Secrets in the Mountain Belly

  Secrets in the mountainside

  After a long time, the rain finally stopped. The weather in southern Xinjiang is quick to come and go, and the warm sunshine soon filled the earth after the rain had just stopped. The land that had just been washed by the rain gave off a fresh smell of mud, as if there were no holes or gaps anywhere.

  The fragrance of the tea became even more wonderful. As soon as the rain stopped, An Qi came out from inside and took a glance at the three people sitting or standing in the hall, without any surprise on his face for the extra person. Ye Li pointed to the dry rations placed on the side table: "First fill your stomachs, I guess

  The master won't be coming to deliver our breakfast today."

  An Qi nodded silently, sat down and slowly filled his stomach under the gaze of the three people. Bing Shu looked at An Qi's slow and meticulous eating with great interest, and smiled at Ye Li: "Chu Gongzi has such a powerful guard as Zhuo Youwei by his side, no wonder he dares to come to Nanjing alone. Brother Zhuo

  "What's going on? Didn't sleep all night?" An San raised his head and looked at him faintly: "The young master only brought me, one person, so naturally we have to be more careful." Bing Shu Sheng's eyes sank slightly. It was already not easy to have a guard like this. Listening to Zhuo Jing's meaning

  Chu Junwei usually has many people around him, but now he only has one guard, which is unusual. So... Chu Junwei's identity might not be ordinary after all. He glanced at Han Mingxi beside him, who was able to get along with the younger brother of the Tianyi Pavilion master, and it wasn't just anyone

  Ordinary people.

  Feeling the inquiring gaze of Ben Shu Sheng, Han Ming Xi gave him a harmless smile. Don't ask him, he didn't know Jun Wei's identity either.

  Four people collected the medicine and left the small building. The sunshine outside was just right, and the fragrance of flowers in the air became more intense. However, the antidote provided by Bookworm didn't have any effect on the four of them. Returning to the adjacent small building, Old Master Liang, the butler, and Zheng Kui

  The guard was indeed gone. Han Mingxi looked at Bing Sheng with a mixture of surprise and schadenfreude, "It seems they've been gone for at least an hour, what are you going to do now?" With someone familiar with the terrain leading the way, one hour was enough time to escape far away, even on a rainy day.

  The sickly scholar's lips curled up with a cold, cruel smile as he said faintly, "As long as that person is still in the southern border, they won't be able to escape my grasp. Besides... do you think they're waiting for us here for no reason? The place they want to go to can't be more than twenty miles from here."

  The sick book life gently took out a small box from his bosom, opened it, and a small green moth flew out. The moth flapped its wings twice, landed on the small porcelain bottle that the sick book life had opened in his hand for a moment, and then flew up again towards the depths of the village.

  "Let's go," said Bing Sheng with a satisfied smile as he put away the small medicine bottle on his body, and spoke faintly to the three of them.

  Three people followed Xiaofei and went, the whole village was indeed empty. Last night was too dark and no one noticed that except for the two small buildings where they lived, the other houses in this village were very simple. It didn't look like a village where ordinary people gathered.

  It was like a temporary stronghold. The moths walked all the way into the deep mountains, and the poisonous snakes and insects on the road died in large numbers under the tyrannical poison of the sick scholar. No one deliberately drove them away, and these reptiles also knew how to avoid harm and seek benefits, and did not come together to surround them.

  After walking for nearly half a day, the butterfly stopped at a cliff and fluttered around the sick bookworm, circling him and refusing to go any further.

  "Could it be that Young Master's little butterfly has led him astray?" Han Mingxi asked with a smile.

  The sickly bookworm gave him a faint glance, put the small moth back in the box and said to Han Mingxi: "Get out."

  "Go down?" Han Mingxi was taken aback, and quickly reacted with an incredulous expression: "You want me to go down?! Do you know where this is? This is the South Wilderness, who knows how deep it is below, who knows what kind of poisonous snakes or monsters are inside, you want me to go down?"

