PRINCE OF DRAGONS
The Scorpion Poison College

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Fa Lio Bai's entourage had already arrived at Chuang Village, this village was quite close to one of the big cities in Song Region. Formerly Chuang Village was the village of the Craftsmen, the people lived a quiet life, but after the chaos caused by the wind, Chuang Village seemed to close itself off from the outside world.

Qian who had arrived at the village with Fa Lio Bai and her two children traced the main road while watching the villagers. The residents there were cold, even as Fa Lio Bai's entourage passed by them and greeted everyone, they looked unconcerned, even to the point of throwing their faces away.

"Are we going to do a show in this village Uncle?" tanya Qian who felt that if doing a show in the Village that they were currently entering would definitely not attract the attention of the residents whose attitude was very cold.

"No! We will do so after arriving in Heijing City alone," Fa Lio Bai replied.

"Why are people staring at us like that? Though we have only entered this village for the first time, but their gaze seems to dislike our existence?" ask Fa Xian.

"Actually the people here are very good and friendly, but since there was a war, they have difficulty in making a living, because the majority of the population here earns by making a variety of crafts, such as Curtains, Sweeps, and so on, household appliance, even to the weapons craftsman! But after the war the business of the Craftsmen declined, and men aged 40 and under were forced to go to war" Fa Lio Bai said.

"But what does this have to do with our arrival? They clearly seem to dislike our presence in their village" Fa Xian asked.

"Dad doesn't know either! You don't have to worry, we're not here with bad intentions, so we just ignore them" Fa Lio Bai said.

Fa Xian and Qian nodded, then they continued on their way, whereas Fa Xian would occasionally notice his strange-looking sister. Fa Xian looked at Fa Xieyin who sometimes walked while smiling himself, even though no one invited him to chat.

"Didn't you feel weird about Xieyin's attitude?" fa Xian asked Qian.

Qian watched Xieyin and she looked at Xieyin who sometimes smiled to herself. "It doesn't seem like anything strange," Qian replied.

Fa Xian now looked at Qian in surprise, when it was obvious that his sister was acting strangely, but Qian instead said that there was nothing strange.

Unlike the case with Fa Xian, Fa Lio Bai from the beginning already knew that if the girl looked very happy, she felt that her daughter's heart was being struck by romance.

"We must get out of this village before nightfall" Fa Lio Bai said.

"Isn't a stay in this village better than a stay outside of dad?" ask Fa Xian.

"In this village there are no inns like other villages" Fa Xian replied.

As they sped up their footsteps, they suddenly saw that from the front there were some people riding on horses heading towards them. Strangely, as the horsemen passed in front of the villagers' houses, everyone outside rushed into the house and closed the doors and windows of each room.

"It was a member of the Royal Warrior who was going around looking for volunteers to serve as war soldiers," Fa Lio Bai said then he asked Qian and Fa Xian to pretend to be disabled, saying, all that to trick the soldiers so they don't take them both away as soldiers.

The eight-man equestrian soldiers immediately stopped before Fa Xian after which they all descended from their horses. "It seems that you guys are not the residents of this Chuang Village! Who are you and where are you going?" ask one of the soldiers.

"We are from the village next to Master, we are traveling to Heijing City to find work so that I can feed my three children" Fa Lio Bai said.

One of the soldiers noticed Qian, Fa Xian and Xeiyin who were playing around with their own fingers except for Xeiyin who would occasionally smile herself for no reason, after that they started to approach Qian and Fa Xian.

"Both of these young people are at least 17 years old, right?" ask the soldier.

"Really sir!" fa Lio Bai replied.

"Then the two of them could have been brought in to become volunteer soldiers to fight against the Qin Kingdom" the soldier said.

"Sorry sir, but they are both handicapped, they are two brothers who are brain-deformed as a result of both falling from trees so that their heads hit rocks, the incident makes them both sometimes speak for themselves, he said, it would even jump around playing like a child," Fa Lio Bai said.

