Dine and dash

A young man walks into the room hands holding a tray with a medicine bottle in it. Su Yang recalls that this should be his third Shidi Bei Ling. Pearless Heaven sect has a total of seven peaks, each with their own peak master. Su Yang's father the sect leader is naturally the peak master of Pearless peak where all the disciples are sword cultivators. Pearless peak has a total of 150 disciples, excluding the 5 inner disciples. Amongst the other peaks, it may not be the biggest but it's disciple's fighting strength are generally the strongest.

"Yang Shixiong ah, you really suffered. To get rid of that trash you even had to injure yourself..." Bei Ling face scrunches up into an ugly expression.

...Trash? Thinking about it, Su Yang recalled that yesterday "he" had taken his fifth Shidi Xi Wei into the sect's Beastial forest. After "taking care" of his fifth Shidi, he had cast an explosion spell on himself to make it seem like he had endured a grueling battle with the Rank 6 Fire Python living in the forest. Spirit beasts are ranked from 1 to 10 and a rank 6 spiritual beast is equivalent to a Nascent soul stage cultivation. The story that "Su Yang" had spun up was that his fifth Shidi being overly curious had wandered off by himself and accidentally stumbled upon the spot where the Fire Python was resting, irritating it. Xi Wei, in the end, was just a child no older than 14, he had only just entered the Foundation stage. How could he fight against a Spirit beast that has the prowess of a Nascent soul cultivator? By the time Su Yang had found Xi Wei and tried to save him, it was too late. The Elders accepted his explanation and some even praised his heroic effort. As for his father... he appeared as calm and detached from the world as ever, but there was a flash of emotion that the original Su Yang didn't miss. That only agitated the original Su Yang's emotions even more, the dark feelings bottled up inside of him intensifying.

Whereas Su Yang was the legitimate child born from the official wife, it was a loveless marriage for the sake of benefits. The sect leader wasn't the first son nor the most talented. He had an older brother that was better than him in every aspect, so being the less talented younger son, he was forced to marry a daughter with a military lineage to further strengthen Pearless Heaven Sect's influence. It was no secret that Su Yang's father had another sweetheart and resented the marriage. Then previous sect leader along with his older brother lost their lives during an expedition in the demon realm. At that time, due to the previous sect leader having a good relationship with the other peak masters and Su Yang's father's cultivation being just half a step away from the nascent soul stage, no one objected when he became the next sect leader.

Su Yang's father was no longer the lively youth from before and had long learned to be cold and unfeeling. He often goes into close door cultivation and almost never visited Su Yang and his mother who had failed to advance in her cultivation was already nearing the end of her lifespan when she had Su Yang.

Xi Wei was brought into the sect by his father when Su Yang was 14. At that time he had already finished the Qi condensation stage but his father only ever spared him a single "En". Su Yang was already used to his father's neither hot or cold attitude and thought he was just naturally like this. But when his father interacts with Xi Wei, although other people probably couldn't tell the difference, Su Yang can clearly tell that his father treated him differently.

Xi Wei was then tested to have a Heavenly thunder spiritual root, which paired with his comprehension ability, was in no way inferior to Su Yang and was perhaps even better. All sorts of bitter feelings began to take fester in his heart, causing him to even form a heart demon during his cultivation.

Xi Wei...Oh my goodness isn't that the child that ate him??? Su Yang's eyes almost popped out of his head, immediately bursting into a fit of coughs to cover up the surprised yell that almost escaped from his throat.

"Yang Shixiong are you all right?"

Calming down, Su Yang once again relaxes his face into his normal cold and aloof image. "Ahem, Ling Shidi... did fifth Shidi perhaps returned to the sect?"

Bei Ling gave Su Yang a strange look. "Yang Shixiong...don't worry, there's no way that Xi Wei can survive falling off a cliff of that height. Especially after you stabbed him."

Cough, cough. Right, he did stab him but he didn't die! Thanks to who? Thanks to him!

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After applying the medicine and sulking around in his room for half the day, Su Yang made up his mind. If Xi Wei is not coming back, then he'll just have to go to him! He wants to just dine and dash without paying? Like hell he'll let him walk away scot-free!