"Your back is very badly injured," Yibo said as he checked Zhan's injury.

Zhan was sitting shirtless on the stool beside Simon's bed, staring blankly in space.

"How are you enduring this pain?" Yibo asked as he looked at the open and bloody hardened skin, and Zhan spoke,

"I took medicine, oftentimes I would feel sleepy after using that but now I think it has no effect on me anymore."

"The same medicine you gave to Simon?"

"Yes," Zhan replied in one word, Yibo sighed and cleaned the wound before bandaging it up again.

"How is your brother?" Yibo asked.

Zhan inhaled deeply, "He is okay...much better than before, pretty much back to normal."

"That's good, will he ever return to the battlefield?"

Zhan took a few minutes before answering, "I don't think so, and honestly, I don't want him to."

After Yibo was done, "If you have already eaten then go and rest, I will stay with Simon. And don't say no I don't want you to get sick while you are traveling with us, I can't handle another sick person."

Zhan sighed and got up, he gave one last glance to Yibo before walking out of there. 

The next morning their journey continued.

They made themselves dress as common folks as usual and Simon was in Yibo's arms, sleeping nicely without a care in the world.

As they sat on the horse.

"Haoxaun how long is it going to take to reach the temple?" Yibo asked and Haoxuan looked at the map.

"My lord from my calculations, we will reach there in at least four days."

Yibo nodded, "I see the sooner we reach the better."

Zhan sighed, "even though I understand why you don't want to take your son to the temple, I still don't understand what will get from that ruin.

That building has been abandoned for years...no one lives there...as well, there is no village near that place...if anything we might some broke statues."

Yibo also sighed, his heart clenched and again and again he questions this idea, but then again now that he has come so far he might as well go to the temple of nirvana, if something happens then fine but if not then maybe he will have no other option but to rebel and bring the temple down.

Before forcing them to treat his son.

Zhan looked at him, "what are you thinking?"

Yibo looked at the front for a while before replying, "I am thinking that if my son is not healed that I might have to fight the gods and bring them down."

Zhan knows very well that Yibo is serious, but he also knows that Yibo is never serious about things that cannot be done, brings down the gods? temple? bring down the temple?

Zhan smirked, "you really love your son huh." to think that Yibo will wage war inside the country for his son, is really something.

Yibo didn't say anything but it was quite evident.  

After four days of travel, they finally reached the temple of Nirvana, while passing by a village to grab some food and water.

And as Zhan said there was no sign of human sign of nay human village or house near the temple, but there were some ancient ruins and abandoned buildings.

"How long do we have to walk?" Zhan asked and Haoxuan answered, "The villagers said that the temple is behind this hill."

Yibo gently shook Simon, "wake up Simon...see we are here."

Simon slowly opened his eyes and yawned before running his eyes and looking around, he smiled brightly when he saw the familiar scenery.

Finally, he is here.

He felt really happy.

And the three elders also saw the happiness on his face.

"Have you been here before?" Zhan asked.

And Simon who was lost in the memories accidentally said, "Yes."

This made Zhan and Haoxuan look at him and Yibo slowed down, Simon's eyes widened when he thought what he said.

"When did you come here, Simon?" Yibo asked, "I don't remember bringing you here before."

Simon closed his eyes and sighed, "Um...I saw this place in my dream."

yeah...well done Simon.

"Dream?" Haoxuan said, Zhan, scoffed," Seriously, dream?"

However Yibo believed him, but then why would Simon see this place in his dream?

Simon then looked at Zhan and gave him a cheesy smile, "You don't believe me, mister?"

Zhan coughed, and looked at Yibo, "duke you don't have to make your son lie...if you had bought him here it's fine."

Yibo didn't bother to reply but Simon huffed, "Why would I lie?"

Hoaxuan sighed, ever since Zhan joined then all they are doing is bickering.

Simon thought that when he reaches the temple he might have to open the door to the library and to do that...he will have to do the ritual. Won't these guys freak out?

And what will he tell Yibo how he learned that, Simon sighed when he thought about all this obviously he has to blame everything on his dream.

Yibo saw the expression, "You don't have to sad Simon...I trust you, no matter what"

Simon smile faintly and hugged his dad.

And a few hours later they reached the temple, and once they did, they were quite mesmerized by the building.

Haoxuan spoke, "This was the place where everything started."

Zhan also looked around this place had a lot of greenery and was so quiet and calm, it was serene and beautiful, the gentle winds were welcoming them and the birds chirped to greet them.

