Legendary Fighter
Chapters... 48: Lee's
Green Leaf Village was again crowded, after the annual auction held a few months ago, many cultivators came to the green leaf village because they wanted to get a place left to participate in the Black Stone City tournament.
Some people had indeed come because they wanted to enter the qualifications, whereas others only wanted to see cultivators competing.
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While waiting for the time of the qualifying round to begin Zhou Fan looked for a place to expel his sense of boredom, the young man thought of going around for a while.
"Hey.... Brother, are you here also because of the qualifying round?" asked someone who had suddenly appeared beside Zhou Fan.
Zhou Fan who was busy walking around, was surprised when someone arrived to be beside him. Zhou Fan turned his head to the side, a young man in ragged clothes with slightly dark skin stared at him with a friendly smiling face.
"When is he here? I didn't realize it" Zhou Fan asked in his heart.
"Hey! dude are you okay?" asked the ragged-clothed young man as he looked at the man now before him who was pensive.
"Ah... i. yes, I'm fine, uh who are you?" Zhou Fan only realized that he did not know the young man in ragged clothes.
"It seems I'm overdoing it, his cultivation is only a 1-star advanced fighter." Zhou Fan dismissed his thoughts, he had thought that the ragged-clothed young man was a stronger person than himself, but after checking his cultivation level, he threw away the thought.
"introduce. Lee!" said the young man in ragged clothes while extending his right hand, hoping for a reply from Zhou Fan.
"Lee?" Beo Zhou Fan, he did not think that the young man before him did not have a clan, but he looked fine.
Lee looked at the astonished young man before him, so strange was his name,
"Yes, Lee!" he resolutely while shaking his hand.
Zhou Fan saw the code from Lee, he shook the young man's hand while introducing himself, "Zhou Fan!".
"The qualifying branch is still a few hours away, how about we stop by a tavern?" tawar Lee's.
"But you're the deal!" he said it again with a smile.
Zhou Fan smiled at Lee's unrelenting nature, even though he had just met, but that was what attracted Zhou Fan to the young man.
Zhou Fan did not reply to Lee's remarks, but he merely nodded his head at the sign he agreed with the young man's suggestion. Since Lee's journey did not stop talking there was always a topic that he could talk about.
Zhou Fan only shook his head to see the young man who had just met him, unable to remain silent for a moment, even until they entered a tavern Lee still told him about what he knew.
It was Zhou Fan who first asked Lee, Zhou Fan asked what information he knew about the qualifying round, but he had not expected the young man he had just met to discuss it so in detail, even the smallest thing.
Spending a while with Lee, making Zhou Fan know the young man's life, Lee has no one by his side, even surviving as a beggar who always moves away.
Zhou Fan momentarily thought, his life is a little better compared to the young man who introduced himself as Lee, he still has a home to return to, he still has a home to return to, while the young man before him was even living in this cruel world without a single family beside him, what a pity, he thought.
"Where's your family? where are you from?" Unknowingly the question came out of Zhou Fan's mouth.
Seeing Lee's slightly darkened facial expression, Zhou Fan realized what he was throwing was a very sensitive thing.
"I shouldn't have asked." he said regretfully.
Zhou Fan was surprised to see Lee's expression so rapidly changing, he was deep. "His expression changed very quickly."
Lee recounted everything Zhou Fan wanted to know, starting from his origins in the Rose City, and his real family was one of the nobles there, but as some of the accusations were directed at his family, he said, his parents were put to death and only he was still alive from his entire family, about dozens of people from his family both nuclear and branch families, given the death penalty without remaining.
If only Lee was not sick at that time and was outside his residence maybe he also joined the list of people who will be sentenced to death, he said, but at that time he was suffering from a rather severe disease and had to find treatment at the home of a physician.
"Aren't you intent on revenge?" Zhou Fan asked the young man before him after seeing that the story was finished.
Lee looked at Zhou Fan, then let out a rough breath. "If I could of course I would like to immediately give a reply to all those who have slandered my family."
"I think it's only a matter of time, you will definitely become a formidable cultivator" Zhou Fan said.
"It's not that easy, friend, if only the nobles started it, but according to what I know it is also related to the Empire" Lee later told the continuation of the story.
Lee explained that there were rumors that said his family knew about a map showing the location of scarce resources, according to what the rumors said if anyone obtained the map it would be a cultivator that even emperors would have to respect him.
From then on many other noble families targeted his family, even the Empire did not miss it, one by one problems appeared to his family, he said, a few months later his family was accused of being rebels preparing to help another Empire to enter the territory of the Wei Empire, and his entire family was arrested a few days later.
"Do you think the emperor knew of the matter?" zhou Fan asked Lee.
"So, I don't really believe in the work of the Empire." Lee said in a slightly weak tone.
"I didn't think your family's matter was so complicated, nor did I expect the Empire's side to take part in such matters," Zhou Fan said slightly disappointed by the Empire's actions.
"Why do you look sad, man, it's been 10 years, I can laugh now" he said with a laugh, although it sounded very forced.
"Haha you really attracted my brother, now we are friends, how?" Zhou Fan said with a laugh. Zhou Fan could see the young man before him was forcing a smile.
"He must have lived a very difficult life," Zhou Fan said.
"Of course, now we're friends!" said Lee loudly while raising his glass intending toast.
Zhou Gan raised his glass and toasted to his new friend.
"Trink.." -...." The sound of two glasses clashing against each other.
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The medicine pavilion as the host of the qualifying round, had already prepared the arena as where cultivators fought over the remaining 12 quotas.
Residents of Daun Hijau Village welcomed the event with enthusiasm, in addition to being able to watch they also benefit from their increasingly crowded place of business.
The representative of the city lord's residence also took the time to attend the event this time, the city lord's residence a few months ago did not attend the auction because they were not so interested in the cultivation world, either, even if this tournament was not related to Black Stone City perhaps they would prefer to raise their hands.
The Black Stone City Lord was a Li noble family, the Li family that existed in the black stone city was a branch family of the Li family that existed in the capital.
Despite his designation of being the City Lord, the Li family had no special territory in Black Stone City, even its residence was in the territory of the Shui Clan. In essence the city lord in the Black Stone City was just a title without power.