Chapter 16: Repel External Threats by First Securing Internal Stability (Part 2)

  At this moment, applause suddenly erupted outside the door. The crowd heard the sound and looked over, only to see Zhao Qianfeng standing dazed at the entrance, with a slovenly and fat Taoist priest and a young man in white standing behind him.

  "Chu Lie Xi said: 'Ye Xian Chang, Tang... Li younger brother, how did you two come?'"

  "Why can't I come?" Ye Fashan swaggered into the stone room, and strode straight to Xiao Xiaosi: "Youngster, where is my Taoist temple?"

  "Did I ever say I'd send you to a Taoist temple?"

  Ye Fashan turned his head and left without a word. Xiao Si slowly said, "At least we should add a few more roast geese?"

  Ye Fashan suddenly turned his head, squeezed between Qiu Junyi and Yu Linglong, nodded and said: "This is still okay."

  As everyone's gaze fell on him, Li Jing said calmly: "Someone scolded me as a turtle, so I came."

  One was the current Southern Ming's most renowned Daoist master, and the other was a former Tangmen disciple who was an absolute genius; the two of them arrived together, truly opening the eyes of everyone in the stone chamber.

  Before everyone could recover from the shock, a young man with a refined demeanor and a folding fan walked in through the door. He looked around at the crowd, his eyes scanning over Xiao Si and Wan'er before pausing in confusion. Then he clapped his hands and exclaimed, "Ah, when fake becomes real, even reality is false! I ask you, miss, are you really Xiao brother or Wan'er sister?"

  Wan Er inexplicably cursed under her breath: "Sick!"

  The young master's eyes lit up and he exclaimed, "Ah ha! I know who you are, you're Xiao Ge!"

  Suddenly, someone outside the door stuttered: "Stupid, stupid egg, Fourth Brother is so... fierce?"

  Li Yuanba strode in, brandishing a golden mallet and beating a drum, the head of the mallet struck the door with a loud "crash", causing half of the wall to collapse.

  "May I ask your honorable surnames and names?"

  Jin Yi Gongzi just opened his mouth, and Li Yuanba rushed to say: "I, I'll help you say - aren't you the one known in Jianghu as 'Yu Nu Jian', Qingcheng, Qingcheng Men's number one... handsome Longsun Wuji?"

  Seeing Zhang Sun Wuji about to speak, Li Yuanba suddenly said: "Ah, yes... there's still something, almost forgot."

  He turned to face Wan'er, rolling his eyes in thought, and said: "May I be so bold as to ask the young lady... what is your name, and how old are you?"

  Chang Sun Wuji let out a sorrowful sigh and said: "Li Yuanba, you dare to ruin my image, plagiarize my famous sayings, how utterly shameless!"

  Li Yuanba disdainfully said: "Get out of here! You're ruining Grandpa's image!"

  He turned his face and saw Xiao Si, suddenly grinning: "Fourth brother, where is the person you were talking about? Is it... them? I think they really are quite foolish."

  Chang Sun Wuji hastily called out: "And what about that demoness? You won't abandon brotherly loyalty and rush to ascend first, will you?"

  Yu Zhong Shi took a deep breath, and as the owner of the Intelligence Agency, he prided himself on having extensive connections and being well-informed. How could he not know about Long Sun Wuji and Li Yuanba's backgrounds? But how did they end up coming here? And it was clear that they were targeting Xiao Si's face; otherwise, even if the Intelligence Agency had moved heaven and earth, these two wouldn't have batted an eyelid.

  With Ye Fashan and Li Jing added, either of them can make the world tremble with a single stomp. With their addition, the chances of winning are greatly increased.

  However, Yu Zhongshi couldn't be happy about it. He had grown old and originally wanted to use this opportunity to help his son-in-law Xia Peiheng succeed and establish a solid position as the successor of the Tongbao Bureau. But Xiǎo Sì's actions not only stole all the attention but also humiliated Xia Peiheng, making Yu Zhongshi's efforts seem like they were going to be in vain.

  But seeing Geng Nan Yi, Chu Lie and others who were invited to come, such as Zhao Bai Chuan and Qiu Jun Yi, who admired and protected Xiao Si, if he continued to stubbornly support his son-in-law, a internal conflict was likely imminent.

  Yu Zhong Shi was not a man who failed to recognize the times, otherwise he would not have been able to sit on the throne of the leader of Hui Tong Pawnshop for several decades. He quickly calmed down and stood up with his fists together: "Ye Xian Chang, Li Gongzi, Zhang Sun Gongzi, Xiao Li Jiangjun, I, Yu Zhong Shi, represent all the colleagues of Hui Tong Pawnshop to thank you four for coming from afar to help us in our time of need!"

  Four people, Ye Fashan was gnawing on chicken wings, Li Jing was closing his eyes to cultivate his spirit, and Li Yuanba was looking around for the object of their cultivation. Suddenly, Long Sunuzi laughed and responded: "Good, good - subduing demons and evil spirits is the innate mission of us Qingcheng disciples. Ah, Xie brother, where is that demon girl you mentioned?"

  Yu Zhong Shi was not embarrassed by the awkward situation, pretending not to understand Zhangsun Wuji's nonsense, and said: "In that case, please let everyone listen to General Xun's opinion."

  Xiao Si didn't care about Yu Zhongshi's extended olive branch, and even if he was the head of Tong Baoju, how could he compare to Duan Zhen Tian, the leader of Guanluo Baoju?

  He looked at Geng Nan and asked, "Old man, have you ever been to Jiangzhou's black market?"

  Geng Nan Wing smiled and said: "I went there a few years ago, but I've been lazy lately and haven't strolled around much."

  Xiao Si asked: "That's a great place for feng shui, don't you think it would be good to put the cemetery there?"

