Long Shen sat on his stone bed & started practicing the Qi accumulation method according to the instructions on the jade tablet, Slowly the air surrounding him started to tremble as the Qi of this world started to interact with Long Shen's Body, he was in a euphoric state as the Qi started to interact with the cells in his body gradually, each and every cell started to tremble and absorbed the Qi as if they were bottomless pits... the Qi in the surroundings slowly started to gravitate towards Long Shen's room, a small whirlpool of Qi & wind formed above his room growing stronger by the moment, the old men outside were surprised to notice such changes and stared at the phenomenon dumbfounded...

Nature felt an electrified jolt & every surrounding organism felt the intense force of nature & felt humbled. Slowly Long Shen was lifted out of his bed & floating in the air in his meditating position. Clouds started gathering on top of long Shen's hut. A violent thunder is heard at a very short distance. Suddenly a big roar frightened everyone in the surrounding areas. Slowly all the monks in the monastery started gathering in front of Long Shen's hut. Blinding light pierced through the clouds that resembled a very long snake with a slender body. They couldn't exactly see the entire shape of the being of light. After a few minutes a similarly long red beam of light started flashing & moving in the clouds along with the golden white light. One after another different colors of light emerged from the dark clouds & similar slender beings of light in different colors were furiously moving in a circle around Long Shen's Hut. Their roars felt like these beings can tear the heavens with their might & nothing is impossible in front of their limitless power. Their presence increased the spirit particles in the surrounding region & all the withered trees and Plants were visibly rejuvenating / returning to their young stages.

Grandpa Long got a glimpse of the golden being's head & was surprised to recognize that it was a dragon / at least a light in the shape of a Dragon. He then came to a conclusion that all the other slender light beings of various colors must also be dragons / light in dragon shape. They started revolving faster & faster. Slowly a whistle sound started to increase in intensity with the speed of the light dragons & suddenly a boom sound came out of Long Shen hut that coincided with the dragons breaking the sound barrier & started their journey directly towards the small hut one after the another. Within a span of a second all the multicolored dragons descended onto the hut & disappeared. The hut was collapsed & in shambles. Grandpa Long snapped out of this trance inducing phenomenon & rushed into the debris frantically searching for Long Shen.

Long shen was laying on his bed with a multicolored light encasing his entire body like a cocoon & protecting him from all the debris. Grandpa Long was shocked as well as relieved seeing his Long Shen completely safe and sleeping as if nothing happened.

He shifted the sleeping Long Shen to another hut nearby & allowed him to rest.

The light slowly disappeared & started to enter his 9 birthmarks in the shape of a dragon on his chest. Each color entering its own specific birthmark. The birthmark that resembled the head of the dragon was filled with the golden light that emerged first. Red light entered the neck region of the dragon birthmark & so on.

9 days went by....

Long Shen slowly opened his eyes as if walking up from a very long dream. He noticed that he was not in his hut & slowly walked outside....

To be continued....