Mortal To Immortal (Book 1)
MTI 154 - Delivering Home

Before Yao Han responded, Xu Yin first cut, "Yang-gege, he's Senior East Wind disciple. With the ability he had, it was almost impossible to ask others for help."

Xu Yang glanced at his sister while raising his eyebrows high, "Yin'er, didn't you say Brother Han was a lousy man before? Then now you sound like you're praising him."

Xu Yang added, Xu Yin should call Yao Han as Han-gege or at least Yao-gege. Xu Yin wanted to protest, but Xu Yang did not want to be denied.

Xu Yang then looked at Yao Han with a meaningful smile, "For the time being, we are foster brothers, but perhaps in the future we will become brothers-in-law, Brother Han."

Xu Yang laughed loudly for a while, before screaming in pain as his hair was grabbed by Xu Yin.

Again, the conversation of the three invited amused laughter from Bing Lizi who was secretly eavesdropping from the next room and then told what she heard to Meirong, Yutian, Tian Jian, and Xiao Ni.

***

For an entire night, the people who were in Yao Han's wooden house were busy with their respective affairs.

Zi Dan and the six Purple Star Sect disciples focused on training because they were stunned by the results they had obtained after receiving and consuming Yao Han's pill.

The same thing happened to Yao Han and the two Xu brothers who ended up training after the disappearance of the awkward atmosphere and the little violent scene of Xu Yin towards her brother. While next to Yao Han's room, Bing Lizi and the others enjoyed the time by chatting until morning arrived.

Yao Han and the others stood in front of the wooden house. Before leaving, Yao Han wanted to eliminate the wooden house. He was in a half-kneeling position, after forming a few simple hand spells, Yao Han patted the ground softly in front of him.

Before long, the ground shook, the wooden house showed a reaction.

Krakk. Krakk. Krakk.

The wooden structure of the house turned into a tree trunk which then entered the ground. The wooden house disappeared as if it had never existed before.

Seeing Yao Han's action, the others except Xiao Ni stared in astonishment. Zi Dan watched Yao Han full of admiration in his heart. The only thing he doubted on Yao Han was his level of practice. Zi Dan felt that Yao Han's practice couldn't possibly be at the tenth level of the Basic Realm like he had read.

'At least this Senior disciple of East Wind had already reached the Foundation Realm. Is it possible the Sky Foundation?'

Meanwhile Xiao Ni laughed at Yao Han's small action, "As I said before, you deserve to be Senior Chen's disciple rather than Senior Feng."

Yao Han responded with a faint smile, the others were confused and curious by the figure called 'Senior Chen' this was because Xiao Ni indirectly mentioned there was a figure better than the East Wind who was known as the oldest and strongest cultivator in the entire Blue Moon Continent.

'What is Senior Chen one of the Four Great Warriors? But other than Senior East Wind, the three of them had long since been heard from...'

Actually Zi Dan did not guess wrongly, but he did not dare to ask to make sure to Yao Han or Xiao Ni for fear of offending.

"Xiao Han, after I deliver the two of them to the Poison Heart Valley, I will directly return to Star Moon Island."

"Good, Senior."

Xiao Ni formed a hand spell and in front of him appeared something white-coloured two meters away like a cloud that floated half a meter above the ground.

Xiao Ni climbed up and sat on the white cloud, as if he were sitting on a carpet made of thick cotton pads.

"Both of you, come up and sit behind me."

A little hesitant, but the two Xu brothers complied and then sat on a white cloud.

"Senior, we go first. Brother Han, be careful on your journey. If you have time to spare, stop by the Valley of the Poison Heart, I'll take you around." Xu Yang saluted the potluck to Zi Dan, then said goodbye to Yao Han.

"I can't promise, but I do have plans to go to the Valley of the Poison Heart after my business is done."

Xu Yin simply watched from behind her iron mask without saying anything.

"All right, we're leaving now."

Xiao Ni flicked his finger, slowly the thick white cloud clumps that became their vehicles floated then drifted away towards one direction.

After they were no longer seen, Zi Dan ventured to ask Yao Han, "Young Brother, my wrong hearing or the son of the Poison Heart Valley Patriarch earlier did indeed call you 'sister'?"

Yao Han smiled faintly, "It's true, since last night we became foster brothers."

Zi Dan choked on his breath, though, shocked as well as stunned by Yao Han's casual demeanor before the most feared poison sect members and could now forge a close relationship as a foster brother with the eldest son of the Poison Heart Valley Patriarch.

"I hope Senior and the brothers don't divulge this matter to others."

Zi Dan and the six Purple Star Sect disciples instantly promised not to divulge, even acting ignorant. They were only afraid that their heads would be detached from their place if they dared to do so.

"By the way Young Brother, if you can be an adopted brother with that young man, maybe one day you can be his brother-in-law as well."

Yao Han let out a stiff laugh, "No way, after all Miss Xu is the strangest girl I have ever met, I don't feel we have a match. Senior, it is better that we go to the Purple Star Sect now."

"Ah, yes, yes, let's go."

***

The white cloud clump that Xiao Ni controlled stopped in the middle of the road, making the two Xu brothers curious.

"What's up, Senior?"

Xiao Ni turned his head to face the two, "I want to ask, do you guys know who I am?"

Xu Yin replied, "Senior is named Xiao Ni, Senior follower of East Wind."

"Right, I introduced myself as a follower of Senior Feng to ease the introduction alone. But actually I am not a human, but rather the only spirit animal that lives and becomes one of the guardians of Star Moon Island that Senior Feng lives in."

"Huh?"

"I'd better show it to you guys."

Xiao Ni's body glowed dazzlingly bright, then Xiao Ni in the human form disappeared replaced with a giant animal figure. A stork with rainbow-colored feathers that blend perfectly and have a long tail, and two pairs of wings. His body length reached twenty meters.

Xu Yang and Xu Yin who saw it gaped and were amazed.

"This is my true form, the Rainbow Stork..."

Xiao Ni deliberately showed his true form, one of the factors was that he was more comfortable flying using his original form as a Rainbow Stork.

"Go up my back, we'll arrive at the Valley of the Poison Heart much sooner."

Despite the hesitation, the two brothers finally climbed onto Xiao Ni's back. They sat quietly and were enveloped in an invisible barrier to avoid friction with the air as Xiao Ni flew at high speed.

Xiao Ni continued on his flying journey and within three hours, they arrived at the Poison Heart Valley.