Tian Heng could not understand what was happening; his friend should have been happy to find his pet beast, but instead, he was all shocked and vigilant seeing an unknown guy standing in front of them. But since he did act like that, it meant that there was something wrong with the guy, so he also became ready to attack him at any moment.
"Isn't there something like a rule that can get you some harsh punishment for attacking an elder?" Noah looked at Yuan Ming with a mused smile on his face.
"You are one of the new elders? How is it possible that you are just in the Foundation Establishment Realm just like us?" Tian Heng narrowed his eyes hearing Noah's claim; he could sense Noah's cultivation as it was not hidden at the moment.
"Oh, Is that so?" Tian Heng could not even react before Noah vanished right in front of his eyes. His voice sounded behind him and Yuan Ming. Chills ran down their spine as they immediately turned around in panic.
*Woosh!*
Yuan Ming tried to reach out to pull the sword hanging behind his back, but Noah moved once more and placed his hands on the hilt of the sword, making it impossible for the boy to budge it from his back.
"Squeak." Hei Guina jumped over Noah's hand and landed on Yuan Ming's shoulder. Under his shocked and dazed eyes, she reached out to pinch the boy on the cheeks.
"Ouch!" Coming out of his daze, Yuan Ming rubbed his cheeks in pain while looking at the hare with a betrayed look in his eyes.
"Oh, don't act like I came here just to kill you." Noah scoffed seeing the wariness in his eyes, "Had I wanted you dead, you wouldn't have left that place alive." He took his hand back, letting go of the hilt of the sword.
Hearing those words, Yuan Ming became suspicious, but the massacre from that night was still fresh inside his head. The screams of the people that echoed in that area sometimes came into his nightmares.
"At last, that little one knows that I am not a bad guy." Noah chuckled before flicking Guina's cheeks, causing her to pout.
"Wait, are you saying?....." He gasped in shock before looking in the direction of Noah with interest. "Is he the reason for that massacre?"
"Reason?" Yuan Ming chuckled dryly hearing his words and added, "he is the one who massacred that sect with a smile on his face."
His voice quivered as he recalled the memories from the past. There had never been a time when he had seen something like that.
"How is that possible? Wasn't the sect master of the Soaring Heaven sect a core formation realm cultivator? Not just him, there were also several Foundation Establishment stage elders in the sect." The interest in Tian Heng's eyes changed into disbelief and then to horror.
"No... there were two core formation realm cultivators in the sect...I was one of the disciples of the sect and I managed to escape that day alive along with one more girl." Yuan Ming started narrating the night of the massacre to Tian Heng. He did not miss a single detail of how he humiliated many people before he killed them.
"What a Demon..." Tian Heng looked towards Noah once more, and he could not overlap his current smiling and calmly teaching image with the one of a massacring devil.
***
"Have you gone through the theoretical aspect of the musical knowledge?" Noah ignored the gazes on his body and asked Song Liu. She nodded her head with determination in her eyes.
"Since you have done that, follow the steps from the knowledge and find the type of cultivator technique you want to create..." Noah instructed her, step by step, and guided her through the process of making the technique according to her suit.
Song Liu sat down and placed a Zhiter in front of her; she struck each string of the zither on different levels. It did not take long before she found herself immersed in the rhythm of the music.
She forgot what she was doing and entered a state of enlightenment. She started playing music like she never did before.
*Woosh!*