As Mo Xie entered the rundown house, he didn't find anything special.

Still, there are overused clothes that seemed to be used by rich people.

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Now, Mo Xie only has a single thought; 'Why are they living a life of poverty?'

The answer came abruptly as the question arrives: 'Usurpation...'

Remembering the time where that Young Master Hong called Ao Bai 'Young Master', Mo Xie immediately connected the dots.

He couldn't help but sigh.

At this moment, Ao Bai's words sounded: "Expert, please come and sit down, we only have warm water to offer you though..."

Mo Xie nods his head, he looked at the window and saw that the view isn't really that bad.

Mo Xie took the cup and drank it in one gulp.

"Expert, what do you need in coming to our sect?" Ao Bai asked, his little sisters looked at Mo Xie in an expectant way.

Mo Xie smiled at then and replied: "I'm merely trying to have a place to sleep, but now I have a goal."

Ao Bai continued to heat some more water as he nods: "Oh, what is it?"

"I need to gather all the herbs in this sect." Mo Xie spoke in a serious tone.

"Herbs?" Ao Bai opened his eyes widely before chuckles: "Expert, I didn't mean to laugh at you, I merely found it funny in a way."

"You mean?" Mo Xie asked.

Ao Bai smiled as he poured another cup of warm water over Mo Xie's cup and spoke: "The herbs in this sect are extremely scarce, hence, every ounce of it is extremely special for the Sect."

Hearing his words, Mo Xie couldn't help but chuckle; 'So those herbs were merely treated as designs...'

Mo Xie couldn't help but sigh.

Fei Ling then spoke: "Brother... are we not going to have anything to eat today too?"

Ao Bai smiled bitterly at the twins: "Tomorrow, we'll definitely have a sumptuous meal"

"Yey!" Fei Ling and Lin Fei jumped in excitement.

Mo Xie smiled at the two sisters, he just wished that Aiqing is doing alright.

With that, Mo Xie was about to take a few gold coins to treat them but before he could, the sound of a few people approach can be heard from tens of meters away.

Mo Xie couldn't help but smile, these people might be the ones that that young master Hong had tasked to 'teach' him a lesson.

Mo Xie prepared himself, but then, the door abruptly opened.

"Bai! You returned safely!" A female's voice sounded, her tone full of worry as she carried no hint of malice.

Mo Xie looked at the figure and couldn't help but be shocked; 'Shang Mingzi?!'

Shang Mingzi is Shang Ting's eldest sister, but then, Mo Xie couldn't help but look at her in disbelief.

She's wearing commoner's wear, tattered at that too.

That prideful lady actually wore such clothes? Mo Xie couldn't help but feel worried now.

Shang Mingzi gazed at Mo Xie before looking at Ao Bai, she rushed towards him and hugged him: "I'm glad, I'm glad you've returned safely!"

"Sister-in-law! We're safe too!" Fei Lin and Ling Fei shouted as they pout their tiny mouth.

'Sister-in-law?!' Mo Xie couldn't help but exclaim, hearing this, the option narrowed quite a bit for him.

Elopement? Falling in love while on a mission?

Escaping an arrange married, and so on.

Shang Mingzi looked at Mo Xie the second time, she couldn't help finding Mo Xie's figure familiar to hers.

Still, she shook her head, looking at Mo Xie's clothing, he's someone from a well family.

"Bai, this is?" Shang Mingzi asked Ao Bai as she looked at the latter.

Ao Bai smiled at her and introduced: "This is the expert that saved us when we're about to die from a silver ranked demon beast."

Hearing his words, Shang Mingzi felt her heart tightened, she looked back at Mo Xie as she bowed her head: "I... I thank you from the bottom of my life, thank you for saving them."

Mo Xie smiled: "It's nothing worth making such a huge mess with, still, if my wife's si-"

Mo Xie was about to speak about Shang Ting, another three figures appeared running towards their location.

"Young Master Bai!!!" The three figures opened the door and immediately approached Ao Bai hugging him.

Since there was no malice in it, Mo Xie didn't do any action.

They checked every part of his body and calmed down noticing that there are no parts missing.

"Young Master, those from the Hong Faction actually tricked us into giving us a mission to gather demonic beast meat, as soon as we returned, we were actually informed that you got out of the Sect to save your sisters! Those vile creatures, I'll definitely teach them a lesson!" One of the old experts fumed in anger.

The other two nodded as they clenched their fist.

Ao Bai looked at them as he felt their sincerely: "Sadly, we are too outnumbered, only the three of you support me while the other elders had already sided with the Hong Faction, we can definitely do nothing, we should just stay silent from now on."

Although Ao Bai had said this, he clearly is against this idea too, his fists trembled as he smiled, quietly trying to endure this treatment.

The elders weren't blind, all three of them are black gold rank cultivators, they could only sigh in grief.

One of them then spoke: "We should just leave, after your parents had died, they slowly took control, and within just six years, they already grasped 70% of the total power of the Sect, now, we're no match. If this continued longer, they will definitely swallow our Mourning Sun Sect! This will definitely not be good for us."

The other one nods his head: "Luckily for us, more than half of the core disciples are still on our side, the only problem is the elders, they outnumbered us one to ten!"

The last one then added: "If this continues, will definitely be in a dire state, they can kill us and take the two young misses. If that is to happen sooner, we'd rather escape from this place together with the three of you alive."

"It's better to act now than to wait them grow stronger, at least, for now, we still have a lot of core disciples waiting for our orders."

Deliberately, waiting will only turn their fate sealed.

The four of them made a serious face, their attempt today wasn't only the first one too.

At this time, Mo Xie sighs, he whispered something on his bracelet as it turned into a little snake and crawled out of his hand down to the ground and out of the rundown house.

Mo Xie couldn't help but sympathize with them, for one, he's a father. If he'd ever been gone away and left his son to become the sect master, if he learned of the treason the other faction had done, he'll definitely kill them on spot.

Shang Mingzi then noticed Mo Xie's slight movement as she gazed at him: "What did you do?"

Mo Xie shook his head: "Nothing really, just trying to help."

Hearing his voice, the three elderly looked at Mo Xie: "Young Master, this is?"

"This... He's the expert that saved me, I do not know his name yet." Ao Bai spoke.

Mo Xie smiled as they looked at him and bowed their head: "Thank you for saving our Young Master, this favor will be repaid fully in time."

Shang Mingzi looked at Mo Xie, she had thanked him earlier, hence, she went on and asked: "Mister expert, I think I've seen you somewhere before, may I know what your name is?"

Mo Xie chuckles at them and replied: "My name is Mo Xie."