"This way please." The boy made a gesture, inviting Xue Yao to walk in front of him, heading to the underground chamber.
Xue Yao took a few steps forward, and Lu Qian followed closely behind him, but was stopped by the boy.
"The gang master has only invited the Sword Saint's disciples for an interview, so please wait here."
"Master is with Yao Yao."
"I'm sorry, the master only invited the Sword Saint's disciple for an interview, so please wait here patiently."
Lu Qian refused to cooperate.
The two boys had a mischievous look in their eyes.
Xue Yao immediately said to the two of them, "Allow me to have a word with him." He then pulled Lu Qian aside and coaxed, "Just wait for me here."
"Why?"
"This is a matter between our triads." Xue Yao pretended to be serious, "I'm afraid that you don't know mob etiquette and will make the gang master angry."
Lu Qian doesn't recognize him and still asks to be inseparable from him.
"Behave!" Xue Yao tried a soft approach, "I'll go back with you soon after we talk, nothing will happen. How can this small gang dare to touch the Sword Saint's men? You said so yourself."
Lu Qian's icy complexion loosened slightly.
Xue Yao picked up again and gave a small twist, "OK?"
He found that this type of communication would make the rebel pups talkative.
Sure enough, Lu Qian agreed with great enthusiasm.
Xue Yao followed the boy down the chamber, and the wall behind him slowly closed.
The firelight in the chamber shines down from the top of Xue Yao's head, and the shadows under his feet sway like ghosts and monsters, inexplicably making people panic.
Outside the secret room, Lu Qian paced back and forth, and the boy on the side stepped forward and said, "Sir, please have some tea."
Lu Qian does not meet with the boy, his eyes wandering in the room, and finally stopped at the northwest corner of the incense burner smoke, a pair of tea-colored pupils become alert.
"Gongzi?" The unanswered boy aggravated his voice.
Lu Qian's gaze moved away from the incense burner and steeply looked at the boy in a cold and stern manner, "You two are the only ones serving here?"
The boy's face changed slightly, but he quickly regained his bland look and replied, "Yes."
Lu Qian stared at him and asked in a low voice, "Nine Steps Incense?"
The boy's face remained unchanged, but his eyes showed a bit of rushed bewilderment as he replied in a low voice, "What did you say?"
Lu Qian raised his chin toward the incense burner in the northwest corner and asked him, "Is the incense burning in this room the Nine Steps?"
The boy didn't know what he was trying to do, and after a slight hesitation, he smiled and nodded, "That's right."
Lu Qian repeated the question he had just asked, "It has always been the two of you serving in this house?"
The boy was a bit sullen, frowning and showing impatience, "That's right, what do you want to teach me?"
Lu Qian narrowed his eyes slightly and scrutinized the boy's expression, "If it has always been the two of you who have been serving, have you not noticed that one of the ingredients in this spice has burned dry? Why haven't you gone to add more ingredients for such a long time?"
The boy froze, turned his head to glance at the incense burner with some consternation, turned back and forced himself to say, "It was a momentary oversight on my part, just now I went to greet the two gentlemen and didn't bother to add incense."
Lu Qian looked at him indifferently, "Then go to Tim now."
The boy's face slightly reddened, his voice transmitting unhappiness: "The task is at hand, can't go, sir, first to make do with what you have."
Lu Qian stared straight at him, "Do you know which flavor to add?"
The boy's fists under his wide sleeves clenched slightly, "I have known it since."
"Which flavor?" Lu Qian did not have the time to be aggressive, nor is he a person who loves to savor incense, but from the time he entered the door so far, he noticed a lot of oddities, so that he had to get to the bottom of the matter.
This more than a year of hither and thither, several times nearly set up a trap to capture alive to the Tong family pander, Lu Qian naturally will not be completely at ease with strangers.
"Is this what the gentleman wants to test me?" The boy tilted his head to reveal a child's blank expression, but between his fingers under his wide sleeves, three silver needles had silently appeared.
*
Xue Yao followed the boy to the bottom floor, skirting the intersecting walkways and walking into a not-so-spacious dark room at the end.
A middle-aged man wearing a black tunic with gold silk piping was sitting on a tai shi chair in the main north of the dark room, fiddling with the tea bowl in his hand, raising his eyes to Xue Yao nonchalantly and pointing to the seat on the side without much expression, "Please sit."
