XIAO SHUXIANG'S

142 - Suspicion of Dai Chen [Revised]

"Well, can't you stop eating that? You're bothering me." Dai Chen covered his ears, he had not finished his story and Xiao Shuxiang was back in action again.

"This Jade Lotus is very tasty, it tastes similar to the Moon Lotus but is much sweeter."

Dai Chen snorted. "Hmph, don't equate the two. The Moon Lotus was a fruit that came from the God Realm, while the Jade Lotus was also called the Demon Lotus. There's a terrible story that covers this lotus tree..."

Dai Chen explained, "The roots of the Demon Lotus Tree that are on the ground can span the entire valley. Its main food is the carcasses of animals including human corpses. It's just that, the scent of the carcass and the corpse is not at all smelled on this Lotus flower."

Dai Chen continued, "When chewing on the Devil Lotus seed, one would initially hear the sound of the gravel being chewed. But over time it will sound like crushed bones."

Xiao Shuxiang, "It's just fine that I feel familiar with the taste. But it's more like a living human than a corpse or a carcass of an animal."

"Do you ever eat human flesh?"

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Xiao Shuxiang flinched, his right hand holding a lotus halted before his mouth. He then looked at Dai Chen while blinking a few times.

"What did I say..?" Xiao Shuxiang felt that he had already said the forbidden word to Dai Chen.

"You're saying that it feels more like a living human being than a dead body and a dead animal."

Xiao Shuxiang blinked again, he then laughed awkwardly and again chewed on the Jade Lotus seed again.

"So what's your answer, have you ever eaten human flesh?" Dai Chen looked at Xiao Shuxiang with a probing gaze, he could see the face of the 14-year-old boy beside him slightly changed.

"Of course never, you don't look at me so suspiciously. Make a difference, you know!?"

"You ... don't lie, do you?" Dai Chen narrowed his eyes, he felt that there was something strange about Xiao Shuxiang.

"I'm not lying at all. Despite Xiao Shuxiang's first life, I was always offered to eat it.. I still refuse."

Xiao Shuxiang glanced at little Dai Chen. Feeling still suspected, he eventually switched the conversation to something else.

"You must be tired after traveling, right? You better take a break, we'll talk later. Ummm.. I have other business. Bye bye!"

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Dai Chen flinched when suddenly only Xiao Shuxiang darted away leaving him. He rubbed his chin while thinking about the weirdness he saw earlier.

"Either why.. But I suspect him.."

Elsewhere, Xiao Shuxiang continued to jump onto the roof of every resident house. Feeling that Dai Chen was not chasing him.. He also stopped.

"Huuft, you evil mouth." Xiao Shuxiang gently struck his mouth with three fingers, he was almost in trouble.

Xiao Shuxiang went to where he used to forge swords in this valley. He had learned many forging techniques as well as deepening the knowledge he had gained from Duan De.

Xiao Shuxiang had just returned home to treat Dai Chan at night. He first cleaned himself up before going to Dai Chan's room.

Tonight, only two veins were successfully placed in their original position because Dai Chan asked Xiao Shuxiang to stop.

Dai Chen felt his body tremble, he was like feeling the pain his sister was going through during the treatment. "Shuxiang, you better make a medicine that can ease my brother's pain."

"can't. Your sister's been lying there for a long time without being able to move her whole body, the pain will make her walk faster..."

In addition to these reasons, Xiao Shuxiang also had personal reasons for not making pain-relieving pills to Dai Chan. Of course it has to do with his entertainment.

After Dai Chan fell asleep, Xiao Shuxiang immediately exited the room followed by Dai Chen. The two are looking for a comfortable place to talk.

This time in Dai Chen's room, he handed over two letters to Xiao Shuxiang and said that one was from Yang Shu, the other was written by his friends.

Xiao Shuxiang first read the letter from his friends, he gasped when he saw the writing on the letter.

