Rebirth: City Sovereign

"Haha!"    

A teenager with short black hair, about thirteen or fourteen years old, was sitting in a desolate ruin, breathing heavily.    

"That was close! I almost died!"    

Lee Han leaned on a piece of rock that was flipped over from the ground, his two arms tightly holding onto a short blade that was covered in blood, as it continuously slid down from his forehead. The green robe was covered in a sticky substance that was mixed with mud and fresh blood, it was extremely smelly.    

After a while, with the support of the short blade, Lee Han gasped for breath as he stood up. Beside him, behind the rock, a fifty to sixty meters long gigantic Spiritual Lion was lying on the ground.    

Lee Han looked at the Spiritual Lion and muttered in his heart.    

"I'm sorry."    

"If I don't kill you, I will die."    

Right at this moment, about a hundred metres away from Lee Han, a small white light flashed. Within the white light, the beautiful figure of a woman wearing a long robe, who had a pretty face, suddenly became clear.    

"Oh? Even fifteen hundred years of Spiritual Lion are no match for you.    

"Lee Han, you are truly worthy of being the most talented disciple of this year.    

Hearing that, Lee Han forced out a smile, sheathed his dagger onto his waist, and walked towards the girl called Lan Shuiqing, his eyes shining with anticipation, as he said this with a smile.    

"Master Lan, did my performance today pass?"    

"Of course." Lan Shuiqing stretched out her right hand and ruffled Lee Han's somewhat rough short black hair.    

"A fifteen hundred year old Spiritual Beast, even I am feeling somewhat troubled. I will report your performance today to Military Saint in detail. With your aptitude, it won't be long before you can leave the wasteland area and go live in a better environment."    

"Heh heh." Hearing Lan Shuiqing's praise, Lee felt a little embarrassed. He stretched out his hand and rubbed the back of his head as he smiled foolishly.    

Right at this moment, a miserable scream came from behind Lan Xueruo and Lee Han.    

"Help! "Help me!"    

Hearing the voice, Lee Han was stunned for a moment. Then, he immediately turned around and looked towards the voice.    

About a few hundred meters away from him, on a piece of desolate yellow land, a bald youth around his own age was running with all his might while screaming.    

The longsword in his hand had long since been broken into two pieces, and countless cuts had already been left on the azure colored clothes similar to Lee Han's. Streams of fresh blood dripped from the exposed skin, and it was possible to see how terrifying the wounds were on the bones.    

Behind the bald youth was a Spiritual Lion that looked about the same as the one Lee Han killed, but it was a full circle smaller. It roared continuously, its robust and powerful four limbs continuously digging into the dirt as it chased after the bald youth.    

"Not good, it's Jiang Tian!"    

Seeing that scene, Lee Han took out the Blue Water Sect short blade in his hand and was about to go and help.    

Jiang Tian was a disciple of the Blue Water Sect who was in the same generation as Lee Han.    

But just at this moment, a slender yet incomparably powerful hand gently patted Lee Han's shoulder.    

Under the pressure of Lan Shuiqing's hand on his shoulder, Lee Han felt as if the spirit energy in his entire life was being suppressed, and he was unable to move at all.    

"Master Lan, you …"    

Just as Lee Han was about to say something, an ice-cold voice that was like a ghost slowly sounded out from behind Lee Han.    

"I can't, Lee Han. That Spiritual Beast is Jiang Tian's mission today, so I can't help."    

"But, I …" Just as Lee Han was afraid of Lan Shuiqing and was hesitating, the scream became even more intense.    

Ah!    

He did not know when, but Jiang Tian had already lost all his strength and fell to the ground. His body was constantly being ripped apart by the Spiritual Lion's claws and teeth, large amounts of blood sprayed out.    

Miserable screams, the sound of flesh being torn apart, and the roars of Spiritual Lion all blended together, entering Lee Han's ears, it was like a scene from a terrifying movie.    

As for Lan Shuiqing, when she saw this scene, she did not have the slightest intention of saving Jiang Tian.    

"Even eight hundred years of Spiritual Lion could not subdue him. He really is a waste."    

