Just by the fact that it only took you 1 day to be able to get your mastery up in two Martial Skills, that alone was quite strong indication of how talented you are, if nothing went wrong, I believe that you might become our 8th junior brother, I optimistic about master taking you as a Close Disciple after he hear about what you did .
Listening to the words of Senior Brother Fu, even though I didn't understand much about how this big elevation in status might this bring to me, I was still exited about being able to get guidance from Dojo's Master Chen .
Judging by the reaction of Senior Brother Fu, everytime he mentioned the part about reaching the Small Success level of mastery in two skills, I was able to tell that it was indeed something great, but that also made me more cautious with how I display my skills from now on .
After all, it was one thing if senior brother Fu was able to tell that I was using the Small Success Thunderclap Fist and the Small Success Crouching Tiger, yet that was enough to make him look at me as if I was some kind of a monster or something .
If he or anyone else for that matter, were to find out about me being able to achieve Great Success of mastery over two Martial Skills, I'm beginning to see them cutting me open to know what was wrong with .
But now that I thought about this, I couldn't help but become a bit nervous, wondering whether Master Chen will be able to find the panel inside my mind, after all, who can expect what kind of ways a strongman like him might have and what kind of secret ways he might have in hand .
" I hope to be able to meet Dojo's Master and Senior Brother Fu's expectations .
Senior Brother Fu seeing me so polite and a bit tense, he patted me on the shoulder again and said with a bit dejected tone :
I also hope that you Junior Brother be a bit discreet about this, after all, things might not end up in the way you wished it, Master had some tough standards for those who he wanted to take as his disciples, I'm not invoking bad luck or anything, but I just want you to be in a good state of mind, okay ? .
I nodded my head and even though I had quite the amount of questions in mind that I wanted to answer, I wasn't able to do so now, as per Senior Brother's words, it was better not to jinx it .
Seeing me nodding, he looked at me up and down for a few times then he gave me a knowing smile then he sat crosslegged and began to meditate, I noticed that he was starting to regulate his breath and already understood that he had no more things to be saying to me, at least not with that Lu Chiang here .
I looked at that guy and the evil look he had in his eyes almost made me jump off my seat, but I still composed myself and met his scary eyes with my ridiculing eyes, I had no fears currently in dealing with that guy in front of me, in fact I was beginning to think that it would have been better if senior brother Fu wasn't here, I could have ended the enmity I had with that guy right here and now .
For some reason, I didn't have a problem with thinking of killing that guy who should be the last living member of his family, maybe I really had gained immunity, or maybe I had no problem in killing as long as it those guys .
Neither of the two of us spoke a word to one another, but we were calmly and composedly glaring at one another for all different reasons and purposes, he continued to glance at the leather pouch that I was strapping to my belt and after he seemed to be unable to contain his curiosity no more, he directly asked me about it, saying in a forceful tone :
Where did you get that Beast Pouch, it's quite pricy, so how were you able to get it, did you steal it from someone else? .
He was pointing at the pouch in my waist, so I understood that he was talking about leather pouch, this was the first time I had heard of the name Beast Pouch, so I was confused there for a second .
Also from his words, I was able to understand that he was pointing at me having it while being still a pauper, he wasn't wrong in following that line of thought, but his forceful tone left a bad taste in my mouth, I was beginning to fight the urge to say that I got it from his father out loud .
" Cough, why senior brother Lu think though, I may be as poor as you believe, but that doesn't mean that I can't have a Beast Pouch, to clear your confusion, I only just now figured out that this was a so-called Beast Pouch, I found that pouch getting thrown by someone yesterday as he was being chased by some other guys who were clad in black .
" It fell in front of me, I moved as far away as possible from it at first, but seeing that there seemed to be anyone else around, I gathered my courage and decided to take it, if its original owner were to come and ask for it, I will surely give it to him without even thinking twice .
I sensed that my words seemed to have intentionally or unintentionally ticked him off, I saw that he was gritting his teeth at me and understood that he wasn't buying it one bit, but I wasn't going to change my words because of that, after I blurted that out, I realized that I might have indeed ticked him off with my words, especially the words about its rightful owner coming to get it back .
