Chapter 96 – A New Generation of Little Monsters

The voice in the grass hut was filled with sarcasm and a flavor of arrogance that bordered on hubris, critiquing that pair of exalted siblings in Qing Guo fiercely, saying, ”Seclusion? Idiots will believe, they two siblings a god and a ghost, engaged in so more than ten years, how suddenly turn over? Flip then flip it, always have to find a reason is …… now the Qing court throws out those reasons, counting reasons?”

Yun Zhilan’s knees are a bit painful, he knows that the master is happy to talk to himself at this time, obviously forgetting that he is still kneeling, rubbed his knees and climbed up by himself, his face is full of bitter smiles, thinking that the master’s life most of the time seems to be very “ridiculous”, but in the general direction there is always a kind of patience that is convincing, and in some details, there are some brilliant strokes – for example, the master’s life is very “ridiculous”. But in the general direction, there was always a kind of convincing patience, and in some details, there were also some brilliant strokes – such as the youngest senior brother.

However, at this time, the words of the master are obviously ridiculous again, does he think that this big event that happened in Kyoto of Qing Dynasty is purely the Emperor and the Princess of Qing Dynasty who have nothing better to do than to eat too much and do not hesitate to compromise the face of the royal family, acting for the world to see?

Yun Zhilan would not believe this in any case and said a few words to express his opinion.

That Grand Master in the Sword Lodge fell silent, seeming to feel that there was indeed something wrong with this judgment of his, but in his mind, the people of Qing, especially the royal family of Qing, were undoubtedly the most sordid, shameless, dirty, nasty, and black-hearted group of creatures under the heavens, and it wasn’t easy to make him believe that the royal family of Qing was really experiencing such a big crack.

He subconsciously thought that Qing Kingdom wasn’t preparing to make himself wear some kind of black pot again.

This realization made him angry and gloomy, so he was somewhat unable to listen to Yun Zhilan’s words.

Yun Zhilan, as the first disciple of the Four Gu Swords lineage in Dongyi, in addition to being invited by the Princess to go to the Kingdom of Qing twice without any success, the rest of the time he represented his master’s will, cooperating with the Lord of Dongyi City, maintaining the peace and quiet of this city as well as the neighboring small countries, and for the one genus of politics, he was much more savvy than that Great Patriarch, who was known as the Idiot in the world. Ever since that incident in Kyoto, he had keenly sensed that there seemed to be an opportunity to take advantage of that had appeared in front of Dong Yi City.

If this opportunity could be grasped, Dong Yi City’s greatest threat could be eliminated, and it would no longer have to be sacrificed like a wall-riding tree, maneuvering between the powerful nobles of the Qing Kingdom.

In particular, the fact that the eldest princess was not dead made Yun Zhilan firm up his judgment, repeating it to his master with extreme sincerity.

The grass hut fell silent once again, the Four Guards Sword did not speak again, it was just a silence, after a long time that voice slowly said, “You can’t intervene at the moment, who knows if it’s a pit?”

Yun Zhilan expressed his understanding, but in his heart, he was laughing bitterly.

He didn’t understand that the great swordsman in the hut, that idiotic patriarch, wasn’t just scared by Qing’s ventriloquism, but more crucially, if Dongyi City wanted to take advantage of Qing’s internal strife, it would need an excellent timing, and as Qing was the number one power under the heavens, such a timing couldn’t be created by people from the outside world, and could only wait for an invitation to be sent out by people within the country of Qing.

Whether it was the Four Gu Swords or the Bitter Lotus, they were both two heavenly trees outside of the Kingdom of Qing, and these two trees could not easily show their attitudes, could not easily dance with the winds of the mountains, because once they went in one direction and then wanted to come back, it would not be an easy thing to do.

“Continue to see just what tricks the Qing people are playing.”

The voice in the grass hut rang out once again, issuing instructions to Yun Zhilan, only he did not tell his disciple that all along, certain people from the Qing Kingdom had been able to pass on certain important information to themselves through certain channels, and he, right now, was weighing that information.

“Yes, Master.” Yun Zhilan was about to go to the City Lord’s Mansion to confer, when he suddenly thought of a tsunami of things, turned back and frowned, “The eldest princess of the Kingdom of Qing has lost her power, Fan Xian should be safe there, so in order to prevent anyone from discovering Junior Master’s identity, should he be recalled?”

