Fire Monster

Chapter 202 The Secret of Ashes

Without caring about anything else, Zhao Guanshan quickly left the statue space and returned to reality. He opened the door and saw that the person standing outside was indeed the real Xiao Chengyun.

It can’t be fake!

He opened his mouth to ask if you had been to the temple, but when the words came to his lips, he turned them into surprise.

"Junior sister, when did you come back? Did you successfully exchange the magic weapon?"

"I came back early this morning, but I didn't dare to disturb you because I saw you were in seclusion. I only came to call you now, thinking that you had finished your practice. Brother, we are not immortal cultivators. Before we advance to the fifth level of Qi Refiner, we should not stay in seclusion for more than three days!"

Xiao Chengyun said this excitedly, then took out something and handed it over.

"Brother, let me broaden your horizons for you. I used a full 29,000 Dao Palace Contribution Points to exchange for this Grade A Imperial Sealing Artifact."

"Hey, hey! Junior sister, don't be reckless. It would be a waste if you showed me such a valuable thing."

Zhao Guanshan cursed with a smile, then took a step back without leaving a trace. He took the opportunity to politely invite Xiao Chengyun into the room, but continued to say, "I thought it would take you several days to return. Have you met the city lord? Did the Demon Suppression Bureau send anyone to contact you? In my opinion, the conditions offered by the Demon Suppression Bureau are not bad, but you two little ancestors are too arrogant!"

His nonsense didn't seem to be wrong to Xiao Chengyun.

She snorted, stepped into the room and closed the door, but before she could say anything else, Zhao Guanshan immediately put on a pious and respectful face, knelt down and bowed!

"Master, I am terrified!"

"What are you so scared of?" Xiao Chengyun's face still had the same look and his tone was lazy, but there seemed to be a black vortex deep in his pupils.

"Young Master, that Liu Yuwei, the City Lord, seems to be suspicious of my identity. In the past two days, she has tested me three times and almost raped me. Young Master, I am just a double-seal martial artist. How can I pretend to be a first-level Qi Refiner? And how can I subdue Liu Yuwei? She, she, she——"

Zhao Guanshan said this with a painful look on his face, as if he had experienced something unspeakable.

Xiao Chengyun was finally stunned for a moment, then quickly reacted and continued to tease lazily:
"My senior sister is just a little taller and a little stronger, but actually she's not bad. She has fair skin, a delicate face, long legs and a big butt. What are you dissatisfied with?"

"I, I am quite satisfied, that is, that is -"

"Okay, stop talking nonsense and remember, I didn't come to see you."

"Yes, young master!"

"what is it call?"

"Yes, Junior Sister..."

Xiao Chengyun nodded in satisfaction and was about to turn around and leave. Suddenly, Zhao Guanshan called out in a low voice, "Young Master—Oh no, Junior Sister, do you need to take back the sword you left with me two days ago?"

Xiao Chengyun frowned slightly, turned his head and saw the ancient long sword placed casually in the corner.

This long sword was not easy to be found before, and it would be ignored even if someone passed by it. But after being reminded, one would immediately feel the extraordinary nature of this sword, which is at least the standard of a Class A sealed magical weapon.

"There are too many people around, so I'll leave it with you for now."

After Xiao Chengyun finished speaking, she pushed the door open impatiently, and the moment she closed the door, her whole body suddenly turned into a ball of dark golden gray mist, and then scattered to the ground, as if she had never appeared.

At the same time, Liu Yuwei and Xiao Chengyun were talking in low voices and slowly coming from another direction.

However, after seeing Zhao Guanshan's tightly closed door from afar, Xiao Chengyun sighed helplessly, "Senior Brother has been practicing very hard these past two days, let's not disturb him."

"Is he supposed to be okay?"

"It's okay, what could possibly happen? My senior brother is tough and sturdy, you see I never worry about him. Come on, senior sister, let me check on your progress in cultivation..."

The two of them continued talking in low voices as they left, not even approaching Zhao Guanshan's room within twenty steps.

In fact, ever since Zhao Guanshan went into seclusion for cultivation, Liu Yuwei had thoughtfully informed Sun Zei to turn this place into a restricted area, and no one could approach unless Zhao Guanshan took the initiative to come out.

Zhao Guanshan was in the room, watching the two of them go away with the vision of a statue, and couldn't help but reveal a happy smile on the corner of his mouth.

It seems that when Xiao Chengyun returned to the Taoist Palace this time, he was tampered with by a higher-level Qi-refining master.

While pretending to be Xiao Chengyun, he went to the temple to pray for blessings from the immortals, hoping to use this method to determine whether Xiao Chengyun had been to the spiritual world.

On the other hand, he used some means to create a fake Xiao Chengyun to spy on him.

This also shows that there are indeed Qi-refining practitioners in the Dao Palace who suspect him.

I just hope that his passionate performance can satisfy the other party.

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At the same time, outside the temple on the Imperial Seal Great Wall of Linjiang Prefecture, a figure walked out weakly, his steps were unsteady, and one could even see his pale face, obviously he had suffered a great loss.

Outside the temple, another level five Qi-refining practitioner hurried forward to help. It was the Qi-refining practitioner named Qin.

