107 Stealing Xie Tians Plot Armor 2 (1/2)
”Senior Jia Shan!?” Xu Miao recognized this voice.
”This voice, is it Xu Miao? What are you doing under the latrine?”
Xu Miao was surprised when he heard Jia Shan's voice. At first, his heart sank to his feet as he thought that his infiltration plan had been discovered. But after recalling the face of Wei Huang and how he acted in the grand hall, Xu Miao found it suspicious.
From the collected intel from Jiang Lan and others, Wei Huang definitely took over the sect from Jia Shan. It was odd that not many human cultivators or elders of the sect didn't resist against him, but Xu Miao didn't care.
After figuring out that Jia Shan wasn't in league with Wei Huang, Xu Miao was relieved.
Jia Shan's voice came from above. Xu Miao scanned through the ceiling, looking for a hole or any weak place that he could dig up. It didn't take long to locate a fist-sized hole, which connected to a pit toilet.
”Latrine? Excuse me if I ask, where are we?” Xu Miao
”I should be the one asking you. What are you doing down there? This is a prison.”
”Prison?”
”Well, my designated tomb, apparently. Wei Huang has locked me up in the sect's prison, and he's leaving me to rot here.”
Hearing the critical information, the face of Xie Tian and Xiong Zhenzhen came to his mind. The girl had said something about their business here in the mountain goose sect, which might relate to Jia Shan.
'Hypothetically, Xie Tian is probably trying to rescue Luo Cheng since he doesn't know that the shorty is working for Xu Xiuying. But if this is a novel plot, he will run into Jia Shan. And then…'
Xu Miao's jaw dropped as he had just discovered a turning point, which could become a stepping stone for any main characters in every novel - Obtaining a favor from an OP master!
In eastern fantasy novels, the luck protagonists were usually absurd. Nine out of ten stories, they always discovered lost ancient arts, obtained ultimate bloodline, received guidance from a supreme master, or used their cheat devices to get stronger when their strength was inferior to the antagonists.
In Xie Tian's case, Xu Miao guessed that he might be destined to become Jia Shan's legacy disciple, and the lady luck was guiding him to the sewer. If Xu Miao never existed or interfered with Xie Tian's adventure, the protagonist could have gotten here and encountered Jia Shan in the prison here.
Unfortunately for Xie Tian, Xu Miao unknowingly influenced the fate of the protagonist. During the previous encounter, Xie Tian lost his temper after seeing Xu Miao's face, which forced Xiong Zhenzhen to abort their plan for coming here.
And now, Xu Miao got here first. He could potentially steal another layer of Xie Tian's plot armors here if he played his cards right.
Since Xu Miao had already taken a fecal bath, he didn't mind digging through another shit hole.
Within five minutes, Xu Miao dug through the toilet hole and climbed into a dark prison cell.
The room was small and suffocating. It was a 2 cubic meter cell with only a pit toilet. The only source of water was the running water on the hand-sized drainage, which carried urine or fecal from other unknown sources to this place.
There was no bed or furniture. A bright orange wall, a defense array, separated the cell from the corridor outside. Had any daredevil touched it, they might die from whatever the array had prepared for them.
In other words, this room was designed to be the worse prison cell of the Mountain Goose Sect, and Jia Shan was trapped here.
Although the room was too small for two men to be inside, Xu Miao got into the room and cupped his fist, ”Junior Xu Miao greets Senior Jia.”
Jia Shan revealed a wry smile. He didn't mind the odor and several pieces of dirt and fecal on Xu Miao's face and body. He inspected Xu Miao's face and stopped when he noticed the short black hair, ”I see. This must be the real you.”
”Oh, you knew?”
”Xu Xiuying never has a child or a husband. It's obvious that she is up to something if someone suddenly shows up as her son. Well, you must have quite an adventure to come here through the toilet drain. What are you doing here? What happened to your disguise?”
As Jia Shan kept questioning Xu Miao, he noticed the red eyes of the latter, which indicated that he had practiced an evil art. It disappointed the ex-sect master that Xu Miao walked the wrong path.
”Yes, I'm not Xu Xiuying's son. I'm just a lowly slave that she picked up and trapped me in the brothel.”
”I know. But you haven't answered my question.”
”Well, complicated things happened on our end. All disciples have deserted the sect, and I'm here to bring someone with me. We're planning to leave the city before Xu Xiuying kills us all. Say, senior, since fate guides us here, would you like to tag along with us?”
Xu Miao didn't miss this opportunity to recruit Jia Shan to his side. He didn't notice that Jia Shan had lost all his cultivation strength.
Jia Shan shook his head, ”Leave me be. I'm too tired to struggle in this fight for power anymore. I want to die in peace.”
After being reminded that he was talking to an old man without power, Xu Miao realized the anomaly.
Jia Shan didn't have Qi. His physique also looked weaker.
”Senior, what happened?”
”Do you have time for a story?”
Xu Miao gazed at the clock on his smartphone. There was still time before the sunset.
”… Sure.”
…
Jia Shan retold everything after he was poisoned by Jian Meng. His cowardice subordinates didn't even try to protect or avenge against the poisoner, but they chose to surrender to Wei Huang instead.