Chapter 16: Talk (3)
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The stone room is not large, and the furnishings are very simple, except for a stone bed, stone bench and stone table, there is almost nothing, not even a window. Because this stone room is simply in the belly of the mountain with Taoist spells to open up, the stone bed, stone bench and stone table are all integrated with the ground room roof, there is not the slightest trace of knife and axe chisel, what is alive is a bottle and jar-like container, the whole person is contained in it. Although the stone wall faintly revealed a red light, and the air flow was pulled by some spell formations on the stone wall, it was actually not so dark and stuffy, but once they stayed in it for too long, ordinary people still couldn't help but be irritable. In the world, only the monks of the Five Elements Sect who built these stone chambers, those monsters who cared about nothing but concentrating on cultivation could live in peace.
Tang chuckled and was not that kind of monster, but he was also very comfortable living now, even if no one had paid attention to him for most of the day, and there was hardly any sound in this stone room, he sat cross-legged on the stone bed just as peacefully. The red light on the stone wall reflected more blood and life on his otherwise slightly pale face, and he looked much more energetic than the previous day, or rather, he had never been so energetic in the past five years, he had never been so happy, and even the thick smell of sulfur in the air was so refreshing.
Lin Xiaoyan is still at her grandfather's place, and the depression and gloom along the way have long been left behind, and her grandfather has always talked and laughed, and is so affectionate that it is no different from other grandchildren who have not seen her for more than ten years, and even more affectionately. This was not only something that Lin Xiaoyan hadn't expected before, but also completely unexpected by Tang Xiaoxiao. Of course. This is a very good accident, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a surprise, the better the relationship between Lin Xiaoyan and her grandfather, the more this grandfather of the Tianhuo faction likes Lin Xiaoyan, and the more he values Lin Xiaoyan, the lighter his scruples about Tang Xiaoxiao should be, and the easier it is for Tang Xiaoxiao's plan to succeed. So, the better Tang Xiaoxiao is in the mood now.
If there is only one concern now, it is those who are waiting outside the Heavenly Volcano.
He knew that someone must be guarding outside, and he also knew that his eldest brother Tang Chengcheng was also outside. He didn't know what those people would do, what Tang Cheng would do. Although he has always looked down on this eldest brother, he has a faint strange feeling in his heart, this is not like a Tang disciple at all, he only knows that the eldest brother who comes to Hu can always smash something he took for granted before, making him at a loss, afraid and inexplicable at the same time he can't help but admire.
This time, he will still be able to rely on that headless brute force to slash in, right?" Tang chuckled and sneered. Of course, he didn't do as much preparation in advance as the Raiders of the Lost Ark, and he didn't know much information, but he only needed to know that this Heavenly Volcano was the main altar of the Heavenly Fire Sect. It is enough to be the station that has been handed down from the Ancient Five Elements Sect to the present day. He couldn't see the spectacle of the huge fireball outside, but he could tell it clearly from the calm expressions on the faces of the other members of the Heavenly Fire Sect. No one from outside will ever get in.
Now all that is left is to wait quietly for the day when the spiritual fire will come, and quietly wait for the day when he has been waiting for more than five years.
So boring, boring, unbearable, almost desperate for more than five years, I have been suffering day by day, and now this hopeful waiting has naturally become a kind of enjoyment. Thinking of this, Tang chuckled and couldn't help but laugh again.
Knock knock. There were a few soft noises outside the door of the stone chamber. It seemed that someone was knocking on the stone door with his knuckles, it should be someone from the Tianhuo Sect, Tang chuckled and hurriedly spoke: "Please come in." β
The stone door slid to the side, and a man walked in with a smile on his face.
As soon as he saw this person, Tang Xiaoxiao immediately stared at him, his mouth was open, and even his mind was blank. Even when he saw his eldest brother Tang Chengcheng in that town before, he had never been so surprised. Because it may just be a very accidental coincidence, but the appearance of this person here is a completely impossible thing.
