46 Preparation Begins! 1 (1/2)
The crowd gets closer to him, but Zhang Wu Ji did not withdraw his weapon as he believes that he did not cause any trouble against the residents of the Wen Wu City. He carefully inspects the way each of them moves only to noticed that he wasn't an enemy in their eyes, but it is not he was too good looking either!
”Stupid Bull, run!” Zhang Wu Ji kicked the bull's bottom, but like it was not bothered to take care of him, it moves in a very relaxed speed. The first resident that catch up pulled his hand, and instead of assaulting him, he shakes his hand in very friendly gestures. Then, more and more people gathered by his side and begin to do the same thing. Some even kneeled and thanked him for his benevolence in helping them.
”What the hell happened? Except for coming here to what that young master's butt, I did not do anything at all.” Zhang Wu Ji was confused with what happening surrounding him, until the young master of Tao Family, Tao Luo Yun arrived. The moment he shows himself before the Master Senior, he kneeled at one knee and greets him. But Zhang Wu Ji was not in the mood to guess what happened as he took his Jade Ruler and bring that young master to his side.
”Tell me... What good thing did you do again?” Zhang Wu Ji feels like killing this guy now.
”Master Senior, this... This is all your greatness!” Tao Luo Yun quickly explains what happened to the Southern Side after he brought the books back to the Study Hall. Because his father is impatient to rebuild the Hall, he ordered the construction workers to demolish the whole building before he rebuilt it. As the Masonry Bricks that supported from the Northern Side's Factory comes, their construction begins.
But because I am impatient to share this book with others, I followed my good brother's opinion and started to teach the others about the contents of the book you gave me, this made everyone in the town, debauchee, gambler, drunkard, Muggers, and beggars are enlightened by you. Now, the whole Southern Side are treating you like our savior!” Tao Luo Yun explained.
”You fool! I call you to read that to give you a proper lesson and you end up using that to give everyone a lesson using my name! If I don't whack your butt I will feel sorry to myself!” Zhang Wu Ji raised his Jade Ruler and swing a number of air blades to whack his bottom before it was taken as a lesson to temper their attitude. Soon, a row of young males came out to had their bottom slap, which gave Zhang Wu Ji a fear.
”Who wants to whack all of your asses! Get the hell away!” he almost cried out loud. Luckily, the people from the City Lord's Management already come out to inspect the commotion that happened right outside of their City Lord's Fortress. This team of soldiers is led by one of the captains that helps during the Orchid Mountain Bandits attack, thus he recognizes him in a single glance.
”Master Senior Ninth! Are you here to meet with City Lord? Please let this humble soldier escort you into the fortress!” the captain sent a subordinate to report to the city lord quickly before he greets the Master Senior right in front of his eyes. His word also caused the crowd to be impressed because their mighty benefactor is heading into the City Lord Fortress for his high and mighty responsibilities.
”Quiet! And go back to your home, what are all of you doing here? Gathering to attack the City Lord?”the captain forced the other residents to dismiss and return to their home. Under the command from all the soldiers taking a guard at the Guard's Post, the commotion is quickly removed. This gave the two of them entered the fortress without any disturbance.
The butler immediately came with a cup of tea for the Master Senior as he waits, and as everyone knows, Zhang Wu Ji have a habit of reading, thus the butler quickly delivered a few books for Zhang Wu Ji to read while enjoying the tea and also reading the books while waiting for the City Lord to make his appearance.
The wait only lasts long for ten minutes, but Zhang Wu Ji already finishes three books from the row of four.
”Ten minutes to finish three books that took me a week to completes! What a talent, no wonder he's the doted disciple amongst the nine of them.” the City Lord quickly come out to greets the youth. Without any restriction between the two, they begin to converse like a pair of old friends, touching the topic of Wen Wu City's health, situation, the relation with the Orchid Mountain, and anything happened in the county recently.
Meanwhile, inside a private building, an elder is venting his anger by whipping at a youth hanged upside down. Blood is flowing out from all over his body due to the whipping injuries, but the elder did not feel pitiful, instead, it roused his interest to continue whipping further. He continues to whip the youth until he's dead. With a toss, he throws away the handle of the whip and walked over to his subordinates to listen to their reports.
”Master, the eleven assassins from the Ninth's Courtyard did not return to report yesterday, I'm afraid that their safety is questionable. I hope master will...” the subordinate wishes to continue his report until it finishes, but the elder stopped him from continuing. Looking at the elder's action, the subordinate remained silent until the elder continues.
