Long Bai

Qian Qui did accept that he had a talent to feel the flow of profound energy but Yang Ding still wasn't sure. He furrowed his brows.

"To what extent?" Yang Ding asked. He was curious as to how profound his skill was.

The man smiled.

"To the extent that I can tell that you are at the 5th stage of the Ice profound realm."

"What!"

Yang Ding stepped back, his mouth left open. Today he was getting shock after shock.

"Haha"

The man's laughter reverberated in the closed cave making it sound deeper and more deeper.

But Yang Ding had no words.

"A human body is but a vessel for storing profound energy. The higher one's cultivation base the more energy one can store. This energy exists in the nascent form before the cultivator manifests it in the physical world. Since I can see this nascent energy I can judge one cultivation level just from the richness and amount of energy a vessel holds."

"Okay, yeah whatever. You are amazing. I give up"

Yang Ding raised his arms and his palms upward. He had seen many a experts who had techniques that he had always wanted to learn and always wanted to get his hold on but alas, those clans were too cautious about keeping their secret techniques safe. Today just one more technique was added to that list of Yang Ding's.

Usually one cannot accurately predict one's cultivation level without checking one's veins. But this monster in front of him knows no rules. He can accurately guess one's cultivation level just from a look. How much of a cheat was that? Having a firm grasp of the enemy's strength would always give an edge to every battle, not to mention that one would never enter into a losing battle unless one is forced to.

'If I had that ability… Sigh'

But no matter what Yang ding does he would never be able to have the same ability. If this ability is such a cheat then it goes without saying that it would be a treasure to the man he would not be willing to part with.

If someone came to him wanting to learn the Geijin sword arts would he ever teach them if they are not of the Geijing Clan? Never!

He would kill those as traitors who would commit such treason.

He sighed.

"Now may I ask what are your motives behind joining us? For what reason do you wish to stop the war?"

"…"

There was a silence. YAng Ding chose to not reply.

Su Yang was the panicking cause of the awkward situation between the two.

"Ah master he is rude with his words… doesn't like to accept that he is helping others. His motive is nothing but the same as you and me."

"Haha, child what do you think our motive is?"

"Eh?"

"Anyway, since you believe in him so much let me believe in him too. Even if he doesn't choose to help us, it's not like he can come in our way... no… I think we might need him," he said, "Long Bai won't you explain the plan to the new member?"

"Hmm, why go to the lengths of explaining to him anyway? He is a weakling at the Ice profound realm, can't help us much."

From the darkness of the cave, the visage of a man came forth. He was always standing there but no one in the room was able to notice him until he chose to show himself.

"You don't need to worry about that. With time you will understand his worth."

Qian Qui smiled.

Long Bai had burly brown muscles and a scar across his eye. He barely wore any clothes on his torso with his upper torso mostly wounded with black rags stretched across his shoulders and abs. He had a scimitar tied to the left side of his waist. Anyone who would have seen him will feel oppression at his very presence. At least Su Yang did but Yang Ding was troubled for something completely else.

'Long Bai.' Yang Ding almost said out aloud before he swallowed his very words.

'It's the same Long Bai, how can I forget him?'

Long Bai.

He is popularly known as the lunatic sovereign in the black pearl nation. Infamous for his kills. No one knows of his origins, someone claims that he was forsaken as a child, some say he was a foreigner but all of them are just baseless rumours.

Over the past decade, this Long Bai had assassinated numerous cultivators of the Black pearl nation. His methods are the most shameless that even heaven would rain its fury upon. Never had he ever confronted a cultivator on the battlefield rather he had always stabbed them from behind when they had least expected it. This is how despite being just at the beginning stages of the Ling unification Realm, he was infamous even in the five great clans. Everyone hated him and feared him at the same time. His identity was always shrouded in mystery and no one was ever able to get rid of him.

Even the pattern in which he chose his targets was weird. There was little to no connection between the cultivator and the experts he chose to kill. Once he had even done the shameless act of killing a doctor in medical arts even when he had no way of defending himself.

During Yang Ding's years as a patriarch he too was also once one of his targets…

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