HIDDEN EVIL [XIAO SHUXIANG THE SERIES]

HIDDEN EVIL [XIAO SHUXIANG THE SERIES]
29 - Hu Li's

Young Master Lan's age was indeed for ordinary humans already suitable to live a married life. But this figure like Lan Guan Zhi without the need to look for any.


"Young Master Xiao, have you forgotten our purpose in coming here?" Hu Li reminded.


"It can wait."


!?


Xiao Shuxiang's reply made Hu Li pat her forehead slowly. If only he could, perhaps by this time he had already pulled out his Young Master's ear and asked if discussing the matter of finding a girl for Lan Guan Zhi was much more important than their mission related to Ling Qing Zhu? 


Haaah.. In the end, Hu Li could only exhale and shook his head slowly while waiting for his Young Master Xiao to come to his own senses.


"So Lan'Er, how is it?"


Lan Guan Zhi looked at Xiao Shuxiang for a moment before taking a slow breath. Her best friend won't stop unless she answers immediately.


"Mn, okay."


Xiao Shuxiang flinched, he shifted and looked very enthusiastic waiting for the white-clothed young man beside him to say.


Lan Guan Zhi, "I like the long, noisy, brave and wild black-haired ones. He had to be some kind of rare creature that Lan Xiao liked."


"LanLan, are you looking for a wife or a pet?" Xiao Shuxiang shook his head, the type of girl his good friend likes is really unusual.


He might have to take Lan Guan Zhi once in a while to the Elf World and introduce her to some Moon Elves. It just so happened that Elves were rare in the Human World.


"Did you give up?" Lan Guan Zhi saw his good friend rather lethargic, "No need to think if you-"


"I'll look for it," Xiao Shuxiang patted his good friend's arm softly, "But no promise you'll like it right away,"


Lan Guan Zhi smiled faintly and then muttered. He also asked about Xiao Shuxiang's true reason for coming here. He certainly could not ignore Hu Li's earlier remark.


Xiao Shuxiang exhaled, "You must have seen my current practice, right?"


"Mrs,"


"I was given a seal by the 12 Elders of the various sects while in the Middle Continent. My identity made them afraid and feel threatened. Not to mention lately there have been a lot of massacres going on and that has always been attributed to me. White Cat... It was also made to be unsettled by it. That's why I decided to accept this seal,"


Lan Guan Zhi could see from the look on his good friend's face. The decision Xiao Shuxiang took was heavy and high-risk. But perhaps to prove his sincerity, this good friend dared to do so.


"Now I am on an important mission with Hu Li and this lowly practice limits my movements. You're the only one I know who's an expert on seals. I'd like to ask for your help to loosen it up a bit. At least my practice can go up one or two tiers."


"......"


Lan Guan Zhi said calmly, "What is the shape of the seal that the 12 elders gave you?"


Xiao Shuxiang, "Hu Li. Paper and brushes,"


"Ah, fine."


Hu Li prepared his Young Master's request. Xiao Shuxiang drew a few dots and lines as well as circles while explaining the position of the elder he remembered on Lan Guan Zhi, including the pain of each seal given to him.


"... One seal is like forming a chain that looks like a thin wind and it feels wrapped around the heart. Then the other seals also did the same to the internal organs including my second dantian. Worse, there was a seal that like fused with the flow of blood and Qi until I was even weaker than cultivators who were at the Forging Qi level 5 in general."


"Have it?"


"really. If I focus on taking out the Moving Mirror, I'll just get tired quickly. Then other effects also affect the regeneration of my body which is now very slow. I can't even use the strongest technique I have, it feels like it's sealed."


Hu Li flinched hearing that. The strongest technique he knew belonged to his Young Master Xiao was the Blood Controlling Technique. Hearing his Master's words just now-it felt like the technique had been turned off.


Hu Li's two hands clutched firmly on his clothes. The 12 elders were already too late. Now how could his Young Master Xiao carry out his duties as a 'Protective Guardian' when things were like this. It was a pity that what Hu Li had just heard was not all of them.


Xiao Shuxiang continued saying, "I handed Hu Li the Universal Bracelet for fear that the heirloom would be affected by this seal that was given to me. But maybe it was the right decision. I realize for myself that right now... I can't use the Universal Bracelet. Let alone going in there, even taking out a single pill could not. Not to mention there was still the Soul Restraint Chain Seal. Haaah.. It feels like my body is a seal storage place."


Lan Guan Zhi took out a paper that had had images of his good friend. Xiao Shuxiang only painted a few lines and circles. This kind of clue was still too vague. He needs another lead.


Lan Guan Zhi asked. "Shuxiang, do you know the hand movements of this seal?"


"Mh... Let me remember first..." Xiao Shuxiang was speechless and as if he was thinking, he even touched the bangs of his front hair and started to recall the hand movements of the two elders.


Lan Guan Zhi watched as his good friend displayed a hand gesture that apparently managed to form a single thin seal chain made of wind. It was just that the chain appeared briefly before Xiao Shuxiang felt exhausted.


