Chapter 2507
byThe young man chuckled and said, “Lord, don’t be so serious. I just said it casually just now. I didn’t really want to scold you. Well, well, I’m going to enter this store to buy something now. Can you trouble you to step aside？”
This ordinary sentence somehow had some kind of magic. After a moment of hesitation, the leading guard of the city defense army actually stepped aside and let the man and woman enter the store.
The other guards of the City Lord’s Mansion all looked at their leader with strange expressions. They wanted to ask but didn’t dare to be presumptuous, and they were all full of doubts.
What the hell! In a teahouse not far away, the Dao Origin Realm Layer 3 cultivator responsible for monitoring Qingyang Pavilion jumped three feet high and quickly released his divine sense asked at the guard leader, “What’s wrong with you?”
“Lord Jia！” Hearing this person’s voice transmission, the guard leader immediately became serious.
“Didn’t I tell you not to let anyone in？ How dare you disobey my order？ You really have the courage of a bear and the guts of a leopard！”
“I let someone in？” The guard leader was shocked when he heard this. But soon, he remembered what he had just done. In an instant, his forehead was dripping with cold sweat and his face turned pale as he said, “How could I let someone in…”
Just now, he didn’t know what was going on. Although his mind was clear, he couldn’t resist the words of that young man and obediently gave way, allowing the young man to walk straight into Qingyang Pavilion.
If it wasn’t for this Lord Jia’s voice transmission, he might not have recalled it.
Soul attack！” As soon as Lord Jia saw the complexion of this commander, he knew that he must have been hit by a soul secret technique, resulting in being unable to control himself.”
Lord Jia, what should we do now? Do you want your subordinates to lead people in and catch that person?” The commander of the guard army asked in a low voice.”
Not in a hurry. This person seems very powerful. And we don’t know what he’s here for. Maybe he really just came to buy things. Let’s wait and see first.” Lord Jia replied.”
Yes！
Inside the store, Yang Kai and Zhang Ruoxi looked around and found that this store was really extremely small, and there were not many goods inside. They were placed in a mess and not of high value.
Near the counter, there were two clerks sitting, with low cultivation bases. At this moment, both of them had a worried and sad expression, looking as if they had lost their parents, and from time to time they glanced at the guard army outside, subconsciously murmuring in their mouths: “It’s over, it’s over. This time it’s really over. I don’t know what kind of trouble the shopkeeper has caused. Now it’s all over!
The nerves of these two clerks seemed to be extremely tense. When Yang Kai and Zhang Ruoxi walked in, they didn’t even notice.
Yang Kai glanced at them and ignored them. Instead, he looked up at the back of the store and walked straight towards the backyard.
After passing through a corridor, he came to a place like a small garden. In front of the inner room, Yang Kai stopped and gently knocked on the door.
“Who！” Suddenly, a woman’s voice came from inside. It sounded extremely tired and haggard, as if she hadn’t rested for many days.”
Yang Kai said in a deep voice, “Someone here to buy something.”
The woman inside was silent for a moment and then said, “The shop is having some troubles recently and is temporarily closed for business. Please come back another time, sir.”
Yang Kai couldn’t help but roll his eyes and said, “This young master has traveled thousands of miles from the Southern Region to here just to buy something, and you actually ask me to go back？”
“Southern Region…” Immediately, a low cry came from inside. Immediately after, a gust of wind blew past. The door creaked open, and a haggard young woman suddenly appeared in the front of Yang Kai’s eyes.
This young woman looked to be around twenty-seven or twenty-eight years old She was dressed neatly and although her appearance was not outstanding, it was extremely pleasant to look at.
But perhaps something had happened to her recently, so her eyes were slightly bloodshot and her eye sockets were deeply sunken. However, those beautiful eyes of hers were extremely bright, looking at Yang Kai intently as if she wanted to see a flower blooming on him.
“You… really come from the Southern Territory？” The young woman asked nervously.
Yang Kai nodded. “That’s right.”
He could tell at a glance that this young woman’s cultivation was only at the second level of the Dao Source Realm, and it seemed that her Qi was a bit unstable. Although she had the cultivation of the second level of the Dao Source Realm, she definitely couldn’t exert her due strength.
I don’t know if it’s because she didn’t work hard in her cultivation or because there was something wrong with her cultivation.
“Do you have any proof？” the young woman asked, still not at ease.
Yang Kai smiled faintly, reached out and took out his Azure Sun Gold Token, flashing it in front of her.
The young woman’s beautiful eyes suddenly lit up, and the slight guard in her disappeared instantly. As if seeing a relative, the tense look on her face immediately relaxed, and she stepped aside and said, “Come in and talk.”
Yang Kai nodded and, bringing Zhang Ruoxi with him, flashed into the room.
The young woman still looked out nervously, and after confirming that there was no one hiding nearby, she closed the door and, with a wave of her hands, set up many restrictions.
After she finished, Yang Kai looked at her with a gloomy face and said, “What kind of trouble have you encountered that you are so on guard? And what’s the situation with those people surrounding the entrance of the store?
The young woman did not immediately answer Yang Kai’s question. Instead, she solemnly took out a token from her spatial ring and, holding it with both hands, handed it to Yang Kai.
This token looked exactly the same as Yang Kai’s Azure Sun Gold Token, but Yang Kai’s token was gold, while hers was copper, symbolizing the difference in status.
