Chapter 210

The first step is to uncover the secret of the "Kong Que Ling."

If it could be stolen away, that would be even better.

To this end, the February Hall—one of the twelve halls of the Qinglong Society—had begun sending people to infiltrate the Kong Que Shanzhuang as early as two years ago.

However, entering the Kong Que Shanzhuang was easy; getting to the bottom of the Kong Que Shanzhuang's secrets was exceedingly difficult.

Even with the Qinglong Society's intelligence capabilities, they had only managed to roughly locate where the "Kong Que Ling" was hidden, and discovered it was guarded by eight great experts whose exact strength was unknown.

Trying to dig out any deeper secrets left them completely at a loss.

After Liu Xing took on this "hot potato," he racked his brains and finally decided to start with the young Shanzhuang master, Qiu Qiu Fengwu.

Before he could even put his plan into action, the diary mentioned the "Kong Que Ling."

What a pleasant surprise.

【The Rain Tribe are born with divine strangeness; wherever they go with their Wu power, blue icy rain will fall.】

【Of course, this rain can also be stopped at will.】

【The first member of the Rain Tribe I met was the proprietress of "He Shui Qing Cha."】

【Zhou Zhiruo... oh, I should call her Wu Zhou, but she actually escaped from the Ice Domain.】

Yuzhou, Kong Que Shanzhuang.

In the room, Miss Nangong's eyes went wide, her tiny palm-sized face full of astonishment: "The teahack proprietress is a member of the Rain Tribe? She knows Wu arts?"

The image of Zhou Zhiruo's usual greedy and fiery temper surfaced in her mind—she truly could not connect her with the mysterious Rain Tribe.

"No wonder the Shanzhuang master couldn't gauge her depth. It turns out what she cultivates isn't true Qi, but the Wu power unique to the Rain Tribe."

Miss Nangong suddenly understood.

She then looked at the person on the couch and murmured, "Since the proprietress, with such a background, says you're fine, then you should really be fine."

The view zoomed in—the unconscious youth on the bed was none other than the teahack handyman, Xiao Wu.

Yet at the Kong Que Shanzhuang, he had another identity—the young Shanzhuang master, Qiu Qiu Fengwu!

It turned out the Qinglong Society was scheming against the Kong Que Shanzhuang, and the Kong Que Shanzhuang was not entirely unaware—only they couldn't be sure who the opponent was.

Just at this moment, the young Shanzhuang master Qiu Qiu Fengwu, who had been training in a secret place with eight Masters for many years and had never shown himself, came out of seclusion!

Though young in years, Qiu Qiu Fengwu was skilled in Wu Gong, clever and sharp-witted. By a chance opportunity, he caught a faint clue and, following the thread, discovered that the opponent was actually the Qinglong Society.

Since it involved such a colossal power, Qiu Qiu Fengwu dared not be careless, and hurriedly informed his father, Qiu Qiu Tianming, of the matter.

And under his own insistence, he planned to infiltrate the Qinglong Society as a mole.

Qiu Qiu Fengwu was both brave and clever, bold yet meticulous. Finally, under the false identity of "Xiao Wu," he successfully infiltrated the Qinglong Society's "July Fifteenth" branch.

His working as a handyman at the teahack was merely to throw people off the scent.

His son going off to do such a dangerous thing—naturally, as his father, Qiu Qiu Tianming couldn't rest easy, so he secretly went to check on Qiu Qiu Fengwu's situation.

After seeing the teahack and the proprietress, Qiu Qiu Tianming sensed something was off.

Such a beautiful proprietress, running a teahack in the wilderness for years and remaining perfectly safe—how could she be an ordinary person?

Yet no matter how Qiu Qiu Tianming probed, he could never sense even the slightest ripple of true Qi from the proprietress.

It was as if she were the most utterly ordinary person imaginable.

After several such attempts, Qiu Qiu Tianming gave up.

Today, as usual, Qiu Qiu Tianming secretly went to see his son, found Qiu Qiu Fengwu collapsed and unconscious, so he concealed his identity, showed himself, and demanded an explanation.

The result was that the proprietress said Qiu Qiu Fengwu was not only unharmed, but had actually gained a great fortuitous encounter.

Qiu Qiu Tianming was half-believing, half-doubting. Though he did not make trouble, he still brought Qiu Qiu Fengwu back.

233 The Qinglong Token Master gets a double kill; Qiu Qiu Fengwu's identity is exposed.

On the outskirts of Qingshui Town, the teahack.

Having just obtained a copy of the diary and finished reading the past records, the proprietress Wu Zhou had finally managed to calm the shock in her heart.

Seeing that Jiang Sishui not only knew about the Rain Tribe but had also pointed out her background, Wu Zhou murmured, "What a true variable."

"But if that's the case, does he know where Xu Yang is, and when he can come back?"

