HIDDEN EVIL [XIAO SHUXIANG THE SERIES]

HIDDEN EVIL [XIAO SHUXIANG THE SERIES]
81 - Confession

Xiao Shuxiang dusted off his clothes. He was just about to lean back against the tree he had previously occupied when someone crashed into his arm.


Xiao Shuxiang spontaneously reached out and held the figure back from falling. He gasped, but suddenly his nose smelled such a pungent smell.


"Arak!" xiao Shuxiang's eyes rounded, "Hey, are you okay?"


"Mmn, get out of the way." the white-clothed figure stood up and pushed Xiao Shuxiang's arm, just without any energy. He went back to drinking the wine that was in his lab jug.


The heavy drunk was none other than Jin Cheng's Peak Elder, Meng Hao Niang. He squinted as he clearly noticed the figure holding him back from falling earlier.


Xiao Shuxiang was stunned, but quickly regained his senses. He snorted and then snatched away this white-clothed woman's gourd jug.


Xiao Shuxiang said, "A woman should not be drunk. Especially in this day time,"


Meng Hao Niang flinched, this was the first time anyone had dared to snatch his gourd jug. Even dare to rebuke him.


Meng Hao Niang had a dark face, "Return."


Xiao Shuxiang brushed off the hands of this drunken woman whose appearance was this messy. He sniffed the little pumpkin jug in his hand and gave a wry expression, "This wine should not be drunk by a woman. Do you want to die? It's too strong,"


"You'll die if you don't give it to me. Restore,"


"You are a grown woman. This is a sect, is it worth a drunken adult woman? You're gonna set a bad example for the students in this place,"


"Please," Meng Hao Niang forcibly seized his gourd jug. Yet he gasped as this foreign youth could dodge easily.


Xiao Shuxiang fended off the drunk woman's fist. He was impressed because even in a state of heavy drunkenness, but this woman was still able to give him a strong attack. It's just....


"I'd lose face if I lost to a drunk like you" Xiao Shuxiang clung to the white-clothed woman's leg and nearly dropped her if she didn't jump.


Meng Hao Niang attacked Xiao Shuxiang without using spiritual energy. The movements that he did were just ordinary movements, but had a capable technique.


Xiao Shuxiang frowned, the woman he was fighting was not an ordinary cultivator. Not wanting to get more dissolved in the exchange of attacks with heavy drunkards made him start giving more serious attacks.


"Stop...!"


It was almost as if Xiao Shuxiang and Meng Hao Niang were making an attack with killing intent on each other if Mo Huai did not immediately exclaim.


Xiao Shuxiang's friend had just come out and ran quickly to separate the two people he knew. Mo Huai's face looked extremely tense.


"Stop, stop. What are you guys doing?" Mo Huai held Xiao Shuxiang's hand and pulled her. He was honestly shocked because this young man was almost fighting seriously with a figure who was none other than one of the Elders of the Sacred Peak Mountain.


Meng Hao Niang took back his lab jug and looked ordinary. His facial expression still did not change, in stark contrast to Xiao Shuxiang who looked annoyed.


"Mo Huai, why are you arresting me? He started first" Xiao Shuxiang said.


Meng Hao Niang snorted, "You snatched my drink first. Do you dare with a Holy Peak Elder like me, huh?"


Xiao Shuxiang was no less fierce, "Which Peak Chief dares to drink like this? Do you dream in broad daylight like this, Old Grandma?"


"You!" Meng Hao Niang hiccupped and barely let out if not immediately restrained by Mo Huai.


Xiao Shuxiang blinked watching the incident, he shook his head slowly. "seen? Even standing up you should be helped. Never mind, you gotta stop drinking."


Mo Huai looked at Xiao Shuxiang and said, "Young Master. He is indeed one of the Elders of the Peak of the Holy Mountain, He is named Elder Meng Hao Niang. You can't be rude to her,"


Meng Hao Niang narrowed his eyes, he less clearly saw the face of the young man who had just said 'Old Granny'. He returned the hiccups and pointed at Xiao Shuxiang's face.


Meng Hao Niang, "You... When I realize, I will punish you. You .... You're a Little Dick Boy. I'll remember your face,"


Xiao Shuxiang flanged as the woman with tangled hair and messy clothes before him spoke while pointing at his face. He had no taste in floating a raw bogem on this drunken woman.


Meng Hao Niang pushed softly Mo Huai, "Let go of me! I'm not drunk. Stay away!"


Mo Huai gasped in shock and became somewhat worried. He saw how Elder Meng Hao Niang was walking with unsteady steps, as if the woman could collapse at any moment.


Xiao Shuxiang was startled and spontaneously looked back. He rubbed his head because he felt like he had just been hit by something. His eyes immediately met a glance with Meng Hao Niang who was holding a bottle of gourd.