Xue Yao walked over and sat down without being condescending, waiting for the other party to speak first to set the tone so that he wouldn't be overly humble or reckless.
"How do you call your little brother?" The middle-aged man asked.
Seeing that his attitude was still gentle, Xue Yao also acted more relaxed and spoke back half-heartedly.
The man didn't seem to be in a hurry to ask about important things, inquiring about Xue Yao's parents and uncles before slowly bringing up Gu Qingyuan, "Warrior Gu said that he doesn't have you as a senior brother at all."
"Gu Qingyuan has been out of the division for a long time, and I have only been in the division for a year, so the two of us really don't know each other." Xue Yao said.
The man lowered his head and lifted the lid of the tea, still speaking slowly as if he were making small talk, "Well, did you know that this senior brother of yours has detained our deputy gang leader."
"There's actually such a thing?" Xue Yao pretended to be surprised, "Why did Warrior Gu do that?"
"Trying to restrain us." The man raised his eyes with an odd expression and smiled, "He says our people are bad and lack discipline."
"This is an official matter, he has no reason to take hostages privately." Xue Yao made a statement, to make it clear that he wouldn't mind his own business in the future like his senior brother, so that this gang leader wouldn't make any decapitating moves.
"Little brother is a man of understanding." The man put down his tea bowl, stood up, and smiled at Xue Yao, "To put it in a lofty way, we like to make friends with people who understand."
Out of politeness, Xue Yao also stood up and clasped his fists at the man, "Gang Master is not saying anything, it would be a late-born's honor to befriend your sect."
"Hahahaha ......" the man laughed several times with good pleasure, and replied meaningfully, "You can worship under the Sword Saint's door, naturally it is very fortunate, and this day meets me again, let's exchange a meet and greet, and let's all be together 'Fortunate', do you think it's good?"
"What does the gang master mean?" Xue Yao looked alert.
After all, he's a gang leader. He can't extort money, can he?
So what does he want as a gift?
"Don't be nervous little brother, here please." The gang leader turned around and walked to the east side of the dark room, giving a wink to the boy who was waiting at the side.
The boy immediately went forward, took down the painting hanging on the wall and pulled the mechanism on the wall.
The stone wall opened slowly towards the sides, revealing a mahogany-textured bocage.
Most of the compartments on the shelf were empty, with only two boxes sporadically arranged, and in the center compartment, an ancient book with rolled edges.
"Little brother." The gang leader turned to Xue Yao and said, "Look at this book."
Xue Yao froze and didn't move.
From just now until now, he always had an indescribable feeling of uneasiness, feeling that tonight's events were odd, and now the gang leader's behavior made him feel even more odd.
There was a mention in the original story that the Xuan Night Sect had an underground chamber, but even Lu Qian had never entered it.
Why did the gang leader choose such a confidential location for his first meeting with a Sword Saint disciple?
Even if the gang leader didn't care too much about exposing the secret room, he couldn't possibly show the mechanism in front of his face again and again, could he?
Now what's this all about?
"What's wrong?" The gang leader's wood was like a falcon, staring at the frothing Xue Yao.
"Nothing." Xue Yao collected his panic and went up to check the ancient book on the shelf as if nothing had happened, and found the word "Xuan Jing" written vertically on the book cover, and immediately took two steps back in surprise, looking blankly at the gang master.
This book is the top secret mind method of this sect!
Why are you showing him this?
The gang leader raised an eyebrow, "What's wrong? Little brother isn't interested in this?"
Xue Yao stabilized his wildly beating heart and reluctantly laughed, "The gang master really knows how to joke."
"Who has the time to joke around?" The gang leader nudged towards the book of mind, "This is my meet-and-greet gift to my brother."
Xue Yao replied in a low voice, "This meet-and-greet gift is too expensive, and I dare not accept it."
The gang leader laughed, "Just return another gift, it's not for nothing."
Xue Yao looked up in doubt, "The late student does not have an object of equal value sufficient to return the gift."
"Why not?" The gang master's face turned cold, and his eyes showed a fierce light as he threatened, "If you give me a copy of the Taiji Heart Technique to transcribe, we'll be clear."
Xue Yao froze and looked back, relieved instead.
It turned out that this guy wanted to exchange a copy of the Sword Saint's Heart Technique.
That's a good way to say that there's basically no fear for your life if you want to equivocate.
