The Urban Dao Child

Laohu Bai and Yang Dao stood in a wide field with grass as high as their knees. Yang Dao asked, "Baibai, except for the feeling this place looks very similar to Liro. Where is this?"

The feeling in his words was the feeling he got back on the island. Laohu Bai smiled and said, "This is the entrance of the sacred realm, the doorway." her voice was very calm.

Yang Dao again asked, "What is a sacred realm?" as he gazed around at the scene in front of him.

Laohu Bai replied, "A sacred realm is a place which is made up of the manifestation of different laws of heaven. The one we are headed towards is called the realm of light and dark. It may look similar to you on the surface. However, the difference is really great."

She was very patient in describing all this to Yang Dao. The boy was also like a sponge, absorbing everything he was told. He asked after Laohu Bai finished speaking. Yang Dao nodded and asked, "So what do we have to do here?"

Laohu Bai chuckled and said, "To enter the realm of light and dark, you must figure out what you hide inside you. Are you made up of light or are you made up of the dark? When you have completed that, you will fight the master of light and dark, well not all-powerful, but strong enough for you. If you can compare with the master's comprehension, then only you will pass."

The boy froze and asked, "Are their people inside the realm of light and dark?"

Laohu Bai nodded. Yang Dao asked, "Did they also compare before being allowed inside?"

The white-haired girl could not help but laugh out loud. Then after a few seconds, she calmed down and said, "Migrants have to go through interviews."

Yang Dao chuckled, and he asked, "So where do I meditate?"

Laohu Bai said, "Do you sense anyone around?" calmly.

The boy shook his head and understood her meaning. The place where they stood was just a vast prairie. Covered with grass as high as his knees. He waved his hand and a wind blade cleared a circle around him with a radius of one meter. He sat down and was about to close his eyes when Laohu Bai said, "One tip, to look inside yourself is the only way to see what you are made of. Since I am feeling happy, I give you another hint. Close your eyes properly."

Then she sat back with an amused expression on her face. Yang Dao nodded and closed his eyes. He did not understand what the white-haired girl said, but said nothing because he needed to work on it by himself.

As he cleared his mind and dwelt on the topic. The first question that came to his mind was how to find out what he was made of? To him, humans comprise flesh and bones irrigated by blood and energy, but that was before he became an Elementalist. The boy pondered over what could light and dark inside a person would mean.

After a few hours, which he did not realize have gone by, he concluded that the light and dark reflected a person's nature. Now to see one's nature, you have to look inside their souls. Now the question was. How to look into your soul, where exactly does it live?

Yang Dao recalled the hint given by Laohu Bai, that he should look inside him. However, where inside him lived the soul? The boy was confused. He took a note that his mind was getting agitated, so he took a deep breath and calmed down. Then he let go of his thoughts. He let them dwell in whatever direction they wanted. This action calmed him very much.

When too many thoughts flow through your mind and you cannot keep a track of them, you find yourself at peace. At this moment, he suddenly recalled how his familiars all had a mark glowing on their brows when he accepted them. They told him that a shred of their souls was now mixed with his.

He focused his energy on his brows. Soon he found a vague light glowing inside his brows, buried under his body. Now he wanted to focus further but felt a headache. He calmed down, again let his thoughts run wild as he sat in peace.

...

Outside his body, Laohu Bai was looking at him with a soft smile on her face. She nodded as she saw the boy approach such an obstacle with a calm mind. It has been a day only, she mumbled, "It should take him a week at this rate. Let's see, how deep can he go."

...

Days passed quickly for Yang Dao as he was immersed in meditation. It was the third day on the vast prairie. Yang Dao has been sitting in his position for three days now. However, today the boy had figured out how to close his eyes completely.

He was circulating the source energy behind his eyelids to form a film behind them. He kept layering the azure-colored overlapping each other and soon the azure color changed to black. Yes, it became too saturated. When you close your eyes, you can still see if it is light or dark outside. But now, surrounded by complete darkness, he could see inside him.

The glow inside his body was more prominent. He thought to himself, 'When I there was light outside, he could not see inside himself. It was all dark. Now that I have darkness blocking the light outside, I can see the light inside me.'

He comprehended the fact, darkness and light go hand in hand. It is just like two sides of a coin. When you have lights outside, you will be dark inside, but when you have the dark outside, the light inside, you will glow. They will balance each other. Yang Dao focused himself to look what his soul was like.

The glow coming from under the brow was getting brighter with every second. Using the source energy to perceive what it was like. He found a ball of light floating inside his pineal gland. He gazed at the ball and found that it was not actually made up of light completely. He could see a tiny black point floating on the ball as well.

It could be an illusion, but it confirmed the fact that the soul comprised both light and dark. However, he did not hurry to open his eyes but kept looking at the light and dark ball.