"really? Aren't you lying so they won't be taken away by us?" ask the soldier.

The soldier immediately approached Fa Xian and Qian who were still pretending to be deformed with childlike behavior, the soldier began to invite the two of them to speak.

"Whose names are you two? Let's tell uncle" said the soldier.

"Eh! You're not my uncle, if my uncle has a beard that's this long, and his eyebrows are also long to touch his beard, my uncle is more handsome than you whose face looks like a buffalo," fa Xian replied in a 5-year-old-like manner.

The fellow soldiers behind chuckled at his friend in saying ugly like a buffalo, while Fa Lio Bai tried to hold back the laughter, as well as Qian and Xeiyin.

The soldier could only smile withstanding embarrassment in front of his comrades, and he also greeted Qian who was next to Fa Xian. "What's your name?" the soldier asked, but this time he asked like he was asking a child and no longer wanted to claim to be his uncle, he was afraid that he would be insulted again.

Qian who was still pretending to act like a confused child had to answer what, she naturally could not replicate the way Fa Xian spoke. However, Qian quickly found the answer.

"My name doesn't know Uncle Buffalo, you never tell me my name!" answer Qian.

Qian's reply back made the soldiers behind him laugh out loud as Qian called him Uncle Buffalo, and that soldier was really very embarrassed and regretful for having spoken to Fa Xian and Qian that in the end he would only be humiliated.

"It's very unfortunate! Even though their body shape is very good to be a soldier," said the soldier then he spoke to Fa Lio Bai. "You are careful on the road, now there are many criminals who often rob and do not hesitate to kill," said the soldier and he immediately climbed his horse and followed by the seven other soldiers.

"I will try to be careful sir!" fa Lio Bai replied.

The eight warriors immediately left Fa Lio Bai, while Fa Xian and Qian heaved a sigh of relief. "It turns out they are quite kind and their attitude is very friendly and not irritable" Qian said, noting the soldiers.

"We better get going before the other soldiers find us" Fa Lio Bai asked.

Just as they were about to continue their journey, they suddenly heard the sound of a shout from one of the soldiers, the cry of pain made them stop their steps, and after looking back, they stopped, two soldiers had already fallen from their horses, and the rest were being attacked by arrows coming from several directions.

"Let's leave this place!" bring Fa Lio Bai.

"But uncle what about them?" ask Qian.

"It's none of our business! Already let's leave immediately before those assailants target us as well" Fa Lio Bai replied.

Qian looked doubtful and looked back at those who had started to fall down one by one, Qian was sure that if they were not helped soon, they would all die.

"Come on, Brother Qian!" said Xeiyin who directly pulled Qian's arm to leave immediately, as for Qian being pulled by Xeiyin could only follow him but he still noticed the rest of the soldiers who were still trying to dodge the attacks of the arrows that were still coming.

But when he had just run a few meters, suddenly there were arrows that also shot towards them. The arrow that was pointing towards Fa Lio Bai's body was immediately captured by Fa Lio Bai then another arrow attack followed him as well.

"Areally who attacked us?" qian asked while avoiding the arrows that kept coming.

The four of them immediately hid in the walls of the residents' house so they managed to survive, while the soldiers were now only three people who remained.

The four of them temporarily managed to escape the attack, but after that there were four swordsmen who descended from one of the roofs by holding a rope at the end of which was a sharp knife.

"Scorpion Poison?"

Fa Lio Bai immediately recognized the warriors who turned out to be from one of the great Black Stream colleges in the Song Kingdom Region, the Scorpion Poison School.

It was one of the Black Schools that conspired to overthrow King Song, moreover, the Scorpion Poison School is the most feared College because they are very good at making poisons and their silat science is also very high.

"Two Expert Soul Swordsmen and two Combat Soul Swordsmen! This is really very bad," muttered Fa Lio Bai who was getting very worried, because he also knew that the people from the Scorpion Poison School were not picky when it came to killing, either, whoever they want will be killed, and that's just to satisfy themselves.