Zhao Luo closed his eyes.
'I can't bear the glares of the Sect Leader who is demanding an answer from me and the third elder, who has already witnessed something that he shouldn't have seen.'
Zhao Luo clearly understood the situation.
With his eyes closed, he unknowingly remembered the time when he and Yan were outside the thick cloud on the dragon road.
(Image flashing in Zhao Luo's mind)
An image of him and Yan almost kissing popped up in his mind.
(Image ended) with Zhao Luo shaking his head as his face turned a little red.
'Tap.'
He opened his eyes and looked at his shoulder just to find out that the Sect Leader was grabbing his shoulder.
But Zhao Luo couldn't feel any pressure except the sound that he had heard when Xin Wang had placed his hand on Zhao Luo's shoulder.
"Your ANSWER."
Xin Wang said while giving Zhao Luo a threatening look.
'He looks scarier than the psychopaths of my time.'
Zhao Luo thought as he finally had an answer ready that will surely calm down the leader.
Zhao Luo hurriedly kneeled and looked at the leader with wet eyes.
Escaping the leader's grip was his first action, then the innocent look was to melt the leader's heart.
The final strike was ready and Zhao Luo was going to deliver it.
"I am not interested in girls", Zhao Luo shouted with a hardened yet partially hurt look.
'CLAP.'
Imaginary thunder fell, in the ears of the sect leader and the third elder.
They looked at Zhao Luo whose expressions showed that it was a secret that had caused him many troubles but he had to say it now because of the pressure from Xin Wang.
"WHAT?"
Both Sect Leader and Bao Fei believed that painfully expression and were stunned.
The truth had hit them so hard that the Sect Leader, the number one entity living on the Xin Range, the leader of the Xin Sect had taken two steps back and another step towards the right.
Zhao Luo's truth had forced the leader of the Sect to move like a horse (chess knight).
Xin Wang looked at Bao Fei and blinked forcefully.
Xin Wang was telling Bao Fei to take responsibility for this situation.
'If it wasn't because of his misinformation that I caused this brilliant kid to be saddened.....TSK.'
The Sect Leader thought as he moved back to the broken chair and waved his hand to take out another plastic chair.
'Bam.'
Xin Wang sat on the new chair as he looked at Zhao Luo with a deep and regretful expression.
'I just wanted to scare him, not scar him.'
He thought as Bao Fei went over to Zhao Luo to help him get up from his kneeling position.
"Zhao Luo."
The sect leader called out.
'What now?'
Zhao Luo looked at Xin Wang and saw the leader throwing a scroll at him.
Grab!
Zhao Luo grabbed the scroll and looked at the leader with confusion in his eyes.
The leader was scratching his nose with his index finger while looking away from Zhao Luo.
"I realized that you were quite amazed by my foot technique. I call it FLASH STEP. This scroll has the first stage of my Flash Step."
The sect leader told Zhao Luo and turned his face to look at him.
"First Walk."
The sect elder announced the name of the first stage of the 'flash step' technique.
"Thank you."
Zhao Luo clasped his hands and bowed to the Sect Leader.
The sect leader looked at Bao Fei.
"Little third take him back."
"Don't forget what I told you. I will wait for you", then said his final words to Zhao Luo.
The third elder grabbed Zhao Luo's arm and took a step towards the exit of the palace.
'TAP'
"AHHH."
Zho Luo cried out to keep up the 'my feelings are hurt' act.
The space around him changed and Bao Fei had brought Zhao Luo back to the Trainee hall as Zhao Luo's hut appeared in front of his eyes.
Bao Fei had already released Zhao Luo's arm and while looking at him, he opened his mouth.
"Zhao Luo, don't mind the sect leader's reaction. He treasures Lady Yan so he was just trying to scare you."
Elder Bao Fei told Zhao Luo while gently patting his shoulder.
'My plan worked. Haha.'
Zhao Luo felt glad that even the third elder had fallen for his amazing acting skills.
'I didn't know I could act so well.'
Zhao Luo felt quite good after praising himself.
Zhao Luo looked at the elder then he tilted his head downwards.
'I guess he needs more time to get over what happened.'
Bao Fei mumbled.
"I will be going now. Take care kiddo."
Bao Fei let out the news of his departure with a smile.
He thought that Zhao Luo would be sad thus he even added the word kiddo when Zhao Luo was already a fully grown adult.
