Previously:

"So, what's your name?" I asked him. Mo Xuanyu hesitated looked down for a bit and he took a deep breath. He then looked at us and confidently said, "M...My name is Mo Xuanyu and I'm 24 years old."

'HE WHAT??!!'

General POV

Both Amirul and Starise looked at Mo Xuanyu, shocked to hear that he's older than them by 8 years. "Okay, let me get this straight. You're OLDER than US??!! How's that possible? You look nothing like a typical 24-year-old. I mistook you as a 14-year-old, ya' know that! This is crazy." Amirul ran his hand over his head as he tries to swallow the information.

Starise and Mo Xuanyu sweatdropped at Amirul's antics and they heard a loud growl coming from Mo Xuanyu's stomach. They frowned while Mo Xuanyu smiled awkwardly to them, saying that he's always like this. 'This is just unacceptable. They really went too far just because he's an outcast.'

Starise thought as she took out an energy bar, opening the plastic, and gave it to Mo Xuanyu who's curious about what's on her hand.

"What's that? I've never seen it before." He asked Starise. "That is an energy bar and it's food. Don't worry, it's good and definitely not poison." Amirul cut Starise who glared in annoyance while giving the energy bar to Mo Xuanyu. He then took a bite on the energy and they could see the sparkle behind his eyes, indicated that he likes it. "This is the best food that I've ever eaten. It's so sweet yet it gives me energy like how rice would do!" Mo Xuanyu's face gleamed.

"I'm glad that you like it, Mo Xuanyu. So, what was that just now? Why is that brat beat you up for?" Amirul suddenly asked. "Amirul! Enough is enough!" Starise warned him and apologies to Mo Xuanyu for her brother's attitude. Mo Xuanyu just smiled and said, "It's fine, really and you can just call me Big Brother Mo if you want."

He then told them about his so-called 'life' as a lunatic in the people's eyes. Amirul's eyebrow twitches when hearing the word 'lunatic' while Starise just listening to Mo Xuanyu's explanation. Well, that explains why he had powder on his face looking like a hanged ghost and the red-painted shed, making people think that his head had a screw loose. He also told them who his mother was and his relations with that Mo Ziyuan brat.

Turns out that he's the son of the second Lady of the Mo Family and a distinguished Sect Leader. Well, an illegitimate son to be precise. He's also Mo Ziyuan's cousin. Mo Xuanyu's aunt; Madam Mo is the elder daughter whose mother is his grandfather's principal wife, while his mother, the youngest daughter, was the daughter of a servant. The Mo Family originally wanted to give the youngest daughter to someone hastily. But when she was sixteen, the leader of well-known cultivation was passing by the area and fell in love with her at first sight.

The thought of that gives Amirul cringes as Mo Xuanyu continues his story. Though after the two fell in love and the Sect Leader often helped out the Mo Family with money and night hunts. The Mo Family took pride in the matter, while everyone else also envied the opportunity. The second Lady Mo bore one son for the Sect Leader which was himself.

But when he turned four, his father left and never came back. He was only involved with her to experiment with something new, and he grew tired of it in a few years. 'The audacity of him!! How could he do something like that to them!!' Starise and Amirul were enraged in disgust and yet Mo Xuanyu just smiled after all that happened.

The second Lady Mo refused to accept this; she firmly believed that the Sect Leader would not turn a deaf ear to his son. When he turned fourteen, the Sect Leader took him back and the second Lady Mo stuck her nose high up in the air again and told everyone that her son would most certainly become an immortal and bring glory to his clan. However, he was driven back shamefully before he could achieve success in cultivation and inherit his father's position.

"Don't tell me you got kicked out of your father's clan because you're.." Amirul caught the hint as Mo Xuanyu nodded in conformation. "Yes, It's because I'm a cut-sleeve." he said to him. Amirul then leaned back in disbelieve while Starise frowned. 'So that's the reason he has his face powdered.'

He had enough nerve to harass the other disciples. The scandal was revealed to the public and as he had few achievements in terms of cultivation, there's no reason for him to stay in the clan. Aside from the event itself, Mo Xuanyu often behaves crazily, as if his life was scared out of him. After he went back home dejectedly, Mo Xuanyu was bombarded with ridicule. The situation seemed like it was beyond redemption, and the second Lady Mo was not able to withstand the blow, shortly choking to death because of the trauma.

At this time, Mo Xuanyu's grandfather had already passed away. Madam Mo was in charge of the family, but ever since a young age, she had been unable to her younger sister, including Mo Xuanyu himself. She had an only son, that brat Mo Ziyuan who turns out to be the same age as the two siblings. When he was taken away by his father, Madam Mo was jealous and wanted to have even the slightest relationship with a cultivation sect. She hoped that the envoy who came would take Mo Ziyuan to cultivate as well.

But she was refused or rather, ignored.

Even so, the family all held the thought that Mo Ziyuan had potential and talent. They believed that if back then, he was sent instead, he would have won recognition from the sect, unlike Mo Xuanyu. Yet, even so, Mo Ziyuan would humiliate his cousin, cursing him for snatching his road to cultivation, and Madam Mo would be cruel to her sister's son. Which led Mo Xuanyu to madness.

Amirul's POV

After hearing his story, I felt sorry for Big Bro Mo but I bet that taking the road to cultivation is not an easy path, just like how he said to me. Even though Star and I never experience this, but we knew how it feels. I also had trust issues ever since I was 7 years old, after a certain incident that is so hard to forget.

