Transmigration: Life As A Ger In Ancient Times With My Mystical Snake
Chapter 84: Ch. 39 Part 2

Chapter 84: Ch. 39 Part 2

"Aiya~ you old man at this age still run around vigorously." King Pingxi complained. "Servants bring old Fei something to drink and eat!" King Pingxi ordered.

"Old King leave that for now. Where’s the martial arts master you said you found? Take me to see him now! Yes, let me see him first before anything else!" Old Fei demanded leaving no space for disagreement.

King Pingxi sighed and shook his head, looking at his old friend who was behaving this way because of a martial arts master it was really interesting. His old friend who was a retired commander of his army was strong and good in martial arts, but sadly because he didn’t have a martial artist to teach him how to use internal force energy, the strength he could possess was limited. So it was understandable to see this anxious behavior of his when he saw Jinhua and doctor Shi used internal force energy and was told that a very capable martial arts master was found. Finding a martial arts master in their time was hard and even now it’s very hard, since most martial arts master found now would rather join the princes or work for the emperor himself.

"Old Fei sit down and rest first, you wouldn’t be able to see Master Jun now anyway." King Pingxi calmly explained.

"Wh-why?" old Fei stuttered.

"Actually uncle Fei, his excellency and master Ling just went out to stroll around. And we don’t know the time they’ll return" Jinhua explained more for old Fei to understand.

Old Fei looked dejected from what he was told, he slowly dragged his feet to King Pingxi’s side and slumped on a chair beside King Pingxi.

"Why is an old man of your age sulking like a child, it’s not as if master Jun wouldn’t return. He’ll be back later so just chat with me until then. And he even left some of his disciples at the courtyard he is residing in!" King said with dissatisfactions.

Old Fei suddenly got back colour on his face and looking like an exuberant youngster. King Pingxi was baffled and amused. "Let me meet his disciples at once! Old King you can’t deny me that, right?" he asked with expectations.

"Hm..well I wouldn’t know if it’s alright to just approach the disciples without the permission of the master." King Pingxi tensed. What he said was the rule of most martial arts school, and when it comes to YanZhi, King Pingxi was frantic. Both husband and wife gave him shivers the first time they got to know each other. He didn’t want to cross any line, and he didn’t want to know the consequences. He didn’t know the full reason why his son and son-in-law were apprehensive and full of worship of Yanzhi and Xiao Ling, after meeting the couple and having a chat with them, he could tell that what his son informed him about the couple may not be everything and there was definitely more that wouldn’t be told to him. Like the fact that the couple were able to smuggle out a convict who was in the process of being beheaded easily. His heart was in a jumble state on the way to morning court earlier in the morning, but at the court section no one made mention of the convict who was smuggled by the couple. It was as if the convict was non-existent and the world had forgotten about him. Fart, how can a mere martial arts master make such feat easily without breaking a sweat. He couldn’t begin to fathom about these couple and he wasn’t brave enough to sniff out the truth.

"Uncle Fei finish eating first, and when you’re done I’ll take you to see them." Jinhua suggested when the servants started to serve the dishes prepared for old Fei. "You probably hadn’t had breakfast yet before running over, right" Jinhua added knowing how his uncle was.

"Yes, old friend eat first. Since your nephew said he’d take you to see them, then i guess master Jun wouldn’t mind." King Pingxi added, since the person who knew master Jun the most had offered to take old Fei. Then it means it’s okay, so he wouldn’t have to worry about offending master Jun by mistake.

Old Fei gave in after much persuasion, he agreed to go after eating.

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No. 6 followed the directions given to him by Tan Fan. He slowed down the speed of the carriage upon reaching their destination, he searched around to find a good place before finally bringing the carriage to a stop. Yanzhi and the rest got down from the carriage after it stopped, they frowned upon the disturbing sight that they were met.

