Exposed

Majid business worked well, even though it slowed down at the end of the month, he wasn't worried, he already has a surplus of resources and money. His enemies lost their minds waiting for him to get out, he holed himself like a turtle for the second month, his food came to his mouth without the need to move. Especially Master Fanli who waited for him the longest, he lost his patience, how the hell can he make him leave his carapace.

Unconcerned, Majid was energetically lecturing his cult members, things developed more than he expected, he became kind of coach for these guys. Being a loner all his life he has a lot of relationship's cons to defend his position. After all his celibacy was the first thing that came to mind when he met his family or friends, even strangers. And being double to triple the age of these boys, he has enough charisma to look the part, taking a leading role. It was long since this wasn't about money or the quest anymore, he liked to pass his wisdom to the young generation, as a loner he never had a satisfying opportunity to do so. This was his last speech before attempting the breaking through so he was more enthusiastic about it. In the lounge of his house, 8 boys were in a circle listening to him intently.

"You know brothers some races even the pious mantis, the males are hypnotized to the point of going to their own death following this instinct." shiver run down his spine, it was like dating a zombie, damn it "but that's how their race survived. we are different though, we are conscious beings, we don't need such instincts to guide us, especially cultivators, we should hold the reins of our own destiny... our female counterparts are no black widows, still falling for the wrong-"

"Brother Maoji, how came you know about the mantises life details, how do you even differentiate a male from a female." an energetic boy looked curiously at him.

Majid wasn't content his chain of wonderful thoughts was interrupted, after all, he adopted a Q&A session at the end of each session. The question caught him off guard though, he even forgot his displeasure. Maybe I went too far with my examples, "...generally, unlike humans, the male is smaller than the female, but that's beyond the subject," he composed himself and hurriedly continued before the bastard said anymore, "anyway, brothers, wisdom is everywhere in nature, we are inspired by beasts to create fighting techniques, small creatures are no exception."

Bang! Bang! "Maoji!"

Everyone shook from the sudden banging, so Majid hurried to see what's happening. Upon seeing the visitor his mood dropped, it was a boy about 16 years old, with small eyes and thin brows.

"What is it Senior Kubo," from the few times he met this boy he has no good impression of him. He was a bossy bastard that liked to throw his seniority around. Especially after he started his business, this guy questioned him many times about his activities, Majid didn't entertain his curiosity either. Majid later heard from some of his clients that Kubo scared them away sometimes, so their relationship wasn't cordial at all.

"The HeadMaster wants to see us, bring your ass to the field immediately," the boy looked him up and down before he sauntered away.

Majid could only look dully at the guy, not knowing how to deal with his bastard. After he explained the situation, he let Teemao handle the rest, and left in a hurry. He found his way to the field it was a private sandy ground in the side of their quarter, about basketball court size, one of their privileges as the faction disciples. The disciples were standing in the middle of the field, in front of them, the four royal guards and the headmaster were talking to each other. The headmaster was a bit short but has an aura of excellence about him, but it wasn't arrogance, actually, he looked gentle with his thick brows and big warm eyes.

"My new disciples, I wanted to see you soon but I was busy, let me present myself first, I'm Shan Bao since your my faction disciples call me Master Bao."

Master Bao roamed the disciples with his eyes, encouraging the disciples and praising their effort this last month, "there is no favoritism in my faction the harder you work, the better you're rewarded," his eyes focused, the gentleness disappearing from them, "I looked up your profiles, so know show me how much you progressed."

The disciples come forward one by one, demonstrating the progress in their cultivation or techniques, while the Guards noted down their progress. Majid was unconcerned with all of this since he has his own resources, he didn't intend to compete with them.

After they finished Guoro looked at Majid, he was a little bit disappointed that he made no progress. He got his hopes up since he heard the latter was doing some kind of business.

Kubo stepped forward and bowed, he shot Majid a glance before he said, "Master Bao, as you can see this moron made no progress, but-"

"I don't have disrespect in my faction, the next time something like this happens, I would lower your rank, be careful." Master Bao looked sternly at Kubo.

Kubo regretted his impulse, but since he was even more fixated on Majid, he was the third senior but this new bastard didn't put him in his eyes. What's worse, the bastard was making a lot of money and keeping it all to himself, "Understood, it's just that this Maoji was disturbing our cultivation, he created a commotion, continuously receiving common disciples, I even heard he was doing some indecent activities."

