His heart gave a sudden jolt. Realizing something was wrong, he hurried out of the pavilion to take a look.
Sure enough, three thoroughly bandit-looking fellows stood brazenly outside the entrance to his elegant courtyard.
The three were pointing around his courtyard and nodding nonstop, muttering things like, "These flowers are nice. We can transplant them to the back mountain," and, "That fishpond's good too. Big enough for a few koi."
The young disciple looked closely. The voices sounded vaguely familiar, and when he studied their faces, they looked even more familiar.
Then his pupils abruptly contracted.
"Holy shit! Isn't that Chun Xiaobai?!"
At that moment, Chun Xiaobai and his two companions also noticed the figure rushing out of the pavilion, and all three froze.
"Isn't that Li Xuanfeng?"
"Well, well! Junior Brother Li!" Chun Xiaobai snapped out of his daze and rubbed his hands together, his face instantly brimming with an enthusiastic smile. He charged straight in and grabbed Li Xuanfeng, whose face was deathly pale and whose mouth still bore traces of blood.
"Junior Brother Li! What fate! What a heaven-sent pile of fate!"
Li Xuanfeng's face twitched violently.
Acting as though they were old friends, Chun Xiaobai surveyed the lovely courtyard and nodded in satisfaction.
"I was planning to come find you in a couple of days and invite you to join the Inner Sect with us. Who knew you'd get here a step ahead of me?"
"Very nice, very nice. You've even spruced up my cave abode so beautifully. Thanks for all your hard work!"
"Uh!!"
Li Xuanfeng froze again, then immediately understood. This fellow hadn't come to catch up-he had come to steal his turf!
Just like back in the Outer Sect!
Back then, this fellow had stolen his cave abode on his very first