Dongyi City Four Gu Sword’s closed disciple, that Wang XIII Lang who held the green streamer, has always been an extremely mysterious character, in these two years, including Yun Zhilan, many people, including Yun Zhilan, just know that the master’s father is extremely fond of this young disciple, but there has never been an opportunity to enter the hut to see what this youngest disciple looks like, or when it came to the dispute over the investment of the Ming family in Jiangnan, Yun Zhilan only knew for the first time that the master’s father had sent the youngest disciple to Fan Xian’s The first time I realized that the master had sent the youngest brother to Fan Xian’s side.

Yun Zhilan was a little puzzled, and more than that, he was vaguely uncomfortable. After all, within the Qing court, it had always been that young man surnamed Fan who was the biggest enemy of Dongyi City, and in the past few years, he didn’t know how many things had gone wrong in Dongyi City, and how many people had been killed in Dongyi City.

Even Yun Zhilan himself, nearly died under the assassination of the Supervisory Court, Dong Yi City’s expert assassins, but also with the Supervisory Court’s six divisions fought guerrilla for half a year in Jiangnan, so knowing that his master’s father had changed his attitude towards Fan Xian, Yun Zhilan, although he accepted it, there was some small resistance in his heart.

“I know what you’re thinking.” The voice in the grass hut sneered, “You still think that it’s not right for me to help Fan Xian …… In fact, you’re wrong, it’s not that Fan Xian needs us to help, but that we need Fan Xian to accept our help.”

“Li Yunrui’s side is finished, at least on the Nei Ku side, we need Fan Xian. And the fact that the Ming family has been finished in the past few months, but it hasn’t affected our Dong Yi City, what does that mean? It shows that Fan Xian has accepted our help.”

Yun Zhilan bowed his head slightly and said, “But in that case, at least thirty percent of our channels are under Fan Xian’s control, and this young powerful man of Qing has always flipped his face like a book, so once if he moves his heart, it’s not easy to deal with.”

“Why would he move his heart?” In the grass hut, the four Gu Jian’s analysis walks the path of wisdom, the whole is not muddy, “In the past, the two sides were only small fights, and did not involve the root and bone, the reason why its time to clash is because there is a Li Yunrui in the middle, and now Li Yunrui since he has been phantomed, there is no longer a conflict of interest between Fan Xian and I, why would he want to risk a full-scale turn of the tables… . move his heart?”

Yun Zhilan’s heart was startled, hearing and understanding Master Teacher’s phrase “between me and Fan Xian”, didn’t this mean that Master Teacher had already recognized, at least on the surface, that that young man Fan Xian had the qualifications to sit on an equal footing with himself?

“In the past, we could trade with Li Yunrui, now we can trade with Fan Xian.” The voice from the grass hut sounded again, “Because the people in the Qing dynasty and the country who are not very afraid of the Qing emperor from the bottom of their bones are these two …… Remember, Qing is not Fan Xian’s, and there is no reason for him to lose his own interests for the sake of Qing’s interests.”

Yun Zhilan thought about it, but still hadn’t figured it out. But if Fan Xian was present, he would definitely give a thumbs up to Grass Lodge Lane, praising the idiot brother’s emotional intelligence that was quite high ah ……

“Before the incident, I let your senior brother go to join Fan Xian, this is the so-called attitude.” The voice in the grass hut paused, “Attitude has to be used in place, so let your senior brother do things on his own ……”

Yun Zhilan frowned slightly, thinking to himself that that mysterious and pitiful Junior Brother was just thrown out by his Master to do hard labor for Fan Xian, was it just to show his attitude towards Dong Yi City.

“Of course, there are naturally other reasons for me to let him go to the Kingdom of Qing.”

Yun Zhilan’s spirit lifted, not knowing what secret information he would hear next. As a result, the words that came into his ears caused him to be stunned, and after half a day’s thought, he realized that things were indeed like this, and there was nothing that was more important than this matter.

“When the northern qi royal family rebelled, why that woman in northern qi can hold her son to sit steadily in the dragon chair, so as to gather a mournful northern qi into today’s mold?”

“Because Bitter Lotus was on her side.”

“Why is it that Dongyi City and all the countries are caught between the two great powers of the day, swaying from side to side, commiserating, and losing tribute and silver, but always managing to keep barely holding on. The Southern Qing monarchs and people are so ambitious, yet they have never tried to use their mighty force to swallow Eastern Yi into their bellies?”

Yun Zhilan didn’t even need to think about it and said with a hint of reverence, “Because Dongyi City has you, and the sword in your hand.”