Dead people can't return back to life, so I guess that Pouch was going to be rightfully mine from now on, I felt that I seemed to be changing more and more as the time passed on, before I wouldn't have found this funny one bit, at least not to the point of joking about it, but now, looking at the grave expression on Lu Chiang's face, I wanted to curse at both him and his father .
After he understood that he won't be getting any more answers from me, that guy lost interest in continuing to say any more words, even though he had heard what Senior Brother Fu said earlier about burying the seeds of discord and getting rid of the enmity between us, but he seemed to have no regard of that advice .
So him losing interest in talking to me ended up in my favor, as I too didn't want to talk to him, but even though he showed no intention of starting to talk to me, he still kept glaring at me and I caught him having a thoughtful look as he looked at me .
I didn't what exactly was he thinking about, but if I were to guess, I would bet that whatever he was thinking about must have something to do with Lu Sun and the task he was assigned to do, I wonder if Lu Jian would allow that guy Lu Sun to be buried next to his brother .
Will Lu Chiang be able to make the Lu Family accept the idea of him burying his uncle in the Family's Ancestral Hall, I also wonder what this guy's reaction might be when he finds out that his uncle died and his plot failed miserably .
Discarding of all the useless thoughts about gloating over the guys that have already passed away, I focused more on myself, that red like blood sword that I used to finish off Lu Sun was more dangerous than I anticipated, the moment I tried to use that swords tons of notifications began to appear in my mind, but two stood out than others .
( Blood Qi, Blood Vitality, Life Force, is being consumed to make a temporary pact with the Evil Blood Pool Array through the Blood Sucking Sword as a medium, the pact was made, the negative effects removed ) .
( Due to making a pact with the Evil Blood Pool, once the Blood Qi of the user run out, the Blood Qi, Life Force, Flesh all will be sacrificed to the Evil Blood Pool Array, the pact was removed together with all the side effects ) .
As I recalled the content of these two messages in my mind, I sensed that my whole body seemed to have chills, even though I didn't understand what exactly was I playing with before, I understood that whatever that Evil Blood Pool Array was, it was something terribly dangerous .
But what shocked me to the core was the word Array in that message, the reason because it was mentioned in the book about Immortals, it wasn't explained clearly, but Array, Formations, Magical Pills,that could bring the dead back to life, Talismans that could allow someone to protect himself or escape the pursuit of an enemy, those things were all mentioned obscurely in the book .
I sensed that whatever was that Evil Blood Pool Array was, it must have something with the Immortals that I have read about, meaning that whatever was going on, someone from that mysterious world of Immortals was involved .
That idea together with the description from the book about what those Immortals were capable of doing, made my face pale and my skin was beginning to crawl, the guy in front of me smirked in triumphant, but I had no mind to spare in thinking about that currently .
I calmed down myself first, took a deep breath then started to think positively about what was going on, I had already severed that pact with that Array, so whoever was responsible for it, won't be able to pinpoint my location, probably, not to mention that even though there was indeed mention of the Arrays in the book, it didn't certainly mean that someone was using it, maybe it's just working on its own .
The chances of that last guess of mine were slim, but never zero, either way I'm currently safe from being pursued by such a strong enemy, but should I continue to use that Blood Sucking Sword and the Life-Severing Sword move, it currently was the most offensive method I had in my arsenal, so throwing it away might be a bit difficult .
And it wasn't like I have anything to fear, as long as whoever was responsible for that Array didn't come to inspect what was going on, I believe that I'm actually quite safe .
But another weird thing that I had noticed was the fact that It didn't cost me anything but a bit of my mental state to release that attack, that negative effect originated from the fact that I was hovering in front of death's door, it left a burden on my mental state, but other than that, I believe that not even the slightest bit of my Blood Qi or Life Force were consumed .
The latter was difficult to be certain of, it was a vague concept after all, but Blood Qi was still measurable, I noted that even though using the secret technique from Charging Tiger consumed a lot of my reserves, I still had some Blood Qi left, which shouldn't be possible, so how did that happen, currently that wasn't the only question I had in mind .
