Free Web NovelChapter 21: A New Family Member
His tears hadn’t stopped falling, but his voice did. He rushed in front of his parents, not even caring about the little girl on top of them.
His hand trembled as he placed it on top of his parents’ bodies.
From a physical standpoint, he found them dead. They were not breathing. Their blood flow was zero, and their skin was abnormally cold.
"System!"
He barely squeezed out that word while tasting his salty tears.
[Host, their souls have not left their bodies for some reason. If you want to revive them, you need to get the ’Spiritual Resurrection Pill’.]
[This is a Legendary Level Item, so it won’t be easy. But as long as their souls don’t leave their bodies, you can revive them.]
Marx wiped away his tears and asked.
"If I take them inside the Pagoda, will anything happen to their souls?"
[No, Host! When you were running in this village, I was able to identify several dead bodies that could be turned into Gacha Points. Your parents weren’t among those.]
Marx released a deep breath, calming his chaotic mind.
He must take them to the Pagoda, but he didn’t know who this little girl was.
Since her face looked very similar to his mother, he already had a guess. But even so, all of this felt so abnormal to him.
For example, why did the Beast Raid occur in his village? It hadn’t happened for over a century.
For example, why didn’t his parents’ souls leave their bodies? Although he was happy that their souls didn’t leave, it also left a question.
For example, why can he still feel a few living people in the village, but all of them seem too weak?
At this moment, he saw the little girl opening her eyes.
When she raised her head, the first thing she saw was the bodies of her parents.
Her eyes were filled with tears once more as she started crying.
"Momma! Papa! Don’t leave me alone! Momma! Wake up! Wake up, Momma!"
"Don’t worry, they will wake up soon. I promise you."
Marx desperately tried to hold back his tears when he saw the little girl. He realized she was really his sister.
The little girl sniffled as she turned her head. When she saw Marx, she froze.
Then, her eyes started tearing up even more, and she jumped towards him.
"Brother!"
Marx caught her in his embrace. While holding his clothes, she started crying.
"Waaaaa! Why can’t Momma and Papa wake up? Brother, please wake up Momma! I’m so scared. Sniff! Sniff!"
Her words only made it harder for him to hold back his tears.
"Sniff! Sniff! I promise you. They will wake up soon."
"Brother! Waaaaa!"
His words didn’t calm her down. It only made her cry more. She kept crying and crying until she eventually fell asleep in his arms.
During this entire time, Marx held his eyes closed, not letting a drop of tears fall down his cheek.
"You shouldn’t make promises you can’t keep, Marx."
An aged voice came from the side.
"Village Chief, why didn’t anyone notify Kanko City about the Beast Tide?"
Marx controlled his anger, hatred, and sadness as he asked.
"Because nobody knew. When the Beast Tide started, we were just living another ordinary day."
"I still remember your mother was taking Maria to the children’s playground, laughing and talking with her neighbours."
"They had barely overcome the sadness of losing you."
The village chief was an old man with a bald head and a white beard. He was hunched over a stick as he walked towards him.
Marx took a deep breath and asked.
"Beasts won’t stop until they kill everyone. I can sense the presence of children in your house. Why did they all leave?"
The village chief paused, and his eyes shifted towards his sister.
"When the Beast Tide started, everyone realized they couldn’t escape. So, they sent Tyler to notify the Kanko City."
"At the same time, everyone who could fight picked up a weapon to hold back those beasts for as long as they could."
"They died. I watched them being killed one by one while I hid behind the walls like a coward."
The village chief’s face was covered in tears, but he continued.
"Until your parents also succumbed to their injuries and fell. At that moment, I heard a small voice."
"It was a tearful sound, but to those monsters, it was a death sentence."
He looked at the mangled corpses of the beasts; many of them were completely unrecognizable and only left behind blood and skeletons.
"Your sister saved every single child in the village, but she couldn’t save her parents. Marx.....your sister is a reincarnation of an immortal being."
