The Way of The Dao

"Smelly brat..."

Smelly brat?

Ling Tian seemed to sneer at Hao Zhentian, which made some people's hair stand up.

Xuanyuan Ling scowled slightly when she saw that her Masters had not said anything to Ling Tian. Long Cheng and the other parents felt a tingle when they heard Ling Tian call these youths in such a manner.

These young men are Great Ascension experts! Much stronger than all of them!

According to that the women had told them when they spoke briefly about them.

The pressure increased along with the nervousness when they saw that Hao Zhentian did not respond.

However, the next moment, Hao Zhentian finally smiled and with an excited voice call out:

"Master!"

His expression was happy and excited!

At once, Hao Zhentian stepped forward and hugged Ling Tian, as if they were brothers who had not seen each other for a long time!

Ling Tian also responded and hugged Hao Zhentian, patting his back and showing that they really knew each other.

Most of the people present were dumbfounded to see that both Ling Tian and Hao Zhentian knew each other.

Xuanyuan Ling was equally surprised to see Hao Zhentian excitedly greeting and hugging Ling Tian.

"""Master!"""

Yet, it wasn't long when Hao Zhentian took a few steps back and the other three young men shouted in equal measure, excited and happy as they approached Ling Tian and exchanged hugs.

Xuanyuan Ling's shock increased as she finally understood what was happening. The others were also surprised and quickly began to realize how these young people were heading towards Ling Tian and apparently knew each other.

Hao Zhentian, Ying Chen, Shin Wei and Sun Xiang were showing happy smiles as they watched Ling Tian, clearly showing that Ling Tian was someone very important to them.

"Little Tian, they are..." Zhang Ruoyan looked at Ling Tian and the others in surprise, unconsciously asking the relationship between them.

The boys raised their eyebrows in surprise when they heard Zhang Ruoyan address Ling Tian in such a manner. It was worth noting that Ling Tian was one of the true great powerhouses of their world before he ascended, so it was surprising that some people with a cultivation barely at the Golden Core Stage would address Ling Tian in such a manner.

"These brats are my disciples." Ling Tian replied with a smile, increasing the shock in everyone. These four young men from the Great Ascension stage were some of the disciples he had when he was in one of the Cultivation Worlds!

His first disciples!

Ling Tian could never forget the faces of those who were his family. No matter how many years had passed, no matter how much they had grown and changed, he would somehow remember them. After all, they were his family and were the important core of his being.

Disciples?

These great and powerful experts of the Great Ascension are really Ling Tian's disciples?

Everyone was shocked by this statement.

"This is Little Zhentian." Ling Tian patted Hao Zhentian on the shoulder as he introduced him. At once, he looked at the others and spoke, "This is little Chen, little Wei and little Xiang." Ling Tian introduced Ying Chen, Shin Wei and Sun Xiang in the same order.

Little ones?

Everyone somehow found it difficult to understand Ling Tian's way of addressing them. After all, they seemed to be of the same age, stature and appearance, being handsome young men in their prime of youth. That Ling Tian had called them in such a way and said that they were his disciples still added some strangeness.

Moreover, when Ling Tian mentioned his disciples that he was taking care for, everyone assumed that they must have been young children according to how he referred to them.

But Ling Tian did not mind or find this strange. He had cared for all these young people since they were young children, so in a way his impression of them was that they were like his younger siblings or even his own children. Therefore, it was normal for him to still see them in such a way and address them in such a way.

Ling Tian looked at the faces of each of these four men and recalled those small and childish faces back then, beginning to remember the old days.

'Take me flying into the clouds again, Master!'

'If you drop me from here, I can fly faster than you, Master! Hehehe!'

'Master! Brother Xiang took the ball away from me!'

'Master look! I've already formed my Golden Core!'

'I can fly faster than you, Master! I have more control with my flying sword!'

'That's no fair! Master said I was the winner!'

'Brother Chen with Brother Xiang drank all the nectar you brought! Master, I wanted too!'

'Master...'

Memories from long ago flashed through Ling Tian's head in a few moments. Those moments of happiness and laughter formed a bigger smile on Ling Tian's face.

"They really are your disciples?" Tang Zhi asked as she took a detailed look at these handsome youths who were half a step away from ascending and becoming Immortals, "I thought they were little kids to how you referred to them..." Her look of surprise said it all.

Ling Tian let out a small laugh before saying, "They are. I took care of them since they were little kids and just growing up, when they were all such naughty, childish brats to the point of bedwetting. Some of them were even younger than Yinyin and Shasha. Although they are not all here, but they really are my disciples, like my little siblings and children that I took care of like my own family."

Ling Tian remembered all of them when he played and taught them. He often had fun with them and all of them he took with him at some time. The boys would cling to his back or on his shoulders as they had fun flying in the sky and even asked him to let them fall and feel like they were flying freely. The girls would also climb on his shoulders or even ask him to carry them with his arms as they flew through the sea of clouds and flew with him.

But these children were now all grown up and were all great expert cultivators who, it seemed, could shake a whole world. The temperament displayed in each of them confirmed to Ling Tian that they had indeed grown up and matured, but apparently their roots and personalities were still there.

Lan Yin and Qing Sha looked at these young men with surprise, realizing that they were their senior martial brothers.

The others quickly understood what Ling Tian had told them. That meant that Ling Tian's age might even be more than he appeared to know that those children he had long cared for were also young adults who had great strength.

But they immediately remembered that when one reaches a higher cultivation, appearance is retained and old age is fading away. That was what it would mean to reach Immortality as well.

"My name is Hao Zhentian. My brothers and I are his disciples." Hao Zhentian respectfully clenched his fists together in greeting to Tang Zhi, Zhang Ruoyan and the other adults. Ying Chen, Shin Wei and Sun Xiang also put their fists together and greeted everyone.

Likewise, Hao Zhentian and his brothers were excited to see again their Master, Ling Tian! Their faces showed it all!

"Forgive us if we caused misunderstandings and concerns earlier." Hao Zhentian apologized politely to the adults, referring to when they didn't say anything about their relationship with Ling Tian earlier and left, only leaving Xuanyuan Ling in the city.

"On the contrary." Long Chen quickly clenched his fists together in the same manner and replied respectfully, "As the City Lord I also thank you for taking care of the remaining demonic beasts in the surroundings." He knew that these young men took care of the few demonic beasts that had survived when they took different directions, showing that they were helping the city as well.

Now everyone knew why these young men were also respectful and did not cause any trouble before.

They are Ling Tian's disciples!

With their power and strength, if they were others, they might be arrogant and proud and would not put them in their eyes.

The tense atmosphere disappeared and a calmness and surprise invaded the living room. The surprises related to Ling Tian seemed to never end.

Ling Tian's gaze soon shifted to the young woman with a veil over half of her face. Her appearance was about 18 years old or so, the age when women were beginning to blossom and show their true charms.

Ling Tian noticed at a glance that this veil was made of great materials and could block the Spirit Sense of the Great Ascension states. It could even block the Spirit Sense of a Human Immortal realm cultivator.

"You are not little Xue nor little Yue..." Ling Tian looked at those beautiful eyes with interest, realizing that with just her eyes alone, she could charm whoever saw them. Ling Tian added again, "You're not little Luo either..." He knew that this beautiful young woman was not one of his female disciples.