”It is me who killed the eleven assassins!” a silhouette appeared from one of the doors and gave the subordinate his words. His appearance is more like a witch doctor that practices witchcraft. The moment this witch doctor made his appearance, everyone within the hall keep quiet, afraid of having their lives taken away out of a whim. He was the younger brother of the Grand Elder of Left, Yang Chen Kun, named Yang Ming Kun.
Yang Ming Kun was engrossed with the practice and cultivation of much more darker cultivation skills, such as Deadly Yin Finger, Inner Qi Spike, and Fighter Qi Needle. The truth behind the death of the eleven assassins is because he activated the Fighter Qi Needle that was plated inside the heart of the assassins. As long they have the intention to speaks any secrets, their heartbeat will beat abnormally, and this is the trigger to initiates the Fighter Qi Needle. Worst of all, the Fighter Qi Needle is infective, where if one needle is activated, the others with the Fighter Qi Needle will receive the same ending.
”Brother, if the situation doesn't allow it, why not we implant all the disciples with the Inner Qi Spikes and Fighter Qi Needles? Then we don't even need to do anything for them to follow our instructions carefully.” Yang Ming Kun said to his elder brother. After all, the two of them were the leader and vice leader of the Golden Wolf Syndicate that has been secretly helping the bandits like Lan Shan Clan to flourish.
Behind the public eyes, the Golden Wolf Syndicate secretly provides routes and path for the clan to rob the travelers and merchants, at any time, those hired escorts protecting the carriage is also either bribed, purchased, or threatened. This caused the route from Wen Qing City and Wen Yang City failed to deliver any imported goods to the Wen Wu City and forced the merchants to follow the long way to travel.
Out of his carefulness, he arranged eleven assassins to hid nearby the Ninth's Courtyard if anything happened, but it seems that their arrangement has been disturbed and forced his younger brother to executes the assassins before they speak about anything important. But unexpected by them, Zhang Wu Ji possess the ability to discern and read an item's descriptions, revealing his identity earlier than he expected.
”No, this will not go according to your plan. We will need as much support as we could from the sect before we destroy Liang Tian's Faction. By then, the twentieth Imperial Prince will also uphold their promise to support my ascending into the Headmaster of the Seven Star Sect. Even the Upper South Merchant Corporation and Jie's Clan will support by that time.” Yang Chen Kun explained.
”How are you going to defeat him and his wife then? Don't forget that the bitch from Beiping Family is a 63rd Stage Inner Qi Lord! You're only a 59th Stage Inner Qi Elder now!” his brother Yang Ming Kun stated, but it wasn't taken seriously by his elder brother at all.
”Do you think I have to handle her myself? As long the Upper South Merchant Corporation gave a copy of the Seven Star Ascension Manual to me, even that old man from the seventh-floor pagoda will have to listen to my words!” he happily replied his brother's statement and laughed as hard as he could. It seems that in his mind, the plan was already in progress and the conclusion will be as he expected.
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Back to the discussion inside the City Lord's Fortress.
”Master Senior Ninth, let us enter the main topic now. I believe that your arrival here is not because you merely feel like coming to visit me.” the City Lord finally entered their main topic on his accord. With his brain, it was impossible to not know what is the reason for Zhang Wu Ji's sudden appearance. In fact, he already considered three matters that might be one of the main topics Zhang Wu Ji will mention.
First of all, will be the elimination of the Lan Shan Clan in the Orchid Mountain, and establish a new import and export route to Wen Qing City and Wen Yang City. As for the second, it would be that he wanted to have something to do with the Southern Bamboo Forest, and third, it's related to the Seven Star Sect and the Apprentice Hall. But no matter how smart he was, he's unable to guess the main reason Zhang Wu Ji is here today.
”City Lord Yang, I wish to reform the Seven Star Sect once again. I hope you will support my faction and not maintaining your neutrality in this matter.” Zhang Wu Ji goes with the discussion on the main topic without any reservation regarding the sensitivity of his topic. But when he brings up this matter, The City Lord immediately stand up and revealed an expression of shock.
”You means, you want to overcome the three factions by yourself to reform the Seven Star Sect? But that is impossible! The Seven Star Sect's culture has been going for generations for who knows how many years now. How can it be easily reformed by the strength of a mere disciple... Wait... You're not a mere disciple...” the City Lord realized that his reaction was to underestimating Zhang Wu Ji's strength and capability.