Chapter 16 (1/2)

Book 1 - What Is A Genius

Chapter 16 - Fugitive

Translated by:

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The sun had set. Pressed in between the blue-stoned, horse-shaped corbel walls, the night seemed narrow and deep. However, today, He family manor’s grand hall was well lit.

When He Yiming hurriedly arrived at the main hall, he discovered that he was not the first one to arrive.

A month had pa.s.sed since his breakthrough to the seventh layer. He had not informed anyone about his condition. All of his elders thought that he was still at the sixth layer.

Today, during his daily cultivation, a servant reported him that the Old Master had summoned him in the main hall.

Not daring to be neglectful, He Yiming hurried off to the main hall. However, upon arriving, he found out that he wasn’t the first person to arrive. Both his second brother and third brother had already arrived.

He Yihai faintly nodded towards him and said: “Sixth brother, you are here as well.”

“h.e.l.lo, second brother.” He Yiming faintly bowed his head. Although He Yihai was the son of the eldest uncle, he treated all of his younger brothers more or less about the same. To tell the truth, setting aside He Yiming’s relations.h.i.+p with his fifth brother, the rest of his siblings were quite harmonious with each other.

Of course, the blood relations are always somewhat different than the normal, but in He family this was not too distinct.

He Yihai silently nodded without replying. He Yiming knew that the nature of his second brother was as such. If not for the affection between the siblings, he would not even have bothered with the greetings.

He Yiming took a few steps and s.h.i.+fted to his third brother’s side, before quietly saying:

“Third brother, what happened? Why are you both here?”

He Yixuan forced a bitter laugh and shrugged his shoulders, before saying:

“I don’t know. However, since grandfather has personally summoned us, it’s definitely not something small.”

He Yiming faintly nodded. He was about to speak, when he suddenly sensed something. His mouth immediately closed, and his vision turned towards the main hall’s entrance.

After a short while, from the faint illumination outside the entrance, a few people emerged.

Upon looking at these few men, He Yiming and the rest two immediately stood up. They straightened their chest and waist, displaying an extremely attentive appearance.

The first was the individual who’d single-handedly established He family estate, He Wude. Behind his body was He Yiming’s eldest uncle, He Quanxin, and the third uncle, He Quanyin. The last person was precisely the individual appraised to be the number one figure among the third generation, He Yitian.

All three inside the hall were flabbergasted. ‘What on earth has happened?’

Almost all of the dispensable power in the manor was gathered together.

He Yiming’s vision turned towards the Book Pavilion for an instant. According to his knowledge, in addition to a directly related son of the Old Master, an old servant’s cultivation had also attained the ninth layer; almost on par with the former. Apparently, this old servant had grown by the side of the Old Master and was nothing like an ordinary servant.

He’d always lived in the one of the side halls of the Book Pavilion’s courtyard alongside He Yiming’s eldest uncle. His status was not the slightest bit less than the third generation.

Today, inside the He family manor, except this special servant, all the disciples who’d attained the sixth layer were gathered together in the main hall.

He Wude entered the hall in huge strides and sat down on the middle seat. His clear and piercing eyes swept through the remaining people, and as it did, the individual faced with his gaze felt a strange burning sensation in his body and had to lower his head.

He Yiming’s heart slightly trembled. This was the Internal Energy at tenth layer’s peak. Current him was not capable of resisting it in the slightest.

He silently lowered his vision as he absolutely didn’t want to attract anybody’s attention.

“I called you all here. There is a matter that requires your attention.” Despite looking a bit old, He Wude’s powerful voice echoed in the main hall:

“Today, people from Cheng family came to our place. A feudal fugitive is in our county. They want us to help the authorities in catching or killing the fugitive.”

He Yiming exchanged a glance with his third brother. With his thoughts racing, he glanced at his elders and eldest brother. Their expressions didn’t have the slightest change. Clearly, they were already aware of this matter.

“The fugitive is from the Linqiu region. His name is Hubin, and he is a fifth layer Internal Energy cultivator. Reportedly, his skill is pretty good.”

He Yiming immediately realized.

‘No wonder grandfather agreed and gathered all of us here.’

Fifth layer of the Internal Energy was not bad, however, all the people present were at least at the sixth layer. With some helpers, arresting him could be accomplished pretty easily.

In fact, this was a hard-to-come-by opportunity for the He family manor’s disciples to temper themselves.

Always living behind closed doors and not having actual combat experience would not benefit their future cultivation.

He Wude’s vision suddenly turned a little strict as he said:

“By no means should you have any despising thoughts. This Hubin although merely has a cultivation of the fifth layer, his character is extremely vicious and merciless. Originally, in Linqiu region, he was the chief of a hundred men in the army. Due to his crimes of rape, murder, and killing the citizens under the pretext of enemies, he was detained and awaited execution. But he escaped from the army and killed countless people along the way, before coming here.” He briefly paused before continuing in a heavy voice:

“Although he’d only killed ordinary people, killing so many people has caused a natural baleful aura on his body. If you come across him, act with caution and don’t be careles.”