As the siblings were leaving, they left some fruits and vegetables inside the hut for the old man. After covering about three miles on foot, Edgar realized that something wasn’t right. “Why are we taking a long route instead of going straight?” “There’s a couple of troublesome beasts in that way,” Fabby said, thinking back on the time she first met those beasts, “that’s why.” “Are you sure we can’t handle them?” “Yep. They live in a giant cave-like house. The kangaroo and the penguin.” Edgar remembered their pictures from his childhood books. “And why are they living together?” “The old guy told me that they’re guarding a martial art book, and he warned me to not mess with t

Fabby woke up and found herself resting under a tree shade. “What am I doing here?” After looking around, she suddenly remembered something. “Eddie!’ she quickly ran toward the cave, her heart ringing in her ears as she worried about her brother. “Nothing will happen to him,” she told herself repeatedly. She quickly got there, but there was no one outside. “Where’s he?” she didn’t stop or hesitate and rushed into the cave. After going in for over a hundred meters, she was stunned by what she saw. The kangaroo and the penguin were doing something unimaginable. She couldn’t believe what she was seeing. Edgar was sitting on a rock, and the kangaroo was massaging his shoulders standing on the back, whereas the penguin was massaging his legs. Fabby’s jaw slackened. “What

The foot disciples were not part of a sect. They were more like the official workers of a sect, who could farm in the lands owned by the sect, or work in the mines, or gather firewood to sell, and do different other kinds of labor for the sect and at the same time earn decent money. The reason they chose to work in the sect was because it provided more safety than outside and guaranteed better earnings, too, along with a little bit of fame. Generally, the children who had lost their parents and were forced to look after themselves would be allowed to directly become the foot disciples without even having to take the entrance test. Every foot disciple had ten years of time to become an outer disciple, and those who failed to become an outer disciple would be kicked out of the sect. In case if a child was born to a foot disciple, then the child would be given twenty years of time to become an outer disciple.Read more