Chapter 29: Do Not Provoke

Chapter 29: Chapter 29: Do Not Provoke

Braving the heavy rain, Wang Gui walked with Zhong Di, holding an umbrella.

"Second Senior Brother, did something happen to Tang Xiaoyou?" Zhong Di asked, frowning.

"I don't know. Zhao Suoxiang has already returned, but he hasn't. I'm not sure how his preparations are going. Eldest Senior Brother is worried, so he asked us to come out and take a look," Wang Gui replied solemnly.

As the two walked along the main road, Tang Xiaoyou emerged from a shop with a wooden box in his left hand and an umbrella in his right, coincidentally spotting Wang Gui and Zhong Di.

"Second Senior Brother," Tang Xiaoyou suddenly called out.

"Huh?" Wang Gui was momentarily stunned, then quickly walked up.

"Let's go, find a quiet place," Wang Gui said.

"Okay," Tang Xiaoyou nodded.

Following Tang Xiaoyou's lead, they soon arrived at a courtyard belonging to the Tang family.

Inside, Wang Gui asked, "What happened?"

"Second Senior Brother, I messed up this time," Tang Xiaoyou immediately confessed with shame.

"What about the Spirit Orb?" Wang Gui furrowed his brow.

"The Spirit Orb didn't end up in Zhao Suoxiang's hands. Instead, it was taken by one of his friends," Tang Xiaoyou sighed.

"Oh?" Wang Gui's pupils contracted in surprise. Yôur favorite stories at novelhall.com

"Originally, according to our plan, I was going to find an appropriate opportunity to either lose or hand over the Spirit Orb to Zhao Suoxiang. Then, after we secretly took the demon wolf, Zhao Suoxiang wouldn't react too strongly. Even if he found out it was us who took it, without evidence, he wouldn't pursue it too vigorously. After all, he got a Spirit Orb without evidence. But just now, at the gambling den..." Tang Xiaoyou recounted the events.

"Zhong Shan?" Wang Gui narrowed his eyes.

Beside him, Zhong Di frowned deeply, glancing at Tang Xiaoyou, then shook his head with a sigh.

"Zhong Di, it seems like you're very familiar with Zhong Shan?" Wang Gui suddenly looked at Zhong Di.

"Senior Brother, did he check the dice before?" Zhong Tian looked at Tang Xiaoyou and asked.

"Yes, Jinzhuanlou is owned by my Tang family. The dice taken later should have been intact," Tang Xiaoyou said.

"Intact? Once the dice have passed through Yi and Zhong Shan's hands, they're no longer intact," Zhong Di said with a sigh.

Speaking of Zhong Shan, Zhong Di couldn't help but lament. Zhong Shan knew too much. Many things he taught to his disciples were only shared with each of them bit by bit, not universally. However, this technique of listening and distinguishing, Zhong Shan had taught him alone.

"Oh?" Tang Xiaoyou exclaimed in surprise.

"Listening and distinguishing. The edges of the dice have been tampered with..." Zhong Di said.

"Too audacious, he cheated?" Tang Xiaoyou exclaimed in anger.

"Weren't you cheating before?" Wang Gui snorted coldly.

"Second Senior Brother," Tang Xiaoyou frowned, unable to dispel his lingering anger.

"How's Zhong Shan's cultivation?" Wang Gui asked Zhong Di.

"A year and a half ago, he was still at the tenth level of the Houtian Realm. He should have entered the immortal gate," Zhong Di said, because he didn't know Zhong Shan's current cultivation level.

"One year? Hmph, no matter how good his aptitude, what can he do?" Tang Xiaoyou said immediately.

"Fine, go back to sleep," Zhong Shan said.

Though he urged Tian Ling'er to sleep, Zhong Shan couldn't shake off his feeling of unease. Watching the outside, he found it hard to rest. By midnight, the rain had stopped.

Zhong Shan couldn't sleep. By the time the fourth watch arrived, he heard voices from outside.

"Brother Zhao's spear technique is extraordinary. I admire it," someone said.

"Brother Liu's swordsmanship is also superb. Brother Zhao has gained a lot," Zhao responded.

After that, silence fell. Clearly, they had each gone back to rest. Zhong Shan decided to try to rest as well.

The next morning, Zhong Shan woke up and roused Tian Ling'er, preparing to leave immediately. His sense of unease had grown stronger.

"Why did you wake me up so early?" Tian Ling'er complained, rubbing her still-sleepy eyes.

"Oh no, something's wrong. The demonic wolf has mutated, it's mutated!" A distant voice suddenly cried out.

Hearing this, Zhong Shan knew something bad had happened. Tian Ling'er immediately perked up, her curiosity piqued.

"A mutated demonic wolf? What's that?"

Quickly, Tian Ling'er tidied up her clothes, washed her face with the basin brought by the maid, and then pulled Zhong Shan to run outside.

Before long, they arrived at the courtyard where the demonic wolf was confined.

At this moment, everyone was standing in the courtyard. Zhao Suoxiang, Zhong Di, Wang Gui, Tang Xiaoyou, a man in white robes, and a highly respectful servant.

They all looked towards the outside of the glass cover, where a white fox lay on the ground. Had the white wolf turned into a white fox?

"The white wolf turned into a white fox?" Tian Ling'er looked incredulously at the white fox lying before her.

"No way, a wolf is a wolf. It must have been swapped," Zhao Suoxiang said sharply.

"Swapped? How could that happen? Tang Si, explain yourself," Tang Xiaoyou demanded, addressing the servant.

All eyes turned to him. Tang Si trembled in fear and immediately knelt down.

"Young Master, I came to feed the white wolf with rice soup this morning as usual, but when I carried it out, it turned into this, mutated. It turned into a fox," Tang Si said, visibly terrified.

"Did it change the last time you fed it rice soup?" Zhao Suoxiang's voice turned cold.

"No, yesterday it rained heavily, and after the rain at night, I fed it once. It was still a white wolf then. That's what the guards saw. It was still a wolf at that time," Tang Si said fearfully.

"So you're saying the wolf was swapped after the rain? When Brother Liu and I came back from our competition at the fourth watch, it wouldn't have been possible for someone to swap it. That means it was after the rain, during the hour from midnight to 2 a.m., that the white wolf was stolen?" Zhao Suoxiang said coldly.

"It must have been you. It must have been you!" Tang Xiaoyou suddenly pointed at Zhong Shan.

Hearing Tang Xiaoyou's accusation, Zhong Shan narrowed his eyes.

"Why should it be us? Where did you see that?" Tian Ling'er immediately became anxious.

"You, you said that if you encountered the demonic wolf, you would let it go. It must have been you who released the demonic wolf," Tang Xiaoyou pointed at Tian Ling'er.

"Hmph, which ear did you hear that with?" Zhong Shan sneered.

At Zhong Shan's words, Tian Ling'er immediately remembered that Tang Xiaoyou wasn't even present when she said those words.

"Yeah, how did you hear that?" Tian Ling'er immediately exclaimed.

"Second Brother and Zhong Di said it. You can't deny it," Tang Xiaoyou immediately retorted. Obviously, he was also quick-witted.