newbobooks Chapter 370 Ji Ruofeng blocks the way and asks about the whereabouts of the Confucian Immortal!
Chapter 370 Ji Ruofeng blocks the way and asks about the whereabouts of the Confucian Immortal!
Two days later, the moon was dark and the wind was strong, and it was the beginning of the Chou hour.
In Tianqi City, everything is silent.
The city had been under curfew since the hour of Xu, and only the imperial guards were patrolling the city gates one by one with lanterns.
The treasure-showing ceremony that lasted for three days finally came to an end. Tu Zao had been extremely busy during these three days. When he happened to pass by the kitchen and weighed himself, he found that he had even lost seven or eight kilograms of meat!
After finally getting through to the end, he was finally able to get some good sleep. After taking care of the several "immortals" upstairs, he dove headfirst into the carved bed and fell into a deep sleep...
However, they didn't know that after the lights in Qianjintai were turned off, several figures and dogs slipped out through the back door.
"Cousin...are you sure we've put away all the goodies we've collected these days? There are over a hundred of them!"
As soon as they left Qianjintai, Baili Dongjun started asking questions, fearing that Wen Yanzhao had missed something.
Wen Yanzhao, dressed in a light black gauze, walked ahead and said with disdain, "Xiao Baili, how come you don't even trust your cousin now? It's just a hundred or so items. My skills can hold at least half the national treasury's worth!"
Baili Dongjun wrinkled his nose and muttered, "As soon as you release your inner energy, the things disappear. I can't see those treasures and I feel really uneasy!"
Feng Qiuyu tightly grasped the corner of Sikong Changfeng's coat and whispered, "Is Master Wen a magician? Why did all the gold, silver, and jade artifacts we collected these days just disappear out of thin air with a flick of his hand?"
Sikong Changfeng smiled gently and said as he walked, "I've heard him talk about a technique for taking objects from a bag. However, this technique is truly miraculous. Even we don't know how he uses his internal energy to move objects out of thin air..."
Feng Qiuyu looked bewildered, mumbling to herself, "The Divine Wandering Realm is truly marvelous. There's actually such a convenient technique... When will Sikong Changfeng be able to master it? If he does, then I can bring all those boxes of rouge, powder, dressing boxes, and clothes from Baihua Tower with me!"
Sikong Changfeng felt a headache when he heard this. He curled his lips and said, "This technique has nothing to do with realm. My cousin already mastered it when he was still at the Free and Easy Heaven Realm..."
Wen Yanzhao just laughed in his heart when he heard the voice. They didn't know the power of the system. At this time, the five people had left Qianjintai and flew over Zhuque Street using their lightness skills. Another mile or so was the south gate of Tianqi City.
Wen Yanzhao suddenly stretched out his hand and stopped everyone: "Stop, stop, stop!"
Seeing him like this, Baili Dongjun suddenly stopped in his tracks, stood on one foot on the eaves of an attic, and asked in panic, "Cousin? Did you leave something precious at Qianjintai and only remember it now?"
Wen Yanzhao rolled his eyes and said, "Your mind is full of treasures now. I think Miss Yin is right. How can the young marquis, who used to be indifferent to everything, now compare with Tu Zaoyou?"
Baili Dongjun's face flushed red and white after hearing this. He started to defend himself, "I'm not greedy at all. There are hundreds of thousands of mouths waiting for me in Xueyue City..."
Wen Yanzhao didn't say anything, but simply pointed in the direction of the South Gate and said to everyone, "If we go out so brazenly, we might be spotted by the imperial guards at the South Gate. Furthermore, when we left Qianjin Terrace, I had a feeling we were being watched by several eyes, perhaps from the Shadow Sect or even the eunuchs in the Imperial Palace!"
As soon as the words left their mouths, a voice filled with inner strength came from the northwest of the crowd:
"Young Master Wen, I'm afraid it's not just the Shadow Sect and the Imperial Guards who are targeting you!"
Everyone was startled and turned to look—
Sure enough, a figure came rushing from the northwest!
Baili Dongjun recognized the man's Qinggong and immediately praised him, "Riding the Wind and Stepping on the Clouds, what a beautiful Qinggong!"
Wen Yanzhao gathered his attention and took a look. The man had a sharp gaze, was dressed in brocade and had a defiant look on his face. It was none other than the head of Baixiao Hall - Ji Ruofeng!
"Ji Ruofeng? What are you doing here?"
Wen Yanzhao was a little confused for a moment.
Ji Ruofeng rushed to a rooftop about four or five feet away from Wen Yanzhao in a few steps. He stood still and raised his lips to smile playfully.
"Young Master Wen is truly a forgetful person. Perhaps you've forgotten the agreement between you and me?"
