A New Start

"How… how did you know about our location?" 

"Oh, someone informed me, but… why does it matter now? You are going to die anyway." 

"No, I won't forgive you… you will die." the boy said this; however, he did not dare to jump at the middle-aged man, he was trembling and was sweating profusely.  

A girl stood behind the boy, scared and crying. Her face was also covered with fear. She remembered the scene of someone getting burned and was mumbling non-stop,

"Wh… what should we do…" 

"We are going to die, we will be burned alive… why…" 

"Why did this happen to us? We never did anything…," 

"He burned my mother alive… he will also burn us."

"I, I hate Cultivators… I hate Cultivators, I hate them so much…" 

"I hate them, I wish they never existed, I want them all to die," 

The girl's eyes were filled with fear and newly awakened deep hatred. She was grabbing her head with both her hands and was looking at the wooden floor. 

Boy, on the other hand, was standing in front of her, defending her. He was trembling and was also feeling fear, but he still stood in front of her. 

"Get away from us, you already killed her mother, what would you get by killing us?" 

"Nothing, but satisfaction," the middle-aged man said and moved forward. 

The boy stood there and did not dare to move, the middle-aged man came in front of the boy and looked at him. 

"Die," The boy said this and began to punch the man. However, the man kicked him heavily and sent him flying. 

"Ah…," 

The boy was smashed into the wall and spat out blood. 

"As for you," the middle-aged man then looked at the trembling girl and said, 

"You will be burned alive as well… just like your mother," he smiled with a mocking expression and moved the palm of his right hand toward the girl, about to burn her as well, however, 

"No, you won't," 

The boy comes jumping at the man again. Blood is still coming out of the boy's mouth. It seems like he has suffered an internal injury. 

"Little insect," 

The man kicks him again, and he smashes into the wall again. He spat out blood again, 

"Si Yu," the girl muttered the boy's name after seeing him. 

A fire appears on the man's right hand, and he moves his hand toward the girl again, but the boy comes at him again, 

"You insolent pest, just die," the man kicked the boy again and moved toward him this time. However, this time the girl comes and grabs the man's waist with her both hands and tries to push him back, but could not. 

The middle-aged man punches the boy's face heavily, and the fire in his hand already disappeared. He starts to beat the boy badly, the girl keeps on trying to free the boy, but could not

"So, both of you won't let me kill the other one, very well then, I want to see how much you can keep this up." The man does not kill them instantly and begins to enjoy the process. 

"How dare you humiliate me," 

….. 

After an hour, both the girl and the boy were on the floor, covered in injuries and blood. 

It was really tragic, first, the girl's mother was burned alive, then their uncle did not come to them anymore, then they could not get enough food and had to steal it, but still starved, then they had been living in the Cold, and in the end, someone comes and begins to beat them up before getting ready to kill them. 

"I am also tired, now you can die," the middle-aged man says and a fire appears and floats over his palm. 

"Die," he shoots the fire toward the kids, 

"Why, why did… this… happen to us?" The girl mumbles with half-closed eyes. She was in too much pain to even open her eyes fully; However, the boy did not say anything and only stared at the coming fire. He was too tired and injured to say anything. Even if the man does not kill them, both of them would die because of the injuries and the blood loss in a few hours, if they were not given proper care now. 

However, the fire did not manage to reach the two of them, and a few drops of water fell on the two kids' faces. 

A shadow slowly walked toward the middle-aged man, the kids could not see the shadow because of the light coming from behind him, 

"You," the middle-aged focused his eyes and muttered after seeing the shadow with a confused expression, 

"What is happening here?" The shadow asked with a calm tone. 

"Who are you?" the man questions, 

"I see now," the shadow jumps at the middle-aged man with a powerful push of his feet against the floor. 

Thereafter, a spear-like icicle appears in the person's hand and the person pushes the spear-like icicle toward the throat of the middle-aged man.

The middle-aged man tries to dodge but could not, and the spear pierces the throat of the middle-aged man from the front and appears from behind the throat. 

"Aren't you," the middle-aged man recognized the person before dying. 

