Where it started.

Liang Chen was momentarily unable to respond to Yi Xue, utterly dumbfounded by her sudden plea and kowtow. Did she just say that she wanted to be his disciple? Liang Chen was more than aware that his strength was abnormal, Yan Ling wouldn't go around calling him Little Freak for nothing, but most people would look for more than just great strength in their teacher.

They would usually check their temperament, ambitions, compatibility of the laws, morals, weapons they specialized in. Only when most of these criteria fit would they plead someone to be their master, that was how things should usually be. After all, asking someone to be your master usually meant that you would take their teachings to heart and use them to improve. If you chose your master poorly then your entire cultivation could end up ruined or stunted, cultivation was a rather personal thing after all.

This was also one of the reasons that clans and sects, while they provided their disciples with cultivation resources and manuals, didn't interfere too much with their disciples, only giving general advice most of the time. Yumao flapped his wings and slowly flew over with the nearly 100 people in tow, Liang Chen shaking off his dumbfounded state with a shake of his head.

"A young girl like you shouldn't be spouting things like that, you'll just end up getting taken advantage of. You know nothing about me, our laws don't seem to be compatible, and our actual cultivation isn't that far off from each other, there is no point in taking me on as your master."

Liang Chen stated it very plainly so that Yi Xue could understand him, his gaze drifting towards the incoming Yumao and the dying person stuck in his teeth. Yumao swiftly reached the empty area in front of the castle and set down the people he had carried out of the ruins of the castle, dropping the man who used to rule these marauders in front of Liang Chen.

The man's armor and body had been cleanly pierced through by Yumao's teeth and blood covered nearly his entire body, but he was actually still alive, clinging to life with a few breaths. Liang Chen grabbed onto the man's throat with his left hand and raised him up from the ground, his eyes remaining completely expressionless.

"You are a blight upon this universe, your blood isn't even fit to feed my weapon or my companion. You have stained this universe for long enough, let your name and existence vanish."

The law of the void burst forth and invaded the man's body, pulling him apart and causing his body to vanish in a manner similar to snow entering water. It didn't take long for the man's body to completely vanish, Yi Xue and the others looking on with wide-open eyes and mouths, gaping dumbfoundedly. That was supposed to be the terrifying existence that had just stepped into the Primordial Immortal Realm? His body and life vanished just like that, like ice meeting magma.

Yumao let out a soft hissing sound after the man vanished, his body shrinking and speeding up onto Liang Chen's head. He curled up and raised his head, continuing to let out several hissing sounds until Liang Chen pat his head and praised him for a job well done. The sudden change in atmosphere caused the people around them to return to their senses, Yi Xue's eyes blazing as she once again smashed her forehead against the ground.

"You're wrong, there is a point, there is, there is, there is! You are strong, so hecking strong that I can't even understand or believe it! That strength, teach it to me, please! I need to find and kill those who murdered my family, so I need strength like yours! Don't worry about me being useless, my aunty used to say that I'm extremely talented! Look, I've even got a bloodline! I promise that I can be helpful if you accept me!"

Yi Xue wasn't shy about talking about herself, even directly stating her current situation as well as the fact that she had a bloodline. As for her bloodline, mottled scales that were a deep green color appeared on the back of her hand as she spoke about it, receding again once she finished speaking.

The scales looked somewhat familiar to him, but after his visit to Tripartite God and seeing so many different bloodlines and bodily changes, Liang Chen found it hard to pin down just where he had seen similar scales before so he tossed the thought to the back of his mind. Liang Chen was about to speak up again when a few of the others that Yumao had brought over also dropped to their knees and lowered their foreheads to the ground.

"Me too! Please accept me as your disciple! I want to get revenge for my wife!"

"Please help me grow stronger, I want to make sure that no more people have to go through what we have!"

"I beg of you, make me strong! I want to send as many monsters like these people to hell so that my brothers and sister can rest in peace!"

"Me too, I need to be your disciple! Please help me, I must make certain that the dead of my village can rest in peace knowing that such deeds won't repeat themselves!"

More and more people among the nearly 100 gathered there dropped to their knees, a total of 17 people, 18 with Yi Xue, smashing their foreheads to the ground and pleading to Liang Chen. Among the 18 people was the young boy that Liang Chen had seen get ravaged, the large bite wound on his back was still bleeding profusely. All of them had lost everything dear to them, they had nothing left but their resentment and a desire for change.

Facing all these people, Liang Chen was honestly a bit troubled on how to respond. The reason was simple, he saw himself in each and everyone one of these people, he had lost just as they had. But unlike them, he wasn't completely alone, he still had Yumao and Yan Ling that he could rest on, anchors to tie him down and make sure that he didn't break any further.

