My whole body Instinctively tensed up at the sudden shout,my brain almost freezed, the shout just now wasn't a normal shout, it was a shout imbued with Blood Qi, exactly like the situation with guardian Li before .
But fortunately this time, things were quite different, for starter I had successfully broken through to the Flesh Tempering Realm, not only that but I also awakened the thing that could allow me to break free from this weird state that was happening due to the use of Blood Qi in his shout just now .
My Blood Qi was stimulated by the effect that strange Blood Qi had on me and without even waiting for me to control it, it directly took action and removed the effect of fear, that invading Blood Qi had on me .
My whole body was once again dranched in sweat, but at least I was able to at least regain my composure, I held my breath and began to think of what I could use to get out of here, after seeing how fast they were moving just now, the idea of escaping here was completely discarded from my mind .
If I had no advantage nor enough confidence to be able to beat them in term of speed, then me recklessly trying to run away, would be nothing less than courting my own death, I had no idea about how to escape here, all I currently know was that it was better to get ready mentally to use some drastic measures in hope of escaping today's crisis .
I began to circulate my Blood Qi getting ready to act at any moment of time, readying myself to use Crouching Tiger together with the secret technique in Charging Tiger, I'm gambling on my life here, so of course I will do my best to secure success, I just hope that weird panel somehow will be able to offset the negative effects of using the Dragon-Tiger Transformation secret technique .
If not for the fact that I'm not certain in successfully executing the Leaping Tiger move, so I will depend on using Tiger's Lunge to get out of here, as for whether I will be able to do so or not, that what it was called a gamble for, I completely had no clue .
Voice 2 : Did you notice something ? .
That voice was very familiar to me, as if I heard it before somewhere, I also had no doubt that this person was the one responsible for me finding the Martial skill book on my bed, he was also asked to do so by the other guy, but it seemed that unlike the other guy, this man hadn't noticed me .
Voice 1 : Shut up and go check the bamboo trees over there ? .
His comrade seemed to be quite at odd with him as he ordered him to go and check without caring much about the other guy face, but I had no free time to be dwelling on this currently, the area which he was ordered to check was none other than the area I was in, I forced myself to calm down .
Thinking about the fact that this guy was the one who didn't notice my noise earlier, I wanted to sigh in relief thinking that at least it wasn't the other guy who came to check himself, every time I stole a glance at the guy who shouted just now, my senses were screaming at me telling me not to confront that guy head on, I had enough experience now to be underestimating a hunch like that .
I lowered my head and decided not to act yet, just as he was coming my way, he happened to stumble upon the dirty clothes that I had earlier, I completely forgot about just now, he bent down and took one sniff at them then he threw them away without even reporting what he found to his comrade .
I was glad for that, he finally arrived in front of the place I was currently hiding and I don't know of it was a coincidence or not, but I suddenly saw that he bent slightly then got up right after without even searching for anything at all .
Voice 2 : There is nothing in here .
Voice 1 : Check throughly, don't make me come and do it myself, you won't like what I might do to you, if I were to find you lying .
As I was about to sigh inwardly out of relief at him being lazy to search around the place, I heard the words of that dangerous guy and cursed him in mind, I was this close to being able get away .
The moment the guy in front of the place I was hiding heard this, he seemed to be shaking a little, the dark night and the black robes they were wearing made it difficult for anyone to be able to tell anything more than this, his shaking didn't continue for long.
He seemed to have made up his mind and his final decision was to once again bent downwards and search throughly this time as he was instructed, while murmuring something out of dissatisfaction, he said :
Soon my son will become a big shot and when that happen, I will ask for your dog head .
Coincidentally when he was just about to stretch his hand through the bamboo and probably find me, a strong air suddenly made the bamboo sticks in the place began to sway and hit one another, leaving me with enough time to change the place where I was swiftly and without him who was currently staring at the other bamboo trees swaying in the distance paying any attention to me .
I moved deeper into the bamboo trees until even light from the lanterns hanged around have become faint, so I don't believe they would be able to find me like this .
Voice 2 : I wasn't able find a thing not to mention someone, are you sure that it wasn't just your imagination or maybe the wind .
Voice 1 : Maybe, it's indeed as you said, lower your head .
He yelled suddenly and without hesitation lowered my head like how he ordered, then the most horrifying thing happened next, I heard the loud cry of a weapon being unsheathed, then a blood like light flashed in front of me still laying on the ground .
A second later, the place I was in before had the bamboo trees in it getting cut diagonally downward, I saw that the edges of the bamboo cut were still gleaming with red color, the cut of his sword was too clean, yes the area that was cut, was in fact cut by a sword attack, but what surprised me the most was the fact that I now was able to see him clearly as before and saw that he was quite far in the distance .
So how?!!, how was he even able to launch such a strike from all the way there, how exactly did he do it, I was also able to notice that it wasn't only the area in front of me that was cut down, no it seemed this area and the area that was affected by the air current from earlier had been completely cut down, the area I was in was in much a better state .
Only now did I understand why he ordered the other guy to lower his head just now, if he was late for even a second, his head might have been cleaved in similar fashion to what happened to those bamboo trees .
I was still able to find a new place to hide, but my mind couldn't help but think about what if I was still crouching on the same place as before, would my head be cleaved clean then .
