"Come with me." The man in the tiny cave said to Xue.
"Why should I do that?" Long Xue asked as his fear depleted.
"Those men outside are the Vermillion brotherhood, aren't they?"
Long Xue was speechless. "..."
"So unless you want to die a very gruesome death, you'd better listen to me." The man spoke.
Long Xue glanced at Long Zhi who continued trying to stall the men.
"Don't worry, your friend will be fine. Take this touch and continue crawling down the cave. Inside, you'll come across a junction with three paths. You mustn't take the right or the left path, just keep moving forward." The man spoke as he smiled.
"Why are you helping me?" Long Xue asked.
"I'll explain later, go now, there isn't much time!" The man pushed Long Xue deeper into the cave as he moved towards the entrance.
"Wait!" Long Xue paused. "May I know the name of my helper?"
The man smiled as he replied, "Wu Tang Chen."
Long Xue glanced at the man before he continued moving down the dark path. The man smiled as he moved towards the entrance and stayed there.
"There you're." The man in the falcon mask lowered his head as he stared at the man in the cave. "Out!"
The falcon masked man pulled the Tang Chen out of the cave and threw him a few metres away. The Vermillion brothers scanned Tang Chen as they glanced at themselves and shook their heads.
"Where is the last Dragon progeny?" The Eagle masked man asked.
"I don't know what you're even talking about." Tang Chen answered as he shook his head.
"Then die!" The man with the eagle mask raised his sword, and as he was about to strike the Tang Chen, Tang Chen vanished into thin air.
"Teleporter!" The eagle masked man frowned as he gazed at Long Zhi. "Kill him!"
"Sorry, bye!" Long Zhi chuckled as he too vanished, almost immediately.
"Trace them!" The eagle masked man said to his comrade.
The man with the raven mask pulled out a device from his pocket and placed it in the area where Long Zhi had teleported from. The device floated into the air and fell back to the ground.
"We can't locate him." The raven masked man spoke. "I don't think he used the teleporter."
"Check the other one!" The eagle masked man boomed.
The man with the falcon mask grabbed the device from his comrade's hand and placed it where Tang Chen had teleported from. The device floated into the air before exploding!
"What!" The eagle masked man was shocked. "We can't locate them? This means they did not use an earth space skill, but rather a Space and time skill?"
"Probably." The falcon masked man nodded. "But there is only one Space and time skill in existence."
"The Four Dragons Immortal Teleporter."
...
"No." Yin Chen frowned. "I do not want to hear another story. You haven't finished the one you were telling me before."
"Okay, okay. Would you like me to continue?"
"Of course!" Yin Chen nodded eagerly.
"The men dropped their swords and fell to their knees. Their facial expressions had been consumed and fear and paranoia. The rain immediately stopped as thunder began storming the skies. A beam of fire fell from the heavens and consumed the three men of the Vermilion brotherhood.
The girl smiled as she wiped off the tears that fell out of her eyes. "You came."
"Of course!" A man surrounded by fire spoke. His presence engulfed the whole area with flames, but the flames neither harmed him nor the the girl.
"They killed my father." The girl whimpered. "I want them all dead!"
"I cannot kill them." The man said to the girl. "They are an important part of the Twelve, but I can teach you. I can teach you how to be strong enough to kill them yourself."
"Yes!" The girl smiled.
"Then come with me." The man stretched out his hands and the girl took it without any hesitation.
The man smiled as fire fell from the skies and swallowed them both. The fire slowly dispersed, and as it did, the whole environment fell silent. The girl and the man were nowhere to be seen."
"Wow!" Yin Chen exclaimed. "Who was the man?"
"That was the God of Fire, Zurong." Yao Lan replied.
"How strong is he?" Yin Chen asked. "Is my father stronger than he is?"
Yao Lan glanced at his disciple as he blinked twice and laughed. "Yes! Your father is the strongest!"
"Really?" Yin Chen beamed excitement.
