The Legendary F Rank

Chapter 235: Soaring Palace Sect.

"You again? Why are you always everywhere I look? Are you stalking me or something?" Hong Xia asked while looking at Haru. This was the second time she had met him and both times had happened in the same way.  She didn't know what to think anymore. 

Haru had seemed to get into her grandfather's head to the point where he couldn't do some basic gardening work without asking her what he should do. He had asked if he should fight with Haru. After all, if it was true that the demon clan couldn't be reasoned with then they would most likely die even if they didn't fight against them.

It was a situation that not many people could be involved in and it would make most people helpless beyond belief. You will die if you do nothing or you will die while fighting back. It was a scary situation even for a nascent soul stage cultivator. But for Haru, it was nothing new. Although this time he valued his life a lot more. 

The thing he was scared of was never being able to see the people he cared about again. He had already died once and it wasn't that bad. But now he had a reason for living and that is what made him desperate to fight. He didn't want his journey on the path of cultivation to be over just as it had gotten started. He had yet to explore the universe that Lao and Li Jun had explained and wasn't willing to sit down and die. 

Seeing the younger generation willing to put their life on the line and fight against a threat that killed indiscriminately was inspiring to Hong Xia's grandfather and he had already made his mind up on what he was going to do but still decided to ask for her opinion. 

Hong Xia stared at Haru before Granny Lin acknowledged her. 

"Little Xia. Come in, come in. I was just reminiscing on the past with our guest here. I believe you've met Haru before haven't you?" Granny Lin asked with a smile. 

Xia was on the verge of sighing out of frustration but then remembered she was in the presence of her teacher and didn't want to disrespect her in front of anyone and make her lose face. Granny Lin was the reason that Xia had managed to reach the manifestation stage at the age of nineteen. She wasn't very talented in the cultivation art that her family had passed down through the generations.

But when she met Granny Lin she was quick to point out all of the mistakes that she was making and then gave her a new cultivation technique free of charge. The next time she met Granny Lin was when she advanced to the spirit soul stage in that cultivation art and that was when Granny Lin decided to take her as a student and took her up to the floating island to join the soaring palace sect. 

Hong Xia bowed her head out of respect and then entered the room more before replying to her teacher. 

"Yes teacher, We met yesterday when I went to warn my family about what you told me about," Xia replied formally.

"You warned your family? Okay, that's good. But you know I have changed my mind today. I originally said that I was just going to sit by and watch the outcome. But after meeting Haru today I think that I will be ordering the sect to join him to help fight back against the demons." Granny Lin said. She looked relieved as she spoke which was probably because she was holding onto the hope that she would see her ex-husband once again.

"What now!? Didn't you say that the people who killed the demon were idiots!? Why do we have to get involved in their fight if they didn't think about the consequences of their actions?" Hong Xia snapped. Not only was her grandfather deciding to put his life at risk to help a stranger but now her teacher was willing to put the lives of all of the sect members at risk for this unknown man that mysteriously appeared.

She didn't know what kind of power Haru held but it wasn't normal for people to be so trusting in someone like this. She thought that he must have been scheming something or held something of value that they both wanted. But the reason that they trusted him was something much deeper than material value. 

It was because Haru had an old soul. When he talked to people they felt like they could trust him even if they didn't know anything about him which explained why he had managed to convince Hong Xia's grandpa from a brief conversation. They didn't know each other yet he still wanted to fight alongside him. 

"I understand how you must feel but I'm not going to start forcing our people to do anything they don't want to now. I'm going to go alone. If anyone wants to join me then I won't stop them just like I won't force anyone who doesn't want to fight. 

It's okay if you don't want to fight. I will have someone make sure that your family can escape to the middle realm just in case we fail to push them back. Just like everyone else I will promise your safety there is no need to worry." Granny Lin said to reassure her. But that just made things worse. 

"It's not my safety I'm worried about right now it's you! You have basically raised me since I was a child and I think of you as my real grandmother. How can I just accept that you are willing to put down your life for the sake of a stranger?" Hong Xia asked. She didn't know what everyone saw in Haru. 

"But Haru isn't a stranger. Xia, do you remember what I told you about how I came to earth?" Granny Lin asked while making a case for Haru's defence.

"Yeah, you told me that you came here with a couple of dozen people from another sect." Hong Xia replied, confused by what she meant by suddenly asking her about that. She hadn't heard that story in many years but she still remembered everything her teacher had told her about her origin.

"Well, Haru is a member of that sect that I came here with. I am his martial aunt even if I'm not a member of that sect anymore I still called the sect master my master as he saved both me and my husband." Granny Lin explained.

Haru found it funny since what she was saying was in fact the opposite. Haru was the second ever first-generation student of the black star sect and the disciple of the founder, Li Jun. Haru would be her martial great uncle if they were to use that old way of honorifics. But he couldn't just tell everyone that so he let her think that she was correct.

"He's from that sect? But you told me that the sect that brought you here was full of crazy old men. He doesn't look that old to me." Hong Xia stated. She looked at Haru with suspicion. She had heard stories about people being so strong that they never age despite being thousands of years old but the more she looked at Haru the more she became certain that he wasn't that strong. But she was only half right with that assumption. 

"That's true. The people that I came with were crazy old men but that doesn't stop them from taking in disciples of their own does it? Haru is probably the disciple of one of the crazy old men that I mentioned.

Which reminds me. I didn't ask who your teacher was did I?" Granny Lin explained and then turned back to Haru to ask who had taught him to cultivate. 

"I'm a disciple of the sect master," Haru said truthfully. He was the disciple of the sect master well the first sect master at least but he was pretty sure that the current sect master would cover for him if she decided to ask him. But he didn't think that she would by the look of astonishment on her face.

"The sect master!? Well then That explains why even I can't see what cultivation technique you practice. I bet he has thousands of techniques stored in his head. But that changes things a little. If you're the disciple of my Saviour then How can I not move my whole sect to help you? I bet he is doing the same isn't he?" Granny Lin said. 

"What? No, I can't ask you to do that. I don't want to be responsible if any of your people die. So just bring whoever volunteers please." Haru spoke up. He didn't want anyone to hate if someone who was forced to fight ended up dying because of him. 

But granny Lin wouldn't take no for an answer. 

"I wouldn't be able to live if I didn't do everything possible to repay my debts. I will settle the debt that your teacher put me in by saving my life by guaranteeing that I do everything possible to make sure that you come out of this whole thing alive." Granny Lin said and then immediately began to prepare the sect for war. 

She showed Haru out and returned him back to the ground after he had told them where to meet him. Hong Xia had returned with him but she still couldn't trust him. She couldn't help but feel like he was hiding something so she decided to follow him secretly.