When Marx heard that, his heartbeat froze.
He finally understood why his parents’ souls didn’t leave their bodies. It wasn’t an accident but an unintentional act done by his sister.
Holding her sleeping body, he released a deep breath.
"How long has it been?"
The Village Chief bitterly pointed at the sun.
"When I was trying to save some injured people, the sun had barely risen."
Looking at the sun above them, Marx released a deep breath and said.
"Village Chief, Marx is dead. A powerful cultivator came to this village, killed those beasts, and took away Maria."
Hearing that, the village chief froze.
Only then did he realize he could no longer sense Marx’s cultivation. He had reached the fourth stage of the Qi Sea Realm.
He was already over the age of ninety, which was why he was able to be the Village Chief.
As an experienced person, he nodded. freeweɓnovēl.coɱ
"Yes, I can do that. Nobody has seen you."
"Indeed! Including you, Village Chief!"
Before the village chief could react to his words, Marx took out a talisman and released his spiritual sense into the talisman.
Then, he slapped the talisman on the village chief’s forehead.
A few seconds later, the village chief opened his eyes and looked around.
"Huh? What was I doing here?" frёeweɓηovel.coɱ
"Oh, yeah! I was talking to the immortal cultivator. Has he already left?"
He muttered as he hurried back to his house.
At this moment, Mark was standing on top of his house, using the Qi Concealment Technique.
"I’m sorry, Village Chief. I can’t be reassured unless nobody remembers me."
He looked at the little girl in his arms and entered his house.
He looked around, seeing a few pictures of him with his parents and the same old utensils.
After he put everything that could give away his identity inside the Pagoda, next to his parents, he slightly pushed a small part of the house.
Bang! Bang! Thud!
With a single leap, he crossed several meters as the house fell over itself, turning into a large pile of rubble.
He didn’t leave the village immediately. Instead, he placed his sister inside the Pagoda and ran towards the Maicho Mountain Range.
After talking to the village chief, he realized this wasn’t a random Beast Tide.
If it were, the city would’ve been notified. After all, they had stationed a few guards near the External Dark Forest.
These guards had one job. Keep an eye on the situation of those beasts.
When Marx got closer to the Maicho Mountain Range, he smelled blood.
He quickly ran towards the small hut and saw two corpses lying on the ground.
’Sure enough! Someone is controlling these beasts. It can only be the Thousand Beast Controlling Sect.’
Marx’s eyes turned red with anger. If he didn’t lack the strength, he would’ve gone to destroy the Thousand Beast Controlling Sect right now.
Unfortunately, he knew he wasn’t strong enough to face that kind of powerhouse.
It had a powerful Supreme Elder who was also a Nascent Soul Realm cultivator and several Golden Core cultivators as elders.
This sect was one of the Three Evil Sects in the Niddhog Country.
’Although I can’t destroy the sect right now, I must kill the one who caused this Beast Tide.’
’Otherwise, the souls of the villagers will not rest in peace.’
His anger boiled, and his body leaked the killing intent for the first time.
[Host, there is a Qi Identification Array Plate in your ring. You can use it to sense the Qi of a person and find their location faster.]
Hearing his system’s suggestion, Marx immediately scanned his ring with the spiritual sense.
This time, he found there was a slight change inside. There was one extra box that said ’Useless Items’.
He ignored it for now and opened the Array box. There, he saw a large number of array plates, but these array plates had names written over them.
He searched for a while and found the Qi Identification Array Plate. He knew how to use these.
Unlike normal arrays, these didn’t require any array knowledge. They came with flags that he needed to set up.
Fortunately, these flags were very small, so he quickly infused them with Qi and threw them into the air.
He held the array plate and got as close to the Maicho Mountain Range as possible. Following that plate, those array flags formed a circle around it.
Finally, he closed his eyes and made a hand sign.
[Qi Detection Array- Activate]
