Zakiya nodded then took out a wooden scroll and gave it to him.
Rex took it and observed it, a ling of words was written on it -
The name was enough to tell what was it, it was the meditation technique Zakiya promised him.
"It can help you in temper both your Dao Heart and Mind, helping you in taking control of your Bloodthirsty state. Rex now that I am your teacher I want to know you better and I think you also feel the same so how about a good self-introduction?" Zakiya said.
"Ladies first," Rex replied without hesitation, he had already prepared a long story for such cases.
"My full name is Zakiya Shellon and my official titled name is Black Rose Empress you already know I am from Blood Clan. I have quite a good reputation in the Higher Realm I built over the years, all those things cannot be defined in a few words so I will skip them for now.
You already know how I got here, I will give you a better explanation this time, if you want to ask something, you can ask directly," Zakiya said.
"So Zakiy- Teacher tell me why were you poisoned," Rex was about to say Zakiya but when he saw her cracking her knuckles he immediately changed the flow of words.
"Didn't I already tell you?" Zakiya gave a confused look.
"One more question, did the people of your clan colluded with the enemy?" Rex asked again
"No why would my people collude with an outsider to kill me, if they do something like that then a fate worse than death awaits them," Zakiya said.
"I see, now I ask you again why did they poison you?" Rex said.
"What are you thinking, how many times do you want to hear the same answer," Zakiya said.
"Hehe… if I haven't become your disciple I would have pretended to be an idiot believing your words but now that I am your disciple my life is directly or indirectly bound with you, my words may sound rude but as simple as I can make it sound, your enemies will also kill me if they managed to finish you off.
As for believing your story do you see an idiot written on my face, your enemies should be strong and have high status because they can't oppose you without these things and if they have these things then they should at least have some intelligence right?
So now comes my question, why did those idiots make such a hastened attack on you that you were able to escape with just poisoning? it doesn't make sense, if they weren't sure to finish you off then why did they attack you letting you escape knowing that someday you might come back for revenge.
Why do I feel that there was some reason that made them impatient all of a sudden making them take such irrational decision like you were about to break through to a higher cultivation stage than them? you may be an heir candidate for your clan but you said they weren't from clan so this possibility is ruled out, there is another case with the highest possibility… you acquired something they wanted such as an inheritance or treasure," Rex said with a serious expression.
"Aren't you thinking too much? they had poisoned me and without you, I wouldn't be cured so of course, they wouldn't worry about me coming back," Zakiya said.
"Oh… so that's how it is then it's fine, I was probably thinking too much, after all, it's not like my beautiful teacher would lie to her one and only disciple, if she would do something like that then wouldn't my trust decrease in her resulting in me telling her lesser things about me, in the end, I may even leave her. But it's all right now because I was just thinking too much I fully believe my honest teacher wasn't lying," Rex said with a blooming smile filled with honesty and righteousness.
Zakiya's face was dark, she clenched her fist while looking at Rex with a smile yet not a smile.
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"Ouch… it hurt you know, why did you hit me," Rex said as he rubbed his forehead.
"You are seriously annoying. With your meager cultivation base you want to stick your puny nose into a matter between powerhouses," Zakiya said in an annoyed tone.
"It's fine if you don't want to tell me something you can say it and I won't be bothered by it but I don't like it when someone lies to me," Rex said.
"Sigh.. you better explain everything properly in your turn. I don't have any artifact or treasure like you think, but rather something akin to records of a powerhouse. Let me explain properly. Since ancient times in the higher realm when a big powerhouse falls they build a tomb as a trial ground for the future inheritors. It's similar to inheritance runes here but they are more like a game you need to clear to obtain rewards.
Tombs are full of dangers but beneath the dangers lay precious rewards, it started when I found a hidden passage in an already cleared tomb, that tomb was of a powerful Array Master that's why I often went there to observe the array traps in the tombs, but that time when I fully analyzed a grand array trap I found the undiscovered hidden passage beneath.
I cautiously advanced and what I found on the other side was out of my expectation. It was an ancient tomb… from the symbols there it belonged to an ancient array and artifact refining expert. I wasn't careless enough to barge into it alone.
I gathered some close comrade and dived in. After exploring the tomb for two whole years we reached the core area and finally finished the explorations. The benefits were divided accordingly. As an array expert, the biggest benefit I got was the life records of that senior… and my biggest regret is that this was written in an ancient language," Zakiya said with an 'I was wronged expression'.
"Wait, let me guess the next part. One of your comrade stabbed you in the back and leaked the information about the records," Rex's reader instinct kicked in.
"Hu… No, do you think I would take such type of people as comrades especially after having
"Ohh…" Rex's excitement died down.
"As I was saying, like always comprehending an ancient language completely falls in the impossible category. Fortunately, although I wasn't able to comprehend much I got some insights by just looking at it, which greatly helped me.
