294 A Reunion at Huai Dan City
Qin Huai’s eyes dazzled as the dragon king’s aura caused his hair to change. The vigorous vitality turned his black hair white and even longer than before.
He looked down at his hands, shocked. “This strength is many times stronger than before…”
It was pure physical strength. Qin Huai felt like a young dragon king, capable of shattering everything in front of him with his fists. “My power in dragon king form might be even more terrifying…”
The light in Qin Huai’s eyes extinguished as a faint sense of fatigue surged into his heart. To activate dragon king form, the stamina consumption was equally shocking.
He bought poison from the Fengxing Auction House, changed into a black robe, and ran toward Huai Dan City alone. On the way, he received Elder Erlong’s letter, saying, “Sun Yuanshan is still in Huai Dan City.”
Qin Huai quickened his pace and, in just three to four days, crossed several cities to arrive at Huai Dan City, which the army had been attacking for months.
At this moment, Huai Dan City was filled with ruins and the air with a familiar smell of blood. Both sides had left countless corpses on the ground. Around the battlefield, there were also commoners in tattered clothes, searching with empty eyes. Some were rummaging through corpses, some squatting on the ground eating rotten meat, and some sleeping on the ground. The war had caused them to lose their homes and families.
Qin Huai looked on with a heavy heart and walked to the Huai Dan City gates, which were wide open. There weren’t any city guards, so warriors and commoners could enter and leave freely. On the streets, people cheered and shot firecrackers, celebrating the departure of the Balance Army and the war being far away from Huai Dan City.
Qin Huai followed the address given by Elder Erlong and easily found the residence of his master, Sun Yuanshan, and the others.
“Master!” he pushed the door open and entered, delighted to see the elderly man with a rosy complexion.
“Qin Huai?” Sun Yuanshan was pleasantly surprised.
Qin Huai looked at the well-built old man and felt a myriad of emotions in his heart.
“Haha… The disciples of our Changshan Dojo are all outstanding in their blacksmithing skills. They are provided with good food and drinks by those people from the Balance Army all day long,” Sun Yuanshan talked freely. “There were a few gangs with crude skills who were jealous of us, but I subdued them all.”
When Qin Huai heard his master’s words, he instantly understood.
“Master’s methods are very brilliant. He even made those gangs suspect each other and fight each other. The losses were not small.” Qi Yangbing sighed.
Qin Huai looked at the numerous Changshan Dojo disciples in the courtyard. Many of them had already left. They either joined the Balance Army or left the dojo after the Balance Army departed, and no one knew where they went.
“I heard there were some martial artists in the Balance Army who wore strange armor. Those armors could make a martial artist’s qi and blood soar?” Qin Huai asked.
Speaking of this, Sun Yuanshan frowned. “We haven’t forged that thing, but I’ve seen it from afar. That armor is like a living thing. It can even jump. I was chatting with a soldier from the Balance Army, and he said that the armor might have been forged with demons.”
“Forged with demons?” Qin Huai exclaimed. He had never imagined that someone could use demons to forge armor.
This world was truly full of wonders. There was the Sacred Heart sect that fed on living creatures like fiendish demons, and now there was a mysterious person from the Balance Army who used fiendish demons to forge ‘living’ armor.
Elder Erlong, who sent the message, went elsewhere after the Balance Army left. It was said that it was Li Shaoxiang’s order. He wanted to kill some of the remnants of the Sacred Heart Sect.
Qin Huai then told Sun Yuanshan his plan. He was preparing to bring his fellow disciples to the Nine Dragons sect.
“I already told them about it, and they did not have any objections.” Sun Yuanshan stroked his beard. He knew that his favorite disciple was now the Nine Dragons sect’s leader and the most powerful person in Lingjiang. He laughed so hard that his mouth never closed. “But as for me… I want to go out and experience it again,” Sun Yuanshan hesitated.
“Oh? Why do you think so, Master?” Qin Huai was surprised. He didn’t expect Sun Yuanshan to say such a thing.
“You brat, what kind of gaze is that!” Sun Yuanshan glared at him. “I’m only eighty years old. I’m still very young!”
Qin Huai was sweating profusely, but he didn’t say anything.
“I used to stay in Pingnan City to promote Changshan Dojo. Now that the dojo is gone, I naturally have to continue pursuing the realm of martial arts!” Sun Yuanshan continued to stroke his beard, his eyes filled with melancholy. “This trip to Huai Dan City has made this old man feel very aggrieved. Moreover, my current realm is definitely not my limit!”
When Sun Yuanshan arrived at Huai Dan City, it was a blessing in disguise for him to break through the barrier of great blood refinement. He looked younger and younger.
“Master, are you planning to go to Qingzhou to train?” Qin Huai asked tentatively.
However, Sun Yuanshan rolled his eyes at him. “I’m only in the great blood refinement realm now. Isn’t going to Qingzhou cannon fodder? Naturally, I’ll first train in the various counties of Qingzhou before going there! I need at least one thing to survive, realm or poison techniques, in Qingzhou.”
When Qin Huai heard this, he immediately felt relieved. With his master’s treachery… Old and shrewd, only others would suffer in the martial world.