  "?"! Bing Shu Sheng said: "Your light work is the best, otherwise, let Chu Gongzi go down first?" Han Mingxi's face was iron-green, looking at Bing Shu Sheng's left hand fingers as if searching casually, and glanced at Ye Li and An San standing on one side. Although they had not known each other for long, Han Mingxi still

  You know Jun Wei's lightness skills are actually not that great. If something happens on the way, I'm afraid you won't even have time to escape with your life. With a huff, "Go down then, just wait for me!" When you open Nanjiang, this young master will make sure you don't die!

  Han Mingxi's feet lightly touched the ground, and his entire body fluttered away like a giant dark red butterfly, then plummeted down the cliff. Bing Sheng praised in a low voice: "Han Er Gongzi's lightness is indeed much better than Mingyue Gongzi." However, it was only lightness after all, compared to the depth of heart and mind.

  The unpredictable and cunning Mingyue Gongzi didn't take Han Mingxi very seriously. As long as he could guarantee not to kill Han Mingxi, considering the relationship with Mingyue Gongzi, it would be enough for the master of the pavilion to avoid trouble.

  "Zhuo Jing." Ye Li frowned and stood at the edge of the cliff, looking down, but only saw rolling white clouds and not a glimpse of the scenery below. This cliff was probably even deeper than the one under Hei Yun Peak, by more than double. It was impossible to rely on lightness skills to directly descend to the bottom of the cliff. An San stepped forward, stretching out his hand to probe

  A cliff, a silver thread tied to something rapidly going down the mountain cliff, after a while, only to see Yan San slowly reeling in the thread wrapped around his palm, turned back to Ye Li and said: "Young master, it's at least 100 zhang to the bottom of the cliff, and...the cliff wall is very smooth."

  Lost in thought, a hundred zhang is nearly three hundred meters. The cliff wall is so high and yet it's still smooth, with hardly any grass or trees. It's clear that this isn't a natural growth. It seems that the sick bookworm's moth didn't lead us astray after all.

  Bingshu Sheng looked at An San's movements with a hint of curiosity in his eyes, just as he was about to speak, a figure emerged from the cliff below and landed awkwardly on the ground. As soon as he landed, Han Mingxi cursed, "Bingshu Sheng! You wait for me, I'll...

  "It was you who killed me here, I guarantee that Tianyi Pavilion will hunt you down to death!" Bian Shusheng's face remained unchanged, seemingly not taking Han Mingxi's threat seriously at all. He asked coldly: "What's next?"

  Han Mingxi sneered, "What's there? Even if there is something, can your crappy lightness skill and body take it? Don't expect me to bring you down, unless you want to smash into pieces together with me!" Han Mingxi taunted, looking at Bing Shu with a scowl.

  It seems that he had just encountered danger at the foot of the cliff, causing him to temporarily forget his fear of the sick scholar, and could only use cold ridicule to calm down the anger and fright in his heart.

  "Brother Han." Ye Li called out in a low voice. At this time, provoking the sickly bookworm wouldn't bring any benefits.

  Han Mingxi was not an impulsive person, and after being reminded by Ye Li, he quickly suppressed his anger and said: "At the foot of the cliff is a sea of flowers, but I guess those words are all poisonous. There are many venomous snakes in the flower cluster, and there are several skeletons inside, I don't know if they fell down unintentionally or were thrown down by someone. However, on the cliff wall about 70 feet above the ground, there is a fairly large cave that seems to be an entrance. But... " He looked at Bing Sheng with a smile that was not quite a smile and said: "The cliff has been deliberately processed, and basically, there is no place to borrow force. I wasn't joking just now, with my qinggong (light skill), it's impossible for me to take someone down without falling to the bottom of the cliff where all the snakes and poisonous substances are. And you three... with your qinggong wanting to go down alone is simply a fantasy." Han Mingxi was still very proud of his own light skill.

