The Ghost of Fog
Chapters 18. Practicing Together

That morning was seen in the garden behind the Xiao family residence a young man with jet-black hair in pigtails was standing pensively while looking at the flower bed in front of him consisting of various colors. This young man was wearing a dark red shirt with a black belt and on his waist hung neatly a butut sword.

This young man was Lin Tian, he was currently pensive alone in the backyard thinking about the fate of his young Miss.

"May you be well Miss." He mumbled with a sad face.

Long time he stood motionless like that, until finally Lin Tian realized from his daydream because he thought of something. Then he looked back and muttered, "Miss, what should I do? Do I have to help this Xiao family? If it were you, what would you do?" Asked Lin Tian alone.

Indeed, all this time the young Miss seemed to always haunt her life, every time she slept always the face of Nonanya who appeared in a dream, when you are eating, remember the habits of Nonanya who eat it like they do not know the rules, just take it here. While practicing, I remember Nonanya who was always angry if she was unable to return the blow.

Lin Tian involuntarily laughed alone in the backyard as he recalled the memories of his past with Zhang Qiaofeng. It was all beautiful, he thought. Very peaceful and comfortable until that day. Yes, all that peace and comfort vanished when the Zhang family tragedy happened.

A tragedy that will always remain in his memory and that has created a deep wound in his heart, a wound that can never be healed.

Thinking up to here, Lin Tian's eyes that had previously emitted sadness had now turned into anger. Every time he remembered the incident, every time he remembered the faces of the assailants, his anger overflowed to the top until it felt like he wanted to destroy anything.

"I need to get stronger." He muttered slowly and then jumped a few meters ahead towards the collection of trees that were not far from the flower garden.

After landing, this young man then pulled out his sword and immediately played his Sky Painter Sword Arts creation. There was a ringing sound every time his sword snatched. It's a great swordplay, very fast and accurate.

The Celestial Painter Sword Science had nine kinds of moves, out of those nine, there were three kinds of moves that Lin Tian made as the main skill of the Heaven Painter Sword Science. The three styles were named, 'Sky Sword Support', 'Blowing cloud overcast' and 'Moon Sword Blade'. Why are these three styles taught as the main course? Because these three styles are the most dangerous and deadliest among the nine types of Sky Painter Sword Arts.

This time Lin Tian played the Celestial Painter Sword Arts from the first to the ninth in order, then he repeated the moves for half an hour.

"Swyingg-swying."

There was a ringing sound from the slash of his sword, then this young man stopped his movement to take a breath. There were leaves from the trees around Lin Tian falling to the ground. After feeling enough, Lin Tian moved his sword again and saw an incredible phenomenon.

When the leaves were still floating in the air, he played the ninth or last step of his swordsmanship called the Moon Sword Blade. This style is a sword style with full deep power that can be used to attack both close and long distances.

His sword moved so fast that it was hard to see. After a few slashes, Lin Tian stopped his hand movements and sheathed the sword back.

Seen around Lin Tian scattered a lot of objects that were small and thin. Those things were not leaves that fell out of place and had been hit by the slash of Lin Tian's Moon Sword Blade.

It's great not to play this style, being able to cut through the leaves that are still floating in the air into thin pieces like that. And all of this was done by a boy who was not even twenty years old, what a madman!!

"It's still not enough." Said Lin Tian a moment after he sheathed his sword.

It was true that Lin Tian's swordsmanship was a very great science. But until now Lin Tian felt that if his knowledge was not perfect, this was because the science of lightening his body was still not fast enough to play the Celestial Painter Sword Science. Lin Tian was not aware, that actually the science of lightening his body was already very great and difficult to follow his movements.

But it was true, his Heaven Painter Sword Science was still less than perfect. Because according to Lin Tian's estimation, if this science is perfect it should be able to cut the fallen leaves earlier by three to four pieces. But he was only able to cut into two puts, there were even some leaves that had not been cut at all.

This young man was unaware that there was a girl peering at his practice from afar, roughly fifty meters away from where Lin Tian was standing. This girl looked at Lin Tian with a gaze full of admiration, to the point of unconsciousness when her feet moved, she accidentally stepped on a dry twig that made Lin Tian realize her existence.

"Kittlek..."

"Who's there!??" Shouted Lin Tian for a moment after the sound of the voice sounded.

No response from the source of the voice. Lin Tian who was feeling annoyed finally chose to approach the direction of the voice by jumping while exerting his body's lightening skills.

"Swuusha....Oh. whoa..!!"

Suddenly Lin Tian was already beside the girl who had suddenly made him startled and spontaneously immediately shouted.

"Miss...?" Asked Lin Tian a little astonished at the girl standing before him.

The girl turned out to be Xiao Lian, the daughter of Xiao Mei and Xiao Li. It was indeed she who had been peering at Lin Tian's training since earlier, even this girl had also been following Lin Tian ever since the young man was standing pensively in the flower garden.

"Miss, what are you doing here?"

"W...!! A-a-I-that's anu...eeee...." He said a puzzled gurgle looking for the right answer to Lin Tian's question.

Lin Tian only frowned at the sign that he did not understand the intentions of Miss in front of him. "Hmm...What did you say?" Lin Tian asked again.

