There is only two left." Li Shen congratulated her and informed her of what happened.
Hearing that she widened her mouth. "What!? That was just the first part? And there is two more? Presumably more difficult than that."
"Yup." Li Shen nodded his head.
"You got to be kidding me, right? It was already so impossible to deal with that. You know how tired and afraid I was when I was facing that tiger and walking endlessly like a dead man. How can I even face the other two?" Lianxi complained in a loud and frustrating tone.
To that, Li Shen simply said. "If you don't do that? You can't learn that skill."
"And one more thing, after completing the first trial you can't stop now." He smiled at her.
Upon hearing that, Lianxi snapped. She furiously channeled her energy and blasted into powerful attack at Li Shen.
Boom.....
The loading booming sound rang across the whole residence of Lotus Pavillion. Small debris flew everywhere with dust rising.
When the people heard that sound, they immediately felt alert and ran towards the direction —thinking that enemy attacked.
When the dust settled, she saw Li Shen simply standing there in his spot without any scratches and dirts.
To that, Lianxi was not surprised. She knew she could not hurt him at all. She just did that out of frustration.
Now after seeing the result, she calmed down. All her frustration left her body.
She calmly asked. "When do we do the rest of the trial?"
"We will do it tomorrow, before you leave." Li Shen said.
"Okey." With that, she turned around and left.
Before she left, she shouted with her energy. "GO BACK AND DO WHAT YOU WERE DOING. ITS NOTHING."
Upon hearing that, all those disciples and other people of the organization left the area before even arriving at the scene.
She also told one of the elder to repair the training ground because she destroyed it when she attacked Li Shen.
Looking at her figure that kept getting smaller and smaller, Li Shen said inwardly. I hope you can win tomorrow's trial. That way, you and I will no longer have any karma. And I won't be in debt to you.
The reason why he did all that from the start to help her was not because of his kindness and repayment. It was mostly because of his karmic relationship.
For every kindness he takes from others, he needs to repay them with his karma.