"Hey, haven't you heard? Mo Lin Tian is dead."
"What, Poison Dragon is dead? Who killed him?"
"Aya, who else could it be? It's his sworn brother Li Cang Xu, stabbing him in the back when retreating from the Righteous Sword Sect. I heard it was because Li Cang Xu found out that his wife slept with his sworn brother multiple times behind his back."
"How could that be possible, Mo Lin Tian met her way before he met with Li Cang Xu. I thought they were a thing? What happened to Li Cang Xu after that then? Wasn't it a bad time to kill his sworn brother for a woman while both of them were injured and fleeing?"
In a corner of an Inn sat two middle age man sitting opposite eachother at a table. One was was slightly younger than the other as he has less wrinkles and beard on his face. The other man was sitting with one hand holding his face while the other holding wine cup. Their clothes were quite shabby while their hands were big and rough. It was clear at first glance that these two are both ordinary farmers.
"Righteous Sword Sect and Mo Lin Tian held grudges, who didn't know that? But what about Li Cang Xu? Wasn't he on the run because of Mo Lin Tian in the first place? Such vicious demon deserved a more painful dead!"
The older man said after finishing his cup in one gulp, his face red with a big smile on it, clearly drunk.
"Then what happened to Li Cang Xu and his wife then? Although he managed to killed Mo Lin Tian, He must've suffered some injuries?" The younger man asked.
"He did. After killing Mo Lin Tian, he fled to the north with his wife. His whereabouts are unknown." The older man replied.
Suddenly another middle age man walked in and slammed his wine bottle on the table the two were sitting before drinking directly from the bottle. He moved his face closer to theirs and whispered lightly:
"I'll let you in on a little secret. Hehe, after Li Cang Xu fled, someone found his corpse without a heart. The Righteous Sword Sect investigated this matter, they killed his wife, destroyed his Den and bring justice to the world. Later, they found out that Li Cang Xu's wife was the one who killed him. She killed him mid way for his treasure and took his heart to refind Meng later."
"Huh, demonic scoundrel, can kill anyone just for the benefits, can never trust them." The younger man snorted and said before raising his cup and toast to the two others.
They continued to talk and drink for a long time from afternoon to evening. They talked about many things, until the topic came back to Poison Dragon Mo Lin Tian.
"I heard Mo Lin Tian was a handsome young master of a righteous sect in his youth. If he wants something, he just have to say it and someone will get it for him. If he wants woman, he just have to tell his servants and women will flock to his bed." The older middle age man said dejectedly, drinking another cup.
"Something like that, us mortals could only dream of it..." The younger man said, his head looking at the ceiling.
The man with a wine bottle nodded at the two with understanding and said, "Not only that, even after he deflected to demonic path, countless women still offering themselves to him. Even the noble and distinguished women such as Meng Yun and Yao Ming, chief and vice chief disciple of the nine great ancient sect, spread their legs for him willingly, what a slut."
"Such strong and beautiful women and yet, they still fell for him. This guy must be really good..." The younger one of the three said while drooling, his face red from indecent thoughts.
"A shame Mo Lin Tian sent them back to their sect after a month or so. If it were me, I would do this... and that... make sure they are pregnant real gooddd..... Eh?" The older man of the three said with a slur voice, his eyes half close until he noticed a hand on his shoulder.
When he looked up and see a person wearing a cloak with a hood covering half his face. Probably a man judging from his broad shoulders and stature.
The drunk man began to look at his surroundings and noticed that the inn they were drinking alone in the afternoon is now bursting with people. Behind his table in a corner sat two hooded figures similar to the man behind him, but shorter and smaller.
The hooded man said behind him in a cold voice, "Ten mouth spoken was not like seeing with one's eye, rumours are just rumours. Have you considered maybe things may not be what it seems?"
The drunken man blinked twice before turning back to scan his surroundings. He pointed his index finger at his face, "Me?"
The hooded man gave a nod to the drunk man, waiting for his answer.
The drunken grinned widely before replying, "Aye what do we have here, a philosopher? One of those arrogant scholar perhaps?"
"...."
The drunk man closed his eyes and continued, smile not leaving his face.
"What else do I need to see? Everyone knows that those two sluts was willing to leave their sect for a man, a demonic Meng cultivator.... at that.... I knew the moment it, those two must have had a taste of him and was hungry for more c*ck..... Those younglings born with golden plate silver spoon..... Acting all high and mighty..... In the end.... They are all the same....." Spoke the drunk man with a pause here and there. Some were long, some were short. It was not clear whether he was sleep talking or not.
"But whether they did it because of that reason or not, that is still unclear. Who is to say they don't have their own situation and circumstances? We should not be quick on judging people, it would only spread false rumours." Said the hooded man with the same cold voice as before, his voice loud and clear ringing in everyone's ear.
"What's happening?"
"Is there a fight?"
"I think there is."
"Let's go check it out."
"Where are you going? Sit back there and mind your own business."
At once, a small table in a corner of the inn became the centre of commotion. People came gathering to watch a show, but found no fight has occurred and were rather disappointed.
"What? No fighting?"
"What? I thought there is a fight for sure judging from the noise."
"Then what were they doing talking so loud. I could hear it all the way from my table."
"I thought they were arguing judging from the loud noise, like a person shouting but there's a bit of calmness in it..."
The two men sitting with the drunk man seemed to have noticed the commotion. They both looked at the hooded man and their drinking companion.
"What do you think you are doing asshole?" The man with a wine bottle on him shouted.
"Let's all calm down and talk this out guys." The young middle age man of the three said timidly.
"Talk this out? This guy is clearly provoking us. Don't worry brother, with me here he won't be able to lay a single finger on you, hehe." The man with a wine bottle spoke loudly while rubbing his nose with the back of his index finger, a huge smile on his face.
"I did not provoked him. I merely ask him a question for him to think about and reflect on himself." Said the hooded man.
"Reflect? What exactly did I do wrong to be reflecting on myself?" Replied the first drunk man. The loud sound of the hooded man jolted him awake, disturbed and provoked.
The hooded man repeated his questions and was met with similar answers like his previous one. He asked them another question for them to rethink again about how they should not believe everything they heard and not spread false rumours.
The three men answered in unison, their answers almost exactly the same. Each time they answered, the hooded man would asked them back with questions that make logical sense while their own answers were filled with bias belief.
The argument last for a quite sometime while the crowd watched in silence. Until a while later that it seemed like the three men were losing pathetically with their opponent lectured them about their thoughts and behaviour.