"Hm! This isn't Lan Guan Zhi's writing?!"

"Well, you can recognize the future Grand Elder's writing in just one look, it's surprising. What is the relationship between the two of you?"

Xiao Shuxiang without looking at Dai Chen said that Lan Guan Zhi was one of his friends, "... What do you want me to have with her, hm?" Xiao Shuxiang smiled, raised next to his eyebrows and looked at Dai Chen.

Dai Chen's body immediately goosebumps, he immediately reprimanded Xiao Shuxiang. "You must not make young master Lan Guan Zhi be on a deviant path. You are still a brat, daring to think like that is so shameless!"

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"Hey, did I say it would make Lan Zhi be on a deviant path? I didn't think of anything about it, but you did." Xiao Shuxiang could see the look on Dai Chen's face change, he tried to hold back the laughter.

"But your words were too ambiguous and your facial expression was like you made other people think towards 'that'."

"Dai Chen, your brain is already heavily contaminated. You better get married before it's too late."

"You did it, you little boy!"

Xiao Shuxiang laughed instead, he could not believe that Dai Chen was losing his composure. It seems like this 20-year-old man is not a really stiff person.

Dai Chen felt toyed with, he took a deep breath and began to calm himself down. Xiao Shuxiang's laughter subsided, he read back the letter from his friends.

The interesting thing he found was a meeting invitation from the owner of the Peacock Stork Association to him. The meeting coincided with an auction event at one of the Association's branches.

"... Six more months? Why would the owner of the Peacock Stork Association want to meet me?"

Dai Chen said, "You're the Association's business partner, of course the two sides have to meet in order for them to know who the person tying the business with them is. It would be impolite to just use someone else as your character. Their association is not arbitrary. You can invite big trouble if you make them mad,"

"All right, it's up to you. It is also written here... Ahh! Third Patriarch went berserk because his drink ran out, he needed more. Up next... Hm? Lan Xiao had a stomachache and didn't eat anything..."

Many trifles Lan Guan Zhi had written for him, Xiao Shuxiang could have concluded that it was his friends who directed Lan Guan Zhi to write them all.

Dai Chen was a little stunned when he saw Xiao Shuxiang's unsightly writing, even he felt sorry for the brothers of this young boy while reading the reply from their letter later on.

"... You guys don't have Lan Zhi write whatever you say. Try to write it yourself, don't bother it! You brat!" Xiao Shuxiang placed a lot of emphasis in each of his writings, he looked so serious.

Dai Chen looked pale as he watched Xiao Shuxiang's old writings like worms and hot ants, "He needs to be taught to write..."

Xiao Shuxiang finally finished replying to one letter, he then read the letter from Yang Shu.

Quite surprising. In the letter it was explained that there was an offer from Lan Gaozu for the Butterfly Sect disciples to be willing to pay the rent of their residence by carrying out the mission of the Sky Sword Sect.

This offer had been held up earlier by Yang Shu, the Grand Elder of the Silver Bamboo Sect and Dai Chen's father. Inside the letter was also written that the Fifth Patriarch and the Grand Elder of the Heaven Sword Sect were taking part in the meeting.

"... How else, Grandpa agreed. I certainly don't mind." Xiao Shuxiang handed Dai Chen a reply, "Take it. I'm asking you to hand me this letter. And also... You still have to be careful with attacks that might come suddenly to the Butterfly Sect. I want you to look for information on the Scarlet Shadow and the Demon Wolf Sect, as both of them are aiming for my sect. Now go, I'll take a break."

"But this is my room, you should go."

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Xiao Shuxiang slightly flinched, he completely forgot about being in Dai Chen's room instead of his. "Then I'll go,"

Just as he was about to step out, Xiao Shuxiang turned his head back and asked a single question. "Dai Chen? Is it true that you have a Life Dantian?"

Dai Chen replied that indeed his dantian was a Life Dantian, "Mn. Right, but why are you asking?"

