Epic Of The Second Strongest Demonic Blade King

About 5am in the morning, in which the massive beast moved at a great speed and without slowing down for once, they finally neared the town closest to the town that they left.

Then so that he wouldn't attract attention to himself because of the beast that he was riding on, which caused an immense cloud of dust to move up above them, and the ground to shake intensely, Xiao Lin jumped off the beast to the ground and mind-controlled it to return back to the wilderness that it came from.

Once he did so, the beast who looked visibly fatigued, swiftly turned around and dashed back towards the wilderness under the mind influence of Xiao Lin.

Although Xiao Lin was trying not to draw attention to himself by doing this, what he did was however seen by some people that stood at towers close to the massive entrance gate into the town. 

Then with their brows furrowed as deep puzzlement appeared in their faces, they jumped down from the high towers that they were on and walked towards the gate to come out of it and go meet Xiao Lin who was walking towards their Town's entrance gate to probably go in.

Just as they came out of the gate and began to walk towards him, Xiao Lin whose powerful hearing was now on, could hear the footsteps of about four people. 

He then exhaled heavily, when he thought that what he prevented anyone from seeing had been seen. 

When they appeared before him, Xiao Lin looked at them and then bowed with a reverent expression appearing in his face, as they were government officers at the 7th-layer and 8th-layer Mortal Spiritual stage. 

Then when he straightened himself, he said respectfully with his hands clasped, "I ask that officers allow me entry into this town."

The government officers looked at him and said "Boy, we saw what you came with. You can mind-control beasts?"

Xiao Lin who knew that what he did had long been seen by these officers, clasped his hand once again and said with reverence in his tone "Yes, officers. It's true that I can mind-control beasts. But at the moment, I can only compel wild beasts to do my bidding."

"Hmm. That's great." One of them said.

The officer then asked "So, what are you here to do in our town?"

"I am here to explore the town. Also, I want to cultivate here for sometime before leaving to other towns to resume my cultivation. Officers can see me as a touring cultivator" Xiao Lin replied.

"Hmm. That's good. I guess you are not affiliated with any organization or establishment since you are here alone, as a traveling cultivator, right?" One of the officer asked with one of his brows furrowed.

"Actually, I am part of an organization from the town that I came from. But I left with a permission from my Master to explore other towns and cultivate in the process. When I am done, I will return to them." Xiao Lin replied.

He then continued "So, since officers now know my intention in this place, I request that you allow me entry into your serene town to explore it and speak about the beautiful places that I will discover in some parts of this town to my colleagues."

The officers that stood before him nodded their heads.

"Alright, come with us. But first, you need to pay some amounts of money to us which we call Gate Entrance Fee. It's only a hundred coins. Then we would register your name in our Book of Visitors. We pen down names of every person that comes into this town to do one thing or the other." One of the officers said.

Xiao Lin nodded his head and said "Yes, I understand."

Then he walked through the gate with the officers and followed behind them to a particular building that was adjacent to one of the high, watchtowers in this place.

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"What's your name?" One of the officers asked. 

"Hua Chengxi" Xiao Lin replied. 

"What sect or establishment are you from?" The officer questioning him asked another question.

"Flowing cloud sect" Xiao Lin responded.

"What's your role or function at the sect?" The officer asked.

"A disciple." Xiao Lin replied.

"Alright. Basic details about you has been written down. Now, pay your Gate Entrance Fee of a hundred coins." The officer said and then ordered.

"Alright officer" Xiao Lin replied.

He then produced his spatial ring and handed a hundred coins to the officer that asked for it.

"Good. Alright, you can go on into our town." The officer said.

Xiao Lin nodded his head and prepared to leave where they stood.

However, before he could do so, one of them suddenly asked "Boy, before you leave, I want you to explain something to me which I don't quite understand no matter how hard I think about it."

"Okay. So, what does senior want to know?" Xiao Lin asked reverently.

However, he could already guess the question that the officer wanted to ask him.

"Why did you choose to come into our town at night?" The officer asked, while the others looked at him to hear what he would say.

"Well, it isn't exactly night that I chose to come to this town. We are already in the morning, officer." Xiao Lin replied with a smile.

"No. I don't want that kind of answer. Since you can arrive at this town from another town which should take anyone so many hours to arrive here, that means you have left that town since the dead of the night, which then made you to arrive here so early in the morning. Now, tell me, why did you leave your town at night?" The officer stated and then asked.

"Well, because I suffer miserably from a particular condition that would cause me tremendous pain when I am exposed to sunlight." Xiao Lin replied.

"Really?" The officer asked and looked at the other officers who were also looking at each other in the eyes with shock in them because of what Xiao Lin just said.

The officer then looked at Xiao Lin's extremely pale skin once again and came to a particular conclusion. 

'I guess that why he suffers from being exposed to rays of light from the sun. Just look at his skin, he looks so much like a corpse, and maybe he is one foot closer to the grave. But that much talent, as a beast controller, would soon go to waste. Well, that just unfortunate. And maybe that's why he goes about cultivating, searching for items in different towns that might heal him in the process. Well, good luck to that.' The officer said inwardly.

He then said "You can go."

"Thank you, officers" Xiao Lin said and bowed once again, while the officers looked at him with pitiful eyes - They all saw him as someone that death would soon embrace. 

Xiao Lin could feel their pitiful stares on his body, he however laughed it off inwardly. 

Then when he straightened himself back, he turned around to walk into the town. And this he did hurriedly before the sun would appear in it dazzling magnificence.