Li Xiang the Immortal
41 - Robbers

Xiao Lei looked awkwardly at his sect man, "A-ah.. I'll give you 50 gold coins if you don't tell everyone you just heard in the sect. How's it?"

The cultivator grew even more awkward when he heard Xiao Lei say, "Patriarch doesn't need to give that to me. I will keep this secret. So the Patriarch would not have to worry if this matter would leak out to the people in the sect."

Xiao Lei cleared his throat. He took out a bottle containing 3 pills inside his space ring, "I don't want to know. You have to accept it and in exchange you can't say anything about it." He thrust it at the cultivator in front of him. "This is a pill that can treat quite serious injuries in just a day. You can take it."

"That doesn't need–"

"Take it. I don't accept rejection." Force Xiao Lei.

Eventually the cultivator accepted his Patriarch's gift. "Thank you. I promise I won't say anything about what I saw and heard earlier." Nervous speech.

Xiao Lei nodded, "If you're going back to the sect later, tell all the elders that I won't be back for a while because I'm with my grandchildren and say thank you to them for helping me find my son."

"B-good Patriarch. Then, excuse me. There's something I have to do here." The cultivator lowered his head.

"All right."

"Thank you for talking to me, senior." Xiao Xing Fu.

The cultivator glanced at Xiao Xing Fu and smiled. He nodded. "Em. see you. I hope we can meet again next time."

Xiao Xing Fu nodded and smiled. Afterwards, the cultivator before him left, reentering the house where the murder occurred at night.

"Basic.you bribe your own sect. What kind of patriarch are you? You've taught your own sect no good." Li Xiang's.

Xiao Lei snorted in annoyance. He should have looked around. But because his mind and gaze were always focused on Xiao Xing Fu, he became oblivious to the surroundings.

"So? What are you doing here, Fu'er? I heard that this place has just been murdered." Said Xiao Lei shifting the subject.

"T-there's none. I just came here to see how the body was and it turned out that he was the guard yesterday who had kicked me and the teacher out of the inn. The conditions are terrible." Xiao Xing Fu.

Li Xiang was surprised, "The guard yesterday?" a few minutes later, "Leave it. It must be the punishment fate has given for expelling me this Great One." Arrogant speech.

Xiao Xing Fu became annoyed, "You should be concerned, instead of being so arrogant! Moreover, you said it in front of his house!"

"What's the situation, Fu'er?" Xiao Lei asked curiously.

"Both hands were cut off. And also with one leg. The other leg was struck by his own sword. Because at that time he had pointed his sword at me and the teacher, so I knew it was his sword. Then his mouth was torn to his cheeks, almost to his eyes. Remembering it gives me goosebumps." Xiao Xing Fu. He rubbed his hand.

Hearing that, made Xiao Lei startled. "Then you don't need to see anything like that, Fu'er. Let's just get out of here."

They left the city when it was still morning. "Where are we going now?" Said Li Xiang while paying attention to the map in his hand. This map belonged to Xiao Lei. This is a map of the eastern continent, where they are now.

Xiao Xing Fu took a look at the map that Li Xiang was in, "I don't know. But we clearly have to find the killer."

Upon hearing his grandson's words, Xiao Lei was saddened. He doesn't know what to do at the moment. He did not want Xiao Xing Fu to know the truth if the identity of the murderer he always spoke of was his own father. Since Li Xiang had already told him many things, he came to know what Xiao Xing Fu was looking for.

Xiao Lei himself could not tell Xiao Xing Fu the truth. Maybe he should hide this forever? But Xiao Xing Fu would only be looking for someone he obviously would never be able to meet in this world again. Perhaps for the time being he would hide his truth from Xiao Xing Fu. But he was afraid that one day the lies would be exposed, even before he told this to Xiao Xing Fu himself.

"Grandfather?"

Xiao Lei regained his senses from his daydream. He looked at Xiao Xing Fu, "A-ah, what's up?"

Xiao Xing Fu shook his head, "Um. I just want to ask grandfather for an opinion. Where should we go after this? I don't know the place."

"I think, if you want to go to a crowded place, we can go to Xiling village. Even though it was a village, it was very crowded." Xiao Lei smiled.

"Xiling yes.. Alright." Xiao Xing Fu nodded. He paused for a moment, "Well, by the way, grandfather is the father's father, right?"

"Then, how was dad when he was little?" Xiao Xing Fu looked at his grandfather.

Xiao Lei frowned.

"A-ah, I mean like.. Is dad a really great guy? Has he been living in the grandfather sect since childhood?" Xiao Xing Fu became a wave. He also lowered his head.

Xiao Lei smiled, "He did live in the sect as a child. But I don't know much about him." He looked up at the sky.

"...," Xiao Xing Fu tilted her head.

"I'm not so close to him. But I know, he is a hard worker and disciplined. She's kind. He would rather act than say something useless. He speaks very rarely." Xiao Lei looked at his grandson back.

"really? Though father is a slightly chatty man." Xiao Xing Fu.

Xiao Lei raised his eyebrows and smiled, "It's good that he can be a talkative person. Maybe he changed after coming out of the sect."

As they were walking, a group of people tried to block their path. That person was made up of 5 people with axe weapons, daggers and swords.

"Send your money if you want to survive!" Say one of them with a sharp look.

Li Xiang sighed, "Huh. It's always in every place. Are they not familiar with the news that residents always say? Though many delinquents die for mis-targeting their targets. But this could be one of my experiments." Mumbled.

"Don't get in the way of ka–What do you want to do, Jian?" Xiao Lei said as he watched Li Xiang walk closer to the robbers.

"Maybe he wants to beat them." Xiao Xing Fu muttered.

"Do you want to fight us?!" Said one of the skinny robbers.

Li Xiang stopped after his distance with the robbers was only 5 steps away. He looked at the five with a slanted smile. Meanwhile, the five robbers in front of him instantly grasped their weapons firmly while looking at him warily. They seemed to be preparing when Li Xiang would attack.

"You want my money, don't you?"

The five robbers stared at each other. Li Xiang said something strange. He did not continue, making his remarks as if they were offers or threatening.

"Don't be afraid, I'm just asking. I ask you again, do you want my money?" Li Xiang smiled.

The five robbers quickly nodded when they heard Li Xiang's words. "Give me all your money, boy!"

"Then you should have killed me. If you kill me, then you can take everything." Li Xiang was getting closer to the robbers. He gripped the tip of the sword held by a man, until his palm was bleeding. "Please kill me."

"What's he doing? I must have heard it wrong. He must have said threat." Xiao Lei flat said.

Xiao Xing Fu stared at Li Xiang's back from afar flatly. "You didn't hear it wrong, Grandpa. He told them to kill him."

The five robbers were even more wary of Li Xiang's actions. They thought the teenager was out of his mind. "He's so sorry. A little girl is crazy." Whisper of one of the robbers.

"You're right. Maybe he's very depressed about his life." The other whisper.

"Heh, we are also depressed adults with the economy. But we're not going crazy like him. Maybe his life is very difficult. It's so sorry." Whisper of other robbers.

Li Xiang who heard the speech that the person said instead became annoyed. He took his hand off the sword. "It sucks! You guys say Your Majesty this is a madman?! Cih, don't know manners!" He immediately kicked the stomach of the owner of the sword he was holding earlier.

Boomm

Instantly, the man bounced far back to several meters away. Even the sword he was holding just now fell down when it bounced.