To the three men, this was straight up berating and humiliation. The first drunk man seemed to have enough and was about to stood up when he noticed a wine bottle flew past his face straight to the hooded man's head.
"Have you said enough? If so, then scram!" The man who used to have a wine bottle with him stood up and shouted. Even when he stood up, he still have to looked up at the hooded man before him. It's not that he was short, it was because the man before him was simply too tall he had to look up while standing.
"..."
The hooded man didn't say anything. His clothes were wet due to the wine bottle smashing him in the face. Despise his head was bleeding a little from the impact, he still stood there unmoving, his eyes looked at the man before him with a hint of disdain.
Both men stared at each other for a long while before the smaller man broke the silence. "I'm in good mood today so I will spare your life. Let's pretend this didn't happened and go our separate ways. I won't be so kind the next time we meet, now scram."
The crowd sigh in disappointment and began to dispersed.
The smaller man walked away not long after. In true, it was not because he was afraid of the big man before him earlier, but because he was being cautious. His probing methods told him that the hooded man was an ordinary mortal, but he noticed there are two people who dressed themselves similar to the hooded man sitting not far away from where he was standing.
What if those people are assassins sent by his enemy, or the sects that he betrayed after stealing their treasures even? In this vast world of cultivation, how many people would have the guts to butted in other people's business unafraid, going as far as to lecture the other party?
'There's something amiss here, it's best that I left this place without any commotions. I have enough trouble as is.'
While the smaller man was thinking to himself when walking away, he suddenly felt a hand on top of his shoulders.
"Will you really not change your mind?" He noticed the hooded man looked at him intently.
"Chang my mind about what, exactly? About that bastard Mo Lin Tian? About Li Cang Xu? About drinking wine early in the day? About how women from prestigious background are all the same? About the many rumours around? Tell me, change my mind about what exactly? Oh, I know now, is it because of me and my brother over here talked dirty about those two women of the nine great sects?" The smaller man said before turning around and looked at the hooded man straight in the eyes. He was getting angry from this man picking a fight with him even though he has decided to end things there and walk away.
"..." The hooded man said nothing the smaller man walked towards him, their distance less than 20 centimetres. He met the smaller man's eyes with his own.
The smaller man got an idea what this was all about. "I see how it is, you must be those stupid guy who spent their days chasing the woman of their dreams, correct? Who is it? Is it Meng Yun or Yao Ming? I've seen people like you, daydreaming about women while you yourself are not doing sh*t. Going around beating people who think different about your goddess to show how devoted you are, is that correct?"
"..."
Seeing the man before him kept his silence, the smaller man thought he has hit the nail in the coffin, so he continued:
"Aiy, what have the world became to? People like you actually exists. By the looks of it, your age should be around their fathers and yet you're still lusting after women the age of your daughter? This is too funny, too funny hahaha!" The smaller man laughed heartily with one hand holding his stomach while the other slapped his own thigh.
The crowd that walked away earlier upon noticed the sounds turned back to take a look. Some shook their heads and went back to their seats while some decided to stay and watch the show.
"..." The hooded man stood still like a statue and continued to looked at the man before him with eyes filled with disdain and rage, a bit of killing intent, even.
The smaller man continued to laugh for a good minute before standing straight and looked at the hooded man straight in the eyes again. His face full of laughter from before was nowhere to be seen. Instead, it was full of disdain, anger and killing intent towards the man before him.
"Do I look that easy? That easy for the likes of you to pick on?" The smaller man said, his eyes glowing bright red.
"Apologize." Said the hooded man.
"What?" Replied the smaller man, his eyes turning back to the same they once were.
"Apologize to the women for what you've said about them and I'll spare your life." Explained the hooded man his right hand on top of the smaller man's shoulder again.
"Is that a threat?" The smaller man said, his eyes turning bright red than before even people from the crowd could see it.
"Apologize." The hooded man said before exerted strength from his right hand, causing his aura to erupted, with a few cracking sounds at the same time.
"!!!"
"Rank four peak stage!!?"
"There is actually a rank four peak stage expert in this rural area!"
At once, the crowd were alarmed and everyone took a few steps back, some even ran out of the inn due to fear of getting caught up in the fight.
The smaller man's eyes turned sharp. He felt that his clavicle and acromion bones just broke into pieces while his scapula cracked a little.
However, the smaller man still stood strong while maintained his eye contact with the hooded man. With a 'hmp!' he created a semicircular red mist that enveloped his body and pushed the hooded man's hand away from his shoulder.
The crowd grasped in shock.
"R-ra-rank fout peak stage!!?"
"Another rank four peak stage expert!?"
Many in the crowd retreated in fear while many stood there watching with interest.
'Battle between rank four peak stage are rare, people like us could not even dream to reach their level for our entire life.'
'Even if I'm just a rank 2 early stage and wasn't qualified to intervene in the fight, just watching might give me many insights. I cannot pass this chance!'
'Two rank four peak stage, what are they doing here in this area? Have they got clues to the inheritance? It can't be, I have to report this to the higher ups!'
Many people in the crowd have their own thoughts and opinions about what's happening, but most of them continues stayed to watch in hope of getting experience and observe the situation.
"Merely a rank four peak stage dares to attack me?" The smaller man said disdainfully. However, his eyes betrayed his words as he had his guard up. The words earlier were only probing.
The taller man had his hooded flipped back from the shock wave, revealing his face full of wrinkles, his hair combed neatly to the back of his head with the help of special oil to keep them in shape.
Some people in the crowd have surprised looks on their faces while the rest were amazed. When looking at the taller man's face, the first word that came to mind of many people in the crowd was 'serious', followed by the word 'majestic'.
"Should we stop him? I-I'm afraid the opponent this time might be tough."
In a corner stood two hooded figures seemingly communicating with eachother.
"Yao Ming, you worry too much. This is father we are talking about, he can't possibly lose to a rank four peak stage cultivator." Said the second hooded figure trying to comfort the first hooded figure.
"!!!" The smaller man's body shuddered as his investigation methods pick up the conversations of the two hooded figures in the corner.
"Yao Ming... Meng Yun... So you're Meng Yun's father, Meng Hua?" The smaller man spoke softly under his breath, in this moment, he was already sobered.
Most people wouldn't be able to hear this, but the taller man somehow managed to. "And you are Vicious Blood Fiend, Xiao Xi Xing."
