章 9: The shadow
"Teacher, you want to meet my father?"
Yichen's deep eyes sparkled in disbelief.
He couldn't believe that there was someone who wanted to meet his father.
Usually, those around him wouldn't even dare to go near them or to his house for the fear of their family's bad luck to go to them. They avoided them and even refrained from talking to him.
Amazed by the miraculous words he just heard, he stared at Teacher Guotin unbelievably. He was like a ray of sunshine in his dark life.
"What are you looking at? Quick! Take me to your father!"
Lord Guotin made his feisty proclamation.
Jerked by it, Yichen reacted with a start: "Aah..yes..! Sure teacher"
With it, Lord Guotin instantly flew up to Yichen's shoulder and sat there.
Yichen then walked out of the place.
"I remember that I had left my father in the kitchen. I bet he is still there"
He fastened his pace as he recalled it.
He quickly walked down the long wooden pavement and soon entered the Lin clan's big household.
There he rushed straight to the kitchen.
As soon as he entered he saw no one around, his father had already left.
"Kid, your father is already gone."
Lord Guotin noted seriously.
"Maybe he is inside the house."
With the thought in mind, Yichen hurried back and walked to his house.
The way to his house was unusual and tacky unlike the rest of Lin's household.
Because Lin Zhang had been removed from being the chief position, the father and son duo was now made to live in the far left corner of the clan household.
It was the most isolated and the most unattended place of all.
Amused by the contrasting spectacle of the entrance.
Lord Guotin was left wowed.
"Kid, the way to your house is filled with spider nets. I won't be surprised if a soul beast spider comes out from here"
He commented as he watched around in vigilance.
Regaled by it, Yichen turned to look up the rooftop. It was like his teacher says, the rooftop was a field of spider nets.
"Hmm, why didn't I see this before?"
He reacted stunned.
Seeing his stunned expression, Lord Guotin was left feeling sorry.
'Looks like staying all alone with a mad father has degraded his living style as well. Tsk! Tsk! What a poor lad.'
Lord Guotin sighed inwardly.
"Lad, don't you worry, since, Lord Guotin is here, your life will be changed for the better."
He called out to keep up his spirit.
Catching sight of those enthusiastic expressions coming out from that small body was kind of reassuring to Young Yichen.
He was amused by it.
"Then, Yichen will depend on Master from hereon."
He replied carefreely.
It's been a long while since the servants had seen the handsome smile on this young master's face. Just a while ago, they heard the news of him being slapped by the kitchen servants but now he is smiling and walking as if nothing happened.
The servants were left shocked to see it.
Furthermore, this young master is acting weird. He is talking to an invisible man.
Sensing the judging stared around him; Yichen was left flustered.
He quickly maintained his composure and fastened his pace.
"Kid, you gotta be careful from now onwards. Since this Lord Guotin is now a spirit no one will be able to see me except you. People will think you are crazy if you started to converse and laugh with an invisible man"
"So that's why they are like that. Hmm. I get it, Teacher. Yichen will be careful from hereon"
Yichen affirmed strictly.
Lord Guotin shooked his head at it.
Soon after, Yichen entered the house and Lord Guotin was struck dumb there.
The place they enter was a total mess. The entire house was filled with broken crumbs; things were scattered around here and there, leaving no empty spot.
On top of it was the most disgusting smell flying around.
Woah! This Lord Guotin, the mighty phoenix Beast God had never seen such a messy place in his entire life before! He was left speechless there.
Lord Guotin was a neat freak that he won't even let a single feather scatter in his nest. He would instantly command his underlings to clean it all.
To think that this young disciple he chose would be living so messily was completely out of his clean context.
As he turned to 180 degrees, there he saw his disciple's father Lin Zhang on the corner playing like a 5-year-old kid. Lin Zhang was now 40 years of age. His long silky black hair was flowing down till his waist in messiness. His beard had grown a lot and his handsome face was ruined with the image of a mad man. No one will now say that he is handsome because of his shabbiness. The wrinkled lines on his forehead were apparent as well.
He wore this white colour fading to cream colour robe and pants.
"This....?!"
Lord Guotin was left appalled by it all.
The scene he saw was even harsher than the story he heard from the young lad.
"I will clean this up real, quick."
Yichen reacted concerned.
He left Lord Guotin and quickly scrambled to gather the clothes from the ground.
Seeing him, acting all flustered and wary, Lord Guotin spoke up knowingly: "Leave it. Save the cleaning for later. Let me check your father first"
Yichen stopped there and turned to look at him with a glimpse of hope.
"Yes"
He obeyed his teacher without hesitation.
Lord Guotin quickly flew down towards Lin Zhang and stopped before him.
Yichen too stood beside him and attended with keenness.
Not even wasting a moment, Lord Guotin activated his yellow tier Phoenix vision in a flash.
With it, his hazel eyes glowed a yellow colour light and immediately started to scan the entire body of Lin Zhang.
From head to toe, he scanned it all and finally found the spot of long black colour centipede-like shadow running deep within his brain. It was the cause of child liked conduct of Lin Zhang.
The spiritual aura that exuded from that black shadow was indeed mighty and carried extreme yin energy which was contradicting Lin Zhang's yang body type. It was consuming all of his consciousness and was making his brain its playground. That shadow was at least of the celestial tier technique as it was able to bind and absorbed the consciousness.
'Hmm..no wonder this lad's father was incurable despite feeding him with the earth tier bluegrass for many years. A mere earth tier bluegrass has got only healing properties and won't be able to cure this dreadful thing.'
Having seen through it all, Lord Guotin quickly return to normal. The yellow colour that glowed in his eyes was quickly gone with it.
"How is it? Can my father be cured?"
Yichen inquired in keenness.
"Hmm..."
Lord Guotin nod his head.
"Your father is curable. It's just that, he will need at least ten sky tier yellow cactus flower or one celestial tier yin mushroom."
He noted strictly.
Yichen's eyes were widened by it.
"Ten sky tier yellow cactus flower or one celestial tier yin mushroom?!"
"Right. Your father's condition is cause by a celestial tier technique. That explained the reason for him being incurable with the earth tier bluegrass. The earth tier bluegrass is good on its own but isn't that pretty strong to tackle with a wound cause by a celestial tier technique.
Inside his brain is extreme centipede-like yin energy running freely making its playground. To remove it from your father's brain you need at least ten sky tier yellow cactus flowers which can absorb the yin energy or one celestial tier yin mushroom. Either will do the work."
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