The Guardians: The Swordsman of the Moon

Mysterious Man.

Mo Xian fell into Wu Jiao Xing's arms. Still feeling shocked, Mo Xian looked at where the arrow came from.

On a roof of a building, a masked man with hair in a ponytail stared at them while holding a bow.

The arrow shot out, Wu Jiao Xing swiftly jumped up and dodged it.

The screams of the girls were immediately heard. People began to whisper and scatter.

Wu Jiao Xing hid Mo Xian on his back. Staring sharply at the man who still had not given up on his bow.

"Gege, who is that guy?" mo Xian asked as he clasped Wu Jiao Xing's clothes and peered over his body.

Wu Jiao Xing clicked his tongue, feeling annoyed by the circumstances. He did not bring his sword because Mo Xian suddenly ran away and he also forgot that today the storytellers came to the city. Their enemies were armed with arrows, it meant that this was a long-range attack and Wu Jiao Xing could not deal with it if Mo Xian was still here.

"What do you want? Why did you suddenly attack us?" Wu Jiao Xing tried to buy time. However, it seemed that the man only wanted to draw their blood, without answering, the man immediately shot another arrow.

Wu Jiao Xing carried Mo Xian and jumped towards the trees, the man again tried to return with another shot. Wu Jiao Xing tried to dodge and escape, looking for a safe place for Mo Xian so that he could face the man.

Wu Jiao Xing lowered Mo Xian on the sidelines of a building that was only enough for one person. Wu Jiao Xing, making sure the place was safe while looking up, the sidelines of the building were also covered with roofs from the other buildings. 

"Sit here and don't go anywhere" Wu Jiao Xing said before leaving.

Mo Xian was about to grab Wu Jiao Xing's arm, but all his hands grabbed was air.

"Gege ...,"

Wu Jiao Xing confronted the man with a bow. Without Mo Xian, Wu Jiao Xing's movements became faster and freer until it easily dodged the arrow that flew towards him before successfully lashing out a punch right in the man's face.

The man fell freely to the ground and Wu Jiao Xing immediately locked onto his movements.

"What do you want? Why are you attacking us all of a sudden?" wu Jiao Xing asked as he pressed the man's head against the ground.

However, the man just remained silent not moving. Wu Jiao Xing had already felt something strange since seeing the man, his movements were a little stiff but the arrows shot were always on target. Now, as he held with his own hands the person's head, Wu Jiao Xing pulled on the mask that covered the person's face.

Wu Jiao Xing was shocked to the point that his body was petrified for a moment, his eyes bulging in disbelief at what he saw. That person is not a human, but an undead. 

The person's face was already half-rotted with the eyeballs almost out. The right jawbone began to look along with the many maggots that ate the rotten flesh of the person.

As Wu Jiao Xing took off the mask the undead were wearing, a foul stench immediately emanated from the body that was now lying dead.

Wu Jiao Xing stared at the inside of the mask that the undead were wearing was a spell written in blood.

The people who were swarming around watching Wu Jiao Xing fight with the undead began to feel their stomachs nauseous due to the foul smell coming out of the corpse. However, Wu Jiao Xing did not care about it, he left the corpse, only carrying a mantra mask and went to pick up Mo Xian.

On the other hand, Mo Xian waited obediently on the sidelines of the narrow and dark building. 

The sky started to cloud over, black clouds were rolling and rumbling. It was raining, but Mo Xian did not dare to get out of place because Wu Jiao Xing told him to wait for him. Mo Xian knew something bad had happened. 

However, the one thing that Mo Xian regretted was the behavior of Wu Jiao Xing who left him in a quiet, dark and frightening place. Mo Xian thought why did Wu Jiao Xing not leave her in the shop or inn?

The downpour made his body start shivering with coldness, Mo Xian crouched down while hugging his own knees, staring at the streams of water that were descending from the sky.

As he was getting lonely, not a single person passed through the area and Wu Jiao Xing did not come, suddenly a beggar boy who was seen earlier on the main road approached him.

"Little sister, what are you doing here?" mo Xian asked as he waved his hand for the child to come to his side and take shelter from the rain.

The boy said his small body was soaking wet and his long, limp hair covered part of his face.

Mo Xian who aspired to become a teacher in the past did indeed like children very much. With attention he wiped the boy's face with his handkerchief. 

The boy's face looked better, his white cheeks were slightly filled, his sharp eyes now looked better than they had been this afternoon.

"Why are you here? Where's your mom?"

The boy was silent and just looking south.

"Do you live there?"

The boy nodded.

Mo Xian looked at the child with a hint of astonishment. He thought the boy could not speak.

"Are you on your way home and waiting for the rain to stop?" 

The boy nodded again.

Mo Xian smiled. "Then it's good, I'm also waiting for someone" he said, taking off his outer robe and giving it to the boy so he wouldn't get cold. 

Mo Xian was not worried about his identity, as Mo Xian wore three layers of clothes. As she attentively wrapped the child in her outer robe, Wu Jiao Xing came over.