"Indeed I am." Xiao Xi Xing replied nonchalantly while keeping an eye for his opponent's movement.
'This is going to be a tough one.' Thought Xiao Xi Xing while sneaking glances at the two hooded figures in the corner.
The taller man, Meng Hua simply stood there for a long while, staring at his right hand. His right hand which was crushing Xiao Xi Xing's shoulder earlier was repelled back by the red mist that still cover Xiao Xi Xing's body in a semicircular shape to this moment. It was injured so badly one could see the bones as blood was dropping down nonstop.
"You are truly deserving of your title, Vicious Blood Fiend." Meng Hua clenched his right fist before relaxing them. The next second, new flesh started to appear from his wrist and connected themselves to his hand as they began healing, the entire process took lest than 20 seconds before it healed completely.
Meng Hua raised his head and looked at his opponent when noticed that the shoulder he has crushed previously has been healed back to normal by now.
"Now that I've a tasted of your famous Blood Pulse Meng myself, I'm afraid I can't let you go anymore. I'm sorry, but you are going to die by my hands today." Meng Hua spoke while not feeling apologetic in the least.
"You? Take my life? Don't think too highly of yourself, old man." Xiao Xi Xing sneered coldly, his voice full of disdain. However, his mind was full on alert.
'If this person here in front of me is really Meng Hua, then I'm in big trouble. He is an elder of one of the great nine sect. Although he was said to be seclusive and rarely appears in the outside world, every time he did, he always stirred up commotions. His cultivation was said to be rank five early stage, but what I feel clearly was rank four peak stage...'
Xiao Xi Xing took a closer look at his opponent before pondering.
'Either my information is exaggerated, or he was trying to make me let my guard down. Whether he is actually rank five early stage or not, it doesn't matter. It's not like I've never killed a rank five cultivator before.'
Even after all that thoughts, Xiao Xi Xing still hasn't made his move. Although he has killed a rank five cultivator before, it was mainly due to him deploying underhanded tricks and cruel methods, killing many innocent people along the way. Even then, he still lost many Meng and suffered heavy injuries after barely keeping himself alive. Killing another rank five, he wasn't confident.
"..."
While Xiao Xi Xing was pondering deeply, Meng Hua kept his silence. The two prominent figures looked at each other cautiously while maintaining their silence for about 20 minutes. The crowd kept their distance and watched in anticipation. They subconsciously held their breath and secretly activated their movement Meng to flee in a moments notice if something goes wrong. The inn was deadly silent.
*sigh*
"!!!"
The crowd instantly turned to looked at the source of the sound, it was Xiao Xi Xing. Many people instantly have their guard ups.
Xiao Xi Xing sighed for a long while, his eyes closed, his face filled with sorrow. The blood mist that acted as a barrier previously began seeping back into his body, more specifically his abdomen.
"hmp!" Xiao Xi Xing opened his eyes again, his face now ruthless and maniac. His eyes which were previously bright red turned crimson dark, boundless murderous intent flashing in them.
Just looking at his eyes sent shiver down many people's spine. Most people in the found that they cannot move, or more specifically, their legs refused to move no matter how hard they tried while their hands work perfectly fine. For some people, they merely felt out of breath and a bit scared. These are experienced people and most of them possessed rather high cultivation level.
"So be it, let's fight till one of us die if that's what you want. As for the rest of you, you only have yourself to blame." Xiao Xi Xing said loudly for everyone to hear.
At first, the crowd was confused by what he said, but was later terrified by his next words.
"Rank four killer move, Blood Light Dead Flash!"
"!!?"
"!!!"
Meng Hua body tensed up as some kind of glorious golden light envelope his body, the same goes for the two hooded figures.
After finishing his words, bright red light flashed off his abdomen in a circle towards his surroundings in every direction.
Every people in the crowd closed their eyes tightly after seeing the blinding light. When they opened their eyes again, they noticed that they were looking at the ceiling. Some were confused while some panicked, they tried tried looking around nervously to inspect their surroundings.
Most people 'lost' consciousness while some tried moving their body desperately but to no avail. The only thing they can move were their eyes.
Before them lies rows of bodies standing still while blood gushing out of them.
Lower halves, to be exact. As for the upper halves, they were lying on the floor, dead. The few people who still have somewhat of a consciousness took in the sights before them with eyes wide opened. Never in their lives did they think they would see such a thing. Unfortunately, it was the last thing they could see as their consciousness began to slipped away, leaving them in darkness for eternity.
After the light subsided, what was left in the surrounding 50 meters radius area were all cut in half. Some people who luckily survived began to panicked and caused a commotions, asking for help but to no avail.
Despite having killed over a hundred people in a flash, Xiao Xi Xing facial expression hasn't eased down in a slightest. In fact, his expression was even more stiff as looked at his opponent.
Standing in opposite directions of Xiao Xi Xing with 7 meters of distance between them were Meng Hua. His robe and hooded were gone as it slid down in the mids of the attack, the same goes for the two hooded figures in the corner. The two former hooded figures slowly walked up to Meng Hua and stood beside him.
Xiao Xi Xing recognized them instantly the moment he saw them. Stood before him were three people, one man and two women.
To his left was a gorgeous woman dressed in blue clothes, her skin as white as snow, her face fair like jade. She has an arrogant and cold expression on her face, her aura rank four peak stage. Her name was Meng Yun.
To his right was another beauty, Yao Ming. She wore green robe, a light smile on her face and a little blood on her lips. Her skin pink and tender, her face beautiful like flower. Her aura rank four middle stage.
In the middle was a rather old middle age man. He face fierce and full of wrinkles. He was tall and wore simple brown clothes with two golden armour shoulder pieces on his shoulder. On his hands were what looks like golden gauntlet which were made out of wines that intertwined with each other. Upon closer inspection, one would noticed that the gauntlets 'wriggle' on their own like they were alive.
Xiao Xi Xing's heart instantly sank when he saw the pair of gauntlets, his heart sank even more when he noticed the state his opponents were in. He thought to himself:
'To think my luck would be this bad, meeting three rank five cultivators in this remote area, one of them might be a rank five, even. Me insulting his daughters was one thing, the main reason is probably because of my massacre of the Beast Taming sect two months ago. They're either tracking me down or met with me by coincidence in chase of the Heavenly opportunity like me.'
Xiao Xi Xing narrowed his eyes when he noticed the state his opponents were in. His heart sank even more when he inspected his core essence, his wounds from last two months haven't completely healed yet.
