Chapter 7 (1/2)

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation

Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

As soon as Wutian emerged from the door, the villagers quickly gathered around him. Their attitude had taken a one-eighty change; there was no more ridicule.

“You’ve unlocked your physique! Please remember to do something for the village, Wutian!”

“That’s right. Everyone has been taking good care of Longshan all these years. You need to return the favor.”

“Now, you’ve become a disciple of the Fire Cloud Clan. Don’t mind what Longquan said in the past. It was for your own good. He just wants to see you succeed.”

Wutian did not bat an eyelid over the villagers’ flattery and Longquan’s hypocrisy. He just gave a few perfunctory replies and went up to join the two individuals from the Fire Cloud Clan.

“I’m good to go,” said Wutian.

The boy in the fine dress nodded and climbed back up the Flamingo, his face impassive. The girl followed suit.

Wutian looked back at the wooden house where his grandfather was, and without a word, he climbed onto the Flamingo’s back.

“Ya!” the boy shouted.

The Flamingo screeched and flew up into the sky before it disappeared from everyone’s view.

“Don’t think that everything will be all right just because you’re going to the Fire Cloud Clan, bastard! The best is yet to come.” Longhe gazed at the sky with a smirk.

The air was chilly, while Wutian lay on the bird’s back, motionless. It was his first time riding on a flying monster beast and also his first time at such a high altitude. He felt giddy, and his face was pale since he was nervous as hell.

“Caw!” Little Tian rested on his head as it cautiously observed the boy and girl the whole time.

“Aargh, that’s a Demon Toad. It’s so disgusting!” the girl screamed and instinctively stepped back to hide behind the boy. She looked at the creature and also Wutian with disdain.

Demon Toads were lowly life forms that were not even considered monster beasts. Due to their ugly appearance, women found them disgusting and avoided them like the plague.

“Don’t be rude, my clan sister!” the boy chided. However, the look of contempt in his eyes was unmistakable. He despised those who mingled with Demon Toads. If Wutian had not been a cultivator and been close with Linshan, the boy would not have wanted to be associated with him.”

Wutian gradually adapted to the high altitude. He sat up, but his legs were still shivering a little. “I apologize for scaring you,” Wutian said to the girl as he held Little Tian in his hand.

The girl said nothing, her expression appearing even more disdainful.

Wutian said nothing too and just shrugged it off with a smile. Little Tian might not have been the prettiest thing in the world, but having spent time with it, it had become one of his family members along with his grandfather. After his experience during the past one month, he had learned his lesson the hard way; if the two of them found out what Little Tian was, they might try to kill him and take his precious possession just like Longhe.

Right then, Wutian finally noticed their extraordinary appearance. They were merely thirteen or fourteen years old, but they possessed unfathomable abilities, which were as mysterious as the ocean.

After quietly observing them for a while, Wutian shifted his attention to the earth down below.

Each of the Flamingo’s scales was the size of his fist, fiery-red, and warm to the touch as if they had been forged from lava. The earth below him was an endless mountain range, majestic and magnificent. He held on to one of the scales and curiously studied it.

The Redsun Mountains were vast and long with endless bizarre terrains as well as sceneries. Wutian was witnessing such a landscape for the first time since his departure from Dragon Village, and he was indescribably awed.

“Wutian, my name is Huoshi. I am the son of the Fire Cloud Clan’s master. This is Liuyan, my junior. But don’t you underestimate her; she is a direct disciple of the great elder and is a fire being. In terms of strength, she’s one of the top ten most powerful disciples in the Fire Cloud Clan,” said the boy in fine clothes.

“That’s badass!” Wutian was surprised.

“Take what Brother Huoshi says with a grain of salt. He is actually the powerful one. At only fourteen, his cultivation has reached the stage of Reborn Omega. That’s not something you can see among the youngsters in Greendragon. Not to mention, he embodies fire and wood beings!”

Double elemental beings?”

Wutian was stunned. Longhu had a fire being, which was already rare, yet this kid, two years his junior, had double beings. Wutian now truly appreciated what it meant by ‘every peak sits under the shadow of another, so every man may meet one stronger than himself.’

“Nice to meet you two, Brother Huoshi and Sister Liuyan. May I gain your favor.” Wutian greeted them with fist-palm salute. Strength determined one’s seniority in the clan, and Wutian knew that very well.

“Favor can be gained. I’m just not sure if you’re willing to pay the price, Brother Wutian.”

“You expect too much from me, Brother Huoshi. I’m just a village boy with nothing. How could I have anything that could interest both of you?” said Wutian humbly.

“Not really!” The boy’s lips curled up in a meaningful smile.

“Caw!”

Right then, Little Tian cawed. To Huoshi and Liuyan, it was just an ordinary sound, but Wutian could clearly feel a sense of worry from it…

And it was exactly Huoshi’s smile that had caused it.

With his one month together with the Gobbler, Wutian knew Little Tian very well; it possessed a heightened sense of crisis. If it had not been for its unique ability of caution, he would have died long ago. He would have become lunch for the monster beasts during his stay behind the mountain for twenty over days.

He was currently so high in the air. With nothing else near him and no monster beasts around to pose them a threat, the only explanation for Little Tian’s warning would be Huoshi and Liuyan.