Yu Xiao traversed towards the merchant who was waving at him, slowly as he approached more of the dancing drunk merchants noticed Yu Xiao. Ignoring the other merchants, Yu Xiao continued to go in the direction of the merchant who waved at him.

Once he had reached the merchant, Yu Xiao got a better look at who called him over. It was a middle aged man with dark black hair and bronze skin with a well defined face structure. When the man got a better look at Yu Xiao he felt an immediate displeasure that stemmed from his very soul. But this merchant was a compassionate person and fought back against the displeasure, the curse from the heavens was still in effect but as Yu Xiao face was covered fully the effects of the curse had been reduced.

Instead of pure hatred when looking at Yu Xiao most would feel uncomfortable around him or would feel displeasure being around him, this was exponentially better than how his parents would treat him.

When Yu Xiao got close enough the middle aged man looked at him as asked

"What are you doing wandering out so late at night little one?"

"What's your name?" Yu Xiao asked quietly

"Hehe, this old mans name is Wei Long." laughed Wei Long

"You still haven't answered my question kid, what are you doing alone wandering the resentment forest. Don't you know that evil spirits haunt it and even Qi essence practitioners wouldn't necessarily be safe out here alone?"

"What do you mean by Qi essence practitioners, Also What are evil spirits, and what's the resentment forest" Yu Xiao questioned he'd never heard of anything like this before, just like when he looked outside his room it amazed him, now he's hearing new words and terms.

"WHATTTT! YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT EVIL SPIRITS ARE??" Wei Long was flabbergasted, how could any being be this uninformed?

"Nope," Yu Xiao replied with puppy dog eyes begging for him to explain what all those words meant.

"Man, you hopeless kid. Evil spirits are spirits of the dead which have been corrupted by resentment and anger. There are many different grades of evil spirits but I'm merely a lowly merchant from the Crimson Weapon sect so I don't have the privilege of that information." Wei Long replied

"The resentment forest I was referring to was the place you just came from, it's called resentment forest as it was once said that a demonic cult was hidden deep within the depths of those forests and many mortal sacrifices were made the entire forest will end up with resentment of the dead mortals."

"Uhhhh" Yu Xiao was startled, he didn't anticipate that he'd become even more confused after listening to an explanation

"You've gotta be kidding me, have you never been taught a day in your life? " Wei Long was bewildered at Yu Xiao's lack of common sense and knowledge.

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"Are parents supposed to teach children things like that? My parents had always told me that going outside was forbidden and that most kids get brutally punished for even taking a breath of air, and because of them being lenient on me I should be thankful and stay inside a room with no light and get feed once a week." Yu Xiao said casually

Wei Long was now utterly speechless, that kind of treatment was no different than torture, and onto a tiny little kid no less.

"S.. soo your saying you've never seen the outdoors until today?"

"Yes" replied Yu Xiao

Wei Long felt a chill down his spine, he started to look at the child with pity but inside his soul became disgusted at the fact he even tried to bare pity onto such a thing.

Wei Long ultimately stayed neutral in all of this and began to give Yu Xiao Mind an astronomical amount of knowledge that will create his world view from scratch.

"Ok, so let me start off with some basics of how the mortal world works. Mortals are being's who don't awaken martial spirits when they turn 15, the mortal world is pretty simple, you have to work to make money to survive in that economy. But the immortal world is much different. Immortal cultivators use their martial spirit to absorb Qi from the surrounding cultivators are known as Qi essence practitioners, a sign that someone is a Qi essence practitioner if they are in the Qi essence realm. There are hundreds of different sects that rule over multiple different parts of the planet, because cultivation is a magical act of defiance that is said to give you power to rival the heavens and become a god. " Wei Long Preached

A staggeringly large amount of Information washed over Yu Xiao, Wei Long ended up giving Yu Xiao a lecture that lasted long enough for the sun to rise.

The blazing cruel heat of reality had caught up to Yu Xiao, he was balling in tears. All the pain he felt because of his parents and them deceiving him and making him care for them even more by torturing him day in and day out. Massive amounts of anguish washed over Yu Xiao, his mind was on the verge of collapse. Everything he cared about was a venomously cruel lie, it was like thousands of daggers had pierced his heart.

During his breakdown, Wei Long Swallowed the feeling his soul was giving him and tried his best to comfort him.

"Hey kid, you should take that off your face or else it will also get wet from all those tears. I'll take you near a horse and even let you sit on it, how about it?" Wei Long asked whilst his soul was aching in rage.

"I'll take it off while I'm on the horse, is that okay?" Yu Xiao asked while tears ran down his cheeks

"Sure kid, as long as you stop with all these tears," Wei Long replied.

Wei Long picked up Yu Xiao and put him onto a black horse that was looking in the direction of the resentment forest.

When Yu Xiao got on top of the horse, he stuck to his words and started taking off the rag that kept his face hidden. Wei Long had backed up 10 feet to give the kid some room.

The second the cover on his face disappeared, Wei Long's face immediately became warped and twisted just like his parents and looked at him with pure hatred. Wei Long immediately picked up a bow and arrow that were on a nearby barrel and aimed at Yu Xiao.

He pulled it back and fired, the arrow pierced Yu Xiao's shoulder, Agonizing pain overflowed within Yu Xiao he screamed at the top of his lungs. That startled the horse he was on causing it to start galloping forward at an astounding rate. It was headed straight for the resentment forest.

Wei Long had informed the rest of the merchants to stop Yu Xiao from escaping, Wei long charged back another shot and fired, this time it missed and hit the horse causing it to gallop even faster.

Yu Xiao managed to get away screaming in absolute agony mixed in with the cries of a horse. The horse entered the forest of resentment and started slowing down until it collapsed and Yu Xiao had already fainted due to pain, and now he was unconscious in the middle of the forest of resentment, alone with himself and the anguish of truth.