TFHS: Chapter 165

Bai Qiaomo said politely, “Thank you, Fellow Daoist Ji.”

Ji Yuan seriously introduced several strong players from the Imperial Academy to Bai Qiaomo. First up was Zong Yupao and then Wu Liyan. He didn’t seem to worry that his fellow disciples would be defeated by Bai Qiaomo.

Ji Yuan was a very sociable person. After a short time, he even pulled Feng Ming to chat and laugh with him. It wasn’t at all like someone he had only met for a short time.

Not long after they started chatting and laughing, another person appeared behind them. Zong Yupao was the first to notice this person and was a bit surprised. “Master Kong Zhao?”

Ji Yuan and Qiu Yi turned their heads to look. Wasn’t it Kong Zhao from the Silver Armor Army? What was he doing here?

Bai Qiaomo and Feng Ming noticed his arrival and greeted him politely.

Kong Zhao also greeted Zong Yupao and the other two. He wouldn’t put on airs in front of these three people, especially the 18th prince, Zong Yupao. Zong Yupao was quite favored and valued by the emperor, and was also very outstanding.

After the greetings, Kong Zhao smiled. “My lord sent me here to see if there are any good talents who can be absorbed into the Silver Armor Army.”

Ji Yuan asked with a smile, “What good talents have you taken a fancy to, Master Kong?”

Kong Zhao pointed to Bai Qiaomo. “I met Bai Qiaomo in Chiri City before and took a fancy to him. Unfortunately, he isn’t interested in this.”

“Chiri City? How could he go to such a far place?” This was Qiu Yi’s first reaction.

Ji Yuan and Zong Yupao looked at each other. Their focus was different from Qiu Yi’s. “I heard that traces of a flood dragon were found in the sea near Chiri City. Do you know about it?”

Of course, they knew. How could they not know? Feng Ming also asked Kong Zhao about the whereabouts of the flood dragon.

Feng Ming smiled and replied, “I know. I knew it very well. It is a pity that Senior Kong failed to catch the dragon, or Brother Bai and I would be able to see it first.”

Kong Zhao was speechless. Was this ger blaming him for his incompetence and failure to catch the flood dragon?

Didn’t he see what type of situation it was? The sea was the flood dragon’s home ground, and two other major forces were also involved. The three parties were unable to encircle the flood dragon and still let it escape.

Kong Zhao sneered. “I’m so sorry, little friend Feng.”

Feng Ming waved his hands. “It’s okay, it’s okay. The flood dragon is still there anyway. I’ll go look for it myself next time. Maybe I will find it.”

At this time, Ji Yuan and Zong Yupao were both embarrassed. Ji Yuan thought to himself that he finally understood why Junior Brother Qiu always suffered a defeat at the hands of this ger.

How thick-skinned must Feng Ming be to say such words? For a moment, Ji Yuan admired Bai Qiaomo.

Kong Zhao was also speechless. If it wasn’t for this person’s extremely high talent in alchemy, Kong Zhao wouldn’t have bothered to talk to him.

Kong Zhao hurriedly got to the point. “Friend Feng is naturally very capable. You even got to know the captain of the Golden Eagle mercenary group and asked him to bring his grandson to show support for you.”

Feng Ming was proud. “Of course, who are Brother Bai and I? Is it strange that we know Captain Shi?”

Kong Zhao suddenly said, “When Wu Yingyan got into trouble, you two happened to be there.”

Feng Ming thought to himself, ‘This guy really has bad intentions.’ Still, he kept smiling as he clapped and said, “He was right there. It was a pity that we weren’t there and didn’t get to see a big show. That guy must’ve done too many bad things, so there was a dark cloud over his head. He was very unlucky. All the people who entered the Netherworld Valley were fine, but he got into trouble. He didn’t lose any limbs, but his dantian was destroyed. I felt so relieved when I heard about it. Who told him to always destroy other people’s dantian? Now he got a taste of it.”

