As soon as Long Huan left, Tian Wei had rested for an hour before getting up and writing a small note for Long Huan. She smiled writing the note and reminiscing about the time when she used to leave similar notes for her brother when she had something to do.

After that, she walked outside the inn and headed towards the City Gates. The first thing she wanted to do was to try the Ancestral Dragon Skill and for that she needed a fairly secluded place. There must be a forest range outside the city and that was the place she was aiming for. Soon she was several kilometres away from the city, inside the forest.

She located a mountain in the distance and headed there. After reaching the base of the mountain, she searched around for a bit and finally found what she was looking for – a cave. After checking there was no one inside, she went in and sat down cross-legged. The Ancestral Dragon Skill appeared in her mind and she started circulating it. This technique had nine stages and each stage will give her two innate true dragon skills.

Innate skills were quite rare in the cultivation world and it was even rarer for a human to have one. Innate skills used very minute amount of spirit energy to be activated and thus someone with them had an unfair advantage over someone who doesn’t. Innate skills were pretty common among monsters and the reason why higher ranked monsters were so feared.

Suddenly a dragon totem appeared in Tian Wei’s dantian and sprit energy in the surroundings started rushing towards her rapidly. After a few minutes, there was a loud dragon roar which came out of her dantian and reverberated throughout the mountain range. After her body became saturated with energy, Tian Wei guided the energy towards her meridian and circulated it according to Ancestral Dragon Skill, then finally guiding it to her dantian. As soon as the energy reached her dantian, the dragon totem started absorbing it in frenzy and it started glowing. After the totem was full, it released an azure colour energy which spread throughout Tian Wei’s body and strengthened her bones and muscles. Slowly, Tian Wei opened her eyes and smiled. She had stepped onto the first stage of Body Enhancement Realm, but the azure colour energy released by that totem had strengthened her body to a whole new level and she was pretty sure she could easily defeat an ordinary stage 3 Body Enhancement Realm cultivator with ease.

Just as she was planning to continue, a group of cultivators arrived in front of her cave. There were 3 boys and two middle-aged men. Surprisingly, one of the boys among them was Wu Kong, the same person who killed the previous owner of Tian Wei’s body. Even though she didn’t know him personally, as soon as she saw him she felt a strong desire to kill him. When Wu Kong spotted her, he was shocked as she looked like Xiao Wei but upon closer inspection he relaxed since her face was different. Just the colour of their hair was same, that’s all.

But then Wu Kong felt a strong desire to make this woman his. Xiao Wei rejecting him repeatedly had left a bad taste in his mouth. He was the young master of Wu Clan, the clan who was in control of majority of Rising Sun Sect and everybody respected and worshipped the ground he walked. Any girl will be delighted to be his concubine, yet that bitch Xiao Wei had actually denied him. He felt his lungs burning just thinking about it. But the woman in front of him was much more charming and beautiful than Xiao Wei. Her golden eyes gave her a special graceful aura and Wu Kong loved ravaging this type of women.

“Hello young lady, if you don’t mind can I have the pleasure of knowing your name?” Wu Kong asked and gave her a gentle and charismatic smile. With his looks, he really looked like a gentle and handsome young man who exuded a heroic aura, but when those words reached Tian Wei’s ears, she felt nothing disgust.

She really wanted to kill this guy, but she was very weak as of now and it was impossible for her to do so. Wu Kong himself looked far stronger than her and there were also those middle-aged men who looked like bodyguards and they were bound to be at Spirit Condensation Realm. She gritted her teeth and said “My name is Fang Dong’er. How can I help you gentlemen?” Tian Wei tried her best to maintain a polite smile on her face.

“Oh, so it was Miss Fang. This forest is very dangerous my lady and seeing how you are only at the 1st stage of Body Enhancement Realm, it’ll fatal for you to travel alone. Why don’t you travel with our group? We have two strong Spirit Condensation practitioners here and it would be much safer.

