[ The Next Day ]
Luo Kai woke up and realized that Yang Qingge wasn’t on the bed anymore. He smelled something outside and decided to head out and take a look.
Luo Kai : “What’s this smell?”
Yang Qingge : “Y-You are awake, I-I take a stroll around and found some stream that have fish in it and decided to catch some to roast, to relieve some hunger.”
“Look at this girl, she’s acting like nothing happened but her actual awkward behavior sells her out. Let’s tease her a bit.”
Luo Kai : “Um, I wanted to ask.”
Yang Qingger : “W-What?”
Luo Kai : “How did I end up inside the cabin? I clearly slept outside.”
Yang : *Hieekkk!!* “A-About that, I woke up early today and see that you’re still sleeping soundly and I need to use the campire so, I moved you inside. Hehe”
Luo Kai : “WHAATTT!!! Y-You You! You didn’t do anything to me right, right?”
Yang Qingge : “W-W-WHAT NONSENSE ARE TALKING ABOUT!!!’
*SMASSSHHHHHHH!!!!*
“KIKIKIKIKEKEKEKE. This girl is just too innocent.”
The leisure that the two of them experienced in the past three days gradually made them a bit closer and bond together, and it is now the third day and they are ready to leave the secret realm.
Yang Qingge : “Luo Kai is not a bad person, I wish we could have stayed a bit longer. I never experience this kind of feeling before. I grew up spoiled and thus made me more competitive than others proving myself as someone who could do things on her own. But being with him for a few days made me feel like I wanted to rely on him for the rest of my life. He’s a bit unruly and teases me everytime but he is reliable with it’s needed, unlike those guys from the prominent families who only do things because they got a family to rely on. But when left alone themselves are just a bunch of cowards.”
Luo Kai : “Little girl! What’s the hold up? Let’s go and go back!”
Yang Qingge : “Alright! I will open the passage way!”
Yang Qingge pulled a lever inside the cabin and the a huge door apeared out of no where, they head in and get back to the outside world. Nothing much changed aside from the houses that was on fire a few days ago are now totally on ash, even the city lord’s mansion is now a pile of ash.
Yang Qingge : “It looks like father and the other didn’t come back either. Iron Have City is now over.”
Yang Qingge’s tears started to flow for the first time. Because of her bloodline everytime her emotions fluctuate the dragonic impluse starts to consume her but for the first time in a long time she was able to express her deepest pent up emotions that she suppressed for a long time. Her cries resounded the area, the wailing and cry of a young lady who lost everything, it started raining as if the heavens accompanied her in her sorrow. The burning city slowly got cleansed by the rain and ashes upon ashes, corpses upon corpses can be seen anywhere the city. The Iron Haven City a once prosperous city is now officially a history.
Yang Qingge’s tears stopped pouring after some time and her emotions calmed. It’s now time for her to decide on her next step.
Luo Kai : “Are you calm now?”
Yang Qingge : “Umm”
Luo Kai : “The city is now devastated, what are your plans moving forward?”
Yang Qingge : “What about you? What do plan to do now?”
Luo Kai : “After this incident, I realized how pitiful my strength is. I’ve become somewhat arrogant with ny strength being invincible from my peers but with my identity, I’m bound to fight people with superiors strength that me. So I plan to go to the Blood Gate City, I heard that it’s a good place to train.”
Yang Qingge : “TAKE ME WITH YOU!! MAKE ME STRONG!! STRONG ENOUGH SO THAT NO ONE CAN MESS WITH ME AND MY FAMILY!! I WANT TO AVENGE ALL THE PEOPLE IN THE CITY!!”
Luo Kai : “Alright, you don’t look like the helpless little young lady anymore. You look like a real dignified lady now.”
Yang Qingge : “(⁄ ⁄•⁄ω⁄•⁄ ⁄) W-What nonsense are you saying!”
Pan Xin : “Can you take me with you too?”
Yang Qingge : “Pan Xin! Why are you here?!”
Pan Xin : “My family was slaughtered and not one survived. There is nothing for me in this city anymore. I’ve all buried them. I was too short-sighted before, I think it’s time for me to see the world with my own eyes. And this brother Luo Kai is experienced in the world, so it’s better for me to follow him.”
Yang Qingge : “…………………………”
Luo Kai : “Are you sure about that? If you follow me, that means being under me. Can you take it?”
Pan Xin : “…………. I don’t care, as long as you can make me strong and give me a chance to avenge everyone. I don’t mind being under you.”
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Murderous intent and deep hatred can be felt from Pan Xin’s aura.
