The usual annoying nagging sounded much kinder to Fade now.
"Master!" Fade stepped forward and gave Aldred a big hug.
"That's enough, my boy. You went out and learnt nothing but to be affectionate," Aldred admonished and patted Fade's shoulder.
Fade finally calmed down and sat opposite Aldred. There were thousands of doubts running through his mind. "Master, what on earth is going on? Prohibition Island, the four masters, the Double Blades organization, and the Tree Core Seed..."
At that moment, there was so much that he wanted to know.
Aldred softly sighed and said leisurely, "When I took you in, I knew that I would have to tell you everything one day in the future. I didn't expect it to come so fast."
"Fast? It's been almost thirty years!" Fade was somewhat confused.
The corners of Aldred's lips twitched, and he said, "Thirty years is not as long as you think." "Master, you are putting on a show again. How old are you now? You are probably just a little over a hundred years old. How could thirty years be long?" Looking at his master's emotional sigh, Fade seemed to have recalled the feeling he had when he was on Tianwu Mountain. He couldn't help but complain.
Aldred glared at him and scolded, "Boy, who said that I am only a little over a hundred years old? I am more than nine hundred years old this year."
"More than nine hundred years old? That's almost a thousand. How is that possible? Master, stop joking." Fade waved his hand.
"Who said I'm joking with you? I am telling the truth," Aldred stated seriously.
"Oh, are you being serious?" Fade was a little confused. He didn't know whether or not his master was telling the truth. "Master, y- you aren't lying to me, are you?"
Aldred replied, "I'm not the only one. Monon, Nigel, Dracula, and Zuru are all over 900 years old.” "What? Does that mean that they only rose up to fame as top masters in the recent hundred years?" Fade was really shocked.
Aldred responded, "Who told you that? They have always been the top masters. However, the former masters died one after another. It's just that they are the only ones who are still alive till now."
"Living for nearly a thousand years. Is that even possible?" Fade still found it hard to believe. "Even if I've reached the Physical Refine Realm, I won't be able to live that long, right?"
Aldred faintly replied, "Normally, an ordinary cultivator in the Physical Refine Realm can live more than five hundred years, which is already pretty long. However, the five of us are different."
"What's the difference?" Fade asked.
Aldred sighed. Looking at Fade, he slowly began to tell the story.
"This started as early as almost a thousand year ago. Until now, I still remember I was only a cowherd boy in my teens. I couldn't even feed myself then."
"One day, a streak of green light suddenly fell from the sky like a huge tree standing between heaven and earth. The giant tree shook everything, making the whole earth tremble. On that day, everyone thought that the gods were coming and that doomsday was coming. They were all frightened."
"However, I didn't expect that the next day, the giant tree and the green light disappeared. Everything returned to normal. It seemed like what happened that day was just a dream."
"After multiple tries, he finally agreed to bring me to the sect to see if I had the potential. I was very excited to follow him out of the country and to a nameless island on the sea." "When I got to the island, I realized that there were other people from different places that wanted to learn from the sect. They were all brought to the island. There were about two hundred people."
"It was my first time seeing people of different ethnicities. I once thought they were aliens and almost fought with them."
"Afterwards, we all learned martial arts together on the island."
"After several years of learning, there were five outstanding students who stood out from the rest."
"You mentioned there were five. Could it be you and the four experts?" Fade could not help but ask.
Aldred nodded. "Monon, Nigel, Dracula, Zuru, and me."
"You all already knew each other then. You all were even fellow mates." Fade felt that it was unbelievable.
Aldred nodded and continued, "Sort of!"
"At that time, the people on the island also attached great importance to us. They recruited us to the internal clan and taught us the core martial arts. We kept increasing our strength."
"Just like that, the strength of the five of us had almost reached the peak of that era after ten years. It was equivalent to the current Lord Level."
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