272 272. Emotions

While Noah was busy traveling and training, the Utra nation had been filled with rumors about him.

The first cultivator of the darkness element that had appeared in decades was, in reality, the bastard son of a medium-size noble family.

His crimes became widely known and many linked tragic events to his person.

Doris' disappearance was one of them, cultivators couldn't think that she had vanished because of personal matters anymore after they had learnt that Noah had been in her same hunting area.

Phoebe and Manuel's death were the same, a second investigation on their weapons revealed some conflicting clues about the cause of their deaths.

Yet, while the most powerful nobles viewed his figure as a stain on their authority, the weaker cultivators thought of him with some reverence.

Noah was a man that had defied his status to became stronger, he had hidden among the most powerful organizations in the country and was now on the run.

'My dear disciple, I've really failed you.'