thenovelthief #351 - To join, you have to show your loyalty!
#351 - To join, you have to show your loyalty!
“Haha! No need to be too grateful to us.”
Wang Shanlu continued, “Now you know how loyal your senior brothers are, right?”
“When you retrieve what we want, we naturally won't mistreat you!”
“Alright, Senior Brother Wang.”
Xu Chengxian thought to himself, so you still know that you want me to ‘retrieve’ something for you?
I thought you didn't know!
“Senior Brother Wang, will Monk Cheng Kong harm the others at the White Maiden Temple?” He thought for a moment and still confirmed with Wang Shanlu.
“No.” Wang Shanlu said decisively, “He still wants to put on a good show in front of the Empress; he won't sacrifice the big picture for small gains.”
“Alright then.” Xu Chengxian said.
This reason is more believable to him than Cheng Kong being a good monk, or that his sect are all good people.
… …
“Senior Brother Wang?”
“Senior Brother Wang, is there anything else?”
After a while, Wang Shanlu didn't send any more voice transmissions.
He waited for a while, feeling that he still couldn't completely relax.
What if his forgetful Senior Brother Wang Shanlu had something important to say?
Rather than waiting for him to contact him again later, it's better to take the initiative.
However, there was no response to either voice transmission.
Just when he thought the other party was completely finished, Wang Shanlu's voice transmission came.
“Oh, right, Junior Brother Xu, there's one more thing.”
He almost subconsciously wanted to refuse.
Meeting a strange cultivator who is stronger than him, especially when the other party originally harbored evil intentions and wanted to devour his 'snake pet'.
Of course, from Wang Shanlu saying that the other party was coming to Xuzhou with Cheng Ji, it could basically be confirmed that this monk should have agreed to Cheng Ji and changed his original plan.
Obviously, he is more interested in what the two of them plotted from the South Sea Dragon Palace.
But what if the other party changes his mind after meeting?
After all, his demon body is so outstanding.
So, he should avoid meeting if possible!
“To be precise, Cheng Kong wants to see your snake pet.” Wang Shanlu seemed to know what he was thinking, so he said. “If you don't want to meet, you can have your snake pet meet instead.”
“Is it to determine my strength?” Xu Chengxian understood.
“No.” Wang Shanlu denied his words.
Then he added, “It's your snake pet's strength.”
“…” Xu Chengxian opened his mouth, paused, and then replied that he understood.
That counts as agreeing.
He decided to meet in his snake form.
He also couldn't be too far from the Governor's mansion.
When the situation is not right, he would turn around and come back.
The main point is to prevent all dangers from the outside!
“Wang…” Xu Chengxian prepared to send a voice transmission to ask if he was finished this time?
If he was done, he wanted to meditate and cultivate.
Unexpectedly, as soon as he opened his mouth, he heard Wang Shanlu say, “I'm done, I'm leaving.”
“…”
Wang Shanlu left very quickly.
Xu Chengxian scanned with his divine sense, and the other party's aura was indeed gone.
“Are all cultivators so efficient?” He couldn't help but wonder.
At least the actions are very swift.
Although he is very procrastinating when transmitting information!
“I must find a chance to beat up this old boy Wang Shanlu!”
Thinking that he had just been tricked, Xu Chengxian couldn't help but make a decision in his heart.
Of course, he had to wait until his cultivation strength completely suppressed the other party before saying anything.
Now, he should cultivate first.
… …
“Xu Chengxian.”
“Junior Brother Xu!”
“Come out for a bit.”
In less than half an hour.
Wang Shanlu's voice transmission came again.
Xu Chengxian woke up from his meditation, his eyes slightly closed.
“Let me go out?”
“Could it be that the person has already arrived in Xuzhou?”
At this time, Cheng Ji's voice transmission also came.
Indeed, Monk Cheng Kong had arrived.
The speed of cultivators is really fast.
Efficiency is indeed high.
“Senior Brother Wang, why don't you bring him into the Governor's mansion to see me?” Xu Chengxian didn't agree immediately, but first tried to probe with a voice transmission.
“Come out, what nonsense are you talking about!” Wang Shanlu scolded with a smile, “Still want us to come in and see you? What a big face you have!”
After scolding, he added, “It's okay for us to go see you, but you have Pan Anshou come out to greet us.”
The two stone lions at the entrance of the Governor's mansion are blocking the way.
If cultivators want to enter and exit, unless the master greets them in person, or they must restrain their own aura to the extreme.
What's the difference between that and tying your own hands?
Forcibly breaking in would alarm the defensive counterattack of the Great Zhou's national fortune.
Troublesome!
“Stop talking nonsense.” He urged, “Come out quickly, I guarantee you'll be fine.”
“I'm not going, anyway, the one you want to see is my snake pet.” Xu Chengxian said according to what he had thought before, “I'll let it go out to see you.”
“You're really careful.” Wang Shanlu was indifferent.
After a while, he replied to him.
Let Xu Chengxian send out the snake pet.
Obviously, he had won the consent of Monk Cheng Kong.
Xu Chengxian agreed, and then requested to meet near the Governor's mansion.
“Knowing that you're careful and afraid of death, we're not far outside the Governor's mansion.” Wang Shanlu replied, “You'll know when you come out.”
“Alright, I'm coming.” Xu Chengxian replied, but secretly thought in his heart, this guy really deserves a beating, actually saying I'm afraid of death.
Afraid of death, is that wrong?
Careful, is that wrong?
No!
There will definitely be no mistake!
After speaking, he immediately added another sentence, “Xiao Hua is not smart, don't make things difficult for him.”
“Heh, what kind of status and cultivation do we have, how would we deliberately make things difficult for a snake pet!” Wang Shanlu chuckled, “Come quickly, don't waste time.”
Xu Chengxian agreed.
In the next instant, his mind returned to his main body.
The flower snake around his waist opened its eyes.
First, it slid down from the clone and transformed into a size of several zhang.
Then, it spat out a cloud of blood energy, wrapped the clone up, and sucked it into its mouth and into its belly to hide it.
Then, it swam out of the room.
… …
Outside the Governor's mansion, in mid-air.
Under the guidance of Cheng Ji and Wang Shanlu, the monk and Daoist, Cheng Kong saw the flower snake they were talking about.
The snake was coiled on the wall on one side outside the Governor's mansion, looking up at himself and the others.
It looked ordinary, but his intuition told him that this snake was not simple.
This feeling was very similar to when he saw Xiao Bai.
“Senior Brother Cheng Kong, Junior Brother Xu's snake pet's strength is still a bit lacking.” Wang Shanlu said with a smile at this time.
“Then what do you suggest?”
“Since it can swallow relics, why don't we help it a bit?” Wang Shanlu asked with a smile.
“The relics in the Bodhi Temple cannot be moved.” Cheng Ji interjected.
If he wanted to take them, it wasn't that he couldn't, but he didn't want to create unnecessary complications at this time, so as not to attract undue attention.
“It's not just your Bodhi Temple that has treasures like relics.” Wang Shanlu laughed, “There's a place very close to here, it has them too.”
“Are you saying, the Two Realms River.” Cheng Kong raised his eyebrows, “Junior Brother Wang, do you mean to ask me to deliver a pledge of allegiance?”
Wang Shanlu smiled without saying a word.
How strange!
To join, you have to deliver a pledge of allegiance!
“In this way, everyone can have some trust in each other.”