Then he spread out his hands and said regretfully, “I wanted to ask him in person what it feels like to become an abolished person. I didn’t expect that the Wu family would be wiped out, and he died at the hands of his newly married wife. This shows that he did too many bad things and got retribution.”

Ji Yuan and the other two were stunned by these words. They thought that this ger was really good at talking. She made Kong Zhao, the silver armored guard, stunned. He was completely led by the ger.

Qiu Yi might not be very clear about the affairs of the Wu family, but Zong Yupao and Ji Yuan both knew about it. After all, it involved a prince and a noble concubine.

But they weren’t very clear about the more specific situation. They hadn’t expected Feng Ming and Bai Qiaomo to be nearby when Wu Yingyan got into trouble.

Ji Yuan was suspicious. It was Wu Yingyan who was responsible for Bai Qiaomo’s dantian being abolished. How could it be such a coincidence that they were at the scene when Wu Yingyan got into trouble?

Did it really have nothing to do with them? Then why did Kong Zhao bring up these things if they were irrelevant? It must be that Kong Zhao was suspicious and came to test them.

But seeing that Feng Ming, a young ger, didn’t show any abnormality at all, Ji Yuan was impressed. This ger was really different from Junior Brother Qiu.

Kong Zhao had a headache after listening to this. All this talk about misfortune and retribution. Feng Ming made it sound as if what happened to Wu Yingyan was purely accidental.

Kong Zhao said directly, “If it wasn’t for the lack of evidence, I would’ve thought it was the result of your revenge.”

Feng Ming’s eyes widened, and he accused Kong Zhao, “Even if you are a senior, you can’t wrongly accuse us like this. We really want to retaliate, but what is the background of the Wu family? Since Senior Kong asked us about this matter, you should know how Wu Yingyan treated us. I just provoked him a bit, and he wanted to kill the hundreds of people in our Feng family. Fortunately, my father was very smart and made his plan fail. Otherwise, I wouldn’t have the opportunity to meet Senior Kong.”

Kong Zhao looked at Bai Qiaomo. Bai Qiaomo just showed a half-smile. What could Kong Zhao do? These two people revealed no flaws, and also made it clear that he couldn’t do anything to them without any evidence.

Kong Zhao couldn’t help remarking sarcastically, “Yes, I’m really honored to meet Alchemist Feng.”

Feng Ming raised his chin. “Of course. Not everyone can make friends with a future fifth-grade alchemist in advance.”

“Pfft.” Ji Yuan burst out laughing.

Zong Yupao also turned his head to look at the sky instead of Kong Zhao, whose expression was distorted.

The smile in Bai Qiaomo’s eyes became even more intense.

Kong Zhao… he finally stormed out. If he continued talking, he would be angered to death by this ger.

Qiu Yi looked at Feng Ming with an expression like he saw a ghost. Feng Ming turned around, saw him, and blinked. “Do you admire me?”

Qiu Yi subconsciously took two steps back before glaring at him. “Only a ghost would admire you. I have never seen anyone as shameless as you. Senior Brother Ji, let’s go.”

Ji Yuan smiled and said goodbye to the two of them. He left with Junior Brother Qiu and Zong Yupao.

Once they were far away, Ji Yuan rubbed his stomach, which hurt from trying so hard to hold back his laughter.

Zong Yupao said thoughtfully, “They did it, right?”

Ji Yuan stopped laughing. “Yes, they did it. They didn’t deny it blindly, but relied on the fact that Kong Zhao has no evidence to catch them. It is really interesting. It seems I have to find someone to investigate the situation of the Netherworld Valley and what happened to Wu Yingyan.”

Zong Yupao said, “Let me know when you find out.”

“Okay.”

Ji Yuan saw that Qiu Yi hadn’t come back to his senses yet and reminded him again, “Junior Brother Qiu, remember to stay as far away from that ger as possible in the future, so as to not be led astray by him. The ger isn’t the strongest in alchemy, but his mouth is the most skillful, and he is shameless.”

