Chapter 330 – Truths and Lies (XVI)

Chapter 330

Truths and Lies (XVI)

Light’s eyes never wandered aimlessly; from the start, as others focused on the encroaching, shadowed figures, she focused elsewhere: on their Master.

Here and there she would toss an art as a distraction, but she could not get her eyes off of the man in the distance. The way he fought was brilliant, and he looked almost as amazing as her Father did!

He swung his sword against the two and held them back, toying with them by letting the fight drag on as he made it seem he was extremely weak so that the shadows would attack them, giving them ample opportunity to fight and become better.

Dai Xiu, as per usual, threw a tantrum on this side; Light frowned as she got distracted for a moment by her random yapping and missed Master cutting down one of the evildoers. He must have looked breathtaking! And she missed it!

All because Dai Xiu couldn’t handle anyone being better than her.

She noticed it from a while back; the only one she tolerated was Senior Brother Tao, but that was because he would beat her black and blue if she tried it on him. With Sister Lan, she would always talk back and challenge her repeatedly, despite having never won a spar between them.

It was extremely childish! That was why she told her the truth.

“Because you’d die and Master would be sad.” Though Dai Xiu shot her a dirty look, that was all there was to it. Unlike Xi Zhao, who seemed to tolerate her childishness and pettiness, Light never did!

And for whatever reason, though Dai Xiu didn’t seem to like her much, she never did try and butt heads like she did with Wan Lan.

… was it because Light was young? She grinned inwardly without a care; she was the youngest, and they all gave her special privileges for it!

After shy Brother Rayce put on a pretty light show, Light was just about to compliment him when she heard him mumble, “Master… is really one of a kind…”

He understood it, too! Their Master’s unique brilliance!

Light nodded, as though the praise was directed toward her, but didn’t say anything as she slayed a villain that tried to attack her from the back.

They were all weak, she noticed—so weak it was kind of pathetic. The more she fought, the less she thought these were cultivators and instead were mindless ghouls throwing themselves in a fire.

But… she worried.

Not for Master, not for her Brothers or Sisters here, but for the boy that went up to the sky to face the city lord.

That old man… he was scary.

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Any time Light looked at him, it was as though she looked at some bottomless abyss of darkness. Like there was a deep and long shadow hiding behind his frame. Nobody scared her as much, not even that vile man who called himself Spirit Sage.

Though Brother Tao was strong… she was scared he would lose. If he died, their Master would be sad.

When she was sad, Master was there for her–he saved her. But could she save him? Her frown deepened, her mind elsewhere even as that woman-thing in the sky summoned some fire and lightning like she was in a circus.

Could she help Brother Tao?

… maybe. But her Father warned her, time and again, that she should never do it–not unless she was certain that all those who saw her would be dead by the end of it. But there were too many people, most at the edges of the lake, all still observing all of this.