"The Zhang Family's test?" Yin Xinyue asked in surprise.”He looked at Adjutant Zhang and saw him nod his head. Then, he looked at Zhang Qishan and turned to the coffin, whispering,"Is this a life for a life?"
Eighth Qi opened his hand and asked softly,""Is that really the case?"
Wenshan thought for a moment and said," It should be like this. The Zhang family has a rule that they don't marry outsiders. As an outsider, you're pestering Lord Zeng. The Zhang family will definitely test you to see if you're qualified to be their daughter-in-law.”
After hearing Wenshan's words, Yin Xinyue turned around and stared at Zhang Qishan. After a while, she took two deep breaths and walked into the coffin with a determined expression.
Deputy Zhang and Qi Ba quickly pressed against the coffin lid and asked her,""Sister-in-law, what are you doing?”
"Madam, come out quickly!" Deputy Zhang also shouted nervously.”
"Once this Mental Demon beast is triggered, the consequences will be unimaginable," Qi Ba said worriedly.”
Yin Xinyue looked at them." Adjutant, Eighth Brother, Wenshan, help me take care of my husband."”With that, he pushed away the adjutant's hands and closed the coffin.
"Sister-in-law!" Qi Ba shouted from outside the coffin. How am I supposed to explain this to Lord Zeng?”
When Wenshan saw this, he said,"Stop arguing. I think Madam should be fine."?Adjutant, I would like to ask, has your Zhang family's mechanism really reached this level?”
"What are you trying to say, Brother Shan?" The adjutant was confused.”
"From the Zhang family's life and death line to this place, many mechanisms were automatically activated without us triggering them. Moreover, I keep feeling that someone is watching us.”Wenshan said what he thought.
"You're saying that the Zhang family has been secretly helping us nearby, but they didn't appear. Why are they doing this?”Deputy Zhang also asked in confusion.
"Don't ask why. Hurry up and think of a way. Madam is still inside." Qi Ba ran to Zhang Qishan and shook his arm.""Lord Zeng, it was Madam who wanted to go in just now. I couldn't stop her. You won't blame me, right?”
Zhang Qishan seemed to have a reaction. He opened his eyes for a while and then closed them again.
"Now." Wenshan summoned Little Tian and asked in his heart,""Xiao Tian, check if there is any powerful energy in this ancient building.”
"Alright." After Little Tian agreed, it quickly circulated and emitted waves of light at the same time.
Qi Ba and Adjutant Zhang looked on in surprise, not daring to disturb him.
Three minutes later, Little Tian said," Brother, there's no powerful energy here. However, there's a bronze coffin deep under the ancient building. There's a person sleeping inside. The energy in his body is not small."”
Wenshan thought to himself after hearing that. Impossible. Could it be that the Meteorite Copper had already been moved away by the Zhang family? It was indeed possible. This was the style of the Zhang family. They would not put themselves in a high-profile and dangerous place.
"Little Tian, can you deduce the origin of the person in the coffin?”
"No, I haven't seen him. There's too little information to deduce.”
Forget it, let's deal with the matter at hand first.
Wenshan looked around, then walked to a one-meter-tall stone pillar. On the surface of the pillar was an eight-trigram compass. He looked at the coffin and then at the stone pillar. He pinched his fingers to calculate Yin Xinyue's birth characters and then pointed at the corresponding position on the Eight Trigrams Compass. As if a switch had been triggered, the door of the coffin suddenly opened and Yin Xinyue fell out of the coffin.
"Aiyo, you scared me to death. Sister-in-law, why did you come out?”Qi Ba was shocked when Yin Xinyue suddenly poured out of the coffin.
Yin Xinyue opened her eyes and looked around."So this is all an illusion!" Then, she walked closer to Zhang Qishan and held his hand."Since I'm safe and sound, don't tell Qi Shan about this matter.”Looking at her expression, she should have experienced something related to Zhang Qishan inside just now.
This request was not too much, and everyone nodded in agreement.
Yin Xinyue tidied up a clean place and then let Zhang Qishan lie down to rest.