Qiu Yi said quietly, “But LI lost to him.”

He lost to Feng Ming in his strongest skill, alchemy.

Ji Yuan: “……”

Feng Ming’s ger must’ve influenced him. The couple was so weird. Why did he want to test them just now?

Feng Ming said quietly, “Alas, the identities of Qiao Ze and Qiao Hai can’t be used anymore.”

Bai Qiaomo smiled and told him, “It doesn’t matter. Don’t we still have the other two?”

“Yes, you are right. If the old doesn’t go, the new won’t come.”

Feng Ming said again, “What does that guy surnamed Kong mean? He came here to ask questions when he already knows the answer?”

Bai Qiaomo comforted him. “He isn’t sure, so he came to test it. Now he is sure, but what impact will it have?”

Feng Ming’s lips curled up. Yes, Wu Yingyan was dead. What did it matter even if it was revealed that the two of them had done something to cause Wu Yingyan to be abolished?

Or would someone from the Wu family come out to avenge Wu Yingyan? Would his cousin the prince come to settle accounts with them?

They didn’t have enough power in the past. If they had enough power, they wouldn’t have schemed or played a trick behind the scenes. They would’ve retaliated openly and honestly to see who dared to make a sound.

Feng Ming added, “It turned out to be the right thing to not agree to him. This guy is really annoying.”

Bai Qiaomo laughed. Did Kong Zhao know that he had annoyed Junior Brother Ming, a future fifth-grade alchemist?

Moreover, Junior Brother Ming had restrained himself just now or he would’ve called himself the future sixth-grade alchemist.

Bai Qiaomo touched his wrist and found that flood dragon that was in the form of a bracelet.

“Let’s go watch the competition.”

“Okay.”

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In the following time, Bai Qiaomo took Feng Ming to walk among the 20 arenas. He paid attention to the situation of each arena to prevent the disciples of Sihong Academy from missing the opportunity, and explained in detail to Feng Ming to increase Feng Ming’s experience in fighting with others.

Previously when Feng Ming and Bai Qiaomo were training outside, they fought more with desolate beasts and less with humans.

The two of them stopped when they arrived at a certain arena because the person guarding the arena was a disciple of Sihong Academy.

This disciple knew he had no chance to compete for the final champion, so he went to the arena early. He took the opportunity to defend the arena to fight against more cultivators and train himself.

This disciple was only at the peak of the qi gathering realm. From Feng Ming’s perspective, his yuan energy cultivation was quite solid. Perhaps it wouldn’t be long before he advanced to the essence liquid realm, perhaps after the end of the league.

As they walked around, he found that the essence liquid realm contestants were basically just watching while the contestants on the arena were all competing against qi gathering realm cultivators.

Therefore, it wasn’t surprising that there was a disciple at the peak of the qi gathering realm guarding the arena.

There were many cultivators who had the same training purpose as this disciple. So the moment Feng Ming and Bai Qiaomo stopped, a cultivator who was also at the peak of the qi gathering realm came on stage.

After the two men clasped their fists to each other and the referee raised the protective formation, the two men started fighting.

One of them used a sword, and the other used a dao. They were both commonly used weapons. Since they had the same strength, the fight was very intense, and they were evenly matched for a while. This caused the audience to cheer from time to time.

After hearing the discussions of the audience members, Bai Qiaomo said, “This opponent is a disciple of the Liefeng Sect in Shangwu County. Unlike the Kunyuan Sect, the Liefeng Sect has a higher status in Shangwu County, so the nearby families are willing to send their children to the Liefeng Sect for training.”

The moment he said this, Feng Ming also remembered. “There is a contestant in the late essence liquid realm stage who is from the Liefeng Sect.”

Bai Qiaomo nodded. What he didn’t say was that this person was a friend he had made in his previous life.

This time, they would have to fight in the arena to get to know each other.