Chapter 73 – The Thrill

Three: What about the Tiandi Society.]

[Jiu: Tiandihui is a cult, coveted our earth clan treasure for a long time, huh, this treasure is also called the book of the earth. It can be used to send messages for thousands of miles.

I received a distress message from Master Jinlian a while ago, knowing that he had gone to the capital city of Dafeng, for only by entering the capital city could he escape the pursuit of the Tiandi Society.

However, when I arrived at the capital, I lost contact with Golden Lotus, so I sent a message through the Book of Earth, and realized that he had passed the Book of Earth to you. It must have been because of his critical situation that he had to give up the Book of Earth in order to protect himself.

I fucking …. Meaning who gave me the pot?

Xu Qi’an was confused.

[Jiu: I just don’t know who Your Excellency is that you can make Senior Golden Lotus feel comfortable entrusting the Earth Book to you.]

I am just a small fast worker, no, I am just a small beat man …. Xu Qi’s heart cooled halfway.

[3: Why is it possible to protect oneself by abandoning the Book of Earth? The people of the Tiandi Society can lock the location of the Book of Earth?

Reasoning master Xu Qi’an keenly captured the problem.

[Jiu: This matter involves a secret matter of my Earth Sect, the poor Taoist cannot tell. The Book of Earth is the most precious treasure of my clan, I hope that Your Excellency can return it to the poor Taoist, and the poor Taoist will be grateful.]

[Sam: Okay, how to pay you back.]

Xu Qi’an was a bit reluctant to part with it, after all, it was a treasure that could act as a storage ring, but considering the risks that accompanied it, he still chose to take it from his heart.

[Jiu: The poor Taoist is in the capital, and can come to Your Excellency at any time, and if Your Excellency can’t trust the poor Taoist, you can exchange addresses of your choosing. Uh, what does Your Excellency want?]

Woman, I want hot woman… Xu Qi’an almost blurted out.

[3: The Taoist priest is polite, the return of things to their rightful owners is my responsibility, but at that time the Golden Lotus Taoist priest said to me that this is the most precious treasure of heaven and earth, and peddled it to me at a price of 500 taels of gold.

I am in no way asking for money, just, the treasure returned to the original owner, gold naturally must also return to the original owner, equal exchange, right.

[Nine: ….. As it should have been.]

……

Xu Qi’an put away the mirror and fell asleep with a beautiful dream of five hundred taels of gold.

On the following day, he changed into the uniform of a night watchman, hung up his belt plate and sword, and strapped to his chest the new gong that had been replaced yesterday.

Go over the wall to Uncle Junior’s house for breakfast.

After leaving the Xu Mansion and receiving the reins of his horse from the concierge Old Zhang, Xu Qi’an took his horse and hurried to the inner city, to the office of the night watchman.

This horse was Second Uncle’s mount, and now it belonged to Xu Qi’an, of course, in order to plug Auntie’s mouth, Xu Qi’an gave Second Uncle fifty taels of silver.

There was no way around it, the night watchman’s office was in the inner city, too far away from the Xu Mansion, and if Xu Qi’an walked, it would be almost lunchtime by the time he reached the night watchman’s office.

Rushing to the night watchman’s yamen at fire speed, he stepped into the Spring Wind Hall, where Li Yuchun was drinking tea with a silver gong.

“A newcomer under your hand?” The silver gong asked casually, seeing that it was a stranger.

“Uh-huh.” Li Yuchun nodded.

“What rating?” Silver Gong asked.

Li Yuchun didn’t wait for Xu Qi’an to open his mouth and hurriedly said, “Under B.”

The silver gong was quite surprised and praised, “Not bad, not bad, the government office just needs such young people with potential, in the future you will be the bearers of the night watchmen.”

The latter half of the sentence was addressed to Xu Qi’an.

Xu Qi’an bowed respectfully before explaining his intentions, “Chief, I wish to go to the casework library.”

He knew neither where the case bank was nor the appropriate permissions.

“If you have any problems in the future, you can go directly to the mandarins.” Li Yuchun said.

“Understood.” Xu Qi’an exited Spring Wind Hall.

Leaders are chatting and farting, do subordinates, there is no urgent matter can not be disturbed, this eye price is still there.

Catching a mandarin and asking where the case bank was, Xu Qi’an arrived at a large compound.

Handing the waistplate to the black-clothed mandarin, the latter took it, confirmed that it was correct, and handed it back to Xu Qi’an, saying:

“The case library is divided into four areas, A, B, C, D. The gong can only go to the D room to access the case.”

Xu Qi’an deliberated for a moment and asked, “How am I supposed to know which repository the information I want to check is in.”

The black-clothed official smiled in a respectful manner and said, “Go to the ‘Ding’ Treasury.”

