Poison God's Heritage

"Alright pack it up!" several cultivators were running around cleaning up the aftermath.

The damage to the sect was pretty heavy, but all it took was a couple of days to have everything done and dusted. The buildings and cultivator houses and several other places for learning and training including the arenas and the botanic spirit herb gardens were all being cleaned up.

"This should be good for the Confederation," Tonfa said.

"No, you're being greedy there," I replied as I was waiting for my bracelet to answer.

"What do you mean?" Tonfa asked me. "The whole sect is cleaned up, I mean we killed every one of them even the ones who hid underground, I personally scanned the whole place. Though I still wonder why did you send out all of your puppets outside the sect…"

Suddenly my bracelet lit up, "It was for this reason," I said as I opened the channel.

"Three rakshasa have been found, they have been eliminated, the search party has cleared the area… the planet is safe," the automated voice of a puppet answered back.

"Wait, how did they escape?" Tonfa said shock clear in his eyes.

"That's what they do, they fake you out, they pull a massive smokescreen like this fight and hide a few of their members away, they run from the battle and hide to infect others and grow in number. They sacrificed the greater number for the few to run, only for an even more astronomical number of them to come back at you years later from today," I said.

Tonfa thought for a second and said, "I really do owe you much."

"It's fine, they're enemies of humanity and the heavens, they had to be taken care of eventually."

Later that day, Don Ma came down with several other cultivators, including Elder Wudong, the man who seemed adamant on hating me for no reason.

"Humph," he scorned, "You got done in by something like this Elder Tonfa, you grew weak," he said.

"I will not be taking that from you Wudong, you didn't assist us in anything."

"That's because I thought highly of you and believed you'd clear up this thing, I guess I should lower my expectation of you from now on."

Wudong seemed to be a master at aggravating others and he was succeeding, as Elder Tonfa who had his sect turned upside down was fuming.n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

"And you," he said turning to me, "You're the cause of all of this! If it wasn't for that thing you brought none of this would have happened, be prepared to answer for your crimes!"

"Crimes?" I tilted my head, "Seems like you're mistaken about something, what crimes have I committed? I'm pretty sure that without me you'd never have found the solution to eliminate the rakshasa, am I right elder Tonfa?" I grinned.

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"Yes, it was Shen Bao who figured it out, and is now capable of eliminating the Broodmother, and you're saying that his efforts in doing so are a crime? I think the elders would love to hear about you antagonizing and vilifying the savior of the Confederation," Tonfa said.

Right as Wudong was about to answer Ban Son came down running with a few documents in his hands, "Master Shen Bao, I think you need to see this," he said.

"Who is this now, do you not understand your position to come here when your superiors are talking?"

Ban Son didn't give two rat's ass about Wudong's opinion and handed me the documents.

'What's so important for him to come rushing at me with this, also I'm sure he was standing around us long enough and decided to come with this only now…'

As I skimmed through the documents, the frown over my eyes kept knitting more and more.

I then smiled as I looked at Wudong, "No wonder you came here, you wanted to get rid of this?" I said as I waved the documents.

"What nonsense are you talking about?" Wudong asked.

"What's going on Master Shen Bao," Don Ma said.

I handed him the documents as I said, "Seems like our friend here Wudong has been secretly investing in Xuan Fei… and these documents prove it… so you could say that the reason all this happened was because of Wudong's interference." I said

Don Ma's eyes widened as he read the documents and Tonfa seeing Don Ma's surprise had his suspicions confirmed, "You filthy bastard!"

"WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?! WHAT DEALINGS! All I supported Xuan Fei with was funds for his research on the Broodmother because you were too stingy in doing so! How does that equate to you losing your control over samples and having your rakshasa spread havoc on the sacred soil of this sect!"

"Did he not receive the full meme?" I frowned.

"No, the details about the whole thing were omitted, only the general story was told to us, that the Golden Dawn sect had been attacked by mutated rakshasa, and we believe they came from the research lab…"

"What's going on?" Wudong said as both me and Tonfa looked at him with disgusted looks.

"The person who caused all this fuckery is Xuan Fei, the very person you funded. He embezzled the funds from the Golden Dawn Sect and used your additional funds to create a secret lab hidden under the sect, the documents prove your interaction, though it doesn't paint you as an accomplice due to lack of evidence, you still had indirectly supported this whole mess…" I said.

"Nonsense! You're trying to frame me! Who would believe this!"

"The documents don't lie, this is your seal of approval," Don Ma said, "You will be under investigation by the elder council, do not make this difficult for us…" Don Ma said as he placed his hand on his sword pummel.

Wudong's face contorted into an enraged version of himself, but sadly he took a deep breath and didn't act on it.

Unfortunate.

"Fine, investigate all you want, I have nothing to hide…"

Damn I couldn't agitate him enough but it's fine at least he won't be yapping in front of us anytime soon.

As for me, it's time for me to head back to Solarous.