The Legend of the Devil
Ch. 77 - Three Seconds
"Is it because it is growing in your bloodstream? Or even the desire to kill more turbulent that you can not vent. Make you rash to make up your mind and kill an enemy who's causing thousands of problems?"
For a moment Xue Zhan tried to understand each verse said the 45th Elder, but the way of thinking of the old man who had lived for a long time seemed to be very difficult to understand. When the man had already seen the sky, Xue Zhan could only see the ground.
"The ghosts will knock on your door. Not just one, but a thousand." Xue Zhan's hands were cold.
"The Ghost Jade Tower has thousands of ghosts residing in their original lair. The Ghost Poet is one of the pillars of his organization. They'll come back to lick your blood all the way to the bones."
The elder's warning was the same as Jiazhen Yan's.
"I know the consequences, Elder."
"Who said you could talk?"
"I-I'm sorry."
"Dumb boy like you is very unstable. I am not worried about you, but this Eternal Valley. What if the Ghost Jade Tower comes seeking revenge and knocks on the door of this college?"
He looked at the Eternal Valley disciples.
"If that really happened, all these precious disciples would die. I've seen worse and wish I hadn't seen it a second time."
"Can I talk now?"
"Don't cut it first! Who told you to open your mouth? Or should I poke into your new book you lock your mouth?!"
Xue Zhan gave up. He lowered his head, "Understand, Elder."
"Lately the movement of the Red Fingers is getting more intense. Like a malignant disease that is eating away at its victims. Without pain, but make it thin dry. Eating meat, destroying every cell ... You're worried about her, aren't you?"
Xue Zhan was silent.
"Jawab, you stupid student!"
The young man gasped in surprise and immediately replied.
"Right, Elder. I'm worried about him."
The irritated snorting from the 45th Elder continued with his talk. "You are one of their many goals. I'm still trying to make sense of it, what is their true purpose?" His steps slowly drew closer to the window, putting away the white curtain for the sake of being able to look outside.
"... Even an old smelly land like me can't smell the source of the smell that's being targeted by a bunch of g engines like them."
In a lowered position, Xue Zhan also thought of all possibilities and ended up dead-end. His mouth said, "Whatever their purpose, I will try to find out as much as possible. They have done so far for another purpose. I'm sure it's not just about usurping heirlooms or power. There's something bigger than that ..."
"You want to deal with the Red Fangs?"
A nod to Xue Zhan getting a laugh from the 45th Elder.
"You know who the first Chief of the Eternal Valley is?"
Seeing the head bobble of course the old man again laughed at him, "Of course you don't know. When he took office I wasn't even born!"
Xue Zhan was slightly goosebumps. Usually when the 45th Elder laughed so much he would repeat afterwards.
"The head of the Eternal Valley College died at the hands of Wang Xin, the Three Predecessors of the Red Taring and also a founder of the founding of the group. Ever since the Eternal Valley had a great grudge against the Red Fangs. And vice versa. There's never a word of calm if it offends the group."
Xue Zhan understood the gist of the convoluted word that the 45th Elder had conveyed.
The dispute of the Eternal Valley and the Red Fangs had been going on for a long time, just once Xue Zhan created a trigger then the flames would probably suddenly enslave to destroy it.
"I won't let them touch the Eternal Valley. I'll find a way."
The 45th elder returned to his original seat right in front of Xue Zhan.
"I just want to say one thing to you, Xue Zhan."
Xue Zhan saw something that the 45th Elder did not see, he continued to ask inwardly. Why is it so difficult to understand what the old man wants to convey in full.
"Protect what you have to protect, lest they take it from you—"
As Xue Zhan turned his head back towards the 45th Elder, the male's shoulders lifted for a moment. Suddenly his face was bent. In that sitting state, the 45th Elder exhaled his last breath.
"Elder, Elder, w-what happened? Answer me!" Xue Zhan was too panicked and instantly shook the man's shoulders, the body suddenly swaying to the side just like that. Then Xue Zhan caught the elder's body, his breathing was wheezing and so frightened.
What the hell just happened?
Xue Zhan only turned his face away from him in less than three seconds and in a blink of an eye the man was gone. There was no blood or the smell of poison from his breath.
"Chairman, no-"
At that moment a disciple opened the door about to summon the 45th Elder, his body retreated in fear. Xue Zhan held onto the lifeless 45th Elder, Xue Zhan's blank eyes made him look like a cold-blooded assassin.
The disciple fell down dragging his body backwards while shouting, "Killer! The murderer! Someone killed the 45th Elder! The devil killed an elder!"
Suddenly dozens of disciples gathered in front of the Eternal Ancestral Hall. They cannot believe what they see with their own eyes.
Inside the room was Xue Zhan holding the lifeless body of the 45th Elder.
Xue Zhan who was then struck by the immortality began to lose his ability to digest what was going on and was unable to make a sound at all.
"Who has done this?" Xue Zhan's breathing was choked. There was no one in that place. How did the man suddenly die?
'What does it mean ... Protect what you have to protect?' the 45th Elder's words began to echo in his ears.
Xue Zhan looked at the wall of the room covered by the carvings of flowers as well as storks. As far as he could remember, there was not a single red color on the wall.
"Catch her!"
*
"... I'm sorry, Master."
Xue Zhan received dozens of wounds after being struck one-sidedly by the disciples of the Eternal Valley. Slaps and swallows continued to rain down on him like sharp rocks tearing at his skin.
Forty-eight elders shrouded the courtyard of the Eternal Valley in white robes, on which stood several high-blue monuments inscribed with rules in the college.
That place was an execution ground for someone to commit a grave offense.
And now she is forced bare-chested with both hands tied to a chain strap glued to two chest-high pillars.
"I can't forgive, beast!"
It was only a few hours after the death of the 45th Elder that Xue Zhan was about to experience a grievous death that he had never imagined.
"The devil doesn't know himself! This place has accepted you like family and you stepped on it contemptuously! There's no death more fitting for you than three days of skinning!"
"The 45th Chairman is a model with commendable virtues, he has never had an enemy in his entire life! I can't believe ... Today you eat it, you must die a thousand times more painful than this."
Then dozens of voices continued to echo in his ears. All this happened so quickly, Xue Zhan who had seen a house full of families turned into a lion cage filled with enemies.
"What are you guys fighting about? Shouldn't we ask the only witness who saw for himself the death of the 45th Elder?"
The voice became his only savior in a moment of despair.
"Teacher Kang-?" Xue Zhan was too embarrassed to look at that face. He always made the man disappointed and got scorned. Xue Zhan hated that fact.
Among the noisy crowd, someone turned away from the group of disciples who continued to throw insults and insults, he whispered softly.
"That's how much, enjoy your suffering, demon."
The figure lowered the bamboo caping, a thin sheet of cloth covering part of his face. The faint smile on that handsome face broadened.