Kapitel 3: Ch. 3 - Is He Even Human?
Seeing how Xiao Huoyan knelt down beside the bed and greeted him with his fists clasped respectfully, he was greatly shocked. He did not think such a small child would show such manners!
'Small children are usually spoiled and cheeky, but Xiao Huoyan is obviously not', he thought to himself.
And not only did he posses great manners, he was also very smart, as to know when and how to show respect to his master.
"Where did you learn such manners? Did you not say that you have been living alone ever since your mother died 2 years ago?", he asked curiously.
Xiao Huoyan was only five years old, and he had lived almost half of his life alone in the woods, so who taught him to show so much respect to his master?
'Xiao Huoyan had not shown such respect at the beginning when he and I had just met, but just as I, Jin Long, became his master, he suddenly showed me such respect. It does not make any sense!', Ji Long thought to himself.
"I-I can not remember…"
"What do you mean? Someone must have taught you all of this. How can you say that you do not remember?", Jin Long asked in a state of confusion.
"Please do not be mad! I really can not remember!"
Seeing as Xiao Huoyan was yelling with panic written across his face, Jin Long tried to speak with a calm voice.
"If you really can not remember, then would you mind if I took a look at your memories?"
"Is it really that important?", Xiao Huoyan asked.
"No, it is not, but I would really like to know some other things too…"
"What do you want to ask? I can just answer."
"Well that is true, but what if you say that you can not remember and start to panic again?"
"Oh… maybe you are right. Feel free to read my memories then!"
As Xiao Huoyan said that he smiled brightly and sat down beside Jin Long.
Seeing that Xiao Huoyan was willing, Jin Long closed his eyes and tried to focus on Xiao Huoyan's mind in order to read his memories. But soon after, he noticed that there was something strange blocking him from entering Xiao Huoyan's memories.
"AAAH!!"
Hearing Xiao Huoyan screaming out with a voice filled with pain, Jin Long looked down at Xiao Huoyan again and what he saw struck him with both shock and confusion. Xiao Huoyan, who still sat on the side of the bed, started to hug his head, with his face deeply buried in his knees while streams of tears made their way down his rosy cheeks. He expressed a face full of fear and pain, and yet this little boy did not make a sound.
There were no wailing, nor sniffling. He was quiet to the point where you could not even hear him breathing! He just sat there without moving an inch for what felt like an eternity! It was as if time had stopped.
As Jin Long slowly began to come back to his senses, he extended his hand trying to comfort Xiao Huoyan by lightly patting his little head, but as soon as his hands came close, Xiao Huoyan lifted his head. When Jin Long came into contact with Xiao Huoyan's skin, Jin Long's face instantly turned ashen.
Xiao Huoyan's skin was extremely cold! This caused Jin Long to instinctively draw his hand back. Unbelievable! Jin Long's Spirit Essence was an evolved verision of wind, called 'Icy Hurricane', and yet this kind of chilliness that Xiao Huoyan's skin emitted, was something that not even he could match up to! It felt familiar to his own spirit essence, except this bone chilling feeling being way stronger!
Knowing that he could do nothing to help, he started to panic! He could not remember a time when he had felt this helpless before. He was The Golden Dragon, Jin Long of The Jin Clan, and yet still he could do nothing to help this child, his disciple!
"What is happening to you?!"
He screamed in panic! Never in his life before had he ever felt this helpless!
Just as he was about to give up, Xiao Huoyan suddenly started to rise up in the air. Then suddenly after that, a strong and extremely cold wind started to swirl around him like a hurricane. Suddenly his eyes opened, but they seemed nothing like those cute and innocent brown eyes, that he had before!
They were pitch-black, except for something that looked like snowflakes, currently moving uncontrollably inside those pitch-black eyes of his! These eyes were more akin to the ones of a demon than the ones of a cute and innocent child's!
He felt so helpless, watching as Xiao Huoyan turned into something he had never seen before! Did him, trying to intrude into Xiao Huoyan's memories, cause this little boy to become like this?
While Jin Long was lost in his thoughts, Xiao Huoyan extended one of his fingers and pointed at Jin Long. Then he began speaking with a voice lacking as much as a hint of emotions.
He spoke in a language that Jin Long had never heard before. It sounded like some kind of chant. After he had finished speaking, a single delicate crystal snowflake quickly shot out towards Jin Long at an insanely fast speed!
Jin Long felt that he had no way of stopping it and thus he just sat there, awaiting his death. He could feel the power from that single snowflake, and he knew that he was no match for it. Never would he had imagined that just as it was about to hit him, it dissolved into thin air without a trace, leaving nothing but an unforgettable memory. He looked at Xiao Huoyan, who had fallen to the floor the moment the snowflake had dissolved into thin air. He was now laying on the floor unconscious, looking as cute and innocent as any other child.
"How could this be the same little boy that almost killed me, but a short moment ago?!"
Jin Long sighed in confusion and misbelief as he went up from the bed, picked Xiao Huoyan up from the floor and carefully placed him onto the bed. Then he laid down beside him and fell asleep. He knew that the only way for him to get some answers would be to ask his dear disciple when he woke up.
After a few hours, Jin Long woke up. He looked beside him and saw that the spot where he had put Xiao Huoyan yesterday, was empty. He started to panic and quickly rose up from the bed.
He was feeling much better compared to yesterday. Thinking back at how he had almost lost his life at the hands of a five years old child, whom he had just recently made his disciple yesterday, he began to wonder… 'Xiao Huoyan said that his father left before he was born and that his mother died two years ago, so how come he knew how to treat such severe injuries? Where did he get the medicines from? Who in this world was able to make such miraculous medicine? How come I, Jin Long, are almost fully recovered after only one night after receiving such fatal injuries?!'
Jin Long's head was full of questions, but he did not really have the time to think too much about it, since Xiao Huoyan seemed to have ran away.
Jin Long began to search the whole house but even after searching every single room, he still found nothing. Just as he was going to give up, he looked out the window and saw Xiao Huoyan sitting cross-legged on the ground. He seemed to be holding something. He began to carefully observe what Xiao Huoyan was doing, and then he saw something really strange.
The thing that Xiao Huoyan was currently holding was a Magical Beast! And it was even a seven ranked one! This one was called Blood Demon Wolf, and they were known for how merciless and bloodthirsty they were! 'Even though Blood Demon Wolves are quite small, if I, Jin Long, were to meet even a five ranked one, I would still have to use everything I've got to escape. Not to mention being able to fight it, I would probably die instantly! And yet this little five years old boy just held it in his arms as if it were completely harmless!', he thought in disbelief.
After taking a closer look, Jin Long discovered that this Blood Demon Wolf was severely injured. The Blood Demon Wolf's stomach was cut open and it seemed to be at the brink of life and death.
To Jin Long's surprise, Xiao Huoyan suddenly bit his own wrist! But what Xiao Huoyan did after that left Jin Long completely dumbfounded. After he bit his own wrist, he feed the Blood Demon Wolf his blood! And what was even more strange was that quickly after drinking a little bit of Xiao Huoyan's blood, it quickly began to heal!
Only seconds later, Xiao Huoyan had already stopped feeding the Bloody Demon Wolf, and it had completely healed, leaving nothing but a scar!
"To be able to do something like that is something that have never been heard of before! Is he even human?!"
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