“It was reasonable, being born in a prominent family in a big city, it was pretty much impossible for him to encounter a setback. One call from his family and pretty much every problem can be solved. But at this point he has no one to rely but himself. The previous encounter with Grendarth was actually a good encounter for him, he got a bit matured from that incident that made him remain a bit calm facing such incident with his family. Although he was trying to suppress it it was still leaking pretty strongly, with such deep hatred it won’t be long before he become demonic.”
Luo Kai : “I can take you but, stop thinking about revenge for now, or else that hatred that you’re trying to suppress will swallow you, when the time comes it would be impossible even for me to help you.”
Pan Xin : “I will listen to you.”
Luo Kai : “Do you two still have things to do?”
Pan Xin : “No.”
Yang Qingge : “No.”
Luo Kai : “Then we will depart now, Blood Gate City is pretty far from here.”
Luo Kai, Yang Qingge, and Pan Xin bud their farewell from the ashes of Iron Have City and head out to Blood Gate City.
Luo Kai : “Did we forgot something? I feel like we’ve forgotten something.”
A certain someone named Grendarth was left tied on a tree somewhere in the world.
[ 3 Months Later ]
[ Blood Gate City ]
[ Orphius Group ]
Orphius : “We’ve been for more than half a year and have gotten quite stronger. Where in the world is eldest big brother, I thought with his temperament he would surely come to this place. This is the best place for cultivation that’s why we came here.”
Barlock : “Let’s just wait here, eldest brother would surely come here. And it’s not like we aren’t progressing so it’s not a loss either.”
Xingye : “Yeah, we’ve been progressing really fast this past half a year and our cultivation have advanced by leaps and bounds. I’m sure eldest will be happy with our progress and not scold us right, right?”
Orphius, Barlock, Zordick : “……………………………………………”
Daniel : “Is the eldest brother really as strict as you say?”
Zordick : “He is!”
Cindy : “I’m sure if he came here he would know that y’all are here. You named the group as Blue Gale Group afterall.”
Orphius said to himself.
“Cindy joined our group and decided joined as after pestering her for quite some time, and I say this girl is really talented, despite her cultivation technique being far inferior from us she still managed to improve much from 2nd Stage 3rd Level to 4th Stage Peak in three months. What a genius. I hope eldest brother have a suitable cultivation technique for her.”
Leo : “Anyway, I’ve all heard about the legends of this eldest brother but what does he really look like?”
Orphius, Shin, Barlock and Zordick looked at each other and sulking.
Xingye : “Eldest brother is really handsome, his skin is so pale, he is also tall.”
Leo : “Is he taller than Barlock?”
Xingye : “He isn’t as tall as the Orc Race but he is pretty tall at our age. He exude an aura of nobility and no matter what clothes he wears it can’t hide his elegance. His white hair as smooth as silk.”
Leo : “Oh, you mean like him?”
Leo points at someone.
Xingye : “No way some random mob can be a match with eldest brot--”
Xingye was interrupted as Orphius, Barlock and Zordick rushed to the direction Leo pointed. She turned as see her brother rushing towards someone.
[ 1 Month Ago ]
Luo Kai : “We’re finally here! That city over there is Blood Gate City, after 2 months we’ve finally arrived.”
Pan Xin : “What’s so special about that place?”
Luo Kai : “I heard that you can only stay in this for a week and can only enter again after a few months, until you get a residence permit.”
Qingge : “That strict?”
Luo Kai : “Right, so what we need to prioritize right now is to get a permit to permanently stay in the city. I heard it was a challenge to get it and some takes years just to complete the requirements.”
Xin : “I don’t really mind if it takes years but how does getting permit makes us strong?”
Luo Kai : “No no no, what we really aim is not the permit it’s just a convenience, what we really want is to enter the secret realm.”
Xin : “What kind of secret realm can attract so many experts? Can we even get resources if there are too many people grabbing it?”
Luo Kai : “I don’t really know but they said that it was a remnant of the ancient past and it will connect to random places, basically its just a portal with no definite destination. You can either enter a rich herb garden or even in a middle of volcano crater, you might even spawn in the void itself.”
Xin : “Isn’t that dangerous?”
Luo Kai : “High risk, high reward!”
Xin : “Lead the way! I’m just a follower anyway.”
Luo Kai and his gang entered the city and tried to complete the task of fetting authorization from 100 residents unfortunately for them it was not easy as they expected and their time run out and after a week they only managed to get 3 people each. They were supposed to move on and get to other place to train and return after a few months but the guards offered them a task nad if they complete it they can enter again the city and for 1 month this time. The three of them accepted the task. The task was to eliminate a stronghold of bandits with it’s leader in the mid stages of Earth Phase. The fight with the bandits were a guerilla one as they are outnumbered, it lasted for half a month and finally they managed to kill the leader of the stronghold and returned to Blood Gate City to submit the completion of the task. The city guards confirmed the completion of the task and handed them a 1 month permit and it’s been a week since then.
