I Shall Rule The Heavens 17 Ch. 17 - Blessing Or Curse?

"U-Uhm… Sorry but… uhm, do you mind telling me who your p-parents are?"

"I… I don't know much myself. My mother died two years ago and my father…"

Xiao Huoyan paused. He didn't know where his father was. He didn't even know if his father was alive or not.

"It's fine, you don't have to--"

"--He left. My father left and probably erased my memories afterward. I think he left before I was two years old, but I'm not sure. I haven't seen him since he left. I can't remember how he looks nor how he sounds. I don't even know if he's alive!"

Tears started to roll down his cheeks. Anyone who saw him would be able to feel his sorrow… to feel his hatred.

"O-oh… I'm terribly sorry for asking!"

Xiao Huoyan continued talking as if he hadn't heard Ji Feng's apology.

"He never came back… Where was he when my mother died?! Where was he all those times when strangers tried to take my away?! Where was he when I left?! Did he ever even think of coming back?! Did he just plan on abandoning us?! Did he regard me and my mother as nothing but worthless trash?!"

Xiao Huoyan's eyes began to change colour. This scene made Ji Feng completely stupefied. He had never in his entire life, seen something like this.

A few hours ago, he almost died. Back then he just thought that he was to weak. It was the general of the army that almost killed him. He knew that the general was much stronger than him, therefore he accepted his defeat and blamed it all on himself for being too weak.

Now it was different. This time he was probably going to die by the hands of a little boy, young enough to be his son. He felt ashamed, yet he still blamed himself for being too weak.

Xiao Huoyan started to float up in the air. He already stopped speaking when his eyes turned pitch-black. Now he just whispered strange things in a language unknown to Ji Feng.

Ji Feng began to panic. He could sense the killing intent Xiao Huoyan's gaze emitted. He could sense it, and it scared him witless.

He tried to scream at Xiao Huoyan to stop, but as soon as he opened his mouth, Xiao Huoyan lifted his hand. Then he just pointed at Ji Feng with one single finger.

Ji Feng froze from fear. Then Xiao Huoyan went silent. The same second that Xiao Huoyan went silent, wind as sharp as blades, surged towards him. He felt hopeless.

This time, unlike the other time, Xiao Huoyan didn't stop his attack. When he attacked Jin Long before, he stopped just as his attack was about to hit Jin Long. This time he didn't stop. When the wind as sharp as blades finally arrived at Ji Feng, he died… and Xiao Huoyan fainted on spot… as usual.

A few hours later, Xiao Huoyan woke up. Just as he woke up and opened his eyes, his expression froze. A single tear rolled down his left cheek while he just sat on the floor… right beside Ji Feng's head. The sharp wind from his attack had shopped off Ji Feng's head. His body laid on the floor… on the other side of the room, and there was blood everywhere. Ji Feng's blood was all over the room.

He never really wanted to kill anyone. He was just mad at his biological father for being such an a.s.shole to him and his mother. He didn't mean to kill Ji Feng. He wasn't going to lie to himself. He never really took a liking for Ji Feng, but he didn't dislike him either. It didn't matter what Xiao Huoyan thought about Ji Feng. What mattered to him, was the fact that he didn't wish to see him dead. He hated killing people. Every time he did, he felt as if something inside of was going to tear apart. He felt as if a part of his heart cracked and flew away with the wind… together with his tears.

His emotions were always unstable. Something that was really small and insignificant to others, could make him extremely mad, while a simple act of kindness could make him extremely happy. It was indeed strange, but it was the truth. He had heard when Jin Niao had compared him to a 'teenage girl when it comes to emotions', when he thought that Xiao Huoyan wasn't listening.

After Xiao Huoyan came back to his senses, he noticed that even he himself was covered in Ji Feng's blood. The smell of blood always made Xiao Huoyan sad and disappointed. That was mostly because whenever he smelled blood, it was because he had killed someone.

He didn't want to kill others. He did want some people to suffer, but he never wanted any of them to die. Especially not by his own two hands.

Some people would probably see him as a monster, while other would think that he's favoured by the heavens. His mother used to say that he was a blessed child. That he was a child favoured by the G.o.ds in heaven. He himself didn't know what to think. He didn't know if his strange abilities was a blessing or a curse, but he felt that it was tilting more towards the latter.