39 You Touched My Brother
Ten days later, Liu Xingfei and Wei Gaoyuan returned to the outer section of East Mountain Sword Clan.
The two young hunters not only succeeded in rooting out the bandits for Chu Village, but also brought back half a box of treasure. After verification by the Exchange House, they were finally rewarded with twenty contribution points— five extra points for bonus.
Regarding the distribution of twenty contribution points, they had different opinions when receiving it at the Exchange House. Liu Xingfei supposed that Wei Gaoyuan had played a huge role in fighting against the man in white, and also helped himself to achieve the goal of saving his friend, so he'd love to give all twenty points to Wei Gaoyuan.
Although Wei Gaoyuan grew up poor and had been low in status since his birth, he knew the fundamental morals of Jianghu as well as the meaning of "brother" and "companion"; Moreover, he'd certainly learnt a lot from Liu Xinfei during the mission; despite being injured in the combat, he'd got recovered overnight after taking Liu Xingfei's pill, really a wonder pill; so Wei Gaoyuan insisted receiving no more than eight points.
(Jianghu:a very significant concept in Chinese Martial Arts novel, figuratively referring to the "underground world of martial arts". It's an amazing section of society, almost separate from government and authority, consisting of martial artists, gangsters, thieves, beggars, prostitutes, merchants, entertainers, and anyone else wanting to operate outside of mainstream society or in the grey area of the law.)
And finally, they reached a consensus: each of them got ten points. Then they just said goodbye and returned to their respective Peaks.
After returning to Dark-Feather Peak, Wei Gaoyuan learned that something happened those days when he left:
Cyan-Feather Peak and Scarlet-Feather Peak had got a little conflict.
WEI Gaoyuan broke through to the ninth-level of the Mystery.
And Hu Xiaoshu was beaten up, by WEI Gaoyuan.
Wei Gaoyuan didn't care about WEI Gaoyuan's breakthrough in the stage, but he had to know why he beat up Hu Xiaoshu, his brother.
...
Hu Xiaoshu's injury was not serious. He vomited blood after the conflict actually because of indignation.
WEI Gaoyuan of Cyan-Feather Peak was clearly a little man, a fame-hound in Hu Xiaoshu's heart. It was his brother Wei Gaoyuan, among the freshmen, who was the Martial Arts genius with a fake spiritual root. In his eyes, WEI Gaoyuan could never catch up with his brother Wei. So when the two young and spunky boys met, there was bound to be some hostile sparks exploding between them.
That day, they two just argued with each other at first, and a few words later, both sides were provoked, and then a competition in Martial Arts came.
With the strong support of Elder Xu, plus piles of rare herbs and pills Cyan-Feather Peak invested, WEI Gaoyuan quickly boosted his stage into ninth-level of the Mystery. How could Hu Xiaoshu compete with him? So without any effort at all, WEI Gaoyuan defeated Hu Xiaoshu, with only one stroke.
Hu Xiaoshu could never forget the pride on the face of WEI Gaoyuan, and his words: "Then you see it? I am that real genius disciple! You, who just can't take my one stroke, are not qualified to evaluate me, and the so called 'genius' in your mouth, your brother Wei, just tell him, I would always be waiting him at Cyan-Feather Peak..."
He gave a special emphasis to the later "genius".
Hu Xiaoshu was not a slick talker naturally, too furious to argue anything. He began vomiting blood after returned to Scarlet-Feather Peak. And Wei Gaoyuan was just at Chu Village at that time.
Lin was frightened while seeing his vomiting blood. So she reported the whole thing to the Elder of Scarlet-Feather Peak, who immediately sent a senior disciple to speak officially to the Cyan-Feather, which caused a small friction between the disciples of the two Peaks.
Fortunately, it was not big deal, just the friction between the young disciples, but it indeed made the Elders of the two Peaks feel kind of embarrassed and humiliated.
The two leading roles in this incident were both new disciples. The disciple of Scarlet-Feather Peak couldn't take one stroke of the disciple of Cyan-Feather Peak. Did that indicate the education and cultivation of the former Peak had fell behind that of the later one?
The Elder of Cyan-Feather Peak knew it plainly in his heart that his disciple WEI Gaoyuan could not compare to Wei Gaoyuan that Hu Xiaoshu defended. If Wei Gaoyuan heard of it after return, he wasn't likely to stand by; who knew the current level of Wei Gaoyuan, the boy with the fake spiritual root? That might torn the loincloth of his Peak…
No! He wouldn't involve himself into any possibility of losing his old face again! He wouldn't let WEI Gaoyuan meet Wei Gaoyuan!