The three of them are helping the resident to gain their favor for the residence permit. After a week of persistence they gathered 24 each.
Luo Kai : “We’re progressing quite steadily, we might have a chance of completing 100 before our 1 month period ends. After helping them let’s go and enter the portal to get some valuables to sell, we’re running low on supplies.”
Vendor 1 : “Hey did you hear? The Blue Gale Group managed to kill 5 Peak Heaven beasts in their hunt today?”
Luo Kai : “Blue Gale Group? Is it them? Not likely right? This place is too far from the Blue Gale City, it might be someone from the city who established a group here. Since they are pretty famous they might have been here for a long time.”
Vendor 2 : “Of course! I’ve seen it personally when they hand over the body of those Heaven Level beasts just this morning!”
Vendor 1 : “Those guys are really geniuses!”
Vendor 2 : “I just hope my kid could become like them, being able to join their group is good enough.”
Luo Kai : “Elders, what does these group look like? They seemed to be pretty famous around here?”
Vendor : “Kid I tell you those guys----------”
Luo Kai sensed something.
“!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
“Someone is coming this way really fast! Is it an attack?”
*Slash*
*Clang*
Zordick : *Kugh* “Woah! Eldest brother, you’re still have a sharp sense!”
Luo Kai : “Zordick!!! Why are you here?!! Are you alright?!!”
Zordick : “Brother, your slash threw me quite far away and you still ask if I am okay?”
Luo Kai : “It’s my fault, you suddenly rushed so fast so I reacted pretty hastily.”
Barlock : “Eldest Brother!! Huhu”
Luo Kai : “Why are you even crying, you silly big guy.”
Orphius : “Brother, I’m glad you’re okay.”
Luo Kai : “I’m also glad you’re all doing okay.”
Xingye : “N-No Way! E-Eldest brother!!”
Xingye rushed to join her brother upon seeing their eldest brother. Their meet-up is full of tears and laughters.
Daniel : “Shin, aren’t you gonna join them?”
Shin : “W-We have quite a bit of history before, so I’m going to pass this time.”
Cindy : “Is that their legendary eldest brother? I don’t know about his skill but he is indeed handsome.”
Leo : “No, the way he blocked brother Zordick’s blindspot attack speaks for his skills. Zordick’s sneak attack and spead is something none of us can match, but he blocked it easily and even throw brother Zordick quite a distance even brother Barlock and Orphius who boast a tremendous strength can’t do that.”
Daniel : “………………….. I didn’t know you’re quite the observant one.”
Leo : “You didn’t ask”
Cindy : “Is he really that strong?”
Daniel : “Yeah, just that strike alone made me sweat. Look at brother Zordick, he didn’t show it but look at his hands.”
Cindy : “His hands? !!!!! It’s trembling? And…. Blood!! What kind of monstrous strength is that? Just blocking that strike injured brother Zordick’s hand?!”
Leo : “Brother Zordick was the one with the initiative with that sneak attack but it was reversed in an instant and it have taken him everything he had just to block that counter-attack. Scary! I feel that those stories undermine who the eldest really is.”
Luo Kai : “Zordick let me see your hand.”
Zordick : “N-No eldest brother, it’s okay.”
Luo Kai : “What okay? That strike from me just now is something I put a lot of strength because I was alerted, I know you’re strength so I know it’s not something that you can easily block.”
Zordick reaches his hand and blood is coming from his palm and there is a bruise on the back of his hand, wrist and arm.
Luo Kai : “Is that something that can be called nothing?”
All of them are sweating at the look of what happened to Zordick’s hand with just one strike from Luo Kai. All of them wondered if they were the one who blocked it what would their arm look like.
Zordick : “I though that after training all this time, we could at least lessen the gap between us but it seemed like the gap have widen even more.”
Luo Kai : *knock* “What are you even talking about, after that encounter I knew that y’all have trained hard. You all have become strong, it exceed my expectations. You all did well.”
Luo Kai : “Let’s find a good place to catch up. Elders we’ve finished the task, we will head out first.”
Vendor 1 & 2 : “It seemed like you all need to catch up, come back tomorrow for the authorization permit.”
Luo Kai : “Thank you elders.”
Luo Kai : “Let’s find a place to talk. I guess you have a lot so say.”
Xingye : “Alright, let’s go!”