Seeing how he propelled Senior Brother Fu out of the Hall just by raising a finger, I wasn't even able to react or see his Blood Qi appearing on his body or anything like that, I was staring wide-eyed at this happening in front of me .
Don't worry, even though the chances of you getting to this Realm of practice was slim, at least if you didn't found a way to get your Blood Vitality healed, you might still be able to achieve this type of strength, when even raising a finger can end kingdoms and dynasties, you will have to just do your best .
" I'm thankful and honored for getting the chance to receive guidance from you Master .
Cut the crap, we are the only two people here, you should understand that a Master is like a father, if not for some cases even more caring than an actual father, would go in life saying polite words like this to your father, you can speak more casually .
And don't worry, I won't put you to death, unless you do some grave thing like killing your own people, I'm taking about attacking a senior brother or sister, do you understand me .
As he finished saying this, I saw that he squinted his eyes at me and looked at me intently as if he was already aware of something, then he said :
You still want to take revenge against your Senior Brother Chiang ? .
The moment I heard him inquiring about this, I felt all the blood from my face getting suddenly drained, if there was a mirror in front of me, I would see that my face was so pale that I looked like a corpse through and through .
Seeing my reaction, he didn't strike me to death or anything like that, he just shook his head at me and said :
I already told you, I'm not putting you to death, until you actually go and do it, I don't believe that the current you would be able to pull something like this off, so instead of letting you two kill one another, I decided to interfere and make you reconcile with each other instead .
You two are currently the closer thing to a family, I also believe that the reason for the enmity between you two, should now be already gone, so why bother dwelling on it any longer, just let go .
" Master is already aware of what happened between me and Deacon Lu, the father of Lu Chiang, right ? .
I was told everything by old San, but what happened between you and the father of Lu Chiang's father, shouldn't have anything to do with Lu Chiang himself, not to mention that the guy that hurt your Blood Vitality like this had already passed away, so that sort everything out between the two of .
At least if it didn't make you get closer to one another, it should have allowed you guys to forget the enmity between you too, at least it should forbade you from getting even close to show your killing intent to one another, am I wrong ? .
" Master, could I be insolent and ask you about something ? .
I already told you to be frank, me accepting you as a Close Disciple meant that I trust your character enough to even allow you to enter the Dojo, if I don't see any good on you, even with the recommendation from Old San, I would have still refused to accept you as my disciple, so from now on keep that in mind .
I bowed my head down and even though I felt my situation quite tensed, his words touched my heart, I already came to the conclusion that the master in front of me wasn't picking a side to take in this conflict, so after I showed my gratitude towards him, I said :
" Did instructor Lu heard about that solution you suggested ? .
Master Chen looked at me more intently, but seemed to be also appreciative of my wit and he nodded his head and said :
Instructor Lu you mentioned must be Lu San, that guy is a guardian here in the Dojo, but he is also the sworn brother of me and guardian Li, so you should be calling him uncle, now that you're my disciple, I did indeed discussed with him and told him about this solution, after you were able to bear my pressure and catching my interest .
" What was his response to this solution then ? .
Master fell into silent for a few seconds before he said :
He said that you would be able to let go of it without that much of a problem, but it would be Lu Chiang who won't be letting go of the grievances between the two of you, even though he would be the one at wrong and he even anticipated that if he got his hands on you before I take you as my disciple, he might use some shady methods to deal with you directly .
I was shocked a bit after getting such an answer, so instructor Lu had this much insight into the character of both me and that Lu Chiang, even though the insights he had was on the original Tian Long's character, he didn't deal with me to gain that much insights on me, he was right about me willing to let go of the enmity still and was also correct about Lu Chiang using shady methods to deal with me before I even go back to the Dojo .
I really dodged a bullet, but almost set myself on fire in the process, if not for what happened this morning, I might have been either be treated as a escapee slave or a murderer, after all my intention in coming to the Dojo today, could have been cancelled at a whim and postponed to another time, but with doing that I would have been unable to save my normal life from directly collapsing on me by the doing of that Lu Chiang, that was how grave my situation would have become .
I would have been forced to either escape the family's grounds and even getting out of the city in my try to escape, or killing those that he might sent after me and be a wanted for murderer, but fortunately things didn't go in that direction .
You seemed more surprised than shocked, tell me about what you are thinking ? .
I heard the warm voice of the master in front of me and all my guard and defences that I was beginning to have in my heart against him were directly removed, I then began to say :
" Master, it's exactly as uncle Lu said, if you were to ask me to bury the seeds of enmity, I would do it without having even a second thought about this, but I don't believe that senior brother Lu Chiang would be able to forgive me or do the same thing .
Why, do you too share the same opinion about Lu Chiang like Old San ? .
" I don't know what uncle Lu's opinions about senior brother Lu Chiang are, but I do believe that he won't be able to let go of these matters so easy .
I had already understood what you are saying, I'm asking you why you think like this, if not because of Lu San influence, then what might have you seen from him, that made you doubt his character this badly ?.
" Master should have only known a tiny part of what Deacon Lu was plotting against me, so I will tell you, what he had in store for me .
I then began telling him about all that happened yesterday, beside the fact that incident that happened with Lu Si and that mysterious man, it wasn't because I didn't trust the man in front of me to be able to judge right from wrong .
But I still had my own concerns about the variables that might come with me saying this, so I ended up telling him just that they were plotting against me again and this time I might have lost my life as a result .
" Master, I hope you forgive me for using you an example, but how would you react to the person who tried to plot against you like this .
