Ling Jiusheng did not answer the boy's question. He just kept looking at his mother, indifferent to the outside world, even though he was about to freeze to death in the cold winter.

But the boy looked at his silent expression with amusement, then raised his lips and said, "It's not good to leave this corpse lying around. Why don't I bury it for you?"

After saying that, the white-robed youth pointed his sword and struck the ground with an invisible sword aura, creating a pit. The corpse wrapped in straw mat slid into the pit due to the slope of the ground. Before Ling Jiusheng could react, the white-robed youth pointed his sword again, and the soil filled the pit.

Little Ling Jiusheng rushed over, "Mother!"

"The deceased is gone, it's best to let her go in peace." The young man in white had a composure and maturity beyond his years. "Everyone has to die eventually, the key is to leave with dignity and without regrets."

It took Ling Jiusheng a long time to understand the meaning behind his words.

Because he started wanting revenge.

The young man in white cured Ling Jiusheng's illness and made no attempt to hide his identity. He said he was the young master of Guanxian Island and would soon become the official master. He was also very interested in the hatred in Ling Jiusheng's eyes.

This is why the young man in white kept Ling Jiusheng by his side for a month.

Ling Jiusheng once asked him, "Why did you leave Guanxian Island?"

"Because I want to become the leader of the martial arts world."

"Then why do you want to become the leader of the martial arts alliance?"

“I made a bet with my dad,” the young man said with a carefree smile. “He refuses to admit that there is anyone in this world more powerful than him, unless I can unify the martial arts world.”

"Then why did you choose to help the righteous path unify the martial arts world instead of the underworld?" Ling Jiusheng was still very naive back then. "Because you also have a distinction between good and evil?"

"Of course not." The young man looked at the white clouds on the horizon and said casually, "Because the headquarters of the underworld is not as close as the location of the Righteousness Manor of the righteous path."

When seven-year-old Ling Jiusheng heard this, he just thought that perhaps the distance between places really was a very important thing.

Over the next month, the young man in white taught him martial arts, illusion techniques he had never heard of before, and even the most profound art of disguise.

Ling Jiusheng also asked, "Why do you teach me so many things?"

"This will do you good for getting revenge."

"You want to help me get revenge?"

"Not so." The young man smiled. "Your hatred is enough to kill many people. This martial world is too boring. Someone has to turn things upside down. Only then will there be fun in unifying the martial world."

At that time, Ling Jiusheng already had a feeling that he was just a pawn being used, but he did not refuse to learn the knowledge that the boy passed on to him. He needed these abilities to complete his revenge.

The boy became Ling Jiusheng's only lifeline at the time, and Ling Jiusheng naturally developed a dependent complex like a fledgling bird.

However, one day, the boy suddenly disappeared. Ling Jiusheng felt abandoned again. Unable to find the boy, he decided to go find his enemy first.

Hua Xin and Xia Mu had already gone to the borderlands. When he couldn't find Hua Xin and Xia Mu, he killed Hua Xin's entire clan. He was only eight years old when he did that.