Next day came, as Fuyu left with Manu for the daily routine of going to the fields. Last night, he had talked with both Lara and Manu and resolved the issue, so the internal conflict was resolved between the family members as Nula also asked for forgiveness from Lara, resolving the tension between them.
"By the way, brother, are you sure what you are saying is true? Is that really possible? I am afraid, what if that doesn't work and we get ourselves in trouble? You know it's risky," Manu asked. He was excited that he would be able to marry Rani because of what Fuyu told him, but only if the plan worked. If it didn't, they would get in trouble. Last night, Fuyu told him about the plan he had to help them get enough money to survive the winter, not only the winter but probably an entire lifetime.
"Don't worry, it will work. I am hundred percent sure," Fuyu said to Manu with a smile, as Fuyu had recently learned about the human body in detail by practicing The Ancient Scriptures Of SARAHA PART-1 cultivation technique. He had learned about a few herbs which have extremely magical healing properties. Most of the herbs he learned about were from another world. Only a few herbs like Sanrovj buti (a rare healing herb) and Nil Kamal pusp (Blue colored flower) were the special herbs that could be found in this world and used to cure cuts, wounds, and diseases, which would give a magical healing effect. The reason for Fuyu to especially think of these two magical herbs was because the healers and doctors here mostly depend on herbs to cure a patient's illness, and because many herbs had already been discovered by them. He had especially picked these two herbs out of the hundreds of thousands mentioned in the cultivation technique, as this knowledge was unknown in this world; no one had learned about this except Fuyu. But to be able to find them was a big trouble. That's why he had taken Manu with him to find those magical herbs with healing properties.
Fuyu had explained the details of the herbs, such as that the flower is blue in color, grows around water, and looks poisonous. People usually avoid it, and if someone eats it directly, it can kill them, but if used properly, it can provide supernatural healing to a suffering person. Manu was surprised when he learned about this and was a bit terrified of what if they found it and he died due to mishandling. But after hesitating for some time, he agreed to help Fuyu because of Rani; his desire to marry her was greater than his fear of dying.
With Fuyu's order, Manu went to find the herbs around the river where the water for irrigation came from. But hours went by in the search, as both were unable to find anything. Not even a hint of such a thing was there. As the time passed, the afternoon came. Manu had already lost hope after searching for so long. He thought that nothing like this existed and was starting to fully doubt Fuyu.
"Bro, I believe nothing like that exists. After all, you have never found it before, nor have you seen it. Nobody in this world has found that, so I believe it doesn't exist, and our hard work is just in vain. I am tired of looking around the bank of the river. Now let's go back home and focus on another way to earn Kuri," Manu said, as he was not in the mood to make any more effort to find it. Fuyu asked him to come back after eating to continue the search, but Manu made several excuses, saying nothing like that existed and it was a waste to spend energy on finding something that didn't exist. With that, Manu rejected Fuyu's request, and Fuyu decided to go alone to find it by himself. Although he didn't like Manu's behavior towards him, he knew that there wasn't any point to say anything since Manu didn't know anything about it.
Later, after eating lunch, Fuyu left alone to find the herbs. Lara tried to stop him to talk and spend some time together, but Fuyu simply ignored her and went for the search. He had already told Nula and the others that he would return after some time. Although they didn't ask much, thinking that Fuyu would return after a while, the night came and Fuyu hadn't returned yet. This made everyone worried, as they didn't know where he was, but just as Nula was about to tell Manu to go and find Fuyu, he returned. Nula sighed in relief.
As the week went by in the blink of an eye, Fuyu had gone to Diana's hut and already given them the message, while continuing the search for the herbs. It had been a week, and he hadn't found a single plant matching that description yet; he had dedicated all his time to it.
"I am really sorry, but I am also starting to feel like this world doesn't have anything like that..." Fuyu thought to himself as the afternoon had already come. He decided that he wouldn't return home until night, and if he still couldn't get the herbs, then he would simply stop searching. Because of this, he hadn't gone back home to eat, and he was hungry, but the will to find that Nil Kamal pusp was so intense. But unfortunately, six days had gone by, and he hadn't found even a hint of that herb.
Seeing that Fuyu's will was crumbling under the tension of not being able to find such a rare pusp (Flower), Vasana decided to help him a bit.
"Why don't you try to find it in the Demonic Beast's Nightmares Forest?" Vasana's voice came in his mind, and Fuyu's body stiffened in terror as he realized what Vasana was saying.
"You have already searched here enough, so now search somewhere else..." Vasana said.
"But that forest... not only people from our village but everyone around the area is afraid to go there. And you want me to go there alone and find those herbs and flowers. I would rather prefer to live like this than go there to die," Fuyu thought with a terrified expression, as he had heard words from the villagers that some kind of ancient and demonic beasts live in the Nightmares Forest. And if someone enters inside the forest, he/she never returns.
"You are already afraid of something as mere as this? Guess you were lying about following the pursuit of Immortality. I guess I need to find someone else," Vasana said with a clear meaning. Fuyu immediately panicked before he started to run towards the direction of that Demonic Beasts Nightmares Forest. Although it was kilometers away from the area where Fuyu and Manu cultivate the crops, Fuyu had already traveled far enough following the river to find the herbs.
"Wait... wait, I am going, don't leave," Fuyu thought in his mind as Vasana smirked to herself, watching him running towards the forest.
"Seems like you aren't afraid anymore," Vasana's voice came.
"Haha... I am afraid, but it's just it's not worth it to be afraid and let go of the chance to be immortal. By letting you leave by an insignificant decision of mine, I have understood after comprehending some of the part of Saraha that I am very ignorant in this vast universe. And it's my heavenly fate that I got someone like you, and this once-in-a-lifetime chance," Fuyu said, huffing roughly while running. He was already quite far from his hut, and no one in the house knew where he had gone. Time slipped by as the evening came; the sun started to fade away, and darkness was just about to set in.
Fuyu had been running and traveling continuously for more than two and a half hours to reach this forest. Although when he decided he would just run towards the forest, he had never really imagined that he would come this far on his bare feet; his legs were hurting. He just wanted to sit under a tree and sleep. Even though he was hungry and thirsty a bit, he just wanted to take a rest for now, because along the way, he had walked alongside the river and quenched his thirst in between.
"Hah... hah... I am really tired," Fuyu said as he took refuge under the tree, while huffing as his stomach was grumbling in hunger.
"I have traveled so far. How am I going to travel back to the hut? Even if I returned from here, it would take more than three hours to return, and by then the night will have come, and it would be very dangerous to travel in the darkness," Fuyu said to himself. In front of him, the glistening sound of the river flowing in a certain direction was coming. He was genuinely worried about his own safety. Along the way, he had seen many people, but now no one could be seen, and the Nightmares Forest started. Although where he currently was resting was just the tip of the iceberg, the real danger started when he went deep within the forest.
"You have just come here and are already thinking of going back? Haven't you told yourself that you aren't going to return back home until you find something?" Vasana asked in his mind, as the wind blew across the forest, making a hauntingly fearful sound of the dense forest ahead, which was only making Fuyu more concerned for his life, because if something happened, no one would be there to save him.
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