Without a second thought, I will be Increasing my strength and beating him for his actions against me, but what that had to do with the matters between you and Lu Chiang, the person who should have done this to you was already dead .
I shook my head and said :
" Master, you missed the point, I'm not a saint or even anything close to being one, but if Deacon Lu had stopped plotting against me and just let the matters between us go, even if it was only for a little period of time, I might have not pursued the matters anymore and could have completely forgave him and deleted all these bad memories from my head and started to act as if they never happened .
" What do you think Senior Brother Lu did when he found out about the grievances between me and his father .
seeing that there was no point in hiding it now that things were like this, I told him about the competition that guy initiated and how he tried to sow discord for me in the family, I told him about how I fought against someone who was in the second layer of Flesh Tempering, due to his incitement the other party to challenge me through the use of money or whatever he offered him .
The Master took a few seconds in silence after he heard what I said, then he said after releasing a sigh :
What a headache, so Lu San was right this time again, I heard from you, but I will be hearing his part of this, so don't worry, I will seek justice for you, if I deemed that he had indeed maliciously target you, wasn't Liu'er present at that time ? .
" Senior Brother Fu was indeed present and had seen everything with his own eyes, but I would like for master to not call him for testimony .
As I said this, I saw that he was frowning at my words and seeing him like this, I directly continued to follow-up with saying :
" Master shouldn't misunderstand my intentions, Senior Brother Fu seemed not willing to tell the Master this, so he must have his own circumstances and concerns, I too told Master this, so that he can be aware that the problem here was with Senior Brother Lu Chiang, I'm completely willing to reconcile with him, no if Master said the word, I would let bygones be bygones without even the need to make Senior Brother Lu say or do anything .
At my words the frown on Master's face began to be more apperant, I thought that my words might have been wrong, but soon I understood that this wasn't the case, he shook his head and said :
I will be talking to Chiang'er, as for you waiting for me to say a word to reconcile with him, I can't bring myself to force a reconciliation between you two, since I knew how wrong doing something like that would be for you, or any sides of the conflict, but I for now will be keenly surveiling you two and hopefully things will get better between you two .
" I will follow master's arrangements .
So you are not holding some resentment towards me for being a bit biased towards Lu Chiang ?.
" Disciple will be blunt as Master asked me to, I feel a bit bitter about this, but I also understood that Master had his own circumstances and concerns .
"Those things were responsible for Master's bias towards Senior Brother Lu, so I'm a bit bitter about it, but I wouldn't go to say that I hold any grievances or resentment towards Master .
" In fact, just Master getting out of his way to try and middle in this situation and we having this conversation was already enough to tell me that Master is just and considerate .
The man I was praising just shook my head and said :
Don't go spouting such nonsense around, jokes aside, remember to tell me if he tried to stir trouble for you, I will gave him an earful, but it's just as you said, there were indeed some ambitions that I still hope Lu Chiang achieve for and for that I'm willing to let him be as willful as he is currently, but it seem that I will be using the stick to fix that guy's behavior .
I nodded my head and had nothing more to say, he was the one who continued to say :
Master here already have some of the gifts that I found quite useful for you, but I would still want to ask you, if there were something in particular you want, other than the Blood Nourishing Soup and the accomodations, these things weren't worth mentioning, but don't ask for something extravagant like that stupid disciple of mine said, or else I will beat you up .
After he finished saying this he showed me his knuckles and I saw that his hand wasn't as roughas the other Disciples of the Dojo, hisskin could be said to be fairactually, but even though his gesture was a bit dangerous, I was still able to see that he was joking so I didn't take it to the heart.
At his words, I fell into thought for a few seconds, then directly asked master for a skill that should allow me to increase the speed of my footwork, it was one of the shortcomings that I currently had, he was surprised at my request and said :
So you wanted to increase your movements speed, you have quite the insight on crouching Tiger, you already understood that it was more of method to allow you to get close to the enemy and outpace him, but not allow you to escape .
Good, it's good that you already aware of your shortcomings, I will give you a Black Low-grade footwork Skill, it's name is Gliding Swallow, but I will allow you to choose between this Martial Skill and another Yellow Top-grade Martial Skill with the name Whirlwind Step, the latter with some practice and guidance, you should be able to use it with quite ease as a movement skill .
The other Black Low-grade skill is a bit more difficult to comprehend and mastered in a short period of time, you might not even to make use of it for now, but it's a suitable skill for you who took the Full Body Refinement Path, it allowed you to temper your legs and lower body its tempering effect were also much better than the Crouching Tiger .
But you will need to choose between one of these two Martial Skills books, as your uncle Li should have already told you yesterday, it was better not to bite more than you can chew, so pick which one do you want .
One should allow your speed to skyrocket compared to your peers and the other could allow you to lay a more stable foundation for yourself in the future and will help you in the way you picked for yourself, do you have an answer or are you still uncertain of what to choose ? .
Master said these words and indeed two books appeared on his hands, one book cover was Yellow and looked to be quite thick, the title on the booklet said Whirlwind Step, while the other Black booklet looked to be even more thicker than the first, on the title it said Gliding Swallow, both book were presented in front of me and the master was waiting for me to choose between them .
I didn't even understood what he was saying, I had no clue about The Full Body Refinement Road that he seemed to think I took, but I was still able to understand that value wise, the best decision for me was to choose that Gliding Swallow skill, so I said :
" Disciple here would like to take advantage of master's kindness and choose The Gliding Swallow Martial Skill .