Chapter 61 - One Last Celebratory Dinner
Zou Tian had never eaten so well. Gone were the times when he had no idea when he would next find food. Instead, since being asked to move into the warehouse, he’d been given three meals a day and was allowed to eat as much as he wanted at each of them. He was even occasionally served dessert.
It was amazing.
Access to plentiful food wasn’t the only amazing thing, though. Watching the spars the previous day was one of the most fun things Zou Tian had experienced in his life. Street rats like him didn’t exactly get to go to shows. Their only form of entertainment was spectating fights between other street rats.
To be invited as a guest of a sect to observe such an event in their arena was a surreal occurrence, especially considering he sat with two Poison Claw Sect elders. He had felt so important.
And the contests themselves were so interesting. One on one spear fighting. An archery match featuring insane trick shots. Two head-to-head fights between cultivators.
Then, as if all that wasn’t enough, he learned he was to be taught cultivation and become Chao Su’s disciple. Zou Tian, the street rat, was to become Zou Tian, the cultivator. Who would have ever believed it?
And all those extraordinary changes were due to the man who was to become his new master, who he had already been directed to refer to as Master.
His first impression of Chao Su had been that he was one scary cultivator. That opinion had been slightly modified. To his disciples and people on his side, he was actually quite personable. Nice was probably a better descriptor.
Of course, unfathomable was the most apt description for him. His actions and speech and abilities frequently defied explanations. But contrary to his youthful appearance, he seemingly was actually an old monster, and that description explained all eccentricities.
Zou Tian had no idea how much of his master’s kindness was an act. He would definitely prefer not to be on Master’s bad side, though, because he was still one scary cultivator to his enemies.
Elder Pan was in charge of the Poison Claw Sect martial pavilion. There was only so much that a street rat like Zou Tian knew about sects, but that position seemed really important. Despite that high status, Elder Pan deferred to Elder Kang, meaning the latter must be even more important.
Both men showed Chao Su much face.