  "No wonder there's not even a guard on this road, are they certain we can't find the way?" Shu Sheng said with a frown. If it wasn't for Han Mingxi's exceptional lightness skill just now, he feared that any one of them would be dead meat. "There must be another way, I don't believe all those people are skilled in lightness skills." Han Mingxi said proudly, "Of course, do you think it's easy to cultivate extraordinary lightness skills? However... even if there is another way, can you find it now?" None of them were experts in mechanisms, let alone the fact that they were completely unfamiliar with the southern border. More importantly, those southerners weren't fools either, would they just sit there waiting for them to find a way in?

  "You..." Bookish Sheng furrowed his brow, looking at Han Mingjing. Han Mingjing hastily hid behind Zhuo Jing, not even bothering to stick his head out. "Don't look for me, even if I could get in, there's no way. In terms of martial arts, I'm really not good enough. I reckon that even if it is an entrance inside, I probably won't be able to use my lightness skill. If I go alone, at most I can only scare away the snakes."

  "What's inside that's so important?" Ye Li asked with a frown.

  "Do you have a way?" Ben Shu looked at her with furrowed brows.

  Ye Li didn't answer, and instead repeated her own question, "What exactly is it that you're looking for, young master?"

  Bing Shu's voice was cold and he snorted, "The three of you only have one person who wants to capture Chu Junyi, but the threat is fundamentally unrealistic." After a long while, he spoke in a low voice, "It's a kind of rare poison."

  Upon hearing this, the interest of several others suddenly dropped by half. Han Mingxu curiously asked: "Young Master is known for his poisonous techniques in the world, what kind of poison can make Young Master so moved that he would risk his life?" Bing Sheng smiled coldly, with a sinister glint in his eyes, saying: "A kind... of poison that makes people unable to live or die." Ye Li was not interested in what kind of poison could make people unable to live or die. There were many ways to make people suffer in this world, and it was completely unnecessary to take risks to find some peculiar poison. As for being unable to live or die, if someone really wanted to ask, there were many methods, how could they be unable to die? Not dying was only because living still had hope and attachment. However, the sinister glint in Bing Sheng's eyes made Ye Li's heart skip a beat, with a somewhat vague idea added to his mind.

  "The young master is already a poison technique master, why bother searching for some rare poison?" Ye Li said calmly.

  Bingshu Sheng let out a short, bitter laugh, his voice filled with resentment and malice. Then, he burst into another fit of violent coughing. "That's right, I do have many good things, but that's still not enough... The most painful poison in the world is in Nanjiang. Heh heh..."

  Ye Li opened her eyes wide and looked at him, her voice slightly raised with a hint of curiosity: "I've heard that the most painful poison in the world is the Duan Chang Fu Gu Dan. People who are poisoned by it will suffer from liver and intestine rupture, bone fractures, and scream for 49 days before dying. Is there an even more terrifying toxin than this?" Bian Shu Sheng smiled slightly with pride: "That's right, the Duan Chang Fu Gu Dan is indeed very toxic, but it needs to be taken orally, and it has a very strong medicinal taste. Even if you use other flavors to mask it, you can't deceive people who are skilled in medicine or have a keen sense of smell. But this one is different, the poison made from it is truly colorless and odorless, just one drop can make a person fall into hell forever!"

  "Yuèluò Míng Huā?" Han Mingxi curiously asked.

  He snorted disdainfully and said, "Do you think the Southern Border only has the Yu Luo Ming Hua? Compared to whatever Yu Luo Ming Hua is hidden in the sacred land of the Southern Border, this is the real treasure - Bi Luo Hua."

  "Bì luò huā?" Han Mingxi was taken aback, "The name sounds quite elegant, but I've never heard of it." Bing Shu Sheng let out a disdainful snort, Ye Li furrowed her brow and said lightly: "Above is Bì Luò, below is Huáng Quán." Bing Shu Sheng laughed and said: "That's right, this poison really is called Bì Luò Huáng Quán."