Wenshan, Adjutant Zhang, and Qi Ba continued to search the surroundings.
An object on top of the phoenix statue caught Wenshan's attention. He scanned it with his spiritual mirror, and the information he got surprised him.
The Hollow Gold Dagger was the authority of the Zhang Clan's Patriarch.
Would he be able to command the Zhang Clan after obtaining this golden dagger? That probably wouldn't happen, right? Wenshan thought embarrassedly.
Right at this time, Zhang Qishan suddenly woke up, and everyone gathered around.
Lord Zeng, you're awake." Eighth Qi asked happily.
Zhang Qishan did not answer him and continued to look around. After he saw the surrounding environment, he said,"Hurry up and leave this place. Don't stay here.”
Qi Ba followed his line of sight in confusion and didn't find anything. He said,"But we…"
"Let's go!" Zhang Qishan interrupted him loudly.”Everyone saw that he looked as if something dangerous had happened, so they agreed to leave.
Everyone supported Zhang Qishan and left the Zhang family's old house in a panic. Finally, they rested in a deserted house at the foot of the mountain.
Seeing that Zhang Qi Shan had recovered, Qi Ba asked,""Lord Zeng, why were we in such a hurry just now? Is there any danger there?”
Wenshan patted his shoulder and said,""I know. Do you want to hear it?"
Zhang Qishan looked at Wenshan doubtfully.
Wenshan looked at him and said,"You're worried that something in the coffin will come out, right?" Actually, I've already transcended their reincarnation.”
Zhang Qishan stared at Wenshan with a surprised expression, then said with a solemn expression,""Thank you."
"There's no need to thank me. This can also be considered as accumulating some Yin virtue for myself.”Wenshan waved his hand.
"What kind of riddles are you guys talking about?”Qi Ba's mind was filled with a hundred thousand whys, and he was confused.
"It's nothing. There's no need for you to know.”Zhang Qishan rolled his eyes and said to him.
"Lord Zeng, why didn't your Zhang family come out to see you?”Wenshan was very curious about this.
"I don't know either. Although I'm a member of the Zhang family, I don't know everything about the origin and development of my family. Each of us is only clear about our own part, and the rest is a mystery. A few hundred years ago, some elders of my family were chased out of the family because they violated some family rules. When they returned, the old residence of our Zhang family had completely disappeared. When I saw the bronze plate that Second Master brought out from the ancient tomb, I realized why my father wanted me to return to Changsha before he died. Thousands of years of history of our Zhang family's ancient building are buried under the mines in Changsha. It used to be the place where the Zhang family gathered, and it also included the things they had to protect.”
Eighth Qi looked up at the sky and exclaimed," I was wondering why the bronze patterns we saw in the Zhang family's old house looked so familiar. I've seen them in the mine?"”
Zhang Qishan nodded." There are many unsolved mysteries in the history of our dynasty. As the oldest sect in Changsha, the Zhang family promised to protect these secrets of China for generations and hid them in our ancient building. Once these secrets are leaked, it will cause chaos in the world.”
"Is there only one such ancient building?" Yin Xinyue asked curiously.”
Zhang Qishan glanced at her and continued,""Because of the war in history, the Zhang family has been constantly migrating, so there definitely won't be a single ancient building like this. If it wasn't for the mining trend during the Qing Dynasty, and someone dug out coffins in the mine, that ancient building wouldn't have appeared in front of the world. It was only when Second Master found the bronze plate that I was sure of its existence.”
"Now that everyone is staring at that mine, shouldn't we do something? It would be troublesome if the Japanese beat them to it.”Eighth Qi asked when he heard such serious news.
"After digging for so long, they didn't find anything, did they?”Zhang Qi Shan asked.
"I heard from the adjutant that the tomb is very dangerous. Only the ancestors of the Second Master's family have found some clues.”Wenshan interrupted.
When Deputy Zhang heard this, he voiced out his thoughts and said worriedly,"But now that gunpowder is so advanced, will the Japanese try to blow up the mine?”
Wenshan answered him," I don't think so. The situation is uncertain now, and the Old Nine Gates are in chaos. Everyone is staring at that tomb. The Japanese definitely won't dare to act rashly.”