"The Blue Water Sect does not need to waste food."    

After a while, the eight hundred year old Spiritual Lion seemed to lose interest. It shook its bloody head and turned around to leave. On the yellow ground, there was only a mangled corpse.    

At night, Lee Han sat in his own small bedroom with his eyes glazed over.    

When Lee Han was seven years old, both his father and mother died and he wandered the streets alone. When he was eleven years old, he was discovered by Lan Shuiqing and brought to the Blue Water Sect to become an outer disciple of the Blue Water Sect.    

Originally, for the young Lee Han, the Blue Water Sect was his second home. But as he grew older, he gradually became aware that something was amiss with the Blue Water Sect.    

Every day, the Blue Water Sect's outer disciples only had one lesson, and that was to fight against the Spiritual Beast brought over by Lan Shuiqing. Anyone who killed the Spiritual Beast would be recognized by Lan Shuiqing and would be able to enjoy a high quality diet and sleep, while those who lost, Lan Shuiqing would treat them like trash and ignore them.    

Those outer sect disciples who lost to the Spiritual Beast, none of them had a good ending. If they were lucky enough to survive the Spiritual Beast's mouth, Lee Han would never see those people again.    

He had originally thought that if this situation was maintained, the number of Blue Water Sect's outer sect disciples would decrease by the day, but what Lee Han had not expected was that during these three years, nearly every single day, Lan Shuiqing would bring a few newly joined outer sect disciples to meet everyone at the Blue Water Sect. Over this period of time, not only had the Blue Water Sect not lost any people, it had become more and more powerful.    

Lee Han had never been to other sects before, so he didn't know what their cultivation methods were like. However, he could feel that it definitely wasn't like the Blue Water Sect.    

Thus, half a year ago, an idea to escape from the Blue Water Sect had appeared in Lee Han's heart. In any case, with his four years of wandering experience and his training in the Blue Water Sect, he wouldn't have to worry about starving himself to death.    

However, as long as he could beat the Spiritual Beast every day, his life in the Blue Water Sect would not be too bad. As time passed, Lee Han also began to hesitate.    

But today, Jiang Tian's death had completely confirmed Lee Han's thoughts of escaping.    

Jiang Tian was Lee Han's only friend in the Blue Water Sect, but he could not save him. There might come a day when he, too, would die like Jiang Tian.    

Who would die in a place like this?    

With that thought in mind, Lee Han got up from the comfortable bed, stood up, and touched the handle of the wooden door.    

A free life, on the other side of the door! Thinking of this, Lee Han's right hand trembled, his mood extremely excited.    

But right at this moment, an indifferent male voice slowly sounded out from behind Lee Han.    

"If you still want to live, it is best that you do not touch it."    

Hearing that voice, Lee Han's face was in a daze for half a second, he suddenly turned his head and looked behind him.    

There, a young man dressed in white stood in front of him, calmly watching him.    

"What are you!" In the midst of great fear, Lee Han's body trembled as he shouted in panic.    

But before that, Ye Kai had already activated a sealing technique, imprinting it on Lee Han's tongue to prevent him from waking up the rest of the people in the Blue Water Sect. Lee Han only felt a bunch of words that he wanted to say being instantly pressed on his throat, making him extremely uncomfortable.    

Following that, Ye Kai raised his hand and released a ray of Spirit Qi onto the wooden door. In an instant, a talisman with countless of tyrannical Thunder Arts carved on it flew out of the door and into Ye Kai's hands.    

Seeing that scene, Lee Han's face suddenly paled, while Ye Kai seemed to have predicted it long ago, as he said indifferently.    

"There are special talismans pasted on the other side of the wooden door. If it is opened, you will be electrocuted into ashes by the Thunder Arts."    

When Lee Han heard this, he turned his head and looked at Ye Kai with widened eyes, as if he couldn't believe what he had just heard.    

After burning the talisman into a pile of black ash, the firelight reflected Ye Kai's cold and detached eyes as he spoke.    

"I think you've already understood that the place you're staying at is not some Blue Water Sect."    

"It's just a kennel for entertainment."