Chapter 275: Master's Past Part 1

His master's story sounded like a sad one from the short beginning that he had heard and the expression that he had on his face, so Adam also became serious and sat silently as the old man took a deep breath.

"You are the second person that I am telling my story to. My disloyal disciples didn't get the chance to hear it and my partner who was the first person I opened up to, was killed soon after hearing it" said his master.

Adam couldn't help but feel sorry for his master who had a life full of misery, death and sadness and could no longer blame him for not being able to trust or move on with his life after so many centuries.

After telling him that, the old man turned to Adam wanting to see if he had been intimidated by what he had said.

"Master, you do not have to worry. I won't be scared away and will make sure that you are avenged once I am strong enough and will make sure that your legacy lives on" reassured him Adam.

Hearing that, the old man smiled and was sure that his luck had changed with Adam who was able to do things that were unbelievable and extraordinary, even in the eyes of someone who had come from a powerful ancient family.

"Alright then, let me start from the beginning," he said after taking a deep breath and preparing to tell Adam everything about his past.

"My father was an influential figure within an ancient family that I do not wish to specify yet, while my mother was an averagely talented cultivator, but couldn't be compared to him in terms of power, status and talent. However, they were both in love and very good parents. Although I wouldn't see much of my father since he would be busy within the family and would spend most of his time cultivating and training, he was always caring with me, my brother and my mother. Our father didn't force us to cultivate and I wanted to enjoy a normal and fun life, while my brother was more hooked on being powerful. It was probably because he was the younger and smaller twin brother"

"Occasionally when there are twins, there is one that is more dominant in the womb and I was that twin. I was the one that was genetically stronger and more talented, and also since my father had given my mother lots of resources to strengthen us as babies, I was the more talented twin and absorbed most of them" continued his master.

Adam listened closely to his story and despite him being from an incredible and powerful ancient family, the story sounded normal and humans are always the same no matter how powerful they are.

"My father died and even I do not the reason he died or how he died, but I am sure that it was one of my uncles or relatives that took him out for their own gain. However, despite being sure of that, nobody believed me and my mother told me not to speak about it unless I wanted to get myself killed. I felt helpless, so I decided to cultivate and train as hard as I could within the family so that I could become powerful enough to avenge my father"

"However by doing so, my twin brother, who was previously a good brother and would suppress his envy, became very jealous. I wouldn't talk to him or spend much time with him and he must have assumed that it was because I thought that I was above him, but the truth was that my father's death had hit me hard. We grew further and further apart and after my mother died, we both snapped" 

"The last thing my twin brother told me before attacking me was that it was my fault that mother had died. I had gotten into an altercation with one of my distant relatives that was due to become the next family head and beat him up after sneak attacking him outside the family. I thought nothing of it, but a week later, my brother and mother were home while I was away training and they were attacked. The last thing that was said to them was that it was my fault before my mother was killed and my brother as well. However, the truth was they failed to kill my brother and he had used a technique to stop his heartbeat and make it seem as though he had died" 

"My brother lost an arm and an eye and his cultivation base was destroyed by a horrible skill that was used by the attackers known as the Crushing Fist. The skill made it so that it was almost impossible for my brother to cultivate again and after telling me everything that happened and spitting on my face, he left. His jealousy added onto the fact I was partly the cause for our mother's death and his injuries had caused him to hate me more than anything"

What the old man was telling Adam had occurred centuries ago, and yet it was something that was weighing down on his master and it was clear that he didn't mean for any of that to happen.

"After that, I could no longer cultivate as the guilt and pain I felt affected my mental state too much and I stayed in the family, while my brother disappeared. Since I hadn't progressed much, after a few decades, which was like a few years for the ancient families, I became the weakest of my peers"

"I suffered abuse from my family and other families and life was hell. I had lost everything and didn't have the will to live, however, I couldn't give up on life either as after my mother and father died, I knew how lonely and scary death was. After experiencing such abuse for longer I decided to leave the family....."