Thinking of this, Wu Zhou grew a little excited.

In the blink of an eye, ten years had passed—she had already waited here for ten years. The loneliness and torment in between were beyond what ordinary people could imagine.

Taking a deep breath, Wu Zhou looked again at the diary copy, a strange look on her face: "This brat, this old lady is already in her thirties, and you still have the nerve to set your sights on me?"

Recalling Jiang Sishui's words and deeds during the day, Wu Zhou could only offer one assessment—

Quite the actor!

【The Rain Tribe live in seclusion in a place called the "Ice Domain." Because the Ice Domain fell into a crisis back then, only the tribe's genius Xu Yang could save it.】

【So the Rain Tribe broke the rule that "the Wu Zun must be a woman" and intended to enthrone Xu Yang as the new Wu Zun.】

【Achieving Wu Zun status causes one to forget all past affairs. Xu Yang was unwilling, so he fled the Ice Domain with his girlfriend Wu Zhou.】

【The incumbent Wu Zun at the time went after them.】

【Xu Yang had no choice but to have Wu Zhou wait for him at their appointed spot while he turned back to fight the Wu Zun.】

【Both sides were gravely wounded, and then the Qinglong Token Master picked up the bargain—both were captured and imprisoned.】

【Wu Zhou never saw Xu Yang again, but she did not give up, because she firmly believed Xu Yang would surely come. So she built a teahack at the appointed spot.】

【And so she waited—for a full ten years.】

"What? Xu Yang has been imprisoned?" Wu Zhou's face went deathly pale with shock.

Back when Xu Yang had failed to show up, she had known he must have run into trouble.

But in her view, no matter how bad Xu Yang's situation was, it was nothing more than being taken back to the Ice Domain by the Wu Zun for punishment, temporarily unable to get away.

She had never imagined that he and the Wu Zun had both ended up prisoners of someone else.

"The Qinglong Token Master—what on earth kind of person is that?" Wu Zhou frowned, deeply worried.

Xu Yang and Wu Zun's strength is terrifying; even if both are severely injured, no random nobody can swoop in and profit. What exactly is the background of this Qinglong Society Leader that he could play the "fisherman"?

And...

"I am Xu Yang's girlfriend?"

Wu Zhou felt utterly speechless in her heart.

She is Xu Yang's younger sister.

When they fled back then, considering Wu Zun's ruthlessness, Xu Yang worried that if he left alone, his sister would be implicated, so he took Wu Zhou with him to run away.

Who would have thought that real-life siblings became lovers in the play.

This made Wu Zhou feel an indescribable sense of awkwardness.

【Wu Zhou escaped from the Ice Domain, so naturally she feared the Rain Clan would discover her and drag her back.】

【Therefore, when the Rain Clan's signature icy rain fell on the tea stall, her first instinct was to run.】

【Later, she probably realized she couldn't escape, so she decided to fight to the death.】

【So she had the waiter Xiao Wu bring out the "Dragon Saliva Tea".】

【"Dragon Saliva Tea" is supremely yang and fierce; it was refined by Xu Yang specifically to counter the Rain Clan's Wu power.】

【Wu Zhou was also worried she couldn't win, so she struck first.】

【But she did not know that the three Rain Clan members who came out of the Ice Domain were not targeting her at all; they had come out to find the Divine Sword and the Sword Child, allowing the backup Wu Zun, Hou Jian, to complete the final step of ascending to a new Wu Zun.】

Wu Zhou: "..."

So she had made a complete blunder.

"If I had known this earlier, I wouldn't have had to expend so much effort scheming against you."

While Wu Zhou breathed a sigh of relief, she began to worry about the three of them again.

After drinking the "Dragon Saliva Tea", the Wu power and Wu arts of the three would be severely affected for a period of time.

If they encountered a powerful enemy at this moment, the consequences would be unimaginable.

Especially that Hou Jian!

With both Xu Yang and the old Wu Zun missing, the Rain Clan certainly needed a new Wu Zun very badly.

If something happened to Hou Jian, what would the Rain Clan do?

Although Wu Zhou had escaped the Ice Domain, it did not mean she had no feelings for the Rain Clan; naturally, she regretted it.

【The three Rain Clan members coming to the tea stall was a coincidence, but without coincidence there is no story; because of this, they discovered clues about the Sword Child from the waiter Xiao Wu.】

【Xiao Wu's original name is Qiu Fengwu, the young master of Kong Que Shanzhuang, and the male protagonist of the play.】

【Because he needed to struggle against the Qinglong Society, he used an alias to infiltrate the "July Fifteenth".】

【And the Sword Child, Ma Feng, was also a person of the "July Fifteenth", so the two had contact.】

【Because Xiao Wu had touched the Rain Clan's Divine Sword, the Rain Clan people sensed it.】