Chapter 156: The Purpose of Entering the Fire Vein
Translator: Transn Editor: Transn
Hearing the voice, Junior Leopard turned around in confusion and found that the man who had called him to stop was the Lieutenant Colonel who sat in front of the table and he did not know.
The Lieutenant Colonel sneered with his head high and disdainfully looked at Junior Leopard, “who are you? You dare to trespass in this important place. Somebody, arrest him!”
Junior Leopard frowned slightly. The two soldiers standing at the entrance were anxious and frightened. One of them rushed forward and said, “Inspector Qi, this is personal guard Zhou. He is…”
“I’m Zhou Bao, a disciple of the Wu Family!” Thinking of something, Junior Leopard took one step ahead and said, folding his hands to the young Lieutenant Colonel, “May I have your name, please?”
“I’m Qi Ying, the Inspector of the Guard County Manor!” The young Lieutenant Colonel still held his head high with his eyes growing unkind, “even if you’re a disciple of the Wu Family, you cannot trespass on the underground fire vein. Somebody, arrest him!”
“Wait!” With a wave of his hand, the smile on Junior Leopard’s face became more and more brilliant, “Inspector, didn’t you listen to me? I’m the Wu Family’s disciple. Although the fire vein is of the imperial court, it is also open to the Wu Family. As a disciple of the Wu Family, how could you say I’m trespassing?”
“Bah! The underground fire vein is indeed open to the Wu Family, but it is from the 2nd day to the 7th day of every lunar month. Today is the 17th day! You’re just being unreasonable! Somebody!”
“What are you talking about? Who says that today is the 17th day? Isn’t it the 6th day?” shouted Junior Leopard, “damn it! I just saw the almanac when I went out. How can it be the 17th day?”
At this time, a crowd had gathered round them, who were attracted by their voice, including the people from the Guard County Manor, the Admiral Manor, the Pei Family and the Ministry of Works.
Today was the 17th day and it was the Pei Family’s turn to use the smelter. These people had their own affairs, but they were attracted by the sound from the entrance. Some people really did not know what had happened. Some people knew what had happened and paid attention to them from the moment that Junior Leopard arrived at the entrance to the underground fire vein, and it was as they had expected. Junior Leopard had been blocked outside, so they came over with a scoop mentality.
So, having heard Junior Leopard say, “I just saw the almanac when I went out. How could it be the 17th”, the people around were stunned and then they laughed. Only a few people’s facial muscles twitched, cursing secretly, “What a cunning boy!”
Hearing his words, Qi Ying sneered, “Today is indeed the 17th day. If you don’t know the almanac, you can ask your Master’s wife to teach you!”
“Damn you!” Junior Leopard gave a sneer and followed it up with a blow.
Qi Ying did not expect Junior Leopard to hit him. Seeing the punch coming, he dodged, but Junior Leopard’s punch was not easy to avoid. It suddenly turned to another direction and instantly blocked his escape route.
“Bang!” Qi Ying was not a weak man; he raised his arms in time to prevent himself from being punched in the face. His face was saved, but he was pushed back more than 10 feet, the sleeves bursting, revealing a pair of silver wrist guards.
“You’re so weak! Is your martial arts taught by your Master’s wife?” Seeing that he had not fallen, Junior Leopard praised in his heart, but his mouth did not admit it, he acridly said, “Why don’t you call her here? How about I let her teach you after I finish teaching her?”
“Shut up!” shouted Qi Ying with anger. He jumped up with his hand at his waist, and then there was a silver flash. A silver soft sword was in his hand, which streaked through the air in a strange, wavy radian, stabbing toward Junior Leopard!
Junior Leopard lifted his hand and threw his sleeve in the air to roll over the soft sword.
“You court death!” Qi Ying shouted coldly, the soft sword in his hand shook and the sharp Sword Qi began spreading.
“Puff!” There was a gentle sound like a pan of hot oil pouring into water. “Zi”, the sleeve had completely covered the soft sword. It expanded like a blower, affected by the Sword Qi. But, even so, his thin sleeve wasn’t damaged; instead, it held the soft sword tightly. No matter how hard he pulled, he could not pull it out.
“Was I right? Your Master’s wife didn’t teach you well!” Junior Leopard sneered while pulling his sleeve, which made Qi Ying stumble. Then he raised his foot and kicked Qi Ying in the stomach, loosening his sleeve. Qi Ying flew out with his sword for more than 100 feet before falling to the ground.
