XIAO SHUXIANG'S
352 - Meeting With the Four Pillars of the World
"What are they talking about..?!"
Tianqi Mao was fanning his face in annoyance, he walked back and forth with many thoughts in his head.
".. Shuxiang and the young man were like talking about something important. But the moment I wanted to find out, the boy accidentally lost the Moving Mirror. Shuxiang.."
Tianqi Mao clenched his teeth. He's very curious. He had never felt this intent before.
Far away elsewhere, the look in Xiao Shuxiang's eyes could be clearly read by the Mad Beggar Boy. He knew this young man wanted to kill him, yet he was still able to act calmly.
".. What if you sheathed your sword first we talked.." The Crazy Beggar Boy persuaded Xiao Shuxiang, yet it seemed like this young man was in a condition that would not listen to anything.
"We can talk, but once you've become a lump of meat."
Xiao Shuxiang's voice was so cold. Consciously or not.. A thin blackish puff of smoke formed on both of his legs. The color of his red eyes is getting brighter.
"I know your fear.." The Crazy Beggar Boy tried to speak before Xiao Shuxiang took out all of his Swordsman Aura and directly attacked without caring about the surrounding conditions.
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Xiao Shuxiang gasped when he heard the Crazy Beggar Boy just now. He said nothing but to strengthen his grip on Yinng xiong, the veins of his right hand even looked stiff.
".. Seeing you this rough makes me wonder, have you only pretended to be in a relationship with Lan'Er Gege and the others? If that's true, then there's no reason for you not to kill me,"
"Who are you really..? What do you want from me?!" Xiao Shuxiang's hands trembled, but not out of fear.
This was because he was all his might pushing Yinng xiong to injure the Mad Beggar Boy, but his sword was held up so easily, let alone using only two fingers.
"I just want to talk. Try to sheathe your sword and calm yourself, control your emotions.. Okay..?" Crazy Beggar Boy smiled sincerely, he did not have the intention to fight with Xiao Shuxiang, he only wanted to talk to her.
Xiao Shuxiang controlled his irregular breathing. The smile shown by the Mad Beggar Boy and the smell that his nose smelled indeed indicated that this young man was not lying let alone having evil intentions on him.
"Shuxiangsu.. Don't make me misunderstand this action of yours. If your friendship with Lan'Er Gege isn't a lie, then you have to prove it.."
The Mad Beggar Boy knew that the Xiao Shuxiang before him was the reincarnation of the Black Stream cultivator who was titled 'The Destroying Star'. The cruelty of this young man in the past had been told all to him by Duan De.
In his opinion, if Xiao Shuxiang really wanted to turn into a good cultivator.. Then shouldn't this young man swing a sword accompanied by a strong killing intent.
"Well, isn't it better now..? We can talk a little more comfortably,"
The Mad Beggar Boy said so as Xiao Shuxiang pulled back Yinng xiong and inserted the sword into his Semestal Bracelet.
"What do you want to talk to me about?" Xiao Shuxiang began to regain his composure. Although to be honest, in his heart he was still vigilant and would immediately attack if the Crazy Beggar Boy did something that harmed him.
"This place is not suitable for discussing important matters with you," the Mad Beggar Boy looked around and started flicking his fingers.
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Just that one simple move and Xiao Shuxiang was now in a place with shades of white. He was like stepping on glass that seemed to be above the surface of the water.
Xiao Shuxiang swallowed his saliva and circulated a glance around. Besides the look that was under his feet.. Everything was white, including when he looked up to see the sky.
"This.. Is it not Nature Nirvana? How can you bring me here..?" he couldn't hide his surprise, Mad Beggar Boy really isn't an ordinary swordsman.
"Hm? Not particularly. This is my own Nirwana Nature. Hows it? I'm great, aren't I?"
The Crazy Beggar Boy let out his special grin. He then sat down cross-legged and asked Xiao Shuxiang to sit in front of him. The eye color of Lan Guan Zhi's good friend was somehow since when it returned as usual.
Xiao Shuxiang exhaled and began to sit cross-legged in front of the Mad Beggar Boy. His face and eyes looked serious.
"You relax.. Just relax~ I won't do anything to you even though I know your body belongs to a dead person,"
"Hmh, Duan De knows that I am the Star of Destruction. But the Long Bearded Grandfather had no idea that I was rising in the body of a dead man. So how do you know that?"
