The night was approaching as they traveled on the horses.

Simon was sitting in front of Yibo, while Yibo was engaging him with his arms.

Haoxuan was the first one who stopped, "Duke, it's night time and there is a forest in front it would be risky to go there at night with young master Simon since there are bandits."

Yibo nodded, "Fine then go and arrange for the night."

"Yes, my lord." With that Haoxuan went to arrange a room for the night.

While Yibo got down from his horse and once again took Simon in his arms.

With the other hand, he grabbed the leash of the horse and then walked towards the side.

Yibo had made sure to look as poor as he can and even made Simon dress in rags, this is the area of bandits if the news spread that there is a noble here then he and his son can easily become the targets of these bandits.

And Yibo has to reach the temple of nirvana without gaining any attention as quietly as he can.

A few minutes later Haoxuan came as well, and Yibo followed him to the inn.

When they reached their room, Yibo made Simon lay down on the shabby bed, it was definitely uncomfortable for a child-like Simon but for now, they had to manage like this.

"Haoxuan bring me a towel and some clean water also bring some porridge."

"Yes, my lord." With that Hoaxuan went out.

And Yibo sat beside his son, holding his hand and staring at space.

Today his meeting with Zhan was surely a pleasant surprise for him.

That same annoying personality and that same mocking habit of his.

Yibo smiled gently, and very slowly as he thought about Zhan.

Before Simon was born Zhan and Yibo had many dreams to fulfill but after his son was born Yibo had to give up on many things.

Including his dreams, at one point he had thought that maybe Simon could fulfill his dreams for him but after he got to know about Simon's blessing Yibo always wanted Simon to be far away from this kingdom where no one could reach him.

A few minutes later Haoxuan came back with water and a towel and Yibo wiped his son's face and hands with the towel and cold water and then he slowly fed Simon some porridge as well.

After Simon ate his food Yibo set the bowl to the side and made him drink some water and then once again wiped his face and, hands.

Meanwhile, Simon who was in deep sleep was having a dream about his past life.

His father and he was having dinner, Yibo was eating his food and Simon was eating his food.

Yibo looked rather pale and sickly and even Simon could see the slightly almost unnoticeable shaky hands of Yibo.

Simin smiled and said, "Father, you look rather weak."

Yibo glanced at him and said nothing, he was indeed getting weaker and weaker day by day.

At first, Yibo had suspected that someone was poisoning him and he did a thorough investigation about it as well but he couldn't find anything related to that.

So he came to the conclusion that maybe he was getting weak because he had caught some disease.

Simon smirked at his dad's conditions, what Yibo didn't know was that it was his own son that was poisoning him.

Simon felt absolutely no remorse as he was seeing his father suffer in agony because Simon thought that Yibo deserved this, he deserved being tortured and slow and painful death after what he did to his mother.

Yibo separated Simon from his mother and neglected him, Simon thought that Yibo just wanted to use Simon's powers and become powerful.

Simon saw how Yibo ket a hand on his chest and then his stomach as he got up and suddenly vomited a lot of blood, he looked in a lot of pain as he clenched his head and slowly fell on the floor.

It hurt a lot, Yibo felt as if someone was hammering nails inside his head, while Simon just watched his father suffer.

"No, father no...no father..." Simon spoke in his sleep, he was crying and slowly shaking his head before he opened his eyes and woke up, "FATHER!"

He was breathing heavily and looked around frantically, Haoxuan came running to him, "Young lord, what's wrong?"

Simon was crying badly, "Where is my father?"

Haoxuan gently patted his back, "Young lord, your father has gone out for some work he will be back soon please go back to sleep."

Simon shook his head, "No I want to see him now."

Haoxuan sighed, "Young master your father will be back soon please go back to sleep. When he will come I am sure he will wake you up."

"But..." 

"Young lord please." Haoxuan said, "Or is your head hurting again?"

"No, I am okay," he said and laid back on the bed however he couldn't sleep not after the guilt and regret that was gnawing his heart.

And making it suffocating for him to even breathe he cannot sleep well till he corrected all his wrongs.

Suddenly the pain he had felt from his soul damage felt nothing, compared to the heartache that he was experiencing.

Meanwhile, Yibo was outside inspecting the area.

This was a small village, mainly inhabited by the sumedians, and judging by the condition of this town it hasn't been well maintained.

Yibo looked around and noticed the broken homes and walls, the terror of bandits was visible here.

Yibo sighed these bandits have created a lot of problems over the last few years and they have mainly targeted these small villages where the Sumedians lived.

Over the past few days, he had received many complaints about this and was also thinking about raising this issue in the imperial court but Simon's conditions stopped him for now.

At night this place looked barren, no child no human was roaming on the streets.

Yibo suddenly felt movement in the opposite direction.

He slowly walked over there, ready to face whatever danger awaited him, he just hopes that there were not some bandits attacking at this time of night.

He had no problem but he didn't want Simon to get in any kind of danger.

He walked towards the source of the movement but found no one there.

Suddenly he turned around only to see someone charging at him with their sword.

Yibo took out his dagger and held it against the sword, his dagger clashed against the sword before he pushed back the person, "Meridia." he said and his dagger turned into a sword,

He raised his sword and then jumped at the person who attacked him, the two swords clashed as the two people fought.

The other person looked skilled and experienced but Yibo was not a noob.

Yibo kicked the person who didn't seem to affect by it, instead, he easily leaped in the air and attacked Yibo once again.

Their swords clashed aggressively before the unknown man was able to push Yibo against the wall, with his sword against Yibo.

As he leaned forward, Yibo was about to attack but before that, he heard the man say, "You are still so strong."

Yibo paused once he heard this, and all the intention of attacking this man was gone, "I thought you went away."

Yibo said and slowly raised his hand to remove the cloth that was covering the man's face, "Zhan."