Meng Yun's clothes around her abdomen were cut, revealing her smooth white belly. Droplets of blood appeared out from seemingly nowhere on her smooth belly while the glorious golden light surrounding her body has dimmed, barely noticeable.
To his right was Yao Ming, whom glorious golden light has faded away completely leaving her clothes torn and her slim waist and belly exposed. Unlike Meng Yun, there was a deep horizontal cut on her belly and blood were gushing out of it. Moments later it stopped, when looking he found that there was a jade green light enveloping her belly, mending her wound.
Xiao Xi Xing's face grew dark when he took a look at Meng Hua. Xiao Xi Xing's face that was already dark could not compared to Meng Hua's when he saw the state his precious daughters were in.
Meng Hua himself was unscathed. He simply stood there like a statue with golden light shinning around his body, his gauntlets wriggling about. His clothes were completely fine without any cut on them, not to mention his body. The only change was the golden like has dimmed significantly, but it still shone brighter than Meng Yun's.
'I'm in big trouble. My Blood Light Dead Flash might only cut things on the height of my abdomen, but it's power and speed could kill even rank six unguarded. Even if normal rank five defensive Meng would be cut like hot knife on butter. The strength of the golden light is on thing, the real problems are their reaction speed and the golden light activation speed. Even Yao Ming who got heavily injured could be called exceptional already, but her sister only got a tiny cut while her father was unscathed.' Xiao Xi Xing thought with a frown.
'If my evaluation is correct, these are all people who could fight opponents a stage above their own. Meng Hua should be a rank six early stage as the rumours suggested considering he didn't receive any injury from my killer move.'
'If I want to get out of here alive, the only way out is to kill them all or else it would be me who ended up dead. I will kill them, even if that means I have to kill countless people along the way. I will use every means possible no matter how disgusting and underhanded they are. I will kill them all, either it's them or me who will walk out of here alive!' Resolution and killing intent surged in Xiao Xi Xing's eyes as he made his mind.
In the inn, puddles of blood began to floated up to the height of a person's head and forming into balls of blood. This phenomenon was not happening only in the inn, but all over 50 meters radius of area.
"This is?" Questioned Yao Ming.
"Formation?" Asked Meng Yun, looking at her father for answers.
"No, this is something different. It must be the legendary battlefield killer move of some kind." Meng Hua said as he looked straight ahead at his opponent, his face dark and gloomy.
"Battlefield killer move!!?" Meng Yun was sheer shocked. She only has read about them in books and have never seen them in person before.
"What's a battlefield killer move?" Yao Ming asked, perplexed. She has never seen her cold sister acted like this before, it somehow made her a little scared.
"... I will tell you later when we get back." Said Meng Yun after having regained her composure.
"Get back? Who will get back? All of you will die by my hands today!" Xiao Xi Xing shouted while pushing his right hand forward.
Suddenly, all blood balls in the inn turn into sharp spinning needles and began heading straight to the father-daughters trios.
With a 'hmp!' and a stomp of his feet, Meng Hua created a bright golden light barrier to protect them. The golden light barrier was incredibly strong, even with over a few thousands blood needles attacking already, it still shows no sign of collapsing.
"You two stay here, I'll deal with him and proceed with the mission." Meng Hua said as he stepped forward out of the barrier with a golden light barrier of his own, his aura rank six early stage.
"But father... will he be okay by himself?" Yao Ming asked with teary eyes.
"This is father we're talking about, he'll be fine... He has to be." Meng Yun tried to comfort her younger sister, but she herself was not sure either.
'If this this is really a battlefield killer move, then father will have a tough time or might even get killed. Even if we want to help him, we will only be burdens for father if we can't protect ourselves well. We will only distract him if we went out, especially when Yao Ming is heavily injured like this.' Meng Yun evaluated while tending to Yao Ming's injury, worries apparent in her eyes.
"Big sis, don't worry about me. Go help out father, you'll stronger than I am. I'm sure you'll be of some help to him, I can stay in here and take care of myself." Yao Ming said with a smile, her words contrast with her white pale face and body from losing too much blood.
In truth, her injury were already healing and almost completely closed, but her 'life essence' was completely empty. She just need to rest and recover her life essence for a few hours and heal herself again to went back to normal.
Unfortunately, time were not on their side, she need to get back on her feet as soon as possible to help her father out, or at least not be a burden. This leaves Meng Yun with no choice but to help her sister out with her own healing methods, even then it would still take some time as she also needs to conserve her Life essence.
"Don't worry, father will be fine. Who knows, maybe he has some shocking gains from his close door cultivation in the last few months? We just need to believe in him. In the meantime, I'll stay with you to make sure nothing happens, got it?" Meng Yun said with a reassuring smile.
Yao Ming seeing her big sister who was always cold and aloof smiled so brightly brought warm and hopes to her heart.
"Got it." Replied Yao Ming with a cheerful smile of her own.
Outside of the barrier stood two figures. One was surrounded with glorious golden light while the other was surrounded by dark crimson light.
Xiao Xi Xing upon seeing Meng Hua walked out of the barrier, was feeling anxious.
He was planning to play dirty and aim for Meng Hua's daughters. He would cripple Meng Yun, kill her if necessary and hold the weaker Yao Ming hostage then retreat as far as possible.
Meng Hua came out of his own means that he was confident in taking on Xiao Xi Xing alone. This made things both easier and more difficult for Xiao Xi Xing at the same time as he wouldn't have to worry about sneak or collaborating tactics.
However, this in turn robbed him of the plan to take those two girls hostage and left him with no choice but fight this rank five expert one on one.
Xiao Xi Xing summoned more blood needles to attack, but they have next to no effect on the golden light enveloping Meng Hua's body.
Meng Hua after having walked out of the light barrier, began preparing his attack. He pulled his arms back while his legs squat down into a horse stance, his aura surging like waves. Moments later, he turned into a blur and disappeared from the spot he was in previously.
Xiao Xi Xing upon seeing Meng Hua disappeared before his eyes was alarm, he was about retreat when he felt like a bull has ram straight at his stomach.
Moments later, he found himself lying on the ground with his back leaning on a huge tree, seemingly crashed into it, creating a human size den. If not for the blood barrier protecting him, he would be dead by now.
Xiao Xi Xing coughed up some blood before creating a dark crimson light that enveloped his every nook and cranny, while new transparent-blood barrier began form in a semicircular shape three layers around him.
