"Why not have a sip of Empathy Water, sir? From this day forward, you and I will be brothers!" Lu Sheng asked solemnly.
The masked figure slowly rose to his feet and gently removed his mask. Beneath it was the face of a fair-skinned, handsome man.
"I was merely passing through by chance. I never expected to encounter such interesting words." A glimmer of curiosity shone in the man's eyes as he watched Lu Sheng.
"May I ask your name?" he said softly. His voice was like a clear spring, echoing endlessly through the cave.
"My name is Lu Sheng. And yours?" Lu Sheng's soul instinct told him that the man before him was absolutely terrifyingly powerful.
As a top expert of Mingluo, he possessed such precise instincts. It was the most basic confidence of the strongest.
"My name is Red Cloud." The man smiled. "I was originally headed far away to visit a friend, but when I passed through here, I heard your earth-shattering remarks, sir. They truly opened my eyes!
"Brother Lu's breadth of vision and depth of knowledge are things this old man has never heard or seen before."
"Red Cloud?" The name was far too ordinary. Grab a handful at random, and one of them might be called that.
There were several Red Hawks in the neighboring nest, crimson rainbow birds in the distant pine forest, and even a family of giant squirrels atop a huge tree farther away. Lu Sheng alone knew four or five beings called Red Cloud.
"Young Brother Lu is learned, born knowing, extraordinary by nature. If you are interested, you may visit my Fire Cloud Palace sometime." The man smiled in invitation. "I, Red Cloud, may not have much else, but I have gourdful after gourdful of fine wine, enough for