After the buzzing in Sol's mind cald down, he smiled bitterly and said.
"Master, I'm glad to see you too."
"Huh??!!"
The old man seed more enraged.
"Damn brat! Is that why you contacted ?!"
Sol's smile beca even more bitter.
"No Master, there's sothing I… uh…"
Sol's mind blanked out for a mont.
It wasn't that he didn't know what to say or that he had nothing to say. In fact, he had a lot of questions he wanted to ask his Master.
Heon-Jae, Cheong-San, Cheong-Su, Byeong-Ho, and Ji-Hoo had received Immortal inheritances. Did he gather them together and send them on a mission inside the Hundred Plants and Herbs Dinsion knowing what was going to happen? Did he plan it?
Did he also plan for Ji-Hoon to go down that path? Was it also his for him to be there and help them? Is that why he told them he was his disciple?
Ji-Hoon and the others said their plan to enter the Hundred Plants and Herbs Dinsion started around three to four years ago at that ti.
When he was leaving him alone in the Ibbian Mountain Range, was he leaving to plan this?
Not only that, what about his eting with Byeong-Ho and his Master the Third Grand Elder of the Martial Alliance Academy?
If he had never climbed the Heavenly Staircase, then he would have never been qualified to be invited to the Plum Blossom Gathering and his eting with Byeong-Ho and his Master would never have happened.
And as it turns out, Byeong-Ho and his Master were related to the Forgotten Sect. Did his Master plan for him to et them? What was his relationship with the Third Grand Elder?
Was this one of the contingency plans his Master talked about? Just how many of such plans did he make?
What about the Eternal Desert? He was from the Barbarian Race; did he know about what happened to them? That soone wielding Holy Energy attacked the Barbarian Race in the past?
But wasn't the barrier separating the two sides of this massive continent there at that ti, so how could soone wielding Holy Energy appear in the Eastern Continent?
Altair had said that a crisis had befallen the Western Continent around the sa the Immortals of the Eastern Continent died. Did the Eastern Continent cause that catastrophe? Was there a war in the past?
And the most pressing question of all!
How did he create his Seven Runic Paths of Samsara Formation? Could he show him that mysterious item he gained enlightennt from? Was there even a mysterious item?
All of these questions spun and spun in Sol's mind but as one of them ca to the tip of his tongue, he found that he couldn't voice it.
A few breaths worth of ti passed as Sol remained silent. The old man beca more enraged.
"Brat are you purposely trying to waste my ti?! Wait until I see you, you think I won't dare break every bone in your body?!"
Sol imdiately snapped out of his chaotic thoughts to say.
"Ah, Master, please don't be angry. I just need to organize my thoughts."
The old man hearing that seed to calm down but he still snorted and urged.
"Get on with it already, but you better not tell how you're struggling to keep up in the Academy! Those fools from the Western Continent should already be there by now, and those bastards from the Sects and Clans should be holding that Tournant. If you don't get first place and trample those bastards' disciples, then I'll make you wish you were dead!"
Sol knew his Master was talking about Yoon-Jae and Ushi.
He forced a smile and said.
"Master, can't you use positive encouragent to get to work harder? Who threatens their disciple with torture if they don't perform?"
"Hah? Brat, don't think I don't know you secretly enjoy getting hurt."
"Wha-What?! No, I don't!"
Sol imdiately denied, but he then paused before muttering under his breath.
"It's just that getting hurt correlates to getting stronger for . It's not my fault my body's situation is like this. Anyway!"
Sol suddenly changed the subject.
"Master, I… I got a girlfriend."
Silence ca from the other end of the line as if the old man was completely taken aback by Sol's sudden claim.
But Sol didn't give him a chance to respond as he continued.
He talked about the friends he had made, and what had happened since he entered the Academy. As well as what happened in the Hundred Plants and Herbs Dinsion, the follow-up incident in Peal City, and him being frad for Geon-Soo's death and Little Zeel's condition that made him travel to the Eternal Desert.
"Master, Mar-Dule is the person you almost made your disciple, right? What about Mar-Yue? Her talent was no less than Mar-Dule's own so why didn't you consider her to beco your disciple? Master don't tell you were being biased because she's a girl? Master, if that's true then I won't forgive you. Mar-Yue is extrely talented so you can't look down at her!"
The old man finally spoke.
"Brat, are you trying to anger by ntioning how good your relationship is to my face? Let tell you, when I was in my pri, I had several celestial beauties under my arms everywhere I went! And did you think their talents were any less than their looks? You're really looking down on this old man you brat!"
Sol's face ridden slightly but he still stiffened his neck and said.
"Master, you're just boasting again. But I'm telling the truth, Mar-Yue is… she's… she's one of a kind!"
Sol's cheeks flushed even more, especially after his Master suddenly burst out laughing on the other end.
He felt like he was introducing his girlfriend to a parent, but it was even more embarrassing how he was going about doing so.
The old man only cald down after laughing for a minute straight.
"Brat, it's good that you're enjoying your youth as I advised."—the old man's voice suddenly turned serious—"I know that you have a lot of questions on your mind, but I can't answer most of them. Either I don't know myself or they're secrets that will do no good for you knowing when you're so weak. But as for the questions that concern your safety…"
The old man paused.
"...Yes, you eting Little Ho was one of my contingency plans."
"Little Ho? Master, are you talking about Byeong-Ho's Master?"
"Yes…"—the old man paused again before continuing—"I taught him a few things in the past, so he could be considered half your Disciple Brother."
Sol found that strange, but he asked again.
"Is there anyone else who you've taught?"
After another pause, the old man said.
"Yes, but they're all dead."
He was blunt, but Sol could detect a familiar sense of loss and regret in his Master's voice. He recalled the story Mar-Dule had told him about Cheonma and his seven Demonic Disciples in the Martial Arts Library.
Sol didn't want his Master to rember sothing he didn't want to, so he asked.
"Master, are there any more contingencies that you planned?"
"Hm, there are a few more, but hopefully you'll never have to know of them... Brat, it looks like I have to go now."
The old man suddenly sounded rushed.
"Oh, and before I go, I need to tell you to be careful of that Nian Beast. He's not what he seems."
Sol froze.
"And try to control that Killing Intent of yours for that church. I'd rather not see those contingencies activate because you went on a massacre. There's a ti and place for everything, and now's not the ti."
Sol's eyes couldn't help but narrow his eyes upon hearing that. But before he could ask anything, his Master spoke.
"Goodbye Brat, you won't get in a while so stay safe."
The jade slip connection was then severed. Sol looked down at the purple jade slip in his hand for a mont before he slowly put it away.
His mind wandered back to his Master's, warning? —of Little Abdu.
"Just what should I make of that? I don't think he ant that Little Abdu would harm ."
Sol glanced down at his right hand and the blue rune appeared on the back of it. His senses went inside, and a large space appeared before him.
A pile of Aether Stones in the tens of millions glittered brightly in one corner while a pile of books was in another.
In the middle of the large space was Little Abdu lying down. A mist of Death Energy was swirling around him, but it was contained within a three-ter radius.
Sol blinked when he saw this mist.
His eyes then grew wider and wider in shock as he observed it.
It wasn't because this was the first ti he had seen it, but it was the first ti he had seen it after his enlightennt in the Martial Hall Pagoda.
Perhaps it was because he didn't have a sufficient level of understanding to sense what it was before, but after his enlightennt and his studying in the Martial Arts Library, he was sure this was a Domain.
'In the Heavenly Realm, Father-in-law said one could open a separate space. Is that related to a Domain?'
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