He was the young lord of Lei Ting city, his parents were both nominal elder in Azure Cloud Sect, thus he had enjoyed a prominent position since young. He was in bliss with caring parents, the love from the citizens and also a obedient little sister.
During that time, his parents oftenly bring him to Azure Cloud Sect, the elders then would laugh and pinch his cheeks saying that he is cute, some even pat their own chest and promise, this child will be my personal disciple in the future, it’s a promise.
Qin Ming looked forward to this place, he was longing for Martial Dao
And then….
Everything changed overnight.
A very sudden incident happened that shattered the once beautiful moment.
His parents were missing and no one knows if they are still alive, Azure Cloud Sect's punishment fell onto Lei Ting city.
Qin Ming as a young city lord was forcefully arrested to Azure Cloud Sect to be a servant and a hostage. Relatives in court and up to twenty thousand citizens of the city was fully brought deep in a mountain and to a Spirit Stone mining area.
He was only seven that time, looking at the foreign surrounding in fear, enduring all sorts of ridicule.
Eight years went by in a flash, Qin Ming's immaturity faded as he held on till now.
From decadent despair to tenacious now, the road that he had walk was very difficult, it was filled with hardship.
In the eight years, he had seen through many people and many things.
He once naively asked heaven why he was so unfair, but now he finally understood the cruelest logic in the world— Survival of the fittest!
From a young age he had already firmly remembered what his father had once said—— The weak will die horribly, the strong will not live well.
Thus, he kept stubbornly raise his head, met ridicules and teasing unyieldingly, and also non stop trying to find his own att.i.tude towards life and Martial Dao.
Qin Ming understood that no one will help him and only himself is able to help. He swore to become a Golden disciple of Azure Cloud Sect, to win the status that he deserve, to be able to contend with the elder and redeem the suffering Lei Ting city.
"Hide for another year and learn other Martial skills. One year later, i want to advance to Spirit Martial realm grade nine"
Qin Ming set a goal for himself, the faster his strength soars, the more attention he will get.
He reached the warehouse at midnight, before coming back he decided to train in Rebirth Exercise once again to improve his recovery. Only that his clothes were in tatters and had blood stains, his whole body was wet because of the rain which shows the exquisite and firm muscle contours.
He was hungry so he decided to make some food to eat, but just as he entered the courtyard he stopped. "Whos that?"
There was a person standing at the warehouse door, it wasn’t the old man, it looked like a slender young women, under the illumination of candle, he managed to slightly make out the perfect silhouette.
Zhao Ming? Doesn’t look like her!
Qin Ming looked at the surrounding with high alert, could it be that Zhao Ming had found others to take revenge for here? To choose to strike during the rain, looks like she can’t wait.
In the warehouse door, the young women had her back faced towards Qin Ming, she looked like she was quietly talking about something.
"Hall master's injury is very serious, im afraid that he cannot hold on for long, he instructed me to  be sure to invite you back."
"All forces are eyeing use, Asura Hall needs someone to oversee. "
"The only person capable to handle Asura Hall is you, the person who can have thousands of blood disciple in Asura Hall to submit is only you."
She seemed to be talking to herself, but at the same time she seemed to be begging someone.
"Kacha!" Qin Ming accidentally stepped on a twig, the almost silent crack sound immediately got the attention of the women in the warehouse.
The young women coldly glanced, but didn’t care, it was apathy, it was disregard. But Qin Ming's current look was too annoying, so she looked at the courtyard again.
Qin Ming held tightly onto three flying knives. Electric arc all over his body, illuminating his cold face. He was alert against the young women and the surrounding, as he held onto the flying knife and walked towards the warehouse. "You seemed to have lost your way lady, you shouldn’t randomly walk into a man's room, can you come out and talk?"
The young women's face was cold, just as she was about to strike, a hoa.r.s.e voice came from within the warehouse: "Don’t create trouble at my place, it’s quite late already, i want to rest, why don’t you leave. "
"Old ancestor…." the young women panicked.
But the voice never sounded from the warehouse anymore.
"For the Hall Master, for Asura Hall, please consider it seriously." the young women bowed and left the warehouse.
Qin Ming finally saw the how the young women looked like, covered in black, only showing her beautiful face, using the candle light from the warehouse to see. She had creamy skin, eyes like autumn waters, outstanding jade like nose, red moist lips, she was a beauty that can cause the downfall of cities and countries, so ethereal, so beautiful that it suffocates others, even Qin Ming was slightly shocked, such a beautiful person was a rare sight.
Qin Ming was shocked by her looks, but he could also determine that this young women was not a disciple of Azure Cloud Sect.
The young women treat Qin Ming as empty air as he brushed past him and left the courtyard, quick and skillful like flickering light and pa.s.sing shadows, disappeared into the darkness silently.