The person who walked in was naturally Xiao Xia. He smiled as he looked at Don on the stone bed and chuckled like a familiar guest. He walked straight to the stone bench and sat down, took the kettle on it, poured himself a glass of water, and asked, "Are you the only one?" Is Miss Lin with her grandfather now?"
"You" Tang chuckled before he could recover from the extreme horror, he could only look at Xiao Xia stupidly, and after a short blank space, there were thousands of thoughts in his mind, and countless conjectures and assumptions were made, and he even remembered that in the rudder of the Jingzhou Tianhuo Sect six years ago, Xiao Xia also appeared in front of him so inexplicably, and a chill rose from his back inexplicably. "How did you get in? How can you get in here? Are you really you?"
"Don't worry, just like six years ago, I'm not here to grab something from you. Xiao Xia drank the water in the cup in one gulp.
"How did you get in?" Tang chuckled, and this was what he cared about the most.
Xiao Xia poured another glass of water, drank it, and replied, "Earth Escape Technique." β
Tang Qingxiao's face finally looked a little better, at least he knew that Tang Chengcheng would never use the Earth Escape Technique, even if it was a magic prop like the Lingguang Fu for people who studied martial arts, he would never be able to make such a clever Dao technique as the Five Elements Escape. But his horror still didn't completely fade: "Can the volcano escape in so easily with soil this day?"
"Of course it's not easy. I spent two hours underground. Fortunately, I still have some understanding of the formation of this Heavenly Fire Sect, otherwise I might not be able to get out. Natsu drank a third glass of water. In the two hours he was underground, he was almost circling in the flowing magma, but fortunately, without the support of the Earth Road Method, the lava flow under this large position was greatly eased, and it did not form a formation, and there were many loopholes. But the heat in the surrounding soil still roasted him almost faint, and the sweat on his body immediately dried as soon as it came out, and a layer of white salt frost formed on his body. I almost couldn't help it several times, but in the end, I finally figured out the key of this big array, and then I got into it, and now I'm thirsty.
"Then how did you find here? How do you know I'm here?"
"I saw below, the Earthfire Molten Gold Array was in full swing. The twelve masters who cultivated the Fire Movement Dao Method were divided into six groups, controlling all the Fire Movement Vitality to converge towards the middle of the lava pool in the center of the Great Array, and only here and in another place there was a trace of extremely small Fire Movement Vitality used to operate some extremely small formations. I've seen it as early as the Tianhuo faction rudder in Jingzhou, which ventilates and illuminates the accommodation where the guests outside live, and the place where the Tianhuo faction's own people live doesn't need this. In other words, there are guests in these two places, and in the other place, there is a master of the Fire Path Law that even I can feel underground, so I naturally guessed that you are here. β
Xiao Xia said it easily, in fact, when he was underground just now, he put most of his efforts on this, thanks to his knowledge of the formation of this Heavenly Fire Sect. I wanted to break my head before I could see some clues from the subtle changes in the formation. Although the Tianhuo Sect cannot be said to be a frightened bird, once an outsider suddenly appears in his home, it is impossible to have a good conversation and communication first, at least he will first restrain and torture him to extract a confession. He came in this time just to investigate, and the most important thing was to come to Tang to chuckle, if he didn't really find it, he would never dare to show up.
I said all these things one by one, and I also wanted to explain it to Tang Xiaoxiao. Sacrificed so much time and hid so many people to lurk at this time. Tang's chuckle's vigilance had definitely reached a peak, and Xiao Xia didn't want to put his safety on the word 'friend'.
"And what are you here for?"
"Drink the fourth glass of water. Xiao Xia sighed with satisfaction, thought about it, and said, "It's probably the same as six years ago, and I came to persuade you to stop." β
"Stop, what do you stop?" Don chuckled, and the laughter and smile were as sharp and cold as knives.
