Sister, I don't want to be a furnace anymore. I'm about to become an immortal.

Chapter 51: Misunderstanding

Xiao Yichen withdrew the energy back into his body and exhaled heavily. The stones that were still flying forward lost their support and fell down one after another, hitting the ground and splashing a lot of dust.

"Huh... I only have 30% of my energy left. Luckily I didn't capsize." He took a breath and slowly dropped back to the ground. He lifted his wrist and lifted the crimson wildebeest on the ground. With a flash, he flew in front of the young man, carrying it with him. He asked sarcastically, "Any other cards up your sleeve?"

Hearing this, the young man struggled to prop up his body on his hands, his eyes fixed on the masked Xiao Yichen in front of him, and then he looked at the red-flame wildebeest that was casually thrown on the ground, and said viciously: "I didn't expect that I had been running away for so long and the power of the entire sect couldn't catch me, and in the end I would die at the hands of a cunning guy like you, haha... I admit defeat. Anyway, my relatives in this world are almost dead. You can kill me or cut me up, it's up to you." After speaking, he was no longer afraid. He walked straight to the wildebeest, hugged the other's head, and a tear slowly slipped from his eyes.

Seeing this touching look, Xiao Yichen still did not soften his heart. He kicked the boy again, and the boy was kicked several meters away.

"Even if you've encountered injustice, you shouldn't take the lives of the villagers here to vent your anger. Do they have anything to do with your hatred? Do you have the guts to fight those who are chasing you? You allowed the monsters to come here and cause chaos, killing their own kind. Today, I will..."

Before he could finish his words, he heard the young man in the distance shouting in a furious tone, "How could I have killed my own kind? I've only been hunted and hiding in this area for about a month, hiding in the mountains and eating fruits every day. If I hadn't discovered that Chi Yan was missing today, I wouldn't have come down the mountain to look for him."

Hearing this, Xiao Yichen was stunned at first, but then his expression turned cold again. He said, "A month? The time is right. It's you who's causing trouble here. I made no mistake."

Seeing that Xiao Yichen was still pointing his spear at him, the young man didn't know what to say. He just kept yelling, "I didn't kill anyone, nor did I ask Chi Yan to kill anyone."

"You said you two didn't kill anyone, so why did the villagers here go to Qingfeng Pavilion to complain? You're trying to argue when you're about to die? What's the point?"

The young man saw Xiao Yichen's hands begin to glow with light, and he obviously didn't want to listen to his nonsense anymore. He explained anxiously, "I asked Chi Yan to scare away those villagers to prevent them from losing their lives. Since we arrived here, the most we've done is scare a few elderly people into fainting. We haven't hurt any villagers, we just scared them away."

Hearing this, Xiao Yichen was also a little unsure, but he slowly retracted the energy on his wrist and said to the young man in a deep voice: "Produce the evidence."

When the young man heard that the other party wanted him to produce evidence, he was at a loss for a moment. He ignored the injuries on his body and kept scratching his head. Just when Xiao Yichen was not going to waste time and condensed a halo in his hand again, the young man shouted loudly: "You can go to the village and see if there are any signs of damage." He also knew that this was not any evidence, but he was about to die now, so he could only take a gamble.

Fortunately, Xiao Yichen was still calm. He also made a mistake. If the young man in front of him was really innocent, it would be a bit unreasonable to let the innocent prove himself. After all, it is really difficult to prove?

He planned to send a message back to the sect to inquire about the specific situation, but he did not directly find the disciples in the mission hall. Wouldn't that be telling the other party directly that he had come to deal with the magical beasts in the Qi training realm, directly exposing his own strength.

The person he was looking for was his master Xuanqing. Although he had to trouble his master for such a small matter, he couldn't find any other way at the moment. He didn't want to be a guy who treated human lives as worthless.

Soon, he contacted Xuanqing and told him what happened here. There was silence on the other side at first, and then Xuanqing's smiling voice was heard: "You went out again? And defeated a demon beast in the early stage of Qi training? Not bad, not bad. You wait, I will go and inquire about the details of this matter." After that, he cut off the voice transmission.

Xiao Yichen squatted on the ground and started to use the rejuvenation technique to treat the red-flame wildebeest under his feet. If this was really a misunderstanding, early treatment would prevent this guy from continuing to suffer. And if the young man was lying, the worst that could happen was to beat him up again. It wouldn't have any impact and the other party couldn't run away.

The young man not far away saw Xiao Yichen treating the wildebeest, and the stone in his heart fell. As long as the other party was willing to investigate, he really had nothing to be afraid of. After all, what he had just said was all true.

Not long after, the rumor stone in Xiao Yichen's arms vibrated slightly. After the call was connected, he heard Xuan Qing anxiously say on the other side, "Boy, you didn't kill that guy, did you?"

Hearing this, Xiao Yichen knew the young man hadn't lied to him. Sure enough, after he answered, Xuan Qing across from him breathed a sigh of relief and said, "This is truly a misunderstanding. The villagers simply said a magical beast had invaded their village, but no one was harmed. Fortunately, you didn't kill them."

