The Ghost of Fog
Chapter 21. Revenge and Hatred

"Choosing..."

"Look at you Lin Tian." Hao Yu said coldly as he pointed his machete towards Lin Tian's neck.

The young man only glanced for a moment at Hao Yu's machete blade that reflected a shadow of himself, then looked back to the front with a calm face as if he was unaware that his life was being threatened. Then he heard her say, "Hao Yu, I said it's just a possibility, why are you so mad at me? Besides, you must have also realized that my words just now made a lot of sense."

"But you said as if Madam and Miss had the potential to betray their own family. I am Hao Yu, as a loyal bodyguard will never accept that statement and you are Lin Tian, take back your words!!" Hao Yu snapped with a red face restraining his anger while glaring at his eyes.

"If I refuse?"

"It's my joke that's gonna talk!!!"

Silence for a moment after the sound of sound snapped from that Hao Yu. Lin Tian was still calm and composed without showing the slightest expression of fear or worry. Before long, this young man turned to Hao Yu and said, his voice so creepy that it made Hao Yu's heart slightly shaken.

"Then....what if my words are true??"

Hearing Lin Tian's short answer as well as question, Hao Yu widened his eyes in surprise. It was impossible if Madam or Nonanya betrayed her own family, that was how she thought. But on the other hand, he also thought what Lin Tian said was reasonable and reasonable.

Because all information about the contents of the meeting was only known by representatives of each family while for the guards were prohibited from entering the meeting room and had to wait outside. And as for the plan of merging the Xiao and Hu families, this information even within the family was known only to certain people, including himself who became the bodyguard of the young Miss of the family.

This all explains if the most well-informed about all the information whether the internal matters of the family or the contents of the discussion in the meeting were Xiao Lian, Xiao Niu and Xiao Mei, respectively, plus Xiao Li must also know about all the problems in the family he leads. But why would information about the merger of two families spread to the ears of the population in less than twenty-four hours? Was there a traitor or was Lin Tian lying?

If there is a traitor, indeed the one who has the greatest possibility is the Young Madam and Miss. Thinking up to here, his heart felt indecisive and also doubtful, which one to believe? Lin Tian or the Madam and Nonanya? Because of his doubt, Hao Yu unconsciously lowered his cleaver and lowered his head.

"Heh, are you doubting your Non? And you still dare say that you are a loyal bodyguard? Cih, really don't know yourself!!" Said Lin Tian circus while looking intently at Hao Yu.

"Have you forgotten that a traitor is just one of the two possibilities I just said?" Further.

Hearing Lin Tian's words, as if awakened from dreamland, Hao Yu immediately raised his head looking at Lin Tian with a radiant face.

"Yes, you're right! I'm sure there's no traitor in this family, no way!! It must be that the Hu family has prepared people to spread this information." He said excitedly.

"Maybe it is so. Because when I heard this information from the people around me who were talking to his friend, the man said that he had long disliked the Hu family, though Mr. Xiao said that from the first seven ruling families have always lived peacefully and there were only oddities after the appointment of the new chairman, Hu Kai." Obviously Lin Tian.

"Also if from the past seven families have always lived peacefully, it means they have never been in contact with each other. Then why was that person who was just a commoner dislike towards the Hu family. Did he really not like the Hu family because there was a problem or was it all just a charade?" Further explained.

"It makes sense.it makes sense...." Hao Yu muttered as he nodded his head.

"Let's see the outcome of the meeting tonight. And for your advice, well I will leave tomorrow because I have promised Miss Xiao Niu to stay for seven days here and now is the last day." Said Lin Tian while rising to his feet.

"Then I'll go first." After saying so, Lin Tian vanished from the top of the rock like he had never been there before.

Hao Yu was again startled by Lin Tian's extraordinary intelligence so that this man could only stand stiffly while looking in awe at Lin Tian's departure.

"An extraordinary person...." Mumbled.

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Today was the last day that Lin Tian had slept in the Xiao family residence, today was also the day that his sword should have been completed as promised by the old man. That was why Lin Tian was so excited this morning and wanted to quickly see his new sword.

This young man continued to travel quickly towards the south of Stone Town to come to the South Iron Mark where he made the sword. Lin Tian went there by jumping over the roofs of houses and occasionally landed and ran fast. What a great movement of this young man, if anyone saw, surely all that seemed was a red shadow that flashed here and there.

