A Family of Hopeless Romantics, Except for the Evil Little Junior Brother-Chapter 153: The Truth

Li Xuanxiao turned to glance at Zhang Wenxuan.

Zhang Wenxuan was fiddling with an abacus, calculating today’s consultation fees.

"Don’t look at me like that, young man. I don’t mean you any harm—or rather, if I did, why wouldn’t I have told Liu Qiushui everything from the start?

The first time I examined you, I already noticed something strange inside your body.

An incomplete Nascent Soul, and a perfectly formed Golden Core! Truly eye-opening."

At this point, Zhang Wenxuan paused his abacus movements.

"You might as well tell me what’s going on. Maybe I can help you."

Li Xuanxiao felt a chill in his heart.

The Ghost-Hand Divine Doctor, Zhang Wenxuan.

He used living people to test his medicine, and once even set a record for refining three thousand virgin boys and girls in one breath.

That record has yet to be broken by any cultivator from the Demon Sect.

Zhang Wenxuan was close friends with an elder of Mount Shushan named Liu Batian. The two had grown up together.

Later, Liu Batian discovered the things Zhang Wenxuan had done.

The two fought fiercely. Liu Batian was seriously wounded.

Zhang Wenxuan fled and vanished.

Mount Shushan hunted him across the land, but later, all traces of Zhang Wenxuan disappeared.

Never did he expect that the once-infamous Ghost-Hand Divine Doctor would be hiding in such a remote little town.

Zhang Wenxuan chuckled and said to himself:

"You don’t trust me? That figures... how could a disciple of Mount Shushan ever trust me? You people only believe Liu Batian’s side of the story. You believe whatever Mount Shushan says!"

Li Xuanxiao frowned slightly at this implication.

It seemed there might be more to the story than what was known.

Zhang Wenxuan slammed the table in front of him in anger.

He couldn’t help but recall everything that had happened back then.

"Back then, Liu Batian and I were like brothers. He got accepted into Mount Shushan, while I had no such luck.

He tricked me, said if I helped him make one ingredient, he’d recommend me to the sect.

I believed him. Who would’ve thought he used the souls of virgin boys and girls as the guide for the medicine?

When I found out, we fought fiercely.

I never expected that he’d go straight back to Mount Shushan and, as an elder, falsely accuse me of refining three thousand children and committing atrocities.

Pity my skills in medicine, with nowhere to use them, hunted by the righteous path of Mount Shushan.

I had no choice but to join Asura Hall, sheltered by Liu Qiushui, and barely managed to survive till now!!"

As he said this, a flush spread across Zhang Wenxuan’s old, weathered, wrinkle-filled face.

His previously clouded eyes now burned brightly, as if a flame lit within. His lips trembled slightly, as if he wanted to say more.

But his emotions overwhelmed him, and he couldn’t speak.

After a long while, he finally took a deep breath.

He calmed himself a little and spoke in a slightly hoarse voice:

"But who even cares about the truth?"

"In that case, why didn’t you go to Mount Shushan and explain?" Li Xuanxiao asked.

"Explain? Would Mount Shushan believe an outsider like me over their own disciple?

Besides, Liu Batian is dead now. I hear he even got a glorious burial.

It’s laughable—you think Mount Shushan would risk tarnishing its own reputation just to clear my name?"

"If that’s truly how it happened, Mount Shushan will give you justice."

Zhang Wenxuan sneered, "You’re too young, kid! What do you know? This world isn’t just black and white."

Li Xuanxiao hesitated for a moment. "I am Li Xuanxiao, disciple of the 46th generation of Mount Shushan, student of Sect Leader Daoist Lingxu.

If senior has any evidence proving that Liu Batian, not you, harmed the innocents that year—

I am willing to deliver the evidence to the sect leader and seek justice on your behalf!!"

"Are you serious!?" Zhang Wenxuan’s expression changed slightly.

"My master always taught me: Mount Shushan disciples must slay demons and protect all living beings.

We must never let a villain go, but we also mustn’t wrongly accuse a good man!"

Li Xuanxiao said solemnly.

"Good!!"

Zhang Wenxuan sprang to his feet and pulled Li Xuanxiao into the underground chamber of his house.

"Look!"

The first thing Li Xuanxiao saw was seven or eight children.

They were locked in the basement, and as soon as they saw Zhang Wenxuan, they rushed toward him.

“Daddy! Daddy!”

"This is..."

Seeing the confusion on Li Xuanxiao’s face, Zhang Wenxuan explained:

"These are a few of the children I managed to rescue back then. I only got these few out.

The others... didn’t make it. Because of Liu Batian...

Their three souls and six spirits were reduced to one soul and one spirit. Their bodies will be stuck like this for the rest of their lives.

They’ll always look like children. They can’t be exposed to sunlight, can’t feel the wind—

Even the slightest physical exertion will leave them seriously ill.

All these years, if it weren’t for my medical skills keeping them alive, they’d have died long ago!

They were there. They lived through it all.

And also, these..."

Zhang Wenxuan pulled out several worn manuscripts.

They recorded various techniques of refining humans by heretical cultivators.

"These are all written in Liu Batian’s own handwriting. Anyone in Mount Shushan familiar with him would recognize it at a glance!"

Li Xuanxiao frowned.

He flipped through the horrifying pages, then glanced at the pitiful children again.

"Liu Batian’s body is buried in Mount Shushan. If you dig him up—

You’ll find traces of him taking human-based medicine in his Purple Mansion. It was damaged by backlash.

These are all evidence—is it enough or not!?"

Zhang Wenxuan spoke excitedly, his eyes full of hope as he looked at Li Xuanxiao.

Until Li Xuanxiao finally gave a firm nod.

Tears streamed from Zhang Wenxuan’s eyes.

He fell to his knees and sobbed loudly.

“Father! Father!”

"Your son never thought that one day, there’d be hope to clear our name.

Father, I swear I will carry on the Zhang family’s medical skills and let the whole world know..."

With Zhang Wenxuan now acting as his inside man,

Li Xuanxiao could leave anytime—but he wasn’t in a hurry.

First, he was still wary of Liu Qiushui’s potential backup plans.

Second, he wanted Zhang Wenxuan to examine the issue of his Nascent Soul more thoroughly.

".........."

The Happy Young Man slowly began to wake up.

He sensed everything around him and recalled all the harrowing events he’d been through. It was truly a wild ride!!

First, Liu Qiushui suddenly hunted him down for no reason.

Then someone plotted to use him for pill refinement.

And finally, he got smacked with a spell seal.

He had no choice but to have his Nascent Soul leave his body to seize another.

But he found out that this onion-like man had way too many layers of defense.

In the end, he was severely injured again and fell into a coma.