Xiao Xi Xing thought to himself: 'I underestimated this old fellow, I was too careless. That strike earlier almost killed me. If it wasn't for the special blood barrier then I probably would've died! I thought this old man was only strength - no speed, clearly this isn't the case.'
After he finished healing himself and tighten his defenses, Xiao Xi Xing stood up and looked ahead of him.
Before him stood Meng Hua, still as a statue, waiting for him. What shocked Xiao Xi Xing was there are no injuries on Meng Hua's body when his blood shield were supposed to counter attacked when there is impact.
Although Meng Hua's body stood still like a statue, his eyes tell different story as he said:
"Xiao Xi Xing, give up now, this is your last chance. You should be able to tell the difference between us from that earlier strike, you're no match for me. Sooner or later you'll run out of life essence and lose, whereas I only need to activate a few Meng in my attacks and defenses. Because my strength mainly came from my body while your strength mainly came from your Meng, your consumption rate of Life essence is naturally higher, we both know of this. If you surrender now, I will be merciful and not take your life. I will only cripple your hands and feet then get someone to take you back to my Hundred thousands manual sect, how does that sounds?"
Xiao Xi Xing upon hearing this was initially surprised, then angry. His surprise was from the sincerity in Meng Hua's words, he felt like it was truthful words of a man who will do exactly what he said. If he said he'll spare your life, he will spare it.
Then there was anger, this anger was towards both his enemy and himself.
I'm angry because you looked down on me, because you think my life and death is up to you to decide.
I'm angry at myself because I was considering that option. I won't allow it, this pride of mine won't allow it!
I will kill you!
Bam!
Xiao Xi Xing immediately strike!
Xiao Xi Xing's attack caught Meng Hua by surprise. Not only did his opponent struck while he was not expecting, he even performed such a fast and quiet attack that Meng Hua wasn't able to see nor sense it.
This caused Meng Hua's body to have a den the size of a fist on his abdomen. Blood continued to flowed out while he felt a bit of his strength slipped away every second.
Generally speaking, Meng cultivator's attacks usually have a few seconds of pause for the cultivator to activate his Meng, aim, charge their attacks so that it can penetrate through the defenses of their opponent.
Xiao Xi Xing's sneak attack was weird and bizarre. Not only was it so fast and quiet that made it impossible to see with the naked eyes or heard with the naked ears, it also made no gusts of wind while traveling at such speed. The most bizarre of all, this attack can penetrate Meng Hua's golden light defense and injured him before he even has time to react, such attack is incomparable strong and should emitted immense aura, but there was none.
In truth, Meng Hua's has seen fast attacks like this before, some faster even. However, none of those attacks has ever managed to injured him like this before. It was firstly because of his golden light protecting him and secondly because one of his defensive Meng that could be activated by itself when sense danger, its senses was even ten times faster than Meng Hua's.
This kind of Meng is incredibly rare, no doubt.
There's a common knowledge in Meng cultivation. Fast attacks have weak offense, fast and quiet attacks have even lower offense while strong attacks with high offense have low speed and stealthiness.
Attacks such as Xiao Xi Xing's sneak attack are generally made from using many Meng together to form a special move, but those moves would take some time to activate.
This led to another possibility, rare and special Meng.
Meng Hua's narrowed his eyes as he analyzed his opponent's attack at lightning speed while his left hand was compressing the wound, healing it.
However, his eyes have to opened wide when he tried tens of healing methods, but nothing happened to his wound at all as realization struck him.
Meng Hua's face turned from surprised to shock, then anger, extreme anger.
"You heartless, inhuman bastard..." Said Meng Hua with gritted teeth, his eyes bloodshot.
Xiao Xi Xing who, by this time has already recovered, said with a mocking tone: "Seems like you have figured it out. That's right, this is the legendary forbidden Meng, Blood pulp killer essence."
Xiao Xi Xing raised his left hand, on his palm a 'moving' ball of red blood, its aura was of rank five Meng.
"This Meng is truly fascinating. Not only can it produced extremely fast and stealth attacks, its attack power is also high even among rank five Meng, its ability is even more fantastic!" Xiao Xi Xing explained with joy and admiration, his blood red eyes and creepy smile made him looked like a madman.
"But the refinement process though..." Xiao Xi Xing spoke quietly and dragged his voice down until he stopped completely, fear evident on his face.
"...!" Meng Hua's face that was already red is even redder now as he exploded with anger, there's even fear in the corner of his eyes.
From his knowledge as an elder of one of the nine great ancient sects, he knew just what kind of Meng was Blood Pulp Killer Essence. This Meng has frightening offensive powers, its attack was deadly silent and can "pass through" any defensive Meng of the same rank, many Meng of higher rank too even.
Most terrifying of all, was the fact that the wounds this Meng inflicted will continuously turn into blood pulp that drain its victim's Life essence continuously and erode the body further until nothing was left. Normal people would turned into a pool of blood after 10 minutes if left untreated.
That was not all, this Meng's attack has a special characteristic. Not only was it fast and hidden, it also causes no pain from start to finish. Meaning, the victims would have no idea they were struck and might not be able to treat it in time. They would be losing Life essence continuously on top of that, which made the slim chance of survival became next to nonexistent.
Thus, the name 'Blood pulp killer essence'. A legendary forbidden Meng that was incredibly strong, but also incomparably evil. People from righteous factions view this Meng with extreme hatre and disgust.
'To think I would see it here... I need to end this as fast as possible or else I would be the one that lose my life, I might even have to use that Meng...' Meng Hua cautioned himself with terror and fear.
But soon, he calm down. Being able to cultivate to this rank and climbed up to the position he's in today, Meng Hua naturally has a lot of experience under his belt, which included severely disadvantaged battles and life and death situations.
'It's just that this one might be the hardest one yet...'
Although his mind was alerted, his face after a moment of exploded anger shows no sign of fear and emotions. He was expressionless like a statue, arrogant and look down on his opponent.
"Although this Meng has incredible offensive ability, its cool down time is rather long and its cost of activation is even higher. I reckon you can use this Meng no more than twice, thrice at best." Meng Hua analyzed with great precision which left Xiao Xi Xing quite shock.
Xiao Xi Xing indeed could activate this Meng only thrice before he ran out of Life essence. However, after the fierce fight he had last month, his talent dropped and he could only activate it twice before he emptied his Life essence and has to recover.
On the outside, however, Xiao Xi Xing said nothing.