  "It sounds like nothing much." Han Mingxi said. Compared to something that breaks one's heart and bones, this name is simply poetic.

  The Poisonous Book smiled and said, "Indeed, there's nothing to be done. Once this poison comes into contact with the human body, it immediately merges into the blood vessels throughout the body. Unless you drain all the blood from your body, this poison can never be eliminated. Because even if there is a way to change the blood, as long as there is still a bit of this poison in the blood, it will spread and grow at the fastest speed in the new blood." Han Mingxi was puzzled, "Why is it called Bi Luo Huang Quan?"

  "Hehe... one in heaven, one on earth. Those who are poisoned by this toxin appear perfectly fine on the outside, but inside they will slowly rot away. The more internal poison accumulates, the more beautiful their appearance becomes. However... he can no longer touch any person or animal."

  "Is it contagious?" Ye Li asked in a low voice, her eyes cast downward.

  "No, how could it be contagious?" The sick scholar laughed and said: "Playing with uncontrollable poison will lead to big trouble. The reason why he can't touch anyone is that any warm living thing will make him feel unbearable pain and accelerate the decay of his internal organs. He can only hide alone in a place isolated from the world, letting himself rot and stink. Ah... his limbs will first become paralyzed, perhaps before he rots, he will starve to death."

  The three people present all felt a chill, especially with the sickly scholar's sinister tone, even in the bright sunlight, it made one feel cold to the bone.

  "This is impossible. If it were just a poison, it wouldn't be so highly valued." Yeli pointed out faintly. Even the most precious poison is still just a poison, and apart from being in the hands of someone like Bing Shu, it's probably not even comparable to an antidote that can cure all poisons in an instant. Bing Shu said in a low voice, "That's right, the Biliu flower is said to be able to revive the dead if paired with another medicine. The so-called antidotes that can cure all poisons are actually only effective against some common toxins. But an antidote made from the Biliu flower, as long as the person still has a breath of life left, no matter what poison or injury, can be completely cured in one night. And it can also prolong one's lifespan. You say... is there anyone who wouldn't fight for such a treasure? If someone with the surname Liang were to turn it into a medicinal pill, even if it cost a fortune, nobody would think it too expensive."

  Ye Li covered the flowing light in her eyes and nodded calmly: "So that's how it is. It's indeed a treasure, Young Master is searching for it to cure an illness?"

  "The doctor sneered coldly: 'Treating illness and eliminating poison are two different things.'"

  "So... at that time, giving you a Dan medicine should be considered a reasonable reward, right?" Ye Li asked.

  The sick man gazed at her with cold eyes, "Reward?"

  "Are you saying that the young master never pays when asking for help? Since the young master said it can both cure illnesses and create poison, I can assume that the Azure Falling Flower is not too rare. As I'm not skilled in pharmacology, the Azure Falling Flower is of no use to me. So, just one pill that can detoxify and prolong life shouldn't be too excessive, right?" Bing Shu's eyes changed colors, and after a long while, he said in a low voice: "I agree to your request."

  "Alright."

  "I can do it myself." The sick scholar retorted, letting someone take him down and make him feel like a weakling was unbearable to him.

  Zhuo Jing glanced at him and said: "If you're not afraid of falling to death, then the young master can try it himself."

  "Hey!" The sickly bookworm's face sank, but Ye Li waved at him and had already picked up the rope to the position specified by Han Mingxi. She skillfully fixed the iron hook in a certain place and threw down the rope. Ye Li grasped the rope and slowly slid down the cliff, Han Mingxi leaned out to look, still able to see her holding onto the rope on the cliff wall, moving downwards bit by bit, seemingly slow but with an unusual familiarity and speed. Before long, she had disappeared into the clouds and mist.

