Chapter 145 Calm before the storm

145 Calm before the storm

Han Li and Yue Li ran once more, this time, he didn't carry them on his back but instead walked behind them. He often changed his position just in case some other crazy Cultivators planned to attack him.

Demons were sane cultivators, but for them, killing people for no reason when they find themselves in unknown circumstances was an ordinary thing.

Wasn't it logical?

If not, it was very logical for them.

To kill for fun or just for a better sense of security.

Not all of them here would be sane, especially if they had any knowledge of where they were and what might await them. That also went for if people had found any Life-Type Magical Resources already.

If anyone had found it and the news was out, it would only get more rowdy, especially because of a simple fact that Han Li was all too aware of. Sacred Talent cultivators were arrogant almost all the time.

From their earliest ages to this very day, they probably didn't see any other Sacred Talent Cultivator or anyone who could actually put them in their place at their own level. And when they see someone running at them or someone they perceive as "Interesting," they would attack.

He knew how far such idiocy went.

Or there could also be the other type, the type who would lust after his mother. Or even... Ruo. She was a child barely at the age of 13 at the moment, but not all of the people here would see her the same as he did. Especially Demons. They would, at most, see her as a beautiful tool at best.

And in a place out of sight of forces like the Demon Restraining Temple who would list them as wanted Demons across the continent once they go against the law, it would become all too clear, very soon, how far even the 'righteous' men could go. Han Li didn't speak on the way while Yue Li held Ruo safely in her grasp and walked forward. No matter what was happening, she felt secure as long as her son followed them.

Just the sight of her now clean face and wet white hair made Han Li remember the last time he saw her. A cold corpse hanging from the tree.

But even now, the girl's eyes were blank; she looked at Yue Li with a rather strange gaze, but Han Li could guess what she must be thinking. 'Why is this woman not beating me?'

"Mom, handle her with care..." he said softly, "she—"

"Don't teach a mother how to care for children."

He nodded.

"Now what?" Yue Li asked.

Han Li took a deep breath and looked at Ruo. He had the urge to say, "It's just mere Life-Type resources that we would lose; let's go find a hidden place and spend the day there; we will complete the Trials tomorrow safely without putting ourselves at risk and go home."

But he knew what these 'mere' Life-Type Resources could do. The lack of one had cost him his Mother's life last time, and he didn't wish to go back without atleast one in hand.

As much as he craved to make Ruo at him, he knew they were just emotions, and he had experienced pushing away similar emotions many times. He knew how to handle it in such situations.

Pulling his eyes away from the dazed girl. He took a deep breath. "I want to find a Life-type Magical Resource, but it is quite dangerous from now on... maybe, some of the Power Borns have already realized that there are Life-Type resources around; if so, it would be..."

Yue Li looked at him with a pale smile.

He sighed.