  "What's with the magnetic device?" Geng Nan Yi was taken aback, his eyes fixed on the Jiangzhou terrain map on the table.

  The dragon in the sky shook his head and said, "It's not suitable. From now on, going to the Magnetic Mouth will be as smooth as a horse galloping across a plain without any obstacles or hindrances, which is not conducive to our ambush."

  Xia Peiheng finally seized the opportunity and sneered: "Chief Xia, you won't be so scared that you lose your appetite, will you?"

  Before he had finished speaking, Ye Fashan suddenly let out a loud belch, causing everyone to burst out laughing.

  Xiao Si Leng sneered: "Ignorance is not scary, what's scary is that some people always like to take ignorance as fun."

  Xia Peiheng's expression changed slightly, and he suddenly heard Yu Linglong whispering beside him: "Yu Shui!"

  Yu Zhong Shi stared blankly at the map and said, "You're saying that there's an ambush in the river?"

  Zhao Baichuan hesitated and said: "But the waterways of Jiangzhou are all under the control of the Zhuangyi gang, we may not necessarily have the upper hand."

  He pinched his fingers to calculate the date again, saying: "Moreover, the night before last coincided with the Jiangzhou black market." The implication was that it was not conducive to setting up an ambush that night. If they pushed back another day and a night, even if it was just one more day and a night, ordinary people would not be able to withstand it, let alone high-ranking masters with superior cultivation.

  Xia Peiheng smiled intentionally and said: "Could it be that Chief Xia wants to take a few friends who have come from afar to visit the black market?"

  Li Yuanba disdainfully said: "You, you turtle egg green oil, black market... that broken toy has what good to look at? In my time in Qingcheng, the meditation cushions we used were all seventh-grade goods... color!"

  Chang Sun Wuji added, "That's because Yuan Bao Shidi loves to fart when he's meditating, and Zi Yang Shibo can't do anything about it. He had no choice but to place the 'Heavenly Fragrance' incense, secretly refined by our Qingcheng Sect's third generation ancestor, under his butt to help him regulate his yin-yang energy."

  Li Yuanba angrily said: "You - just farted!"

  Chu Lie was afraid that these two would quarrel endlessly, and hastily said: "Fourth Brother, what do you think about setting an ambush in the river..."

  Xiao Si said with a smile: "Master Chu, when did I ever say that I wanted to set an ambush?"

  Chu Lie was taken aback, thinking carefully from start to finish that Xiao Si had never mentioned setting up an ambush to kill them, and couldn't help but ask in confusion: "Don't we set up an ambush?"

  "Of course, we won't set up an ambush. Those few old demons have all become spirits, if we were to divide our troops and set up an ambush, wouldn't they be able to see through it? So on the day of the funeral procession, all of us must appear in the mourning procession."

  Yu Lingong said, "I thought my ambush plan was foolproof, but it seems there were many flaws. Xie brother was right, if we had arranged for a large number of experts to set up an ambush, those demon heads would not have been unaware. He didn't directly point it out earlier because he didn't want to embarrass Pei Heng in front of everyone."

  But she overestimated Xiang Si and thought he was too great, in fact, Xiang Si was too lazy to care about this matter.

  Geng Shaohua sighed and said: "Fourth Uncle, I'm getting more and more confused."

  Li Jing said calmly: "It's very simple, setting is not setting, and not setting is setting."

  Zhangsun Wuji waved his fan and said: "This is what they mean by 'empty yet established, established yet empty'."

  Yu Ling's eyes lit up as she exclaimed, "I understand! We're going to use the mouth of the magnetic device as the final battleground and deliberately lure the old demon into an ambush in the river!"

  "Great!" Zhao Bai-chuan slapped his thigh and exclaimed: "Due to the Jiangzhou black market, the time left for those demon heads to set up ambushes will not exceed one hour at most!"

  Chu Lie suddenly realized, "They will never guess that we have Ye Xianchang, Li Gongzi and two other Qingcheng Sect experts helping us out. We are already far superior to them in terms of strength."

  Mrs. Geng asked: "But how can we quietly lead the enemy to the Magnetic Mouth?"

  Geng Nan Yi smiled and said: "Zhao younger brother, now it's time for you to send someone to build a tomb at the Magnetic Mouth."

  "No problem."

  Yu Linglong said: "Also, our brothers who were captured, it's best to take advantage of the opportunity when the mountain stronghold is empty and the guards are weak to launch a surprise attack and rescue them."

  Xiao Si glanced at Ye Fashan and said: "Old Dao, is a stick of incense enough time for you?"

  Ye Fashan stared at Li Yuanba, who was drooling while staring at the duck leg in his hand, and said: "Let this fool follow me, half a stick of incense is enough."

  Li Yuanba said unwillingly: "Why, why don't... are you following me?"

  Ye Fashan smiled and said, "How about we have another arm-wrestling match?"

  Li Yuanba had obviously suffered at the hands of the Old Thief on his way to Jiangzhou, and immediately shut up obediently.

  Chang Sun Wuji asked: "What is that gentleman doing?"

  Xiao Si said without hesitation: "Follow me, let's go meet that legendary female demon."

  Chang Sun Wuji nodded in satisfaction, tapping the rhythm with his folded fan in hand, and recited with deep feeling: "Guan Guan Ju Jiu, on the islet in the river; a beautiful and charming girl, a gentleman's delight."

  Yu Linglong looked at Xue Xiao Si, who was covering his mouth and yawning again, and faintly sensed that his plan shouldn't be so simple. She quietly asked Ye Fashan beside her: "Immortal Master, what do you think?"

  Ye Fashan stopped eating and drinking, deeply thinking for a moment, then replied seriously: "There must be a huge conspiracy behind this!"

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