Chapter 75 – Tiny Parts of the Whole (II)

Chapter 75

Tiny Parts of the Whole (II)

I stayed at the cliffside for a long while, trying to calm down.

Freakin’ scary!

So, so scary!

Even Long Tao hasn’t yet mastered it, and this dude did it in literally five minutes! How the hell does that make any sense? Oh God, why did I give it to him?! I opened up a can of worms that can’t be closed anymore…

Haah.

Yet another sigh escapes me as I stand up. Look, I’ve gotten pretty good at it, you know? Pretending that everything is fine while I’m falling apart inside. So, I’ll just do that. Compartmentalize the knowledge that a servant has mastered a mid-Sky Tier art in the span of five minutes.

Poof.

What mastery? What minutes?

On my way back I did chance upon him again, actually, but due to my amazing compartmentalization skills, he didn’t realize anything was wrong. I think. I hope.

He merely bowed and went back to doing… something, while I rounded the corner and entered the house, where a guest was waiting for me: Elder Qin. There was a chess table already present, pieces aligned, and he seemed rather eager to play.

“Elder Lu,”

“Elder Qin,” I nodded back at him. Ever since I went into the Antechamber, he’d grown… looser around me, you could say. Maybe something about that little adventure confirmed he at least had nothing to fear? Who knows… “Wait a moment. I’ll make us some tea.”

“Very well. Where is your disciple that usually makes it?”

“Ah, she broke through, so I gave her some stones to go down the mountain and buy us all a nice dinner for a treat.”

“Oh? She broke through to the second stage? That’s quite impressive!”

“… yeah, second stage,” I stumbled and cringed a bit, though thankfully I was in the other room. “Quite impressive indeed.”

“What about Xi Zhao?”

“I sent him down with her.”

“The other kid? Long Tao, I think?”

“He’s… around,” I didn’t really even know if he was around. Ever since he got that cloaking art, he’d become a bit of a… ghost. “You seem awfully interested in their happenings. Everything alright?”

“You’ve promised a victory, after all. I need to make sure.”

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