Meng Hao Niang was clearly the culprit who poked Xiao Shuxiang's head with the object in his hand. Let alone breaking, the bottle of gourd could even bounce back when it managed to teach Xiao Shuxiang a lesson. Mo Huai himself could not say anything so shocked.


Meng Hao Niang said curiously, "I'm not a drunk! Just watch if I see your face again, hik..." Meng Hao Niang returned the hiccups, he said and pointed at Xiao Shuxiang. "Review if you call me 'Old Granny' again. You'll ...."


Xiao Shuxiang was stunned when he saw the messy-haired woman again downing the wine in her lab jug and walking away without continuing her words just now. He had just blinked when Meng Hao Niang's figure had already gotten further away.


"Ouch..." Xiao Shuxiang rubbed his head, "Failing to see his strange behavior... I forgot the pain in my head. Issh... Who's Shizun, anyway? I'm sure he must not have any students."


Mo Huai said softly, "Actually many people want to become disciples of the Jin Cheng Peak Elder, only he himself does not want to. Peak Elder Jin Cheng was a picky person,"


"G ... So. No matter what," Xiao Shuxiang turned his head and asked, "Why have you been inside for so long? My skin almost blistered from waiting for you outside,"


Mo Huai gasped and slightly held back a smile, "Young Master Xiao. I'm sorry, Um... How about we find a better place to talk?"


"Mn? Okay. I don't want to stay here long either, come on."


Mo Huai followed Xiao Shuxiang and walked away. It was just that none of them realized that there was someone who had been standing watching them.


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Xiao Shuxiang returned to the western region of the Cloud Sea Sect and sat down with Wang Zhao and Mo Huai inside his bamboo hut. He and Wang Zhao could not help their shock.


Wang Zhao, "You were seriously picked up a disciple by Peak Elder Jiang?!"


Mo Huai nodded slowly, "Honestly I want to reject it. But ... I can't say anything in front of so many great elders like them. Moreover, inside there were also the best disciples of this sect. I was so grateful to be able to walk out of the room safely. Until now .... My legs are still shaking,"


Xiao Shuxiang, "But what do you mean by you also being appointed a disciple by Peak Elder Jin Cheng? You're being raised to disciple by two elders at once?"


"No... I was only a disciple in name by Peak Elder Jin Cheng, who would guide me was Peak Elder Jiang. Said the elders... I will fill the void of seats among the best disciples of Sacred Peak Mountain."


Wang Zhao could not help his admiration, "Great... In this sect indeed the best disciples of Holy Peak Mountain were only six people. It was because Peak Elder Jin Cheng had never raised a single cultivator to become his disciple. He was the best alchemist ever. So I can draw the conclusion that the seat for an alchemist disciple was passed down to you,"


Xiao Shuxiang flinched, "Wait a minute. Let's get this straight. Mo Huai was not a disciple of the Cloud Sea Sect, he was from the Lower Cultivation Realm. Can a human from the Lower Cultivation Realm be raised a disciple by a cultivator from this realm?"


Wang Zhao, "Why can't you? As long as Master Mo's talent could attract the attention of one of the Elders of the Peak Sacred Mountain, he could study as a disciple."


Xiao Shuxiang blinked and crossed hands, the look on his face slightly different as he asked. "Talent yes... Mm.. Mo Huai's? When did you learn alchemia? Why can't I know you're an alchemist,"


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Mo Huai had actually been waiting for this question ever since. He closed his eyes for a moment before exhaling, "Young Master Xiao ... This is why I want to talk in a closed place."


Mo Huai took a slow breath and then said slowly, he looked at Xiao Shuxiang. "You can't be angry when I tell you the truth,"


Xiao Shuxiang, "Why should I be angry? Already, just say it. Don't you make me wonder, what's wrong?"


Mo Huai gulped, he was really nervous yet this matter he had to reveal. "Young Master Xiao? You remember not fighting some people in the tent of young master Nie? There was one person who was either intentional or not... But you got his arm cut off,"


Xiao Shuxiang blinked, "Oh. I always remember the faces of the people I was with. I did deliberately slash his arm even though I didn't know what that person's name was. Indeed why?"


Mo Huai, "He is the young master of Mu Fang from the Lightning Sky Sect. I ... Helping young master Mu Fang with the Dragon Breath Pill I once obtained from you. Young master Mu Fang also got an invitation from the Upper Cultivation Realm. She ... Somehow met Miss Yun Qiao Yue who also recognized him as the man whose arm was cut off,"


Mo Huai felt his throat ache, but he tried to get back to talking. "Young master Mu Fang thought the pill I gave him was my own. He seemed to give such an explanation to Miss Yun Qiao Yue. I .... I thought Miss Yun told the elders until I was called. They think I'm an alchemist,"


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