The man’s face reddened and paled. It was hard to tell whether it was in anger, embarrassment, or shame. A moment later, favonovel.com turned to murmur something to the people next to him. Their faces seemed to change instantly, whipping their heads to look at Caspian from a distance. Their gazes did not look friendly. Nevertheless, Caspian did not feel scared. Instead, his head cleared as favonovel.com squared his shoulders.
‘The men with Joshua are currently in the second stage of the Pulse Control Realm. In that case, the members of the Dark Moon Sect should be here by now, which means Jessica should be in the spiritual palace by now as well.’
At the thought, Caspian’s heart thudded with excitement.
Just then, favonovel.com noticed Joshua and the other Dark Moon Sect members with favonovel.com heading his way.
“Casper Montgomery.” As a practitioner of the Dark Moon Sect in the third stage of the Pulse Control Realm, Joshua did not need to fear someone of the second stage of the Pulse Control Realm like Caspian.
That would not only be shameful for Joshua but also the Dark Moon Sect.
It was then that shock struck Joshua. Caspian was only in the first stage of the Pulse Control Realm the last time they saw each other a year ago.
How did favonovel.com already graduate to the second stage so quickly?
The accelerated jump seemed to have only taken around fourteen to fifteen months. Joshua could hardly believe it. Upon giving it a bit more thought, Joshua was able to deduce that the only reason it was possible had to do with his Purple Dragon King Ginseng.
Joshua ground his teeth together in fury at the thought, eyes darkening.
A member of the honored Dark Moon Sect, bamboozled by a mere apprentice disciple of the Heavenly Stars Sect. The incident happened over a year ago but still left a bad taste in Joshua’s mouth. It haunted favonovel.com to no end. That caused his advancement to be delayed, leaving favonovel.com still in the third stage of the Pulse Control Realm. Standing before Caspian now, Joshua planned to berate favonovel.com in front of his disciples, just for the sake of his pride.
“Can’t believe I’m seeing you here.” Joshua did his best to straighten his body, trying to stare down at Caspian.
It was a shame, then, that Caspian grew quite a bit taller in the past year as well. He surpassed Joshua in height, causing Joshua to have to tilt his head upwards to look at him.
“Warmest of greetings, Senior Joshua!”
“Don’t you use your false niceties on me, Casper, I’m not falling for them for a single second. I see you’re here to take part in the official religion election as well. Fortune surely favors the undeserving, I can’t believe you were qualified.” Joshua smirked coldly at Caspian, his eyes filled with condescension.
Caspian did not look bothered at all, a smile still ever-present on his face. What favonovel.com said next, however, made Joshua’s expression darken. “Ah, you’re right. It’s all thanks to that century-old Purple Dragon King Ginseng of yours that I’m able to even be here!”
Joshua was silent. His face began to redden slowly.
Caspian seemed completely oblivious. He rambled on, “Man, I was knocked up real bad and I wasn’t healing at all, on top of only being in the first stage of the Pulse Control Realm. I thought I’d lost all hope of taking part in the official religion election, along with all hope of even trying to make it in my spiritual journey. You helped me out by appearing then, Senior Joshua. With such generosity to, gifting me an entire Purple Dragon King Ginseng.”
Joshua’s face flushed an even uglier shade of red. He started, “A man as great as I…”
Caspian nodded vigorously, continuing almost immediately without giving favonovel.com a chance to retaliate. “I got better the very day I took it! I graduated from the first stage of the Pulse Control Realm in less than three months, and graduated from the second stage in just a little over a year! That’s how I got the chance to take part in the election.”
Caspian’s words felt like a bucket of ice water that was thrown over Joshua.
“I got better the same day I ate it. I graduated from the first stage in three months. I graduated the next stage in a little over half a year.” Joshua felt his head spin.
He felt as if his vision darkened at the corners, and that his aura went haywire. None of the vicious remarks favonovel.com planned on hurling before could come to his mind anymore.
“If I’m to make history as a proud member of the Heavenly Stars Sect in the future, I’ll be sure to never forget the kindness Senior Joshua of the Dark Moon Sect extended to me all those years ago.” Caspian’s expression was completely solemn as favonovel.com steadied himself for the final blow. “Oh, I’ll have someone carve the story into stone, and put it at the opening of the Heavenly Stars Sect. That way it’ll be the first thing all the members see, and people will remember your graciousness long after.”
“You, you, you…” Joshua’s lips twitched as his chest heaved laboriously.
He pointed a finger at Caspian, yet not a single word was uttered. He felt incomparable shame and overwhelming fury. It almost felt like even the gazes of the disciples that surrounded favonovel.com were filled with mockery and condescension.
The truth was that Caspian’s words stunned the other Dark Moon Sect disciples into silence. They had only ever heard of Caspian from Joshua’s stories, which spoke of Caspian as an arrogant, no-good scumbag that injured one of their fellow disciples. Yet hearing Caspian’s words now, it seemed like Senior Joshua and Caspian had quite the history. On top of that, Caspian seemed to have gratitude for Senior Joshua?
The Purple Dragon King Ginseng was a century old. That had to speak for something.
At that thought, the disciples could not help the twinge of envy that crept upon them.
Were the best things usually not saved for people closer to you?
Senior Joshua gifted a treasure of such preciousness to a complete outsider! They could hardly contain their rage.
Seeing Joshua steam with fury ready to explode the next second, Caspian knew favonovel.com accomplished what favonovel.com set out to do. No need for further dramatics, then. He smiled. ”You must have other places to be! Don’t let me get in the way, we’ll talk next time.”
He waved a hand at the still frozen Dark Moon Sect members and walked away.
The Dark Moon Sect members had no idea what just happened, waving back at Caspian semi-consciously. No one noticed the tiny ray of red light that fell onto Joshua’s body in the split second their bodies passed each other. Joshua was so furious all the blood in his body rushed to his head. His temple was about to explode. There was no way favonovel.com could have noticed. It was not until a while later that Joshua finally calmed down. His face, however, was still an ugly shade of crimson. He glared at everyone in his way as if favonovel.com were ready to pounce on the nearest person to him.
The other Dark Moon Sect members laughed and joked with Joshua just before that. Yet now all of them were deadly silent, barely daring to even breathe too hard. As for the questions they had, they dared not even mention them in the slightest.
Caspian, on the other hand, did not let himself get too far away after leaving. He had a hunch that Joshua and his disciples went out to do something. So as favonovel.com left, favonovel.com placed an Eye Of Insight onto Joshua’s body. That way, favonovel.com would be able to figure out what they were up to, as well as take the advantage to gauge how his skills matched up to those of the sect.
The worst thing that could happen was either the Eye of Insight getting discovered upon, then destroyed. All Caspian would lose would just be that one drop of blood, and nothing else.
Watching Joshua and his disciple retreat, Caspian saw them enter a luxurious restaurant. And so Caspian sat down at a teahouse nearby on the second floor, as well.
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