Tian Wei really wanted to spit in his face seeing his acting but controlled herself and politely replied “I am sorry Young Master, but I have some important matters to attend and I can’t leave now. If you’ll excuse me”. She tried walking around the group but suddenly someone pulled her hands and prevented her from walking any further. She looked back and realized it was one of the two middle-aged men who was holding her hands with a malicious smile.

“What is the meaning of this?” Tian Wei spat.

“Heh, girl I asked you politely but you refused. I don’t have any patience to deal with you any longer. You are coming with us and that’s final. Tie her up and gag her. We don’t want her screaming the way back.” Wu Kong said with an evil smile and there was lust clearly visible in his eyes.

Tian Wei tried resisting but the middle-aged man was many times stronger than her and tied her hands and legs. Then he stuffed a piece of cloth in her mouth. She was really depressed that as soon as she left the city, she met with trouble and she was too weak to resist. She felt pain in her heart knowing nobody will come to her rescue. In her past life, whenever she was in trouble her brother always came to save her but now, who will?

“Haha…..I leave you for a few hours alone and you are already in such deep trouble. I really wonder where you get your confidence to walk around alone without the strength to protect yourself.” Suddenly a young voice full of masculinity and mischievousness resounded everywhere around the group. Wu Kong was startled and even the middle-aged men were alert. They couldn’t sense anybody around them meaning whoever this person was many times stronger than them.

As soon as Tian Wei heard this voice, she smiled and a few tears appeared in her eyes.

“Hah…..in the end that idiot had to come acting like a knight in a shining armour to save the damsel in distress. I have no idea how strong he is, but judging by the alert looks in the faces of these people, maybe he does have a chance.” Tian Wei though and relaxed.

“Who are you? Reveal yourself!” Wu Kong shouted but fear was clearly evident in his eyes. A few metres in front of the group, a few leaves fluttered and suddenly a handsome young man with silver hair appeared in front of them. He was dressed in black robes which further emphasized his hair. He had pitch black eyes and was staring at them with a smiling face.

“Ohho, so it is that red-haired fellow again. Tian Wei, I really applaud your luck to encounter him of all people in this vast forest. But it’s a good thing in a way. You can kill him and satisfy Xiao Wei’s dying wish no?”

Tian Wei just rolled he eyes. This guy considered everything as part of some drama. Wu Kong was clearly angry since he was the only red-haired here. Though he didn’t know what connection this young man had with Xiao Wei, it didn’t matter since he wanted kill him.

“Guards, kill this guy for me!” Wu Kong screamed. The two middle-aged men swiftly took action and pounced on Long Huan. But before they could come any closer than a metre from Long Huan, they froze in mid-air and their body combusted in white flames. Before they could scream, thei bodies turned into ash and scattered into air. The scene turned deathly silent with Wu Kong and the other 2 boys staring wide-eyed at Long Huan like they had seen a ghost. Long Huan ignored them and walked upto Tian Wei. The ropes tying her disappeared into thin air and she removed her gag.

Even she was surprised by the prowess of this young man. The flames he used looked like Spirit flames but she had never seen white spirit flames in her past life. This young man was becoming more and more mysterious in her heart. But above all, Tian Wei suddenly felt a warm feeling in her heart. Reasons aside, he actually came searching for her and rescued her. He had no obligations to do so, they were basically strangers. Plus, he gained nothing from this but made an enemy out of a powerful local clan here.

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“So how is your adventure going so far Miss Wei?” Long Huan asked with a smirk.

“Hmph, it was going fine before you came” Tian Wei replied and refused to acknowledge her mistake. He was right though, it was indeed silly of her to venture so far away from the capital without any protection.

“Is that so? Well I guess I shouldn’t have interfered then. In that case I’ll take my leave” Long Huan said and turned around to walk away. Tian Wei was startled and scared that he’ll really leave shouted “Wait!” and pulled his sleeve. Long Huan turned around with an eyebrow raised.

