The abyss.

" Master...

Master...

The road is abrupt, let's not go that way!"

"Silly boy, this is the fastest way to reach Mt Lao.

It is already this late and the storm doesn't stop, we can only do this. Follow me closely, don't make a wrong move!"

"Yes Master Laoshi!"

The boy closely follows his master until they reach the peak of the ravine. It was like walking vertically on the surface of a slippery wall, everything could fall in any moment but the boy wasn't afraid of death. He knew that the old man would catch him if he falls down into the chasm.

They look back to see the abyss from where they came up from only when they feel the safe ground under their feet. Then the boy exclaims: "Phew! The death game is finally over!"

The old man looks around and takes a leaf from the wet ground keeping it between his fingers.

"What are you going to do with that leaf , Master?"

"An old trick, just watch me!"

The old man was an exorcist and he was travelling from place to place to expell the evil spirits and malicious creatures. He found the new born child in a deserted place and he ended up adopting him. Since that time the boy follows the Master everywhere around the world and learns from him.

"Master look, the leaf flyes! Is it alive?"

"Hahaha....Haha...not really! It's infused with my chi so is practically a part of me."

"You mean, it's a small Master Laoshi?"

"Boy...that's right! It's a small Laoshi!"

"Can you teach me this trick? I want to try too!"

"Just keep the leaf into your figers and transfer your chi into it!"

"Master, I can't! My chi isn't flowing...."

"Concentrate kid! Think only at the leaf in your hand and try to direct your energy toward it."

"Hmmm...hmmm....look is actually moving! It's really moving!"

"Good job boy. You're a genius from birth, I don't regret pulling you out from that miserable place and taking you with me. You're going to be my successor one day!"

"Sure I will become as good as you Master!"

Master Laoshi told the boy that he found him in a deserted village but actually it was a slaughtered village. When he entered that village there were dead bodies everywhere and everything was flooded in blood. The child was crying in a woman's arms. This is how he found Xue Hua.

He have him this name because of that place in which he was found. Xue Hua was the flower of hope, the purest energy from that chasm and it also refers to something that vanishes, something that is not eternal.

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