Return Of The Demon

"I"ll sit down right here. You go and check up on Bai Ling-er." Bai Yun told Bai Shi.

"Yes, young master." Bai Shi replied and let go of Bai Yun.

Bai Yun sat down and started to meditate. He checked up on his eyes and made sure that he could not see or sense anything. Both his sight and G.o.d sense had left him. He then sat there and slowly stabilized his breakthrough.

Suddenly the air shimmied and Bai Tianji appeared. "I couldn"t find anything in the clan or the city that could help her." He said.

"Not to worry. We have the antidote." The old man explained. Even though he was in the middle of making the antidote, the old man still had enough ability to talk to Bai Tianji. After all, this wasn"t a difficult antidote to make, it was only difficult to find the specific recipe.

"You found an antidote." Bai Tianji was surprised. "I didn"t think you would be able to do so so quickly. Your skill must have improved quite a bit."

"It"s not me." The old man replied after a small chuckle. "It"s actually your great grandson who found it."

"Oh is it?" BaI Tianji said and turned towards Bai Yun." How did you do that? Wait what happened to your eyes!?"

It took a while to calm him down. After Bai Yun explained to Bai Tianji what happened, Bai Tianji was quite pleased. He never expected that one of his descendants would awaken an innate ability. Though Bai Yun was blinded, Bai Tianji knew that it was temporary after checking Bai Yun"s eyes.

Time pa.s.sed quickly. The old man was able to easily make the antidote that Bai Ling-er needed. Once he was done he fed it to Bai Ling-er. He had to use his power to make sure that the antidote circulated properly. Once Bai Ling-er started to improve, he stopped. All the people there watched as Bai Ling-er"s situation slowly improved. Once the poison started to subside the old man also fed her with some drugs to her improve her situation. Bai Shi finally put down the rock in his heart.

The two old men were also quite happy to see that Bai Ling-er"s condition had improved. Originally they would not care about someone like Bai Ling-er given their status. But her incredible will that forced the poison deep into her moved them. People with such will would be an a.s.set to the clan. They would certainly be happy to not lose such a member.

Then the air shimmied again and Bai Mu appeared. He took a look at Bai Ling-er and nodded. He could see that her condition had improved. But he had a stern look on his face. Bai Tianji could see that things had not gone well.

"How are things." Bai Tianji asked.

"Not good." Bai Mu replied. "The guys who attacked them were paid to do so. They were a group of local thugs. They were hired by a masked man who told them to attack whoever turned up at that specific location. The masked man also gave them the poison. They used it all on the girl. They did not know who hired them. We struck an end in the investigation. We still don"t know who attacked Yun with the soul shaker orb. The good thing is from what they said I don"t think the ident.i.ty of the two kids has been exposed."

Bai Tianji nodded as he heard this. He hadn"t expected much anyway. The old man who came with his frowned when he heard this.

"Attacked little Yun with a soul shaker orb. What is going on?" He asked.

Bai Mu obviously trusted the old man very much. He did not hide anything. Bai Mu quickly explained everything about how Bai Yun was attacked with a soul shaker orb and all the things they did later. The old man frowned when he heard all this.

"You found out nothing even after investigating." The old man asked. "Who did you ask to investigate?"

"Some people who we trust in the clan special department." Bai Mu replied.

"I"m not surprised." The old man said. "If you gave the job to them, its highly unlikely that they would be able to find the culprits."

Bai Yun, Bai Mu, and Bai Tianji looked at the old man in confusion. Only Bai Shi seemed to understand something. He smiled a little. His mood had improved now that Bai Ling-er"s life was no longer in danger.

"Of course you guys wouldn"t know. You guys only think about cultivation. You have no idea about the intricacies of the political forces in Bai clan." The old man explained.

The trio still continued to look confused. The old man laughed when he saw this.

"It is obvious who did this. It"s one of the higher up in the clan." The old man said.

The three of them stared at the old man with wide eyes. They couldn"t understand why the old man would say so.

"Let me explain." The old man said. "Before Bai Yun"s soul mended, you were spending all of your efforts on him. Thus one of the Bai clans three great elders, and their most promising youth were both wasting away. Not only that, but a lot of the clan"s resources were also being wasted on him. The clan would have the greatest interest in trying to kill little Yun. After all, it involves the clan"s basic interests."

"If you say it like that then it seems like the clan does have an interest in hurting Yun." Bai Mu said. "But I can"t imagine anyone in the clan doing something like this. Also, isn"t it likely that one of my enemies attacked Yun? Why do you think its the clan?"