"Is this true," Master Bao's eyes moved to Majid.

"Master Bao, all was true except 3 words disturbing, commotion and indecent, I did no such thing, I'm selling some scrolls to support my own cultivation peasfully."

"Master Bao, those scrolls are of nacked women, I just felt I didn't want to sully your ears, our sisters are here as well, how dare you lie in front of the headmaster." Kubo's chest pumped as condemning him rightfully.

Immediately, a few female disciples looked daggers at Majid, murmuring among themselves.

Majid guessed something like this would happen sooner or later, so he wasn't caught off guard, "what can take long could take short, Master Bao allow me to bring some scrolls."

"How dare you, you want the Headmaster to look at those obscenities."

"What's obscene about women's bodies, you look more obscene to me," you want to put me against the girls, how about I send it back to you.

"I, you, I mean,"

Majid smirked as saw the Kubo situation, even though the girls weren't on Majid side, they weren't on Kubo's side either. Majid went after receiving the permission and came back in a jiff with 3 scrolls in his hands.

"My sisters here get disturbed by male attention, and my brothers get distracted by our sisters' beauty. I figured out, maybe I can solve both problems, with my brothers directing their attention to these drawings, and getting used to female presence, both my brothers and sisters could cultivate peacefully." his tongue waved flawlessly, this past month he became an expert in these subjects.

As Master Bao opened the scroll the royal guards came along to see exactly what is this about, they were stunned by what they saw. How the hell is this the work of a kid, it's not like they never saw paintings before, but nothing was beautiful like this. Majid could only shake his head, his half-assed skills could make them this amazed.

Master Bao turned one scroll and showed it to the disciples, it was a drawing of a young fairy with long hair and loose robe dancing in the wind. Their reaction was the same. Actually, Majid didn't draw naked nor sexual posters, just some sexy poses and outfits were enough, there was no need to go overboard and give others the chance to make trouble for him. The ones he brought to Master Bao was even less, just pure beautiful women drawings.

"Kubo, do you have anything more to say," he handed the scrolls back to Majid, "your rank is lowered once, for lying about your junior."

He smiled contently at Majid, but suddenly his eyes squinted, "you-" he hesitated before he said, "ok that's it for today, you follow me," he gestured for Majid, the latter's heart skipped a beat at the sudden change.

Everything was alright, just what is it.

"Headmaster you know his situation is unique, he needs more money to cultivate," Guoro feeling the change, tried to meddle.

"Don't worry Guoro, I have some questions for him, you can come along if you want."

Master Bao stopped after taking a few steps and looked at the disciples, "try not to leave the city if you can, if you have to, try to move in groups, no less than 4". Before he walked away with Guoro.

After hesitating for a moment Majid followed after them, they entered Main Hall and went to the hall master room. After closing the door behind, Majid stood before the two as they sat.

"Those things you showed me aren't your real products, aren't they,"

Majid wasn't surprised the headmaster knew, after all, the whole month, disciples were frequenting his house couldn't get unnoticed. But Is this why he brought me here, things didn't add up, that sudden change! just what does it mean!

Majid decided to go along for now, "each drawing is different from each other Master Bao," he tried to play the fool.

"Kid don't try to play with words with me, I saw some of your other paintings, ahem, ahem, you must stop before you create more problems."

Majid's face darkened, "I plan to stop anyway when I have another source of income to support my crippled cultivation."

"What if I told you to stop now," Master Bao smiled slightly rubbing his chin.

From his experience, Majid could tell the headmaster wasn't adamant about stopping him. So he decided to show his resolution before Master Bao did, "I have to quit school," Majid looked directly at Master Bao's eyes.

Master Bao's eyes widened, "even though Master Fanli is after your life,"

"I have no feature anyway, if I lost the prime cultivation potential of my youth" he showed no hesitation.

"Ok, that's not a big problem for now," suddenly the smile in Master Bao's face disappeared, "but that thing on your eyes is, why are you putting that black thing on your eye."

Seeing the conflicted look on Majid's face, "Maoji, you're my faction's disciple now, you can trust me."

So that's it, Majid regretted not changing his contact lens, they started to get loose, and he was intending to change them, but he was busy with other things.

