Chapter 162 - Demonic Art

Seeing that Jason doesn't want to admit that he was the one who was in a fight with those cultivators and if she is not mistaken, they have to be from the Wallace family but since he doesn't want to admit it, there is nothing she could do to force him to speak up. Left with no choice, she has to do something to prevent him from going out today.

"Since you said that you are not responsible for their death, then do you mind staying with us for the night and don't worry about how we are going to survive if you don't go to work since we have enough to sustain us for two days" said Clara.

"But you know there is no way that I am going to this place without doing anything, I am going to get bored" complains Jason.

"You can see that it is no longer safe to wander around at night and with three people already found dead, there is no way that I am going to let my son put his life at risk" replied Clara.

"But I have been careful while working at night that even the Wallace family won't be able to notice a thing if I were to walk past them" said Jason as he tried to beg his mother. 

"My mind is made up since we are here to hide from the eyes of the Wallace family, then that is what we will have to do" replied Clara.

"What if we needed something, how are we supposed to get them" asked Jason.

"If you need anything, you can always speak with Amanda whenever she arrives" replied Clara.

"Give it a rest big brother, you know mother's mind is already made up and there is nothing you can do to make her agree with your request. Besides, it has been long that you have played with your sister" said Hannah with a wide smile on her face as she tugged on his robe.

"You know that your big brother needs to train so as to protect you and mother and staying here all day is not going to help" replied Jason as he began to play with her hair.

"It's not fair, you are supposed to spend so much time with your sister" said Hannah as she began to swing his hand.

"I'm sorry Hannah, maybe another time" replied Jason with a smile before walking to the side as he sat on the ground and began to meditate.

Back at the Wallace family mansion, there was a meeting held with the elder Kang sitting down with a frown on his face.

"So Bosu and the others are not yet to be found" asked elder Kang as he turned to the young man who he sent to look for them.

"Not at all elder Kang but there has been news about some skeleton found in the marketplace with the place almost look destroyed and it looks to the fight took place at night while another body was found in the tavern but just like the ones in the market, it looks dried up like it has been years that the body was let there" replied the young man.

"And you think all these dead bodies should belong to Bosu and the others" asked elder Kang.

"Yes elder Kang, but I am finding it hard to believe how they were turned to a skeleton in just a night considering how resilient their body has become after breaking through to the gold core realm" said the young man.

"That has to be the handle work of a demonic art" replied elder Kang.

"Demonic art" asked the young man in confusion and it looks like he is not the only one that is curious about this demonic art elder Kang was talking about.

"That right, you see long ago there were families that practiced inhuman techniques. As they use the blood of humans to cultivate just as we draw energy from heaven to cultivate. I think those sets of family are still around and are beginning to make once more" reply elder Kang.

"So what do you think we should do about it since they seem to be coming for our people" said someone from the group that was in the meeting. 

"I don't think that is the case since their bodies were found in the market. It could only mean that whoever is behind this attack must be attacking those that are still wandering around in the night" replied elder Kang as he shook his head.

"But Elder Kang, a body was also found inside the restroom in the tavern, what do you think about that" asked another member.

"This… Ah, I think you guys need to walk in a group of four when moving at night since we don't know when whoever that is behind this will be attacking" replied elder Kang helplessly since he didn't know what to say to them.

"What are we going to do about the attacker" asked the young man who was tasked with the mission to look for Bosu.

"There is no way we can tell who he is but I want you to do something, go and retrieve those bodies before words about it begin to spread after identity has been discovered" instructed elder Kang.

The young man bowed before taking two more people with him as they left the mansion to get the body. 

Jason has been in a meditational state for hours and he has been getting really bored and had to dive inside the bracelet to practice his skill last since he doesn't have anything to do at the moment. Using the time he had, he began to work on his phantom kick technique and was thinking of a way to apply it to his halberd and bring his fighting powers to another level.

"Now that you have been banned from going out at night, have you thought of ways to gain more resources for your cultivation" asked the bracelet.

"No, all the stuff I have with me here are all garbage" replied Jason as he began to bring all the scrolls out of the storage ring as he made up his mind to get rid of them.

Picking a burning lamp as he prepare to burn all the scroll to ashes but just as Jason was placed a scroll closer to the lamp in an attempt to burn it down, the words that were written on the scroll begin to twitched and by the look of things, the words will be coming out anytime soon and just as Jason took the scroll out of the lamp, the words that seem to be falling out of the scroll suddenly went back to the way they were leaving Jason with a confused look on his face.

"Did you see what just happened" asked Jason as he was referring to the bracelet.

"Try putting the scroll close to the lamp again" said the bracelet.

Following the bracelet instruction, Jason places the scroll on top of the lamp and the words begin to fall out. Before Jason could say a word, the bracelet had already spoken up.

"Now take a closer look at the scroll".

Moving his head closer to take a closer look at the scroll only for him to see that the ancient words that were written inside the scroll previously had been completely wiped out and in its place was a drawing.

"What did you see boy" asked the bracelet when noticing the change in Jason's expression.

"Do you know those ancient words that have been proving difficult for us to read" said Jason as he referred a question to the bracelet.

"Yes I do, so what about those words" asked the bracelet.

"They are gone only to be replaced by some weird drawings" replied Jason as he lifted the scroll in hope for the bracelet to see.

"All this drawing seems to represent something and for whoever owes this scroll to place such rules in order for others to not be able to read the scroll could only mean that he is trying to hide something" said the bracelet after going through the scroll.

"And you think it has to do with all this drawing" asked Jason.

"It seems like it, why don't you try testing the other scrolls to see if they are hiding something" replied the bracelet.

Picking the rest of the scrolls as he begins to try them out and just as the bracelet suspected, they were also hiding something either it is a weird drawing or a battle technique. 

"Do you think all these weird drawings are somehow connected to each other" asked Jason.

"There is one way to find out, try writing them somewhere else" reply the bracelet.

"How am I supposed to do that when I need to hold the scroll in place" asked Jason.

"You can ask your little sister to help you out with that" replied the bracelet.