"What a luck, being able to see a beauty." Qin Ming looked back for a while and then to the warehouse, he don’t really mind, as long as it was not to take revenge on him, he didn’t need to care about it.
"Old man, you haven’t eat anything?" Qin Ming opened the stove and found out that the food he made in the morning was still there, left untouched and had turned cold.
The old man sat the the corner of the warehouse, half awake, the swaying candle light reflected his age side face.
"I’m gonna heat it up, do you want to eat? There’s meat today." Qin Ming took out a wild chicken from his waist, this was his unexpected loot when he was training.
He didn’t ask about the ident.i.ty of the young women, he also did not ask what her purpose was. He and the old man had a tacit understanding, you won’t say and i won’t pry, it has been like this for the last eight years
The old man lift his eyes, but he didn’t say anything.
Qin Ming took a bath, and changed to a fresh set of clothes, he then lit up the stove and made a few dishes and stewed the wild chicken.
Hot fragrance permeated throughout the shabby looking warehouse.
"Smells good!! Old man, come quick, this will be supper." Qin Ming called out to the old man.
The old man did not respond, he continued to lie there.
"I will eat first and leave some for you." Qin Ming was really hungry so he just started eating.
After eating for awhile, the old man stood up and walked into the warehouse.
Qin Ming shrugged and continue eating. "Old man, i’m going out later, so don’t close the doors."
He was prepared to go pick the Snake Heart Fruit at night, lest it gets taken by the disciples of Medicine Mountain.
After a while, the old man somehow got a black jar and sat at the wooden table: "Take two bowls."
"Wine?" Â Qin Ming raise his brows and looked at him, it was peculiar, but he still went ahead and got him two bowls, also taking some preserved vegetables on the way, Qin Ming would regularly have leftover vegetables, so he will wash them and soak them in salt jar. Sometime when he was too busy, he would just take some preserved vegetables and some steamed bun.
The old man opened the wine jar, and the strong wine fragrance filled the whole warehouse. He poured himself a bowl of wine and then or Qin Ming.
"Old man, you having a bad mood?" Qin Ming looked at the wine in the bowl, its weird, what’s happening tonight.
The old man raised the porcelain bowl and drank it down in one gulp, he lift his head up, and took long breathe, after that he filled it up again.
Qin Ming shook the bowl and tried having one mouthful, instantly the strong pungent taste filled his mouth, flowing down his throat and straight to his stomach.
Scorching heartburn.
"Huhuhu, this wine is strong." Qin Ming gritted his teeth, Â he had never drank wine before, he quickly stuffed two mouthful of vegetable in his mouth, in order to try to suppress the burning sensation.
Qin Ming filled his bowl up again, while he downed another bowl of wine.
Qin Ming had known the old man for eight years, Â he had never seen him like that, could it be related to the young women? He looked at the wine in his bowl, he gritted his teeth, and lift his head up to drink it, a wave of heat rushed forward, making him feel hot.
But after closely tasting it, the wine is actually pretty good.
The old man once again filled Qin Ming's bowl up.
"Eat some too, here's a chicken drumstick." Qin Ming pushed the dish towards the old man.
One young one old, eating simple dishes, except for Qin Ming who occasionally says a few sentence, the old man was silent.
Just now the young women didn’t go far, when she wanted to leave, when she heard Qin Ming shout 'old man', she stopped outside the warehouse in the rain, looking at the shadow from afar through the window.
"Whos that youth?"  two shadows appeared in front of the young women, they were all middle aged, and seemed to have strong power. The intermittent cold rain didn’t even wet their shirt, when the rain was going to touch them, it would be evaporated on the spot.
The face under the doupeng was shocked, that youth is able to sit on the same table with him and eat the same food.
They cant believe their eyes, the old man had past that amounted to mountain made of bone and sea of blood, his notoriety greatly shocked the world, who would dare to sit together with him.
"He is only at Spirit Martial realm grade three, too weak." the young women took Qin MIng as his lackey, but how could a lackey call his master old man? How is he then qualified to sit and share the same food. Could it be that this youth has another status? But his strength was this weak.
The middle aged man said in a low voice: "only the Sect leader of Azure Cloud Sect knew his status, this little boy shouldn’t know, he is just treating him as an old man."
"He was missing for ten years, everyone thought he was dead. If not for Hall Master's arrangement this time, we would have never known that he was still alive." the woman looked at the nameless tomb at the corner of the courtyard, and thought about some legends causing her to sigh in her heart, there is nothing more lonelier than this.
The middle aged man said: "Asura Hall needs him, he should shoulder this responsibility."
The women said coldly: "if he refused what can you od? Forcefully bring him? His temperament and strength is not foreign to you, if you irritate him, he can kill you with a wave of his hand."
The young women said softly: "let’s wait a bit more, i believe that he still has feelings for Asura Hall."
"Miss, we are risking a lot to come here, we cannot stay for long. If Azure Cloud Sect founds out about us…."