Chapter 330: 188: Sect Master Mu Almost Fuming with Anger

“What have I done? Don’t you have any idea? Return the Sky Blue Grass to me now!”

Mu Hongtao scolded.

“What Sky Blue Grass?” Mo Baiye looked bewildered.

“Still pretending…” Mu Hongtao was just about to explain when he felt a tug on his sleeve, Mu Xiaoqing came up to him, looking rather anxious, “Sect Master, he… has only one arm, the one who stole the herbs had two…”

Mu Hongtao was stunned, then remembered that the Mo Baiye he saw just before had grabbed the herbs with one hand and slapped someone with the other—definitely using both hands. And now, this man before him had his arm neatly severed, hardly maintaining balance, which made it easy for him to kick him over.

“Could it be… I really kicked the wrong person?”

Mu Hongtao was dazed.

“Sect Master Mu, what are you doing?” As he puzzled over this, the Mo Baiye on the other side was getting more and more angry, utterly infuriated.

“Sorry, Master Mo, I mistook someone else just now…”

Mu Hongtao’s face flushed with embarrassment.

“Mistook someone? What exactly happened?” Though Mo Baiye was outraged, he managed to restrain himself.

“It’s like this…” Mu Hongtao quickly explained the truth about what happened during his attempt to lure away the Sky Blue Grass, only to have it snatched away by someone else.

“I see!”

Mo Baiye had an epiphany and looked at him with curiosity: “You said that the Exquisite Jade Essence can lure away the Sky Blue Grass, what exactly is that? Can I take a look?”

“Of course!” Mu Hongtao, feeling guilty already, heard that there might be a chance to make amends and immediately took out the jade bottle and handed it forward.

Though the Exquisite Jade Essence was precious, as the sect leader of the Bamboo Forest Sect, he still owned quite a bit of it. Having spent two drops earlier, there were about eight drops left, which was greatly beneficial both for harvesting medicinal herbs and for practice.

Mo Baiye took the jade bottle, removed the stopper to have a look, and ascertaining that the spiritual energy fluid was indeed valuable, was just about to return it when he suddenly cried out in alarm, “It’s the person who was impersonating me!”

“Where?”

Mu Hongtao hurriedly followed his pointing finger, but there was no one to be seen in the vast emptiness.

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Just as he was wondering if his eyes had deceived him and that was why he had seen no one, he heard Mu Xiaoqing urgently calling out. Startled, he quickly turned his head, only to discover that the one-armed Mo Baiye, holding the Exquisite Jade Essence, had already fled, waving as he went, “Thanks for the spiritual energy liquid, Sect Master Mu!”

“You…”

Everything went dark before Mu Hongtao’s eyes, and he nearly fainted.

After all this commotion, whether it was the man with both arms or this one-armed man, they both turned out to be imposters…

“Zhang Xuan, I will not share the sky with you!”

Just thinking about how both the Sky Blue Grass and the Exquisite Jade Essence were extremely precious to him made Mu Hongtao verge on hysteria.

A Galaxy 6-dan expert, and it was the first time he had ever been duped by someone like this—and twice in a row, no less!

The more he thought about it, the angrier he got; pay no heed to looking for the herbs, he followed in hot pursuit right away. After rounding a small mound, there was nothing but emptiness all around—no sign of anyone.

Growing angrier and at a loss, he suddenly heard a familiar voice, “Sect Master Mu, what are you doing here? Have you seen that Zhang Xuan? He might have disguised himself as me, you must be careful…”

He quickly turned around and immediately saw the one-armed Mo Baiye, who had just run off with his belongings, standing right in front of him.

“Who… who the hell are you?”

Suppressing the impulse to chop the other person to pieces, Mu Hongtao barked.

“Are you an idiot? Of course, I’m Mo Baiye! We’ve known each other for years; surely you can’t have failed to recognize me!” Mo Baiye rolled his eyes.

“It’s not that I don’t recognize you; it’s that someone just pretended to be you and stole my Sky Blue Grass and Exquisite Jade Essence…”

Seeing his manner, Mu Hongtao hurriedly explained.

“It must have been Zhang Xuan… We must kill him!”

Mo Baiye narrowed his eyes, and with a flick of his wrist, a Double Hook appeared in his palm, “Take out your weapon; if we come across another one who looks exactly like me, act immediately!”

“Alright!”

Mu Hongtao nodded, “Make a broad gesture! You go first…”

“Alright!”

Mo Baiye responded and took the lead. He had not taken two steps when he felt a gust of wind roaring behind him. Startled, he hurriedly dodged, only to find that Mu Hongtao, with Double Hook in hand, had smashed it right where he had been standing.

“Mu Hongtao, what the hell are you doing?” Mo Baiye was furious to the point of exploding.

“Pretend, keep pretending…”

Mo Baiye gritted his teeth, “You really think I can’t recognize you?”

“You’re insane!”

Mo Baiye was trembling, “When you were 27, you nearly got expelled from your position as sect leader because of your fancy for a wandering cultivator. It was I who funded you, you dare say I’m fake?”

“You, you know about that?”

Mu Hongtao was taken aback.

That wandering cultivator had been his first love, and although he knew he was being tricked, he could never escape the gloom. It was this Mo Baiye who had brought him to brothels and other pleasure places, where he met countless gentle and obedient girls, and he finally moved on completely.

The process was nonsensical, but it was a real favor to him.

This matter had always been his vulnerability, unknown to others, and now that the person in front of him had mentioned it, it seemed to be true!

“I’m really sorry… Having been deceived by the other party again and again, I’ve become somewhat afraid…”

Now that he had confirmed the other’s identity, recalling his own attitude just now, Mu Hongtao immediately felt somewhat embarrassed.

“No matter, we can only say that Zhang Xuan is too cunning. Like this, you walk in front, and I’ll follow!” Mo Baiye snorted coldly.

“As it should be!”

Mu Hongtao nodded repeatedly.

Having let the other walk in front before and allowing for that strike, it was normal for the other to have such thoughts.

Holding the Double Hook, he strode forward. He had walked only a couple of steps when suddenly his pupils shrank; just as he was about to turn his head, he realized it was already too late.

Pfft!

A Mo Dao stabbed straight into his backside, and the “confirmed” Mo Baiye, smiling at him from not too far away, said, “Sorry, Sect Master Mu, I’m still a fake…”

After saying that, he violently pulled out the Mo Dao and turned to flee, disappearing into the woods in the blink of an eye.

“You…”

Mu Hongtao’s body trembled, his vision darkening.

To be fooled by the same person three times was already bad enough, but now he had been duped out of artifacts and weapons, and even more so, had a huge hole poked in his behind…

“Sect Leader!”

Just then, Mu Xiaoqing caught up and, seeing him in this state, asked anxiously, “What happened to you?”

“I…”

Mu Hongtao’s face was the picture of embarrassment as he endured the intense pain and turned around, “I’m a bit hurt, it’s nothing, I can take care of it myself…”

With that, he put down the Double Hook and quickly took out a recovery pill, swallowing it.

Seeing that he could move freely, Mu Xiaoqing breathed a sigh of relief and picked up the Double Hook he had placed on the ground, “Sect Leader, let me carry the weapon for you…”

“Mm!”

Mu Hongtao nodded, and was just about to caution her when he saw the “Holy Daughter” clutching the artifact and also sprinting off into the distance, “Thanks for the weapon, Sect Master Mu…”

“You…”

No longer able to contain himself, Mu Hongtao mouthful of fresh blood violently burst forth.