First Ancestor's Condition!

"Say, elder Gao, why you you color the whole sect pink?" They were walking in the outer court zone, heading to his residence. 

Most of the buildings were pink!

The disciples were staring at him, but it didn't make him uncomfortable; he was used to attention from his early days. He had thought to ask Elder Gao some of his confusion as they walked.

"It was the first sect leader's idea, and the next leaders decided to live it like that!" Elder Gao answered.

"The first leader? Hahahaha, don't tell me the man was femboy?" Phate laughed out loud at his stupid slang.

"Femboy? What's that prince?" Thalia asked before Elder Gao could say anything.

"Hahaha, it's a man with feminine tendencies, their behaviors, sense of fashion, and everything is that of a woman, like the first leader of this sect, hahaha!" Phate and Thalia laughed at once.

Elder Gao looked at the stupid boy and smacked his head, "Ouch! What did you do that for?" Phate asked, but deep inside, he wanted to laugh again.

"You little brats, disciple Phate, where did you get such a stupid concept, and who told the first elder is a man?" He scolded the two youths.

"Wait, the first leader was not a man?" Phate didn't know this, and he thought the founder of the Cherry Blossom Sect was a man; no wonder the sect's name was so girly.

"No, wait, Prince, he said 'is.' What did you mean, elder Gao," Thalia couldn't mistake these words as a mistake in his tense; it was a slip of the tongue!

According to records, the first leader had died.

"What did you mean by 'is not man'?" Phate asked; he stopped in his steps, looking intently at the man.

"Anh, look here, young brats, this secret might jeopardize my first matriarch's safety!" He couldn't miss this chance to help his ancestor. He was confident the patriarch was not watching them, or he would have played dump.

"Tell us, maybe we can help," Thalia knew that the man was using his mistake to his advantage, but she knew the Phate wanted nothing but to know what this secret was.

Elder Gao was supposed to be up to something from the start, but the way he treated Phate was strange from when the two met.

"Let's get to your house," he pulled them with his spiritual energy, bringing them to the house reserved for him.

Phate wasted no time and unlocked the house door with his Jade card. The formation disappeared, and they entered; it was a small house with a living room, one bedroom, and one bathroom.

The living room only had a table, and one long couch, and the sect had at least provided him with this. He and Thalia sat and glanced at the elder, who looked around before throwing a cube on the ground.

White spiritual energy filled the room, and it was a concealing formation. It could stop the senses of a High Immortal from hearing them.

"I am going to be straight on the point; the Matriarch was a dragon from the Divine Beast realm. She created the Cherry Blossom Sect in pursuit of a cure for her strange illness nobody knew of. But even after many years, all her efforts were fruitless.

"But the sect continued to flourish under her leadership to even rival the Yin-Yang palace.

Bedridden after, as her body was too weak to move, her enemies used this chance and poisoned her to die. What they didn't know was that her dragon core devoured the poison they used.

"They thought she had died, but actually, it was her illness that put her in a death-like state; since she had once helped my family and we had a high standing in the sect by then, we requested that her body be put in her final resting place." His face had a gloomy look as she explained to them the real story.

"So she is not dead?" Phate asked emotionlessly.

"No, the same illness and her core kept her alive up to now; we couldn't find a cure up to now, but I am sure we will." He finished.

"It's good to be hopeful. Keep that up," after that, Phate picked up the book and started reading through it.

The sounds of pages turning page after page rang in the room as Phate was immersed in reading the book. Nobody said anything and just looked at him.

Thalia marveled at the seriousness he was exuding. While he was busy, he seemed several times more handsome to her than he was when flirting with girls.

Elder Gao did not know how to react, so he finally said, "The technique orb you got used to belonged to her back then, although she didn't use it so much as she didn't engage in any dual cultivation."

"which cultivation orb are you talking about, elder Gao?" Phate covered the book before putting it on the table, looking at the man as though he didn't comprehend what the man was saying.

Silence commenced in the room; only the sound of activities outside could be heard.

Elder Gao furrowed, confused too on why the man seemed not to know what he was talking about. He broke the silence.

"the Divine rank orb, why do you behave as if you don't understand what I am talking about, brat?" At elder Gao's words, Phate understood what he was talking about.

He stood up and started pacing back and forth; he would sometimes shake his head or look at the ceiling; he didn't know what to do.

He could say he didn't want to say anything about it, but the man had just trusted him with a great secret Phate thought could affect the sect and the pleasure continent.

Thalia was looking at nothing, just empty air. Her beautiful, boundless eyes were, this time, filled with curiosity too. She was interested in the technique her man got. Still, she couldn't say anything until he decided to come clean and tell her.

Although he behaved indifferently, he knew the heaviness of it, so...

"You see, elder Gao, the technique I..."