As Bai Yun glanced at them, he saw that some of them were about the activities his father had gone to discuss about, and some even postulated the actions of the devils.

"What are these doc.u.ments?" Bai Yun asked his father. He was curious to hear any information about the devils. He wanted to be prepared for any devil wors.h.i.+pers he might encounter. "What happened to the thing you went to meet up? Any news?"

Bai Mu looked at his son for a while before nodding. "The message from the Immortal Plane was quite serious. They were quite adamant that we take the risk of the devil wors.h.i.+pers seriously. They are even sending down some rewards through the city of scholars if we were to perform well. So the major forces decided to cooperate and form a task force to capture the devil wors.h.i.+pers. Then those old b.a.s.t.a.r.ds said that they were busy with their own work and that I was young and free and then put me in charge."

Bai Mu sighed as he looked through the pile of doc.u.ments. Since he had been taking care of Bai Yun until recently he had no official duties, and a lot of debt to the clan. "These are all the records of devil rituals all the major forces have collected. We shared the detailed information we had with everyone. Right now I am going through it all in order to see any pattern."

Bai Mu grumbled as he thought about his work. There was a lot to do, but finding a few devil wors.h.i.+pers in this huge world was the very definition of an impossible task. They were relying on luck to aid them.

Bai Yun quickly looked through the doc.u.ments, but he saw nothing more than descriptions of the scenes. He had seen enough of them during the Grand War, so there was no need to go through them. There was nothing in any of them about any suspects who could be devil wors.h.i.+pers. The biggest problem was that they had no idea what devil wors.h.i.+pers were, what they were after, or how they operated. Thus it was impossible to predict what they would do.

Bai Yun could probably tell them more about devil rituals that they could imagine. But he had no desire to bring any attention to himself. Besides he was not sure if it would be of any help in capturing the devil wors.h.i.+pers anyway.

The three of them sat down and continued to chat for a while longer. They talked about nothing in particular and quickly the time pa.s.sed.

Suddenly Bai Yun felt his storage ring vibrate. He frowned for while and then looked through it. He was surprised by what he found.

"What happened?" His mother asked. The two of them had noticed Bai Yun's reaction.

"Its strange." He relied. "Zhang Zi just send me a message. Well technically he send a message to Long Tian. He wants to meet up two days later."

"What for?" They were confused.

"Apparently there is an auction in three days and he invited me to it." Bai Yun relied the contents of the message to his parents.

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"That's right the auction." Bai Mu exclaimed. "I completely forgot about that."

"What is this auction?" Both Bai Yun and Xiao Mei-er were confused by the auction. Neither of them had heard of it before.

"Its an auction that the Hunters Union conduct right before the youngsters champions.h.i.+p. It is supposed to provide rare items for the last preparation before the champions.h.i.+p. They figure that three months will be enough for someone to get a good grasp on whatever they bought. I didn't go for the auction when I was partic.i.p.ating in the youngsters champions.h.i.+p as I was busy training, but I did go the next year. It was interesting. There were a few good items there. Its not particularly important or anything, but quite a few people will be there. You should go and take a look."

Even after his father explained about the auction, Bai Yun still looked pensive. "I don't think that it would be a good idea to go meet Zhang Zi at the auction." Bai Yun finally declared.

Bai Yun's parents shared a concerned look, but he missed it as he was thinking. "What do you mean it would not be a good idea." Xiao Me-er asked him gently. Bai Yun missed the concern in her voice though.

"Its rue that harboring a relations.h.i.+p with Zhang Zi would be very beneficial to me." Bai Yun said. "But it is too dangerous to meet up with him. There is a possibility that there could be Dao step cultivator there. My ability and ident.i.ty would certainly be seen through by them. Even if there is no dao step cultivator there, it is still too dangerous, as I might leak some information about me. And even if I do go, there is no upside. I would be meeting him as Long Tian. I only intend to use that ident.i.ty to travel around as an adventurer. It holds no reason for him to befriend Zhang Zi. More importantly I would be able to acquire better results, and buy better things if I were to go as Bai Yun. I can try and leave a good impression on Zhnag Zi even then, but with his personality it would be doubtful if he would remember me. That is the only downside though."

