17 Wayfarers (2/2)
Here, the apathetic monk sat down and gestured for Xue Wei to do the same.
”How did you scare that big mammoth?” the monk asked right away, but Xue Wei just frowned – had he scared the mammoth? He remembered it shaking, but it was not enough to be considered scared.
Still, Xue Wei could sense that arguing with this Diviner would be pointless, and likely even change his situation to become less favorable. So he stood there, looking completely confused.
”I do not know,” he said honestly. ”I looked the Black Horned Mammoth in the eyes, and its body trembled all of a sudden. I did not do anything special. Could it have something to do with my special physique? Or could it sense the scent of my uncle on me? My uncle is a great Primordial Beast hunter.”
The monk seemed unconvinced. ”Tell me about your past,” he said in a gruff voice, and Xue Wei nodded his head.
”I do not remember my childhood. My mother died while giving birth to me and my father died in an attack by the Primordial Beasts in the Northern Administrative Region of Heping. In the Northern Taiga.”
”My uncle took me in and has been looking after me ever since; I was around ten years old when it happened.”
”My body has a special physique so I could not cultivate, but my uncle said that I would be able to cultivate later, and as a result, I spent all my time reading in the past.”
”Now that I am capable of cultivating, I spend all my time on either practicing my martial arts or cultivating my cultivation technique.”
Xue Wei weaved in lies with the truths, making him capable of hiding a few things about his body and the condition he had experienced before.
He knew that lying straight to the monk's face would be noticed, but when he merged it with the truth, or at least what he considered to be the truth, then the monk too believed him.
”I have only seen fear in the eyes of Fierce Beasts when they encounter Diviners or if they are in front of a Primordial Beast,” the monk explained.
”You are clearly not a Diviner, but I checked your body, and although your dantian is rather odd, you are not a Primordial Beast either. You do not have a beast core.”
”So that leads me to the question, what are you?”
”I do not know,” Xue Wei answered, feeling his palms get sweaty. So the probe earlier had been to see if he was a Primordial Beast. Fortunately, it had proven that he was not. Otherwise, he would have most likely been enslaved by now.
”My uncle checked my body before. He is a Primordial Beast hunter,” Xue Wei continued and felt better. It was clear that he was no beast since his uncle was a human and even a beast hunter, but he understood that if this monk had wanted to get rid of him, it would be easy to say just a few words.
”Well, I guess you really don't know,” the monk sighed and looked annoyed as if he had wasted a lot of time for no reason.
”Perhaps you are like the Wayfarers,” he continued. ”The Wayfarers who have activated their bloodline are feared by some Fierce Beasts. Maybe your physique is similar.”
The last sentences seemed to be spoken to himself more than to Xue Wei, but Xue Wei heard what the monk said, and he also heard the word Wayfarers. Hearing them, he was rather curious. He had always wanted to meet a real Wayfarer, but they traveled in family groups, and it was very rare for them to come to a kingdom such as Heping.
Wayfarers were nomads like the Diviners, but the Wayfarers traveled in family groups of up to thousands of experts together.
All Wayfarers were hunters, and some of the most outstanding Primordial Beast hunters came from the Wayfarers.
The reason Wayfarers were looked at with such curiosity was because of their bloodline. They shared an ancient bloodline of the War God, a human cultivator of the past who had risen against the Primordial Beasts; and by consuming the blood of a Primordial Beast, the Wayfarers could unleash their full potential.
They only needed to consume blood from a Primordial Beast once to activate the blood within their bodies, but it was rare to find and kill Primordial Beasts. As a result, they were always on the move to find new danger zones and suitable beasts to slay.
Xue Wei had never compared his situation with them, but maybe there was something about it. Could he also have a special bloodline alongside his special physique?
”Do not think too much about it,” the monk sighed as he had lost interest in Xue Wei again, and Xue Wei nodded his head. He had to wait for his uncle to return before he could get any answers, and as a result, he cupped his hands again and bowed to the monk before he took his leave.
Instead of returning to the marketplace, Xue Wei went to the auction hall where they were going to auction off the two beasts. Although he could not buy them and was incapable of controlling them, he was still curious as to who would end up owning them.
He was incredibly surprised to see that there was already a great line out the door trying to gain access to the auction house. But due to him coming from the VIP chambers, he was led into the auction hall right away.