Lin Xiao was dumbfounded.
"It's better," the disciple said with a smile.
Lin Xiao was pulled back to reality. He looked at the outer disciple and chose to greet him politely. After all, that young man had helped him to execute Mountain's Punch better. For these villagers who never have proper training, every single help worth a lot.
"Thank you for your help. I'm Lin Xiao."
"I'm Wenren Yu," The outer disciple greeted back. He looked at Lin Yun hesitantly as if asking for name.
Lin Yun smiled in response. "I'm Lin Yun."
"Thank you for helping me."'
"You should thank my brother. He's the one who found you and drag you back here."
"Uhm, thank you very much." Wenren Yu bowed his head. "But I need to leave before I cause trouble for you two."
Lin Xiao was stunned by how timid this disciple was. Shouldn't all disciple of Taiyi Sect be valiant and powerful? They were the disciple of the most powerful sect in this place, but the way Wenren Yu acted only made him felt that the image didn't match.
"Wait a minute."
"Y…yes?"
"Are you Taiyi Sect outer disciple?"
Wenren Yu's eyes flashed as he got into defensive position. While Lin Xiao didn't know that stance or what Wenren Yu planned to do, he still gave hand signal for Lin Yun to stay away. Lin Yun might have reached rank 4, but it was only through the help of medicine.
In terms of combat power, Lin Yun was still very weak.
"My villagers said that the sect is destroyed." Lin Xiao chose to continue, but he was also prepared for battle. In case Wenren Yu decided to attack, he would be ready. "And there's no survivor. However, you wear the robe of outer disciple of Taiyi Sect."
"Ah…."
Wenren Yu looked at his own clothes as realization dawned to him. He escaped from that hellish nightmare when he was still dressed in their clothes. It was no wonder that the pursuers could identify him so easily.
How stupid.
"Do you plan to kill me?" Wenren Yu asked.
Lin Xiao felt that this disciple's IQ was damaged. "I don't have any animosity with Taiyi Sect. In fact, I want to join that sect too once I can reach body training rank 6!"
"Oh."
It was then Wenren Yu realized that the one in front of him were only two child villagers. The villagers around this area all have people who wanted to enter Taiyi Sect, so it was not strange for him to meet with one.
It was just… he couldn't trust them easily.
"Also, I'm only one rank below you. With your wounded body, do you think that I pose no chance to defeat you?" Lin Xiao dealt another blow as he pointed in Wenren Yu's bandaged body.
Wenren Yu closed his eyes for a moment then opened it again. "What do you want?"
"What happened?"
"Yes?"
"Is Taiyi Sect was truly destroyed?" Lin Yun was the one to ask. He looked in the direction of Wenren Yu with eyes hoping that Wenren Yu would tell him that it was nothing more than a lie.
Unfortunately…
"Yes, it's true."
"What happened?"
Wenren Yu shook his head. Even if he wanted to tell, he knew nothing. When he came out of his medicinal garden after tending to it as usual, everything was on fire. The teachers were killed, the disciples were massacred. No one was left alive.
He had no other choice but to run.
Some of the men there tried to kill him and wounded him, but he knew the secret passageway that he often used to climb down the mountain. From that path, he followed the small river in hope that he would be able to survive.
"I don't know. It's all too sudden."
"What about the Sect Leader Rui Hongchang? Isn't he already at Golden Core Stage? He's still defeated?" Lin Xiao asked in desperate tone.
The cultivation ranks started from body training, foundation establishment, then golden core stage. For someone who was still at body training stage, golden core rank felt extremely long and far.
The thought of someone at that high rank fall definitely never crossed his mind before.
Wenren Yu gritted his teeth. The image of his fellow disciples and teachers dying flashed before his eyes. It was a very horrible sight that he wished that he would never remember anymore. But at the same time, he knew that as long as he lived, he would always be reminded that he was one of the few survivors of the tragedy that befall Taiyi Sect.
"Yes. There's no one who survived except some lucky disciples," Wenren Yu replied. When he reached the gate to get out, he had looked back. It was exactly the time when he saw the sect leader died.
The sight of his leader falling in front of his eyes hurt him very much.
Lin Xiao nodded. It was not easy to exterminate an entire sect along with their disciples. Some lucky disciples might have strayed away from their original path and managed to escape. It meant that there might be some people who were actually chasing after Wenren Yu.
"Are you being chased?"
"Maybe."
"You're not sure?"
Wenren Yu shook his head. He looked at his robe and slowly took it off. Putting it on the ground, he said through gritted teeth, "Can I ask for your help to burn it?"
If the pursuer found out that there was a disciple of Taiyi Sect who was still alive, there was no doubt that Wenren Yu would be killed. He didn't want to abandon his identity as Taiyi Sect Disciple, but as he was now, he had no power whatsoever to do something for his sect.
He had to grow stronger first.
Lin Xiao looked at his brother and nodded. "Fine, I'll burn it."
"Thank you."
Despite filled with gratitude, Wenren Yu's voice sounded as if he was being choked by something hard.