Xiao Xia said lightly: "It's just to stop, stop, don't do it." β
"Why? Why?" Tang chuckled and stood up, his phoenix eyes like lightning. looked at Xiao Xia deadly. "Why do you want me to stop? Why do you think I'm going to stop? β
"Because this Vermilion Bird Spirit Fire is already a trap at all. Your old lady wants your brother to come, and he wants to see who is making trouble in this and what he wants to do in such a trap. He chased after him all the way, and he also wanted you to stop and take you back. β
"You're here with my brother?" Don chuckled and narrowed his eyes.
"Yes. I promised him to come here to persuade you a few words. β
"You've only known my brother for a few days, and you're taking such a big risk to sneak into such a dangerous place?" Don's chuckle calmed down. "Do you know what will happen to you once you are sent to the Heavenly Fire Sect, or what will happen to you if I recruit someone from the Heavenly Fire Sect?"
"Of course I know. Xiao Xia nodded. Laugh. "And you will never call someone sent by the Heavenly Fire to come, at most you will kill me yourself. Aren't you afraid that I will tell you who you are?"
"Then why are you still here?" Don chuckled and looked at him coldly.
"Because I promised your brother that I would come here to persuade you to stop. β
"What benefits did he promise you? Is it a thousand taels or two thousand taels this time?" Tang chuckled and laughed ugly.
"He didn't give me anything, he just asked me for help. I treat him as a friend. So here it is. β
Don chuckled and suddenly stepped forward. The voice also suddenly sharpened: "I also treat you as my friend, and I also asked you for help, but you said that there was something wrong and excused me." Now that my brother has asked you for help, you are here at such a big risk? Why?"
Xiao Xia was stunned, but he didn't expect Tang Xiaoxiao to care about this so much, thought about it, and said, "Because I don't like what you do either." The fourth brother's bearing is heartbreaking, he is a friend of mine, I will help him, it's as simple as that. β
Tang's chuckling face suddenly turned red, angry, unwilling, violent, and jealous, distorting his originally handsome and beautiful face into something terrifying. He suddenly roared in a hoarse voice that was still exhausted after desperately suppressing it: "Why? Why does everyone think he is better than me? The old lady thinks he is stronger than me, everyone thinks he is stronger than me, even you think he is better than me?"
Xiao Xia couldn't help but stroke her forehead with her hand. It seems that Tang Xiaoxiao has really not grown up at all in the past six years, and maybe he is even more naΓ―ve. He paused and didn't speak, and waited until the excited look on Tang's chuckling face slowly dissipated for a few minutes before he spoke, "I don't know about your Tang Jiabao. Whether the fourth brother is stronger than you or not, don't worry about it for the time being. I just wanted to ask, what do you want this Vermilion Bird Spirit Fire for?"
Tang chuckled and took two deep breaths, gradually calmed down, and asked with a cold snort: "This Vermilion Bird Fire is a little innate true spirit fire, the spirit in the fire, melting all things and sublimating all things, it is the treasure of cultivation and refining tools, how rare and precious is it, do you still want me, a martial arts student, to sue you?"
"Of course I know it's a baby. But what I'm asking is what do you want this Vermilion Bird Fire to do? Send it to Tangjiabao? Do you think that now that this matter is known to the whole world, is your old lady still willing to ask for this thing?"
"Of course the old lady wouldn't really want this thing," Tang chuckled, of course, knowing better than Xiao Xia. Tang Men is very high-profile when he does things. Ruthless, spicy, decisive, and must be intimidating, but the Tang family is very low-key, gloomy, and habitually stays in the shadows that are not noticeable, like this kind of thing that has already made a lot of trouble, although precious. But it's not a necessary thing, even if the Tang family really gets it, they will only give it away immediately. But the light in his eyes did not diminish by half a minute. "But it's this kind of danger that takes the chill out of the fire. Only then can everyone, let the old lady see that I am the most talented disciple of the Tang Sect's generation, and I am the one who is truly qualified to enter the inner gate and receive the mantle of the Tang family. β
"It turns out that you have been lurking for more than five years and deceiving so many people, just to let others recognize you. Natsu nodded. Tang chuckled, thinking like this, of course he already understood. "But what's the point? Whether others admit you or not, what are you like in the eyes of others, and what does that have to do with yourself?"
