Chapter 227: Hong Xia.

The girl stopped for a few moments to take a look around the room. She didn't know that he would have a guest when she opened the door so she felt a little bit uncomfortable now that she had announced herself in such a manner that was unfitting for a member of the Hong family.

Haru looked up at the girl to see that she was looking at him with judgement in her eyes before he looked back at the old man.

She had just ruined his plan of getting him to jump on board with helping out in the fight. The more people he got to fight alongside him. the higher the chance they would get at surviving so it was a necessity that he got strong cultivators to help him.

"Xia… What is it now? Can't you see that I am busy here? Your father is probably preparing for Zan's birthday speech." The old man said bluntly as she had interrupted him.

"Sorry, but it is important. My teacher told me something important yesterday. I need my dad to help gather as many people as he can." The girl that the old man had referred to as Xia said with a slight bit of panic in her voice.

'So this is the famous Hong Xia that I have heard of countless times since I moved to shanghai…' Haru thought to himself as he judged her appearance to be slightly underwhelming. He half expected that they would eventually meet in a battle somewhere and have to fight but this was a below-average situation to meet someone for the first time.

"You need to do what now? What could have possibly happened now? That isn't something that your father can do on a whim. First, tell me in detail what this is about." The old man demanded an explanation for what she had just said.

It wasn't every day that someone would come to the Hong family for help including other members of the family. It would take something on the level of the end of humanity for someone to ask them for a favour but now two people have come for help on the same day.

After everything that Haru had told him. The old Hong family head had the taste of death on the tip of his tongue. He could taste that something was awfully wrong but he needs his granddaughter to confirm it before he could do anything about it.

"But…" Xia looked at Haru with distrust and suspicion in her eyes. They had never met before yet he was in the same room as her grandfather who was one of the most respected members of the Hong family. She didn't know what to think about the situation.

"Don't worry about him. Just tell me already." The old man said, urging her to explain what had happened. He didn't care if Haru heard what she was about to say because he had the feeling that it might be related to what he had just been told.

"Fine… It's about the place where my teacher came from. A group of people have apparently set their sights on earth and are going to come here and try to wipe out humanity because some idiot decided to kill one of their people last night." Xia explained to her grandfather all the while glancing over at Haru to see if he too was paying attention to what she was saying.

Haru's ears twitched upon hearing the word idiot stand out to him.

'I really am glad that I left Lao back in Shanghai. If he was here for this then he would have killed her for calling him an idiot.' He smiled as he thought about it for a moment and then noticed that they were now both staring at him.

The conversation had seemed to progress while he was thinking about what Lao would have done and didn't know what he had missed. He looked at the old man with confusion for a few moments.

"So can you tell us more? You said that your teacher was the one that killed the person from the demon clan right? Where is he? Shouldn't he be here to take responsibility for putting humanity in a crisis?" The old man's stance on what Haru had told him seemed to have taken a one-eighty and now he was putting the blame on Lao.

This might have been true since if he had never suggested that Haru should have gone to the soul tempering grounds then they would have never been involved in the upper realm's issues. But that was beside the point. The main issue that they were facing is that they needed to come up with a plan to solve the matter at hand.

"If you are going to blame anyone then blame me. I was the one who initially offended a member of the demon clan when I was in the soul tempering grounds and I was the one who accidentally led them here.

My teacher only killed him in order to save my life and the life of many other people. The person who came down was just a soul fragment that was held within a cursed beacon. There would be nothing anyone could have done if he decided to kill people at random.

The best option was to destroy the cursed beacon before there could be any civilian deaths. How would you have handled it?" Haru defended Lao's actions as best as he could because ultimately the decision to kill the man from the demon clan was left in Haru's hands. Yet he still chose to have Lao kill him.

"Wait… You have been to the soul tempering grounds too? How did you get there? My teacher said that she had the only transporter on earth. It should be impossible for someone else to go there…" Xia asked without even a second to process what Haru had said. She just heard what stood out to her first.

"Transporter to go to the soul tempering grounds? If you know the law of space you can skip out on that completely." Haru said to try to defuse the situation and not admit that he had a dragon create a portal connecting to the transporters within his soul ocean.

"The law of space? But cultivators who can transport people by using the law of space are really rare even in the middle realm. How can anyone do that?" Xia replied. She seemed to be a bit more informed on the situation of the upper realms than he thought she was and she was beginning to see through his lies.

He had to tell her the truth to stop her from seeing that he was lying completely.

"My teacher is from the higher realm. Not the middle realm. But that isn't important right now.

As I was saying. I have started to gather cultivators from all over the country to help me fight back against the demon clan when they show up. If you are willing to join me then meet me at the serpentine resort and spa on Friday.

And if you don't decide to fight back. Then I hope you live out your remaining days peacefully. Because if we fail to defeat them. They will come for you next. Don't say that I didn't warn you.

I'm leaving now. I didn't come here to play a game of twenty questions." Haru announced and then started to walk across the room towards the door where Xia had just come from.

As Haru approached her she furrowed her eyebrows and then opened her mouth as if she was going to speak but was quickly silenced by her grandfather who raised one of his hands in the air, silently telling her to let him go.

He didn't want to cause a scene in front of so many people after all. It was supposed to be a day to celebrate but it looked like those plans were quickly ruined by the news that earth would soon fall victim to an extraterrestrial catastrophe in less than a month's time.

"Did you hear how he spoke to us? How are you going to let him go just like that? We would become a laughing stock among the other imperial families if they were to find out about this." Xia was quick to warn her grandfather of the possible consequences of letting Haru insult them by walking away without a formal dismissal.

But the old man was far too wise to think that would be a consequence of letting Haru leave without reprimanding him for his disrespect.

"Xia, You still have a lot to learn about life. He came to us to ask for help… Why would he risk us saying know just to spread a dumb rumour about him being disrespectful within our household?

Not to mention the fact that he said that he has been gathering cultivators to help fight back against the demon clan. We have no idea to know who is backing him right now.

If what he said is indeed true then many sects and big families would jump on board with his plan if they thought that their lives were at risk.

There are many factors you have to judge when in a situation like this. Don't let your pride get the best of you because you probably didn't even realise the most important thing about him." The old man said with a sigh.

"The most important thing about him?" Xia asked, confused by what her grandfather meant.

"Yes, I mean the fact that his cultivation level was undetectable. It was as if he didn't have a cultivation base at all which is something that only happens when someone's strength is beyond what you can perceive." The old man said as he watched Haru continue to walk down the corridor and blend back into the party.