Baili Dongjun glanced at the two of them curiously: "Cousin, you...you and Ji Ruofeng don't have any hidden deal, right?"
Wen Yanzhao's face was filled with black lines: "What secret deal? Why don't I remember it?"
Ji Ruofeng didn't say much. He reached out from his arms and took out a black wooden tablet. With a burst of internal force, he threw it at Wen Yanzhao with a "bang".
Wen Yanzhao's eyes flashed, and he raised his hand to catch it, only to find that what Ji Ruofeng threw over was a badge of a disciple of Shadow Sect!
"What does this mean?"
Wen Yanzhao still looked puzzled.
Ji Ruofeng smiled faintly and said in a pretentious tone, "I really don't know whether Young Master Wen has truly forgotten or is deliberately evading payment. Back then, regarding the tax silver from the southeastern prefectures, you asked me for a favor and I promised to reward you handsomely after the matter was accomplished!"
"But more than half a year has passed, and my Bai Xiao Tang hasn't received a penny. Young Master Wen, aren't you breaking your promise?"
Upon hearing this, Wen Yanzhao immediately remembered that he had asked Ji Ruofeng to buy information about the routes for escorting tax silver from the southeastern prefectures. He had indeed agreed to pay Bai Xiaotang 12,000 taels of gold, but after intercepting the tax silver, he immediately worked on refining medicine and completely forgot about this matter!
Soon, Wen Yanzhao's cheeks flushed, and he stammered, "Well... well... I've been very busy lately. It's really inappropriate. Brother Ruofeng, please don't be offended. I'm really sorry!"
Baili Dongjun was immediately delighted when he saw his cousin's embarrassment. He turned to Sikong Changfeng and said:
"I never thought that even the thick-browed and bright-eyed Wen Yanzhao would owe someone money..."
Sikong Changfeng smiled awkwardly and pointed at Ji Ruofeng, "Isn't that the head of Bai Xiao Tang? Why does my cousin owe him money?"
Baili Dongjun shook his head, but he kept making up stories: "Maybe he bribed Ji Ruofeng in order to raise his ranking on the Champion List..."
On the other side, Wen Yanzhao used his inner strength to pull out a few treasures that looked not that valuable from the storage space. He then lightly stepped in front of Ji Ruofeng.
"We brought these things from Xueyue City. Although they are not priceless, they are still worth some money. Master Ji, please don't despise them. Just consider them as my return to you!"
Ji Ruofeng looked down and saw two official kiln celadon cloud water bottles, a jade pendant carved from mutton-fat jade, and several lychee-sized pearls in Wen Yanzhao's hands.
He is a connoisseur of valuables. If these items were sold, they would be worth far more than ten thousand taels of gold.
But Ji Ruofeng had other plans in mind and did not want to accept these things from Wen Yanzhao. He raised his eyelids and said expressionlessly:
"Young Master Wen, what a lavish act! You've been pretending to be the Four Extreme Immortals and amassing wealth right under the Emperor's nose these past few days. Don't think I don't know, and you even have the nerve to claim you brought it from Xueyue City. How ridiculous! Baixiaotang is known to the world, Young Master Wen won't forget it, will he?"
Wen Yanzhao wasn't angry at being exposed. Instead, he turned around, pointed at Ji Ruofeng, and said to Baili Dongjun and the others, "Hey! This is what we call professionalism! See? Master Ji saw through us a long time ago..."
Ji Ruofeng was so embarrassed by Wen Yanzhao that he didn't know whether to laugh or cry. He smiled bitterly and said:
"Young Master Wen, there's no need to flatter me. I certainly didn't come to you today to embarrass you. I, Ji Ruofeng, wouldn't be so foolish as to forcibly stop a powerful cultivator in the Wandering Mysterious Realm!"
Wen Yanzhao was a little surprised: "You're not here to collect a debt? You scared me to death... Why didn't you tell me earlier!"
As he spoke, he stuffed the treasures and pearls back into the storage space.
Ji Ruofeng's mouth twitched, and he cursed in his heart: "I should have just accepted it with my broken mouth..."
Baili Dongjun saw this and asked from a distance: "Ji Ruofeng, we are in a hurry to return to Xueyue City. If you have nothing to do, don't block our way. If you have something to say, please speak up!"
Ji Ruofeng ignored Baili Dongjun and looked directly at Wen Yanzhao:
"I don't want the ten thousand taels of gold anymore, but I want to ask you one thing. You must tell me the truth!"
Wen Yanzhao knew he was in the wrong, so he nodded and said, "Go ahead!"
Ji Ruofeng asked, "Is the Confucian Immortal Gu Chen still alive in the world? And he is in your Lingnan Wen family. Answer me!"
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