Meng Hua assessed Xiao Xi Xing's facial expression before continuing: "Xiao Xi Xing, surrender now, there's no point in fighting. Your average attacking methods won't work on me while you only have one chance left at your Blood pulp killer essence. As you can see, although my wound was unable to be healed, it is also unable to deteriorate."
"Although this meant I have to continuously supply my healing Meng to suppress the injury. My strength, however, has not fell in the slightest bit, because I'm a strength path cultivator." Meng Hua spoke with the same loud and dominating voice as before, his gaze as fierce as ever.
"Heh, haha, hahaha, HAHAHAHAHAHA!"
"What a funny thing, I didn't expect you to care so much about me. Don't worry old man, I won't run out of Life essence anytime soon." Xiao Xi Xing said with creepy smile like that of a madman.
A few moments after that, strange things happened. Blood of the unfortunate villager that was killed by Blood Light Dead Flash in 50 radius area began to flooded up into balls of different sizes. What stranger was that some of the nearby balls began to 'flow' inside Xiao Xi Xing's abdomen one after another.
Moments later, it stopped. Xiao Xi Xing's aura that was weakened by the hit he took and his Life essence that was spent instantly recovered. Like this, Xiao Xi Xing return to his peak condition in one move!
"Battlefield killer move..." Meng Hua mumbled under his breath, awe and fear mixed in his heart.
For a minute, time seems to have stopped as both side stared at each other in silence.
Moments later, they pounced. Both side moved with speed that was almost impossible to see with the naked eyes. Their attacks were fierce, their killing intent was even fiercer.
Both side attacked with all they had, exchange moves after moves, using all kind of different Meng. Sometimes one side held the upper hand while sometimes the other was defending with his life. Sometimes the table was turned and the winning side began losing.
The battle was getting fiercer and fiercer the more time passed the more it became desperate.
They fought for one night without rest from evening to dawn, until a figure of a man can be seen crawling on the floor with his hands and knees.
This man was none other than Xiao Xi Xing. Before him stood a man with big stature towering over him, this was Meng Hua.
Beside him stood two girls with great beauty, they looked exhausted and weary. The elegant air surrounding them previously was gone, their beautiful clothes from before were torn and ripped, stained with blood and dirt.
They are Meng Hua's daughters Meng Yun and Yao Ming.
The outcome of the battle was clear, Xiao Xi Xing lost and Meng Hua won, both side suffered heavy injuries.
*pant* *pant* "You are deserving of your reputation, Meng Hua. If you let me live, I promise to never forget this mercy and repay it a hundred times." Xiao Xi Xing spoke with difficulty, pain all over his body. Just merely speaking already took a lot out of him.
"..."
"..."
"..."
Towards Xiao Xi Xing praise and plea, the father and daughters trio only answered him with silence. Although exhausted and in pain, Meng Hua's eyes were resolute and firm while Meng Yun's eyes were of disdain.
During the fight, Xiao Xi Xing employed many plot and scheme, playing tricks and underhanded methods. Meng Yun was already fed up with it.
Yao Ming on the other hand thought otherwise as her eyes showed pity and admiration.
Xiao Xi Xing caught a look in her eyes and saw hope. He continued to plead, offering them all sorts of favor and treasures. Be it rare treasures or killing people, he could do anything for them.
However, he was met with silence once again as his opponent did not answer him. This however, did not disheartened him, but gave him confidence. The fact that they are not killing him proved that they were interested in his proposal and were mulling over it.
Xiao Xi Xing did not wait another second and add more to his offer, even going as far as to be their servant.
Meng Hua's facial expression did not change, but his two daughters' surely did. Yao Ming was bought, but Meng Yun was not as sure. She was initially very interested, but upon closer consideration, she gave up this idea.
"Ok, if you promise to behave and not cause any trouble then we will spare you." Said Yao Ming with gentle and cheerful smile.
Xiao Xi Xing smiled back to her and replied: "I promise."
"Then it's settl-" Before Yao Ming could finished her sentence, she was cut off by Meng Yun.
"Wait a minute!" Meng Yun said loudly.
"What's wrong sister?" Yao Ming asked with a puzzled look on her face.
"I think we should kill him to avoid further complications. Think about it, he is a demonic path Meng cultivator who has a target on his head. He killed thousands of people and offended many many sects, the number of people after his life is thrice the people he has killed. We cannot accept him." Meng Yun spoke matter of facts, her eyes were resolute as she has made her decision.
"But he's a rank four peak stage cultivator who can go head to head with rank five, he's even almost on par with father. Having such a person on our side would greatly help us in the competition for heavenly inheritance, don't you think so?"
"But you forget one thing Yao Ming, you forget that he is a demonic path cultivator. He's not ordinarily rank four peak stage cultivator, he IS a demonic rank four peak stage cultivator who can rival rank five. We all know that demonic path cultivators are vicious scumbags, the lowest of the low, they cannot be trusted. It took all of us to subdue him, but what if father was not here? What if we took him in and someday father was not there with us? What can we do? It took all of us to subdue him, even then it was full of difficulty, but what if he recovered and stab us in the back?" Meng Yun snapped back at her younger sister. Her kindness has always been a strong point of her sister and she as her older sister was always proud of it, but today she knew that her sister was too naive and her kindness got in the way of what should be done.
"He wouldn't do that, I know it, I saw it in his eyes-"
"Oh god, WAKE UP YAO MING. This is the real world and real life, he's deceiving you. He's not the same as Mo Lin Tain, do you think all demonic cultivator are as kind as him? Do you think he would keep his promise and be your servant just because he said so?"
"I-i..." Yao Ming stuttered, but did not say anything else. She shut her mouth and look down at the ground in shame and embarrassment.
In truth, Xiao Xi Xing's words were half true half lie. He was initially stalling for time for his Life essence to recover by consuming blood from the surrounding secretly and made his escape. He didn't expect Yao Ming to actually want to spare him and took him in as her servant.
'So be it ' By this time Xiao Xi Xing has already resigned to his fate. He was tired and exhausted, not just from this fight, but from life as a demonic cultivator as a whole. He was moved by Yao Ming's kindness. By becoming her servant, he would turn into a righteous path cultivator with a stable life and safe place to live in. Ridding himself of his sins bit by bit.
So he replied 'I promise '.
However, fate like to play tricks. Just as he thought he was gonna live, Meng Yun interrupted and the two sisters had an argument. Now his outcome would most likely be death.