Qi Ying tried to lift himself up from the ground with his hands, but his strength seemed to have been kicked off by the insidious kick of Junior Leopard, which made him unable to lift himself up.
Kicking him away, Junior Leopard did not look at him, but muttered with a confused look, “the 17th day? Nonsense! I just saw the almanac when I went out. Today is the 6th day. It is the 6th day!” Muttered as he walked to the entrance of the underground fire vein. This time, no one dared to stop him and they just watched him disappear at the entrance.
“St-st-sto-stop him!” Stammering, Qi Ying struggled to lift himself up and stretched out his hand to the front, pointing in the direction of Junior Leopard. After one sentence, his body suddenly froze and he fainted on the ground as if he had died.
A few people from the Guard County Manor, after a pause, hastily rushed forward, picked Qi Ying up and shouted, “doctor, call the doctor! Inspector Qi is injured. Call the doctor!”
Amid the noise, the farce ended.
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“The Inspector of Guard County Manor? He is just a leading bird! He wanted to deal with me. Don’t underestimate me!” Slowly walking in the passageway to the underground fire vein, Junior Leopard sneered in his heart.
He did not know where he came from and did not want to know. He was just a leading bird. It seemed that someone knew he often entered the underground fire vein as he liked and arranged for a man to cause him trouble, giving himself a charge, and even bringing Li Yuan in. Therefore, at the entrance, when the soldier, who was unclear about it, called him personal guard Zhou, he took one step ahead and faced Qi Ying as the Wu Family’s disciple.
However, even if he was a disciple of the Wu Family, today was the 17th day, which was not the turn of the Wu Family, so it was sure that he would be caught. Junior Leopard used his quick wits to deliberately distort the facts and deliberately said that today was the 6th day. Qi Ying’s experience was so shallow that he was caught in his trap and began to laugh at him, which decreased a lot of trouble for him. Junior Leopard had been thinking of provoking this guy, but unexpectedly, he said something irritating directly without provocation.
“Is it taught by your Master’s wife?”
This sentence was considered extremely insulting language in Jianghu, just like the meaning of “Get back to your mother’s arms and drink the milk!” It was this sentence that gave Junior Leopard a reason to be mad and so he hit him with a blow without thinking. Whether or not he would fight back, the matter was changed from trespassing to a common dispute. With Li Yuan’s hide, the property of this matter was changed. Even if Li Yuan had to deal with him in consideration of the opponent’s face and background, there would be grounds for mitigating the punishment. After all, it was the opponent who abused first, Junior Leopard just fought back.
As for the fact that he had entered the underground fire vein now, he could still pretend that he entered here on the 6th day. What could someone do with him?
He believed that when he came out of the underground fire vein, his strength would have been improved a lot. Then he would be bolder and would not care who Qi Ying was!
He had weighed that kick which was not heavy or light. But if Qi Ying wanted to recover, he would have to stay in bed for at least a month or two. Besides, two months later, it would have been a long time already, and things would be easy to deal with.
“I don’t know which influence sent the leading bird. After getting out, I’ll check it out and see who’s out of luck, trying to cause me trouble. If I find out, I’ll get back at them!” Junior Leopard thought angrily. Only a few days after he came back, he ran into a series of things, which made him extremely unhappy and made him have an impulse to hammer. But now he had no hammer and was not well versed in the sword, so he had to put the seductive mind down and improve his strength in the underground fire vein.
The passageway of the underground fire vein was still the same as before. Although it was very dark, the cave walls around slightly shone with red lights. In addition, most people that could arrive here, had achieved more than Level Three in their cultivation, so they would not go the wrong way due to the dim light.
Junior Leopard went straight forward, stopping at the center of the underground fire vein which was about 1000 feet away from the smelter. Then he turned into a branch beside the cave wall.
This branch was discovered by him before. The entrance was not high, it was about five feet and with his current height, he had to stoop down to enter. In the passageway, there were many branches like this one, which was not conspicuous. However, Junior Leopard unintentionally found that the entrance of this branch was short, but after entering it and moving forward for about 100 feet, it would be spacious. Above all, this branch led to a very secluded earth vein of Evil Qi. The Evil Qi was extremely high in quality here. It was very suitable for him to practice the Extreme Yang Heavenly Sword of the Yin and Yang Heavenly Sword.
This was the ultimate purpose of his entry into the underground fire vein this time.