  After a while, the rope that was originally swaying gently came down. Then, the iron hook fixed to the stone began to detach with an even more intense shaking. "Ah..." Han Mingxi anxiously tried to grab it, but An San said in a low voice, "It's okay, the young master has arrived." Indeed, after the iron hook loosened, the rope at the lower end seemed to be pulled down by someone and quickly slid down the cliff. An San on one side had already started preparing according to Ye Li's method earlier. Bing Sheng didn't argue anymore and waited until An San went down before directly using his lightness skill to land beside him and tightly grab onto him. The two began moving downwards, this time much slower than Ye Li.

  Han Mingxi stood alone at the edge of the cliff, curiously looking at the iron hook and thin rope tightly grasping the giant rock, muttering to himself: "You're really a strange kid..."

  When Ye Li slid down to over sixty feet, she indeed saw a cave entrance not far away that was about one person tall. She couldn't help but feel grateful that she had discovered the benefits of the long and sturdy rope earlier and had increased its length by a lot. Otherwise, she might not have made it here. With a gentle swing to the right, Ye Li accurately landed on the edge of the cave entrance and stood up steadily. Han Mingxi was not wrong; this was indeed a very deep cave that seemed bottomless, like a passageway carved into the cliff. The front was pitch black, leading to unknown places. Looking at the obvious new footprints on the ground, it seemed that these people were very confident and didn't even assign someone to guard the entrance. Ye Li carefully put away the rope and walked forward a few steps, waiting quietly. After a while, An San and Bing Shu appeared at the cave entrance, and just as they stood up, Han Mingxi swooped down and swept into the cave entrance before An San could even retract the rope.

  "They really went in from here." Ye Li pointed to the footprints on the ground and the top of the cliff, "Be careful, there should be a mechanism above. I observed carefully when I came down earlier, and there should be some kind of controllable mechanism on the cliff wall, so they didn't decide to use lightness skill to climb down. Unfortunately, we don't have time to search slowly." Bing Shu Sheng's face wasn't looking good, being brought down by An San earlier although it didn't take much effort, but still unpleasant, "Let's go. Don't worry about the mechanism for now."

  "Can you hold back your cough?" Ye Li asked with a frown.

  He nodded stiffly, took out a bottle of medicine from his bosom and poured it all into his mouth in one gulp, looking even more miserable. "Don't worry, I won't cough again."

  Ye Li nodded, An San led the way on horseback, Bing Shu followed, Ye Li and Han Mingxi brought up the rear.

  As they walked further in, the tunnel became gloomy and dark. However, it seemed relatively dry, so when the light completely disappeared, Bing Sheng took out a lighter and lit it. Ye Li frowned, as lighting a fire in the thin air of the tunnel wasn't a good idea, but there was no other choice now. Han Mingxi followed behind, looking at An He and Ye Li walking with their backs against either side of the tunnel, and raised an eyebrow, chuckling softly: "Jun Wei, are you two being too tense?" Ye Li gave him a white eye, "Compared to the lightly skilled Master Han, how can I not be tense?"

  Bingshu Sheng turned his head to glance at the three of them, then continued walking forward with the torch. This tunnel built into the mountain obviously wasn't there just for show, so they didn't encounter any forks in the road or mazes inside. Moreover, the terrain had been sloping downward all along, and when Ye Li estimated that they were almost at the foot of the mountain, he finally heard some noise up ahead. Bingshu Sheng raised his hand to extinguish the torch, standing at the bend to look outward, and indeed saw two men wearing Nanjiang attire standing not far away, with a door behind them, and the hubbub was coming from inside.

  These two guards apparently didn't think anyone would come from this direction, and they were huddled together whispering and laughing about something. However, the straight passageway in front of them was at least a hundred meters long and quite narrow. Neither of them could possibly sneak up on the two gatekeepers without making any noise at this distance. And once these two made any movement, they would inevitably alert the people inside.

