The long boa slowly slithered through the forest.
Zhi Rui sat cross-legged on its head staring at a simple white scroll manual.
"Why us?" said Yu Yan, following behind. "Why not one her oldest companions, or the two level-three she just turned into slaves?"
Yu Yan posed the question. Bai Hui closed his eyes thinking deeply.
He sighed "Maybe our cultivation method."
Yu Yan frowned. Bai Hui usually isn't so uncertain.
Zhi Rui's voice came from ahead.
"My subordinate recorded you people since the second day you entered the forest. I took some time to see it. They called you outcasts. Why?"
They looked at each other's eyes briefly.
Yu Yan spoke. " The rumor about us is that we eloped into an affair that incited war from both of our clans. And to escape persecution we allied with a third party, causing the destruction of our own clans."
