Chapter 374 - What Lies Beyond Guilt (1/2)

A single path to greatness, an iron will to brilliance, and a single path to Slaughter!

”PHOENIX SLAUGHTER~” Leo swung his knife, ”Huh? Where's the Elk?” confusion plagued Leo's mind finding nothing in front of him. He creased his brows, still unable to gather himself.

”The Elk's dead, Leo, you already killed it…”

Wang Ling said with his eyes closed. He was busy meditating but chose to stop seeing Leo had awakened, he had yet to find an answer anyway, why waste time doing something so useless?

”How long have I been out?”

”About seven hours, it is now already night. Food is to your right, eat.”

Leo did not dare object; he grabbed the bowl carved out of wood and began drinking the soup made from the Elk he had killed. Upon consumption, he felt energy feeling him up.

”What is this?” Leo knew it was cooked using Elk meat, but the amount of qi it held was something even a treasure plant could not measure. Surely Wang Ling had done something Leo did not know.

”Nothing, just something I picked up while walking.” Wang Ling said and stood up to take a walk outside, ”Finish that and return to sleep, I am going to mediate under the moon.”

Leo nodded and just as he watched Wang Ling exit the room, he noticed something from the edges of his fingers, ”Bloodstains?”

He questioned and then began sniffing the air, and as he did a very faint smell entered his senses. There was nothing that could create such a scent.

Leo had smelled this before, at the time when the blood splattered across this very room when Wang Ling was trying his best to use his qi.

The scent came from, ”Brother Wang's blood essence!?

BAM!

Leo came running out searching for Wang Ling, ”Brother Wang, you used your blood essence to help with my recovery. Also, now that I see it I don't even have a single scratch on me, and my internal organs all of it a—”

”Enough, you don't have to continue talking. Just accept this help and move on, Leo.”

Outside, Wang Ling rested his face on his palms for the blunder he had committed, letting a child see something so insignificant as this made him sigh.

[Failing to clean up was my mistake — sigh and here I thought I can cover it by mediating.] he had drawn from the bloodline of the Holy Race to quickly heal the child who almost lost his life trying to prove his worth.

The amount was just a single drop, but the effects it had were amazing considering the one who benefited was a mortal.

”But still, thank you, Brother Wang no — Master.”

Wang Ling flinched at the mention of that word, ”Do you really intend to call me that, Leo?”

”For the last two months Master has rejected my wishes to enter your discipleship, saying you teaching me is nothing a way to pass the time. But, after your giving something so precious as blood essence and teaching me a revised version of your own techniques, what can I call you other than my master?”

Wang Ling turned around, he saw Leo already crossed the distance between them and was already preparing himself to kowtow a meter away from him. A sigh escaped Wang Ling.

”Do you know why I didn't accept you as my student?”

Leo shook his head.

”I'm telling you now, the path I am going to walk will be fraught with danger, and one day, if my enemy learns that I have a student, they will get to him to get to me. What's more, is that I will one day come to fight against the Abyssal Demons and end the war that is plaguing the cosmos, do you think the disciple of such a man can live?”