Although Yang Kai doesn’t know much about the hierarchy of the disciple tokens of the Azure Sun Temple, he could guess a little at this moment. Gold should be the highest level, and there should be silver below it and then copper. The two of them differed by two rank s.
“I would like this senior brother to know that this disciple is Lu Wen, and I am apprenticed to Elder Chen Qian.”
Yang Kai raised his brows. Chen Qian, he knew of her. She was one of the elders of the Qingyang Temple, with a cultivation level of the First-Order Emperor Senior. She was mainly responsible for managing the logistics and supplies of the entire Qingyang Temple. Yang Kai had also dealt with her several times. However, this Elder Chen had always given people a cold feeling and was not easy to communicate with.
“Is Senior Brother Xia Sheng？” Lu Wen asked curiously, looking at Yang Kai.
Yang Kai curled his lips and snorted, “Can Xia Sheng be as handsome as me？”
After hearing this, Lu Wen’s expression couldn’t help but be a little strange. She seemingly didn’t expect this senior brother to be so narcissistic. Blushing, she said, “Then could it be Senior Brother Xiao Baiyi？”
Yang Kai said with a dark face, “I’m not Xia Sheng, nor am I Xiao Baiyi. My name is Yang Kai.”
“Senior Brother Yang…” Lu Wen furrowed her beautiful brows, seemingly extremely unfamiliar with this name.
Yang Kai said, “Since you are a disciple of the Qingyang Temple, how could you not recognize Xia Sheng and Xiao Baiyi？ These two are the most outstanding disciples in the temple.”
Lu Wen said embarrassedly, “Junior Sister left the Qingyang Temple a long time ago and hasn’t been back for all these years. So I haven’t seen those two senior brothers.”
Yang Kai said in surprise, “Oh… Then why did you come to the Eastern Territory and even open a shop here?”
Lu Wen replied, “I came here to carry out the task of the temple. The shop was opened for convenience. All these have been reported to the master and have received the master’s support.”
“Tell me about it.” Yang Kai said in a deep voice.
“Although the temple is a sect in the Southern Territory, it also needs to gather various information in the other three territories. Therefore, in each territory there are at least seven or eight people, and at most twenty or thirty fellow disciples gathering all kinds of information intelligence outside and reporting them to the sect regularly. I am the person responsible for this matter in Kunyuan City. We generally keep our names and identities hidden. Unless we encounter a life-threatening situation, we must not expose our origin.”
“There is such a thing？” Yang Kai said in surprise.
Lu Wen smiled and said, “Brother Yang must be an elite disciple of the sect and doesn’t need to know these things. You just need to practice and become stronger. These things are generally taken care of by those disciples with not so outstanding qualifications and no hope of cultivation in their lives.”
Taking care of these things must require a great deal of energy and time, so it delays cultivation very much. Naturally, those elite disciples cannot be allowed to preside over it.
Yang Kai nodded and said, “You have worked hard.”
Lu Wen smiled slightly and said, “It’s nothing. Only when the senior brothers become strong can the sect be more prosperous, and we people will have a place to live. We just perform our respective duties. Not only our Qingyang Temple is like this, but also other major sects. Many disciples will go to various places in the star realm to be responsible for gathering information.
“Then what trouble did you encounter？” Yang Kai asked.
Lu Wen’s expression turned gloomy, and she said, “It’s not me who has encountered trouble, but Elder Gao.”
Yang Kai was stunned： “Elder Gao？ Which Elder Gao？”
After asking, he was suddenly shocked and exclaimed in a low voice： “Gao Xueting, Elder Gao？”
“Yes.”
Yang Kai’s complexion changed, and he said, “Elder Gao has come to the Eastern Region？”
“That’s right, and now she may be in danger of losing her life.”
“What’s going on？” Yang Kai asked urgently.
Lu Wen said, “Senior Brother, don’t be impatient. I’ll explain it to you carefully.”
Under Lu Wen’s explanation, Yang Kai finally understood what was going on.
Lu Wen had left the Qingyang Divine Hall and come to this Kunyuan City for more than twenty years. She had been gathering all kinds of intelligence here and passing them back to the sect. For the convenience of her actions she opened a shop here. This shop was not for making money, but just to cover her identity. Therefore, the shop was not carefully managed, and the purchases and sales were extremely messy.
Half a year ago, Lu Wen bought half a piece of animal skin from a down-and-out warrior. The person who sold it to her said that this was handed down from the ancestors and hidden an ancient secret treasure.
Lu Wen naturally wouldn’t believe such nonsense. She only bought the animal skin because she saw that the person was down and out and pitiful.
Who would have known that after buying it, she studied it for a long time without any clue. Feeling strange, she used a special channel to send this animal skin, together with the intelligence she had gathered during this period back to the Qingyang Divine Hall.
Three months ago, Gao Xueting suddenly came to Kunyuan City and asked her about all kinds of situations regarding that animal skin.
It was only then that Lu Wen realized that that animal skin might really have a great origin and seemed to hide some secret. Otherwise, how could it attract a powerful person like Gao Xueting to come here？
When asked by the sect elder, Lu Wen naturally told everything she knew without reservation.
Unfortunately, Gao Xueting didn’t find any useful clues from her.
In the following period of time, Gao Xueting had been studying the secret hidden in that animal skin. From time to time, she would also leave Kunyuan City for a while, and Lu Wen didn’t know what she was specifically doing.
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