He could offer them more, but his heart won't allow him to. What other things can he moved them with, other than his services and treasures? What he has left are his Meng and himself. Giving his Meng would mean betraying all his hard works he has putted on in acquiring them and all the liives lost in the process.
Most importantly, it would be no different than crippling himself. Selling himself as a slave was not an option either. Being a slave means putting collar on himself and lose his freedom.
Even worse, if they somehow have Slavery Meng and use it on him, he would be no different than a dog, might even worse. He would have absolute loyalty and valued their orders over his life, he would think nothing was wrong with it as his life goal was to serve them to the best of his ability with no will of freedom and no thought to break free, that is the power of Slavery Meng.
"Fine, if you won't do it then I'll do it myself." By this time Meng Yun has already walked forward with a blade in hand, ready to finish him off.
Xiao Xi Xing looked at Meng Hua and saw no change in his expression, the man was as still as ever. He took a look at Yao Ming and their eyes met before she turned her head away in shame.
"So this is the outcome." Xiao Xi Xing sighed as he closed his eyes, seemingly accepted his fate.
It was this moment that Meng Yun swung her sword down towards Xiao Xi Xing's neck, but she was forced back on the ground!
Xiao Xi Xing counterattacked!
In a flash, Xiao Xi Xing was on her and was ready to strike. "If I'm going to die anyway, then I will at least take you with me to the afterlife!"
As he said so, he covered his right hand in blood Qi and attacked. Xiao Xi Xing's hand was moving at lightning speed before coming to a stop 2 millimeters away from Meng Yun forehead.
The whole process took less than two seconds. After the shock, Meng Yun looked up and noticed that Xiao Xi Xing's body that was on top of her has no head and blood was flowing out of it nonstop.
Instead of a horrified scream, Meng Yun calmly pushed Xiao Xi Xing's body away from her and stood up to assess her surroundings.
She noticed that her father has his left palm out, but did not move from his place while her younger sister was stunned and was processing what happened.
"Are you okay?" Meng Hua asked with concerns.
"I'm fine father, thank you for saving me." Meng Yun replied with a warm smile towards her father.
Meng Hua smiled back, but did not say anything else.
Yao Ming ran towards Meng Yun and hugged her tightly before crying. "Sister, I'm sorry I was wrong. I should've trusted you..."
Meng Yun hugged her back and consoled: "It's fine Ming'er, you're still young and inexperienced. It's normal to made mistakes, just remember this experience and don't be easily deceived again."
"I'll remember it *sob* I'll remember it well."
Meng Hua seeing his two daughters have reconciled was relieved as he has a smile on his face.
But moments later, that smile disappeared from his face as horror and fear was the only thing in his expression.
Meng Yun after noticed her father's horrified expression was shocked. She has never seen her father made that expression in her entire life. Even during the fight with Xiao Xi Xing, he hasn't showed an ouch of fear for her to see.
So what is it that her father was so afraid of?
"Father, what—" Meng Yun was about to ask when her father shouted.
"MOVE!!!" Meng Hua shouted as he jumped and held his two daughters in his arms before jumpimg quite a distance away.
His body was in pain all over, but he ignored it as he stood up and looked in the direction he came from, a meteor has fell to the ground, destroying the place. Dust flew everywhere as explosion was created from the impact.
Soon, the dust cleared and revealed the place. The place that was once a flat surface filled with dried blood on grasses is now a huge crater over five meters deep.
After the dust subsided, Meng Hua noticed that the 'meteor' has stood up. This confirmed his suspicious and fear as he made his mind to leave this place as fast as possible.
What stood there on the crater was not something, but someone. It was a young man on his late twenties. The young man possessed quite a handsome face with gray white hair. On his clothes were traces of cuts and burns all over the place, but somehow it was still intact as a whole. The young man seemed to did not notice them as the only thing he was doing was looked up at the sky, staring into distance.
Meng Hua turned to his daughters and said hurriedly: "Quick, stand up, we need to leave this place."
Meng Yun and Yao Ming were still confused with the situation and did not understand what's happening. Meng Yun who has somewhat regain her composure asked: "Father, what is happening? I don't understand."
"You don't need to. I will tell you everything later, now we need to leav-"
"Look, isn't that a person? Shouldn't we go take a look?" Yao Ming announced her discovery and suggested.
"No!" Meng Hua glared and shouted at Yao Ming, which he quickly stopped himself and closed his mouth using his hands.
Yao Ming was both shocked and scared. Throughout her life, her father has always been a calm and gentle towards her. Her father now, however, looked unfamiliar and strange, she felt like he is a different person.
"Father, what's going on? Why are you acting like this?" Meng Yun asked as she made her way to console Yao Ming.
"Can't you see? He's an Immortal!" Meng Hua pointed to the 'meteor', the man who stood still from his landing to this very moment.
"Immortal?" Both Meng Yun and Yao Ming's eyes lit upon hearing the word.
In her excitement, Meng Yun asked her father enthusiastically: "Isn't this great then? We can help him and ask him for guidance. Or we can even befriend him and asked him to help us with the Heavenly inheritance to return the favor! This is a once in a lifetime opportunity father!"
"You... ARGHH!" Meng Hua was so angry at the moment that his face turned red. Why is his smart and independent daughter being curious now of all time? Why is she so stubborn and confident in herself. For a moment, Meng Hua wish his daughters were dumb and obedient.
'No, wait... If they're dumb and obedient then they wouldn't have survived till this day either....'
Meng Hua shook his head and gather his thoughts. After five seconds passed, he regained his composure and answered his daughters: "My daughters, we don't have much time and we need to leave as soon as possible. It looks like you two need an explanation so I'll give you one."
Meng Yun and Yao Ming nodded, waiting for his explanation.
"Did you see that man over there? You might not be able to tell, but I'm sure he's an Immortal. Did you see how he landed and the state he was in? If he's an Immortal then why is he in such state? Clearly he has suffered injuries from somewhere and landed here. It might be another Immortal, a magical beast or a group of them, or even both. Either of those are out of our league and we cannot risk the chance staying here." Meng Hua tried to explain as short as possible while not leaving any important details, his voice was hoarse and cracked occasionally as he himself was shaking.
The two girls only need a moment to processed this information as their faces turned pale from realization. Even if their father didn't say it, they knew that what he meant was basically that they would die if the one who injured this Immortal appear.
The two girls nodded towards their father and were ready to move when suddenly they heard a voice laughing so loud that it made their ears hurt.
"We were too late..." Meng Hua said in despair as he look at the direction of the voice.
