I Will Never Forget

Inside the cave, there were countless scrolls, weapons, maps, armor, pills and rare materials. It is no exaggeration to say that all the wealth of San Meili was here. On a shelf in the corner of the immense cave, there were hundreds of storage rings. Picking up one of them, Xiao Lian was once again shocked. Inside the ring, there were thousands of high quality armor.

All the storage rings had high quality items! Taking a deep breath to calm himself down, Xiao Lian went to the scrolls. And what he found were countless contingency plans for every kind of hypothetical situation that San Meili thought might happen.

Reading the plans and thinking about them, Xiao Lian went about categorizing all the ones that would be useful in the situation he was in. After two days, Xiao Lian came out of the cave, with several storage rings.

He called a meeting with all the elders and protectors of the sect, and explained how they should proceed. They canceled all missions for the disciples, called all the guards at the gates, and doubled the surveillance of the sect grounds and activated the identification matrices, thus closing the sect to foreigners.

After handing out a few things to those present and hours of planning, the meeting was over. As soon as he left the meeting hall, Xiao Lian saw a beautiful young woman waiting on the steps of the hall. As soon as she saw him, she ran up to him with eyes shining in anticipation.

"Uncle Xiao Lian, did you find him?! Is he okay?! Where was he? I swear he'll hear a few words from me! Hmpf!" As soon as she approached him, she bombarded him with questions.

Xiao Lian seeing this, didn't know whether to laugh or cry. This girl had always been like this, and because her brother spoiled her so much, she never changed. She was bossy and thought that everyone should listen to her ideas, but everyone liked her for her purity and innocence.

Letting out a sigh, seeing her niece's anxious eyes, Xiao Lian finally spoke, "We didn't find him, but I found the things he had prepared for the moment he... left."

Xiao Lian thought about telling the truth, but thought it's best to follow her brother's wishes and let San Mei'er find out for herself. She was going to have to mature one day, and that day should come sooner than planned.

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San Mei'er couldn't remember her birth parents, but she could remember perfectly the first day she saw her adoptive father. She was only two years old at the time, but she will never forget it.

Her village had been attacked by mountain bandits, and the whole village was razed, the women raped and killed, and the men tortured and killed. As horrible as this was, she knew that this was a common occurrence in this world.

With no means for mortals to communicate over long distances, corrupt dynasties, and the military even more corrupt, there was no way for mortals to have better lives. In short, nobody could do anything for mortals. Either because they didn't want to, or because they couldn't.

Children, like her at that time, were put in cages, to be sold into slavery. She cried a lot, but all she got were punches and slaps, to keep her quiet.

After three days in a cage with hunger, cold, fear and despair, San Meili appeared. His red hair was disheveled, and his blood-red eyes were unfocused. He was wearing tattered clothing, with one sleeve that hung weakly for lack of an arm. He held a gourd in his hand, with a strong smell, and staggered down the narrow mountain path.

In the beginning. San Mei'er thought it was just another bandit, her eyes were already dead and hopeless, so she didn't think much about it, and just watched the strange looking bandit caravan.

'I thought my second life would be better... but apparently, those who are born to be sad, will never be happy.'

With that thought in mind, a silent tear descended from San Mei'er's eye. However, she noticed that the caravan was strangely silent, it was then that she noticed that time around her seemed to have stopped.

When she came to her senses, however, all the bandits were dead, mutilated, and cut to pieces all over the place. The children were shocked and terrified by this, but San Mei'er could only think of one thing.

'Magic! That man used magic, didn't he? How could he kill everyone when all he did from the beginning until now was walk? That sure is magic!!!'

Her dead eyes regained their sparkle of life as she thought about how she could learn about magic and mystical things and...;

"Hey little girl, you parents?" San Meili asked her.

Looking at him expressionless, she just denied with her head. Then he asked another question, "Do you want to be my daughter?" She just nodded softly.

In response to this, he just stepped through the bars of the cage as if they didn't exist, and took her on his lap with a small smile.

Then he said in a sweet voice, "As of today, you are the daughter of San Meili, the destroyer. Hahahahaha!"