"Then...Lord Guotin, you know this place right?! Take me to that place. Take me to my mother!"
He asked him with desperate keenness in his eyes.
His longing desire to meet his mother and grandfather was apparent. He was exhilarated by the faint hope of being able to meet them.
As Lord Guotin dived deeper into his keen turquoise eyes, he wasn't able to keep up with it anymore, he quickly turned away with a sigh of regret.
"Why?! What's wrong?!"
Yichen stood up to follow his movements.
Lord Guotin gasped at it and explained slowly.
"Young lad, I can understand your eagerness to meet your mother and grandfather but this Lord is very regretful to tell you that I didn't have any idea of that place. I only saw the ice-cold field. That's it.
The last thing I remembered was that my soul had left my body and ended up going inside your mother's interspatial pendant. It was the only place of hope for me to recuperate and sustain my soul.
After that, this Lord went into a deep slumber and was awakened only today because of the blood pact we made."
"What?!! You didn't recall anything and were in deep sleep all these times?"
That very thing had smashed Yichen's soul into pieces. His longing desire and hopefulness to meet his mother and grandfather were slowly crumbling down and fading away into ashes.
'Then...I could not see them or even hear about them?'
He was wretched by the thought of it. It was as if someone had blown out the only candle in the darkest room.
He sat down with a numbed heart.
He was so taken aback by it that he wasn't able to concentrate on other things.
'Tsk, Tsk. Indeed a kid will feel dejected by the thought of not being able to see his mother or grandfather'
Lord Guotin sighed inwardly.
He flew up front and looked at the boy seriously. He needed to bring him back to life. With this thought in mind, he gave his compelling speech: "Ahem. Young lad, you cannot see your mother and grandfather, that's right but don't forget that you have got me this Beast God, Lord Guotin as your companion. With the blood pact we made, we are to be bound together in this lifetime, therefore, no need to worry this Lord can help you to meet them"
As tempting as it sounds, Yichen looked up to him lifelessly.
"For real? You are helping me to meet my mother and grandfather?"
His young eyes were filled with doubt.
"Of course, since there is no such thing as a free meal, this Lord will help you out. Furthermore, I believe the reason I can walk out from the pendant was all due to your mother's high spiritual energy. I must have consumed her spiritual energy all those years.
Considering your low prowess and cultivation there is no way that this Lord would be awakened just by your spirit energy.
Since I owe your mother, I will return her this favour by helping her son to cultivate and unite with her."
Lord Guotin gave his words. He then turned to Yichen and enunciated savagely.
"Lad, from here on, I will be your master. Your mother was my benefactor but now you hold the pendant and we made the blood pact. With this, we are now one.
Whether I will be able to revive or not will now solely depends on your performance. If you die, I die. Therefore, as your master, I will guide you to become stronger and even help you to meet your mother. It's a win-win situation. Say it, do you accept me as your master?"
As mighty as it sound, the body that those dependable words were coming out from was quite cute.
"This...I never thought that I would have a cute chick as my master. Hehe..."
Yichen snickered awkwardly.
Not believing this kid's rudeness, Lord Guotin instantly whacked his forehead with his wings.
"Don't you dare to call me a cute chick ever again! Call me Master, Teacher or even Lord Guotin is fine!"
The anger in this feisty chick was pretty inevitable that Yichen was immediately taken aback by it.
"Ouch! Yes! Sure Lord Guotin...I mean teacher."
He bowed his head in obedience.
"Phew. You can address me however you like but from hereon, I am your Master and you are my disciple and I won't go easy on you. I will be very strict with your training.
First of all, your body is very weak. You have zero cultivation in you. Kids at your age are at least in the Qi collection realm, tell me did you slack off?"
He interrogated him with firm strictness.
Despite his small cute body, Lord Guotin gave off that strict stern-looking teacher vibe, the one who always kept a watchful eye on his students. The type who is very strict and won't tolerate any kind of laziness or mistake.
Intimidated by it, Yichen shook it off with both hands.
"Eh..! No...no...Teacher, you got it wrong. I didn't slack off in fact, I was forbidden to practice cultivation as I was to nurse my father."
He was sincere with his words.
Lord Guotin couldn't believe his ears.
"You are forbidden to practice cultivation to nurse your father? Tell me what's wrong with your father?"
He inquired rigidly.
"My father had become a lunatic ever since that day."
Yichen then began to explain everything that had happened in the past. He told him about the ill-fated incident that had happened to his father and his mother, then the story of his father being removed from the chief position and him being the one to nurse and take care of him all these years.
It was pretty rough and overbearing to attend to it all.
'Such a young kid was being forced to take care of his lunatic father and no one offered to help. This Lin clan is sure something and to think that he did it all by himself; this kid had it pretty rough. Hmmm.'
It saddened Lord Guotin even more. He couldn't believe that Yichen's life was pretty horrible from such a young age.
'I wonder what would have become of him if he hadn't awakened me?'
He sighed at the very thought of it.
'Seems like curing his father is the priority. I have to cure him as soon as possible to set this young boy free so that he can cultivate.'
With the thought in mind, Lord Guotin turned to Yichen and instructed in sternness.
"Take me to your father, I will see his condition."