"It is true." The old man said."They are also possible suspects. But it would be very unlikely for any one of them to attack Yun in the clan. And even if they did, the special team would have found traces of it by now. Considering that they haven"t, it must have been someone from the clan. If it was someone from the upper echelons of the clan, the special force would not investigate too closely. Even if they found something. They would try to hide it. After all, a charge against a leader of the clan would destabilize the clan. So they would try to cover it up."

The more the old man explained the more it seemed to be true. Bai Yun fell into a deep thought and found that what the old man said sounded reasonable.

"Ling-er also thought so." Bai Shi suddenly interjected. "Her investigation was on whether there was someone from the can who was looking for the soul shaking orb."

"That also explains why they were caught, while the special department failed to find anything." Bai Yun said. "The special department would not look inside the clan, while they did. Considering their inexperience, they must have stumbled on to the truth."

The rest of them nodded when they heard Bai Yun. By now they all started to understand that it was someone from the clan that had hurt Bai Yun.

"Who did you talk to in the special department." Bai Tianji asked.

"I talked to Bai Min." Bai Mu said.

"Bai Min huh." Bai Tanji said. "I know him. He is smart and loyal to the can. It is unlikely that he hasn"t caught wind of any news while some kids managed to do so. He must have figured out the truth and has been dragging his feet. I don"t think he has the guts to lead the investigation in the wrong direction. He most likely hasn"t even started looking inside the clan. I"ll go and have a talk with him."

Saying so Bai Tianji immediately disappeared. After seeing that Bai Ling-er had basically recovered, the old man also left.

After this Bai Mu took Bai Shi and Bai Ling-er back to their place. The poison in Bai Ling-er"s body has been completely purged, and the damage done had also been reversed. So there was no longer any need to keep them here. He also asked one of the people who follow him to keep an eye on them to make sure that they are safe.

Bai Mu soon returned. "Those two are good. They have both smarts and loyalty. It"s good to keep people like them as subordinates." Bai Mu said. He then looked at Bai Yun closely. His cultivation was lower than that of Bai Tianji so it took him a minute to notice it. "What happened to your eyes?" Bai Mu finally asked.

Bai Yun smiled wryly before explaining. Bai Mu was surprised that Bai Yun was able to so easily break through to the four circle realm. But he was even more amazed and happy at the fact Bai Yun awoke an innate ability.

"The timing is too bad though." Bai Mu said. "If it takes two weeks for the eyes to heal, you will miss the clan meeting."

It was only now that Bai Yun realized that the clan meeting was in three days. But he was deprived of both his sight as well as his G.o.d sense. But he only smiled in response.

"Of course I am partic.i.p.ating." Bai Yun said. "I guess it is a good thing I did all that training with a blindfold. Besides now that I am blind, the others will have a slight chance at winning."

Bai Mu was stunned by Bai Yun"s declaration. He tried to talk Bai Yun out of this, but Bai Yun vehemently held on to the idea of partic.i.p.ating. Finally, Bai Mu had no choice but to take Bai Yun home, in the hope that Xiao Mei-er would be able to convince Bai Yun otherwise.

When Xiao Mei-er saw that Bai Yun"s eyes were hurt, she nearly ripped Bai Mu in two. After explaining what happened she calmed down. But Xiao Mei-er did not oppose Bai Yun"s decision to partic.i.p.ate in the clan meeting. Since the chance of Bai Yun being severely hurt is very low due to the presence of the clan leaders in the meeting, she was all for Bai Yun getting more experience in fighting blind. Finally, Bai Mu gave in and agreed.

The clan meeting would start three days later. So Bai Yun spend the next two days practicing how to fight blindly with Bai Mu. Even though he had trained for such a situation, more training never hurt. Xiao Mei-er also joined in and helped Bai Yun.

During the night Bai Yun would meditate and slowly merge the alchemy inheritance with his soul. Even though the G.o.d of Alchemy made it as light as he could, it took Bai Yun a long time to merge with it. Even after two nights, Bai Yun hadn"t even finished merging with the part of the inheritance containing only the qi condensation section. But his skill had improved by leaps and bounds. Most importantly he also learned how to make many pills. The experience of all those pills also flowed in along with the inheritance.

Bai Yun finally rested and went to sleep on the night of the clan meeting. Bai Yun decided to not train for the duration of the clan meeting in order to be at his peak levels. WInning the clan meeting was too important for his plans for the future.

Bai Yun woke up early the next day. It was finally time for the clan meeting to begin.