" Is this how death feels ... "
Xiao Chen could feel his vision slowly darkening , for him his last vision was the face of the most beautiful girl in the martial world could be said to be an achievement too . Xiao Chen was at least able to avenge his sect before he died , there were no more regrets left .
" Is it true that there are no more regrets ? "
Xiao Chen felt like laughing , because he felt stupid . Who was he trying to lie to ? There were so many regrets in his life that he could not fix but now regretting them was useless .
" It's all too late , unless I can
turn back time ... What other stupid thoughts do I have . "
Now Xiao Chen felt like he was in darkness , the pain throughout his body also slowly disappeared indicating that he was starting to head to the afterlife .
" Teacher ... Father , Mother ... I'm coming ..." (
When Xiao Chen began to choose to surrender and let go of everything suddenly a bright blue light appeared in front of him .
" Oh , is this the door to the afterlife ? " Before Xiao Chen had time to think further , the bright blue light grew bigger and approached him . Xiao Chen wanted to observe the light further but when the blue light hit his body , the light seemed to enter him .
Xiao Chen's body then emitted a bright blue light before his vision went dark again , but this time his whole body felt pain again although not as bad as before .
" Ouch ! Ouch ! What happened ?!" Xiao Chen tried to fight back from the pain he felt , shouldn't he be dead ? Why did he still have to feel pain like this ?
When Xiao Chen struggled further , he realized he could open his eyes and found himself lying down while staring at the night sky full of stars .
" I'm not dead ? " Xiao Chen couldn't believe it , he tried to change his position to sit up but his whole body felt sore and difficult to move . Xiao Chen was sure that he had died and this place also felt foreign to him , could it be that the afterlife was different from what was said in the notebooks Xiao Chen thought .
" Oh , you've regained consciousness ? I thought it would take a few more days . "
Xiao Chen then found someone sitting in front of the fireplace not far from him , a young man who used an iron mask to cover most of his face . Although only a pair of eyes and mouth were visible , Xiao Chen could recognize the person .
" Teacher Fang , why are you still wearing a mask in the afterlife ? Does Teacher's handsomeness still bring trouble in this world ? " Xiao Chen immediately recognized this young man as Fang An , the person who brought him into the martial world .
Fang An who initially approached Xiao Chen with a gentle smile now stopped his steps and became alert, "How do you know my surname is Fang young man? Who are you?"
Xiao Chen frowned when he heard Fang An call him young man. Xiao Chen checked his body, his hands looked much smaller and his legs had also become so short.
"What the..." Xiao Chen held his head which was starting to hurt, he was sure he had been killed by such a severe injury but now he was in a situation that he started to remember, "Isn't this the first time I met Teacher Fang? I went back to the past? How is that possible?"
Xiao Chen did not understand his condition, his head hurt and he started screaming hysterically. No sane person could understand the situation that was happening to him. Fang An who was alert now turned into pity because he saw Xiao Chen's condition.
" Calm down , everything will be fine ... " Fang An hugged Xiao Chen who was hysterical , strangely the hug calmed Xiao Chen after a few moments .
Fang An did not force Xiao Chen to tell more but let Xiao Chen digest the situation he was facing .
During that night Xiao Chen could not sleep , trying to find an explanation for the experience that was happening to him . Every now and then Xiao Chen could hear Fang An coughing softly in front of the fireplace throughout the night .
Seeing Fang An also not sleeping because she wanted to watch over Xiao Chen , worried that Xiao Chen needed something or would be hysterical again made Xiao Chen accept the situation faster .
" Maybe God gave me a chance to resolve my regrets ... " Xiao Chen did not care anymore whether all this was an illusion or reality , but he would go through it . For him whatever he was going through , being able to meet his Master again was a blessing .
Xiao Chen did not understand why he returned to when he was 5 years old , when his village had been attacked and he lost both of his parents . Xiao Chen then dismissed the thought, because
realizing that going back to an earlier time would not necessarily save his village from the robbers.
"Son, have you calmed down? Can you tell me where you came from? How did you end up in this place?" Fang An began to ask after seeing Xiao Chen's condition stable.
Xiao Chen told Fang An everything, in his previous life ON it took a long time before Xiao Chen could tell Fang An everything because of the trauma he experienced but this time Xiao Chen could tell everything smoothly.
Fang An was quite amazed to see Xiao Chen who was still so young looking calm in facing the situation that happened to him, Fang An could also see that everything Xiao Chen told him was not a lie.
"Okay, I understand your situation, How did you know my surname? And why do you call me Teacher?"
Fang An was dressed like an ordinary person, apart from the mask on his face of course while his sword was hidden with a cloth. Not many people would think Fang An was a warrior from his appearance, they would only think Fang An hid his face because of a wound or his appearance was not pleasing to the eye.
Xiao Chen scratched his head, he couldn't possibly tell the truth that this was his second life, right? Finally Xiao Chen could only make up a story that before waking up he dreamed that he was taken as a disciple of a warrior named Fang An who also wore a mask.
Fang An looked at Xiao Chen from top to bottom, knowing his surname was one thing but knowing his full name was certainly something very different. Honestly Fang An found it hard to believe Xiao Chen's story, but on the other hand Xiao Chen was only a five year old child in Fang An's eyes.
"There's no way I'd leave him in this forest alone, he said in his dream that he recognized me as Master, could it be true? Is this fate?" Fang An stroked his
chin.
Xiao Chen was a little worried that Fang An would not take him as a disciple this time because of his previous reaction and Xiao Chen was indeed so suspicious but if Xiao Chen wanted to fix all his regrets in the past, he had to follow Fang An into the martial world.
"If you really don't have a goal, how about you come with me? Maybe all this is destiny, I have never had a disciple, you can be my first disciple..."
Fang An had not finished speaking but Xiao Chen had already started to prostrate himself in front of him three times before calling Fang An as Master Fang again. All of Xiao Chen's attitudes made Fang An a little anxious, but in the end this Master and disciple were back together in
this life.