Chapter 547 - The Betting (1/2)
Near the cliff Zhao Li Xin awakes from his long meditation, he lifts his head and saw Huo Long lean on the boulder with a teasing smile ”What's wrong, you seem you just awoke from a dream?”
Zhao Li Xin gives no reply, he raised from lotus position, this time he had no breakthrough but his cultivation become more stable and profound still he feel slightly disappointed.
Although is hard for other people to read Zhao Li Xin expression but not for Huo Long, the truth is Zhao Li Xin has become more expressive since he met Lory ”Don't be upset, it does take longer for you to have a breakthrough after you reach the sage level, and it becomes difficult for you to passed every level” Huo Long comfort him.
Zhao Li Xin rubbed her wrist and check his own pulse to make sure his condition is on top-notch, sometime cultivation could damage the veins if the cultivator is not careful or impatient and lately he becomes impatient. Zhao Li Xin let out a long exhale after he found nothing wrong with himself, he glances at Huo Long ”How long it would take?”
”For other people, it would be decades but for you…not that long, a year or two perhaps” Huo Long gives a dismissive shrug.
”Do I have a year or two?” he stared at Huo long in doubt.
Huo long clicks his tongue, he understands what Zhao Li Xin means ”I don't know, maybe not…”
”Now you understand why am I being persistent” he looks away then patted his robes, he walks to the end of the cliff with his hands clasped behind his back, his back is straight as a pole, and his eyes gaze to the erupted mountain on the horizon.
”How much you know about Lory's situation, and don't try to dodged the question” he gives Huo Long a warning gaze.
Huo long sigh as he stands next to him ”I know about her for a long time because her connection with the Black Serpent”
Zhao Li Xin glance at him ”Lazarus?”
Huo Long stifles there something flash in his eyes but it too fast not even Zhao Li Xin could catch it ”Yes…” he replied briefly.
”Everyone seems to know about this Serpent and Lory, what I mean everyone is you and Huwang Shen Zi, both of you seem to know more than you show it, Huo long are you also the first kind?”
He raised his chin proudly ”I'm not…but my blood is the closer with the first kind”
Zhao Li Xin turns quiet as he contemplates for a seconds ”How much everyone knows about me, Lory and that Demon”
Huo's long face scrunched up he crossed his arms over his c.h.e.s.t as he gazes to the horizon ”It starts with a simple story about a lonely God who is bored to death by his own immortality than he accidentally opens the door to a place he should never be. And there he found something unexpected, something he never prepared to face it before….a tiny little spark called…love” he curled his mouth as if he was joking.
Zhao Li Xin's eyebrows furrow ”You don't try to make fun of me, don't you” he looks at Huo long with annoyance.
”Of course not!” he puffed his c.h.e.s.t ”Do you thing something cheesy like love is a laughing matter, love is the powerful forces who moves everything in the world, where do you think the root of sadness coming from? Anger, envy, jealousy, hatred, revenged, everything coming from the same roots and it is love….and love is a double edge sword, it could set you free or drag you to bottomless hell” Huo Long let out a long heaved.
He shifts his glance at Zhao Li Xin ”You should know better than anyone how love transforms you from ashes to blazing fire as you are right now”