In truth, Liang Chen wasn't actually against at least training these people. After all, one of his reasons for stepping onto the path he did was to prevent people from ending up like him, and training these people could somewhat help that, it would at least prevent them from becoming worse. But no matter what his thoughts were, there was one fact he couldn't ignore. He gave a slight shake of his head and started speaking, Yi Xue's eyes lighting up as she cut him off.

"It doesn't matter if you all get on your knees and beg, I am a homeless wanderer and as such simply don't have a place where I can ke..."

"I do, I do! If the problem is having a place to keep us then I have a solution! Look, look, aunty said that this is the final gift my father prepared for me before he was betrayed and ambushed! She said that it can change shape, contain living beings, and even get placed into an interspatial ring without any piddly problem!"

Yi Xue dug her hands into the right sleeve of her blue robe and pulled out a pink orb that was made from a strange transparent crystal. She pointed the orb at one of the other people that was kneeling, a soft light exuding from it and surrounding the woman. The woman was sucked into the orb and then vanished, Yi Xue then pulled back the sleeve of her robe to reveal an interspatial treasure shaped like a green bracelet that resembled a river winding around her wrist.

The orb was sucked into the interspatial treasure and entered it without a problem, Yi Xue bringing it out again shortly after and releasing the woman that had been sucked into the orb. Once she finished proving the validity of it, she threw the orb to Liang Chen without hesitation, showing how determined she was about this. Liang Chen caught the orb and gave it a quick inspection by sinking his mind into it.

The inside of the orb actually looked like a city large enough to house at least a few hundred thousand people, the city was even surrounded by farmlands to the east and north and a massive forest and mountain range to the south and west. Yumao slithered down from Liang Chen's head and entered the orb so that he could test it for Liang Chen. He quickly appeared on the streets of the city, curiously looking around while his tongue tasted the air. He then left the orb and appeared on Liang Chen's arm again, slithering back up to his head and letting out a hissing sound.

From the looks of it, the orb was exactly as Yi Xue had said, but that also meant that it was an extraordinary treasure. Liang Chen was once again struck by the thought that Yi Xue had a rather extraordinary background, or at least used to have back when her family was alive. He didn't think that her words were a lie, he could see the hatred and grief in her eyes, it was the same emotions that once festered within his own eyes. Liang Chen looked at the pink orb for a bit before gaze moved towards the 18 people that remained on their knees. His thoughts moved for a bit more before he opened his mouth again.

"I'm not staying here, I am going to head to a much larger universe once I've finished my business here. I'll face people far stronger than you can imagine, far crueler and viler than you can imagine. I'll make far more enemies than you can count, even now I have an enemy that is so strong that it is suffocating just to think about it. I'm also not a very good person, nor do I think I'm a good teacher, the best I would be able to do is train you as I would train myself. If you choose to follow me, you are more likely to die than you are to live."

Plainly and simply, that's how Liang Chen stated it all to them. People around him seemed to have a bad tendency to die, so far only two people had survived actually getting close to him, Yan Ling and Yan Ying. But even with Liang Chen stating it so simply for them, the 18 people still remained on their knees, their eyes blazing with flames.

"That's fine, please help us get stronger!"

They all responded as one, none of them fearing death. They had already lost everything, death would be a form of release for them at this point. But just as Liang Chen couldn't get any rest, they couldn't get their relief, there were still people to kill. Liang Chen let out a sigh and rubbed the back of his head upon hearing their strong response, it seems like he had somehow ended up with a bunch of people like him in tow.

"Alright, then so be it. I'm Liang Chen, one of the last three people of the Storm Wolf sect. And from now on, you too are members of the Storm Wolf sect."

Yan Ling's dream was to have the name of the Storm Wolf sect echo across the entire universe and even beyond it. As long as she or Liang Chen were alive, the Storm Wolf would never truly die, it would always rise again. And from the looks of it, this was where it would start. Yi Xue and the 17 other people raised their heads again and looked at Liang Chen with brilliant eyes, a thought quickly flashing past Yi Xue's pupils before she lowered her head slightly again.

"Disciple Yi Xue greets Wolf Lord Liang Chen!"

He said that he was one of only three remaining members of the sect, and looking at how strong he was Yi Xue naturally assumed that he was the leader. As such, it was only natural to refer to him by a proper title. The remaining people also quickly caught on, lowering their heads and shouting out with renewed vigor.

"Disciple Kong Youyan greets Wolf Lord Liang Chen!"

"Disciple San Tongye greets Storm Lord Liang Chen!"

"Disciple Liu San greets Storm Lord Liang Chen!"

"Disciple Ah Xingliu greets Storm Lord Liang Chen!"

"Disciple Fang Rong greets Wolf Lord Liang Chen!"