After Shi Jian killed the ghost, he looked around and saw the cultivators trying to calm down the people, Yao Cheng talking to the child and Li Hong running to reach him.
"Shi Jenshun! Don't you dare faint!" Li Hong was with a worried expression, approximating him as fast as he could, but Shi Jian couldn't do it anymore. He passed away. The next day, when he woke up, he was in the Dragon Mountain's medicinal hall, with all his friends around him. All of them stepped back with shock when he opened his eyes.
"No, I haven't forgotten what happened to me neither what the doctor said, but... I hate being treated like that, it makes me feel like a baby. You're not my mom, Li Hong. Plus I am Chu Zhiwei's disciple, no little monster should harm me like that one did."
Li Hong rolled his eyes. "As expected of you. Anyway, some idiot brat is anxious to see you, he asked me about..."
"Stupid Shi!" A boy around fifteen years old came running towards them, he had curly hair and two braids, his clothes were orange and yellow; the training clothes from Nan hall. Behind him, a woman walked with him, her hair was tied up in a bun and her eyes were bright green.
"Ren De, Yao Cheng? I haven',t seen you since I fwoke up at medicinal hall, where have you been?" The two walked over and hugged Shi Jian tightly.
"Miss Shi sent us to look for more medicine for Doctor Hao" Yao Cheng replied "we were very reluctant to go because we didn't want to abandon you, but we needed to, it was urgent."
"No need to explain Yao Cheng. It's ok. I was beeing cared by my great and kind mom." Shi Jian smiled.
Li Hong gave him a slap on his arm. Neither Yao Cheng nor Ren De understood that, but they decided to not pry on their fight.
"Anyway, since we have finally arrived and you've recovered from your injury, we should enjoy and go take dinner in town." Ren De said merrily to Shi Jian, showing his dimples.
Ren De and Shi Jian had met six years ago, Yao Cheng also became friends with them at that time. Because she is the oldest, she acts as if she were the leader, always taking care of them and resolving fights. On the other hand, Ren De is like a child who has a lot of energy, it seems like he has never experienced anything bad in life. He is the opposite of Li Hong, that is more quiet and often seems distant from others.
Yao Cheng seated on a chair with and thoughtful expression "I don't think I can go to the city, I need to practice my martial arts for my test to Rainy Valley Sect, that will happen in four months, and as you know, it is my dream to be a guard there."
"I am sure that you will be the best of all the others candidates, everyone is afraid of your strength."
"Stupid Shi is right. You obviously will pass the test, and when you do this, we can go celebrate." His smile trembled, as if even he was trying to look happy, he couldn't support the idea of beeing far from Yao Cheng.
Yao Cheng noticed this, so she hugged him with an arm. "Let's not talk about it. I want to know something, is that true that our little Shi got on a fight?"
Shi Jian choked with the water he was drinking, and Li Hong rolled his eyes. "Do you expect something better from him?"
"It was not like that! I was defending a boy that was beeing bullied!"
"Is that so?" Yao Cheng asked to Li Hong, but he looked away with a sigh. "Well, then Shi Jian wan't worng."
"A boy? Wich boy you saved, Shi Jian?"
"His name was Wang Xun. I think he was a new student."
Hearing this name, Yao Cheng gasped, but didn't say anything, just stared at the ground.
"I also heard some rumors about it, a boy surnamed Wang said that he was salved by the incredible young master Shi from those stupid bullies" Ren De said.
Incredible young master? Haha, so this kid is actually treating me as a savior? Shi Jian's mind started to be filled with these thoughts. The questions he had before appeared again.
"I didn't know there was a new cultivator here" Yao Cheng said before standing up "I'm going to train, I suggest you to do the same, soon we will have another mission, goodbye you all."