Chapter 692 - 692 48 Trading
692: Chapter 48 Trading 692: Chapter 48 Trading The brilliance of the golden chariot was mesmerizing.
Yan Xie remained expressionless, striving to calm the ripples in his Heart Lake.
This night’s meeting, evolving to this point, was beyond his expectations.
He vaguely felt that Lu Yuzhen’s motives were far from simple.
“Coming here today…”
“Actually, there’s nothing important.”
The young man on the golden chariot stood up and looked around.
The myriad lights converged into a great sun, hanging overhead.
The young man smiled and said, “Is this your mountain gate?
It looks good, but not quite what I imagined.
Didn’t you say Bai Ze left a Secret Realm?”
“?”
Upon hearing this, Yan Xie could no longer control his expression.
He frowned, looking at the Paper Taoist beside him.
Bai Ze Secret Realm?
What is the meaning of this?
Lu Yuzhen never mentioned this to me.
“Aha…”
Lu Yuzhen noticed the change in Yan Xie’s mood and laughed, extending his hand to pat Yan Xie’s shoulder.
His expression unchanged, he said calmly, “This hasn’t spread yet.
Those guys in Great Chu haven’t received the news, and Mr.
Yan is also in the dark.”
“Indeed.”
The young man got straight to the point and said, “So, does the Secret Realm really exist?
I want to see it.”
In the last ten years,
the reputation of the Paperman Sect echoed through Great Chu, Da Li, and even the northern Demon Country.
However…
though its reputation was loud, it wasn’t trustworthy.
Lu Yuzhen laughed casually, not minding this remark, “Of course, the reason for meeting tonight is to let you inspect the goods.”
He lifted his sleeve and waved it lightly.
“Boom!”
Miles away,
Pure White Mountain began to tremble.
The headless laborers shouldering baskets stopped one by one, rotating the smooth cross-sections of their “necks,” making a lookout gesture toward the boundary gate.
As for the heads buried along the mountain ridge path, they all turned in unison, showing expressions of shock and fear.
The sound of the tremors was like rolling thunder, the ground beneath the golden chariot began to crack.
The dragon horses, which had just calmed, neighed uneasily again and stamped their hooves.
“Oh.”
The young man slowly lifted his head and let out a faint sigh of admiration.
Clouds in the sky changed colors, an invisible pressure gathered, like a storm…
The entire Pure White Mountain Realm lost its color, save for two towering stone pillars standing tall, as if holding up the collapsing sky.
…
…
Yan Xie looked up at the Heavenly Peak, his expression complex.
Half a year ago, after the confinement at Longevity House ended, he left the Taoist sect, wandering like a lost soul…
On the outskirts of the Imperial City, in the rain, he met this mysterious Paper Taoist.
It was as if Lu Yuzhen could read minds, guessing his plan and proactively proposing cooperation, with the idea of “reaping what one sows.”
Yan Xie had once been the most proud disciple of the Taoist sect and knew exactly what the Paper Taoist was up to.
This guy roamed the world, forming and resolving karmic ties.
Just like the folklore of the Knife Seller, who lent knives for ten years without taking a penny.
After ten years, once the fruits were ripe, the Knife Seller would come to collect both the knives and the karma.
Yan Xie did not refuse Lu Yuzhen’s offer of partnership.
Not out of greed for a free gift,
but because…
he genuinely needed such assistance.
In Yan Xie’s life, there was a ten-year blank.
Great True Master Chong Kan punished him with ten years of meditation in seclusion.
Three thousand six hundred days and nights.
Every day, he earnestly “reflected.”
In these ten years, in fact, more than once, Pavilion Masters within the Taoist sect questioned whether the Great True Master’s punishment on Yan Xie was too harsh.
But these doubts ultimately came to nothing.
Stealing the [Yin Yang Mirror] was indeed a grave crime.
But…
destroying the [Yin Yang Mirror] was considered a mortal sin.
This was a treasure passed down for a thousand years within the Taoist sect!
Those Pavilion Masters who initially pleaded for leniency, after learning the truth, all fell silent.
Who could have imagined…
that the ten-year meditation in seclusion and expulsion from the sect was to reckon with the “Shattered Mirror” crime!
However,
Yan Xie had never regretted the act of shattering the mirror.
He felt that, from beginning to end, he only made one mistake—
and that was losing to Chen Jingxuan.
The gamble of ten years ago had already settled, but his life was far from over.
Each day in seclusion, Yan Xie was reflecting on his past mistakes in the last duel…
but it’s alright, there was still time for everything.
This time,
he would win everything.
Wandering the outskirts of the Imperial City like a lost soul, and meeting Lu Yuzhen…
this was actually no coincidence.
The divination technique that glimpses the heavenly secrets, Yan Xie also knew it.
He saw a corner of a white piece at the end of fate, waiting all this while at the edge of the Imperial City for Lu Yuzhen to come.
One willing to incur karma, one willing to accept the gift.
Yan Xie’s plan needed this “Knife Seller.”
“Boom!”
The rumbling and trembling lasted for a long time.
Thunder at the Heavenly Peak tore the night apart, white lightning illuminated the earth.
The golden chariot floated in the air, with the dragon horses bowing their heads in terror.
The once-flat boundary gate was now a deep abyss—
The ground cracked open, white paper like snow slipped into the crevices.
This scene, terrifying and captivating.
The young man on the golden chariot watched silently for a long time before saying softly, “So it turns out that Great Saint Bai Ze truly left a Secret Realm in the human world…
but as soon as it descends, many people will die, won’t they?”
“Isn’t that what you all wished to see?”
Lu Yuzhen smiled at Yan Xie and said gently, “Daoist Yan, this demon-purging list of Great Chu was drawn up by Jiang Qihu of the Imperial City Department and Chen Jingxuan of the Book Tower.
With this significant defeat, Chen Jingxuan bears the greatest responsibility.
When the news of this tragic battle spreads, the pieces you planted in Qing State…
can also be unveiled all at once.”