Cohabitation?

"You dare utter his name!?" Si Shen with wide opened eyes glared at Mo Xie with a sword on his hand.

Mo Xie became speechless, [Uttering his name can cause such a reaction?]

"I am only asking, I am a mere orphan, how could I know such a profound thing?" With the events unfolding right now, Mo Xie couldn't help but invent some stories, though, this most definitely is his story.

"Hmmp! Being an orphan is no excuse to not know your God's name!" Si Shen exclaimed.

[God?] Mo Xie with astoundment written in his face couldn't believe it; [A human actually ascended into godhood and is being respected in this world? no, maybe, I am just over thinking things.]

"Everyone in this World treats his name with respect, yet, you actually speak of it so lightly!" With Si Shen's next words, Mo Xie received the answer immediately.

"Miss, it seems you are misinformed by a little, we, the commoners do not even care whoever is the king of a nation, why do you even think we care for a being that we have no knowledge of?" Mo Xie paused and then added.

"Do not push your logic to me, I have my own problems to deal with, and I think you yourself have your own."

Si Shen became momentarily shocked as he looked at Mo Xie before glaring at him: "Hmmp, I can slice you into two pieces whenever I want to."

Si Shen felt enraged, Zhihao is the expert within the folklore that he loved so much, yet, someone is actually being rude towards it, something he couldn't forgive.

Ma Dong sighed and decided to intervene; "Now that the three of us are here, why not let me tell my story first."

Hearing this, Si Shen only hesitated for a bit before he withdrew his sword and sat down again.

Mo Xie, on the other hand, has still no change of expression on his face as he looked at Ma Dong in wait.

"Ahem." With a cough, Ma Dong looked at the two and started his story; "There is a secret that no one in this world has not known, only those that had passed this village know."

Hearing this, Si Shen's anticipation grew bigger while Mo Xie sighed, knowing the past events is no different than knowing something, well, that has always been his principle.

Ma Dong continued: "The name of our founding chief's lover is Ma Ruan, and his father, is the very first subordinate of our God, Zhong Zhihao, his name is Ma Dong."

Si Shen's eyes grew wide as he heard this piece of news, his two hands held on his mouth to prevent others from seeing it widely opened, meanwhile, Mo Xie looked at Si Shen as he chuckles, he also finds this a somewhat interesting story.

"So... your name..." Si Shen couldn't help but exclaim as he looked at Ma Dong in astonishment.

"Yes." Ma Dong replied with a nod: "The founding chief made it our tradition, the eldest male will be named Ma Ruan and his name will change to Ma Dong when he becomes the Chief."

Si Shen now understands, the reason for Ma Dong's confidence that came from his name.

People only knew of the expert's name, Zhong Zhihao, maybe they knew all of their names, but through the passage of time, the only one they remembered is Zhihao, well, nobody knows, only those that lived to tell the tales might have some more information about it.

Ma Dong continued his story, while Si Shen is extremely emersed in it, Mo Xie is starting to have some other thoughts.

[Should I just pursue a normal life?] At this time, Mo Xie's thought felt shaken, living a normal life wouldn't sound so bad after the amount of time that he had lived in for.

[Having a normal family, a wife that cooks and waits for me until I get back home, children that will welcome me back...

Doesn't sound bad at all.] Mo Xie pondered for a bit, if he goes with how that Zhong Zhihao had lived, it might have only taken him less than 500 years to achieve a much higher realm.

He knows for sure though, that although he treated himself like a genius before, his ideas are starting to change ever since he was brought down that cave.

[I am no genius, not even an average person.] Looking outside the window, Mo Xie looked at the manmade Demon Sword Mountain.

[Even if I was on my prime, I wouldn't even manage to make something like that...]

His self-confidence kept shattering as Ma Dong's story goes on, the feat that he spoke of, although some of it might be exaggerated, still, who could do such a thing?

Creating void scars, summoning thousands of swords, even using the sun as a power.

This might be the reason why he was termed as a God.

[At least, in this World, I can be the strongest.] Mo Xie finally made his mind clear, and that is, just to settle down on the path of a normal human being.

The three of them finished their conversation, though, Mo Xie was only half listening throughout the whole thing, yet, he still had a slight enlightenment; [The universe is vast, I am merely a drop in the ocean.]

[Losing a single average useless being like me isn't really that much...] Mo Xie thought, his self-steam had just slumped to the very bottom after hearing those stories of great experts, but he still had a question, those demons discussed on the stories, they possess incredible powers, yet, they are neither humans nor demons that he had known, they must be something else.

"Well, I`ll leave it to those that have the power to fight them, for the meantime, I`ll live peacefully here." Mo Xie spoke as he removed all the previous demeanor of an expert has.

"I miss Aiqing... But I will change now, I`ll live my own life separate from the cultivation World, it seems that the path of cultivation is no longer in my destiny after all." Mo Xie is talking about his cultivation, no matter what he does, he never had the chance to break through to the silver ranked stage,

[Until I know the reason behind it, I wouldn't even be able to cultivate, so let's just forget about everything and focus on a peaceful life.]

Mo Xie looked at Si Shen and asked: "Where is the nearest town or kingdom from here?"

Si Shen was at the peak of his happiness earlier due to the story from Ma Dong, yet, the moment he heard Mo Xie's words, his mood suddenly turns sour, he glared at Mo Xie and replied: "Why should I tell you that?"

Mo Xie sighed, yet, he still responded: "Well, I`m kind of curious about this World."

"What do you mean?" Si Shen replied he somehow became a little interested in Mo Xie, there are still some unanswered questions like how did Mo Xie came out of the cave earlier, and now, adding the word 'World' to them, his interest turned to curiosity.

"World? So... you are not from this World then?" Si Shen added.

"Un!" Mo Xie replied with a calmness written all over his face.

"What are you curious about?"

Mo Xie pondered for a bit as he spoke: "Well, how should I say it... first, why does a female like you trying to dress up as a male? Is that the fashion here?"

Hearing Mo Xie's words, Si Shen couldn't help but be shocked, glaring at him with intense hostility. But the shock didn't end there, as Mo Xie's following question roused her anger immediately.

"And are human and demons free to cohabitate with each other?"