HIDDEN EVIL [XIAO SHUXIANG THE SERIES]

HIDDEN EVIL [XIAO SHUXIANG THE SERIES]
142 - The Beginning of the Conference

Elder Chen Duan Shan, "You go. After you get the news, let me know immediately."


"Well, Shizun." the Thousand Sword Palace disciple put his hands together and saluted. He also walked away.


Elder Jing Yufeng looked at Chen Duan Shan and said softly, "Is this Conference still going to continue? The entourage of the Heavenly Light Valley elders had not yet arrived,"


"This is a long-awaited conference. How can I ask them to cancel?" Elder Chen Duan Shan exhaled, "There or not a group of Heavenly Light Valley elders-the match-up will still go on."


Elder Chen Duan Shan looked at Elder Jing Yufeng and again said, "I want to ask for your help."


"Old please say,"


"You lead some disciples and find out more information about what Tao Ming said earlier. Help him and also invite elder Murong to do this task with you. I'm really not calm. I feel like this is related to that group of bad guys,"


Elder Jing Yufeng nodded slowly. Needless to say who the evil people that Elder Chen was referring to Duan Shan, it was clearly the Black Stream Sect and what raised the most suspicion was the interference from the Demon Valley Sect.


"Then I say goodbye, Elder."


"Mn, be careful."


"..............." Xiao Shuxiang gulped and drank the water slowly. He was a bit anxious if what he was thinking really came true.


Honestly speaking. The last thing Xiao Shuxiang remembered was that he had won against Elder Meng Hao Niang in a wine drinking match. After that, he drank a few more jugs and began to fall asleep.


"..............." Xiao Shuxiang exhaled and thought about it. He fell asleep for quite a long time and was so sound that he was unknowingly brought home by Zhi Shu.


Then, that Xiao Shuxiang remembered. He dreams of several things related to his past. It was a thrilling and amazing dream.


A dream related to his bloody heyday. Xiao Shuxiang did not even need to care about morality and so on. He was free to do anything and no one dared to speak ill of him. His own name even sounded as 'death' in the ears of others.


Very wonderful times, but also lonely and full of danger. Xiao Shuxiang was feared, but because of that, many people cooperated and tried to kill him. He did not even dare to put his trust in anyone and there was no one who could really make Xiao Shuxiang consider him a friend.


"Shuxiang?" Ling Qing Zhu had since felt that there was something strange about his Guardian Guard. Since the coughing earlier, this young man beside him was no longer willing to touch the food.


"You're not eating?"


"My appetite is gone, White Cat." Xiao Shuxiang replied quietly and poured some wine back into his cup.


Xiao Shuxiang looked down and watched the conference attendees. His eyes were fixed on the figure of Lan Guan Zhi who was sitting with a calm and authoritative posture.


His best friend was seen closing his eyes and still not opening them at all. Xiao Shuxiang had actually noticed before and was now convinced that Lan Guan Zhi had completely turned a blind eye so as not to see the dancers so skillfully moving their bodies.


On the other chair, Mo Huai appeared to bow his head and did not dare to look over or look up. The young man was immersed in his own thoughts.


Jian Yang and Li Huanshou were different again. They seem to enjoy the entertainment that is presented right in front of their eyes. Unfortunately, the drink given to both is not wine, but green tea. This may be because they will later compete until it is not good if given drinking wine.


Jian Yang was the disciple that Elder Zhang Shan had chosen, while Elder Xia Long Hua chose Li Huanshou as the representative of the disciple who would attend this conference match.


The other representative of the Thousand Sword Palace disciples was Hu Yutian. A man who was a direct disciple of Elder Chen Duan Shan. Then there was Yi Shisi, the beautiful girl chosen by Elder Murong Xun. They are talented students in addition to their different natures.


Lan Guan Zhi himself also represented the disciples of the Thousand Swords Palace. He was the figure that Elder Jing Yufeng trusted to take part in this conference match.


"..............."


Even when Lan Guan Zhi was silent, she still remained the topic of conversation of the women from various sects.


Although the sounds were suppressed very low and were disguised by the chanting of music, yet some cultivators could still hear them. They just pretend they don't listen to anything.


After the entertainment session, the great elder from the Sacred Star Tower made a sound again and officially opened the conference match. The participants from the various sects seemed nervous as they started walking towards the light portal.


They darted and entered the portal in groups, regardless of which sect they came from. Lan Guan Zhi who watched every disciple enter the portal started breathing slowly.


"Young Master Lan...! Fight on..!" Zhi Shu exclaimed loudly until his voice was a bit shrill. He is one of the spectators who will continue to support and encourage his friends.


Lan Guan Zhi looked at Zhi Shu and nodded slowly as a sign that he heard the cry of the beautiful girl. He turned to the highest floor to meet his best friend.


