Rod node seriously and said: “thank you, my lord, I will always remember your worlds.”
Hearing this, Mike nodded his head, and he pointed toward Rod, and a golden ball flowed out toward Rod's eyebrow. He said, “That technique will let you see a person's aura, just as I mentioned before. You will see five colors, and it will depend on the person's evil deeds.”
Rod nodded seriously and said: “Thank you, my lord. I will always remember your words.”
Hearing this, Mike nodded his head in satisfaction. He said: “Okay, time to return to normal. Just call me a young man in public.”
Rod replied with a humble tone: “Yes, my lord.”
Mike then asked: “Right, old man, what makes you wander to go to the capital?”
Rod replied, “I have business in the capital as a merchant, and I always travel everywhere because a merchant doesn't have a home to stay, and we always travel until we get old.”
Mike then asked again: “Hey, old man, do you have a family in the mortal world?”
Rod replied while shaking his head: “No, I don't.”
After some discussion, they decided to continue their journey. On the road, Mike and Rod had a casual chat. When they entered the forest, Mike suddenly noticed some movement, and it was a group of bandits. Mike warned Rod, “Old man, be on guard. I saw five bandits up ahead, and two of them are at peak stage on Qi concentration level. Be on guard; I will hide in the back for a moment so that I can perform a surprise attack.”
Rod nodded his head in agreement. After their carriage went deeper into the forest, the five bandits jumped and surrounded the carriage. Seeing this, the old man got nervous since he didn’t have cultivation yet, but he remained on guard.
One of the bandits looked at Rod and commanded: “Give me your goods, and we will spare your life, old dude!”
Hearing the bandit's command, Rod didn’t speak or move. While Mike was hiding at the back of the wagon, one of the bandits, who was at peak stage in the Oi concentration level, went to the back of the wagon where Mike was hiding. The bandit went inside the carriage, but when he looked up, he saw a little child pointing a sword at his neck. The bandit wanted to laugh, but Mike cut his head in an instant and absorbed him.
After absorbing the peak Oi concentration stage bandit, Mike didn't feel any huge change.
Mike: “Hmm, absorbing low rank is too wasteful, I can barely feel a tiny improvement.”
One remaining peak Qi concentration stage heard a noise and called out: “What's wrong over there!?”
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But no one responded, and he became alert. He gestured for one of the bandits to check what’s going on. The other bandit, at early Oi concentration stage, came closer, and Mike then jumped. He swung his sword and sliced the bandit's neck.
Mike said: “Two men down; there are only three left.”
The bandits were shocked at how two of them got killed by a child. The remaining peak Oi concentration quickly dashed forward to attack with his giant sword. He swung it toward Mike, who dodged it and made a quick counter. The bandit dodged it, and he was surprised to find out how fast Mike was despite being a small child. He started to feel uneasy.
Seeing this, he knew that things were not as simple as they originally thought, and he commanded the other two to retreat. Mike noticed that the two lower-level bandits started to retreat. Mike then dashed toward the two retreating bandits and killed them in an instant, since they were just low-level. It was too easy for him to kill the two low-level bandits.
When the last remaining bandit saw this, he begged for his life to be spared: “Young master, please forgive me and spare my life. If I was blind to offend the young master.”
But Mike didn't listen. He used the technique to see through aura and saw that the bandit's aura was red. He said, “People like you are not worthy of living in this world, so get lost and die!” He then cut the head of the thief.
After Mike killed all the thieves: Rod was surprised that Mike got stronger than the first time he saw him.
Mike asked: “Old man, are you okay?”
Rod replied: “Yes, I'm fine. Thanks to lord's protection.”
Hearing this, Mike shook his head while smiling, He picked up the dead body and head of the last bandit and threw it toward Rod.
Rod was confused, but before he could ask, Mike said: “Use the devour technique that I just taught you and absorb that body so that you can strengthen your fight.”
Hearing this, Rod nodded his head in agreement, and he excitedly performed the technique. He was surprised to see that the body was sucked into his body. After some time, Rod was done absorbing the body, and he felt strength run into his body. He broke through to the early Qi concentrations stage.
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Rod felt a surge of emotions, and tears began to fall from his eyes. He still couldn’t believe it. After 67 years wandering in the mortal world as a merchant, he had already accepted his fate and the reality that he couldn’t give his parents the justice they deserved. But now everything had changed just because of a child who chose his wagon as a hiding spot.
Now, Rod returned to his senses and looked at his hands. He noticed his hands had changed in texture, and he took a mirror from his pocket. To his surprise, his face had aged backward from looking 67, and now he looked like he was 50 years old. Rod looked at Mike with a bewildered expression, and he achieved a breakthrough and reached an early Qi concentration stage.
Seeing Rod reaction, Mike was also surprised by what happened. But he got an idea of what such effect happened, and he asked Rod: “How is it, old man? How does it feel?”
Rod looked at his both hands as he clenched them and said: “I felt my body become strong, and I felt refreshed as if I was born again.”
Rod then bowed toward Mike to show his sincerity, and he added: “Thank you, my lord, for this new life that you gave.”
Mike waved his hand to indicate that it was nothing: “It is nothing, old man. After all, helping you is also the same as helping myself.”
After some exchange, Mike then jumped inside the wagon and said: “Let's go, old man. We already wasted too much time.”
Upon hearing this, Rod agreed: “Yes, my lord.”
While they were moving toward their destination, Rod suddenly spoke: “You know what, my lord? Shortly, you will become the next master of this world.”
Hearing it, Mike became curious and asked: “What makes you say that?”
Rod replied, looking at Mike's ring: “That's because you possess the two relics: the book and the ring of the creator of this world. Back then, it was said that they were lost for hundreds and thousands of years since the fall of the creator, according to legend.”