Priority Of A Witch | Mo Dao Zu Shi 魔道祖师

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Chapter Two: Fault and Blames

Mo Xuanyu has entered the room by force, Madam Mo's servant dragged him to show everyone that it is his fault. Madam Mo was crying while the cultivators talked about how they found the body.

Mo Xuanyu stood next to [YN] so he definitely heard what Mo Xuanyu murmured. "Don't tell me that body is.."

"Mo Ziyuan." [YN] replied, Mo Xuanyu crouched and raised a hand on the corpse.

"Careful!" Sizhui yelled and grabbed Madam Mo's hand, she dropped the knife and Sizhui prevented her from killing Mo Xuanyu.

"Woah.. close call, close call.." Mo Xuanyu mumbled.

"I must avenge A-Yuan! Don't stand in my way!" Madam Mo cried out and Sizhui stood in front of her to stop her.

"How does your son's death gotta do anything with me?" Mo Xuanyu asked.

"Madam Mo, looking from your son's condition, it is most likely that he is killed by an evil being. I'm sure it's not done by him." Sizhui explained.

"What do you know?! He must have learned the dark arts!" Madam Mo said meanwhile [YN] was getting annoyed by the too much noise.

[YN] sighed and noticed the look he was getting from Mo Xuanyu. [YN] didn't know what look Mo Xuanyu was giving him but he didn't care. [YN] smirked, pointed at the blanket and mouthed 'open the blanket.' quietly.

Thankfully Mo Xuanyu isn't dense, he nodded and did as he was told. His eyes widened, the corpse arm is missing.

"You all heard what he said today right?! What did he say? he'll cut one of A-Yuan's arm!" Madam Mo said and cried, she mumbled a few more things but neither Mo Xuanyu or [YN] cared.

"Children shouldn't steal things." [YN] said and kneeled down, he took the spirit-lure flag from A-Yuan's coat and displayed it in front of everybody.

"How many of our spirit attraction flag are left?" Sizhui asked.

"Five, when we were dealing with the corpse in the west courtyard, we found that one was missing... So he's the one who stole it!" Jingyi said and the people started whispering to each other while Mo Xuanyu looked at [YN] then back to the stolen flag.

'This guy is really observant.' Mo Xuanyu thought, he looked down to his scars and one vanished.

'The sacrificial contract has deemed Mo Ziyuan's death as my doing, what a lucky hit.' Mo Xuanyu thinks before Madam Mo threw a cup at him, which he luckily avoided.

"If it weren't for you embarassing him in front of everybody earlier, he wouldn't have gone out in the middle of the night! You son of a bitch!" Madam Mo yelled before she moved to blame the cultivators.

"And you, bunch of useless fools! You cultivate and ward off evil spirits but can't even protect a child?!" She said as she grabbed Sizhui's collar.

"Well, if you didn't let him be the stupid motherfucker he is now, he would have known the basic human language." [YN] rolled his eyes.

"What did you say?!" Madam Mo yelled and [YN] shrugged, Mo Xuanyu and the rest looked at him.

"A-Yuan's at least seventeen now and they said not to go outside tonight, what did your little A-Yuan did? disobeyed, even worse, stole the spirit attraction flag. Now you tell me, whose fault is that? Your brat or theirs?" [YN] asked.

"A-Yuan is not a brat!-"

"What? All those words he said is true, why bother denying it!" Mo Xuanyu stated.

"Y-You! Call everyone inside!" Madam Mo said to her husband but he wasn't moving an inch until she repeated and he pushed her on the ground.

"You- Get out of here as well!" She said and one of their servant lead her husband out. Sizhui looked at [YN] and he saw him took a bell out of his coat.

"Hey, you! Catch this!" He called for the servant and threw the bell, the servant caught it and bowed his head as they finally went out.

"Why did you give him a bell?" Sizhui asked.

"..for protection."

"Protection?" Sizhui asked before a scream erupted from outside. They all ran out and saw the body of Madam Mo's husband dead, [YN] saw that his arm was missing and the bell has casted a protection on the servant. It was invisible but he could sense it, the only thing he didn't know is if the cultivators sense it too. Madam Mo fainted and Sizhui asked the servant that was with him if he saw what had happened but he only shook his head.

'I should go, it's dangerous for me to be here.' [YN] thought and walked away slowly as to not be seen. The cultivators sent the signal and Mo Xuanyu watched him walk away, not daring to stop him.

'I should go too but if I did, It's more likely that everyone will lose their lives.' Mo Xuanyu thought, [YN] on the other hand had left the scene and is laying on the roof.

'They should be okay there, if I'm involved, it'll only be worse.' He thought and started fidgeting the last hairpin he kept. A few minutes had passed and noises from the west courtyard had gotten wild.

"Are they still alive?" [YN] asked himself and the plain white hairpin turned orange, indicating that one of the hairpin had broken.

'Right, I gave the two juniors a hairpin that would protect them from evil spirits, once the hairpin break it means it has been cast.. or it has been broken.' [YN] sighed.

'Only one way to know is to see.' [YN] thought and was about to jump down until a sound erupted from the sky. He looked up and met a pair of golden eyes staring to his [EC] one, it was not long until they broke the eye contact. [YN] stood up and ran away, not bothering to go down the roof.

'Wei Ying might have left already too.'