Chapter 426 - Pulling A Stunt On Uncle; A Strange Man In Black (9)
Chapter 426 – Pulling A Stunt On Uncle; A Strange Man In Black (9)
As for the visitors from the Top 9 Sects, they had, indeed, stayed at the Cheng’s. They wanted to meet with Cheng Xiao Xiao but she didn’t want to meet with them. She didn’t want to meet with them for the time being.
Then next day!
Liu Danhuang, who had been unconscious for over a day finally woke up!
Having received the news, Cheng Xiao Xiao rushed into his room as soon as possible. Old Man Ying and the others were already inside his room.
Seeing Cheng Xiao Xiao had arrived, one by one they stood up.
Cheng Xiao Xiao nodded at them, walked up to the side of the bed and said to the pale man, “Shi Xiong Danhuang, how are you feeling?”
“Shi mei, I am feeling much better. Thank you!” Liu Danhuang could still remember that she was the first one to arrive to save him. His look was a little complicated.
“Glad to hear that!” smiled Cheng Xiao Xiao. “Do tell if you don’t feel well. It’s not good to hold it back.”
“I know. I will.”
Liu Danhuang looked a little grim and said, “White Cat, it…”
Cheng Xiao Xiao knew who he was talking about. White Cat was the name of the pet that she had assigned to him. She couldn’t help but comforted him, “White Cat is gone, but I will give you another one. Don’t worry, it will be as good as the old White Cat.”
“Thank you.”
“Don’t mention it. What I need to know the most now was what had happened. We have tried everything but still couldn’t locate the culprit. Tell us what happened!” Cheng Xiao Xiao did beat around the bush but asked him directly.
Liu Danhuang recounted the entire incident without holding anything back.
As it turned out, it was his day off. And since he had hit a bottleneck in his cultivation, he thought the best way to breakthrough was to practice in the mountains, which was why he went into the mountains with White Cat.
In additional to cultivating, he figured if he ran into any herbs, he could also collect some and bring them back for planting. He walked further and further into the mountains; after all he had the mystical beast white tiger with him, most vicious beasts wouldn’t even get close to him.
Let alone the fact that he was already a beginning martial apprentice, he could easily handle a few vicious beasts himself. Finally, he walked into the mountain range area.
For the purpose of practicing, he put aside White Cat and was going to look for a vicious beast for a good fight, preferably that’d help him breakthrough his bottleneck.
After a little bit of distance further, he thought he saw a black figure passed him by but he didn’t get a good look at it. Out of curiosity, he decided to head toward the same direction as the black figure.
He followed down that path for a while before he noticed something wasn’t right. He wasn’t able to detecting anything out of the norm at all. Alarmed, he decided to turn back.
Right when he was about to turn around, he felt goosebumps all over. He whipped his head around and saw an odd-looking claw reaching out to him in lightning speed.
He wasn’t able to avoid the claw fast enough and was hit directly by it. He felt a sharp pain on his back and, before he could react, the claw came at him again. And, at the same time, he saw clearly an odd man wearing a black robe. His face was wrapped so it was impossible to see, but he only has one hand and the other one was a claw.
That was the only impression he was able to get. He couldn’t see anything else. He was clawed bloody by the man and, finally, he was struck over his head.
He almost lost consciousness when he hit the ground before he remembered his White Cat and immediately released it from his beast pouch.
As soon as White Cat was released, it lunged toward the man. Liu Danhuang wasn’t able to get up and, finally, he couldn’t even hear any more sound from White Cat. He knew something had gone awfully wrong but he couldn’t even call for help!
Right when he was about to lose consciousness, he heard Cheng Xiao Xiao’s voice. That was the last that he could recall.
After he was done, the only information that everyone has learned was a man in robe, with one hand and a beast claw!
“Sounds like it was, indeed, a depraved cultivator for Heitu. It could be nothing else!” said an abbess from Yuni Sect.
Nobody else offered any other opinion; the conclusion seemed to be unanimous.
“Miss, you still can’t locate him?” asked Old Man Ying toward Cheng Xiao Xiao.
Cheng Xiao Xiao nodded and frowned, “That was odd. He couldn’t have gotten away so quickly, so how was he able to avoid detection?”
“If we really couldn’t locate him, there’s only two possibilities – one, he had escaped already, or two, he was still in hiding. In either case, all we could do now is to wait, as long as he makes another move, I trust we will be able to locate him!” said Elder solemnly.
Everybody told Liu Danhuang to get some rest and one by one took off from his room.
Before she left, Cheng Xiao Xiao handed him a bottle of mystical water and told him to get some rest and not to worry about anything else.
When Liu Danhuang was alone, he hugged the water bottle close to himself like it was some sort of treasure while he grew quieter.
Cheng Xiao Xiao was worried that they have yet to find the culprit, but there was not much she could do other than having little Yuteng clone more bees and used them as invisible surveyors!
“Aunty Huihui, big sister Zixuan.”
Seeing the two coming toward her today, Cheng Xiao Xiao, who had been gardening in the courtyard was a bit surprised. Since when did these two get together?
“Xiao Xiao, you took away the gardener’s job again?” said Cheng Huihui, bemused by the one holding a small shovel in her hand.
Cheng Xiao Xiao didn’t think too much but waved the small shovel in her hand, smiled and said, “I’ve got nothing else to do!”
“If you’ve got nothing else to do, why didn’t you come chitchat with us?” said Gong Zixuan with faked annoyance.
Suddenly, before she could say anything else, she looked up into the sky as though she was looking at something in a distance.
Sensing something right away, Cheng Xiao Xiao smiled and said, “It looks like those from Palace of Immortal Beasts are here!”
“Yes, my mom and her group has arrived!” smiled Gong Zixuan.