The failure of the Resurrection Martial Skill was not just eliminating the level of practice Xiao Shuxiang and his body shrunk into a 7-year-old child. But also because he did not rise with his original body, but rather his spirit occupied the body of a dead boy.
".. The boy had the same face and name as me, but he was too ambitious to be strong. I met him in hibernation.."
Somehow, but Xiao Shuxiang instead related his meeting with the original owner of this body to the Mad Beggar Boy. His words just flowed like that.
The Crazy Beggar Boy himself just kept quiet and listened. He watched Xiao Shuxiang so seriously while assessing the nature of this young man before him.
".. I told my beautiful mother everything. I told her that her son had died, but my beautiful mother did not care and instead accepted me without any hesitation,"
Xiao Shuxiang said he got up at the age of 7, so the memory of the time before he turned 7 he did not remember at all. It was just that, while meeting the original owner of the body he was occupying and talking to him.. All of his childhood memories are back.
From then on, his spirit and body were now fused into one. So neither swordsman nor any cultivator considered himself to be an unwanted spirit occupying a dead human body, and no one should know this.
".. You're the only one who says that. So how did you realize it..?"
No one is joking at the moment. Neither Xiao Shuxiang nor the Crazy Beggar Boy.. Both spoke very seriously.
The Mad Beggar Boy slightly touched the edges of his eyes, "I've known since I first met you. It was just that time, I'm not sure. It was only after hearing Duan De's explanation and your immediate confession that I came to believe in this vision of mine,"
The face and smile of the Mad Beggar Boy was extremely charming. If he was a normal young man, it was likely that he already had many wives at the moment.
"You already know me, so now it's your turn. Who are you really?"
From what Xiao Shuxiang noticed, the Mad Beggar Boy wanted something from him, but he did not know what it was. Hence in addition to asking the Mad Beggar Boy's identity, he also asked what the young man wanted from him.
"Can too. But I won't say it alone.." The Crazy Beggar boy flicked his finger again in a split second.. Three thin pieces of smoke appeared and then solidified.
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The white puff of smoke formed three old men, two of whom were spirits, while the other was an ordinary human.
Xiao Shuxiang was shocked. He knew these three old rascals. The first was an 80-year-old man with long, white clothes, hair, eyebrows, and whiskers. His silvery purple eyes made him realize that this person was Elder Da Lin.
The second Mr. Bangka has orange clothes mixed with brown and black. The grandfather had a bald head with two black marks on his forehead.
He looks like an old monk. It was this person that Xiao Shuxiang often referred to as the Blind Grandfather of the Writers of the Heaven and Earth Breathing Book.
The third jacka master was none other than Duan De. His short body and beard were so long that Xiao Shuxiang could recognize him very well.
"How can the three of you get together like this..?!"
There was an incredulous look on Xiao Shuxiang's face. Elder Da Lin should be gone, as well as the Blind Grandfather the Author of the Book of Breathing.
The only old man who had yet to become a freelance spirit in this place was only Duan De. The Long Bearded Grandfather greeted Xiao Shuxiang as usual as he rubbed his beard softly.
The presence of these three people in a single flick of a finger from the Mad Beggar Boy impressed Xiao Shuxiang and chuckled in admiration in his heart. He wondered regarding the relationship of the young man before him with these three old men.
"alright.. Where do we start..?" The Mad Beggar Boy stroked his hair slowly, he then took a breath and began to be talking back when Duan De suddenly interrupted him.
"Senior, what are you doing?! Sending me here without any advance notice, you can't just be like this.."
"Mr De, your protection will not be heard. I'm 'Your genius' so you're forbidden to argue,"
In fact not only was Duan De shocked from suddenly being in this foreign place, but the same was felt by Elder Da Lin and the Blind Grandfather of the Book of Two Breathing Writers.
"I should have escaped this chain of life. But Senior, why did you pull my spirit here?"
Elder Da Lin and the Blind Grandfather The Author of the Book of Two Breathing seemed to be asking the Crazy Beggar Boy a question. Both of them were honestly happy to be able to meet their seniors again, but this kind of meeting was obviously very sudden, let alone they had now been in spirit form.