“I…..may need your…..as…assistance…in something. Hmph, I am just too weak to do anything otherwise I would never ask for your help” Tian Wei said with a red face.

“Hehe…is that so? Very well. I’ll help you. What do you want? His head?” Long Huan then pointed towards Wu Kong. Wu Kong was scared shitless by seeing the young man pointing in hid direction and with some effort shouted “How dare you kill my guards? Do you know who I am? I am young master of the Wu Clan. If you dare hurt me, Wu Clan will hunt you down to the ends of the world.”

“Such big words” Long Huan said and flicked his fingers. Suddenly, Wu Kong’s right hand got cleanly cut-off from his shoulders and fell down with a thud. After registering what happened, Wu Kong felt pain like he had never felt before and started screaming like a pig.

“I have sealed his spirit energy, he is all yours” Long Huan said and materialized a sword in his hands. Tian Wei looked at the sword and then back at the wailing Wu Kong and with a resolute gaze took the sword and walked towards him. Seeing her walking towards him, Wu Kong tried moving away but how could he? A sword came at him with a flash and his head got separated from his body. Tian Wei didn’t waste any words before killing him as she had killed plenty in her last life and speaking anything to such scums was worth nothing. 

Long Huan then looked at the remaining two boys who were shivering from fear and said “Scram!” They jumped from fright and disappeared into the forest with their fastest speed.

“Why did you let them go? If they report this to the Wu Clan then you’ll be in trouble.” Tian Wei said as she collected the storage ring from Wu Kong’s finger.

“They never attacked me and were just following orders. In my eyes they were innocent and I don’t kill innocent people. And if we are talking about Wu Clan then I must tell you the thing which I love the most in this world, is trouble.” Long Huan said with a mysterious glint in his eyes.

Tian Wei was already accustomed to his weirdness and said nothing. She checked inside the storage ring of Wu Kong and was delighted to find many useful things inside. They were pills, weapons, some scrolls and a dusty looking parchment. These things would be useful to her later on.

“Let’s go.” Long Huan said and held his hand out. Tian Wei blushed thinking he was asking to hold hands and walk back. She had mixed feeling about this young man, but overall she knew he was a good fellow so she put her hands on his after some hesitation. But contrary to her expectations, as soon as her hand touched his, her vision blurred and she found herself back in the inn’s room. She was so shocked that her mouth formed a big ‘O’. Long Huan watching her face had a mischievous idea and materialized a candy and threw it inside her mouth. Tian Wei choked and coughed a few times realizing there was a candy in her mouth. She glared at Long Huan but was inwardly still shocked.

“Teleportation? That’s impossible!!! Only a cultivator practising Dao of Space from Divine Plane could do that but he was clearly not from Divine Plane. People from higher Plane couldn’t descend to the lower plane. Then how?” Tian Wei was mentally frantic when Long Huan spoke.

“It an innate skill”. He had some idea about what innate skills were from a book he read and some of them had pretty amazing powers. Relating this to an innate skill was an excellent idea.

“It has many limitations. I can only teleport to the places I have been once. Plus, I cannot teleport more than 3 people at a time.” Long Huan continued. He obviously could teleport to anywhere he wished and bring as many people he wanted but he didn’t want her to think he was some kind of god so made something up.

Tian Wei nodded and had to accept it. This was only possible through an innate skill and she had seen petty weird and heaven-defying innate skills in her past life so she was not shocked. She had also heard about a family of Elfs having the same innate skill in Mortal Plane somewhere in their continent, but she never visited any continent other than Humas in her past life.

“Why did you save me? How did you find me in the first place?” Tian Wei asked as she sat down on the bed.

“Well, it’s easy to find you. I am quite proficient in Dao of Fate you know. As for the matter of saving you, hmmm….. I don’t know, maybe because I find you interesting?” Long Huan answered truthfully. He had nothing better to speak anyways.

