When Lin Yan opened the gate he came face to face with an individual completely clad in a black clock. On his head there was a bamboo hat that was covering his whole face. He had a sword on his waist, so he probably was a martial artist.

Every martial artist had a high status. No one could become a martial artist without a martial arts manual and anyone who had access to a martial arts manual was a big shot. Even if they were not very strong they would still be quite respected even in the middle class district, let alone in the low class district.

Lin Yan had no idea what an esteemed martial artist like him wanted from him, a poor orphan. But he did not dare to show any disrespect and immediately bowed his head. This was a common form of greeting and showing reverence which every commoner had to do after seeing a martial artist.

Elena stopped him from bowing and lifted him up, then she spoke up -

"I know you're feeling very confused right now but don't worry, I don't want to hurt you or your sister. And it will be better if we can talk inside about why I want to meet you."

Even though Lin Yan was still feeling bewildered, he made himself believe that someone as strong as the person standing before him did not need any tricks to get any benefit from him. So this martial artist probably did not have any bad intentions toward him. So, he welcomed him to come inside his shabby house.

As soon as the door was closed Elena instantly cast a spell to surround the inside of the house by a barrier and also added an illusion spell to that barrier. She had done it to not allow the kidnappers who were currently spying on this house to not know what they were going to talk about now. The kidnappers would only see that a weak martial artist who knew those orphans father was trying to force the kids to pay some kind of debt. That scene would be something that the kidnappers would not get suspicious about.

After doing all that, Elena started to talk to the siblings while sitting on the floor as they did not have any chairs or something like that. She did not beat around the bush and revealed her original appearance. And then even before the kids could recover from their shock of seeing a supreme beauty, Elena started to tell them why she approached the siblings.

"Hello, I'm Elena and as you can see, I'm from a different region that is not under the protection of the goddess of heaven conquest. I'm quite interested in martial arts and immortal cultivation so currently I'm trying both of them out a bit."

"As for my strength I'm a S rank adventurer. And for your ease of understanding, you should just think that I am above the realm of Martial and Immortal Saints."

If before they were astonished then now the siblings were completely dumbfounded. Both Lin Yan and his baby sister Lin Yue were intelligent and knew what the Saint realm was. An individual who had reached the Saint realm stood above everyone in the whole nation. They could not believe that such a strong individual was now sitting in front of them on the ground. But Elena did not allow them to be lost in their thoughts and continued speaking -

"When I was just walking around the middle class district I saw you and got quite interested after seeing your great intelligence at such a young age and your above average talent for the martial arts. So I wanted you to become my disciple. What do you think, Lin Yan ?"

Lin Yan was an intelligent boy. He knew that this was a one in a lifetime chance. So he did not hesitate at all and kowtowed.

"Disciple greets master."

This was a formal greeting of this land. The relationship between a student and a teacher was considered more important than the relationship between father and son, so this type of greetings became commonplace. Elena knew it so she did not stop the boy from kowtowing. Then she patted the soldiers of the boy and said with a kind smile on her beautiful face -

"Now that you have become my student I need to give you something as a teacher, right ? Okay, here you go."

Saying so Elena took out several things from her inventory and gave them to Lin Yan while explaining them.

"So, this is something that would be most important for you going forward. This is also something that I'm sure you were dying to get your hands on. That's right, it is a martial art manual.

This manual is something that I specially created for only you. When I said that you have an above average talent in martial arts I was not joking. And what suited you the most was the martial arts with the element of water in it. It also suits your character very well.

The name of his martial art is "Six Sided Sea Serpent Sacred Scripture". This martial arts is enough for you to practice till you reach the level of a peck saint. That means it is a legendary manual."

Lin Yan was so surprised that his mouth almost fell off. At the same time he also felt immense gratitude for Elena in his heart. But before he could sort out his feelings Elena continued with her gifts.

"Then the next gift for you would be this set of clothes. It looks simple but elegant at the same time and it can grow up alongside you both in size and in strength. So you will be able to use this set of clothes forever. It had an enchantment to recover your aura, which you know as qi, stamina and also HP. Its defensive capabilities are not very high and having a very high defense will not suit your fighting style. But it can recover from any kind of damage in a very short amount of time so you can just keep using it."

"Then finally I will give you a weapon. But not now as I'm not sure which weapon will suit you best. We will do a test tomorrow and after that I will know which weapon will suit you the best then I will give you your weapon."

"Other than a weapon I will also give you a weapon training manual for that specific weapon which will allow you to reach a very high rank with that weapon."

Then Elena went toward Lin Yue and picked her up and started to stroke her little head. The cute child started to giggle happily after getting patted by Elena.

"As for your sister. I will give her a private tutor who will teach her about basic knowledge for now. And when she is old enough to learn martial arts or cultivation, I will also teach her those things at that time. So don't worry about anything and give all your focus in learning martial arts. And never forget the burning passion that you have for gaining strength, that will allow you to keep on going no matter how hard or how painful your path is."

Then she also patted Lin Yan's head. After his father's death, Lin Yan never got a chance to relax. He had a younger sister to take care of. But now finally after acknowledging Elena as his teacher he could finally feel some peace returning to his mind. He did not even get the chance to mourn the death of his father so far and now as he was feeling like a child again after feeling Elena's love, the grief also came back. He was not able to hold back his tears anymore and started to cry. Seeing her elder brother crying Lin Yue was also unable to hold back her tears and also started crying. Elena hugged both of the kids and let them cry as much as they wanted on her bosom.

...

While this emotional moment was going on inside the small house, a group of thugs and bandits were also getting ready for action. They were part of a large criminal syndicate called the "Hidden Tiger Gang". They had considerable influence at both the low class and the middle class districts. They also had some backers in the high end district so for that reason this gang was very unbridled while taking action in the low and the middle class districts.

Today their targets were very easy. It was a pair of orphan siblings. The boy was quite intelligent and good looking, so some large families of the high end district might be willing to pay a high price for him. But he was not the main target. The main target was his sister. One of the gang's members was able to witness her real beauty and he had judged that this girl might grow up to become more beautiful than the red light district's three princesses. If that were really the case then her value would be very VERY high. Even if that was not the case, young girls like her always had high market value.

But these thugs did not know that their time was coming to an end. The little family they were trying to target was now under the protection of the strongest savior.

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