The people that blocked the road had to be more than a thousand. The sight of them made him frown in displeasure.
But then he saw some familiar faces among the crowd of people. The closer he got to the crowd and the more he looked at them, the more of them he recognized.
The crowd was made up of men and women of various ages and sizes. There were poor people among them as well as rich people.
They stood together and blocked the road early in the morning when he had somewhere to be in a hurry. He should be angry. But he wasn't angry because he identified who they were. Their identity made him smile.
They too saw who he was and seemed to have recognized him. They roared at the top of their lungs at him.
"Master Red Mane! Master Red Mane! Master Red Mane!"
Then the crowd parted and made a way for him to pass in the middle. He passed this path and laughed. He also waved at them in passing.
His actions seemed to have invigorated them. Many of them shouted, "We will miss you, master. Thank you for your grace, Master."
Raor also barked when he passed by them. The rider and dog passed through the crowd and left them behind.
But the crowd didn't disperse quickly. They continued to chant his name and thanked him. It was until he was too far away for them to see before they left.
He thought to himself as he was laughing, "So they came together to see me off. I definitely didn't waste my time teaching them all these years."
He hadn't known that they would try to see him off. It was why he was taken aback when he first saw them.
Many of them had wanted to follow him to the sect examination for support. They wanted to participate in the examination just to offer assistance during it to him and help him pass it.
Unfortunately, the ones who had reached the seventh transformation and could help him were already older than the age of 24. They couldn't participate even if they wanted to die for him.
These people weren't talented or rich enough to reach the seventh transformation before the age of 24. Even if they were talented, they had been blocked by the lack of access to the advanced mana breathing technique for many years.
As for the talented younger ones, maybe they would be able to reach the seventh transformation before the age of 24 in the future, but that's in the future.
Currently, they were too weak to be of assistance to him in the sect examination. He doesn't care much about them, but he didn't want them to throw their lives away for practically nothing.
There were rich and talented people who used the money that they should have spent on learning advanced mana breathing techniques in dojos on pills to cultivate. But they were either too young and weak to be of use or their parents didn't allow them to risk their lives for him even if they were strong enough.
There were only a few people who were young and strong enough to help him who were willing to help him. Those people were currently waiting for him in front of the Dyson family.
They were waiting there for him because that is his destination. He knew that they would be following him, so he wasn't surprised when he saw them waiting together in a group.
This group of people was eleven in number. They all had a red fabric tied around their heads. It was to identify them as proud students of his dojo.
Thompson was one of them. The silent, taciturn boy of yesteryears had become a silent, brooding man with long black hair obscuring his face.
Thompson is now 22 years old. He has also reached the eighth transformation. He was stronger than Skylar when Skylar was 22 years old. At that age, Skylar was at the seventh transformation and had challenged Arthur to a fight, which he lost quickly.
Thompson is following him to the sect examination to assist him and because this is his last and only chance to participate in the examination. The other ten students are also in the same situation.
His students were not the only ones waiting outside the outer gate of the Dyson family. There were many people waiting there, and they weren't waiting for him.
Most of them, if not all of them, are related in one way or another to the Dyson family. And all of them are going to participate in the regional sect examination like him or are related to those who will participate.
Like him, some of them are bastards. If they were true children of the family, they wouldn't need to wait outside of the family like this.
Many of them don't live in the family. They all came here to wait for the vehicle that will pick them up and take them to the location of the sect examination.
These people were about 60 in number. They saw him coming, but only his students waved to him.
He directed Roar to approach his students. Then he disembarked and went to chat with them.
They wanted to hug him, but he didn't want people to get too close to him because of his gauntlets. He could only exchange greetings with them.
What was happening between him and his students didn't draw too much attention. Similar things were also happening in the group of people as they waited.
They waited for a few minutes until it was 7:30 am. During that time, many people came and joined the group.
A few minutes after the appointed time, a large floating ship flew from the Dyson family and came up to them.
The floating ship was as large as a whale. It looked like one of the cruise ships from his past life. It had many floors and was blaring a loud horn to signal its arrival at a stop.