There are four warehouses, “A, B, C, D”, D is the base and the largest, which is in line with the law of the pyramid.

The more confidential the document, the smaller the number.

Xu Qi’an entered the “D” storage room, came to the reception desk, and said, “I’m looking for information on the Dao Sect.”

The mandarin behind the reception desk, flipped out a thick booklet, checked it for a while, looked up and said, “Your honor, wait a moment.”

He went inside the case bank.

In a few moments, this black-clothed official came out holding a volume of books, reaching out to receive Xu Qi’an’s waistband while handing over the books.

Xu Qi’an said, “Serve a cup of hot tea.”

Turning to the side room where the table was set up, he flipped through the Dawnguard information.

The origin of Taoism comes from Daozun, whose age cannot be verified. It is said that Daozun was a strange man in the ancient times, who transformed the three clearings in one breath, namely: Yuan Shi Tian Zun; Dao Dao Dao Tian Zun; and Ling Bao Tian Zun.

Secretly, the three talents of heaven, earth and man.

This is the origin of the three sects of Taoism, “Heaven, Earth and Humankind”.

Among them, the two Celestial and Human Sects were like water and fire, both claiming to be the orthodoxy of the Taoist Sect and hating each other’s brains.

The Earth Sect is the most reticent, the style of the disciples is very low-key, do not compete for fame and fortune, people who do not know about this, thought that the Taoist Sect has only two sects of heaven and man.

Salty and heartbreaking.

“These days, the dispute over the Dao lineage is probably the biggest conflict of all.” Xu Qi’an silently added in his heart: the imperial sister is invincible.

Continuing down the page, he realized that there was a good reason for the “earth clan” to be salty.

The Earth Sect worships the Taoist Heavenly Father and cultivates immeasurable merits. They travel the world in the clouds, keep a low profile, do good deeds without leaving their names, and leave when they have gained merit.

“Merit ….” Xu Qi’an frowned in contemplation.

Merit is, in a sense, cognate with luck. The world often says: Doing good deeds and accumulating virtue, good people have good rewards.

Merit means blessing, and blessing and luck are the same thing.

So that old Taoist priest from the Earth Sect could see something special about me? Knowing that I’m a blessed Ou Huang, he peacefully dumped the hot potato on me …. MADE, aren’t you a virtuous man? Why are you doing all these bad things? ….

Xu Qi’an ventriloquized in his heart.

He thus launches into the association that the odd luck in himself is also a merit?

But the Xu family’s ancestors 18 generations are small people, on the second uncle’s generation a little up and down, the brothers are still a hand chopping wires with kitchen knives, all the way to kill billets with sparks and lightning.

Not much good was done, but a lot of people were cut down on the battlefield.

At this time, the administrator made hot tea and brought it over, chatting idly, “Is Your Excellency looking up information on the Human Sect?”

No, the check is for the Earth Sect… Xu Qi’an asked rhetorically, “Human Sect?”

“Our State Master is the contemporary Dao Head of the Human Sect.” The official said, “Lord Wei is very displeased with that woman Taoist head.”

Woman Taoist Head …. Ah, that legendary stunning Taoist nun?

Xu Qi’an came to a sudden realization, previously he only knew that the current saint was obsessed with monasticism and thirsted for immortality. He had appointed a heavenly fairy-like Daoist nun as the State Master.

I didn’t expect it to be the Human Sect!

The warlocks of the Si-Tian Supervisor, the Taoist human clans, the night watchmen, the Confucian Yunlu Academy, the military of Da Bong, and the group of civil officials of the imperial court ….. The capital is like a small pool of water, but it is crowded with scaly dragons.

No wonder Nine said the Tien-Di Gang wouldn’t dare enter the capital.

Taoist Master Jinlian: You come in and try.

The Heaven and Earth Society Killer: Try it and die.

Hahaha… Xu Qi’an’s mouth picked up the corner of his mouth, said: “You find me the information of the “Heaven and Earth Association”, well, there is also the book of the earth. The Book of Earth, you know, is the most precious treasure of heaven and earth. ….

The official smiled as he heard this, ”The B and C treasury rooms correspond to the gold and silver gongs respectively. As for Treasury A, you have to have a handwritten letter from Lord Wei to enter. But the information you’re looking for on the Tiandi Society and the Earth Book is available in Treasury D.”

Seeing Xu Qi’an freeze, he explained, “The Tiandi Association sounds like a jianghu organization, and the Earth Book is a legendary ancient magic treasure, neither of which is anything confidential. I’ll check the manual to see where it is.”

After that, he went to the reception desk.

Xu Qi’an looked at his back and froze for a moment before realizing.

