The Lightning Driver
Chapters. 18. Woe
Murong Qiu without looking back, kept darting in the darkness of the night, the pain held him back. He also felt the longer each movement and his profound energy was decreasing.
By strengthening the throat continues to dart, the feeling of dizziness and the body that began to fever continues to attack.
From a distance the gate of the City Mansion had appeared, just when it was only one step away with the gatekeepers, Murong Qiu's gaze turned completely dark, falling unconscious.
Dark, cold, lonely and endless solitude, there was no place to rest or hold. Fear began to engulf Murong Qiu, the fear of loneliness. The extremely gripping cold doubled the fear for Murong Qiu.
In the darkness Murong Qiu saw a speck of light, which gave him a glimmer of hope. He chased after the light, the end of the light brought him together with the silhouette of his father's shadow.
When he wanted to chase, his father's shadow seemed to dodge and constantly stay away. Murong Qiu shouted out a call, but the sound of his call was not heard. He kept trying to call, forced until the throat dried up, unfortunately the sound of the call was not heard until the end of the shadow disappeared.
Murong Qiu's hands waved and shouted.
“Dad!”
“Dad!”
The echoes of this scream shook the room.
“Qiu Cici! Calm down first!” Murong Qiu heard a soothing voice, accompanied by a gentle swipe in his head.
Murong Qiu opened his eyes, noticing the light of the morning sun shining down on the whole room, beside the bed sat Hua Mei, gently stroking her head. Cold sweat is still felt all over the body.
The entire body was in pain, the sword slash marks had been laced with an outer medicine that could speed up skin regeneration. Murong Qiu channeled his profound energy throughout the meridians, no barriers all flowing smoothly.
“Qiu Cici! Rest in peace! Everything is fine, no one needs Cici to worry about!” hua Mei said as she turned her face away, her eyelids slightly drooping.
“How about Dad? In the endless darkness, I saw the shadow of the distant Father leaving me for good,” Murong Qiu's small sobs in every word he said, were unbearable.
“Qiu Cici eat first! Later when Cici's energy has recovered then we talk back"
Hua Mei picked up the food on the table that the Mansion City housekeeper had provided since this morning, feeding Murong Qiu.
After a few breaths, footsteps rang out, accompanied by the appearance of Gou Long in front of them.
“What is Sister Murong aware of? Very well, sister is awake apparently. Take these pills to speed healing!” gou Long's orders entered the room, and gave Hua Mei a bottle of healing pills.
“Cultivate for two hours! We will take turns waiting for you here.” Finished saying, Gou Long directly walked out of the room, it was really not good to linger in the girls room.
“Thank you Brother Gou!” murong Qiu replied.
“Qiu Cici! Know thou? Last night Long Gege worked hard, curing the poison that was in Cici's body, said Long Gege ‘poison almost attacked the heart of Qiu Cici’ tootokan that issued Long Gege very telling, very sharp, he was a great healer.” Hua Mei said, the look of admiration was clearly drawn when she told Gou Long's greatness.
“That's so! Whoa! Great, what a great thing, Long Gege is really a tiger among humans, he is very good at hiding the hands of his sacred healer.” Murong Qiu's face flushed slightly when he said so.
That was how the newly awakened Murong Qiu, had yet to know the state of Xia Yu City back then. Indeed, since dawn, the usually calm and peaceful Xia Yu City was startled by the news of deep sorrow.
The news of the City Lord's death along with his entire family, and some of the main bodyguards, were shocking to the residents of Xia Yu City. The faces of grief were drawn almost all over the population of Xia Yu City.
Indeed, Patriarch Sun is famous for being very friendly, as well as being a role model for the city community. So naturally, when this sad news was delivered everyone showed disbelief.
The news of this death also made the Main Families move quickly, by choosing the new City Lord. Considering the love of the people and the reason for wanting to cultivate closed to Silat Science, each Family Head decided that Patriarch Xia who did not focus on Silat Science, would become the new City Lord for now.
For now, the news of the condition of Patriarch Sun's daughter was kept secret, this was done directly by Grandfather Zhou.
With years of experience living in the Green Forest, Grandfather Zhou was convinced, if Murong Qiu's condition was known to the party who attacked Patriarch Sun's entourage. They will definitely devise a plan of removing the grass to its roots.
After cultivating for two more hours, Murong Qiu felt that his inner strength had improved, back then, in his room there were also Grandpa Zhou, Gou Long and Hua Mei present.
Grandpa Zhou opened the conversation, gently and carefully he said, “Child! ... Grandfather hope you do not be too sad, you must have guessed how your father's condition, but the overall condition of the situation here you must know clearly.”
“Grandfather cannot tell you about the last night's interception, when it happened, you were on the scene, it should be clearer you understand.”
Grandfather Zhou started telling stories, he waited for a moment's pause, letting Murong Qiu project the events of the night clearly in his own mind.
The shadow of last night's events reoccurred in Murong Qiu's mind, and stopped as he fell in front of the gatekeeper. Murong Qiu nodded his head then said, “Please grandfather continue!”
“After you have passed out your state is between life and death, more towards the path of death. Lucky the poison was successfully removed with a great treatment technique by your Long Gege, then you survived!”
While telling the story Grandfather Zhou also sneered at Gou Long who was good at hiding his prowess.
“Grandfather will be frank, when grandfather gets to the scene, the fight is over. Leaving only a few bodies without lives, more precisely the entire City Lord Family and its main bodyguards.”
Grandfather Zhou continued to tell stories including the new City Lord Xia Yu Xia Qiouyan.
During hearing the story, Murong Qiu could only cry without being restrained. In his heart he was determined to take this revenge.
Then Grandfather Zhou also explained their next plan, that later that night, the four of them would leave Xia Yu City and return to the Heavenly Dragon Sect.
Grandfather Zhou who was an elder in the Sky Dragon Sect, was free for him to recruit new disciples who were considered suitable and talented. So Grandfather Zhou took advantage of this privilege to bring along Gou Long and Murong Qiu to the Heavenly Dragon Sect as new disciples.
Before they left Xia Yu City, Gou Long took advantage of the opportunity to meet Manager Lei.
From Manager Lei, Gou Long obtained information that since four years ago, the Three Devils from the South disappeared from the Southern area, last seen them in the Skull Valley Sect. If you want to track down these three Devils, you have to start from the Skull Valley Sect.