Not only that, but the two old men also met Xiao Shuxiang. The young man they chose to carry out a mission.
"I didn't expect you guys to really know each other. It's unbelievable not to see it for yourself.." Xiao Shuxiang looked tense yet amazed simultaneously.
The Blind Grandfather of the Writers of the Heaven and Earth Respiratory Book and Duan De were the ones who had indirectly contributed to making him possess the title of 'The Destroying Star'.
While Elder Da Lin was the person he met while exploring the ancient tomb and the person who gave him the White Jade Flute and the One Ring. The story of Elder Da Lin and the tragedy in the Southern Continent became the historical story that Xiao Shuxiang had always heard.
"The Crazy Beggar.. How do you know them..?" Xiao Shuxiang involuntarily gulped, he became even more curious about the identity of this same-sex perverted young man before him.
"Oh, the three of them are my juniors, because calling them 'grandsons' makes me look so old. You've met them before but you don't know them well enough, do you? So I'll introduce them to you one by one.."
The Crazy Beggar Boy pointed at Duan De with the thumb of his right hand. Xiao Shuxiang was seriously paying attention and also listening to him speak.
".. Each Continent had one person as the World Pillar and Duan De was one of them. He has the title 'The Forger' and is the youngest of us,"
The Pillar of the World is actually a name for talented people with whom it can bring about great changes to the lives of warriors.
".. Akatsuki himself was a senior of Duan De, but was younger than Da Lin. His lack of sense of sight did not stop him from being the author of the book of breathing and the greatest moves. Even his writings are always contested and become the root of the outbreak of war between the Streams,"
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"Seniors.. That's.."
The old Bangka who was called the Crazy Beggar Boy was about to protest, but when thought again.. His Senior's words were indeed true. During this time he wrote many books, ranging from the greatest skill, poison and antidote, seal of creation, to Breathing Techniques.
Some of his books he kept and burned, but not infrequently he used the books he wrote as betting material. The Heaven and Earth Breathing Book that Xiao Shuxiang had given him back then was one of them.
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"So.. Grandpa's name is 'Akatsuki'? That's not the original name of the inhabitants of the Eastern Continent, is it?" Xiao Shuxiang was more curious about the name Old Bangka Buta than about how many books the Old Grandfather had written.
"I was born and raised in the Northern Continent, so it is indeed not a native of the Eastern Continent. I like to travel to different places, gathering a lot of inspiration for every book I write. Fate finally brought me to the Eastern Continent, met you, and also met my death,"
Xiao Shuxiang, "But not when we fight do you not die? It's not me who killed you,"
"No, no, but your attack was pretty fatal. I could have recovered, but if I had thought about it.. My life goal has been fulfilled. I have the heir to the breathing book I wrote,"
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Xiao Shuxiang flinched as he looked at the monk-like Old Bangka smiling sincerely at him. She returned the smile, but awkwardly.
"Old Sister, it seems you forgot something important. You gave the Book of Breathing Heaven and Earth to the wrong person. Did you forget who I was?"
Xiao Shuxiang pointed to himself and said that he was a cultivator of the Black Stream as well as a swordsman who liked and thirsted for slaughter the most.
".. I used to be very strong by possessing the Heavenly Heirloom Sword, and thanks to the Breathing Technique that Grandfather wrote.. Many three-flow cultivators died in my hands,"
Xiao Shuxiang shook his head, first he might thank and let out his evil grin and then began to laugh at the stupidity of Old Bangka who had given him the book. But now, he was not at all happy.
".. Grandpa made a big mistake. It was a long time ago, but I saw Grandpa not feeling any remorse. Is it because this continent isn't where you live?"
"You yourself? You're the one who's responsible for the slaughter and the chaos. Don't you feel sorry?"
The Mad Beggar Boy, Duan De, and also Elder Da Lin noticed how Xiao Shuxiang with Akatsuki spoke. They have no intention of interrupting and prefer to be listeners.
"Not at all," Xiao Shuxiang's reply was so steady, without the slightest hesitation. ".. The grandfather who should be sorry, because indirectly.. Grandfather also played a part in the mess I made,"
"Hm.. Means Duan De should also regret it, since he was the one who made the Heavenly Heirloom Sword."