"Wang Zhao...! Mo Huai's...! You fight too...!" Zhi Shu cheered Wang Zhao and Mo Huai. His call made other spectators also call out their brother's name and seemed not to want to lose to Zhi Shu.


The notice board had now started showing the names of disciples from the first rank to the top hundred. The names change and change all the time.


Only the students in the top 10 whose names are brilliant gold and currently occupying the first position are the names of the characters 'Fang Yimin', followed by the number 'Three Eleven'. That meant that Fang Yimin had already killed 13 Demonic Beasts and gathered his Demonic Core.


Fang Yimin himself was a male disciple of the Sacred Star Tower. He was the best disciple of Elder Wang Haoran.


In second place was Zhang Xiao Lian of the Cloud Sea Sect, the beautiful girl successfully collected 9 Demonic Cores.


In third place was Hu Yutian from the Thousand Sword Palace with 8 Demonic Cores, then followed by Xiao Qing from the Heaven Flower Sect with 7 Demonic Cores. Very thin difference of acquisition.


There were several white jade-like screens forming in the air and an overview of the conditions of the conference attendees could be seen. Each participant is in a different location and if there is the same, then it is nothing but luck.


Zhi Shu who was sitting in the audience seats became tense herself. Hu Yutian's name, Zhang Xiao Lian, Fang Yimin and Xiao Qing appeared to be chasing each other's ranks even to the point of swapping places. It was just that among these four names-Fang Yimin-Fig was the biggest.


Zhi Shu looked at the jade screen about how the disciples fought inside there. He clucked in awe when he saw Lan Guan Zhi's sword technique that was quickly able to subvert a Demonic Beast.


Xiao Shuxiang who sat down and watched the fight began to turn his head towards the notice board. The name of his best friend turned out to be in the 30s, then there was the name Wang Zhao who was ranked 89th.


Xiao Shuxiang blinked as he saw the name that was at rank 100 was Liu Wei Lin. He did not expect his new friend to be able to occupy the last position and it only took a moment before Liu Wei Lin's name was replaced by someone else's.


Xiao Shuxiang flinched, as did Ling Qing Zhu who did not believe this. Liu Wei Lin's name was no longer on the leaderboard and that meant that the figure was now not in the top 100 anymore.


"What is Brother Liu really doing in there?!" Xiao Shuxiang became anxious himself. He also circulated a glance and looked for the jade screen that featured Liu Wei Lin.


Zhi Shu who was sitting far away from Xiao Shuxiang also seemed to focus on finding Liu Wei Lin's position and was eventually found. Zhi Shu was stunned when she saw Liu Wei Lin sleeping on a tree branch while waving her fan.


"What's he doing?!" the cultivator sitting beside Zhi Shu was jolted at Liu Wei Lin's behavior.


"That person is actually intent or not fighting?!"


"Hey..!! Come on up..!"


"Your voice is not heard know..!"


The cultivators around Zhi Shu seemed anxious themselves. They cursed Liu Wei Lin who was just sitting while leaning sweetly on a tree trunk and playing with her fan. The young man even dared to read a poem that somehow made the audience boisterous.


Meanwhile, on several jade screens showed images of the great battle of the participants. Wen Gao Chong looked fierce fighting against two high-level monsters at once and managed to make the blood of the audience boil.


On the other hand, Yan Tianhen and Jian Yang's fight was also so overwhelming. Xiao Shuxiang who saw it to the point of amazed. He thought the two young men were just relying on arrogance and were good at oppressing alone without having great talent, but they were not.


"They're pretty decent," Xiao Shuxing drank the wine in his cup and refocused on seeing the participants fight.


Ling Qing Zhu who was sitting beside him seemed to nod and mutter softly. "Their techniques can be learned,"


"really. This is one of the benefits of being a match spectator. They could learn the sword techniques of the best disciples of the various sects, but...."


"..........?" Ling Qing Zhu turned his head as Xiao Shuxiang hung up her words. This Guardian of his looks smiling.


"What's wrong?" Ling Qing Zhu asked.


"Hmph, they couldn't learn Lan'Er's sword technique. Look at that,"


Ling Qing Zhu looked at one of the jade screens showing how Lan Guan Zhi had only used three moves to subvert a Demonic Beast and make the other Demonic Beasts cower in fear.


Ling Qing Zhu blinked, he did not know how that could happen. "Young master Lan is very great,"


"Mn, the boy .... Somehow he had the aura of the Three Heavenly Heirloom Spirits." Xiao Shuxiang exhaled and crossed his arms, "Because now my practice is declining, my sense of smell is getting more sensitive. I'm very memorized by the aura of the Sky Heirloom because the three of them are long enough with me."


Xiao Shuxiang's expression looked solemn, "But it seemed like this was not just an aura. It felt like Lan'Er's body had indeed been formed from the Three Heavenly Heirlooms for some time. I think next time I'll ask him,"


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