I Shall Rule The Heavens 16 Ch. 16 - Who The Hell Is He?!

"You don't believe me."

Xiao Huoyan didn't ask. He just said it as if he already knew.

"N-No that's not it--"

"--I don't like lies. You don't believe me and that's fine."

The man couldn't believe his ears. The little boy in front of him sounded more mature than most adults. He had the airs of a great ruler.
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"Do you know how I and father Long first met?"

"No. You never told me."

"That's because you never asked."

"True… Please, continue."

"He showed up at my house in a terrible state. He was almost dead."

"Who saved him?"

"I did."

"You?!"

"Yes. He was poisoned and badly injured. I saved him just like I saved you, Ji Feng."

"Y-You… How?!"

"Do you mean 'how' as in 'how did you save us' or as in 'how did you know my name'?"

"Uhm… Both."

"Then I'm sorry. I can't tell you."

"Why?"

"That's not important. What's truly important is not how I saved you nor how I knew your name. What's truly important is that I did. Father Long didn't take me in just out of generosity. I am stronger than he was!"

"You've got to be kidding me. How can you possibly be stronger than The Golden Dragon, Jin Long?"

"Do you know how the forest disappeared?"

"You mean the forest that was turned to ashes after a giant explosion?"

"Yes. Do you know how it exploded?"

"No, but everyone thinks that it has something to do with the hidden expert that lived in the forest. Some people think that it was an accident, while others think that someone must've angered him."

"Both are wrong."

"How would you know?!"

"Because I was there. I'm the little boy who was found lying on the ashes. I'm the one that made the orb that my father used to blow up the forest."

"You're joking right?"

"No, I'm not."

"If what you're saying really is the truth, then why do you tell me all of this?"

"Because I want you to trust me and tell me everything you know about the attack that just happened."

"What do you want to know?"

"Everything."

"More specifically?"

"Where's my uncle?"

"Jin Niao?"

"Yes."

"He should've already arrived at Rosewood City."

"Should've?!"

"W-Well, I mean… that was the plan."

"Plan?"

"We knew that they'd attack sooner or later so everyone was already prepared. When they attacked, Jin Niao fled towards Rosewood City, while the guards fought back to buy him time. I'm surprised he didn't take you with him."

"He left me here because whoever attacked you, does not know about my existence. If he would've taken me with him right away, it would've been much more dangerous. He left me her to protect me."

"Maybe you're right…"

"When do we set off?"

"'Set off'?"

"Yes. You expect me to find uncle Niao on my own? I don't know how to get to Rosewood. I don't even know where I am right now."

"You must've lived under a rock…"

"I lived in a forest and rarely met visitors! I never left the forest before, so how do you expect me to know where anything is?!"

"S-Sorry, I--"

"No, I'm sorry. I forgot again."

"What?"

"I must not get angry. The consequences can go from 'me killing one person' to 'me wiping out a whole continent'."

"Hahahaha! Who said that? Hahaha!"

"My father did. I'm dead serious so don't laugh like a fool!"

"Sorry, but you haven't actually killed someone, right?"

"Only a few times."

"You have?!"

"Yes, I have."

"So--"

"I don't wish to talk about it. It's not like I wanted to kill those people. I'm not going to lie. I did wish for some of them to just drop dead, but I never wanted to personally kill anyone of them. It wasn't on purpose."

"You can't just kill someone and then say that 'it wasn't on purpose'. Why didn't anyone come to you for revenge?"

"Oh, I'm sure there were people who did. My house was placed in the middle of a giant array. Those who took a step inside of the array wouldn't be able to find their way out.

There were some lucky people who got to my house, but none of them ever left. The only people who've ever left the array is me, my biological father and father Long."

"Wasn't there a man who brought back some kind of miraculous medicine from the forest."

"Oh, long story short, he never stepped into the array, I'm the hidden expert who lived inside the forest, the medicine was mine and he stole it when I dropped it and the medicine isn't actually medicine."

"Wait, so you're the hidden expert?!"

"Yes, I just said so."

"Then did you use the same kind of medicine to cure me and Jin Long?!"

"Yes."

"Lastly, what do you mean with 'and the medicine isn't actually medicine'?! If it's not medicine, then what the h.e.l.l did you make me drink?!"

"You don't have to know what it was, you just have to know that it saved your life."

"… Fine."

"Back to what we were talking about before. When do we set of?"

"When does it work for you, Jin Xin?"

"Geez! No need to start thinking about courtesy now! Whenever is fine, but rather sooner than later, if you know what I mean."

"Then… How about right now?"

"That's fine."

Seeing as Xiao Huoyan just stood there, Ji Feng was a little confused.

"Aren't you going back to your room to pack your stuff?"

"Oh, right now? So that you get a chance to get out of here? I could catch you and kill you know. Running away from me would only give you an hour at most, before I catch up and kill you."

"didn't you say that you didn't want to kill?"

"I never said that I didn't want to kill. I prefer to solve things in a more civilised way, but I could make an exception. Don't you ever take me for a fool. That'll only give you a ticket right to h.e.l.l."

Ji Feng was shocked beyond belief! To hear a child threaten him like that with a straight face, was something he'd never experienced before.

Xiao Huoyan had already told Ji Feng that he wasn't Jin Long's biological son, so now the biggest question inside Ji Feng's head was: 'Who the h.e.l.l is he?!'