“Duh, an immortal’s soul descending to the mortal plane and that too inside the body of a young girl will be interesting for anyone. But I can see you are telling the truth. Now, I need to ask you something.” Tian Wei said with a nervous tone. She didn’t wanted to accept it but she had a good feeling about this young man and wanted to try her luck to make him accompany her. He was quite strong and with the experiences she had with her brother, she was well aware that there were some things which couldn’t be accomplished alone and having comrades sometimes saves you from near-death situations. Even though she was aware that this young man was not totally honest with her about his powers and how he knew so much about her, if he wanted to harm her he would have already done so. She had a feeling that he was a good man and she trusted her intuition.

“Would you like to accompany me on my journey?” Tian Wei asked.

Long Huan was surprised that this girl actually wanted the same thing he wanted. He found her interesting and had a feeling that accompanying this girl would be much more adventurous that travelling alone. She could teach him a lot about this world.

“Sure” Long Huan agreed in a heart-beat. Tian Wei was shocked that he agreed so quickly but then Long Huan continued “I have travelled to this land only for adventure and if travelling with you means more adventure then why not? I have nothing better to do anyways” he said with a shrug. Tian Wei giggled listening to his words. People normally had grand ambitions like becoming the strongest or becoming famous but Long Huan only wanted adventure? Quite the mysterious fellow indeed.

“Then, welcome to the team partner” Tian Wei said as she extended her hand. Seeing her raising her hand, Long Huan showed a confused expression. Tian Wei was surprised that he didn’t know the gesture for a simple hand-shake. Wasn’t this common sense that everybody, even a small kid, know? She then remembered her various conversations with Long Huan and realized he really seemed to lack common sense.

“Where are you from exactly? You don’t seem like you come from any human land” Tian Wei said as she gave up shaking his hand.

“Hmm….for now I can only tell you that I am not from this land and I don’t know much about this place.”

Listening to his reply, Tian Wei was sure that he lacked common sense and thus the responsibility of teaching him that fell on her shoulders since he was her partner. She had a headache just thinking about it.

“Well, I was thinking shall we join the Adventurer’s Guild. We could do some missions while we travel towards your sect. What’s the fastest way to travel around here by the way?” Long Huan asked as he sat down beside her on bed.

“I agree. By hunting some monsters, we could collect monster cores which are quite useful for cultivation and we could also sell them for money. And the fastest way to travel in this world is through space gates. But I don’t think those will be available here in this backwater region so we’ll need to head towards the closest space gate. I think we can get information about its location in the Adventurer’s Guild.”

“Well you don’t need to worry about money. I am very rich.” Long Huan stated. Before going off to rescue Tian Wei, he had realized that he could actually use his powers to materialize coins and duplicate the insignia of Humas continent easily, which basically meant he had unlimited amount of money.

“Is that so? But I can’t always rely on your money so I need to earn mine.” Tian Wei said with a smile.

“Oh…Ohk. You must be tired, so take some rest.” Long Huan said pointing to the bed.

“Where will you sleep then?”

“Ofcourse, I’ll sleep in my bed, with you. Why?”

Tian Wei’s face turned beet red. Was this guy really shameless or was he really not aware of what sleeping together signified? Judging from his innocent eyes, it was probably the later. She sighed and said “Long Huan, you are probably not aware but a male and a female cannot sleep together on the same bed unless they love each other ohk?”

“Hun? What’s love?” Long Huan asked. He really didn’t get why they couldn’t sleep together.

“Its…..well never mind. Just, we can’t sleep together.” Tian Wei said with a blush. How can she explain what love is when she herself never experienced it?

“Well….ohk, I’ll book another room for me I guess” Long Huan said and walked out of the room towards the reception to book another room. Tian Wei felt bad for kicking him out of his own room but he was already out and she couldn’t do anything now. With a sigh, she laid down on the bed.

Long Huan booked another room adjacent to his own and slept there. He was still wondering why he couldn’t sleep with her but since he couldn’t he didn’t pay it any more attention and lost himself in the cosmos of his dream.