"Eh? Where do you want to go?" Big Bro Mo asked me and I answered that I want to take some fresh air. As I walked out of the shed, I decided to take a look around the manor without getting caught by the guards. I walked around the manor for a few minutes when I stumbled across few maids who were gossiping about some cultivators from a prominent sect who came all the way to help the Mo Family.

12 1That attracted my interest as I listened to the maids that they were troubled by some 'fierce corpses' aka zombies, which came to mind as I walked towards the East Hall where the main family and the cultivators are.

'It's time to crash the meeting.'

General POV

Over at the Mo Family Estate, several young boys wearing pure white robes with drifting sleeves and flowing belts, appearing to be Ikemen and a treat to the eyes. Madam Mo standing in front of them couldn't help but admire their looks. Adding onto their robes, they each wore white forehead ribbons a finger's width, with cloud patterns sewn onto them.

The boys sat in front of a small table on both sides of the room as a servant pour them a cup of hot tea as Madam Mo began to make comments while an attempt to make connections with the cultivation family again.

"I've heard remarkable things about youths from prominent sects. Now that I met you, you are dashing, impressive, vigorous, and courageous! Truly distinguished among peers!" She let out a small laugh, as one of the boys takes his cup and begins to speak. He seemed to be the leader while the rest of his group starts drinking their tea.

"Madam Mo," He spoke with a well-mannered voice. "As you said earlier, hills behind Mo Village were not troubled by fierce corpse until recently."

"Indeed," She nodded. "Some even encroached on the village. Several master cultivators have come these past few days. Speaking of...night hunts?"

The word 'night hunt' seemed confused to Madam Mo. the young leader caught on her confusion, thus began to explain what the term is. "Cultivators travel far and wide, banishing evil." He explained. "These demonic beings often appear at night hence the term."

"Ah, I see." Madam Mo's eyes gleamed with fascination. "To be honest, my son has had an aspiring wish of purging evil since young. He has proper etiquette and extraordinary talent. He would be a promising cultivator. If only he had the opportunity.."

Before Madam Mo could even finish her sentence, the doors of the hall were open abruptly, and rushing in was the latter she was speaking of. Her son cried out with horror as he was clinging to his mother like a little child.

"That annoying Mo Xuanyu and those two freaks! They dare to hit me! You must thrash them to avenge me!"

"Did he hit you? Are you injured?" Madam Mo fretted as she looked at her son. But she realized what she was doing in front of her guests.

"Pardon us, cultivators." She smiled at them before murmuring a scowl to her son. "A-Yuan, manners!"

"That's right, Mo Ziyuan. Is that how you act in front of the guests?"

A voice that is familiar to Mo Ziyuan but foreign to the others echoed across the room and coming into the hall is none other than Amirul. He had heard enough from outside of the hall as he came into the room, smirking at the Mo Family.

"It's you! How dare you come here after what you did to me!" Mo Ziyuan pointing his finger at Amirul while Madam Mo was glaring at the intruder. Amirul stopped in the middle of the hall and looked at the cultivators who are staring at him. He noticed the white robes as he concluded that they're disciples coming from the prominent clan 'that person' told him about, the GusuLan clan. He also noticed the white forehead ribbons with the cloud patterns and knew that they were from the younger generation of blood-relationship to the Lan clan.

'That person' say that the motto of the GusuLan clan was 'righteousness'. The forehead ribbon implied to 'conduct oneself well' and the cloud pattern was the official pattern of the GusuLan clan, which cultivators who came from other families did not have the right to wear. 'What he said about them was true. I mistook their uniforms as 'mourning clothes.' He thought as he snapped himself into reality when he heard screaming.

Unknown POV

As Madam Mo speaks to Sizhui, I can't help but think about the incident back at the market. Never in my entire life, I've seen a girl done that stunt in public, let alone handling that kind of situation calmly and without anyone's help. I really want to meet her and the black-red boy, who I assumed her brother, again one day.

Suddenly, the doors of the hall open abruptly, and rushing in is a crying fat boy who I assumed that's Madam Mo's son. Her son cried in horror as something scared him and is now clinging on his mother like a whiny kid, complaining something about someone named Mo Xuanyu and some two freaks(?) and want his mother to avenge him by thrashing them. Like all mothers do, Madam Mo looked at her son, trying to 'comfort' him in front of us. 'What a weirdo.' I eye-rolled.

She realized that she's been doing that in front of us and apologies as she warned her son to watch his manners when suddenly a voice echoes the room. 'Wait, this voice. Could it be..!'

My question had been answered when a boy, wearing the same black-red odd garments from before, stepped into the room, smirking at the Mo Family. 'It's him!!'

General POV

"Who are you? How did you enter into my estate?!" She asked Amirul and he grinned. "Me? Oh, I'm just a nobody, and by the way, what were you saying just now? Something about thrashing me, my sister, and Big Bro Mo? Heh, fat chance, Fatty! I can beat you faster than a second." Amirul proudly roasted Mo Ziyuan in front of everyone.

They gasped at Amirul's profanities while the latter smirked triumphantly at Mo Ziyuan, making him furious as he grabbed a chair and threw it at Amirul.

"WATCH OUT!!!!"

What do you think to happen to Amirul? Will he survive that? Stay tuned for the next chapter!!