The Demon Swordsman 2
Ch. 301 - Fire Salamender
The afternoon came so fast, the rumors around the camp were unceasingly heard. Starting today training and debriefing is accelerated without any clarity. Unit One just said get ready and fight. Other members can only guess what they are really going to face. It was not that they did not know about the attack the other day that made Bai Huang limp, but the clarity about the perpetrator of the act no one knew.
The sword forging house started to sound noisily, various types of swords and other weapons were made by expert people. They did not dare to rest because Tian Xi—which was everywhere— stalked them during the night. Nan Yin and several women were assigned to make and process food as well as collect medicines.
Along the way it was not just once that Xin Chen had heard talk of who exactly the Chairman of the Four Surveillance Units was. Considering they worked on him without knowing who exactly they were following. Many are so exaggerating, even saying something beyond reason.
Two people were carrying large pieces of wood, barely hitting Xin Chen who was clearly walking on the outskirts.
"Revelation, hey!"
"Don't you see people working?!" They snapped, but did not continue because they were busy with their own work. Xin Chen looked at a house with a unique design nearby. Not so far from where he stood, a house that made him speechless. Shades of red and flowers that spread to the wall, beautiful as his home used to be.
"Senior Bai ..." Xin Chen knew Bai Huang was doing that for him, but the man couldn't possibly take the initiative to make this house alone. There are several training grounds and shady trees and stone steps to climb the layout of the house which is on a higher ground. Bai Huang deliberately chose a place that was a bit rubbed and also high because as he remembered the residence house of such a clan.
"Homeone?"
Xin Chen looked back, a girl was staring at him confidently.
"You—" he just cut off.
"Ah, no need to thank me. I know you're so happy that you want to shed tears when you see this house, it's almost done. Senior Bai also said he would add a bridge like your home in the White Mist Valley."
"Who?"
"uh? Wh who? I was the one who planned it for you, I've heard your story from Senior Bai. And feel there's no harm in rebuilding your home here." Nan Yin departed with a haughty face, preparing in the count of three, Xin Chen would definitely praise him.
"Not that, who are you?"
"W-WHAT?!"
Nan Yin was hysterical, there was no way Xin Chen would forget about it. Nan Yin clenched a hand of emotion, her chest rising and falling irregularly. Obviously the girl was furious, but she didn't want to show it.
He smiled forcefully. "I'm Nan Ran's sister."
Xin Chen recalled, as he managed to fight against the four Surveillance Units together with the soldiers from the Fugi Fortress. He met three people from the Qing Empire.
"So your name is Nan Yin?"
Nan Yin wanted to cry. He thought at least Xin Chen remembered his face, now that his name was all he knew.
"Yes ..."
Xin Chen passed from before him, approaching the house closer. Although not so the same, but the comfortable nuance made Xin Chen again remembered his old house. He said smooth. "There's really no need to make this, actually" he muttered lightly.
"Why?"
He did not answer anything after that, there were some things he did not want to say to strangers. Nan Yin tried to understand that, she smiled bitterly. Recalling Shui's words about a girl named Fu Yu who was part of the youth's past. And Xiu Qiaofeng whom Bai Huang knew as well.
Nan Yin raised her face, trying to stay straight. If he glumly continued Tian Xi would definitely know soon and mock him all-out.
**
Shui jumped high into the lake, feeling the pleasure of the water. For so long she had not soaked and felt her skin as broken.
From a distance Xin Chen was looking at someone bathing there, her hair was so long that Xin Chen thought it was a woman and immediately turned back.
But no one had blue hair other than Shui. Shui who noticed Xin Chen's presence immediately waved an enthusiastic hand.
"Cabin! I'm sure you haven't even taken a shower after leaving Renwu City!"
Xin Chen approached the end of the bridge and sat down with his toe touching the surface of the lake. Shui protested. "you don't know how fresh the water here is!"
"You're not doing any work?"
"What is my job?" Shui drowned his head and appeared a few seconds later, looking bored. "They don't share any duties with me."
"It's impossible without reason." Xin Chen looked at Shui concerned, making the Blue Mane piqued.
"What?"
"I'm sure you're not a dick for all the work."
Shui didn't agree, but that's exactly what happened. He smashed some things, didn't know how to train and burned down one house for cooking a squid. Xin Chen did not protest him anything but to put on a concerned look and it irritated Shui.
Shui played water on it, making thin bubbles rise to the surface.
"About that Fire Salamender, are you sure he's still in the same place?"
The question made the bubbles burst.
"A good question. Answer's no. It's been a long time since we last met and he's lived quite far away. Maybe now the nest is known to humans. If that's the case I'm not sure we can meet him in two months."
"You mean that he's still in the same place we've been able to meet him for two months? Where is he now?"
"The Qing Empire."
Shui said confidently, "Your destination spirit may be the same as his home. It's just that it's so dangerous that you have to be prepared for your skin to be melted by it."
Fire Salamender, from its name alone Xin Chen had already guessed what kind of power the Fire Ruler Demon possessed. But there was nothing to worry about as the heat of the Fire of Eternity might be equivalent to the level of heat Salamender had.
"You can't underestimate him, I'm even starting to think that you're the one who's meeting him. The last time I fought with Salamender, my skin was badly damaged. I'm water and he's fire, supposedly fire losers. But that's it, the Salamender is not so great but for matters of burning, I'm sure he can make you grilled man—"
Shui cleared his throat. "Damn, I forgot you had a spirit form."
"You should be worried about yourself."
"So how? You want to meet him. I'll help you go see him. Otherwise it wouldn't matter, but I don't dare say you can still win against the Dark Dragon without the Lightning Fox."