Chapter 450

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Chapter 450: Please Accept Me as Your Disciple!

"Could you please stop lying to me, how did my mother really die?"

"I killed her."

"I don’t believe you!"

Tanasah looked into Black Blade’s eyes, her cheeks flushed with emotions. Black Blade turned away, refusing to look at her, and Tanasah ran up to him again.

"Do I not have a mother at all?"

"Did I really just pop out from a rock?"

"Or maybe you found me by the roadside?"

Black Blade turned his head away once more, and Tanasah ran up to him again, "Come on, please tell me, I’m curious."

Black Blade, "…"

Looking at the Black Blade father and daughter next to him, Zhou Yanbing awkwardly scratched his head.

At this moment, they were inside an abandoned residential building, with the sky outside gradually darkening. Zhou Yanbing had been following the father and daughter all the way here.

"Um, senior…"

Black Blade glanced at him but didn’t say anything.

Zhou Yanbing shifted closer to Black Blade, "Senior, where are you all going?"

Black Blade remained silent, Tanasah saw this and stood up, placing her hands on her waist, "He doesn’t even tell me where we’re going, how could he possibly tell you?"

"Castlevania."

Black Blade suddenly spoke, causing Tanasah to freeze in place.

If I don’t say it, you won’t either, right?

My rebellious father!

"Dad, why are you talking so much to him!"

Tanasah looked frustratedly at Black Blade, grabbing his hands playfully.

Black Blade looked at Zhou Yanbing, "His dad has status."

Zhou Yanbing’s mouth twitched at the words, "Cough… I didn’t expect, sir, that you would make such a joke…"

"Father… Cough, um, Castlevania, yes, Castlevania!"

"Actually, my father let me go out, precisely to attend the coming-of-age ceremony of the little lady of Atlantis."

"This is an invitation sent by Lord Atlantis specifically for my father, but my father has other matters to attend to, so he sent me instead."

Black Blade picked up a cloth to wipe the long knife in his hand, "For a god to send an invitation to a mortal, he also has status."

Zhou Yanbing approached and asked, "So you’re here for the banquet too, right?"

Black Blade suddenly looked out the window. It was April 3rd, two days before the Qingming Festival…

He came back specifically to mourn his deceased friend.

"I need to go to Castlevania, I want to bring back something."

Zhou Yanbing chuckled at his words, "Great! Would you like to travel with me, senior?"

Black Blade remained silent, looking at Tanasah crouching in the corner.

Tanasah, holding a small wooden stick, was drawing circles in the corner with a resentful expression, muttering, "Why can she talk so much to him…"

"Unfair, it’s so unfair!"

Black Blade walked over and placed his hand on her head. Tanasah pouted, "Go talk to him, what do I care…"

Black Blade remained silent, so Tanasah stood up directly and asked, "Why can you chat so much with someone you just met, but can’t say a word to me?"

"Say something!"

Black Blade looked into her eyes and said, "You ask too many questions."

Upon hearing this, Tanasah squatted back down and said, "Then I won’t talk anymore either. If neither of us speak, I’ll suffocate myself."

Black Blade reached out and tapped her on the head. Tanasah looked up and asked, "What?"

"Go to sleep."

"Oh…"

Tanasah took out her small sleeping bag from her backpack and spread it in the corner, then crawled inside like a little bug.

"Goodnight, naughty person!"

。。。

Black Blade sat by the campfire, Zhou Yanbing cleared his throat softly, "Um, the Virtuous Daughter is also unique…"

Black Blade closed his eyes and sat down cross-legged.

"It’s none of your business."

Energy was gathering inside Black Blade’s body, continuously impacting towards the crown of his head.

Zhou Yanbing seemed to understand something, "The senior is at the peak of the Seventh Stage, half a step to the Holy Realm, just like my father, both at a dead end when advancing and retreating."

"Even with further cultivation, one cannot break through the Holy Domain Realm."

"The difference must be the power of the Mysterious Source, rumored to not exist in this world."

The energy flow in Black Blade’s body gradually stopped, "Just say it."

Zhou Yanbing nodded, it seemed the senior didn’t like beating around the bush.

"My father and my uncle are preparing to excavate the legendary Eternal City Noklonain, and they need help now…"

Black Blade spoke directly, "And the Eternal City is the residence of Auzo, there must be the Original Mysterious Source hidden within."

Zhou Yanbing clapped his hands, "Yes, that’s right!"

"So senior…"

"Not interested."

"Ah…ah?"

Zhou Yanbing blinked, "Don’t you want to break through the Holy Realm?"

Black Blade moved his wrist, "From the day I chose to leave, I have already given up the pursuit of power."

Zhou Yanbing didn’t understand, "Why, is there something more important than strength in this world?"

Black Blade looked at the already asleep Tanasah and then looked away again.

"There wasn’t before."

。。。

In an abandoned city.

As the sun just rose, in a cemetery overgrown with weeds, Black Blade held a bunch of wildflowers and placed them in front of a tombstone.

Zhou Yanbing watched from a distance, waiting for a long time.

It wasn’t until Black Blade walked out of the cemetery that Zhou Yanbing said, "Were your family… killed by demons?"

Black Blade walked past him and said, "Yes."

"Don’t you want revenge?" Zhou Yanbing asked.

Suddenly, Black Blade stopped in his tracks and said, "Are you so insistent on making me meet your father because of Eternal City?"

Zhou Yanbing widened his eyes, "Senior truly sees through everything…"

"I have some personal matters that I want to ask for your help with, you are the only one who can help me in this world!"

"My grandfather once sealed Demon Lord Lucifer, but later Lucifer retaliated against my grandfather with a ritual that torments him every moment."

"Lucifer has a crystal, destroying it will break the ritual…"

"If anyone in this world can destroy something under God’s watchful eye and still get away unscathed, it would be you."

Black Blade chuckled and then said without turning back, "You are better at lying than your father."

Zhou Yanbing paused, "I am really not lying to you this time!"

"Just for your grandfather?" Black Blade’s voice came through.

"Yes…"

Zhou Yanbing said, lips pursed, "Also… for dignity."

"When Lucifer came years ago, I was just a half-grown child. He humiliated my father, abused my family, threatened my life, made my family kneel down. This shame… I still remember to this day!"

"Since then, I vowed to make Lucifer taste the humiliation of losing dignity as well!"

Black Blade instantly appeared behind Zhou Yanbing, "Dignity?"

"Dignity only exists on the edge of the sword, truth only within the range of the cannon. No matter how much you say, it’s just empty talk."

"If you’re not strong, no one can help you."

Zhou Yanbing gritted his teeth, suddenly knelt down in front of Black Blade!

"Senior, please accept me as your apprentice!"

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