Chapter 239: Ruella Waldon.

Lao stood up upon seeing Haru looking back at him and then began to walk over to him. A gap in the crowd of cultivators opened up as he made his way through them. I looked as though he was a king and was making his way past a crowd of his subjects.

'Just what did you do Lao?' Haru thought to himself. He didn't know what had happened in the two days that he had been gone but it was clearly something drastic and sudden for Lao to have gained so much respect from this many cultivators.

"That's him?" A few of the people in the crowd whispered to each other. They had come all this way without so much as knowing what Haru looked like yet they were here to help him fight off an enemy that was specifically targeting him. A look of doubt came from many of the people in the room as they looked him up and down.

There was no sign of him being a cultivator let alone a cultivator that was strong enough to defeat three manifestation stage experts at the same time. In the past couple of days, stories had spread far and wide about Haru.

With all the people who were waiting for his appearance, it was only natural. They didn't have much to go off but what they had heard from others. Like the fact that he had wiped out a whole sect single-handedly in less than three hours. That wasn't something many people had done before and if the information was released to the public it would have given him a legendary status amongst cultivators his age.

There was also the story about him healing an incurable injury for old man Zhu. It was a story that was backed up by the Zhu family so it was creditable but they weren't sure if it was exaggerated or not. The Zhu family had previously been to all of the famous medical practitioners in the country and they all concluded that it was incurable. Yet an unknown eighteen-year-old student came out of nowhere and healed him.

It was a bitter pill to swallow, yet they still came to see for themselves.

Then finally there was the story about getting on the bad side of an unbeatable force to the point where they would kill billions of people just to kill him alongside them. That was the thing that worried them the most. If the stories were true then they would all die if they didn't gather and fight against the demon clan.

The news was still fresh amongst the younger generation of the sects since the old masters purposely avoided talking about them so their disciples wouldn't become discouraged from the fact that no matter how strong they got as long as they remained on earth they wouldn't have even the slightest chance of becoming strong.

As Lao walked over he put his arm around Haru's shoulder.

"Come on, I will take you to meet all of the people I gathered for you." Lao smiled. He was waiting for a compliment but Haru was too confused to even think about praising him for being able to gather so many people.

Lao then led him up to the front of the room where the sect master, teacher Lin and the third elder were waiting.

"Why are you two here? I was expecting you to send a few people at most to help." Haru stated. It came as a bit of surprise to him that the strongest members of the sect had come personally.

"Why are we here? To help you fight of course. And as the current sect master of the black star sect, I couldn't stand by as a first-generation disciple found himself in a spot of trouble. And a descendant of the Chen family I can't just simply send a few disciples when My great grandfather's student is facing danger." The sect master said proudly.

"The student of the sect masters great grandfather?" A few of the people in the room began to discuss what they had just heard.

"A first-generation disciple? Doesn't that mean he holds more power than even the sect master?" A few of the old men from the black star sect looked at each other in shock. They didn't know why such important information was kept from them.

"Wait, Shen! You mean to tell me that this boy is "His" Student!?" The elven woman jumped up from the seat that she was previously sat down in and then walked over to Haru before putting her face directly next to his and then tugging his cheeks slightly as she waited for an answer.

"Well… I guess you could say that…" The sect master said with hesitation. He had gone and done it now. Li Jun had asked him to keep the secret to the grave yet he had just said it out loud in a room filled with more than fifty people.

He didn't even want to imagine what kind of cruel punishment Li Jun would have for him but if he was going from the stories that his grandfather had mentioned then it wouldn't be anything good.

"Huh, I'm sorry. Please forgive me." The elven woman bowed her head before quickly removing her hands from his face. Her bow was followed by an audible gasp as the old man that was sat beside her also bowed his head.

"Why is our sect master bowing to this boy? What's going on?" The sect members that the elven woman had brought with her now became outraged by what they were seeing. No one had ever made their sect master bow yet in the span of a couple of days two unknown men had made her bow down to them.

"What's going on?" Haru asked quietly. He was confused by what was happening.

"Probably because Li Jun saved the elven clan a while back. They were on the verge of being wiped out during a civil war yet he intervened and killed one of the three elven gods. She is giving her respect to you as the descendant of Waldon." Lao explained. But as he mentioned the name of the family that the woman came from Haru's ears perked up.

"You're a descendant of Waldon?" Haru asked quickly.

"Yes, I am. I'm sorry for disrespe-" She began to apologise but Haru cut her off.

"No, there's no need to apologise. It's just. I have a friend who is also a descendant of Waldon. I was wondering if you know how things are back home?" Haru asked. Ever since he had heard Jasper's voice call out to him he had been worried about his safety. He understood that the elven clan didn't want to get involved in the current conflict but he still wanted to hear it from someone who would know the situation with the elven clan from first-hand experience.

"You have a friend from my family? I'm happy to hear that but I haven't received any word from my homeland in around twenty millennia. I'm sorry but I couldn't tell you what it's like there even if I wanted to.

The reason I followed Shen here was to escape my family's politics so I purposely avoided contact with them." The elven woman spoke with sympathy. She was sorry that she couldn't help him but that was out of her control.

"I'm sorry. I just got my hopes up when hearing you were from the Waldon family." Haru apologised. He didn't mean to bring up bad memories. Something bad obviously happened and he felt bad about reminding her. Well, he assumed it was something bad since she had run away from home and been in hiding for twenty thousand years. That wasn't something people do when they are happy.

"It's fine. I think of myself as more of a human these days anyway. After living among them for so long it's hard not to feel accepted." The elven woman smiled. She seemed friendly. Much more so than when he had first met Maya. She reminded him of Jasper in a way but he figured that was probably because they were raised with the same morals if they were from the same family.

"I'm Ruella by the way. And this over here is Drobo." She pointed to the short chubby man with the long braided beard.

"It's nice to meet you Ruella and Drobo. I'm glad that you're here but the meeting won't happen until tomorrow. So I can't really give you much information about why you are here-" Haru explained but was quickly cut off.

"It's fine, there's no need to explain. That fine young gentleman already explained everything to us when Shen brought him over to our sect. Out of respect for the man who saved my ancestor, I will fight until the demon clan are destroyed or I die." Ruella said and then pounded her chest with her fist. A loud clang echoed throughout the room as the plate Armour rung out like a cymbal.

"Well then. Thank you. I was starting to get worried that I would die but seeing the number of people that are here I feel like my luck just might change." Haru smiled and then looked down at Drobo who was sipping something from a large brass cup.

"Shen said he would give me something if I helped. I don't really have much to say but I will make sure that you survive or else I won't get my reward." Drobo said and then looked up at Sect Master Shen who was smiling with a sadistic grin.

"Urm, Haru… It's okay if I call you that isn't it?" Ruella asked politely.

"Go ahead. There's no need to be polite." Haru smiled. She had a lot of admiration for Li Jun which was obvious by how polite she was towards Haru after knowing he is Li Jun's student. He couldn't help but feel happy.

"Okay, Well I think you might have misunderstood me a little. The people I brought today are just a few of my direct disciples. In my sect, there are currently around two thousand members and they will all be fighting alongside you.

When I said that I will fight until I die. I meant I will fight until my legacy dies with me. I will help my family pay your teacher back for saving us all those years ago. I wouldn't be able to live with myself if I let our saviour's student die." Ruella explained.

Haru took another look around the room. He was already overjoyed at the fact that sixty people were here to help fight. But now hearing that two thousand other cultivators were going to fight he couldn't even begin to put that into proportion. And his mind went blank.