Yao Lan shook his head as he knocked Yin Chen's head, "No you idiot. I'm even more powerful than your father, and the Fire God would kill me in just a blink of an eye."
"Is father a god too?"
"No, Yin Chen. Your father is just an entity of Aramoth." Yao Lan answered. "There are forces even more powerful than Yin Xai, your father, such as Vermillion Knight, the Dart Assassin, the Watchers, a few societies of the Twelve and a lot more."
"Is my father that weak?" Yin Chen asked as he was baffled.
"Yes." Yao Lan nodded. "Your father is very weak."
"What about the Progenies of the dragons?"
"You mean the Long sect?" Yao Lan sighed. "Being the Progenies of the dragons, the Long sect is supposed to be the strongest sect in existence, but for some reasons they're aren't."
"What are those reasons?"
"I don't know. If I did, I would have told you." Yao Lan answered his disciple.
...
Long Xue continued crawling down the dark cave. He came across the junction with three paths, and there he paused.
"He did say I'll come across a junction with three paths." Long Xue reasoned with himself. "But what if a trap lies on the path he asked me to take? He called himself Wu Tang Chen. His name doesn't sound trustworthy."
Long Xue smiled, "Crazy man, he wanted to kidnap me. I'm sure the Yin sect would have placed some kind of bounty on me. I wonder how much I worth."
Long Xue scanned the three routes in front of him, "I can't take the middle path, it's a trap. A sane person would take the right path, but sometimes the right path might prove to be the wrong one."
Long Xue grinned at his cleverness as he took the left path. He crawled impatiently as he moved through the dark space. The touch his hand began to flicker as it showed signs of running out soon.
"The space is getting smaller!" Long Xue squeezed his small body through the tightening space. "If I continue like this, I don't think my body would be able fit this hole any longer."
He sighed uncomfortably as he began moving backwards, since it was impossible for him to turn anyway. Long Xue took in deep breaths as he felt like he was suffocating.
"Calm down, calm down. Deep breaths, deep breaths..." Long Xue said to himself as he tried very hard to calm himself down. "I forgot I hated tight spaces.
"I have to get out of here! Help! Help!" Long Xue breathed heavily as he tried turning back, but sadly, he couldn't.
...
"You told him to keep going deeper into the Juxtaposed Envelopment of Certain Doom?" Long Zhi boomed at Wu Tang Chen.
"I told him to keep moving forward! He would have gotten out through this hole if he listened to me!" Wu Tang Chen shouted pointing at the hole beside him.
"I heard there are three paths inside the cave." Long Zhi asked Tang Chen as he calmed down.
"Yes. The Juxtaposed Envelopment of Certain Doom has three paths inside it. The path I told the kid to follow leads here. This path is known as the Release. The right path, also known as the Doom, leads to a place none knows. It was said that the Yin Emperor created that path, but who knows, it might just be one of those foolish rumours.
"The left path is said to be called the Test. This is a path that makes one think he is trapped, although that is not the case. This path slowly strips you of your sanity, leaving your soul mad."
"So which path do you think he would have followed?" Long Zhi asked.
"Let's see..." Wu Tang Chen placed a hand in his chin as he flew into his thoughts. "Which way would you follow?"
Long Zhi widened his eyes, "I don't know! This one is kind of different!"
"What do you mean by he's kind of different? You both are still the same person." Wu Tang Chen replied.
"Maybe a little." Long Zhi muttered. " Still, which path do you think he would have taken?"
"When I looked at him, do you know what I see?" Wu Tang Chen slowly nodded.
"I don't know, what do you see?"
"When I look at him, I see pain around you." Wu Tang Chen answered as he sighed.
"Yes, the kid's going to go through a lot."
"No, I mean you are going to suffer if you continue your journey with that kid!" Wu Tang Chen barked. "That kid is going to make your life a living hell!"
"Hahahaha!" Long Zhi laughed. "Obviously, he would. Since he's me, and I'm him."