For a moment there was nothing but silence in the garden. "What about becoming friends with Zhang Zi?" His mother asked him softly.

"What is the point of doing so?" Bai Yun replied. "It makes no sense. I know exactly how talented I am. It will be impossible for any of them to keep up with me. Even if I become friends with them, I will leave them behind soon enough. It makes no logical sense for me to befriend any of them."

"What about when you are going out adventuring?" Bai Mu asked him. "Wouldn't you need help. "

"No. It would be more efficient fro me to go by myself. I will be fine alone."

When they heard Bai Yun's reply both of his parents were concerned.

There were no parents that would wish for their child to be alone for their whole lives. But they completely did not expect that Bai Yun would simply reject everyone else and only think of using them. They did not want such a life for Bai Yun and was hoping that he would change his view. But they had no idea how to do so. They had spend their whole life training and adventuring. And once Bai Yun was born, they only cared for him. This was a completely new experience for them.

The couple thought that Bai Yun's reluctance to form relations.h.i.+ps were due to his illness. They thought that since he had spend so much time alone, he wasn't sure how to form friends.h.i.+ps. So they only thought that it would be fixed by spending some time with others, even if they had to do it by force.

But the situation was very different from what they had imagined. The reason for Bai Yun closing his heart was because of the experiences of his past life.

Even though he had lived for thirty thousand years, he had spend all of that time either training or partic.i.p.ating in the Grand War. Due to his ident.i.ty and strength, he had spend all of his time either fighting or being looked after. He had listened to the stories of others, and also read the information records of the war, but that was as far as his experiences went.

Even towards the end of his life, Long Tian's mind was essentially that of a child's. All the tempering that one needed to go through to build up an unshakable will, he had none of it.

As a result, when he woke up in the present time, he was far too shaken up. The losses he had suffered, of his family and of his entire world, had hurt him too much. As a result he had instinctively closed his heart, so that he would no longer feel such pain. It was also due to this that he treated others at an arms length, and also why he was unable to completely open up to his parents. So that he would not be hurt if something happened to them. Such a thing could not be easily resolved.

"Why do you think it would be a problem if someone finds out about you?" Bai Mu asked. "You are my son. No one would dare to touch you in Yellow city."

"Its not about that." Bai Yun explained. "Its always best to hold some secrets in our hands. If others find out that I have the strength that I showed during the gold test so soon after I woke up, it would not be good. Also I want to experience the outside world not as Bai Mu's son, but as me alone. Thus anyone finding out about my ident.i.ty would be detrimental."

"You don't need to worry about anything like that, just go." Bai Mu insisted.

"But-" Bai Yun tried to argue.

"Just go. It doesn't matter." Bai Mu said with an air of finality.

"Besides, it would be good for you to go as Long Tian." Xiao Mei-er interjected. "There are other auctions coming, and you can go as Bai Yun for them. But without sufficient status, Long Tian may not be invited in."

"Hmm. That's true." Bai Yun pondered. After a while he nodded. "You're right. I will go for the auction as Long Tian."

The couple looked at each other and sighed while exchanging a small smile. Bai Yun had shown intelligence and caution befitting a hundred year old veteran, but sometimes he would be far too easily tricked.

The three of them then spend the next few hours talking.

Once the sun set, the Bai Yun excused himself from his parents. They still had a lot of work to do regarding the devil ritual situation, so he was free for now. Bai Yun quickly left, changed his appearance and got on the clans bus service and headed to a remote place.

Once he got off, he quickly moved through the houses and stopped before a small unremarkable house. Once he made sure that no one was watching, he entered the house and headed inside.

He walked through a small maze of doors before he entered the inner most room. There he found two people sitting around a small bare table.

"Did you find out about what I asked?" Bai Yun asked.

"Yes." Bai Ling-er nodded in response.