levi walked back to the sect alone, his robes torn but no blood to be found on them. he went to his room and changed out of his torn up cloths. his body had yet to recover from the combined attack from earlier, which made him pant lightly. as soon as he was about to get on his bed to go to sleep, a knock on the door was heard."the sect master requests your presence." behind the door, a disciple with an expressionless face stood. levi left his room and headed for the sect masters hall. before he could reach it, he heard shouts coming from inside. "didn"t you hear what they said!? he killed our disciples! my disciple! he should be crippled and locked in a cell for life!"
as he walked in, he saw an elder shouting with a grim expression. step... step, when everyone heard these light steps they quieted down and looked toward the door. the disciples stiffened and swallowed their saliva as cold sweat flowed from their foreheads.
levi walked into the room, slightly panting. he looked at everyone in the room before his eyes rested on a single person. "why did you call for me?" his voice was cold with a tinge of tiredness. "the disciples that came back reported that you killed 4 disciples. for what reason did you kill them?" the sect masters voice was calm, but there was a hidden sharpness.
"what difference would it make if i told you the reason? those four will still want me dead anyway." levi turned to look at the four elders, who were also looking back at him with scrunched up faces. "Audacious! you have no respect! you should die!" without saying anymore, one of the inner sect elders attacked.
levi tried to dodge, but it felt like the palm strike was sucking him in. BOOM! levi was sent cras.h.i.+ng into a pillar, leaving it completely destroyed. "cough cough!" his eyes widened as he coughed out a few mouthful"s of blood. what made his eyes widen was the fact that the blood didn"t come back no matter how much he called.
he looked up. "it seems that if i"m weaker than my enemy by too much that my blood will die. i have to be more careful in the future." he thought. levi pulled out his sword and dissapeared, in the next instant he was sent flying again. but this time, he used the sword to block which prevented him from taking too much damage.
he released some of his poison onto the sword and attacked once more. ting! he stabbed out to the elders heart from his back, but when the tip was about to pierce through, it was stopped by the elders defensive qi. "you think a weakling like you can kill me!? dream on! now die!" he shouted as he sent another devastating palm strike towards levi.
crack!
crack!
crack!
as soon as the palm strike his his body, levi dislocated his joints to reduce the impact. he wasn"t sent flying as far this time as he reconnected his joints, ready to attack once more. at this moment a huge pressure enveloped the whole hall, causing the stone table to crack.
the sect master finally regained his senses as he released his aura, crus.h.i.+ng everything beneath it. "who gave you such guts! to attack my disciple right to my face!?" his voice boomed. it no longer had it"s usual calm, it was instead cold and sharp. "se-sect master! he killed his fellow disciples and disrespected the elders! he deserves death!" the elder explained.
the pressure in the room became heavier. "who gave you the right to decide whether he lives or dies?!" the sect masters body was releasing a thick and dark aura as his eyes turned bright red. the elder under the scrutinizing gase of those red eyes started to tremble.
"take this elder and lock him in the land of the dead for 4 months!" the sect master ordered coldly. "sect master! noooo! don"t do this!! you"ll regret this!!!" as he was being dragged away the elder shouted with resentment. after this happened, the hall was quiet enough to hear a pin drop.
the sect master looked towards levi, who was looking back at him coldly. "why did you kill the disciples?" he asked. "i killed them. so? do you think that i will let anyone that tries to kill me live?" levi asked coldly. "even that elder from before. when i become stronger, i will definitely kill him!" he shouted, his voice dripping bloodl.u.s.t.
the elders that heard this were shocked. "how could a 12 year old child have such a huge amount of killing intent?". some decided to not provoke him, while others were thinking of ways to kill him before he gets stronger. those were, of course, the remaining 3 elders. since they wanted to kill him and their disciples even died, they couldn"t turn back even if they wanted to.
"what did you get from the tomb?" the sect master suddenly asked. "what does that have to do with you?" levi replied coldly. "sigh, i just wanted to identify the items. do you have to be so hostile?" the sect master sighed with a helpless expression. levi said nothing as he took out the gla.s.s bottle filled with blue liquid.
"that"s!..." the sect master opened his eyes widely. " an elixer!" he said excitedly. the other elders turned their heads, almost breaking their necks in the process. they stared at the bottle in levi"s hand with sparkling eyes. "elixer?" levi asked. " there was a legend of beasts that once terrorized the lands! those beasts were fierce and cruel, they ate, toyed with and killed humans as they pleased. but one day a mysterious man appeared and killed some of them. the kingdom that was being attacked, out of anger, ate the beasts fles.h.!.+ when they did this, something happened. they found that their cultivation"s skyrocketed. from then on, instead of eating the beast they refined them into elixirs which were more efficient! i suspect that what you have in you hands is one such elixir!" he explained.
"oh." levi put the elixir back into the ring and turned to leave. "wwait!" the sect master shouted. levi stopped and looked back. "what?" he asked coldly. "can"t you let your master have a better look?" he asked with a pleading gaze. the elders all nodded their heads like pecking chickens. "there"s no need! since this belongs to me, you need not take a better look." he dissapeared from their sight.
"sigh, this disciple of mine really..." the sect master sighed, he went back to his seat. the 3 elders left after giving excuses to the sect master. "so, let me hear the whole story. now." his voice was once again calm, but this calmness caused the people present to s.h.i.+ver.
"wh-when we went to the tomb, a outer disciple that was allowed to go along with us couldn"t hold himself back and rushed in, but was brutally killed by traps! w-when everyone saw this, they didn"t want to go in anymore. but, sect masters disciple walked into the room calmly and found a secret room. whe-when he came out, those 4 threatened to kill him if he didn"t hand over what he had. he ignored them at first, but then they attacked, so he killed them all. after killing them, he just left." the six remaining disciples took turns explaining.
"i see." the sect masters face was clam but his voice was frosty. he had an idea of what happened and why, but didn"t say anything. "you may go." he waved his hand to dismiss the elders and their disciples. after they left, he sat alone in contemplation.