  Bingshu Sheng silently pulled out a delicate box from his bosom and aimed it at the front. With two soft whooshing sounds, the two Nanjiang people immediately froze in place. The four of them hastily snuck over, with Bingshu Sheng being the first to dart inside the door. As Ye Li passed by the doorway, he paused for a moment, turning his head to see that the two people still standing were bleeding black blood from their lips, clearly having lost all signs of life. His eyes dimmed slightly, and Ye Li followed closely behind, dashing through the large gate.

  The darkness and chill of the tunnel entrance and outer passageway were entirely different from the sweltering brightness inside. Not far away, people came and went, and the guards also became much more severe. However, all four of them were masters above the average level, so it was not difficult to evade these guards.

  Squatting behind a large stone barrier, Han Mingxi looked out curiously. Outside, the sound of people's voices and the clanging of iron could be heard, "What are they doing?" Bing Sheng asked calmly: "They're making weapons." He pointed to the distance, where many finished weapons were already laid out. An San glanced over at Ye Li and made a hand gesture, and Ye Li nodded in understanding. The people were not making the kind of weapons that Jianghu people or ordinary martial artists liked, but rather standard battlefield equipment. With so many people producing such large quantities, it was clear that they were making weapons for some army.

  "This has nothing to do with us, let's go." Bing Shu Sheng had no interest in what kind of weapon these people were forging, his only interest now was the Azure Falling Flower.

  "Do you know where the one with the surname Liang is?" Han Mingxi asked.

  Bingshu Sheng coldly laughed and said, "He can't escape." Han Mingxi nodded and said, "I remember now, did you poison him? Where's your little butterfly?" Bingshu Sheng gave him a cold glance, stood up, and walked away in the other direction. Han Mingxi shrugged his shoulders, smiled at Ye Li, and followed after him. An San spoke in a low voice, "Young Master, these weapons were made for a certain branch of the Great Chu army." Ye Li raised an eyebrow, "How do you know?" An San pointed to a row of knives displayed not far away, "People from Nanjiang are accustomed to using short knives, while those from Xiling have thicker blades. And then there's Beijun, their cavalry is the strongest, they prefer long weapons or large knives. This style of knife is what our Great Chu soldiers usually use."

  Ye Li nodded and followed Han Mingxi and Bing Shusheng.

  The sick book Shengcai was not wrong, this is indeed a not small underground arsenal. The two large caves were busy casting weapons, most of the casting masters were from the Central Plains, and some were from the Southern Border. The two followed Sick Book Sheng to avoid these people, and the terrain continued to descend, leaving the cave where they were casting weapons and entering another cave. Compared to the rough mountain caves in front, this one looked more like a decorated underground palace. The ground was paved with beautifully carved marble and comfortable carpets. "Are those people really dead?!" As soon as the four of them approached, a somewhat sharp voice came from inside. Ye Li frowned, it was the voice of the wealthy merchant Liang Lao Ye. At this time, his voice did not have the same complacent and disdainful tone as before, but instead had a few more anxious and murderous intentions.

  "Don't worry, they absolutely can't escape." The voice of Luo Yi tribe's chief, Le Jiang, rang out.

  "Why didn't you just send someone to kill them directly!" Mr. Liang said discontentedly, "That sickly scholar is very frightening, if we don't get rid of him early, he will leave future troubles. If it weren't for him following me all the way, I would have arrived in South China long ago. But no matter what, I couldn't shake him off! And that person surnamed Han, obviously also knows that sickly guy. We absolutely cannot let them... No matter what price we pay!"

  "No matter what the cost?" Leng Jiang sneered, "Who pays the price? Those few people are not simple, you think I don't know? Even a snake group can't do anything to them. Every man in my Luo Yi Department is precious, how many people would have to be sacrificed to go up and fight them hard? Do you think the people of my Luo Yi Department are as numerous as yours in Great Chu, that they can't be killed off?"

  "Don't you forget..." Mr. Liang shouted in anger. Le Jiang said loudly, "Don't worry, I haven't forgotten what I should do. But things that go beyond our agreement, it's best if you don't order me around." The people inside seemed to be stunned for a moment before hearing Mr. Liang say, "But...what if those few people escape? Do you think they will let us off? As for the other three, I'm not sure, but that sickly person's reputation, I think you should have heard of it. He is the third master of Xiling Yanwang Pavilion."