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Duan De gasped as his name was suddenly called by Akatsuki, "But I didn't tell him to use that sword to create chaos.." Duan De did the defense.
".. The Heavenly Heirloom Sword is a weapon that should be used to protect and help others, not used in the path of evil."
"Hmh, you're too naive Grandpa Long Beard. Weapons are made not to protect, but to kill. Protecting and helping others is just an excuse to swing them around so that they are not considered criminals,"
The Mad Beggar Boy nodded in agreement with Xiao Shuxiang's words just now. Indeed, when viewed from any point of view - Weapons, especially great heirlooms are never clean of blood.
The warriors of the Black Stream mostly had no particular reason in swinging their weapons, which was why such warriors were feared.
Unlike the Swordsman of the Neutral and White Stream who always labeled their every action with the words 'Protect', 'For Justice', 'For the Creation of Peace', 'For the sake of Humanity' and so forth. Though basically, the function of the weapon is nothing but to kill. Just Killing.
"I don't doubt it.." Elder Da Lin began to speak up, ".. But the function of a weapon can change depending on the desire of the wearer, just like a small needle covered in deadly poison with a needle covered in herbal liquid. A sword can do it, too,"
Elder Da Lin looked at Xiao Shuxiang and began to introduce himself. "Our meeting was quite brief first, so let me reintroduce myself. Call me 'Great Elder Lin', I am one of the Five Pillars of the World that holds the title of 'Sealer'. My heir at this time.. Ah yes, did you manage to save my descendants?"
"Mn, the Black Cat is fine. She's now-!!" Xiao Shuxiang spontaneously patted his eel, he forgot to take out Xiao Qing Yan and also Lan Xiao from within his Universal Bracelet.
This action of his made Duan De, the Crazy Beggar Boy, the Blind Grandfather of the Book of Two Breathing Writers, and Elder Da Lin gasp at once in astonishment. One of them asked Xiao Shuxiang.
Crazy Beggar Boy, "What's wrong with you?"
"I forgot my friend.. Haah, I hope they don't eat my pills and herbs, too,"
Xiao Shuxiang slowly shook his right hand, yet strangely he could not take out Xiao Qing Yan and Lan Xiao.
The Mad Beggar Boy did not understand the intent of Xiao Shuxiang's words just now, because indeed the young man did not know about the Universal Bracelet that could store living things. He just assumed Xiao Shuxiang wanted to take out something from the heirloom that was coiled around his arm.
"You can't pull out a gun or anything in this place. The Nirvana realm is not used for combat, even though it's my nature,"
It was a pity, even though Xiao Shuxiang wanted to bring Elder Da Lin together with Xiao Qing Yan. Inside his Water Bracelet there was indeed this corpse of an Old Jack, but a body without a spirit could not be spoken to.
"Grandfather's descendants are fine, and he is always ready to seal the Devil. Right now, he's probably practicing,"
"I'm grateful you finally met him. So, did you name him 'Black Cat'? I heard you say that,"
Xiao Shuxiang smiled awkwardly upon hearing Elder Da Lin's words, and replied that 'Black Cat' was just a regular nickname that he wore.
".. Xiao Qing Yan is the name of your descendant, Hu Li gave it to him. He is currently in good shape. When I first saw him, I was quite surprised that your descendants looked like 10-year-old boys. I thought she was a grown girl, though,"
"Mh.. It shouldn't be like that. Could something happen when you find him? Or is there some weird thing you've been seeing?"
Xiao Shuxiang paused for a moment before replying that the one he saved inside the Eternal Ice Cake was only the spirit of Elder Da Lin's descendant, while the body of the girl was in the palace of the Eternal Ice-Ice Empress, Northern Continent.
"Hearing your story makes me feel that the growth of my offspring stopped at the age of 10 is because his spirit and body were separated for quite a long time. But hearing that she's okay makes me happy, thank you.."
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Xiao Shuxiang gasped in disbelief Elder Da Lin thanked him. But he tried not to be too happy. He then looked at the Mad Beggar Boy as it was now the turn of the young man to introduce himself.
"You know my name, right? As you can see, I am also one of the Five Pillars of the World and the oldest among them.." The Mad Beggar Boy mentioned his title which was referred to as 'The Generator'.
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