"I-it.anu. So I was thinking of asking you for some pointers." Xiao Lian replied quickly as she turned her reddened face away.

"Because you're training, I don't want to interrupt. Hehe...." Replied this girl while chuckling and scratching her non-itchy head.

Actually, Xiao Lian was following Lin Tian at all not for a hint. But as he was walking towards the garden to calm his mind about this family matter, Xiao Lian accidentally saw Lin Tian standing pensively without moving a single bit.

Then this girl spontaneously stopped her steps and immediately hid behind a wall. Xiao Lian was shocked when Lin Tian suddenly jumped forward and directly played his sword. Curious, he walked slowly to one of the trees to take a closer look.

When he reached his destination tree and saw, Xiao Lian was very surprised to see Lin Tian's sword movements. What a wonderful!!! His mind was full of admiration.

After seeing Lin Tian's play, somehow all the burden of his mind instantly disappeared without a trace. Then when Lin Tian caught him, he purposely pretended to want a hint from him. Xiao Lian thought that if Lin Tian could give a little advice on his martial arts, he might become even stronger.

"Alright then, forgive me if it's presumptuous." Said Lin Tian responding to Xiao Lian's request.

Without waiting for the agreement of the interlocutor, Lin Tian directly moved his two fingers to poke Xiao Lian's left shoulder.

"Yet..aduhh!!"

Since Xiao Lian was not ready at all, so to tell Lin Tian was able to land perfectly on his shoulders.

"Your reflexes are less fast Miss!!" Said Lin Tian firmly who directly continued with the second attack.

In his first attack earlier, Lin Tian deliberately to slightly deflect his toot. Because if the totokan hit the target of the blood road on the shoulder, it can be ascertained that Xiao Lian's left hand will be paralyzed and must wait for a few minutes to return to normal.

Indeed, if Xiao Lian's hand was paralyzed by the tootokan, the cripple could be instantly healed by glaring back at her. But Lin Tian was deliberately about to test Xiao Lian's speed in this second attack. If he accidentally took out the crippled arm of the girl and healed her, it would be Xiao Lian's advantage to make preparations.

Though Lin Tian's current goal was to train Xiao Lian's sensitivity from the sudden attack.

In this second attack, Lin Tian clenched his left hand and smacked towards the face of the beautiful girl.

"Bwmuukkk....!!" There was a loud sound when Lin Tian unleashed his punch.

Xiao Lian stood stiffly while letting out cold sweat. This time back Lin Tian deflected his attack, he indeed did not hit right on Xiao Lian's face but hit the tree trunk that was behind the girl.

The result was truly terrifying, the tree trunk was translucent due to Lin Tian's punch. Conceivably, with just a single blow Lin Tian was able to pierce through that tree trunk, especially if that punch was right on Xiao Lian's face? It is certain that the girl's face will be destroyed and die instantly.

Seeing Xiao Lian's reaction, Lin Tian withdrew his hand and said, "Well...Miss, I'm sorry but your sensitivity is still very lacking. If I were your enemy, you would be dead."

Hearing that Xiao Lian was only able to fall silent and bow her face. She felt ashamed of herself, Xiao Lian felt that she was a spoiled girl who could only hang her life behind the family name. Xiao Lian then remembered the events in the forest, if only she was stronger might at least be able to help the guards and could reduce the casualties at that time.

But with his strength, instead of helping, he just became a burden. That was why when in the forest back then, Xiao Lian was only able to cry without doing anything.

"I know if I am still very weak, that's why please help me Lin Tian, I don't want to continue like this and become a burden on the family." Xiao Lian said softly pleading with Lin Tian.

"My mom and dad always said I was talented, but I knew very well that they were just trying to cheer me up so I wouldn't get discouraged." Further.

Lin Tian simply fell silent listening to Xiao Lian's words. This young man understood what the girl in front of him was feeling. Being weak was not fun, he had also experienced it even worse.

Because of his weakness, his parents have now departed from the face of this earth. Due to his weakness, the Zhang family he served in became disintegrated formless. And because of his weakness he had to separate from his young Miss whom he loved as much as his own sister.

Now he only leaves himself one. All had vanished from his life just because of one word that was WEAK!!. The current him still alive is because it always strengthens his heart that his young Miss is fine. Otherwise, perhaps Lin Tian had already chosen to die rather than have to live in the solitude and emptiness that he was today.

"All right, I'll help you. But I'm warning you, maybe my practice will be very hard and maybe you can't afford to live it, do you agree?" Asked Lin Tian seriously after a long time just standing still in his place.

Hearing this, Xiao Lian immediately raised her head and replied excitedly, "Yes, yes I want!!"

"Then ask your father and mother for permission first."

"Ready!!" After saying so, this girl directly ran away leaving Lin Tian alone.

They both did not realize, if there was someone who listened to their conversation from a distance. This man was a man who was about twenty-five years old, on his back hung a machete and his hand was only one, the right hand. Right after Xiao Lian left, this man only smiled happily to the point of revealing his row of white teeth.

"Miss seems very excited huh..hahaha....." His murmured still smiling widely.

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