Stealing the Pen: Kirin's Primordial Lotus

The others who entered the Zhang Family Ancient Building for the first time wandered around like headless flies on the underground floor, but they still couldn't find the stairs leading to the second floor. One of them looked at Xie Yuchen with a puzzled look on his face and asked, "Master Xie, look at the Zhang Family Ancient Building. Whether you look from the outside or from the inside, there are clearly seven floors! But why is there only one lonely floor now? There is no staircase to go upstairs?"

However, Xie Yuchen didn't care whether there was a staircase to the second floor. You know, there were hollow spaces everywhere in this ancient building. With his skills, he could easily jump to the second floor like a bird by just using the support force of a pillar. Moreover, there were people from the Zhang family in the team, so he didn't worry about them not being able to reach the second floor.

Xie Yuchen walked to the center of the ancient building under the gaze of everyone. With the dim light in the building, he waved his arm, and the whip in his hand was thrown out like a flexible poisonous snake. In the next moment, a jaw-dropping scene appeared - Xie Yuchen was already standing steadily on the corridor on the second floor.

At this time, Xie Yuchen was high above, looking down at the stunned Wu Xie, Fatty Wang, the Huo family and the group of mercenaries with a cold look. Then, he raised the corners of his mouth slightly, revealing a disdainful sneer: "Humph, this family master has brought you to the Zhang family's ancient building as promised. As for what to do next, it depends on your own ability!"

Wu Xie was shocked after hearing this. He didn't expect Xie Yuchen to jump up to the second floor so easily, while they were still wandering around like headless flies. Looking at Xie Yuchen's lofty figure, Wu Xie gritted his teeth and vowed to find a way to get upstairs.

Fatty Wang also widened his eyes at this time, muttering: "What kind of kung fu did the head of the Xie family learn? How can he be so powerful? He just flicked his hands and kicked his legs, and he went up like a nimble blue bird. Why don't I have this skill?" The Huo family and the mercenaries on the side looked at each other with surprise and envy on their faces.

However, since someone could go up, it meant there must be a way to the second floor. Everyone began to search the underground floor more carefully, leaving no corner untouched. Wu Xie observed the surrounding environment while thinking about how to get to the second floor. At this moment, he suddenly noticed that there seemed to be some strange symbols on a pillar.

Wu Xie quickly moved closer to check and found that these symbols seemed to hide some kind of pattern. After some research, he finally understood the mystery. It turned out that as long as these symbols were touched in a specific order, the mechanism leading to the next level could be opened.

Wu Xie excitedly told the others about this discovery, and everyone gathered around. Then Huo Xian Gu took out a stack of papers from her pocket, and the drawings on the papers were the internal structure diagrams of the Zhang Family Ancient Building.

Wu Xie suddenly realized that he had fallen into the trap carefully designed by Xie Yuchen from the very beginning! At the beginning, he blindly followed Xie Yuchen to the mysterious Queen Mother of the West Palace. After escaping from the palace, his uncle disappeared strangely. Because he had experienced this thrilling adventure with Xie Yuchen before, Wu Xie developed an unusual sense of dependence on him, so much so that he told him everything he knew without reservation.

Although his uncle had someone tell him not to trust others, Wu Xie was confused and didn't know whether to believe the warning. At the same time, he completely ignored why Xie Yuchen, who had always supported and helped him silently, suddenly became so close to him after they parted at the Queen Mother's Palace.

More importantly, Wu Xie had not realized that Xie Yuchen was born to be a rare treasure that everyone held in their hands and was loved by everyone. Even if Xie Yuchen was just an unlearned and idle dandy, as long as he had his powerful father as a solid backing, he could ensure that he would have no worries about food and clothing and a safe and smooth life. But he appeared on the way to find the Queen Mother of the West Palace.

In the process of in-depth communication between Wu Xie and Xie Yuchen, Wu Xie was unknowingly guided by Xie Yuchen's clever hints. In this way, Wu Xie found the so-called informant and followed this clue all the way to the depths of the vast Shiwan Mountains in Banai.