Xiao Shuxiang's energy shouldn't be this bad to the point of being tired just from practicing hand movements on a seal, but because of his body-he's condition had truly become weak.


Lan Guan Zhi practiced the hand movements he saw and succeeded with just one try. The seal chains he could make were even more numerous than the chains belonging to one of the elders that Xiao Shuxiang saw.


The Alchemist Chef praised his good friend, "Waah, you're really talented Lan'Er. A true genius, I even admire you. Tsk, tsk, tsk... It's amazing."


"Did this seal also affect your Fire Phoenix Spirit?"


Xiao Shuxiang shook his head, "Come. All I know for the last three months... I felt a little of the spirit's presence. But when my power was sealed, I no longer felt it. It's possible that the spirit was also affected,"


"Mn, try taking your clothes off."


!?


Hu Li gasped at Lan Guan Zhi's remark telling his Young Master Xiao to take off his clothes. Xiao Shuxiang himself even blinked because of it.


"Oh, Ms... Alright,"


Hu Li, "Young Master Xiao. I'm just waiting for you here,"


Hu Li's conscience warned that he should not get involved between the two good friends. He even turned his head to look for another source of distraction when his Young Master Xiao and Lan Guan Zhi had been behind a wooden bulkhead.


Just now that Hu Li's attention was fixed on the haitang flower painting displayed on the wall, suddenly his Young Master Xiao's voice immediately made him turn his head.


Xiao Shuxiang's clothes were already on top of the bulkhead. Hu Li blinked once and then blinked a second time before shaking his head as if casting out a strange shadow in his mind.


"Lan'Er, your hands are cold."


"Your back is hot,"


"Ah, why is the water so cold? Slow down, Lan'Er. You're making my pants wet."


"Shuxiang, shut up."


"ah! Lan Zhi, you-"


!!


I don't know how many times Hu Li blinked. He stared straight at the wooden bulkhead he did not know what was going on behind it. He was actually unlikely to think that strangely if behind the bulkhead it was not his Young Master Xiao and Lan Guan Zhi, but the problem...


"Lan'Eer! Don't rub it like that, you're tickling me..."


"Stop moving,"


"Ouch! You pinch?!"


"Shuxiang, you're noisy."


"Your hand why does it feel like it's getting down, Lan'Er?"


"I found it,"


"I thought it wasn't-Ah! What did you touch just now?!"


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Hu Li was already standing with a pale face. His ears and head seemed hot imagining what his Young Master Xiao was doing with Lan Guan Zhi back there. His heart beat became unruly and he only tried to calm down when the clothes that were on the bulkhead began to be pulled back.


Not long after, Xiao Shuxiang and Lan Guan Zhi walked out. Both have an aura that is full of authority, but at the same time also looks harmonious to invite many distorted thoughts.


"Young Master Xiao..." Hu Li looked at Xiao Shuxiang as his master began to sit back and seemed to rub behind his waist.


Lan Guan Zhi also sat down, his body stance firm and his facial expression remained full of calmness. 


At first glance there was no strangeness whatsoever in sight, but when he was watched carefully-Hu Li knew that there was something different about these two young men. The gazes of his Young Master Xiao and Lan Guan Zhi's eyes were unlike those of the previous one.


"Young Master Lan...?" Hu Li made a soft voice, he asked. "Is there a problem...?"


Lan Guan Zhi exhaled and shook his head slowly. He turned his head towards his good friend who happened to also now set his sights on him.


"Young Master Xiao? What's the matter?" Hu Li wanted to tell her not to be made agitated. He is uncomfortable when his master is not as noisy as usual.


Xiao Shuxiang, "Actually that seal that was given to me... The pattern was very complicated and my Phoenix Apiku spirit was also sealed. Lan Zhi found her mark, but it could not be loosened. Other problem... Somehow the sign is in a rather place... Unexpectedly,"


Lan Guan Zhi cleared his throat softly, "I think about 7 out of 12 of those elders are perverted old bangka."


"Pffts... I didn't think you'd talk like that, Lan'Er." Xiao Shuxiang held back his laughter, this was the first time in history that he could read his good friend's mood swings.


He said again, "What a shame?"


"Mn, that's embarrassing."


It was likely that only Hu Li was the one who knew nothing here, "In light of how it looked in the Young Master's body until it was called... Um... Embarrassing?"


Xiao Shuxiang smiled towards Hu Li, "It's good that you don't know. Lan Zhi alone can behave like this because of it, what else are you Hu Li. Let's just say you're not old enough to know,"


Hu Li's pupils slightly enlarged, he seemed to begin to understand. Yet his Young Master Xiao had already said so, so he did not dare to think of anything else or ask any further.


Lan Guan Zhi, "I'll find out about the seal and let me ask Xiongzhang."


Xiao Shuxiang nodded, he patted his good friend's arm gently. "I'm troubling you again..."


"Mn, no problem."


"All right, one's done. Now I have something to say before I leave." Xiao Shuxiang now again spoke seriously, "This is still related to the seal that was on me. Although you'll know how to loosen it up later, but maybe we won't meet. This was because I had to go catch up with the White Cat to the Upper Cultivation Realm."


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