  "Why did you provoke the people of Yanwang Pavilion!" Le Jiang was obviously furious and shouted loudly.

  "How was I supposed to know?! He showed up out of the blue just a few days after I left, and I couldn't even dare to ask him to leave. That person is notorious for seeking revenge. What could I do?"

  "So you brought him to South Xinjiang together!" Le Jiang gritted his teeth for a while, then hummed and said: "I know, I will send someone to deal with them as soon as possible. Don't worry, the road down the mountain has been blocked long ago, now there are poisonous insects and snakes everywhere on that mountain, even if he is good at using poison, I don't believe he can poison all the poisonous snakes and insects on the mountain!"

  "In short, be careful and make sure you see his corpse. If you had taken action to kill them from the start, there wouldn't be so much trouble now."

  Le Gan sneered, "He's been following you closely, I wonder who will kill whom first. I'll go instruct someone to take care of things, you stay here for now. Don't forget your belongings, if Master can't get what he wants, you know the consequences!" Old Master Liang's breathing suddenly stopped, and he quickly said, "I know, I've already brought half of the token with me. Give me the other half."

  Le Jiang coldly snorted and said: "This was originally ours in Southern Xinjiang."

  As for the issue of benefits, Old Master Liang was not weak at all. "The thing is in my hands, and only I know how to get it."

  "That was entrusted by the former king of Nanzhao to the Liang family for safekeeping, and it wasn't given to you." Le Qiang said in a low voice.

  "Haha, what's the big deal? You also know that it belongs to the Nanzhao royal family and not yours?" Mr. Liang said with a smile, "I didn't give it to the Nanzhao royal family already, isn't that good enough?"

  "Isn't it because we offered a higher price? The King of Nanzhao won't get anything except for a few words of gratitude." Le Jiang said coldly.

  Mr. Liang said, "You want the treasure, I want money. Everyone gets what they need, right? So, you'd better hand over the other half of the token quickly and stop playing tricks. This mountain has been dug up by you people almost empty, without me, you absolutely won't be able to find the treasure. And don't think about killing me to silence me, don't forget that behind me is..."

  Mr. Liang's tone of satisfaction obviously made Le Jiang very uncomfortable, but he had no choice. He could only say in a cold voice: "I know, I'll bring it over soon. You'd better not play any tricks, the master has said that we must see the thing within half a month at the latest. Otherwise... even if you have the emperor as your father, it won't be of any use!"

  Mr. Liang's pleased laughter stopped abruptly, and after a while, he finally said: "I understand, don't worry. I know the relationship between King Wang and your master, and I'm not someone who doesn't know how to gauge the situation. As long as you give me the token, once we arrive at the capital of Nanzhao, I guarantee that I will deliver the goods right in front of you."

  "That's the best!" Le Jiang said, his footsteps fading away into the distance. The room eventually fell silent again, with only Old Master Liang's slightly labored breathing sound remaining.

  What to do? The four of them stood in a secluded corner, Han Mingxi indicated to Bing Sheng with his eyes. Bing Sheng lowered his head, and a hint of sinister smile flashed across his already gloomy face. Han Mingxi shuddered, and looked at the anxious Lao Ye walking back and forth inside with some pity. Who knows what kind of torture this old man would suffer?

  Digression

  (*^__^*) Hehe... It's been a while since the male lead came out, do you guys miss him? This section of the story will be finished soon and there will be feelings too, although it's a bit slow. Yeah, both the male and female leads' feelings are a bit slow to develop, but the plot twists will be exciting~ Normally, I write around 8,000 characters at a time, but since I have work, I really can't rush out more than that. Occasionally, when I'm particularly busy, I can only write as much as I can and post it. But I won't drop the story, sorry about that~