Mortal To Immortal (Book 1)
Ep. 82 - Bad News

Under normal conditions, the smell of fresh fragrant Blue Lotus Flower can make people nauseous because it is too dense to cover the entire small village, especially the condition of the village is also fresh after the local rain made by Yao Han.

Three young men were sitting under a shady tree, not far from the entrance of the small village. Yao Han and his two friends were waiting for the visiting Bolang to say goodbye to the tomb of Zhang, Fei, and his daughter for the last time.

While waiting, Yao Han took out a large enough paper containing a fairly detailed map image of the Green Forest Country region. This map was given by Feng Xian, but it originally belonged to Chen Long.

"This little village I think it's located here, the next town we're going through is the Iron Grass City here." Honghao pointed at a single point on the map.

Yao Han nodded slowly while smiling widely as his entourage would not long reach Flower Hill City.

The name of the Iron Grass City was no stranger to Yao Han since this city was the ordinary human city closest to the Flower Hill City. They are also bigger and more populated. It would take at least three or five hours, to arrive at Flower Hill City after passing through the Iron Grass City.

Seeing Bolang's arrival, Yao Han kept the map and stood up followed by the others. They are ready to continue their journey.

"If you can tell, where are we going?" ask Bolang.

"Bunga Hill Town, I want to visit an old friend."

"The City of Flowers Hill I seem to have heard of..." Bolang thought hard.

Yao Han suggested they walk while Bolang tried to remember.

"The name of the city doesn't sound familiar, but where do I hear it?" Bolang scratched his head.

"The City of Flower Hill is a small town, it's natural that you've never heard of it. Our next trip through the City of Iron Grass, then after that we will reach the City of Flower Hill." Yao Han explained, indirectly giving Bolang a hint.

"Iron Grass City. Not too far from our position... Iron Grass... Flower Hill... Ah, I remember!"

Bolang exclaimed and stopped, making the others also stop.

"A few years ago, Bukit Bunga City was known to be quite extensive to some areas. Unfortunately..."

Yao Han's forehead shriveled, Bolang's hanging sentence made him have a bad feeling.

"Known how? As far as I can remember, Bukit Bunga City is famous because there are hills overgrown with many flowers, as well as every corner of the city which is also overgrown with many flowers."

Bolang shook his head softly in response to Yao Han's remark, "Master Yao, maybe you forgot or could not hear it either. But the Flower Hill City almost disappeared a few years ago."

"What?!" Yao Han let out a startled scream. His heart seemed to stop for a moment. Not much could shock Yao Han, but Bolang's words just now were able to shake Yao Han's composure, "What do you mean by annihilation?!"

"Virtually perished, Mr. Yao..."

"Whatever it is!" refute Yao Han quickly, "Tell me everything you know!" Yao Han even held onto both of Bolang's shoulders and shook him a few times.

Shenghao and Honghao were also taken aback and tried to pull Yao Han to calm himself down. This was the first time they had seen Yao Han lose his composure.

"Ehm..this..." Bolang scratched his head, feeling a little guilty over his words seeing Yao Han's overreaction.

Bolang then told me, about five years ago, the City of Flower Hill got a stealth attack. Reportedly the number of demons seen is about twenty tails.

Despite the preparation for the demons, the residents remained overwhelmed. Assistance received from elsewhere was also quite late.

Seeing the appalling condition of the city, quite a number of people chose to go and live in other cities for fear of getting a similar attack. Most chose to move to the Iron Grass City.

"That's all I hear, Mr. Yao..." Bolang closed his story.

"Another demon..." Yao Han's two hands clenched tightly. His face was slightly pale which then flushed. His body was also trembling.

Yao Han tried to clear his mind about the incident of the stealth attack to Flower Hill City. Five years ago, in other words Yao Han had only been living on Star Moon Island for two years.

At that time the practice was still quite low and had not mastered the science of good self-protection. If he still lived in the Flower Hill City, he only ended up being injured or at worst became a stealth food.

"You're not lying about this, are you?" honghao asked hesitatingly, he hoped this was just a prank.

"I just heard it, but by then quite a lot had told it until it became warm news for quite a while."

Yao Han tried to calm himself down by breathing out repeatedly.

"Brother Yao, are you okay?" shenghao asked a little worriedly.

"Good enough, I'm asking for some time to be alone."

Shenghao and the others were stirring. Yao Han walked towards a short tree and started sitting cross-legged then closed his eyes.

"Han..." Meirong looked so worried. He and Yutian had only first seen Yao Han's frightened pale face after such a long time. The last time they saw him was when Yao Han received a vision of the dark side of the world of cultivators from Feng Xian all of a sudden.

Shenghao and the others patiently waited and it was not until half an hour that Yao Han approached them again. Although his face looked calm, but not with his eyes.

Yao Han then took out a Gunbai fan, slightly surprising the other three. After forming a simple hand seal, Yao Han drained the Qi on the Gunbai fan and made its size enlarge up to three times.

This is one of the specialties of Gunbai fans. They can be made larger, but they cannot be made smaller.

"We should ride this fan to get to the City of Flower Hill faster."

The Gunbai fan then floated flat half a meter from the ground level, Yao Han climbed up and sat on top of it, then asked the others to follow.

Shenghao and the others were stunned to see not only that Gunbai's fan could be made larger, but it could also be used as a flying aid Shenghao wanted to praise Yao Han as having such a nice and unique heirloom, but the moment is not right at all.

"Get a tight grip, I'll use top speed."

Yao Han commemorated the others while making another hand seal. His body was enveloped in a golden blue Qi which then also covered the entire Gunbai fan. Shenghao and the others hurriedly held onto the fringe of the fan for a moment before Yao Han started flying.

Not to forget also Yao Han formed an invisible protector so that the passengers were not disturbed by the wind friction.

In contrast to Yao Han whose heart was beating faster due to worry about the fate of Flower Hill City, the other three people were more worried about falling from the fan as it flew quite high.

Eight hours later, Yao Han saw a city and lowered his fan flying speed. Shenghao and the others heaved a sigh of relief after being made to barely hang for hours.

They descended from Gunbai's fan a few meters away from the city gate. While saving his relics, Yao Han stared at his hometown heartily.