Light Cultivation
Eps. 54 — Black Robed Man
“Search?” Jian Chen asked.
“To be exact we would like to ask you for help.” Ziyun elbowed Meily for her to open her voice.
“Ehm! Brother Jian, we were about to go to the Red Valley to look for the golden Orchid plant there. I asked for your help to accompany us.” Meily explained that she could not ask others for help because this was confidential.
“Grand is a rare herbal plant, how do you know it is there?”
“We're not too sure actually it's just that right now I need that plant.”
Jian Chen fell silent as it was still difficult to digest the situation.
“Brother Jian, like this.” Ziyun adds to why Meily needs the herbal weave right away. “Mother Meily has been in severe pain for the last 5 years, she is lying down and this time her condition is increasingly critical, the golden orchid plant is the way to cure her.”
Jian Chen's forehead wrinkled, even though Ziyun said so yet from the look in his eyes he did not have any confidence in the remark. Meily on the other hand lowered her head, offending her mother's condition making her feel sad.
“All right I'm helping you. I also have no business whatsoever now.” Jian Chen smiled gently.
Meily thanked him, he promised to compensate Jian Chen regardless of his mission succeeding or failing. Jian Chen then asked when they would leave.
“We will leave now, the news of the golden orchid plant we heard from the whispers of the academy elders by accident.”
Ziyun and Meily had to act immediately out of fear that the golden bamboo would be taken by others. The three then left by walking through the city gate because the red valley was outside the city.
“For a moment, please show your identification?”
Jian Chen's entourage was stopped when it was about to exit the gate by the city's border guards. Jian Chen had forgotten that an academy disciple like himself could not get out of the city carelessly but Meily had already planned this all.
Meily issued a golden-colored identification mark, although Jian Chen did not know what it was but the border guard immediately changed his attitude and became more respectful towards Meily.
“The three of us are going out of town, I hope you allow us?”
“Of course, Miss, please.” The guard returned the identifier to Meily again.
Meily nodded behind her mask before giving Ziyun and Jian Chen directions to immediately move forward.
“I asked out of curiosity, why are you guys wearing masks?” jian Chen asked.
“One of them is so that we can pass the guard earlier and one other reason so that our identity is not discovered by anyone.”
“Isn't it better to harden your identity when exiting the gate earlier?” jian Chen asked in astonishment, with Meily's identity as the princess of the Niu clan there should be no one who could stand in her way.
“Brother Jian is precisely because of that we have to wear masks, some days there are murder cases in Qianshan City that target the rich even the most respected. Brother Jian must have understood the situation if we were to blatantly exit the academy?”
Jian Chen nodded, his esteemed status did not necessarily become comfortable, sometimes it would do him more harm than people with ordinary status.
The three continued to move forward and began to enter the forest area. Actually the Red Valley is not too far from the city just because they leave at noon then after a few hours moving the sun has set at the end of the horizon.
Jian Chen told Meily and Ziyun to stop to rest and spend the night moving when a night like this plus in the middle of the forest was very dangerous.
Ziyun and Meily lit a bonfire while Jian Chen chose to hunt for dinner, three jungle chickens he got that they immediately cooked.
“Brother Jian, what are you doing?” Ziyun asked when she saw Jian Chen was cutting off the plant parts.
“I was cutting spices for that chicken, at least our meat dishes have a taste to eat.”
“Oh, it looks like Brother Jian can cook, huh?”
“Not really, I just can.”
After speaking to Jian Chen, Ziyun turned to Meily who had since noticed Jian Chen quietly near the bonfire.
“You heard, Mei’er? She can cook, doesn't she look cool?” ziyun whispered in the ears of her best friend.
If only not wearing a mask, maybe Meily's face will look red. Meily elbowed Ziyun with a slight annoyance. “Kak Ziyun, stop teasing me!”
After smoothing out the splinters he had cut, Jian Chen applied them to the chicken meat that was above the campfire. The fragrant aroma was smelled from his cooking which made the stomach snore loudly.
The three then ate the meat voraciously, especially for Ziyun and Meily they were extremely addicted to Jian Chen's simple cooking.
“You two sleep first, let me take care of the first sif.”
Ziyun and Meily nodded, after making sure the two were asleep Jian Chen got up from his sitting position. His gaze was fixed in one direction and he immediately moved in that direction.
“Until when are you guys hiding?” jian Chen's gaze turned cold, though,
Jian Chen was seen talking to himself at a glance but suddenly there was someone emerging from the tree bushes. That person was wearing a black-colored robe with a scattered killing appetite.
“I'm surprised you can know us, since when did you realize it?” ask the black-robed man.
“Since I came out of the city border, I originally thought you guys only went in the same direction as me but after 5 hours passed I made sure you guys did follow me.”
“Haha, you turned out to be a smart young man. It's a pity that I have to kill you now.”.
Jian Chen's forehead wrinkled, he thought the person who followed him was eyeing Niu Meily or Ye Ziyun because of her status but unexpectedly it turned out that they were eyeing him.
As far as Jian Chen knew he had no enemies or offended anyone in Qianshan city except for the one thing he thought of.
“It looks like you guys are the killer who for a few days is famous, right?”
“Knowing my identity doesn't make me feel sorry even if you're young, son.”
Jian Chen stared intently, he could see the cultivation that person was at the 7th Stage Soul realm.
Jian Chen chose the first to attack with his bare hands because usually the first attacker had the advantage to win. Jian Chen dealt a punch as well as a deadly tread attack.
“Oh, are you a bare-handed user? I want to see how far you're going.”
The black-robed person was both empty-handed swordsman so he was very happy when his aim was to attack without a weapon. He was intending to dodge and see how Jian Chen's abilities were first.
Unfortunately he did not know his opponent had high technique in the field, it was true that just 3 times Jian Chen's movements attacked there was already a punch that hit his body.
The black-robed person took a distance back, from the corner of his lips created blood that came out.
“Sial-is! This kid turned out to be better than I thought.”.
The black-robed man now took the initiative to attack as well but even so his bare-handed technique was below Jian Chen. The black-robed person realized their strength was balanced just that Jian Chen's fighting experience was much higher than his.
The punches and attacks of the two clashed against each other, in 10 moves all Jian Chen's punches hit him while the black-robed man could not touch back his opponent.
One of his punches finally hit Jian Chen's chest but on the other hand Jian Chen gave a tread attack on his face making him grimace in pain mixed with dizziness.
The hand that hit Jian Chen's chest ached, the black-robed person forgot that his opponent was wearing a hard protective suit.
“You.... Who are you exactly?!” The black-robed person let out a loud scream, his opponent was clearly still a teenager but his abilities were clearly above him.
Jian Chen snorted, he did not reply but rather took out a white fang sword from his s.p.a.ce Ring.
“You, you're a swordsman?”
Jian Chen smiled faintly, “You are not my opponent, if you do not take out your men then do not blame me for killing you in the next move.”
The black-robed person clenched his teeth in annoyance, he still could not believe that he would be defeated by such a youngster. The black-robed person then plucked his finger as soon as 7 of his subordinates came out from hiding.
“Bos, are you okay?” his subordinates were surprised after watching from earlier, they were just as unhappy.
“We're finishing him! let alone let him live!”
The black-robed leader was still grimacing in pain, he continued to hold his chest as Jian Chen's punch only pointed to one point so that the wound on his chest was not small.