The Urban Dao Child

Yang Dao sat under the tree gazing at the stars, the gentle breeze caressed his long hair. The boy was lost in thoughts of the words spoken by Xiao Jin. He did not wish for his family to enter a war. Although the Yang family has been hiding their true strength because they did not wish to have anything to do with the secular struggles.

If a war broke out, the family will have casualties even if they were not too many. As he sat drowned in thoughts the night faded away. In the morning Yue Ling appeared next to him. She asked in a low voice, "What have you been thinking about?"

Yang Dao replied, "The threat issued by Xiao Jin. For some odd reason, it has agitated me. I do not know why, but I cannot calm down."

Yue Ling raised her eyebrow and asked, "Could it be that you are overthinking the fact?"

Shaking his head in denial, Yang Dao said in a low voice, "After a whole night of thinking, I counted, the threat is not coming from the xiao family but something else. I wish for the elders to gather and talk to them."

Yue Ling's expression turned solemn. When Yang Dao was younger he learned how to count someone's future by reading the stars, this skill was something he learned in the passing but when he counted the results were just as he predicted them to be. The lady sensed something serious from his words and said, "Come to the gathering hall with me."

The child nodded and holding the hand of his mother the two walked through the mansion. They came in front of the gathering hall, and Yue Ling asked the elders for an audience. The elders agreed and the two were called inside.

Yang Dao saw the old men from a generation before his father sitting in the chairs and bowed to them. Earlier Yue Ling had stated the reason for their visit and the elders were aware of the basic situation. The old man in the patriarch's chair asked, "Dao, what is it that you have counted?"

The child replied, "Patriarch, I sensed some dark clouds covering the entire sector. I do not know what the exact reason is, but I get the feeling that if we did not deal with this sooner, then the situation might tip negatively."

The elders were surprised, this was the first time they have seen this kid talking so formally. He would have addressed the patriarch as big gramps otherwise. The man on the chair thought for a bit, "Is the threat related to only the Yang Family or everyone in the sector?"

Yang Dao replied, "The latter"

Yang Dao's grandfather spoke up, "It will be difficult to convince them all without any evidence."

All the other elders nodded to this statement after all this was true. Yang Dao said, "How about, I lead a small investigation team? If we can find something, then it will be useful, if we did not find anything, then the fear will be dispelled."

The old man nodded and said, "You have just returned home, Dao. Take some rest, I will arrange for your older cousins to go out and investigate. How about this?"

Yang Dao thought for a bit and said, "Then I ask you to bestow them all with a life-saving treasure and if they come across something unusual, let them return home as soon as they have collected the evidence."

This proposal was nice, and it will not put the youth of the family in danger. The elders agreed and they sent the boy off while they made some arrangements. Yang Dao held onto the hem of Yue Ling's sleeve, this was his habit whenever he was anxious about something he would do that. The lady was aware that her son must be worried about the results of the investigation and thus she did not say much.

Her words could never help the boy calm down, but they will fuel his raging thoughts even more. The silence was the best way for her to be with him. While they were walking back to Yue Ling's room, a group of middle-aged ladies spotted them and walked over. The leading woman said, "Rabbi, you did not come to greet your aunt this time. Are you upset with us?"

Yang Dao hurriedly looked up and shook his head with a smile on his face, he said, "How can I be upset with my Aunts? Though your husbands are a different case."

The lady asked again, "What have they done to you?"

Yang Dao said, "Your husband did not give me a gift for my birthday. Do you know when I went to the Yue household, they did not give me any allowance. Not only big uncle but all of them did not give me anything. Your snacks were the only thing that kept me going out there."

The ladies furrowed their brows and the leading lady said, "You need not worry, I will see that they give you double the allowance this time. How dare they not hand over some money to our baby. Come let us go to the kitchen, Aunt has cooked a lot of your favorite stuff. Call your fiancee along, we will meet her as well."

The other ladies also called him over and they all had gathered something for him, from food to clothes and jewelry that he might like. They spoiled him for being the youngest and the most talented to the point where their own children would question if they were adopted. Yang Dao was like a doll of jade, and when have women ever had resistance against adorable toys?

That said, "Yang dao said bye to his mother and left with his aunts to feast."

Yue Yun happened to see this sight from the distance and asked with a smile, "Dao is charming them again?"

Yue Ling nodded with a faint smile on her face. She said, "Aunty Yun, sometimes I cannot understand the way his mind works. Just a moment ago, he was anxious, and look at him now, robbing the gifts while selling his cuteness."

Yue Yun chuckled and said, "This must be something related to his name. Dao is ever-changing and unpredictable. While at the same time, it is still and simple."

Yue Ling shrugged her shoulders and asked, "Let us go and how my sisters are getting robbed." The two ladies walked in the direction where Yang Dao had gone.

....

A spaceship with the insignia of the Yang Family was flying through the void, a team of ten young men and women was sitting inside the ship. Yang Shan stood in front of them and said, "You know what you have to do here, right?"

The young men and women nodded. Yang Shan said, "As soon as you spot something unusual, you are to come back to the ship, do not try to be a hero, do not risk your life. Do you understand what I mean?"

The people nodded and a young woman with a cold expression asked, "Uncle Shan, is Dao sure about this?"

Yang Shan nodded and said, "If that brat is willing to address the patriarch with his designation, you can think how serious he was."

This simple statement made the tension increase by ten times. Yang family knew that Yang Dao was not the average kid but an entity blessed by the heavens and he rarely made any mistakes. Thinking about this, the young blood boiling in their veins calmed down and they decided to heed the advice and instructions of the elders down to the words.

...

A few hours later, they were all sent down to a barren planet. They were here to search if some foreign forces made this place a camp. The spiritual arrays can make a barren planet akin to something like a paradise.

The leader was a young and stalwart-looking man, he said, "Split into five teams, keep the highest degree of vigilance. We will meet here within ten hours. If someone finds anything, you will retreat first, inform the rest about it, and then use the teleportation talisman to get back to the ship. Okay?"

"Yes, Brother Tian." said the rest of the people. They all split into teams, riding their flying swords to comb the planet.

The task was not easy, but they needed to traverse a long distance. They were all nascent soul realm level, and they could complete one round of the entire planet of this size in ten hours. Thus the search began.

Yang Shan was feeling unnerved as the time passed, the man was getting uneasy for some unknown reason, just when he was conflicted between his decision to go down on the planet and search or not when the holding bay glowed with golden light. Yang Shan saw that everyone has came over, but they all were not looking fine.

All ten of the members that went down to check the situation had pale faces. He asked, "Yang Tian, what happed down there?"

The boy was startled and said, "Uncle Shan, alert everyone, this place is a base of Daemons. They have an army of Daemons. At the least hundreds of thousands."