The sovereigns left the ce after they decided to investigate the situation on a deeper level. Shi Lang did not move, he kept sitting under the pavilion. Xiao Yu stood beside him. She looked at his visage and asked, "Master, can you test how much I have improved?"


    Shi Lang detected a trace of caution in her voice and nodded with a smile. The girl moved before him and took out the epee from her space ring. She began to perform a set of sword moves.


    The Terran nodded from time to time and when she finished, he said, "You have improved your weakness this time Xiao Yu, but know need to stop caring about the sequence of moves, in real battel the enemy can change his moves, and you need to be flexible with yourself to counter them."


    Xiao Yu nodded with her head bowed. Shi Lang said, "Come spar with me, I will teach you."


    Then he took out a wooden sword and began to teach Yu Xeidi about the points she needed to improve and even taught her how to think flexibly. The little girl may be naughty and furious but she was very sincere in her cultivation.


    After a couple of hours, Xiao Yu closed her eyes to meditate andprehend the things she learned in this session. Suddenly, she asked, "Master, may I ask you something?"


    Shi Lang sat before her and asked, "Since when did you became so conscious around your master? Did something happen?"


    The girl shook her head and said, "It is not me, but Master, your aura is not warm these days. I look at your eyes and I feel like you are not feeling well. I apologize for speaking out of line."


    Shi Lang was surprised but he shook his head and said, "No, you are not wrong. I am indeed not myself."


    Yu Xeidi said, "Master, eldest sister said that if we dwell on an issue that is not under our control, we end up developing heart demons that hinder our cultivations. You must not fall into such troubles, they restrict a person and made them demonic over times."


    Shi Lang was surprised and then he asked with a smile, "Then what do you suggest I should do, Fellow Daoist Yu?"


    Yu Xeidi giggled when he addressed her as a fellow Daoist. She sat up straight and squared her shoulders as she said, "In this world many things are not in our control. Even our own breathing, many times I think how we can breathe without needing to think about it. I tried to hold my breath, but then I found that I would suffocate to die.


    Since we cannot even control something that is essential for ourselves, why must we worry about the deeds that aremitted by the others? Why must we give someone else the power to effect us? Don''t we already have enough powerlessness? We are cultivators we only have one thing under our control and that is to charge forward and break the limits of our capabilities.


    That is what we should focus upon. To charge forward, forgiving the things that hurt us in this steep climb and carry the joys of this world in our hearts. The things that makes us happy are rare, like humans with wings. These happy memories are our wings, they help us climb the steep mountain of life."


    Shi Lang had already fallen in daze when he listened to Yu Xeidi. He began to ponder over it, and closed his eyes. Yu Xeidi saw this and closed her eyes too. The girl did not say anything that she did not mean from the bottom of her heart. She knew that if Shi Lang had not picked her up, she would have ended up dead or even worse.


    However, he changed her life. Other than Hao Mie none of the people knew that Yu Xeidi loved to read books and cultivation records of various people. One time Shi Lang had told her to train herself and be a sword both in mind and heart. That''s what she had been doing. Her intellect was hidden under a veil of her childhood and ferocity.


    She was willing to show some of her wisdom only before Shi Lang, because he did not brush her words saying you are a child what do you know. Her master trusted her and honored her by calling her Fellow Daoist so she told him what she thought about life and the trouble he was facing.


    While the two people were sitting on the ground and meditating, Amelia and Shi Tao were talking to Tian Long, and Fairy Moon Jade. The two had just learned that Shi Lang was facing a mental demon because of them and were shocked.


    Tian Long said, "I will go and apologize to him right away."


    Shi Tao shook her head and said, "If it were that easy to dispel Heart Demons, then the entire world would have been free from this problem."


    At this moment, Hao Mei walked inside the garden and said, "Eldest sister, master and Xiao Yu are in the garden, also, please see this."


    She waved her dainty finger over hermunicator and a video file arrived before Shi Tao, who yed it for the trio. Amelia was surprised and so were the other two. Shi Tao smiled and said, "This little fox, she hides her skill too much."


    The footage disyed where Yu Xeidi preached to Shi Lang. They shivered, although they could understand the meaning, it was definitely not as deep of an inspiration as it was for Shi Lang. The Terran was sitting with his legs crossed but he did not channel the spiritual energy inside his body, instead he began to ponder over all the things that happened in the past days.


    He came to various conclusions, and derived many questions from these conclusions also, however, in the end he thought, how did it effect him when Tian Long acted the way he usually did? Why was he effected if Fairy Moon Jade did not even ask for him.


    They did not ask him for help, he was the one who agree for it, he had a choice to refuse them. He also had the choice to walk away the moment Tian Long woke up. That way he would not have felt as if they took him for granted. However, that was not true either. This feeling had been residing in his heart forever.


    He used to help the two people in the shadows but never told them. The world took him as a beggar but he worked hard and put the people he considered friends before him. Moon Jade was his sister, his family, yet he found out that she had fallen for Tian Long from someone else and that too after a year.


    They may have cared for him but to him it seemed like they were guarded against him. Shi Lang thought more and found multiple instances when he was sidelined because of Moon Jade caring for Tian Long or her duties more. He began to doubt if he was really in the wrong, or was it not worth it for her to have prioritized her even a little?


    Shi Lang never asked Moon Jade to put him on a pedestal, but he also did not know why she did not give him the acknowledgement he deserved. Thinking about it he realized, could it be because he asked her to not be seen with him because the world was cruel and he did not want her to be targeted by his enemies.


    Could it be that the hide and seek nature of their rtion was the reason he failed to garner acknowledgement from Fairy Moon Jade? They have only recently acknowledged the connection with each other to the world.


    This made sense to him, Shi Lang understood human psychology so he could tell that since the rtionship was not normal in the beginning, how could it be normalter on?


    Thinking about this, he began to think what was his strife with Tian Long? It was nothing, his sister, whom he was so worried about did not die. She was sad because her loved one was hurt. While what Tian Long did had nothing to do with him.


    Shi Lang let out a deep breath, and then coughed up a bit of dark blood. Instantly, he felt relieved, as if the weight tying down on his chest was gone. He opened his eyes and looked at Yu Xeidi, who was looking at him with concern.


    He smiled and said, "Fellow Daoist Yu, thank you for imparting your wisdom upon me."


    Yu Xeidi smiled brightly and then put on a solemn reaction as she said, "It is no big deal, Fellow Daoist Master."


    Shi Lang was stunned and then he chuckled. Theirughter echoed in the surroundings. Everyone who heard it could not help but smile.