In the sky high above existed a peculiar small lump of cloud, it has many colorful spot everywhere moving randomly.
This cloud seemed to move unusually fast but in rythm. Upon closer inspection it looks like a giant group of birds on migration. When it came close to the ground with only a few hundreds meters away, one would realized that this was neither a lump of cloud nor was it a group of birds, it was people.
It was a giant group of people floating in the air moving together slowly. The many colours that was seen previously are from their clothes, their shoes, their hair, lights surrounding them, and many other different things.
"These people are all Immortals, I've never seen something like this before, what's happening to the world..." Meng Hua said in a daze and amazement on his face, so were his daughters as they halted their movement.
"Hahaha, to think the famous Three Sword Chen Yi was only this much, rumours truly are exaggerating." An Immortal with shinning red hair and a young face said with arrogance.
"Don't be so hard on him, he's still a senior Immortal with long history. Who knows, maybe he might has some tricks up his sleeve ~" A female Immortal with a seductive face wearing white dress that was tight fitting with her alluring body chipped in. Although her words defended the man, her eyes which was full of disdain said otherwise.
"What kind of tricks this demonic lowlife can even pull? He flew all this way after taking just one strike of my Earth Shattering Palm, I'd say he's not as impressive as everyone think." Another Immortal with a square face and broad shoulders and tall body said in contempt while smirking.
As he finished saying so, the crowd of Immortals began laughing loudly as they landed and surrounded the man in crater. The look on some people's face, however, were not as relaxed as their companions.
The Immortals have landed and created a small space with a radius of 10 meters radius surrounding the man named Chen Yi who has floated up from the crater and was "standing" at the same altitude as them.
"Oh Chen Yi, There are over four hundreds of us here surrounding you. Just give up and hand us the Winter Spring Butterfly and we'll spare your life." A senior Immortal said with a relax attitude, but his eyes were cautious and firm as intended to do whatever it to seize that treasure from the man.
Once this Immortal finished talking, the surrounding turned dead silent as if there's nobody here.
Nobody talked nor moved for a while until half the sun has risen to the sky.
An Immortal with dark long hair and a face that looks as if he was frowning all the time finally broke the silent as he said: " Demon, hurry and hand us the Meng, or else you will face a horrifying end."
The man named Chen Yi still said nothing as he stood there and looked ahead, unmoving.
"Fine, you seems to think I can only bark and no bite. I'll shows you what it looks like to die by my hands." The Immortal said so as snapped his fingers.
In the distance quite far away, Meng Hua and his two daughters that was observing the situation and slowly retreating suddenly have their body lit in dark purple flame. The flame continued to burn their skin as they cried in agony, then it burned their muscles, internal organs and bones until nothing was left of the three people.
Over a hundreds of Immortals closed their eyes and sighed or shook their head, some even did both. The reason was that all the Immortal present noticed the three father and daughters long ago with their investigation methods, including Chen Yi.
But they decided to not acted, as they felt the three people were insignificant and did not posed any threats to them.
Despite the death of the rank five father and daughters, the man named Chen Yi did not even showed an ounce of fear, he was standing just as still as he always has done with serious and determined look on his face.
Time continue to pass, the Immortals all stood there from dawn to morning, morning to noon, noon to to early evening when the sun started to set, painting the sky purple orange.
From start to finish, nobody has made a move or took action to seize the treasure from Chen Yi at all as they were afraid he might make a last resort counterattack.
There are some junior Immortals who were arrogant and want to prove themselves, but were told off by their leaders from respective sects to stay put and shut their mouths.
*sigh*
"!!!"
"!!!?"
After staying still for almost a day, Chen Yi finally heaved a sigh. This caused many Immortals who were on edges to be on high alert.
Chen Yi next actions surprised many people as it's not an attempt to breakthrough, nor a final attack like they have expected.
Instead, he stretched out his hand and open his palm. What's inside was a silver butterfly with a shiny wings that flashed with warm golden light, the butterfly itself gave off beautiful white silver hue that captivated all Immortals present.
Many people had a smile on their face as they thought their campaign was finally coming to an end.
But they did not make any move to come closer to the silver butterfly. Instead, they had their guards up and stayed vigilant for any unexpected movement from Chen Yi.
Chen Yi still stood there as he has been, looking at the settings sun infront of him before sighing once more and said: "Life in this world was full of hardship, all my hard work has turned into smoke. Drifting away with the winds and waves, my life goes wherever heavens takes me."
"I was once confused and lost, for hundreds of years til I'm exhausted. Today I lose, tomorrow I claim victory. But when all was said and done, everything is just empty..."
Chen Yi sighed with emotions before closing his eyes. His life flashed before his eyes, so many meetings and so many goodbyes.
His life was full of mishaps and tragedy, yet there are also happy memories buried deep within.
'Although life was tough and full of hardship, still, I have no regret.' With this thought, Chen Yi couldn't help himself but let out a chuckle.
When he opened his eyes, there was no trace of sadness and emotions left. They were instead filled with fierce resolution and determination, crazed madness hidden deep within them.
"Demon, what is there to laugh about in this situation?"
"Something is ups, quick, seize the Winter Spring Butterfly!"
"Surrender the Winter Spring Butterfly to us!"
BOOM!
In that moment, Chen Yi's whole body lit up in blinding white light as he was surging with energy and power, then, he exploded.
Strangely enough, the explosion dealt next to no damage to the surrounding. Aside from the absence of Chen Yi, nothing seems to have changed at all.
"We were too late..."
"If the Winter Spring Butterfly really works like the legends say, then that demon will definitely come back and wreck havocs once more..."
"We're f*cked..."
* * * *
In a dark room on Feng Yu mountain, a pair of eyes were glowing brightly in the middle of the night.
In that room was a young boy sitting on a bed looking at his hands and feet, surprised.
"To think it actually worked. Feng Yu mountain... Shen clan... I really travelled back in time to a thousand years ago... He... Hehe... Hehehe... Hahaha.... HAHAAHAHAHAHAHA!"
With a crazed laughter and excitement, the young boy ran his way to a window and took in a breeze of fresh air of rain in storm, droplets of water fell upon him.
"In this life, I will live according to my true self and do as please, whatever it is, wherever it will be, whatever my heart desires."
The young boy closed his eyes and breathed deep in fresh air of the night after storm, before opening them again. His eyes were bright and shiny like shooting stars in the night sky, and with a big smile he said: "I will not hold back this time."