'Woosh.'
The moment Bao Fei disappeared from that place, Zhao Luo hurriedly turned around to enter the hut.
After entering his room.
Zhao Luo laid down on his bed as his legs dangled downwards from the other end of the bed.
"Haaaa~"
Zhao Luo released a deep sigh but there was no bitterness in his eyes.
He didn't look awful instead there was a victorious grin hidden under his mysterious and deep 'sigh'.
"Finally."
Zhao Luo said as he felt relieved that he was back in his room.
The moon was still shining brightly outside his hut.
The morning was far away as the night's darkness covered the trainee hall.
Zhao Luo thought about how he should act around Yan from now on.
"Wahhh, why should I stay away from her?"
Zhao Luo shouted as he remembered the moment that he had experienced.
The exploding and powerful aura of the Sect Leader.
His build.
His presence.
"Why am I so weak?"
'Bang.'
Zhao Luo complained and punched his bed.
Yan was the second girl that had caused Zhao Luo to experience the special feeling of being loved romantically.
Even though it was a short-lived experience, Zhao Luo didn't mind it but, it was different now, as Yan was the daughter of the Sect leader, Xin Wang.
"I should just focus on becoming stronger."
"No, no. I WILL ONLY FOCUS ON BECOMING STRONG FROM NOW ON."
Zhao Luo made a promise to himself.
While being enveloped by different emotions, he repeated his goal in a convincing and unwavering voice.
'Hmm.'
Zhao Luo looked at his hands. He was still holding the two rewards that the Sect Leader had given him.
"The successor badge."
Zhao Luo looked at the badge which was in his right hand.
The jade dragon though was small, that is, around 4-5 inch but the artistry was so realistic that it looked more ferocious than Zhao Luo's Bimba, the sand lion.
The golden background gave it a more fierce touch.
"So this is my ticket to join the other disciples' who are training to succeed the sect leader's seat?"
Zhao Luo said while turning around the badge and looking at the jade dragon.
After a while of staring at the golden badge, Zhao Luo stored it in his robe's storage space.
"Let's open this."
Zhao Luo held the foot technique scroll with both of his hands.
'FrFrFr.'
He opened the scroll slowly.
"Technique created by Xin Wang, The leader of the Xin Sect."
"Once a cultivator reaches the bronze stage and starts gathering the energy inside his core, that is, he can store internal energy for later use. Only then will the cultivator learn the first stage of the Flash Step, Firs Walk."
Zhao Luo read the title of the scroll.
Each stroke of the characters in the title was amazing just like the technique itself.
The title was followed by the condition to use the first step of the technique.
"Internal energy again. Core?"
Zhao Luo didn't meet the condition required to learn the technique.
He didn't even know what the core was and where it was, so how could he store energy in his core.
'It's a puzzle.'
Zhao Luo was just a black stage trainee disciple according to his black badge. There was still a long way to become a bronze stage disciple.
"I will have to become an internal disciple. Just like senior Zi Fei."
Zhao Luo remembered the creepy psychopathic senior of his.
Zi Fei was a bronze stage disciple ( cultivator ) as he had a bronze badge, that is, he was an inner disciple.
Zhao Luo felt confused as everything he had to do was all over the place but he didn't stop reading the scroll.
"Ten steps, taken in a single breath, cover a distance of 100-meters."
The line told what the technique was all about but in short breaking sentences.
"100 meters in ten steps?", Zhao Luo was amazed but the thing that excited him, even more, was, "I will be able to cover 100 meters in a SINGLE breath."
Zhao Luo said with rising passion.
The content of the scroll had just started.
"The First Walk is divided into five different levels
•Beginner: One step, One breath, 10 meters.
•Advanced Beginner: Two steps, One breath, 20 meters
•Intermediate: Four steps, One breath, 40 meters
•Adnanced Intermediate: Eight steps, One breath, 80 meters
•Expert: Ten steps, One breath, 100 meters (Limit)
Only after reaching the expert level of the First Walk, can you break to the second stage of the Flash Step."
The eyes of Zhao Luo were shining with enthusiasm as he learned how powerful just this 'first walk' was.
"Let's continue."
Zhao Luo started moving his gaze downwards.
"It's here."
Zhao Luo was already on the part which he wanted to read the most.
"Learning the First Walk of the Flash Step."
Zhao Luo read from the scroll with a smile on his face and excitement filling his eyes.