Five minutes passed and now that Lin Tian had entered the southern region of Stone City, he continued straight south towards a small forest that was there. Indeed, the place of the South Blacksmith is a little alienated from the homes of the residents, this place stands in a forest in which very rarely found houses.

But that doesn't mean no one knows this blacksmith. Quite the contrary, no one was unfamiliar with this blacksmith, let alone among the warriors, many of them had come to Stone Town just to stop by this blacksmith. Presumably it was true what the inn cashier said back then, if this blacksmith was the best blacksmith in the entire southern region.

Therefore, most of these blacksmith visitors are martial arts experts both amateur and kosen.

However, when Lin Tian got there, he was shocked by the frenzied and clamorous sounds from the back of the blacksmith building. Lin Tian also heard the sound of the clashing of weapons and the wind was waving, knowing that there was a martial expert doing battle.

"What's this?" Lin Tian muttered in astonishment as he looked inside the building was empty but there was a very noisy sound coming from the back of the building.

Without waiting any longer, Lin Tian then exerted his body lightening science and directly jumped onto the building tile. Then he stumbled to look at the back of the building.

The more surprised he was, it turned out there was a pretty great battle. If estimated there may be hundreds of people who are fighting desperately there.

One party was wearing all black and the other was dressed in all sorts of clothes, some were wearing the robes of a monk, some were dressed as a literati. Lin Tian also saw that there was a muscular blacksmith who had wanted to make a sword for him but did not because he was unable to withstand the coldness of Lin Tian's crystal.

This man wore a large axe as a weapon and with that axe he slashed at the black-clothed warriors. Seven other people wearing the same clothes as the muscular man attacked the men in black clothes.

Then Lin Tian came back startled to the point of making him almost faint. Because there was also a big-great-grandfather who seemed to be the head of the Southern Iron Man had fought against the black-clothed people. Seeing this, Lin Tian became shocked as well as amazed, he did not expect that the great-great-grandfather was able to play his support staff so well as a weapon. He also did not expect if the grandfather's intelligence was so high that it was able to throw some people with a single stroke of a stick.

Then suddenly Lin Tian frowned, for some reason he was like no stranger to those black-clothed warriors. This young man tried to think hard to remember, after a few minutes, he suddenly clenched his hands while gritting his teeth.

He remembered now that the black clothes were the same clothes as the black warriors who had raided the residence of the Zhang family leader at that time. After he made sure to return to strengthen his belief, it turned out that it was true, the silat movements and fighting styles of those black-clothed people were exactly like those of the Zhang family invading warriors.

After knowing this reality, his anger peaked and a second later Lin Tian had already jumped from the top of the tile and descended into a battle field. Just when his feet stepped on the ground, this young man immediately played his Halimun Sakti Silat Science and rampaged like a starving lion.

Of course this surprised both the black clothing swordsman and the party who defended the South Iron Skill. But seeing the young man attacking the black-clothed warriors, the hearts of the defenders of the Southern Iron Man were relieved of reinforcements even if only one person.

"Sir....!??" Shouted the muscular blacksmith in surprise when he recognized Lin Tian. Seeing this, he became more energetic and more vigorous to launch his axe attack.

As for Lin Tian, it was truly great this young man's lunge. After he joined the battle, for a moment the situation became one-sided. Now this party of the black-clothed warriors were violently pushed down due to Lin Tian's arrival. How not, just now when just came down from the tile this young man was able to knock down three people. You know all of them if the person who just came here is a master swordsman.

Suddenly from the right direction of Lin Tian, snatching a fierce blow wind that was swampy hot. Realizing this Lin Tian then moved his right hand while exerting his Yin air to fend off.

"Goddesss....!!"

"Yeah....!!"

Lin Tian shouted loudly while throwing himself backward. Then followed by several body twists in the air, Lin Tian was able to land perfectly.

When Lin Tian looked at the dark assailant just now, that person was wearing a black robe and wearing a white mask in the shape of a human face but in the absence of a nose and a mouth, there is only a hole in the eye and black dot decoration under the left eye. From head to toe everything is black, only the mask is white.

"Who are you!?" Lin Tian asked in a snarl.

That guy didn't answer. But his body trembled like someone who was holding back in anger.

Then the person pulled out his sword and directly charged back towards Lin Tian. Lin Tian who saw this snorted in annoyance and also pulled out his butut sword to fend off the opponent's attack.

"Traaagnggf..traaakk"

Lin Tian's sword was able to fend off the swordsman, but a second later his sword shattered leaving only the hilt.

