New Look

I couldn't sleep that night, the thought of going on a quest with my master made me excited for no definite reason and I tried to convince myself it was cause I'd get a chance to use the golden whip and nothing else but the lingering feeling in my heart seemed to say otherwise.

The early morning's golden light came quicker than I accepted. My master and I were all set for the trip to western village.

"Did you bring any commoners clothes with you?" he asked and I gave a nod in response, I didn't know why he wanted us to bring them but I did anyways.

He summoned his flying sword, standing atop of it while I gave him a quizzical look, I'm sure my years of cultivation would have gone down the drain after landing up in that coma and I'm not sure I'll be strong enough to summon my flying sword.

"You might have gone weak but I bet your spiritual flow is still strong enough to summon your flying sword."

I paused for a while contemplating on his words, it wouldn't hurt to give it a try so I tried to focus on summoning my flying sword, concentrating on the weird sensation that was starting to run through my skin like a cool breeze but the senses were just too out of reach.

"Try harder." he encouragingly said to me and I felt a quick pulse flow through my skin, giving me enough chance to reach out to my senses and when I opened my eyes, my flying sword was right in front of me, I smiled with triumph.

"Lord Qui, see I summoned it." I grinned and also got atop my flying sword, my master only gave a satisfied nod and with that, we were both sailing high through the clouds, I found it frightening and exciting at the same time, I haven't actually stepped outside of Mount Xuandu and I felt glad I could do that now, all thanks to my master as usual.

"Follow my lead." he speed past me and I watched as the breeze fluttered his sleeves and danced with his hair, I stopped myself from blushing and followed.

We flew past Mount Xuandu and I turned back to get a view of it, it stayed at a peak, occupied with hills, mountains and trees. It was clearly a beautiful sight to behold.

Ahead where pretty sights of valleys and blue lakes giving out an artistry scenery and I felt like exploring those places, it surely would have attracted artists of different kind cause who wouldn't be dazzled by this. I should sneak out of Mount Xuandu someday and explore this landscape.

"Over there." he pointed at an outlook gaining my attention and when I glanced ahead, there was a village closeby, we landed on the middle of the forest and got down from our flying sword.

"Why did we stop here?" I asked out of curiosity, I'm curious about almost everything.

"Remember, we're heading into a commoners world, we can't be seen dressed in cultivator outfit."

I glanced down at my outfit, we were really in our white cultivator robe which will cause a lot more attraction if we stepped in further.

"So what do we do then?"

"We give ourselves a new look." he stated and brought out a commoners outfit from his sack.

"Change into the commoners outfit you have with you." he said and I nodded, obviously we couldn't change in front of each other so he walked out leaving me alone in the creepy forest and I felt a tinge roll down my spine. If they're beasts lurking this town, won't there be beasts here too?!

I gulped hard and immediately shook the thought away, removing my dress and getting into a clean pair of commoners clothes.

Not too long, my master showed up after getting dressed. "Are you done?"

Hearing his deep addictive voice, I couldn't stop myself from turning around to look at him, he was dressed in a dark commoners clothes and had his hair tyed in a ponytail, with a headband on, I blinked at him, stunned by how mesmerizing he looked in just this plain clothes, his enchanting face glowed as the moon casted it's silvery light over him, how are we going to blend in if someone this handsome shows up, he'll definitely get all the attention and I'm sure I looked plain in my clothes, complete opposite of him, like a real commoner.

"All set?" he asked again and I nodded absent mindedly, he turned away from me and still left his sword hanging around his waist.

"Uhm we're taking our weapons too?" I asked and he only replied with a "Hm"

I took my whip as well and we hid our clothes in the forest.

"We'll enter into the commoners world, I just need something that'll get us into the Emperor's kingdoms." he stated while thinking of a way. Getting into an emperor's kingdom will be pretty difficult since he's clearly an important person in the Western village.

"Let's go for now."

And with that, we walked off. Getting into any types of kingdom would be pretty crucial for us. We walked past through the thick forests, taking sight of the plateau lake, exotic flowers and leaves which caused me a little bit of distraction. It didn't take much of our time as we came across a village at the foot of the mountains, we showed up at a town burstling with lantern light but only a few people walking about which was what we wanted so as to avoid drawing too much attention. I stayed close to my master who just kept moving.

"Where do we go from here?"

He paused and turned his attention to me. "We're not going anywhere, I want you to make trouble." he said making me stop at my tracks.

"Huh?"

"Make trouble."

"How?"

He said nothing and I couldn't imagine myself causing any kind of trouble, how does he expect me to make trouble and for what reason, there's noway I'm doing that.

Few minutes later, my master and I were being taken by Western guards and a half smile crossed his lips, I was still left in a daze stunned by my actions, how did I even do that?!

"Move it! you dared to make trouble and give us a chase didn't you?!" the guards scowled at us and my master was only taken cause he claimed he was part of it.

What does he have in mind? I don't really know and I couldn't speak with the guards taking us away like this, I wondered where we were actually heading to not untill we came across an exquisite huge building with yellow glazed rooftops and read red walls.

I gazed at my master who only carried that half smile on his face and I immediately realized where we are, this must be the Emperor's kingdom. So this was his plan on getting into the kingdom, but how are we going to escape from the punishment that awaited us?