"Gege ...," 

Not yet had Mo Xian said what he wanted to say, Wu Jiao Xing pulled him over. 

Wu Jiao Xing stared coldly at the little boy who was now wearing Mo Xian's outer robe.

"Who's the kid?" wu Jiao Xing asked.

Mo Xian felt Wu Jiao Xing was a little strange, and immediately replied. "He's just a beggar's son taking shelter with me. What's up?"

After getting an answer, without saying anything Wu Jiao Xing carried her and left the child alone on the sidelines of the building.

Wu Jiao Xing managed to return to the Li residence when the day had completely darkened. 

In front of the house, Li Zhou Ran was already waiting worriedly and was about to leave following Mo Xian.

Upon seeing Mo Xian return drenched in rain and being carried by Wu Jiao Xing, the woman immediately became even more worried.

"My son ...," Li Zhou Ran immediately checked on Mo Xian's situation.

Li Huan who had been waiting earlier also noticed Mo Xian's state before looking at the young man he had assigned to look after his son.

"What's going on?" ask Li Huan.

Wu Jiao Xing immediately withdrew his hand and saluted.

"Someone tried to attack the young master today." 

That answer left everyone present except Mo Xian shocked.

"Ah Tong, Ah Ding bring the young master inside and prepare warm water, clothes and herbal soup" Li Zhou Ran told his two servants.

The two servants who were ordered immediately brought Mo Xian inside. However, before entering Mo Xian had a chance to say. "Don't blame gege, I'll take her away."

Upon seeing his father and mother nod, Mo Xian walked inside with the maid.

Meanwhile, Li Zhou Ran who made sure Mo Xian went inside immediately stared intently at Wu Jiao Xing.

"What's going on?" tanyanya cold.

Wu Jiao Xing handed the mask he took from the undead to Li Zhou Ran. Li Zhou Ran observed him for a while before handing him over to Li Huan.

"Laogong, what is this? This spell, I've never seen it at all."

Li Huan watched closely, the image of the spell written on the inside of the wooden mask.

"I'm also unfamiliar with this spell, too," he said later before turning his eyes to Wu Jiao Xing.

"Tell me from the beginning."

Wu Jiao Xing followed his words and told him from start to finish and how the undead attacked.

"I can conclude that the person using this spell is not very proficient yet. Then I can also confirm that this is something new" Li Huan said as he looked at the mask.

"But why was my son the target? The extremely adorable child had never done anything bad to anyone else," Li Zhou Ran asked worriedly.

"We still can't draw conclusions about this. Ever since master established the Peacock Alliance, those who knew what the Peacock Alliance was would not dare to disturb the Peacock Alliance. I'm worried, this has something to do with Xian'er's past."

Li Zhou Ran's face immediately turned pale. "What do you mean, Laogong?"

Li Huan rubbed his worried wife's face. "Don't worry, it's just my thinking after all these years. Ever since I brought Xian'er from the forbidden forest, I have never stopped thinking about how that child could survive in the forbidden forest so well. For ordinary people, the forbidden forest was impenetrable and for cultivators, only those chosen by the Lake Goddess could enter it. The rest can only enter once a year.

The forbidden forest had abundant sources of spiritual energy, the land was magical, all the herbs that were there lived as if they had lives and could attack cultivators, ferocious magical beasts were scattered all over the forest, the wind blowing there could bring a weak person into the darkness and drive him crazy.

Laopo, since the beginning Mo Xian'er was no ordinary child. Not only did the plants there not attack him, I also did not see a single magical beast. And if it usually took me two months to get out of that forest, when I was with Mo Xian, I would only need eleven days.

I also think this has something to do with the man named Mo Shan. This man, no matter how I think about it, I feel that the disappearance of this man is too mysterious."

Li Zhou Ran stared in disbelief at Li Huan's explanation. It was true, when Li Huan said that Mo Xian was found in the forbidden forest, Li Zhou Ran felt that something was strange. However, they assumed that the man named Mo Shan was a cultivator who was searching for something within the forbidden forest with Mo Xian. They then sunk into happiness with Mo Xian's presence, and did not think too much of it anymore.

"Then, how ...," 

"Like I said, it's just my mind. Whatever Mo Xian'er's past, he's still our son. And those who are trying to attack our son, they are also trying to find trouble with the Peacock Alliance. I'll investigate."

Li Huan rubbed Li Zhou Ran's cheek again. 

"Now it's better for you to come in and help Xian'er. I'm afraid he's got the flu."

Li Zhou Ran nodded. She was worried, but she believed in her husband. So he went inside.

Li Huan looked back at Wu Jiao Xing.

"Where's the body now?"

Wu Jiao Xing replied. "I left it on the main road."

Li Huan nodded and told Wu Jiao Xing to lead the way. The two of them went through the rain in the darkness of the night towards where the corpse was. However, when they arrived, they only found bones.

Wu Jiao Xing stared in disbelief, he clearly saw the corpse still had rotten flesh on its body, then how did the corpse turn into bones in just a few hours?

1770 Words.

August 26, 2020.

September 02, 2020.

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