Chapter 3 "The Truth"

When the old man who was fighting the group saw this, he ran toward him while getting rid of all the obstacles in his path. With bloodshot eyes, he gave up on all the defense.

He threw the heavy shield in his hand to increase his speed.

It all happened in a split of a second. The young master who was slashing downward stopped suddenly, which was nearly impossible if not for his great strength, and took out a gourd from his spatial ring.

The gourd was quite ordinary just like a gourd made by a mortal but it was no longer the case when it was opened.

A gust of energy purple burst forward. It had the shape of a sword.

As soon as the energy came out all the beasts and animals in a radius of thousand meters felt it. They started shaking from fear and tried to escape from whatever the source of energy was.

But the old man was not so lucky. He who fell under this energy sword had a big hole pierced in his stomach.

It looked like the sword took half of his intestine but the old man still had the sword in his hand when he fell to the ground.

" Earthly mandate...." It was a very feeble voice which old man was capable of spitting in this sorry state.

The girl who had her eyes closed, in the fear of being slashed into half, opened them when she felt no pain but the sight in front of her nearly took her soul out of her body. "GRAMPS!!!!" She cried.

" That's right 5th elder from the sect gave it to me to slaughter a dog like you."

It turned out all the time he acted like a horny young master was all to lead the old man into his trap.

After finding the old man's weakness and checking his loyalty to his young miss he laid the trap where the old man was forced to give up his defense.

'So our young master is not just a trash that he shows himself as in front of others.' Every single one of them thought. It made them wonder if the cultivation base he shows in front of others was the limit of his real power.

The look of disgust for him changed into respect to some extent because all said and done he saved their lives in the time of need.

The old man was thoroughly deceived. Despite being alive for so many years he fell under the trick of a youngster. 'The youngsters will replace us in no time indeed'

"I...I am sorry gramps beca... because of me. I....I will call someone for help.....help yes... Brother yang. BROTHER YANG." She was crying and crying even her snort was running down, destroying the image of a beauty of her anyone had.

Even though she lived with gramps for just 4 years those four years were enough for her to tell that gramps loved her like her real parents. He always protected her and took care of her.

He was the second person to whom she was most attached after brother yang who was her childhood friend.

"Don't cry, no one is going to help he is dead. They all are" at that time the old man paused, remembering some unpleasant memories he didn't want to remember.

" No, No, No it can't be brother yang how can he.... how can he....he promised me that he will always be there for me....WHYYYYYYY!!!!!!!" she was having a mental break down, losing all of her sanity if any of it was left.

" Hey before you kiss the world goodbye I want to ask a question. We found dead bodies of your group and half of what was left of that boy, but it was none of us who did it, the young boy had his lower body crushed while and there was some blood on your shield even before our fight started. You see I am a very curious soul..... So old man, can you please enlighten me.... was it YOU?" asked the young master of the soaring phoenix clan in enquiring tune.

This sudden question startled the girl she looked toward the old man with a baffled gaze.

"Indeed old man I have the same question for you" at that time a leisurely voice spoke.

This sudden voice interrupted everyone's line of thoughts for this peculiar voice didn't belong to anyone present at the moment.

They all looked toward the source of the voice, they saw a young man leisurely leaning against a nearby tree.

He was wearing the normal uniform of the disciple of ice-cold palace. Every one of them had their hearts stopped beating.

'I am sure I saw his dead body. He was clearly dead no doubt about it'

This train of thought scared the young master of the soaring phoenix clan.

He looked toward his comrades but every one of them had a baffling look at their faces. This negated his doubts that he was probably seeing things at that time or right now.

Same was the case for the old man he was the one who was most scared out of all of them.

Because the doubts of the young master were true he was one who killed this young boy and he had a pretty good reason for doing so.

"No you are not seeing things old man and of course no, young master, I am not someone with such high cultivation realm that I came back from the dead," the boy said indicating as if he had read their minds.

"So old man I know what is going on here. Treasure and greed drive a man and such is the case right now. But aside from these useless matters, I want to know the reason why I killed my comrades and why you attacked me?" asked the young boy.

"Brother Yang! Please help gramps he.... he..." The girl was clearly paying no attention to the conversation. Seeing her childhood friend gave her hope in a difficult time.

Yang, that's right. It was the name of the boy or rather the body whom the boy was possessing.

The innocent girl's name was Xiao Qi.

"....."

For the old man, the safety of Xiao Qi was no longer the only problem.

He was given responsibility by the palace lord herself to take care of this girl and the treasure she was carrying. Such was also the case for this young boy but he betrayed them and killed the rest of his comrades.

No matter how much the old man racked his brain he was not able to point out this betrayal's motive in the end he had to knock out his miss Qi and confront the boy.

Till the end, the kid yang didn't tell the reason for the betrayal. Wait not the 'end' clearly he was standing before him.

"No answers? Well, what a shame..." Said the boy disappointingly.

"Please!help!"

The girl was crying after looking at the old man's' life slowly slipping from hands.

"Of course"

In the end, the young boy replied to the girl's plea and walked toward the old man.

The other group cautiously moved away to some distance.

They didn't try to stop him since even if he helped the old man only his life would be saved he already lost his cultivation base which can't be recovered unless a miracle happens like the return of a supposedly dead boy.

But contrary to their expectations when the boy got near the old man he lifted his foot and stomped with all his might over the old man's face.

"Splurt"

The old man's head was shattered to pieces.

The last of breath he had left was now gone with any chance to save him.

The blood-splattered on the young girl's face who was frozen, unable to understand what had happened right now.

This sudden development caught the other group off-guard.

"Now sleep like a good baby and don't worry about Miss Qi, I'll take care of her," said the young boy with a gentle smile on his face.

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