After cutting off the sound transmission stone, Xiao Yichen sped up the healing process, and the young man slowly walked to his side. After a while, the red-flame wildebeest recovered, but it didn't dare to stand up at all. It looked at Xiao Yichen with fear in its eyes.

Xiao Yichen turned his head and said awkwardly, "Why didn't you say it at the beginning?"

The young man's face was full of black lines, and he was a little speechless: "You didn't ask, and how do I know that you came here because of this matter."

Seeing that the two were no longer as hostile as before, the red-flame wildebeest under his feet suddenly let out a loud "wow" and bit Xiao Yichen's ankle, taking revenge for the bite Xiao Yichen had just given him.

This change scared the young man in front of him, who was afraid that the masked man in front of him would attack them again when he was in a bad mood. Fortunately, Xiao Yichen did not do so. He kicked the wildebeest under his feet. He could feel that the other party was just taking revenge. In fact, he didn't use much strength at all. After the wildebeest had its revenge, it raised its head proudly and returned to the young man.

After the young man calmed the wildebeest, he started chatting with Xiao Yichen. His injuries quickly recovered under Xiao Yichen's treatment. After he was fully recovered, Xiao Yichen asked, "By the way, what happened to you just mentioned being hunted by the sect?"

The young man pondered for a while. Seeing that he didn't want to talk, Xiao Yichen didn't plan to continue asking questions and was about to change the subject. But the young man suddenly said, "Brother, have you heard of the Spirit Sword Sect?"

Hearing this name, Xiao Yichen's heart trembled violently, and a nameless fire instantly surged in his heart. The expression under the mask became extremely ugly. He stood up and said word by word to the young man in front of him: "What is your relationship with the Spirit Sword Sect?"

The young man was frightened by Xiao Yichen's change. Even the red-flame wildebeest beside him began to tremble and kept grabbing the young man's sleeve with its mouth, trying to make him run away quickly.

Swallowing his saliva, the young man didn't dare to look at the other person. Even though Xiao Yichen was wearing a mask, he didn't dare to look him in the eye. He was absolutely sure that if he answered a word wrong, the other person would kill him immediately.

The young man's voice trembled as he said, "Big... Big Brother, don't get angry. I didn't say I was a disciple of the Spirit Sword Sect. On the contrary, the sect I just mentioned that was hunting me was the Spirit Sword Sect. Look at this."

As he spoke, he took out a crumpled piece of paper from the bag behind him. On it was a drawing of the young man in front of him, and there was a reward amount below it.

Seeing this, Xiao Yichen suppressed his inner anger. The young man was right. He really had the intention to kill. He ended up in such a shameful state because of the Lingjian Sect.

Seeing Xiao Yichen calm down, the young man slowly asked, "Brother, do you also have a grudge against the Spirit Sword Sect?"

Xiao Yichen chuckled, then took off the mask, revealing his frightening face, with bumpy skin, cloudy eyes, and even distorted facial features. The young man was so frightened by his appearance that he kept backing away. On the contrary, the wildebeest next to him was relatively calm and didn't react much. After all, it was not a human.

Putting the mask back on, Xiao Yichen said in a deep voice, "The Spirit Sword Sect is the reason I'm in this state now. Forget it, let's not talk about them anymore. Let's talk about your story."

The young man suppressed his fear and looked at the other person with some sympathy. Then he said, "My name is Ye Xingchen. I am a descendant of the Ye family, an ordinary family near the Lingjian Sect. By chance, my sister went to the ancestral home for fun. However, the ancestral home had fallen into disrepair and she accidentally fell into a hole in the ground and found a magic weapon inside." As he said this, he shook the necklace around his neck at Xiao Yichen. Xiao Yichen nodded, roughly guessing what he was talking about, and listened to the young man continue:

"My younger sister wore the necklace out for fun, and luckily it was discovered by an elder in the family. After some research in the classics, they discovered that the necklace was actually our family's long-lost magic weapon. With the blessing of the necklace, the family began to accumulate strength in secret, and everything was developing in a good direction. I believe that it won't be long before our family's status will be rapidly improved. But then, someone got the news of this to the Spirit Sword Sect, and then our family was destroyed and our members were captured. I was the one with the highest cultivation talent in the clan, and the elder passed the necklace to me at his last moment. Under the escort of several uncles, I was sent out safely. After that, it was an endless escape, and the elders who escorted me died in front of me during repeated pursuits. In the end, only Chi Yan was left by my side."

Having said that, the young man touched the head of the red-flame wildebeest next to him. His face was already covered with traces of tears, but his eyes were full of hatred. As for what happened next, it was not difficult to guess. The young man had been avoiding the pursuit of the Spirit Sword Sect. When he arrived here, he drove away the villagers, fearing that the villagers here would be affected because of him.

With a light sigh, Xiao Yichen stood up and walked to the side. The rumor stone in his arms floated to his chest and quickly contacted Xuan Qing. Without waiting for the other party to speak, he asked:

"Master, do you still want your disciple?"

"Talent? Sixteen or seventeen years old, at the beginning of the Body Tempering Realm."

"Huh? Don't let him get away? Hey hey hey, okay..."