Luo Zehn's POV
Slash!
Clink!
Step. Step.
"Who are you?!" I raged, not because soone was sneaking towards my tent, but because soone was able to deflect my full-frontal sword lunge of an attack. Of course, I didn't an to hit them if they were harmless but now that I saw their strength, I knew that they were serious about coming here.
"I'm Lin Xian, and shouldn't we be the one asking that? Why did you attack us when we just simply wanted to talk." Lin Xian rubbed her left wrist which was obviously sprained due to my attack. "Why did you attack us out of nowhere?"
"Sorry about that, I thought you were out for blood since you were sneaking up on my tent." I apologetically responded as I grabbed so herbs from my pocket and wrapped it around Lin Xian's wrists. "These are herbs that synergize with the healing elent. This much should be enough to heal your sprained wrist, sorry about that. That aside, your deflection isn't half-bad. And you're only using shortswords to boot. Are you an Assassin?"
"No, but I was a damage dealer in my previous party. I could pretty much use any weapons, but when it cos to mastery, I'm just a bit above average."
"That's not that bad, you know. I might ask you to accompany in one of my scouting missions next ti." I suggested. "And from what I heard, those two behind you are Yu Sying and Yu Yan, right? The mother and daughter?"
Lin Xian, Yu Sying, and Yu Yan nodded.
"So, what brings you here?"
"We'd like to talk." Lin Xian proposed. Before I could reject her offer, she stepped forward and entered my tent. Yu Sying and Yu Yan, who were simply following Lin Xian, blindly tottered behind the dark-haired and red-eyed girl called Lin Xian.
"What do you a- " Before I could finish my sentence, I realized that they were the newcors of the Shelter and that they t a Cultivator with the Blood Elent. Did they want to talk about that? I could only wonder. "Ah, is this about the... wait, why are you here anyway?"
"We want to talk to you about soone." Lin Xian continued. "Your previous Sect Master five years ago, his na was Tang Yongrui, right?"
"That's right. And why do you ask?" I skeptically responded, unsure why they were asking such an obvious question.
"I see... then, would you believe us if we told you that we t him? Or rather, a counterpart of him?" Lin Xian continued.
"You did tell Ye Zhiyun and the others that you t soone that goes by the na of our Sect Master, and he has the blood elent, right?" I confird before continuing on. "But let tell you this, there's no way that's our Sect Master. There's no way he could've survived that bite... and... we saw him transform into an infected."
I could still recall the vivid imagery of our Sect Master sitting down from afar as he looked towards the sun. There was a peaceful aura emitting from his angelic appearance as he closed his eyes in peace. A split second later, however, he bolted upright and unleashed one of the mightiest roars I heard from an infected. I didn't want to rember that again... after all, it was our fault that he died. We were lacking in skills, and there were no words to describe how weak we were back then. Every ti rember that, I would always be filled with regret. We could've escaped or saved our Sect Master... if only we weren't that weak.
"No, we wanted to talk to you about sothing else. There's a possibility that he's an impostor but we just wanted to clarify that your previous Sect Master went by that na." Lin Xian responded, much to my bewildernt. "The thing is, we couldn't help but overhear what you told our Shelter Leader and sothing struck our minds."
Whatever they're doing, they're doing it really well since they've hooked and my full attention. I gulped. I could feel that they were about to say sothing crazy, based on the looks of their faces, of course.
"You said that you t soone with the Dark Elent, right?" Lin Xian asked. "By any chance, was it a young man with long black hair with beautifully contoured nose and a proportionate face? I an, a young man with long black hair, black eyes, and looks handso?"
"Wait... how did you know that?"I asked in surprise. They clearly described the young man that I t during our travel.
"Because he was the one who saved us back then. He was the one who enabled us to get here in Tang Shelter." Yu Sying continued. "And also, I do rember that he summoned so sort of zombie shadow before heading out after he was bitten by a Stage-Two."
"Wait, he was bitten?!" I exclaid. "Wait, now that I think about it... if he was really bitten, then the only reason why he was able to survive the bite was because of his Blood Elent."
I stared straight at Lin Xian's eyes. There was one thing I needed to confirm to make sure that I really t the right person. "When you t him, what was his cultivation level?"
"He was in the Spirit Realm last ti we t. That was well over a week ago."
"Figures. When I t him, he was still on the Spirit Realm." My voice sohow trailed off as I rembered the power he showed when he got angry back at the Si Shelter. "But deep inside him, he holds a far greater power on par with the King Realm, no, it can even be on par with the Immortal Realm."
"Do you have any contact with him? He was really looking forward to joining the Tang Shelter and all, you know." Lin Xian muttered. The three of them finally relaxed since they had the gall to sit on the floor of my tent.
"Yeah, I will be eting him tomorrow. We have sothing we had to do in the Ziyou Shelter." I told them. "And even though he's still on the Spirit Realm, I'll make sure to bring him over to our side no matter what. He will be a great asset to the Shelter."
After saying that, I casually lie down on my bed and turned over to the far side of it, gesturing that I will be taking my rest. Lin Xian, Yu Sying, and Yu Yan imdiately got what I ant and they silently excused themselves from my tent.
Finally, so peace.
... Still, I wonder why that young man has a great resemblance to our forr Sect Master, Tang Yongrui. Well, there's no use thinking about it. I'll just ask him when the ti cos.
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