Born to Disappear

Chapter 12

The green bamboo peak of the cloud sect surged slightly differently these few days. Some green trees have lost leaves with charred stems and branches, some charred grass plots revealing blackish-brown soil. The disciples as much as possible walked around if they met the youngest disciple of the second peak master, reluctant to be the next target of lightning.

For almost a week, the second peak master's youngest disciple was in a bad mood. I don't know what's the cause, except that no one knows.

"Ling er, three days later you've been assigned to guide the boys in search of experience this time." Cao Ping who had just returned from the meeting of the top masters said to Hualing who was serving tea.

"Em." Hualing replied briefly again indifferently.

Cao Ping looked at the youngest disciple he took then sighed heavily.

"This master really doesn't understand, who has offended the servant of the war god?" Cao Ping asked as he sipped tea.

"Of course my gods, who else can do it in this mortal realm?" Hualing replied with a bent face.

"Oh, that Yuan boy. That's good, it would be better if you were even more angry. Farther than the boy is better." Cao Ping said as he nodded his head.

"Teacher, how are you so heartless!" the reply was filled with dissatisfaction.

Cao Ping: "It is not necessarily that he is the war god Xue Yuan Qing, you only recognize from his appearance and intuition alone."

Hualing:"My intuition is always right!"

Cao Ping shook his head, giving up on advising Hualing. Cao Ping did not believe that the god of war would be reborn, remembering in the story ten thousand years ago that the god of war used all his eternal energy to seal the demon emperor.

Hualing:"Is that the disciples who just entered the sect?"

Cao Ping was silent for a moment before realizing Hualing's conversation had changed, "yes."

"Isn't it too soon for them to seek experience, there hasn't even been a month they entered the sect." Hualing asked with a confused frown.

"No problem, it's just a missing persons case." Cao Ping took another sip of his tea.

"I see, this disciple will prepare himself!" Hualing replied excitedly, this time Yuan Qing will not be able to avoid it.

It had been over a week Yuan Qing had avoided him. When Yuan Qing saw him on the road, then he would turn the road. Every time he visited Yuan Qing's residence, the one in question had never seen his shadow. Even a few times Yuan Qing did not come to eat together and preferred to eat in the inner sect cafeteria.

How annoying!

Three days later in Luo city, the foot of Mu Xing mountain. Twenty light blue-clothed disciples with white mixtures swarmed into Luo city. A green-clothed female disciple was leading in front, her face looking solemn but if she looked carefully, she had both corners of her lips raised.

"Miss Xue, forgive me for being late." A middle-aged man ran in a frenzy, welcoming the soaring cloud sect disciples who had come to solve the missing persons case.

"It's not your fault, it's our fault that came too soon." Hualing replied with a business smile while his gaze circulated.

Although very thin, Hualing could sense something that should not have emerged from this small town.

"Miss Xue is too polite. Please follow me to rest for a while at the city lord's house!" The middle-aged man who was the envoy from Luo city said respectfully.

The Luo City Lord's residence

"That's not something extraordinary, the soaring cloud sect will help as much as possible." replied Hualing, "can the city lord describe in detail regarding this incident?" he continued, asking about business.

City Lord:"The incident took place two weeks ago. Originally, the first person to disappear was the Rong family's first child. Only fourteen years old, a man who disappeared after meeting his friends. Furthermore the daughter of the Gu family, who mysteriously disappeared from her own room. Then some similar events happened in different families. To date, eight people have disappeared."

"Is there anything in common with the case?" Liu Xing Sheng who sat two tables from Hualing asked.

"All of the victims were no more than sixteen years old and were unmarried, the time of their disappearance at night. Because all the victims are no longer found the next morning." The city lord explained.

Yuan Qing who was standing on the back of Hualing slightly frowned. As true cultivation is divided into several paths, demonic cultivation is not much different. There is a path called blood cultivation. The man who cultivated it needed the heart blood of a thousand virgins, soaking his body within three hours when the moon was directly overhead.

And whoever that demon cultivator was, it seemed that he was stupid enough to kidnap people at the foot of a large sect.

"Alright, we'll start investigating" Hualing said, then stood up. "Create groups of two people each, ask the victim's family for information. The remaining four will be with me. Yuan Qing, you don't need to form a team." he continued. Said quickly in the last sentence when Yuan Qing was about to find a group friend.

"understand!" the young students spoke in unison. Then form a group in an orderly manner.

Liu Xing Sheng seemed to be still ostracized by the fellow sects, seeing that not a single disciple was willing to become his groupmate. Chen Qinyang was reluctant to join another group as she hoped to be able to carry out duties alongside the protagonist.

So with great bitterness, Yuan Qing had to bear to form a group with the two people he hated and Hualing whom he was trying to avoid.

"Senior brother Liu, senior brother Yuan, who do you think is the perpetrator of all these cases?" Chen Qinyang asked with curiosity. If you look at it from another point of view, it's pretty adorable. But it was a pity that the three people walking with him were indifferent people.

"It should be a demon cultivator or a human merchant." Hualing kindly answered her, lessening Chen Qinyang's embarrassment from being ignored.

"It's late in the afternoon, and we haven't found any clues yet. Why don't we go back and rest?" Chen Qinyang asked again.

"Go back and rest on your own, we've just been out for an hour!" Chen Qinyang was flabbergasted for a moment when he heard Liu Xing Sheng's reply. Why is this protagonist not going on track? Isn't it said that the male protagonist is crazy about the female protagonist?

"I'm just-" Chen Qinyang stopped his remark when Hualing exclaimed then left.

"You stay together and don't split up!" the thrill then goes away. Hualing felt a thick demonic energy just pass through him.

"You guys stay here." Yuan Qing said as Hualing's shadow was no longer visible. That demonic energy, he felt it too.

"Xiao Qing!" Liu Xing Sheng exclaimed, but the concerned did not stop either.

Not knowing if Yuan Qing was also catching up, Hualing followed the demonic spiritual energy left in the air. The longer the more concentrated, it should not be far away. The surroundings were deserted, the large houses stood far apart, the doors were tightly shut and dark loomed over. This neighborhood looked like an empty, uninhabited neighborhood.

Hualing's gaze sharpened, fixed at one point. He gathered spiritual energy at his fingertips, then summoned purple lightning from the sky. Purple light crackled, creeping in the night that began to move.

The explosion sounded not far away, Hualing moved even faster.

His steps stopped, his body stiffened, there was shock in both wide-open eyes.

It was not the hollow area with lightning still crackling that shocked him, but rather Yuan Qing who was fighting a demon cultivator in a black robe.

The black fog with demonic energy radiated from Yuan Qing's body, was so pure. The thickest thick fog was on both sides of the forehead, forming a demon horn. That demonic energy was even more concentrated than the demon cultivators he was in his opponent. That purity should not belong to man.