The Exiled Swordsman

Dangerous Poison

The smell of herbs being boiled in an earthen container wafted through the cave through the stone walls. Beside the large container, a young man was busy sorting out the herbs while inserting one by one the leaves as listed in the recipe book in front of him.

 "Soon the potion will be finished; prepare to enjoy this delicious potion!" She screeched as she stirred the potion in the large container. 

"Call the damn insects here! I want them to deliver this potion immediately to the big cities!" He ordered the young man who was his assistant. 

It wasn't long before a swarm of insects arrived with their army. The insects drank the potion until they salivated, which was believed to be able to destroy others because of the poison contained in it. The potion was not just any potion; it was a poison concocted with dangerous ingredients. 

"Hahaha! Just wait until last night. I'm sure they will be wiped out, and there will be no sects in this world. Only witchcraft wins!" He shrieked with satisfaction. 

Xiang Zhe, on the other hand, did not accept the entire sect being wiped out. He knew how hard it was to build a sect from scratch. He, who was originally listening to the young man's monologue, could not stand his behavior, so in the end, he chose to go out and destroy the container with his energy. Suddenly, the young man gasped in shock as the potion he had worked so hard to make was scattered on the ground.

Yuanying quickly caught up with Xiang Zhe to ask him to leave, but was held back by him. "Who are you? How dare you enter my place without permission?" She asked in an angry tone. 

"So you're the one who spread the poison? You killed off the entire sect one by one. What was your intention in doing that?" Xiang Zhe asked with emphasis.

 "None of your business!" "Of course it's my business. I'm the head of the Zheming Sect, not just me. All the sect heads around the world would definitely not accept having their martial arsenal poisoned to finish them off. Do you feel defeated because you don't have an army? It's just your friend's insects, right? While we sect members have many troops?" 

Brakkk... 

"Watch what you say! How great are you to be able to utter such trashy words, huh? I don't know who you are! I have nothing to do with you either. You better leave before these bugs attack you!" He threatened. 

Xiang Zhe was not afraid of the threat, unlike Yuanying, who had already invited him to return to fear if the bugs attacked them again. "Xiang Zhe, we better leave this place. They are very dangerous, and I am afraid if anything happens to you." 

"Leave if you're afraid! I can deal with them without your help! Where's your title of prowess if you can't even fight a handicapped child?" She mocked. 

That remark managed to make the young man hurt. His physique was blatantly insulted by Xiang Zhe. 

"Damn it! Attack!" The swarm of insects attacked Xiang Zhe again because they had just received energy from their master, and the power was now strong again.

They attacked Xiang Zhe and Yuanying by spitting out the dangerous poison. But Xiang Zhe's cerebral intelligence is able to defeat any enemy in front of him. He catches each burst with a bag in the cave so that all the poison produced by the insects is successfully stored in the bag, and then Xiang Zhe burns it with his power.

All the dangerous venom was gone; only the common insect saliva was spewed out. Xiang Zhe smiled with satisfaction when he saw that the insects did not move violently, quickly utilizing his swordplay to finish off the insects in one stroke. Human lives he could take with just a sword; of course, animal lives were small to him. 

"Aaarrgghhh!!! You useless insects! It's useless for me to take care of you and raise you!" The young man screeched in annoyance at his pets, who were apparently useless if they didn't gain power from him. Only the deformed youth and his followers were left, who were now in Yuanying's sights. 

"You destroyed my efforts. Now that my life is ruined because of you, feel my vengeance!" He said this as he attacked the magic power. 

The young man looked very angry, his rage blinding. Xiang Zhe sensed that there was something odd going on; the young man seemed to be venting some long-held resentment. He thought that something had happened to him. His emotions were so uncontrollable that Xiang Zhe chose to fight the fight until it ended in a paralysis attack that made the young man immediately feel weak and helpless. Even his energy attacks did not penetrate into his body because he was too weak. 

"You guys ruined my life! All my hopes and dreams were destroyed because of you!" He said it weakly. 

"All humans are evil. I hate martial arts; I hate sects. They will only throw away the handicapped; they think that handicapped people are just trash. I hate sects!" she muttered angrily. 

Xiang Zhe immediately furrowed his forehead. Now he knew the reason for his hatred of martial arts. Apparently, it was his physique that made him feel inferior. But which sect was he referring to? He thought out loud several times that the Zheming Sect had never excluded anyone, including the handicapped. 

"There are no good humans; even my own father threw me away for being useless. Only that insect became my family; he cared about my pain. But what happened? You killed my family; because of your actions, I now live alone!" His anger peaked again as he spewed out his evil energy.

 "I know you're disappointed, but I hope you don't let your hurt for one person make you blind and destroy everyone. Not everyone is as bad as your family!" 

"Hahaha! What nonsense! There are no good people in this world. Everyone only pretends to care about a situation, but after that? They will definitely insult us and get rid of us slowly." He said it confidently. 

"Xiang Zhe, is this kid dangerous?" Yuanying asked curiously because of the many evil potions she had concocted.

 "I don't know; it seems like she was born to a great person. It's just that his abnormal physical condition made them discard and alienate this child. I'm still thinking, whose descendant is this kid, and whose sect is he actually referring to? I really can't think straight," Xiang Zhe said curiously. 

"I will not stop committing crimes until the entire sect in this world is destroyed! I will make every effort to destroy the martial arts arsenal and all humans in this world." He said it with confidence. 

Then the handicapped youth left, along with the magical wheelchair that he painstakingly sat in. Now Xiang Zhe and Yuanying were left in the room, fighting with their own minds. "One big secret has yet to be revealed, and now fate is bringing me back to think of another big secret? What kind of game of fate is this again?" He asked himself.

 "Are we going to continue the mission to find out your past?" 

"Of course!" 

Continued...