"Gangmaster is indeed a generous man." Xue Yao laughed, "I won't beat around the bush, there is no problem with exchanging the heart method, it's just that I've just started a year ago, and the heart method has yet to be integrated, so I'm afraid that there will be omissions if I only rely on my memory, so can you allow me to go back and copy a book, and then come back to exchange it with the gang master?"
"Could be."
The Gang Leader's dryness once again staggered Xue Yao.
"Take a copy of this Xuan Scripture as well, and return it to me when the time comes, along with the handwritten copy of the Taiji Heart Technique."
Xue Yao was simply dismayed to the extreme, could this be the Dragon Ao Tian Benefit?
Why is this evil gang leader as if he is sick in the head, not to mention exchanging face to face, the top secret heart method is just given to him to take away?
The gang master revealed that odd smile again, as if he had read Xue Yao's mind, and laughed in a low voice, "If this matter were to be leaked out, would you be able to talk to the Sword Saint? If you hadn't made a deal with me, would I have given you the Xuan Scripture so easily? I'm not afraid of you running away, I'm only afraid that you won't accept it."
Xue Yao heard and understood, and immediately felt that this old fox was harder to deal with than expected.
In that case, once you take over this hot potato, it's still impossible not to give the Taiji Heart Technique?
Would the Sword Saint believe that he hadn't exchanged minds?
Xue Yao only wanted to pass it off perfunctorily, and didn't intend to really cut off Lu Qian's path to learning martial arts, so he hesitated instead when the gang master said this.
"What?" The gang leader sank his face, "Little brother this is insincere?"
"No." Xue Yao explained, "It's just that it occurred to me that the Heart Technique isn't at my home, and things may not work out if I just accept the meet and greet gift from the gang master ......"
"Take it." The gang leader stared at him, "Do it even if you can't."
Xue Yao was just about to respond when he saw the gang master look startled and turn his head to the side to scold, "Who dares to trespass on the forbidden land!"
The boy behind Xue Yao immediately looked around vigilantly upon hearing this, but did not see anyone in the house.
The gang leader looked toward the door with a grim expression.
The boy flipped his palm under his wide sleeve and three silver needles appeared between his fingers as he slowly walked towards the door.
A figure suddenly stumbled into the doorway, startling the boy so much that he nearly flew off his concealed weapon, only to see another boy standing in the doorway.
"It's you?!" The boy in the door frowned, "What are you sneaking around for?"
The boy outside the door explained in a hasty manner, "That little male child ran away! I ...... I didn't stop it!"
"Run away?" The boy in the door widened his eyes, "You didn't turn on the mechanism?"
"I haven't had time ...... yet" The boy at the door was shaking, but not because of his own dereliction of duty, but because at this moment, Lu Qian was actually hiding by the door and staring at him, waiting for him to finish this lie.
The silver needles that he had used to attack him were all in Lu Qian's hands at the moment, and as long as one of them pierced into his body, he would immediately die of poison, so he couldn't calm down.
Thinking that his trepidation was due to making a mistake, the gang leader frowned and scolded, "The two of you split up and go after them!"
"Yes!" The boy obeyed and walked out the door.
The gang leader turned his head to look back at Xue Yao the moment he left.
It was this momentary slackness that Lu Qian took advantage of the cover of the two boys at the door to strike with lightning, and a silver needle flew straight at the man in the room-
The moment the gang leader sensed the danger and turned his head with wide eyes, a silver needle had been stabbed into his brow!
"Master!" The two boys turned in shock.
"Bang, bang" two muffled sounds, the boys were hit by Lu Qian in the back of the neck, fell to the ground in unison.
From Xue Yao's angle, he could only see the gang leader face the doorway and not move.
"Yao Yao come here!"
Xue Yao was just about to meet him when the gang master suddenly turned around, a silver needle stuck in his eyebrow, black blood stains surprisingly coming out of his eyes, and with a horrifying look, he raised his hand to grab him!
Xue Yao's body exploded with sweat, and he took a quick step backward, his back slamming into the boomerang.
That gang leader seemed to step forward, but did not move, was quickly rushed Lu Qian kicked to the ground, maintaining the posture of raising his hand to grab, lying stiffly on the ground, no longer moving.
"Go." Lu Qian grabbed Xue Yao's wrist.
Xue Yao stared in shock at the gang leader on the ground with his eyes open, "He's dead?!"
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