"I wonder what the founder would think if he saw the empire he founded, had become so disgusting."

Simon looked at Zhan, who had the same face as the founder, this often makes Simon wonder if Zhan is the descendant of the founder.

Zhan caught Simon staring at him, "What are you looking at?"

Simon again smiled cheesily, "You are so good-looking."

Zhan coughed, not expecting to hear the compliment, while Yibo smiled faintly and walked towards the building.

And as expected the building was half broken the walls were covered with leaves, mosses, and vines, the floors were cracked and there were three statues inside.

The statues were also cracked and were covered with mosses.

They looked around in the huge building, Haoxuan spoke, "This building must have been really beautiful in the past."

Zhan slowly raised his hand to touch the walls, the designs were nice and the carving looked like they told a story.

While Yibo stood in the middle with Simon, he felt clueless after he came here, now what? there was no priest, no human, not even an animal no nothing.

He looked at his son, "Simon...do you know what to do next?"

Zhan and Haoxuan also came there and looked at Simon who clenched his fists, should he let them see the library? he trusts them all, he knows that the three people in this room can give their life for him but still he was a little hesitant.

Zhan scoffed,. "Don't tell me you have no idea what to do now. We came so far for nothing."

Even Hoaxuan looked at Yibo, "Duke? what should we do now?"

Yibo sighed as well, Simon cannot go back without finding a remedy no way, he had to live he also had to learn how to control his powers and learn more about them, learn as much as he can about them.

And all of that information is here, and Yibo will not leave him alone over here so he sighed, suddenly he felt pain in his head, and once again blood came from his nose.

This time Yibo was going to wipe it but Simon stopped him, "Father put me down."

"Simon..." Yibo didn't wanted to but Simon insisted.

"Father please I know what to do."

Yibo listened to him and put him down, Zhan looked at him with disbelief just how much is he going to listen to this eighter-year-old brat?

Simon stumbled a little but gained balanced he touched the blood that leaked from his nose and walked towards the first statue, ankh.

He placed the blood at her feet, and then duat and then Aurelias. While the three watched.

Zhan was close to grabbing Simon and going to the temple. While Haoxuan just stood there.

After Simon was done, he moved back to stand near his father's leg, the three waited for something to happen,

"This is ridiculous." Zhan said finally, "We are wasting time here."

Yibo looked at him," But..."

"But what duke? what do you expect that these thousands of years old dead statues made out of some lifeless rock will come to life and heal your son?"

Yibo licked his lip, yeah right what the hell was he thinking, he must have gone mad.

Zhan grabbed Simon's hand, "Come little brat, I will take you to someone who can heal you."

"No!" Simon said and struggled, "I won't go I want to stay here father say something."

Yibo looked at him, "Simon, your mister is right."

"No, father no, no, [lease wait for a few minutes please."

"Brat just come with me!" Zhan said, "don't make me mad or I am going to beat you."

Before Simon could say anything the ground shook, everyone paused, there was a loud rumbling sound.

Everyone looked around, "What was that?" Zhan asked.

Simon moved and gulped. "I told you."

Suddenly the statue moved and the three moved back, the light dimmed, there were clouds in the sky.

"Did that statue just move?" Zhan said.

Yibo was staring at the statue. While Haoxuan spoke, "I think we made the gods angry."

The statues moved again and the ground shook violently, "shit!"

"Simon come back," Yibo said but instead, Simon moved forward and Yibo tried to grab him but the earthquake was so severe that he stumbled. 

Haoxaun spoke, "Duke, I am afraid that this building might not be able to withstand this earthquake, we should walk out."

"No...Simon is still here."

The three saw the statues move and form a triangular shape before the door opened.

The three looked with wide eyes as Simon ran inside the door.

"SIMON!"

Yibo moved forwards but he failed to notice the rock above his head that was about to fall.

"Watch out."Zhan said and pushed Yibo to the side preventing him from getting crushed beneath the rock Yibo saw the door closing, "Simon!"

Even Zhan saw that and wanted to run towards the door but he wasn't enough.

"Shit!" The door closed, and the statues came back to their place, Yibo waled towards the place and knocked on the floor, "Simon? Simon!"

He hit the floor tightly till the blood came from his hand feeling so scared that he couldn't even breahte.

"SIMON!"

Zhan and Haoxuan was still flabbergasted.

What just happened.