Chapter 194 – Calls From Beyond (IV)

Chapter 194

Calls From Beyond (IV)

“Senior Brother Tao, you’re back!” Dai Xiu leapt from in front of me and greeted my bread maker, soon followed by others.

“What happened? We felt some strange energy appear for a moment, and then poof, it was gone,” Xi Zhao asked.

“Did you kill someone? Was it fun?” Hey, Wan Lan. What kind of question is that?

“Yeah, was it fun?” Oi, Light, don’t copy the worst of their bits!

“… your Disciples truly are a unique bunch,” Zhu said with a half-chuckle and a half-sigh full of pity.

“Yeah. Unique. Let’s go with that.”

I stood up and dusted myself off.

It was still fairly late at night, and the blizzard was blowing crazily, so we were probably stuck here for a while. Though I thought about not doing it, I just had to. It was boiling in my blood.

“Tao’er,” I said with a faint smile.

“… Master?” He winced briefly at the affectionate nickname, pulling back.

“Congratulations on breaking through into the Spirit Manifestation Realm.”

“…”

“…”

“WHAT?!!!!” Yeah, that was Wan Lan.

Her eyes bulged as quickly as her voice shook the entire cave, damn near causing some rubble and debris to fall on top of us. Other kids–as well as Zhu and Lilia–were imminently startled, though just for a moment before they, too, broke into awe and wonder.

“Is it true?! You broke through?! Wow!! You might be the youngest in history to do it!” Xi Zhao exclaimed.

For these parts, it might actually even be true. Though, I imagine, on the scale of all the worlds that existed…

“Well, of course! He’s our Master’s First Disciple!” Dai Xiu spoke so proudly you’d think she was the one to have broken through. “He must set a proper example, or we’ll make fun of him!”

“Alright, alright, everyone settle down,” I said. “Uhm. Where’s the boy?”

“The boy? Oh,” Long Tao exclaimed. “When I left, he was passed out. Alive, but passed out.”

“… Lilia.”

“We’re on it.” The two sped off into the depths of the cave as I eyed the old monster, who merely shrugged his shoulders and sat down, yawning.

However…

He was feeling somewhat restless, I could tell, and more importantly, he had a new Trait that wasn’t there before.

Anger (Rare).

Whatever happened with the demon, it angered him more than anything else did all this while. At the very least, he was quite good at not letting it show.

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“Are you alright?” I still asked, if for nothing else but the courtesy of it.

The kids, as though inspired to go check out the cave’s depths yet again, scurried off and left the two of us alone. We chuckled at their awkwardness for a moment before he replied.

“What do you think of vengeance, Master?”

“Vengeance?”

“Hm. Is it something worth living for?”

“… temporarily.” I said.

“Temporarily?”

“If that’s the only thing keeping you alive,” I said. “I think it’s worth clinging on to. But… it’s sort of like setting a field on fire. Eventually, it burns out. Hopefully, though, by then… you’d have found something else worth living for. Why do you ask? Are you planning on taking revenge because I let the kids know you broke through?”

He grinned, shaking his head silently for a moment as he looked outside the cave and at the blizzard.

“I… I always believed revenge to be hollow,” he said. “Protect all that could even inspire you to vengeance. But…” he sighed. “We were a bit lucky.”