"Can you give me a little blood?"

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Dai Chen did not understand, "What do you want to do with my blood?"

Xiao Shuxiang did not give a more specific explanation, "Your blood is related to my future."

An ambiguous statement again, Dai Chen already did not know what to say, his face looked pale. He immediately got up and pushed slowly Xiao Shuxiang to the front door of his room.

Xiao Shuxiang's. "He-Hey, why push me? You haven't given me your blood, Dai Chen..!"

"Sleep there." Dai Chen immediately closed the door when he managed to get Xiao Shuxiang out of his room.

Xiao Shuxiang was confused himself, he did not say anything bad but was instead expelled, outrageous..!

"Yes, but before you leave tomorrow.. You have to give me your blood. Let's just say it's a little payment from my treatment for your sister, you understand?"

Xiao Shuxiang walked away, he needed the blood of Dai Chen who had the Life Dantian as a supplementary material for his sword making.

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Suddenly Xiao Shuxiang heard the sound of the door being shifted, he turned his head back and found Dai Chen standing on the lip of the door while looking at him.

"Thank you .... It was the first time I saw my sister laughing." Dai Chen said it so quietly and hesitated a bit, but Xiao Shuxiang could hear it clearly.

"It's not a problem, even though I didn't tell Dai Chan any jokes. But yah.. Who cares." Xiao Shuxiang walked back after Dai Chen closed the door of his room.

In the morning, Dai Chen left just like that, he did not tell Xiao Shuxiang at all. But at Xiao Shuxiang's request last night, he placed a two-fingered urn on the table containing his blood.

Xiao Shuxiang did not become angry when he saw what Dai Chen had left for him. He started treating Dai Chan again.

Today, Xiao Shuxiang helped repair Dai Chan's fractured bones. Shouts of pain filled Dai Chan's room.

Aaaaakhs!

"Hold, you don't cry!"

"Sister Xiao, that's enough. Please," Dai Chan pleaded for Xiao Shuxiang to stop, that was enough for today. He could not feel pain anymore.

It was also good that Xiao Shuxiang was in the valley, he would spend more time with the disciples of the Lotus Root Sect as well as the residents. He can understand more about the human heart and appreciate them.

Elsewhere, precisely in the Demon----Sim Wolf Sect Hi Ji appeared to be standing with an eye toward a young girl sitting on her seat of pride.

This girl was none other than Bian Que. Despite wearing a mask, his arrogance remained clear. He treated the disciples of the Demon Wolf Sect including Sim Hi Ji as servants.

The reason why Sim Hi Ji could only endure his anger was because Bian Que was stronger than himself.

Bian Que is the Eleventh Pillar of the Scarlet Shadow. If in another sect, his status was the same as that of the Grand Elder.

Bian Que included cultivators who learned forbidden techniques where he had the ability to command the Heart-Eating Spiders.

He can make Sim Hi Ji and his students feel a painful death and they will not know until the pain envelops them.

Sim Hi Ji was scolded by Bian Que.

"Your act of attacking the Butterfly Sect without telling the Scarlet Shadow and the Blood Skull Sect is foolishness. And now you want to make another mistake?! Are you not satisfied with your sect being attacked and some of your students have been killed, huh?!"

Bian Que told Sim Hi Ji to gather strength and set up a more mature plan. He was certainly not interested in giving Sim Hi Ji any help with his strength since Bian Que was only carrying out orders from the Scarlet Shadow Elders.

He was not ordered to attack let alone slaughter the disciples of the Butterfly Sect, he was only ordered to test and kidnap a child that their Elders considered the Reincarnation of the Destroying Star.

"The boy was never seen, I don't know where he is now. But.. Sooner or later I'll find her."

After Bian Que's affair was over, he was instantly enveloped by black smoke and then disappeared. Sim Hi Ji who was ready to attack the Butterfly Sect was forced to cancel his intention, he told his disciples to pack up again.

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