The place Tan Fan brought them which was supposed to be the base of the begger’s gang, was completely in ruins and gore. If not because they had the calmness to be able to withstand such gore and disturbing sights, they would choose to go back at once. Their senses of smell was now filled with the disgusting stench of rotten wounds and strong smell of blood. What they were now witnessing wasn’t something a normal person could withstand. Xiao Ling felt the strong sense of death.

"This?.... Is this why you said we should see for ourselves? What inhumane thing is this?! What in the world happened here?!" Xiao Ling was livid at what was in his sights. The agonizing cries of the old who laid down with severe injuries and even severed limbs, cries of children who walked around aimlessly in search of their parents and families and even some children laying down besides corpses of their parents and bawling. Whether old, adult, young or child, almost all of them were not in good shape. This was a bitter sight for Xiao Ling. Infact what he was seeing now was nothing compared with what he had gone through and seen in his previous life, the beginning of the apocalypse in his previous life was much more disturbing than this. But the problem was that compared to his previous world, Xiao Ling believed that this place was much peaceful and the wouldn’t be any incidence, but now Xiao Ling saw that his thoughts were naive. Maybe it was because he was finally breathing good air and there was no more danger in his daily live, he had become naive and less vigilant. He only thought that his fight was in his previous world, but now he doesn’t think so anymore. If a poor less important gang like the begger’s sect filled with homeless people was involved and could be sent to such ruins in the fight between the princes for the throne, what would about their martial arts school they are about to open. Xiao Ling believed that preparations were needed to be done since anything can happen, both him and Yanzhi never had it in mind to involve themselves too much in the events of this place and it will stay so, but if there fight happens to reach them. Then they’ll fight back and hard at that.

"The fifth prince’s soldiers came without our notice, it was because we never expected nor thought that the princes would involve us in their fights for the throne. There’s an unbroken rule that, Jianghu would not be involved in official matters. With the exception of that the people of Jianghu involve themselves, that is individually but not for all Jianghu. There are martial artists who become officials and ministers of their own choices, but those who didn’t want to become officials and ministers they can’t be forced." Tan Fan became hysterical as he spoke.

Yanzhi showed indifference and unaffected by all the things he was seeing, but no one knew the emotions brewing in the depths of his heart. For someone like him who had witnessed many beginnings and ends of mortals, and had seen countries and dynasties come to ruin by the hands of the mortals themselves he was unmoved. He had never gotten involved in such things and he wouldn’t start having the intentions to get involved now, it was best to let fate take it’s course. The heavens will was perpetual.....and so were the beings such as himself, they do not get involved in the wills set by the heavens, because they themselves get punished when they get too much involve and change the course of the heavens will.

"I’ll take you to Xiao Gou’s house now, it’s down the lane there" Tan Fan said and pointed in a certain direction. He began to lead the way and they followed. Their eyes trailed staring at the people dying in agonizing pain around them in the paths they walked. Yue and Liu weren’t much disturbed since they didn’t have the emotions and pity of humans, they themselves weren’t humans in the first place. And in the mountain they grew up, it was survival of the fittest, the jungle life was much different than human life. No. 6 and his colleagues were well trained shadow guards, the had long relieved themselves from harboring any kind of emotions, so he was also not very much affected by the gruesome sight.

"This is the place place!" Tan Fan pointed to a very broken down house in front of them. They could hear voices of two people inside in from where they were walking from, one loud angry voice of a young girl child, and a hoarse voice of a man. It sounded as if the two were in a heated argument. As they got closer to the house they could hear the voices loudly and clear!

"Then you stay here and die on your own! From now on I’ll think of you dead, you and I, father and daughter relationship has been severed. I’m going to join the members who had now joined the fifth prince’s army." the voice of the girl sounded before it ceased.

A girl more or less the same age as Liu ran out of the broken thatched house, she ran past them without even sparing them a glance. Xiao Ling glanced at her back as she ran farther along the way before he retrieved his sights from her. They followed Tan Fan into the room, they were hit hard by an unbearable disgusting stench as soon as they walked into the house. In font of them was a man in his mid-thirties laying down on what looked like a plank with one leg severed and rotting with maggots and was emitting the disgusting stench.