"Actually, my name isn't Maoji," Master Bao wasn't surprised. Majid sized his options and felt there was no harm telling these guys, he has a good impression of Guoro, and his first impression of the HeadMaster wasn't bad either, and his situation wasn't that important anyway to the royals, "I'm Xiaode, the young master of small clan in a nearby city, the Fire Snake Clan."

Master Bao raised his hand stopping Majid, and his eyes went vacant for a moment, "wait, you, weren't you dead."

Majid tensed as he shot Master Bao a stare, why would the headmaster know of my situation? his mind went into a rollercoaster, the worse the scenarios turned surfaced, his faced darkened more and more.

Seeing Majid's reaction, Master Bao leisurely said "Don't worry nothing personal about you, I'm following the death report of all cultivators in this region and even other regions, I'm studying them for my personal reasons," his face darkened, he was lost in his thoughts for a moment before his eyes focused again, "anyway this is none of your concern, tell me what's all this about."

Majid briefed them about Xiaode's story and some parts of his own experience. He liked the look of sympathy and admiration he received from the duo, well actually my life was quite miserable these last few months.

"You said there was a third party was involved, tell me more about that, any details, names, their clothes..."

"At least one of them has a powerful soul, and the one that approached me said his name was Laoji..." Majid filled him in as much detail as he could.

Master Bao went silent his eyes moving vacantly, "that would be it, make sure you don't create a commotion and don't leave the school for the time being."

Just as Majid was about to leave, Master Bao stopped him, "Wait," he looked at Guoro, "Guoro, I want to take him as my disciple, what do you think."

"Headmaster, that was my intention from the start, unfortunately, I met him too late, I can't help his cultivation. But since he was smart, I recruited him to introduce him to you. It was a waste to let that bastard Fanli destroy his future." Guoro was delighted and Majid felt warm in his heart seeing him like that, though their relationship didn't deepen since that incident, this man was happy for him, he can't help but respect him.

Master Bao nodded, "you did well Guoro, what do you think Maoji, do you want to be my disciple."

Majid was delighted, but his kotow paranoia kicked again, he was already prepared for such a situation though, "I'm sorry Master Bao, I kowtowed before my father's grave and swore, I won't kowtow to anybody before I take my revenge."

Sensing the slyness in Majid's eyes, Master Bao laughed his lungs out, "you're not my direct disciple, there no need for such a thing."

"Then this disciple is honored," Majid smiled awkwardly, look like his act only work on kids, these old bastards are not easily fooled.

"Since you're good with drawing I have a task for you," Master Baro handed him a few documents.

Though Majid was happy his backing went through an upgrade, he felt sore about the other part, he wasn't here to waste his time as a servant. He hid his displeasure on second thoughts, he can't be an ungrateful guy, I can't just receive the benefits. It was just other than his parents, he never served anyone in his life, and never intended to, he stuck with his poor online business despite his parents' relentless efforts to push him to find a decent job.

"Read these documents and make it into a map," Master Bao, wasn't hopeful of Majid's cultivation future, but he was impressed by his intelligence and skills.

Majid was relieved inside, if it's just a map his system can instantly compile one after he read the documents or even scan them with his eyes. "This disciple would work on it immediately."

Before Majid crosses the door Master Bao said, "make sure you keep those books from the others, if you did well, I will reward you handsomely."

"Understood," Majid's eyes flashed suddenly "Master Bao, I have a friend I brought along, he just broke through the 4th level. His alchemy skills are excellent, he was able to concoct Viscera Tempering pills for me this past month. Lately, his pills were even of the medium quality..." Majid tried his hardest, all the things he could think of at that moment, his speaking experience this past days helped a lot.

"It's been just a month and your friend seems skilled, it won't be a problem tell him to drop by the main hall, I will let people know."

"Thank you, Master Bao, I will excuse myself then," Majid bowed before he exited the room.

After Majid left, Master Bao looked at Guoro, "he's taking viscera pills does he want to attempt a breakthrough after tempering his viscera."

"It looks like it's the case," Guoro went silent "he finished his muscles levels, with the Vescera as well, he might breakthrough successfully."

"It's hard to say, does he know of the risks," Master Bao said with a worried look.

Guoro smirked, "Master Fanli make sure to explain that in detail."

"This kid is strange," Master Bao went vacant, his hand rubbing his chin.

Guoro nodded his head, "maybe his situation made him mature early."

Master Bao nodded, "since he chose his path, we can't stop this kid, let's watch and see, if he indeed succeed…"