To improve WEI Gaoyuan's stage as quickly as he could before the two boys met, and it would be the best result that WEI Gaoyuan could take the lead in the examination for the new disciples at the end of this year, if so, his old face would be completely saved…
...
Before the evening came, Elder Xu, the lead of Cyan-Feather Peak, was seen hurrying off his Peak to the direction of Dark-Feather Peak with a small jar of wine…
At almost the same time, Wei Gaoyuan walked out of Hu Xiaoshu's residence. He left Scarlet-Feather Peak and went directly to the location of Cyan-Feather Peak.
Deng Baisheng, who entered Cyan-Feather Peak four years ago, had reached the peak of eighth-level of the Mystery, not far from breaking through into the seventh-level.
It was his turn today to guard Palace of Cyan-Feather, an easy job generally. Because the precepts and laws of the outer section was serious and well organized, few people dare go on the rampage on the Peaks.
The time after dinner was always quite leisurely. Deng Baisheng leaned in front of the hall door, watching the sunset in the sky and thinking about his future life. Then, a boy in a black uniform appeared in the distant, stepping to Palace of Cyan-Feather steadily along the long stone steps.
"The man of Dark-Feather Peak?" Deng Baisheng recognized the uniform. "Why do the disciple of Dark-Feather Peak visit our Peak at this time?"
He stood upright and waited. Until the boy in black came close to the hall door, he greeted, "This junior brother of Dark-Feather Peak, welcome, and…what can I do for you?"
"I'm coming for WEI Gaoyuan, I wonder if you could help me to inform him," surely, the boy in black was Wei Gaoyuan.
He cared little about what WEI Gaoyuan had done on the day of selection. He would never, however, care little about what WEI Gaoyuan had done against his brother Hu.
"For junior brother WEI?" Deng Baisheng immediately remembered Elder Xu's command before going down the Peak that WEI Gaoyuan had retreated into a secret cultivation, and just told anyone that want to visited him to come after three months.
WEI Gaoyuan was well known in Cyan-Feather Peak as a result of of Elder Xu's preference. Elder Xu said he was a rare genius. Recently a few people had come to visit him. Thus, in Deng Baisheng's opinion, it was not curious for the young boy in black to visit his peer brother for admiration, who'd, after all, broken through the Undistinguishment into the Mystery only two months after he entered Cyan-Feather Peak.
He put on a routine look, saying, "Junior brother WEI has broken through recently and been in a secret cultivation now. I'm afraid you need to wait for three months if you wanna visit him."
"Three months?" Wei Gaoyuan smiled, and with a faintly mocking voice, he murmured, "Isn't the three months enough? Even if hide himself for three years, he thinks he can flee?! "
Deng Baisheng was very close to Wei Gaoyuan, whose every word couldn't escape his ears. He stared at Wei Gaoyuan and asked, "This junior brother, you come for revenge? "
"Not for revenge, I just heard that brother WEI is a rare genius in Martial Arts, and had reached ninth-level of the Mystery. Therefore, I come today, just for learning from the genius..." Wei Gaoyuan's words was lent from the story in the tea houses. In the story of Jianghu, warriors who issued a challenge was always saying like that.
"Are you a freshman?" Deng Baisheng felt this boy was a bit interesting. To challenge a genius was indeed a good way to become famous overnight, as well as a good way to understand the cruel reality...
He wouldn't reason with such a new guy, saying in a institutional tone, "Wanna challenge junior brother WEI, you have to come three months later. You can leave your name first and I'll tell him later."
"He really locked himself in for a secret cultivation, or just for avoiding me?" Wei Gaoyuan smiled coldly.
"New boy, I have got no idea yet about the name of this junior brother from Dark-Feather Peak. And you think the disciple of Cyan-Feather Peak needs to avoid you?!" seeing a look of disdain on the face of the boy in black, Deng Baisheng changed his face suddenly and sneered coldly.
"My name is Wei Gaoyuan; WEI Gaoyuan beat up my brother, Hu Xiaoshu; I come here, for his payback!" Wei Gaoyuan responded.
"What?! You're WEI Gaoyuan? And you…you beat up your brother? And come here to beat up…WEI Gaoyuan??" Deng Baisheng's brain got a real short circuit at once…
