Although Bai Yao is usually silly in many things, she is not really stupid. She knows that the beggar in front of her is not simple, and she is very curious to talk to him.
"Big brother beggar, since you are also a cultivator, why do you choose to be a beggar?"
The beggar chuckled softly, "Isn't being a beggar good? As a beggar, you can see people's true nature. As a beggar, you can be shameless, you don't have to care about other people's opinions, and you don't have to fight for what doesn't belong to you..."
Bai Yao shook her head. "Big brother, you're wrong to think like that. Master said that people can be open-minded, but they can't see through things. People who are open-minded can easily let go, but people who see through things don't care about letting go, because they don't care about anything anymore."
"Oh? Little girl, you have such insights?" The beggar seemed amused and glanced at Xiao Yuhan, while Xiao Yuhan was wondering when she had said such a thing.
At this point, the beggar pressed on, asking, "Isn't it good to see through worldly affairs? Isn't that what you Taoists call 'transcending the world'?"
Bai Yao shook her head and said, "No, the Taoist concept of 'leaving the world' refers to leaving the world after one has perfected the Tao, not to avoiding the world out of fear. Big brother, there is fear in your eyes! What are you afraid of?"
Upon hearing Bai Yao's words, the beggar suddenly sat up straight. He looked at Xiao Yuhan in disbelief and gave a wry smile. "The younger generation is indeed formidable, Daoist Xiao. Is this your disciple?"
Xiao Yuhan nodded, picked up his wine glass and took a sip. At this moment, as if thinking of something, he said, "I didn't expect her to say those words. But now I'm starting to wonder, why did you betray the Kunlun Immortal Sect back then? Were you afraid of something?"
The beggar's eyes darted around, and after a moment of silence, he seemed lost and bewildered. He took another swig of wine and said, "The conference is about to begin. Didn't Immortal Xiao come here to see Jiang Ruoning's beauty? Why bother with a beggar like me?"
Seeing that Han Xiong was changing the subject, Xiao Yuhan stopped asking questions and continued the conversation. However, he did not shy away from the topic and asked directly, "I came for the Azure Pearl. What about you?"
The beggar knew he had to answer this question. Although Xiao Yuhan said he wouldn't intervene because of the little girl, Han Xiong had been in the martial world for many years and understood this rule. He immediately said, "Don't worry, Master Xiao, I didn't come here for the Azure Water Pearl."
Xiao Yuhan pondered for a moment, thinking that although this man was infamous, most of the time it was said that he was capricious and killed indiscriminately, but not that he was a fickle villain, so she decided to believe him for the time being.
"That's excellent!"
At this moment, the beggar's gaze fell on a middle-aged man in plain clothes not far away.
The man looked like a scholar, with a mustache and a goatee. At first glance, he looked like a clerk from some government office, but upon closer inspection, he did have some semblance of the appearance. The beggar poured him a drink and laughed, "If Daoist Xiao has come for the Azure Water Pearl, he should be careful of that man."
Xiao Yuhan looked in the direction he was looking, "Who is he?"
"The Demonic Sect's Ghost Doctor Bai Yuanzhou is said to have medical skills comparable to your sect's Immortal Physician Nangong Ling'er. The Azure Water Pearl is a sacred medicine that can soothe the soul; he must have come for that reason."
Xiao Yuhan smiled slightly, "Aren't those people from your Demonic Sect? You've already betrayed me?"
The beggar burst into laughter: "Hahaha... Daoist Xiao, this is the survival rule of my Demonic Sect! Anyway, none of us are good people, so it's better for a fellow Daoist to die than for me to die!"
Xiao Yuhan smiled slightly, "That makes sense! They really aren't exactly kind people!"
"Master Xiao, I'm actually different from them. I just hold the title of Elder of the Demonic Sect. If I want to associate with them, I can go and have some fun. If I don't want to associate with them, then the Demonic Sect Master is my son! Even if he begs me, I won't go!"
Xiao Yuhan seemed to be thinking about something, then poured himself another glass of wine and said, "Nothing is different, except that it's just a little worse."
The beggar looked at Xiao Yuhan with a mocking expression, "I suppose Master Xiao's words are because of the massacre of the village at the foot of Kunlun Mountain back then?"
Xiao Yuhan was taken aback. He only knew that this person had a strange temperament and always killed people at the drop of a hat, so he assumed that this person was similar to those disciples of the Demonic Sect, without referring to any particular incident.
However, since he brought it up himself, Xiao Yuhan remembered something: it was said in the martial arts world that Han Xiong slaughtered more than 300 people in an entire village in order to possess a young girl.
"Oh? Could it be that there's more to that story than meets the eye?"
The beggar took a swig of wine and said in a serious tone, "People say that I, Han Xiong, took a girl and then slaughtered her village. But the same thing can be said in a different way. It can be said that the girl seduced Han Xiong out of personal grudges and joined forces to slaughter the village. Or it can be said that the villagers bullied the girl, and Han Xiong helped to slaughter the village. In the end, the girl gave herself to him. So different versions of the story are different truths."
Xiao Yuhan was taken aback and pressed, "So, the whole thing actually happened because the villagers bullied a young girl, you intervened and killed all the villagers, and then the girl offered herself to you in return?"
The beggar shook his head, still looking serious, and said, "No, I just thought the girl was pretty, so I took her by force and killed those villagers in the process."
Xiao Yuhan frowned deeply, her expression extremely unpleasant. "Then what nonsense are you spouting to me?!"
The beggar quickly raised his hand to signal Xiao Yuhan not to rush, and immediately said, "That girl was a good person. She gave me wine before. That year, her village was attacked by bandits. In order to protect the village, she went with the bandits. Afterwards, she was humiliated in every way on the mountain. Later, she managed to escape. However, when she returned to the village, she was despised by the villagers. They said she was impure and forced the girl to want to commit suicide by jumping into a well. I happened to be there again. So, I told her that since she was so beautiful, I would help her kill those villagers if she spent one night with me. She did not agree because even if she was betrayed, her kindness told her that she could not do such a thing. So I said I would help her kill those bandits, and she agreed to spend the night with me. So I became the villain who took advantage of the girl!"
Xiao Yuhan seemed thoughtful. "Since she disagreed, why did you still kill those villagers in the end?"
The beggar spread his hands, looking at Xiao Yuhan with some doubt. "Master Xiao, I am a member of the Demonic Sect. Buy one get one free. The bandits are guilty, but the villagers are innocent? The young girl lost her virginity to protect them, and yet she is still slandered by rumors. Although they can say that this is human nature, I can also say that this is my human nature. So what if I kill indiscriminately?"
Hearing this, Xiao Yuhan fell silent. He couldn't judge whether someone was right or wrong; such things were inherently difficult to explain.
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