The Urban Dao Child

Yang Dao was held in his mother’s warm embrace. After he was named the family was filled with joy. After a week of his birth, the family organized a banquet. All the people of the family had been called back. All of their ally families came over from their domains and blessed the child. They did not find anything out of the ordinary when they cast a gaze at the child.

The banquet continued for three days straight before the guests all left after probing. Only a few people in life would be true to you. Since they all worshiped strength They were all the same. Yang Dao was too young to understand all this and enjoyed his time in the cradle laughing and smiling at his relatives coaxing and playing with him.

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A month passed and as Yang Dao grew the people in the family developed a good opinion for him. He rarely cried. His complexion had become like that of jade. His eyes were black as obsidian and his smile seemed to have lit up the place. At this moment, Yang Dao was sitting on a mat looking around the room with his doe eyes.

His mother sat in front of the dressing table, combing her hair. She seemed to be lost in thought. The child blinked around and got on his four limbs and slowly crawled out of the room. The boy had yet to look at the world outside the room. Curiosity was something every human had. The boy crawled his way outside the room for the first time.

The floor was made of shiny stone and the child smiled as he saw his reflection on the floor. He crawled in the big corridor. Coincidently he was not found by any servant in the household. Thus began the exploration trip.

Yue Ling (His mother) suddenly frowned, her baby boy has not made any sound in quite a while. The lady turned around and saw that the baby boy was missing. She was a cultivator and she did not lose her calm this soon. She looked around the room but did not find the boy. She became slightly anxious.

She scanned the surroundings with her spirit sense and did not find anyone around. Now, fear and anxiety began to seep into her heart. She stood up and walked out of her room with a quick step. She did not find any servants around in the first corridor, the palace was a secure place and it restricted the spirit sense of the people a lot.

Yue Ling turned a corner and she found a maid walking over. She said, “Aya, call everyone, search for your young master. He is not inside his room.”

The maid froze in her steps, she did not know how to react to this command. Young Master was only a month old, how could he be missing. She only woke up from her daze when Yue Ling said, “Aya, do I need to repeat myself?”

Yue Ling was a poised and calm lady. Everyone like her as she rarely raised her voice and was polite and caring. However, when she lost her cool. Even the elders in the family would not mess with her.

Aya woke up and bowed, “Yes, Mistress.” and then she rushed out to inform and call the others servants. The words spread and even the relatives heard about Yang Dao being missing. They all panicked and rushed out through the palace to look for the boy.

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The whole house was checked and suddenly a maid rushed over with a panicked expression, “We found the young master. He is sitting in the serenity garden.”

The serenity garden was the place the elders of the family would sit down and relax. Her words attracted the attention of everyone, Yue Ling directly rushed to the gardens. The maid rushed after her and said, “Mistress, young master. He is sitting in front of the chess table.”

Her words made Yue Ling widen her eyes and the next moment she vanished from her spot. Following her, all of the family members vanished from their place. They all rushed before it was too late.

The chess table was not an ordinary chess table. This game was left behind by the ancestor of the family. In the past, a lot of people tried to solve it but the intent in the game was so strong that while some lost their sanity, some even died. Yang Dao was a child how could he get near the table. Was it not looking for death.

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In the serenity garden, the ground was covered with soft lush grass. A huge tree stood in the center of the garden, and below it was a chair and table set. Yang Dao was sitting near the table. He was smiling as he found a palm-sized bird flying around him. His laughter added to the serenity of the place. ρꪖꪕᦔꪖꪕꪫꪣꫀ​ꪶ​

A maid stood at a distance and kept calling him gently, “Young Master, come back.”

Yang Dao was oblivious to her voice, he was immersed in his game with the bird. This bird had appeared when he had just come outside the house. It was a cerulean bird, with crown-like fur on its head. The bird was playing with Yang Dao and eventually led him to this place. It seemed to have taken a liking for the boy.

Suddenly, the bird landed on the chair, the boy crawled over ignoring the calls of the crying maid. He held onto the leg of the pinewood chair and stood up from the ground wobbling. The maid froze when she saw this scene.

The boy jumped to catch the bird, and the latter jumped back up chirping continuously. Yang Dao fell to the ground as he landed on the ground but he again stood up and this time he jumped to hold on to the seat and protruded himself up on the chair. The bird flew around and sat down at the edge of the table.

At this moment, Yue Ling appeared at the edge of the shade of the big tree. The distance between her and the chess table was twenty meters only. She called out, “Dao, baby, come back to mommy. Look here, mommy has your favorite toy.”

Her voice was so soft that even the bird looked at her. The reason why Yue Ling could not go ahead was the strong intent push radiating from the chess table. Suddenly, Yang Dao jumped towards the bird, in Yue Ling’s eyes the world lost its color.

An old man appeared near the table however, his hands were still one meter away from the child. The exertion of strength was completely visible on his face. His eyes were filled with helplessness. The boy caught hold of the bird in his little hands and hung from the edge of the table with his elbows.

He struggled to get up and the table trembled. Yue Ling had tears in her eyes and the servants knelt on the ground. However, the scene they were all afraid of did not happen. The old man near the table sensed the pressure on him vanish and he caught the hold of the hanging boy. The bird struggled and flew away from the boy’s hand.

The boy frowned but the old man caught the bird with one hand and glared at it. The bird calmed down from his gaze. The old man said in a soft voice, “Dao, do not hurt her.” as he gave the bird to the frowning boy.

Yang Dao smiled happily as he took the bird in his small hands. Yue Ling woke up from her daze and rushed over to the boy. The old man handed the child to her and gazed at the chessboard. His pupil dilated into pinpoints.

Yue Ling only held her smiling baby in her hands and said, “Dao, do not scare mommy like this again. What would I do if something happened to you, my love?”

Yang Dao heard her voice and shifted his gaze from the bird in his hands. He smiled and raised his hand to wipe her tears. His action made the weeping mother smile. Then he raised the bird in his other hand and made a  kuuu sound, trying to imitate the bird’s voice.

Yue Ling said, “Yes, my child it is a bird.”

The old man suddenly started laughing loudly, surprising the people. When he looked around at them and found them surprised, he froze and coughed. He said, “Yue Ling, you have blessed our family with a gem. A heavenly child.”

Yue Ling did not understand the context of his words. The old man said, “This little rabbit has solved the ancestor’s chess game.”

Everyone was shocked by this but when they found that the pressure from the table has vanished. They all realized that what the family leader said, was true. An old voice sounded, “What heavenly boy? Old man, I told you in the past to cast a seal here. If something was to happen to my Darling grandson, I will ask you and your ancestors for an explanation.”

Yang Dao’s grandma walked over with a cane in her hand. She was grumpy to everyone except her grandson. Well, he was the heavenly child, after all. She smiled at the baby held by Yue Ling and said, “You naughty little rabbit. Did you miss grandma?”

The boy smiled at her and made all the baby sounds to her as if he understood it all.