The blood splatters on the girl and the boy. Not just this, but a few drops of blood even fell on Yang Zhai's face. The spear disappears, and the man falls to the ground. 

The reason the middle-aged could not recognize Yang Zhai before was that when the middle-aged had met him before, his face was covered with a mask and the hood and couldn't be seen: however, he was not covering his face now, so the man did not recognize Yang Zhai. But when Yang Zhai appeared too close to him, the middle-aged man guessed who this person was.

"Who… who are… you?" the girl asked Yang Zhai, scared. She was having difficulty speaking. 

"Don't speak, we can talk when you are a little better." Yang Zhai said this and the girl did not speak anymore. She was already traumatized by the middle-aged man and was scared that she might anger Yang Zhai if she said something. That's why she kept quiet after hearing Yang Zhai. 

Yang Zhai used a rank 1 ointment that he had kept in the Bloody Storage KA. 

Even though the ointments could not help much, they could at least lessen their injuries and stop their bleeding. After all, they were still mortals. 

The boy had even worse injuries and couldn't even mutter a word, he simply kept on staring at Yang Zhai. 

After a few hours, 

"Can I ask you something?" the girl asked with a scared tone. 

"What is it?" 

"Who are you?" 

"I am Jaen Fen." Yang Zhai did not tell them his real name. 

"You won't kill or beat us… right?" the girl said with a timid expression. She knew that Jaen Fen was a cultivator, and their view of the cultivators had already fallen to hell. 

"Why would I? If I wanted to kill you, why would I even save you?" Yang Zhai looked at their expressions and understood what their states of minds were right now. But It did not matter, he knew how to change them according to his will. 

"Forget about that, and tell me, why was that man trying to kill you? And where are your parents? How could they leave you alone?" Yang Zhai asked the two kids. 

"Both of our fathers went missing when we were still young. My mother died when I was young, and her mother was burned alive two weeks ago by this man. And he found us today and wanted to kill us. " This time the boy replied, he was also scared of Yang Zhai. 

Yang Zhai kept quiet for a while before saying, 

"Huh, so that's what happened. Well, it doesn't matter anymore, he is already dead and can't do anything to you now. Well, it could also be said your revenge has already been taken, right?" 

Yang Zhai gave their minds a change of direction toward another topic. He had to slowly change their minds with even a little of details and this was his start. 

Now, they would know and remember that Yang Zhai had, in a way, taken their revenge, even if unintentionally. 

The boy and the girl were already too angry at the man, and when Yang Zhai mentioned this, they forgot all the other things and looked at the dead body of the man, who had a hole in his throat. They hated the man to the core. 

And Yang Zhai had killed this man. 

"What are your names?" Yang Zhai suddenly asked their names. 

"Uh… my name is Li Na." Both of the kids were pulled out of their thoughts and imagination by Yang Zhai and the girl hurriedly said without knowing. 

"And I… I am Si Yu." 

Yang Zhai looked at the two and understood that it was fear that made the kids answer so hurriedly without knowing.

"You two have beautiful names. I wonder who named you?" 

"It was her mother, she was the one who gave us names. She told it to me herself." Si Yu answered again. 

Yang Zhai had asked this to make the kids a little easy around him. 

"Is there anyone to take care of you two?" 

"No, we are alone. There was our uncle, but he also does not come anymore." 

"Uh, it means you don't have anyone to take care of you. Very well, then, you two are coming with me." Yang Zhai said this, taking Si Yu and Li Na by surprise. 

Both of them were dumbfounded and stunned after hearing Yang Zhai. 

"No, no sir… we don't want to bother you."

Both Si Yu and Li Na hurriedly rejected Yang Zhai. 

They were horrified. 

They were already afraid of the cultivators and hated them. Now a cultivator wanted to take care of them, so how could they not be afraid?

"Uh, you two are coming with me, that's all." Yang Zhai said with narrowed eyes, leaving no place for rejection. 

Even though he wanted to make them feel easy only around him and nobody else, he couldn't let them grow the habit of rejecting him.

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