The Demon Swordsman 2
Ch. 314 - The Oldest Ancestor
"Water Humming?"
Xin Chen took out a flute and played it slowly, Huo Rong nodded surely. "Yes, right. That one. How do you know that rhythm? Shouldn't it be forgotten by now? Given this it's been about a thousand years since the rhythm was created?"
Huo Rong could not hide her curiosity. He raised an eyebrow as Xin Chen had to think first to answer his question.
"Is it hard to answer my question?"
"I wonder where did you know this rhythm was created a thousand years ago?"
"Of course it's because of me-" Huo Rong dismissed her sentence, staring at Xin Chen intensely but not spouting a word. He just thought Xin Chen was indeed making sense of all the words he heard. No wonder why from the beginning the young man knew his identity as the Demon lord of the earth.
"You're a good listener, ck ck!"
Now Huo Rong aka Fire Salamender did sound like a lizard.
"Hahaha, when will I ever meet a creature like you. There's been a lot of reasons, berserk-"
"Say I'm ugly. It's your life." Huo Rong was still folding both hands in front of her chest, yet the red lightning in her terrifying eyes still highlighted Xin Chen from the side.
Xin Chen stared at his flute, then released a bundle of braided rope adorned by a small clam. A gift from his mother. He tied the thing up on the flute, looking nicer than ever.
"This humming Water I learned in the Lotus Temple. Once upon a time my father used to take me to his teacher. I'm not sure he's still teaching this beat because for some people, it's not really necessary."
"But you learned it?"
"I even found the deadly weapon of this soothing rhythm."
A moment later, no one else spoke but Xin Chen's flute started to let out a low groove. So smooth and drifting that finally the rhythm rises and uncontrollably, swirling like a labyrinth of endless death. That rhythm made Huo Rong lose her consciousness for a moment. If Xin Chen had not let go of the influence of the rhythm, bad things would have happened to Huo Rong,
"It's crazy ... I've heard of this rhythm! I don't know who flipped the rhythms around until they messed up and created a dangerous sound like this."
"That means you're the one who created the Water Smile."
Nodding Huo Rong was enough to confirm Xin Chen's guess, not only did he get there, he still asked her another thing that hung over him.
"That means you indirectly have some connection to the ancestors from the Lotus Temple?"
"Yes. I was the one who founded that little group. Before his name changed to the Lotus Temple."
In the past, Xin Chen had visited the Lotus Temple to ascertain the similarity that the Water Smile and Death Rhythm had. That day, he had only found a tomb with wood made directly from the Qing Empire. If it was true that it had something to do with Huo Rong then it was no wonder why the wood had the emblem of the Qing Empire. And also, according to what Huo Rong said earlier, he was not a figure who created the Death Rhythm.
Xin Chen was so preoccupied with his own thoughts that making Huo Rong neglected, he patted her on the shoulder once. Touchable. "You're starting to get used to yourself without that power, huh?"
Sure enough, Xin Chen did not hear it. Huo Rong was not ignorant of the problems that Xin Chen had experienced during the fight with her earlier. He could have used his spirit power to destroy it. However, Xin Chen realized that the longer he walked, the more the power had terrible enemies. For example Yuhao and also the Fire Salamender. Only by relying on the power of the spirit will not guarantee his victory.
Plus the spirit power does not actually eat the energy of the physical, but rather the spiritual and soul power that it controls. The more souls that were swallowed by the Spirit Controlling Authority, the higher the level of control. He would just kill himself.
This time Huo Rong patted him on the shoulder harder, "You must be wondering who I really am."
Huo Rong stretched her stiff body muscles, midnight had passed and the dark blue sky as the blind morning came into view. It brings gloom to anyone who sees it. Feeling Xin Chen start to look at him, Huo Ronng spoke again.
"Because you've introduced your father, then I'll introduce myself as well, listen carefully to this, good listener."
"I've told you before, I've been mingling with humans for about a thousand years. These are times where chaos is everywhere. There is no such thing as this empire and that. It's just that each different region would consider enemies to each other. That's why the war is unceasingly happening. Maybe if you think war is terrible now then you're wrong, war was far more sadistic than you think."
Huo Rong told him until morning came, how she used to be. It was so sad to see humans fighting each other for control of the territory. But there are some who want unity. They think if the whole region is united then war can be avoided. For everyone in the past, it was the most terrible thing they would never let happen.
And the prophecy came, about a child called the Devil Man. He will be born to bring about the most frightening calamity to mankind. It became the main base of the Lotus Temple standing. Huo Rong became one of its founders until the sect became the oldest sect.
Huo Rong flicked her finger, making the bonfire in front of her extinguish as the sun began to appear. Since Xin Chen had been silent from earlier, he thought that the young man had already fallen asleep. But it turns out that he still complains when called. It was true that his guess, the young man would not pass through a single piece of information left behind.
"I just found out now. Although our paths are different, me and the lightning fox both want to fight for a world where everything can live without feeling threatened."
"If you're so eager to see her, you can see her in Shui's dimension."
Huo Rong rejected him while laughing blandly, "I would lose face if she suddenly woke up and berate me just for never visiting him."
"I don't think your body is bigger than her, it's scarier too. Turns out to lose when it comes to arguing with the fox."
"Look at yourself, son." Huo Rong laughed like her trademark style.
"Come with me. There's one place I want to show you."
The two of them left just like that, leaving Shui who was still fast asleep. He got up after a few minutes, yawned wide and washed his face with calm sea water. The things he used to do since getting a human body.
"Hm ... My face is as handsome as ever. Wonderful, what exactly was my fault for being punished with such outrageous good looks? You must feel that way too, right, Chen?"
Shui turned his head back and only saw the dried leaves passing by being blown away by the wind.
"Damn it, I was left on a haunted island! Arrghhh, lets!"