"Brother Xiao, what's the situation?"

“Cough, cough, cough!” The pale-faced Qi Refiner coughed up a mouthful of blood, becoming even more dejected. He shook his head with a bitter look on his face, “I didn’t find anything. That little girl probably never entered the spirit world. I took a piece of her long hair and contemplated the Qianjin Dao Talisman she was practicing, but I only saw nothingness.”

“Didn’t the immortal statue respond?” “Yes, it responded, everything was normal, and then I was attacked by an unknown evil spirit. Unfortunately, the spiritual body I had cultivated for fifty years was destroyed in an instant, and my innate pure yang energy was wiped out three times.”

"Ah, it's all my fault. I heard that my Xiao family's ancestor left behind a family heritage, so I became curious. Although I didn't want to compete with a junior, I still suffered this misfortune."

The Qi-refining practitioner named Xiao sighed. The Xiao family was a big family in Linjiang Prefecture, but over the past two thousand years, it had already split into several branches. Some of the branches still had some connections, but some of the branches were like strangers.

In fact, even Xiao Chengyun didn't know that there was a fifth-level Qi-refining master named Xiao in the Taoist Palace.

"Brother Xiao, the situation over there has also come out. It turns out that Zhao Guanshan is a servant that Xiao Chengyun secretly took in to cover up his tracks. In addition, Zhao Guanshan also has a sword that should be a Class A imperial seal long sword. It seems that Xiao Chengyun's ancestors really have a family heritage passed down."

"A-grade Imperial Sword? Alas, a mere A-grade Imperial Magical Artifact. I am really getting old and confused!"

"Let's leave it at that. Junior Brother Qin, Xiao Chengyun is an outsider of my Xiao family after all, and I hope you can stop here."

"Don't worry, Senior Brother Xiao, no matter what Xiao Chengyun chooses, it is her business. Our previous actions were also to investigate the real truth."

The Qi-refining master named Qin smiled slightly. It was indeed enough to stop here. To be honest, he had really gone to great lengths this time just to investigate a mere third-level Qi-refining master.

In fact, he wouldn't even want the so-called second pioneer city even if it was given to him for free.

Everything is just for the perfect closure of the truth.

Otherwise, it would be shameful if we couldn't even find out the truth and couldn't make the information in the chain of evidence 100% consistent.

Do you really think the rotating head teacher above is easy to fool?

-

At this moment, Zhao Guanshan was still thinking in the room. After eliminating various possibilities, he finally determined one possibility.

The other party was not planning to attack Xiao Chengyun, nor was he planning to develop a second city.

I'm just still in doubt, but I think the other party should be satisfied this time.

The evidence is conclusive, and the Xiao family does have a solid foundation.

"These senior Qi Refiners are really hard to fool."

Zhao Guanshan felt sad in his heart. If he hadn’t reacted quickly, he would have been exposed this time.

Next, he thought about it and entered the statue space again through the visualization world. Here, the small handful of ashes was still there and did not seem to be any danger.

So Zhao Guanshan tried to twist it with his hand, but there was no change.

By chance, a small golden sword swam over. He thought about it and took the golden sword to scrape the small handful of ashes.

The result was a huge event. A field of golden stars flew up, as bright as the Milky Way. The so-called ashes turned out to be tens of thousands of strange granular substances.

Soon after this thing flew up, it dimmed and fell down again, gathering into a small cluster, as if it was magnetic.

So what the hell is this?
Seeing that there was no danger, Zhao Guanshan controlled a small golden sword to scrape it repeatedly. After several times, he was surprised to find that most of the golden ash particles were attached to the golden sword, and in the following time, the remaining ash particles also automatically attached to it.

There is a kind of heroic spirit of living and dying together.

But Zhao Guanshan still didn't know what had happened. He only felt that the golden sword had become a little heavy, and was unwilling to move, so it stayed in his hand.

So he threw it casually out of boredom. Under normal circumstances, this golden sword would disperse on its own after flying a few meters, turning into a golden glow and forming a lifelike and beautiful arc curve in the air.

But at this moment, this small golden sword actually cut a hole in the air that was clearly nothing.

It's like a portal suddenly appears in the real world.

Zhao Guanshan was confused. What was going on?

Was the defense of the statue space destroyed by my careless hands?
He was ready for battle at once and summoned the other four golden swords. After dozens of seconds, the cut began to heal, and he then looked inside cautiously.

As a result, in an instant, his entire consciousness was turned upside down and was directly sucked over, which was exactly the same as his feeling when he entered the statue space from the visualization world.

When he reacted, he found himself in a very quiet building space.

It was not dark here, and a white torch was burning in the distance.

It emits a strange pale light.

Apart from this, there is not a single person here. No, there are nineteen statues here that are as tall as normal people, but they are covered with cloaks and their faces cannot be seen.

But there are no stone platforms under the feet of these statues, which is completely different from the layout of the space where his statues are located.

Also, there are no rune stars to light up above the heads of these statues.

So, what's going on?

Zhao Guanshan was shocked, but not too panicked, because he could clearly feel that he could return to his statue space here at any time.

(End of this chapter)