Zhang Qishan nodded,"That's right, the Japanese are indeed very cautious." Previously, they had been staring at the Zhang family's old mansion and seemed to have discovered something. However, because of that line of life and death, they didn't dare to rush there. However, they had already mobilized their army, so the rest was hard to say.”
"Rather than saying that it's a mysterious line of life and death, it's better to say that it's more powerful to secretly protect the people there.”Wenshan seemed to be a little angry. It was really uncomfortable to be secretly monitored. I wonder if I have been targeted by them after taking so many things from the Zhang family.
Qi Ba finally understood at this time. He looked at Zhang Qishan and said,"I originally thought that the mysterious line of life and death would be able to distinguish who is from the Zhang family. It turns out that someone is secretly helping us.”
Zhang Qishan looked at Qi Ba and then stared at Wenshan. Wenshan stared back at him. After a while, Wenshan laughed and said,"" However, you're also very powerful. I didn't think that this calamity would be your fortuitous encounter. To be able to break through to the HuaJin stage before the age of 30, you'll definitely become a grandmaster in the future."
"Lord Zeng has broken through to HuaJin. That's amazing. Congratulations.”Deputy Zhang congratulated him happily.
Zhang Qishan gave a rare smile, then held Yin Xinyue's hand and looked at her affectionately.
When Wenshan saw this, he got up and walked out. He couldn't be bothered to watch them show off their affection.
In the end, Zhang Qishan felt that it was better to return to Changsha as soon as possible, so they quickly returned to Changsha.
After returning to Changsha two days later, Zhang Qishan found that the situation was very unfavorable for them, so he went to Jieyu Tower to find Xie Jiu to understand the details.
Xie Jiu told him about Changsha's recent situation. It turned out that Changsha had not been covered by the sky at this time, but the sky had changed. Chenpi had become the number one figure in the Nine Gates. He colluded with Lu Jianxun, Ju Dekao, and Huo Sanniang, making use of each other. They were eyeing the mysterious thing in the mine.
Zhang Qishan was smart and knew that their alliance was the most unreliable. To defeat them, he had to break their alliance first. Therefore, Lord Zeng came up with a plan. First, he would take drastic measures. He would contact his old subordinates who had kept a low profile before and ask them to jointly submit a report saying that Lu Jianxun had neglected the military situation, did not distinguish between rewards and punishments, colluded with the underground forces of Changsha City, bribed and accepted bribes, and privately divided the territory. He requested to remove Lu Jianxun's command of the army. The result was very successful. Then, he would have the second step of the plan.
Zhang Qishan's second step was to create a new hall in Changsha called " Hui Xin Zhai ". He controlled it from behind the scenes and invested a lot of resources to try to snatch the Huo family and Chenpi's business, making them anxious. In this way, Lu Jianxun lost his military power, but he couldn't let go of the things in the ancient tomb in the mine. He also saw that Chenpi's dock business was stolen and Huo Sanniang was restricted. He would be a little disappointed in them. However, Zhang Qishan's new bet piqued Lu Jianxun's interest and made him take the initiative to ask for a partner.
Zhang Qishan's third step was to recall February Red and prepare to negotiate with Lu Jianxun and the others about the tomb.
Because there were still Lu Jianxun's spies around the Zhang residence, Yin Xinyue temporarily stayed in the Zhang residence to pay attention to the movements of those spies, while Zhang Qishan lived in seclusion in Huixin Zhai. As he and Er Yuehong were still wanted criminals, they could not show their faces, let alone enter the tomb. Moreover, Chen Pi and Huo Sanniang had already laid out many people in the Kuangqu. Even if he and Er Yuehong sneaked into the tomb again or forced it, they would definitely fight with Chen Pi and the others. This was not desirable.
In that case, if he wanted to get into the tomb before Chen Pi and the others, he had to negotiate with them. Therefore, Zhang Qishan invited Lord Baylor to be the mediator. Not only was Lord Baylor respected, but he was also his friend. He should be happy to help, so he sent a telegram to Lord Baylor that day.
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