The roaring voice shook the entire Shun estate to its core and
even the servants and the guards inside all hastily knelt down in fear.
Outside of the Shun estate the pedestrians around went pale from
fear as a carriage rushed quickly towards the estate's gates. The carriage
stopped a few meters away from Shun Long and the driver quickly reigned in the
horses and hastily fell on his knees, when the door of the carriage was
suddenly kicked from the inside, and ended up flying through the air until it
collided with the estate's walls and instantly broke into fragmented pieces of
wood and scattered to the ground.
From the inside of the carriage a furious man in his early 40s
jumped down, the ground slightly shaking from the Impact when he landed. The
man was tall, over 1.80m (5.11ft) and dressed in luxurious blue clothes. His
facial features were sharp and he had thick eyebrows, his nose was straight and
his body build was burly. His black eyes had almost turned scarlet at this
point and his hair was standing on edge from the rage and aura he was exuding.
He furiously walked towards Shun Long each step of his shaking
the earth around him, and before Shun Long could react he felt his shoulders
being pressured so badly that his bones were hurting from it.
The man stared deeply in Shun Long's eyes and then roared at the
2 guards who were standing guard in front of the estate earlier, but were now
kneeling on the ground in fear, in a voice so loud that it could be heard
through the entire Blue Forest-city ''SUMMON ALCHEMIST LU''.
Then the man didn't even wait for Shun Long to speak as he
dragged him to the main hall of the estate and forced him to lie down on a bed
that the servants had just brought over to the hall. After he checked Shun
Long's body thoroughly for any injuries but not finding anything in the end,
the man finally exhaled in relief as if he had been holding that one breath
this entire time.
Shun Long hadn't cried in his past life no matter what
hardsh.i.p.s he may had suffered, no matter how terrible a pain his previously
malnourished body may have felt, but for the first time in his life his eyes
turned red as 2 drops of tears spilled from the corners of his eyes.
Then in a voice choked and full of emotion he finally said one
word
''Father.''
A word he never had the chance to utter in his past life, and
also a word he had always strongly felt that he would never want to say in his
life.
Even though the original Shun Long had a deep relationship with
his parents, Shun Long now wasn't just the previous Shun Long's soul.
An abandoned orphan who had to work for everything his entire
life, never having a single person to show him what true family love and
concern was like, finally had all his mental barriers broken after seeing the
concern and love along with rage in Shun Fang's eyes and he could truly feel
that deep affection and care that this man was harboring towards him.
Just as Shun Fang was about to ask his son what had happened for
him to return home in such a state, a beautiful woman in her late thirties
entered the hall. As soon as Shun An noticed her son's destroyed clothes she
instantly assumed the worse and rushed to hug him as her eyes instantly burst
in tears.
Shun Long felt a feeling from Shun An similar to the one he was
feeling from Shun Fang.
''Mother'' he thought inside his head and truly felt what
motherly love felt like, as he used both of his arms to hug both his father and
his mother.
An unclocking sound could be heard inside his mind, as an
ancient book silently appeared next to the triangular stone in his mind, but
Shun Long had no time to check it as his parents both sat in front of him and
Shun Fang finally asked, with hints of anger obvious in his voice:
''I only left Blue Forest-city for 8 days, what happened while I
was gone? How did my son got hurt so badly and where are Gu Yi and Gu Shi?''
Shun Fang and Shun An both wanted to know how their son ended up
in such a state especially with Gu Yi and Gu Shi.
Could it be that Gu Yi and Gu Shi didn't do their job properly?
But they had both always followed Shun long whenever he left the estate.
''Father, Gu Yi and Gu Shi both died protecting me today.'' Shun
Long said his voice stone cold but a hint of furious anger could be discerned
from it.
''What happened?'' Shun Fang and Shun An asked shocked.
Gu Yi and Gu Shi were both Shun Long's bodyguards and Gu Yi was
even an early rank 2 earth rank expert whereas Gu Shi was a peak rank 1 earth
rank expert. Even in the entire Blue Forest-city Gu Yi and Gu Shi were
considered relatively strong experts which is why Shun Fang would have never
believed this if this had came out from the mouth of anyone else apart from his
son's.
Cultivation started from Qi condensation rank 1 to rank 9 and
the levels in each rank were divided into early, mid and peak. After the Qi
condensation level was the earth rank, so 2 strong earth rank cultivators dying
was a truly shocking matter.
''Rumors were circulating that someone in the outskirts of Blue
Forest, found a 'red pine fruit'. '' answered Shun Long.
''Father you know that my meridians are blocked and I can't
cultivate but if I could fine the 'red pine fruit' and ask Master Lu to concoct
the meridian opening pill for me, I could finally start cultivating.''
Before Shun Fang had a chance to interject Shun Long continued
''I know you have always felt bad because I can't cultivate and
have also searched for the red pine fruit and other solutions for me, even if
you have never said this yourself I know it's true.'' Said Shun Long.
Shun Fang didn't say anything and his face turned slightly red.
He didn't want his son to find out but he had always felt regret that Shun Long
was unable to cultivate so he had always searched for possible solutions both
inside Blue Forest-city or in the Imperial capital.
Shun Fang himself had ventured into the Blue Forest plenty of
times but so far he had never found what he needed for his son.
''So this time, hearing that someone found the 'red pine fruit'
while you were in the imperial capital, I couldn't stay still so I asked for
both Gu Yi and Gu Shi to come with me together to the Blue Forest. After all my
plan was only to search around the Blue Forest's outskirts and with 2 earth
rank experts accompanying me the chance of running into danger was truly low.
But who could have known that we would get ambushed on the way
by 5 masked people wearing black robes?!'' said Shun Long in an angry voice.
Shun Fang and Shun An understood. If 5 masked people ambushed
and attacked 2 earth rank experts then most likely the person behind this
assasination was someone who wanted to harm the Shun family by killing off
their heir instead of just finishing of his 2 bodyguards and then kindly
letting Shun Long go.
Shun Long explained how these people encircled and attacked
their group, and how in the end they got scared off by the sudden lightning
storm and ended up fleeing before finishing the job.
Shun Fang and Shun An were both glad and sighed in relief,
thankful for their child's luck and how he managed to escape from such a death
trap, when suddenly a guard entered the hall, knelt down on 1 knee and said:
''My lord, alchemist master Lu has arrived