But it was the most crucial to try and understand what was going on with me, if using that secret technique didn't consume much of my Blood Qi, then why was using the other secret technique this taxing .
Could it be related to that mysterious Force that kept on appearing in my body, once I began using that secret technique, the panel had interfered to remove the pact with the Evil Blood Pool Array, but it didn't do the same with the mysterious Force that always tried to wreck havoc inside my body, it merely removed the havoc it was causing .
So does that mysterious Force responsible for the loss of Blood Qi all along or was my line of thought wrong, it haven't been over two days and my mind is already finding a great difficulty in understanding what was going on .
The chariot that we were in and just as I was deep in thought suddenly came to stop, then I saw that my Senior Brother Fu opened his eyes and stood up and declared looking at the two of us, that we had arrived, he seeing me still looking a bit pale, he confused it for something else and he thought that I was nervous so he told me that I should regulate my breathing and calm down a bit more .
Before I got down from the chariot, I still took his advice to the heart and regulated my breath, I also tried to awaken my now hibernating Blood Qi and circle it around my body, it warmed me up and I directly followed Senior Brother out of the chariot .
Once I descended, I heard a loud shout coming from where the bystanders from yesterday stood, I saw that one of them was the familiar guy that gave me information about how the Dojo's test worked, they were bowing in greeting to my senior brother and the young hero Lu Chiang, that made me understand that even that wretched guy seemed to be quite popular here too .
I waved my hands at the familiar guy and he gulped his saliva nervously, seeing my gesture, the other guys began to swarm him asking about who I was and what my relationship did I have with him and with the Dojo, it seemed that he was able to understand what kind of advantage he had in this kind of situation .
That crafty guy actually began to sell the information he had, he said that if they wanted to know they need to gather 2 silver taels at least, I no longer was aware of whether he actually got given what he wanted, since we were already inside the Dojo .
I didn't see Guardian Li like yesterday, since I came here early unlike yesterday, I saw that all the disciples were making a Horse stance and seemed to be at for some time now, but luckily with us arriving there, someone seemed to have noticed us and one after another began to break their stances and greet Senior Brother Fu and their Senior Brother Lu .
Since I was a bit far from the two, I was shouted at angrily by someone from the crowds for not greeting the senior brothers properly, the shouts were so loud and passionate that I began to feel as if the guys in front of me would eat me alive if I hadn't comply, just as I was about to cup my fist and greeted, a sneering cold voice suddenly sounded, saying :
What are you dilly-dallying there about you have finished saying your greetings, get back to work .
Forcing all the attention to shift from me towards that sneering voice sounded from the back of the people in front of us, the moment that voice sounded, the swarm if guys in front of me returned to their position immediately, when the guys obscuring my vision returned to their position from before, I saw that a guy directly began heading towards us or to be more precise he heading towards me .
Why are you standing there daydreaming like this, stand in the line .
The guy in front of me has a strong build with short, light brown hair,he has sharp features, including defined cheekbones and intense brown eyes, he was wearing a training clothes and was almost as tall as guardian Li, he was currently glaring at me due to mistaking me as somone who was lazing around .
Junior Brother Fu greet eldest Senior Brother Gu Chu, I'm here with the two junior brothers here as per the order of Master, so if you don't mind, I will be going now .
Oh, so it's junior brother Fu, I didn't notice you there, apologies, apologies, does that mean that this is the guy who uncle Li was talking about, other than his looks, he really doesn't look that special and even his looks might bring him trouble instead, if you know what I mean .
Can we go ahead Senior Brother, Master is waiting for some time already and I prefer not getting scolded over this small matter .
You can go on, I will be sure to catch up with you later .
It seemed that this senior brother was no good as well, he just now was quite rude to senior brother Fu and me when I had only just seen him for the first time .
Don't pay him much mind, he is like this with everyone except for master, well we had arrived .
In front of a big hall's door, senior brother Fu suddenly began knocking on the door, then a voice came from inside the room saying :
LIU'ER, COME INSIDE .