“Not bad, a name like Grandmaster is nothing meaningful though. But it’s still good to use to scare people as a killing weapon.” The voice in the grass hut suddenly looked a little despondent, “Have you thought about …… if Bitter Lotus dies and I die, what will this world look like?”

Yun Zhilan’s back chilled. As for this kind of scene, of course, it is something that everyone in the world has involved in thinking about, only that no one has ever dared to declare it in their mouths, because they know that, with the Qing’s strong military power and the top-border fervor that has been rooted in the hearts of the Qing’s people, once the two great masters who don’t belong to the Qing country have passed away, the entire world will surely be plunged into war once again, not to mention the Northern Qi, at least the Dongyi City is extremely difficult to keep. He said sincerely and firmly, “Master, you will not die.”

“Joke! Where in this world is there a person who will not die?”

The voice in the grass hut became more and more despondent, “Even if you don’t die …… but people will eventually grow old, Bitter Lotus is also so old, I’m not too young, do you think that an old man who has run out of oil, trembling hands can’t even hold a sword when… . is he still a Grand Master?”

“But …… what does this have to do with Junior Master entering the celebration?” Yun Zhilan was silent for a moment before voicing the question in his heart.

“There are no Great Masters in the human world originally.” That great master in the grass hut said coldly: “Just thirty years ago gradually began, there are more of us a few monsters out, before no, later …… don’t know if there will be again, but at least at the moment it seems that the entire world’s young generation of experts, the only people who have the opportunity to approach this realm , but only a handful of people.”

Yun Zhilan’s heart moved slightly as he gazed at the calmly closed door of the grass hut.

The voice inside the door laughed, “Unfortunately, you are too old for that to be possible. I, Dong Yi City, have climbed out of this sword pit quite a few people, and even climbed out of the most ninth grade experts in the entire world, but if I were to say who has a chance to become a new generation of monsters …… perhaps only your youngest senior brother.”

Yun Zhilan slightly opened his mouth, he was in Suzhou City Merchants Chambers once and Wang Thirteen Lang frontal sword, at that time knew that this young junior master brother young gently has already advanced into the ninth grade, has been very shocked, but always feel that the realm of the young master brother is far less than their own rounded, how in the mouth of the master, he is …… the most likely to be promoted into the great master candidate?

“This is the problem of heart.” Four Gu Jian’s voice at this time finally became like a great master like confidence and calm up, “Want to be extremely in something, then must not care about something. You can’t, neither can that sword juggler called Wolf Peach under Bitter Lotus’s door …… In fact, all these years, I think Bitter Lotus and I must be plagued by the same problem as I said earlier, once we die in old age, what will happen to this land behind us, so we must snatch this problem away before we die. ”

“I chose your youngest brother. Bitter Lotus, he chose Kaito.”

“It’s a coincidence that both are each other’s closed disciples.”

“And even more coincidentally, Bitter Lotus he sent Haitang to Fan Xian’s side ……,” Si Gu Jian’s voice carried a hint of mockery, “even if he didn’t send it, at least he must be happy that something happened between Haitang and Fan Xian. Since he can send it, of course I can send it as well, except that Haitang is a maid, which takes advantage of it.”

Yun Zhilan was dumbfounded, completely unaware of the Great Master Seed Cultivation Program, and how it involved Fan Xian again, and did not understand why the two Great Masters, Bitter Lotus and Master, were sending their shut-in disciples to Fan Xian’s side one after the other.

“Are there really only four old monsters in the world?” Si Gu Jian asked softly in return, “Yes, perhaps there are only four old monsters, that monster seems to never see old …… you should know him, that blind man ……”

Yun Zhilan’s heart chilled, knowing that his master was talking about a certain mysterious figure who had once secretly traveled through Dongyi City many years ago.

“But you don’t realize that Fan Xian is that blind man’s disciple.” The man inside the grass hut laughed, “Isn’t that a funny thing? The shut-in disciples of the old monster should all get together, fighting and talking will allow the three of them to improve a lot. This is what is called sharpening …… Of course, I’m sure Bitter Lotus is thinking the same thing as I am, letting his disciples go to Fan Xian’s side because he wants to dip into a bit of good luck.”

“Luck?” Yun Zhilan stared at the hut’s tightly closed door.