Sensing how tense the situation I currently find myself in was, I forced these thoughts to go away, due to my last move of crouching down, I currently had lost the ability to make any more moves, so if he still intent on ordering the other guy to check again, I will have no way out but to execute the suicidal plan I had in mind .
Luckily, it seemed that he no longer suspect that someone was eavesdropping, the dangerous person who seemed to be the one with more authority out of the two of them suddenly said while unsheathing his weapon back :
Yeah, that might have been indeed the case, don't forget to tie the cloth next time, or the meeting will be off, you should be as discreet as possible with what you and the other members of the family do in this period of time, I heard the emperor's ears heard about what we were plotting here, so tell your son to perform well as well .
I don't need to tell you about not endangering the next Furnace of the master, like how you did with Lu Jiu, or else if you came in between my master and his Furnace or I hear that you killed him, I will report this to the master and you will be lucky if you didn't end up turning into a Furnace as well, that's all I have for you .
Right I almost forgot, do you remember what you will do, with the new Furnace of course ? .
I saw that even though the guy who was being told all of this seemed to be shaking from anger and most likely fear as well, but even though I was able to hear the sound of his teeth being gritted, he didn't seem to be going to attack the guy who was talking .
I also acquired new information, quite crucial information in fact, the moment I heard the name Lu Jiu being mentioned, my heart and body both went cold, but as I continued to listen to what he was saying, I was becoming more and more paler than before, due to being frightened .
What was that Furnace he mentioned, was I'm being led to become the next Furnace, from the sound of it, that Furnace must be anything but good news to me, I was at my utmost limit mentally, I wanted to scream for help, I wanted to scream for anyone to come and check on what was going here, but recalling the weird yet powerful sword attack from earlier, was what prevented me from doing so .
The moment I raise my voice my fate will be sealed, death, that was the only thing that awaited me, the thought about escaping through the plan I formed earlier seemed to be more and more far from being achievable .
My only actual chance currently was to stay in place until they finally go away, but I was at my utmost limit, my brain was no longer able to handle any more of this nerve-wracking situation, I still decided to preserve a bit more in hope that this situation will end soon enough, I saw that the other guy stood up and answered the question through gritted teeth, he said :
I will follow the orders and regarding the new Furnace, I will be handing him the Crouching Tiger Martial Skill book tomorrow, together with the note to where he should go to find more help in practicing his Martial Arts, isn't that right .
His answer seemed to have made the other party content, even though his tone didn't seem like he was at all, he said :
It seemed like you have finally began to use that brain of yours other than eating and wasting precious resources, I will be leaving now, remember my warning and advice your son to work more effectively, it had taken a lot from us to raise him to his current position, so if he didn't want you or his life to be over, I would suggest that you tell him to work more harder, understood ? .
Understood, Protector, I will be sure to tell my son about what you told me .
I will take my leave then .
With that rhe dangerous guy took one glance around him, as if checking the surroundings for one last time, then almost in a blink of an eye like, he disappeared from my vision and from the scenery, giving me finally an opportunity to catch my breath and calm my nerves down .
Just as I was about to contemplate about what I heard earlier, about Instructor Lu disappearing, were they targeting him or was his mission in the Lu family over, just as I was about to finally began organizing my thoughts now that I had the chance, I heard the only guy who was still lingering around voice saying something that completely disturbed the calmness that I was beginning to have, he said :
Hey, you little rat, no one is here but us you can come out, or I will come and get you .
The moment I heard those words coming out of his mouth, I understood that he was somewhat aware that I was hiding here, but just out of cautious, I still didn't come out, thinking that it might be just a bluff from him, wanting to drive me out of my hiding place .
I was thinking so for a few seconds, but once I raised my hand and saw that he was completely looking in my direction, I understood that I have thought wrongly, that guy in front of me was completely certain about where I was hiding, seeing that there was no point whether I hid or not currently .
I stepped out of the trees and the moment I did, that guy had a subtle change in his emotion, one that was clear as a day, he chuckled at me :
I wonder if I'm allowed to kill you, will that Protector blame me for doing so, what do you think ? .
Seeing him directing the question at me, I didn't know how to respond to that question of his and it seemed that neither he needed me to really answer, since without waiting for me to respond, he continued to say :
How funny, you could have had a chance to survive today, if you just had stepped earlier, but you deciding not to do so helped me in being able to kill you directly with my own hands without having to face any consequences later .
Since you made this easy for me like this, I really wanted to to make it easy and painless death for you, but with you did earlier, sadly I can't grant you even that, you only have yourself to blame for this, come and meet your end .
As he finished saying this sarcastically, he released his killing intent while releasing his Blood Qi, for some reason I found myself comparing to Guardian Li and instructor Lu's killing intent, I found it shouldn't be even mentioned in the same sentence, it was even lacking compared to the little amount of killing intent that Senior Brother Fu released earlier in the Dojo .
It didn't really startle me much, I felt threatened by the fact that I was now facing an opponent 3 or 4 layers above me in Martial Realm, I was nervous and still a bit scared, but I have already anticipated this happening after he told me to step out of my hiding place, so even though I was currently unnerved, my mind was still actively trying a way out of this crisis safely .
Thinking that I might be able to dissuade him from attacking, I said :
" So Deacon Lu, you already accepted the consequences of you doing so, I believe the guy who instructed you, seem to be aware of the grievances between us, so don't you think that he will be suspicious of your involvement in this .
So you found out in the end, huh, that's more than enough reason for you to die .