He’s falling into the misguided thinking that the further back in time something is, the more classified it is, which it’s not. The more distant the antiquity the less valuable it is …. Well, it’s not a matter of whether it’s worth anything, antiques are still worth a lot of money, it’s the level of secrecy.

The real secrets were instead things that were closely related to contemporary times, such as military intelligence, border layouts, gunpowder formulas, shipbuilding drawings for siege equipment, and so on.

I believe that in the future there will be one more confidential file in the A-word vault: “The Secret of Human-Animal Intercourse”.

Author: Song Qing; Xu Qi’an.

Soon after, the officials found out the “Book of Earth” and the information related to the Tien-Di Association.

Xu Qi’an couldn’t wait to look through it; the Tiandi Association was tied to his own safety and security, and he chose to learn about the organization first.

…..

There are thousands of organizations and sects in the jungle, nothing particularly worth caring about.

Operate some gray income, are still obedient, willing to obey the court discipline. Individuals some particularly deep jianghu forces, not quite buy the court’s account.

But their presence also served to stabilize the party, and they occasionally fought bandits on their own.

The Heaven and Earth Society was one of those unassuming jianghu organizations.

The earliest record of it appeared a year and a half ago, when Yunzhou was in a severe drought, and the stragglers fell to the grasses and plundered everywhere.

Natural and man-made disasters are rampant.

Local jianghu forces united with the imperial court to fight the bandits, and the Tiandihui was one of them.

“It still looks like quite a chivalrous organization …. Well, sometimes those who do good things may not be good people, just like those who do charity may not be sincere in doing so.”

It may also be to gain fame …. Xu Qi’an took a sip of tea and continued reading.

The Tiandi Society is not an active organization and is semi-secretive in nature, with very few relevant records.

Xu Qi’an finished reading it without much gain.

“It’s normal to have no gains instead, to be able to force an Earth Sect expert to flee into the capital shows that it’s a very large and powerful organization ….”

“It makes sense that such an organization would be able to hide from the intelligence network of the night watchman, should I report to Chun to enrich the night watchman’s case files?”

“Eh …. Let’s leave it at that for now.”

He did not intend to report the matter to the court, and although it might be exchanged for a credit, it could not be compared to five hundred taels of gold.

Earth book such a treasure, is a person all red-eyed, right, in case which gold gong see, directly let me hand over to the national treasury ….

Xu Qi’an closed the booklet and opened the information related to the “Book of Earth”.

The Book of Earth is an ancient treasure, the origin of which cannot be verified, and is only known to be the legacy of the Daofather whose age of origin cannot be verified.

The information does not even mention the function of the earth book.

However, there is a note that says that such ancient treasures are mostly nurtured by heaven and earth, and cannot be refined by human beings.

They have one trait in common, which is blood dripping.

The blood drops to recognize the master …. Xu Qi An Xin said this set up I understand ah, round and round, it turns out that it is a drop of blood to recognize the master.

The magic weapon that Song Qing had given him, the gong of the night watchman, only needed to be instilled with qi to be used, and there was no concept of recognizing or not recognizing the owner. They were all tools in nature, and could be used by anyone in whose hands they fell.

Xu Qi’an then felt that blood dripping didn’t exist in this world.

He pulled out the small jade mirror in his pocket and placed it on the table, sheathing his saber two inches and pressing his fingertips gently on the blade.

Crimson blood immediately seeped out, and Xu Qi’an smeared it on the surface of the small jade mirror.

The smear of blood stayed on the mirror for a few seconds and slowly disappeared, absorbed by the mirror.

In the next moment, the scene before Xu Qi’an’s eyes began to blur, the booklet, table, and teacups all fading, replaced by chaos.

In the midst of the cloudy chaos, he saw eight points of light, suspended in the chaotic world.

These eight points of light symbolize the other mirrors? Together with me, there are exactly nine mirrors …. Xu Qi’an swept his gaze across, trying to find [Nine].

But he didn’t know which point of light Nine belonged to.

Hmmm…click on a random one to add a friend!

Xu Qi’an raised his hand and tried to point remotely at the nearest point of light.

The point of light suddenly rippled like water, the ripples spreading throughout the Chaos World.

Xu Qi’an looked as if he had dreamed a dream, the scene in front of him resumed, still in the reception hall of the paperwork library, with the pamphlets and teacups in front of him, as well as the small, plain jade mirror.

But he knew that this was not a dream, because after the blood drop recognized his master, the jade small mirror had created some kind of marvelous connection with him.

A metaphysical sense of belonging.

At that moment, a line slowly protruded from the mirror:

[Luk: Don’t trust Nine, don’t respond, don’t respond, don’t respond ….]

PS: This chapter is 3700, as compensation for the late noon shift. So, where are the recommendation votes from the Ning guys.