Isaa suddenly paled as she saw few bugs crawling out the mess of the woman"s hair and crawling over her face while she started scratching her hair. Even she stepped back and stared at other women closely.""Are you al infested? These creatures... You need to shave your hair to get rid of them. If you don"t your skin condition will become even worse than before."" Isaa and Kimi held hands as they stepped back again. ""Please wash yourself and shave your hair if you want to interact with us. If you don"t do that please do not come near us.""
Then they started running away leaving a group of stunned women there standing with moth wide agape. ""What just happened. It"s just a couple of bugs.""
Isaa was told by Kendra that she always feared those things most so she washed her hair with all kinds of natural products and repellants. But thinking that something might crawl trough her hair made Isaa and Kimi s.h.i.+ver.
The moment their people saw them rus.h.i.+ng from the forset they thoughts something happened. The women needed some time to explain to them the problem and Conrad sighed. ""Well, you gave them the option. You two do not need to interact with them if you do not wish. Just stay here and enjoy a nice time near the seaside. No need to think about things too much. Ok?""
Their group of men actually planned to send every few days some food and salt back home and with that the females as well. Looking at the current situation, they really should just find some unapproachable spot and make their own salt. But for the next couple of days, they will keep their promise to show them how it is done and then they will leave.
""Conrad. I know your thoughts. Never mind. We will leave these things here as they are. Thye can use these simple things as our gift to them. But I will not teach them more than we promised."" She didn"t want to interact with those people at all after this situation.
On the other side of the beach, the women of the other guild started getting angry. ""Do those two feel that we are not worthy to be near them? We are just a bit dirty at the moment. What is that fuss about. When we get out here they still will have to bow to us as we had higher powers than them even before. I really wish to make those women from their guild even dirtier.""
Their way of thinking was way off. How could they forget about their cultivation in their mind and all those teachings just in such a short amount of time?
Isaa and Kimi just looked at each other and rolled their eyes. ""You do know that after we go out every and each of us will gain the amount of power as much we did good o bad in this world?""
They realized that this world was literally not meant for those that have deep in their heart bad intentions and hatred. This world brings the best and the worst out human part of them. IF they had bad thoughts and weird ideas they will live like that in this world and their true face will be shown.
Of course, it matters at the same time in what environment the people live as well. Too bad that these women forgot their elegant bearing and cultivators" dream. To be apart from all bad things or it will be impossible to grow powers.
Isaa could see on their faces that they had no idea what she is talking about so she wanted to explain but Kimi stopped her. ""No matter how you explain, their inner darkness will consume them anyway. They are not cultivating their mind, just their... bodies. It seems that is all that there will be.""
""What do you mean cultivate our mind. We have no cultivation base anyway. What should we cultivate?"" The woman aggressively yelled at them.
Isaa just rose her hand to calm her down. ""The cultivation method is something that is not only for people with powers. Even normal commoners can clear their minds and receive some energy. They can"t use like us, but with those energies, their mind will become brighter and their life will extend for many years. For us cultivators, cultivation never stops. When we get out of here, the cultivation will continue. If you forget your cultivation techniques here wouldn"t that harm you when you come out?""
The women just looked at the two of them with despise, even the young woman that spoke with them at the start. ""Acting all like that. Did you forget that this world is made for our bloodline extension? That is most important now. Cultivation? We have hundreds of years of the time when we come out to cultivate.""
Kimi gave up and turned to leave while Isaa tried to give them advice one more time. ""Cultivation never ends, please remember that. Cultivation never ends..."" But Kimi held her by hand and dragged her away from them while shaking her head.
""Why do you even bother, some people won"t listen and why waste your time with that. Let us check the plant world and see if we can dry some herbs for teas when we get back home. I do not think that the rest of the females will want to come out after this encounter."" Kimi was happy that just two of them came out.
Isaa nodded. ""I wish Kendra were here. She would find a perfect secluded spot for us and we could bring more females out to have fun. Look how wonderful the color the sea has. I think in summer we could come out and swim. Sitting by the fire and eating some barbeque.""
Kimi smiled. ""That is a good idea. Even when babies come, the mothers can come here and relieve their bodies in salt.w.a.ter. Its kind of comfortable, don"t you think?""
Isaa nodded. ""Luckily we have a healer in our group.""
Kimi shook her head and stared at the sea while she sat down in her chair. ""No. Our sect is lucky meeting the two of you. We realize that Kendra just looks young but her mind... The reason we can keep our sanity is her ideas. Her persistence to cultivate, her mind is set to reach high. We all probably are older than two of you for many hundreds of years if not even thousands. But we forgot the importance of a real set of mind onto cultivation. The way we cultivate every morning and every evening are all because of the two of you.""
Isaa sighed. ""Actually, Kendra was completely sure you all can handle it. She said that your minds were already set on cultivation and not on worldly matters. That is the reason she accepted staying in the sect. But Kimi you have to know, just like I said before, cultivation never stops. You have to cultivate your mind, your bearing, your knowledge... And most important your soul. The soul is what matters the most.""
""But what if you had a bad life before?"" Kimi still looked at the sea and whispered.
""Did you get thrown in the gutter to drown by your own family? Did you eat just old bread and rainwater to survive? Did you ever got attacked to be sold by slave dealers? There are more things that happened to the two of us. We hated, despised and hurt only ourselves. Then we realized that true cultivation is to punish if you can, if not let go and grow your own set of mind and extend your own cultivation. Nothing is permanent. But one thing is... real love. I am not even blood related to Kendra but I love her like she was my sister, my mother, my G.o.d."" Isaa had a peaceful expression as she smiled Kimi that was astonished.
""I always thought I had though life but you two..."" Her words she couldn"t even spill when Isaa just patted her hand.
""My words are meant to show you that there is no utter darkness and no complete light. They live together. Just like Kendra and I can exist and grow together. We were lucky as well. Now we have loving parents that probably are fretting that we didn"t send any messages for a long time. The love we got from them and from our friends, people we know, in this lifetime we are grateful for everything."" A huge smile appeared on her face when she thought about Lady Xara and Lord Ca.s.sian.
""So you have family in your world. But the time..."" She felt sorry for Isaa and Kendra.
Isaa just shook her head. ""They are cultivators that can break trough boundary if they wish and come here. They might live for thousands of years with their cultivation. We are not worried. But their choice is to stay in our world and protect it from outside influence. You see as I said before. Not everything is s.h.i.+ny in this fifth world. Look those female cultivators, they didn"t give up their set of mind at all. If they listened to our words...""
Both of them just gave up talking to others. Actually, after freeing themselves from talking to those women they started having fun. Isaa would take her to the hidden grove and teach her how to swim and dive. Afterward, they would go and wash in the river and after that, they would come back and find food already ready for them.
But would the Illo"s people let them be just like that?