“What kind of conditions do you need to become an old monster? Intelligent and wise heart heart and diligence …… but the most important …… is still luck.” Four Gu Jian sighed, “The world has countless people who cultivate martial arts, but in the end, they have only achieved these few people. Is the Heavenly Dao unfair, or what? It’s actually just that our luck is a bit better than the next person’s.”

He concluded, “The facts of thirty years ago have proven that in order to become a Great Master and have such luck, then one must touch base with the blind man …… But no one can find where the blind man is. Since this is the case, then one would have to touch the blind man’s closed disciple.”

Yun Zhilan was confused by these divine words, and after a long time asked the question he was most concerned about, “Little Senior Brother, Haitang, Fan Xian …… Master, who do you think of these three people is most likely …… to succeed? ”

Among these three supreme masters of the younger generation, except for Wang Xulang who remained unknown, the pair of Haitang and Fan Xian had undoubtedly stood above the pinnacle of their age group, at such an age, they had already stepped into the realm of the Ninth Grade, each had excellent conditions of mastery, and at different times, the world had always assumed that they were Heavenly Pulse practitioners.

So when people talked about who would be the next Great Master, the first thing that came to mind was Fan Xian and Haitang Duo.

“Haitang.” Si Gu Jian’s judgment came so simply, “Because she’s good, she’s fast.”

“Then Little Master?”

“It’s also possible, that child’s heart is so clear and thorough that it’s not below Haitang’s.”

“What about Fan Xian?”

After a moment of silence within the grass hut, he said, “Fan Xian is most unlikely.”

“Why?” Although he loathed Fan Xian greatly, Yun Zhilan subconsciously raised an objection, “Although his realm today is still hovering in the ninth rank, very unstable, and not as good as Hai Tang Duo Duo, with his rate of progress, it can really be called inhuman. Especially the heart of a ring, according to the disciple observation, the world of young people like him this kind of perseverance is very rare. As for diligence a way, although he was born into power and wealth, but since childhood practice constantly, very hard work.”

“What conditions are available, but Fan Xian is missing the most critical link.” Four Gu Jian capped it off, “He doesn’t have a heart, this young man has no heart for this world at all, since he has no heart, naturally he can’t talk about his heart, he wants to advance into the realm of the Heavenly Dao, unless he sheds all the …… in his hands, can he shed it?”

Fan Xian was a layman, he naturally couldn’t give up.

“Blind he is a very great person, very capable of bringing luck to his opponents, but his own luck is not very good. And he …… can t be a good teacher.”

Four Gu Jian finally said, “I miss the blind man, but it’s a pity that after he disappeared for more than ten years, he came out but looked for Bitter Lotus that big bald head. Well, it’s a pity.”

Yun Zhilan heard the sound of a sword vibrating out of its sheath in the hut.

Among the great masters, Ye Liuyun was the dashing person who never accepted disciples, but the Four Gu Swords was the one who accepted disciples widely, and if even the credited ones were counted, there were at least more than fifty of them, so the level of disciples was mixed, although there were ninth grade masters such as Yun Zhilan, and mysterious young men such as Wang Thirteen, but there were still a lot of unworthy things. As for the Northern Qi State Master Bitter Lotus, he didn’t have many disciples, but each one of them was a supreme expert, such as the martial arts teacher of the young Emperor of Northern Qi, the strongest of his generation on the Ninth Grade, Wolf Peach, such as that one who wore a flowery cloth garment, and who was rumored by the world to be a Heavenly Veins practitioner, Hai Tang Duo Duo Duo.

Blind Uncle Five Bamboo of course also had disciples, except that his founding great disciple and his closing disciple were both the same person, Fan Xian.

The Four Gu Swords were not wrong in saying that the Great Masters were also human beings, and they also had to think about what was behind them, so these monsters bet a great deal of energy on their own shut-in disciples. Of course, they were only betting secretly, but they didn’t want this pressure to interfere with their disciples’ cultivation.

Haitang, Fan Xian, and Wang XIII Lang, so far, hadn’t appeared in one place at the same time, and if that day ever came, it would definitely be an interesting scenario.

It’s just that Si Gu Jian got one point wrong, or rather, he subconsciously didn’t bother to remember one point – Northern Qi’s State Master Bitter Lotus opened the mountain again last year to accept disciples, and took advantage of the auspicious cloud of auspiciousness to accept two female disciples, one of whom went to the palace to be the imperial consort, while one of them tidied up a medicinal herb garden in the mountain. In this sense, Haitang is no longer a closed disciple of Tian Dao, Fan Ruo Ruo …… is.