"Damnah!!!" This young man shouted in annoyance and threw the sword hilt towards the masked swordsman's face. Then he took his sword sheath to make a weapon.

The masked swordsman was able to avoid throwing Lin Tian's sword hilt easily, then back he lunged with a deadly stance.

"Tranggs...traangggg"

Fireflowers scattered as the sword met Lin Tian's sword sheath. But this time Lin Tian had to again feel disappointed because his sword sheath also fared the same as its contents, crumbling into disarray.

There was no other choice, Lin Tian then faced the swordsman empty-handed.

Forty moves have passed and it has not been seen who will lose. They did not realize that the battle was nearing its end and was almost won by the South Blacksmiths.

"Yesame....!!"

When he reached the forty-fifth stage, Lin Tian took out the third series of the seven Halimun Sakti Silat Science courses. This move is called 'Embun Time Dawn' which includes the attack style by hitting both hands with incredible speed towards the streets of deadly blood from the opponent.

The hassles are also of masked warriors facing this attack. Then he jumped back to take his distance. The man's chest was up and down because he was out of breath.

"Who are you really!?" Lin Tian asked again.

However just like before, the person did not reply and held his sword tightly preparing for the next attack. Lin Tian also did not stay silent, this young man also put up his horses to deal with the lunge of the opponent.

A second later, these two people shot forward at nearly simultaneous speed. They have exerted their full strength in this attack and...

"Booom!!!" There was a loud sound when they met.

But it was not the sound of their attacks fighting, but the sound of their attacks being held by someone.

It turned out that the new person who came was a person who also wore a mask just like a white mask, because of the person who had just come this mask was dark red.

"Enough!!" Said the red mask man with deep exertion that made everyone there able to hear him clearly.

This man said as his right hand held the white mask sword thrust by squeezing it between two fingers and the left hand held back Lin Tian's attack with exertion in Yang element.

Because his Yang power was higher than that of Yin Lin Tian's energy, this suddenly made the young man's energy reverse and caused him to bounce back as far as three spears. After Lin Tian landed and stabilized his position, his face turned pale and his breathing was breathless. Lin Tian's hand felt extremely hot like it was burning embers when his palm met the red mask's hand.

On the other hand, the red mask was also a little surprised to see Lin Tian being able to withstand his attacks without being injured in the slightest. Though according to his estimation, the young man should have suffered quite a great internal wound. But Lin Tian only bounced around and his face turned pale just from shock, not from internal injuries.

Seeing the arrival of the red mask, all the black warriors immediately knelt down respectfully except for the white mask who was still standing and saluted just by menjura.

"We're backing off..!!" Back the red mask speaks calmly but with deep exertion.

Hearing that command all the kneeling people immediately replied in unison, "Ready!!" Then they all ventured away from it including the red mask and the white mask regardless of the corpses of his comrades who were still there.

The remaining warriors only looked on with astonished looks at their departure. I don't know why they felt that the red mask was coming like they were in a hurry. But on the other hand, lose their hearts because the enemies have left the place.

Soon their astonishment was answered. A few minutes after the warriors left, there was a rumbling sound of horse legs approaching the place. After arriving there, it turned out that the horsemen were the security officers of Batu City. You know all of them if the red mask looks rushed is because maybe he already knows about the arrival of this group.

"What's this!??" Asked a stern middle-aged man who seemed to be the leader of this entourage. He was surprised to see countless corpses scattered in the backyard of the blacksmith shop.

"We were attacked by a group of black warriors and you came very late." Replied the old man who was at the same time a little reproachful to the officers.

Hearing the reply, the leader of the group was silent for a moment and replied, "Inspardon our negligence in carrying out your duties." The man said respectfully.

Then he ordered his men to immediately help the warriors bury the corpses.

"Thank you for coming to help us, son." Grandfather said that suddenly was already beside Lin Tian.

"It doesn't matter, sir, I'm here to take my sword order anyway." Replied Lin Tian who was slightly astonished by the grandfather's call to her. As he recalled, when he ordered the sword, the grandfather called him Master. But now it turns into 'son'.

"I thought it was like that. Come with me "The grandfather said as he turned his body into the shop.

Lin Tian simply followed behind while thinking why would the Zhang family's attacking warriors be in the South? And if they were really the attackers back then, wouldn't this explain there was no longer a safe place for Lin Tian either in the North or the South? Thinking up to this, he thought of his young Miss Zhang Qiofeng, Lin Tian's feelings grew even more unsettled as he was deeply worried about the state of his young Miss.

"May you be well Miss...."

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