"How can it be okay?" Tang chuckled and looked at Xiao Xia even more inexplicably. "I have been cultivating hard in Tangjiabao for so many years, just to be admitted to the inner door by the old lady. In the future, I will be a famous son of the Tang Sect. But as soon as my illegitimate brother came back, he took away all the things that should have belonged to me, but he still looked like he didn't care! I just want to do it for the old lady and for everyone to see, I am the real son of the Tang Sect!"
"So you did everything possible to find out Miss Lin Xiaoyan's life experience, and found a way to lurk by her side for five whole years?"
"Yes. The corners of Tang's chuckling mouth couldn't help but purse a hint of a smile, the forbearance of more than five years has finally been exchanged for today's success in sight. He couldn't contain the excitement in his heart. "Because of the Vermilion Bird Spiritual Fire, the foundation of the Heavenly Fire Sect has long been clearly explored by the people in the rivers and lakes, and I can only find another way, and it took a full two months to get through the channels of our Tang family. There is also news of Qingyulou, and finally found out that Jin Zhiyang, the sect leader of the Tianhuo faction, had a daughter before he joined the Tianhuo faction, and that daughter later married into a small dart game on the edge of Xuzhou, and died after giving birth to a daughter. In other words, Jin Zhiyang actually has a granddaughter, the only blood. β
"Of course, just a granddaughter is not a big deal. The people of the Heavenly Fire Sect cultivated to the depths of their ruthlessness, which was well known. However, I didn't give up, and went there to see it myself, but I inadvertently appeared a very interesting thing - I often entrusted a trading house in the Dart Bureau, which was actually a subordinate gang of the Tianhuo Faction. It didn't seem like a big clue, but my gut instinct was that there must be something wrong. So I managed to sneak into this game and wait until this time. β
The smile on Tang's chuckle became more and more obvious, more and more happy, the light in his eyes became brighter and brighter, and even his breathing became rougher: "It turns out that my instinct is right. I didn't know until today that Jin Zhiyang used to secretly visit Xiaoyan for a few days every year, and he would play with her, but he made a rule with Xiaoyan that he couldn't tell others, and Xiaoyan's stupid girl really never told anyone else, even me. I also wondered if Xiaoyan asked me before if there were gods in this world who would come to play with children, and children would not come when they grew up. I didn't think it was like that. It turned out that Jin Zhiyang really didn't let go of this blood relationship. That's my vision, my intuition, no one in the world wants to think of this method, only I thought about it, and I did it!"
Compared with Tang Xiaoxiao's increasingly hot eyes and voice, Xiao Xia's expression was so plain and cold from beginning to end, and when Tang Qingxiao finished speaking, he nodded and said, "I finally understand why Miss Mingyue said you were a bad person at that time." It turns out that the leader of the horse thieves you could easily clean up, you deliberately made the situation critical, just to see if there are any people from the Tianhuo Sect watching and secretly protecting you, right?"
"You're right, I brought in even those horse thieves. I quietly used the channel of Qingyulou to spread the news, and there was a valuable secret sign to go to Jizhou quietly, just to try to see if it was really as I expected. It's a pity that although the real purpose of this dart sent by Jin Zhiyang is actually Xiaoyan, he didn't secretly send someone to protect it."
"It turns out that Miss Mingyue is really as wise as a torch, although she doesn't know the world, she can understand people's hearts" Xiao Xia shook her head and sighed. "It's a pity that I didn't understand it at the time, and I wronged her"