The Legend of the Devil
Ch. 139 - Hidden Secrets
Then in an instant a gigantic palm-sized hand was imprinted on the wall of the Regret Gorge so clearly. Fenghuang was stunned for a while, that technique was one of the most difficult techniques to explore, said that out of the hundred Elders in the Thousand Tree Mountain School there were only forty who could master it.
Xiang Yi Bai never expected that Xue Zhan would accept his terms and fight desperately to follow his orders, mastering the 100 basic moves of the Thousand Tree Mountain. Even though Xue Zhan did not master the hundredth of the moves he would not get angry, there were some moves that required special abilities.
Xue Zhan studied all of those styles day and night without stopping, often Xiang Yi Bai saw him faint while meditating due to being too exhausted or exhausted. What made him even more inexhaustible was that the student was not protesting as much as the training he was given.
In Xue Zhan's 99th move and almost fell into the river water, he maintained his consciousness while gathering the last strength he had. The young man's mouth was covered in blood, even Xue Zhan could no longer see clearly as blood also spilled from his eyeballs. He had fought his own threshold of ability.
The final move, Xue Zhan had just taken out a sword from his scabbard and a second later he put it back in. His eyes are still closed. Yet in a split second the young man had already unleashed twelve sword swings towards the ravine wall.
The wind from the swing of the sword was thrown towards the wall and pierced through it very deeply. A slight shock occurred, the twelve slashes were so neat. Xue Zhan turned towards Xiang Yi Bai.
"good. You did it." Xiang Yi Bai clapped his hands, giving an appreciative smile that made his disciple happy. Xue Zhan lifted his thumb as he said, "Teacher, I made it!"
"of course. Now-"
Xue Zhan fainted.
"Oh my goodness, little fleas. He was this really troublesome," growled Xiang Yi Bai immediately transporting the child back to the mainland, while fussing over of course.
Unexpectedly the injuries Xue Zhan received were fatal enough that it took him about eight hours to recover. Xiang Yi Bai sat down on a rock directly opposite a campfire. The place, Xue Zhan and Fenghuang often spent time together. This time it was only him and Fenghuang. They usually only discuss the past and the conspiracies of bad people.
Until finally Fenghuang started thinking the same as Xue Zhan thought. He made his point in the chat.
"Don't you feel sorry for seeing your students? I saw him as a kara, no one believed him. The people he had left him. No wonder she really wished you were with her."
"You're telling me what you've been feeling?" Xiang Yi Bai reversed his words until the phoenix did not reply for a moment, digesting Xiang Yi Bai's words. The man seemed to know a little about what he was going through.
"It hurts a lot when you stay alone while the people by your side leave. A single day and bearing the burden alone. Before I met you, I felt the same. And it seems tomorrow will return to live it." Fenghuang refused the food that Xiang Yi Bai had offered. The man breathed.
"You can go with Xue Zhan. Isn't it more profitable? I'm sure you'll find it difficult to reach your goal. Bringing Xue Zhan was the right choice."
"You alone?"
"Don't have insects in your ears until you haven't heard what I said since yesterday. I'm not leaving here."
"By the Rock of the Land again?" Fenghuang cut and slightly sanctioned. "Or to avoid the regrets that you're so afraid of?"
"both."
Fenghuang replied. "We're both like two old men busy worrying about the world. Death is in sight."
"Jal alone is reluctant to greet you, Fenghuang. If he's here, he's definitely running around looking at us. Haha."
The man took out a legendary book, the Book of Heavenly Phoenix that was said to have long disappeared.
"How can you have it?"
A little bit of a phoenix was startled, Xue Zhan had also once pointed out a move from the Book.
"So you're the one who passed down the Wind Sword Dance to the kid?"
"It's not me. But he had owned this book from the beginning. Since he was born on this earth ..."
"You seem to know a lot about him."
"I know this boy more than he knows himself."
Xiang Yi Bai's words hung. Xue Zhan who had fainted for more than seven hours woke up and began to catch the chatter. He tried to get closer and listened to Xiang Yi Bai's words.
Fenghuang responded, "How come?"
"Because I am the Master of his Father."
The blood all over Xue Zhan's body froze, he didn't feel his legs still on foot but clearly his bones felt limp. I never expected Xiang Yi Bai to hide all of this for five years. All this time Xue Zhan had only realized why his master had always called his old disciple and equated the two of them.
Even when he first met, Xiang Yi Bai had asked that he was the son of someone. Xue Zhan was too careless and did not take him seriously. But now the surprise made him unable to wiggle.
"When the child was born a great turmoil occurred in the Phoenix Kingdom. The war killed hundreds of thousands more people. The demons came to slaughter humans without mercy, and then I heard that his father and mother were killed. His son is said to have died in the river."
Xiang Yi Bai stared far away with a pushy look. "When I got out of here to hear the news, it felt like there was nothing left for me in this world. I no longer have a part to live in. My college is ruined, my friend died and my student died without anyone helping her."
Xue Zhan listened to him. That voice was so desperate. Xiang Yi Bai continued.
"When I met the boy, I thought he was my student. But fate said otherwise, they left the child who was rumored to have died carried away by the river to me. When I heard all the stories from him, I was more and more convinced that he was his son."
"You've never told her anything this important?" fenghuang asked who represented the question in Xue Zhan's head back then, she waited expectantly for anxiety.
"I knew he'd hate me because I couldn't protect his Mom and Dad. As his Father's Master, I can't do anything but be a coward in the Gorge of Regret and spend time with wine. While they died in the war. Everyone says I'm great, but in fact I'm just a pathetic coward who can't fight with my own destiny."
He threw the wine jug into the river, intending to check on Xue Zhan, but instantly Xiang Yi Bai was shocked that his disciple was already standing in front of the hut and was frozen still. Xiang Yi Bai was too immersed in the story to the point of not realizing his disciple had woken up.
The man's facial skin was getting white, both looking.
"Thus ... The teacher's been hiding it from me all this time?"