But even with my comprehension power, I wasn't able to comprehend its content… or even decode that language. Only then did I realize why these ancient language books are just used as a collection or research material. The record book wasn't of much help to me anymore so I decided to trade it. I was going to trade it with one of my father's friends but that's where the problem occurred.
After I had obtained the record book, coincidentally people from my enemy's organization also found the hidden passage me and my team restored to erase our traces. During the years I was gaining insights from the record book they cleared the tomb… because the tomb was already cleared for the first time its difficulty was reduced. After they arrived at the core area they saw my name on the ranking tablet," Zakiya was saying but Rex interrupted her.
"What is this ranking tablet?" Rex asked.
"Doesn't its name already tell you what it is? a ranking tablet has the titled name of people that had fully explored the tomb written on it. if it's a modern tomb then you can choose not to leave your name but if it's an ancient tomb then you have to leave your titled name on it that is if you wish to take the things you obtained from the tomb with you.
As I was saying, me and my team hid the entrance so that we have enough time to hide, refine or trade the treasures we obtained before anyone else discovered the tomb and learned who explored it first.
The tomb belonged to an array & artifact refining expert and my name was on the top… as long as those guys had a thing named 'brain' in their head they could guess who got the biggest prize, they believed that if I were to successfully acquire all the benefits from that 'prize' then I would get stronger and coupled with my enmity, they became desperate and made their move," Zakiya said.
'But didn't she have her father to protect her or the enemy's father was stronger? Maybe they didn't want to interfere. Whatever, it's not the thing I want to ask right now but..' Rex thought.
"My so beautiful and kind teacher can you let this honest little disciple take a look at those records?" Rex asked with gleaming eyes.
"No," Zakiya refused directly.
It wasn't that she didn't like Rex taking a look at it but if he did then his life would also be in danger, especially when she was sure that Rex won't be able to gain anything from it at his current stage.
Rex sighed. It was nothing unexpected, if he had something like that and Liu Wei asks to take a look then he would give the same reply for the same reason.
"Now, it's your turn I told you so much, as promised I won't ask too personal thing but if you tried to fool around with words in everything I will beat the shit out of you," Zakiya said while cracking her knuckles.
Rex took a deep breath, this time the story he made was more than a half-truth, now that he had decided to become her student, he can't use short-lasting excuses.
Rex's story started from the orphanage, he told the 100% true story until Rose awakened. After that the story was a little different… when he was near the life-death situation he acquired the memories from his past life then soon his bloodline awakened whole his body transformed like a variant - which Zakiya took as bloodline inheritance.
Then he joined White Moon Sect and cultivated there while also using the memory, experience,… his overall capability into making potions and other things (Rose was taken into overall capabilities) - which Zakiya took as him obtaining some Alchemy related inheritance.
Then after a series of events he ascended to the middle realm.
Rex didn't mention how much time it took him to do so as not to get few slaps from Zakiya out of frustration.
Then he told about some main events in the middle realm and finally his encounter with her.
"I know that ancient bloodline holders can acquire some techniques as bloodline inheritance after they awaken their bloodline but your case is completely different, you not only obtained techniques but also life experience…. interesting," Zakiya touched her chin.
Because of her ability, she knew that Rex hasn't lied this whole time, he may have hidden the truth but he had already told her that he will leave if she forces him to tell something he doesn't want to before becoming her disciple so she didn't ponder over the loopholes too much.
"By the way, you said you were from Sura Clan and is the son of a Saintess right? so which one? I mean that the Elemental Branch used to have two Saintess. After I discovered the Ancient Tomb I used seclusion as an excuse and cut ties from the normal worlds for years then later I got attacked so I am not much updated on the latest news of the last century… so I am not sure which Saintess got married or had a kid?" Zakiya asked.
'She knows about Sura Clan? But which one is Elemental Branch I only heard about General Branch,' Rex thought.
"Actually, things are like that…" Rex then told her about Ye Ying while also mentioning that the Sword Manic that she talked about earlier was probably his biological father.
At the start, Zakiya had a curious expression on her face but the more she heard the weirder her expression became.
"That Scheming Saintess married and actually had thre- no it should be four kids now…. seriously?" Zakiya had an indescribable expression on her face.
"Hey, now tell me what is Sura Clan, is it Overpowered? Is it the strongest? does it have some hidden treasures? Money? Property?" Rex asked with sparkling eyes.
Zakiya was speechless.
This damn brat, I thought he would ask about his family but his eyes are on the money… she thought.
"It's far from strongest but it is one of the Ten Great Clans so it is pretty strong," Zakiya said.
Rex gave her a confused look.
"Let me give you a brief explanation, Clans are just group of families intertwined together to make a strong force right, So the strength of a clan is classified after calculating its overall strength they are normally graded as Small Clan, Middle Clan, Big Clan.
But even after that, the number of clans is too high and even the same rank clan has differences, so in Big Clans, the ten strongest clans are called the Ten Great Clans," She explained.
"I see so these ten are the strongest clans in the Higher Realm?" Rex asked again.