Here, he unexpectedly discovered the clues left by Chen Wenjin and others. After a thorough investigation, he finally confirmed that this place was the starting point of this series of events. During the few days he and Fatty Wang stayed here, they gradually found out what Chen Wenjin and others had done here, as well as the archaeological team that had been replaced.

After obtaining the key clues, he and Fatty Wang rushed back to Yanjing without stopping and successfully found Xie Yuchen. As soon as they saw Xie Yuchen, they couldn't wait to tell him all the information they had collected during this period.

During the communication, Xie Yuchen always gave various hints in his seemingly casual words. With his keen insight and reasoning ability, he followed these clues, explored step by step, and finally successfully found the Yangshi Lei that was carefully hidden by his third uncle.

When he appeared in front of Xie Yuchen with the style thunder in his hand, the latter also showed a satisfied smile. However, at this moment, Xie Yuchen casually mentioned, "The Huo family has always been eyeing this style thunder with a clear purpose!" Hearing this, he couldn't help but recall that when he just got off the plane, the Huo family came to his door as expected, and the other party openly expressed that they wanted to buy this extremely precious style thunder from him. As a result, his trust in Xie Yuchen increased a little bit, and he never had any doubts at all.

After careful consideration, he came up with a plan and decided to replace the real thing with a fake one. So, he quietly replaced the real Yangshi Lei in his hand with a fake one that was real enough. After everything was ready, he confidently found the representative of the Huo family, Huo Xiangu, and sold the so-called "Yangshi Lei" to her without hesitation. At this moment, what was he thinking in his heart? He and Fatty Wang beside him smiled at each other, and they understood each other tacitly. It turned out that the two of them were secretly delighted that they had successfully cheated the Huo family of a large sum of money, as if this unexpected fortune had already fallen firmly into their pockets.

However, what they never expected was that they, who thought they were extremely smart and scheming, had actually already fallen into a trap set by others. At this moment, they were still immersed in joy and were completely unaware of this, and were still proudly showing off their "great achievements". Little did they know that their complacency at that moment was so ridiculous and funny in the eyes of others, and they really became a joke among others.

Huo Xian Gu saw the expression on Wu Xiezhi's face. What else did she not understand? Huo Xian Gu was such a smart person. She was able to transfer the Huo family to a foreign country quietly and safely without being discovered. This was enough to show her ability.

Wu Xie was actually just a smokescreen that Xie Yuchen deliberately threw out to confuse everyone. If you think about it carefully, it is not difficult to guess that even the style thunder that Wu Xie sold to her was probably tampered with by Xie Yuchen in secret.

Of course, although Huo Xian Gu has most of the style thunders in her hands, fortunately the two that Wu Xie sold to her are located high up in the ancient building, so she is still able to distinguish the authenticity of the drawings on the bottom floor.

Thanks to Huo Xiangu's thunderbolt, everyone was able to follow the instructions and press the corresponding mysterious symbols one by one. Then, a very subtle, almost imperceptible sound came quietly. Along with this sound, the ground, which was originally ordinary and without any abnormality, began to rise slowly! Looking closely, it turned out to be a very hidden staircase rising slowly from the ground.

When the staircase was fully revealed to everyone, everyone was overjoyed. Their faces were full of excitement and anticipation, and they were all anxious and wanted to rush to the second floor immediately. Everyone had only one thought in mind - they must catch up with the cunning Xie Yuchen as soon as possible and find out what kind of unknown and shocking secrets were hidden in this mysterious Zhang family building! So, everyone rushed up the stairs and hurriedly ran to the second floor...

As soon as Xie Yuchen left, the Xie and Zhang families also quickly withdrew. After all, they were not fools, especially in the Zhang family's own ancestral tomb. They could still see the traces of whether these mechanisms had been opened and when they were opened.

Apart from the clan leader's personal guards, they really couldn't think of anyone else who could have come here without their knowledge and restored it to its original state?

At this moment, the clan leader's guards rushed up the stairs like a flame, and everyone's footsteps seemed extremely hurried, as if there was an invisible force behind them urging them to move forward. In the blink of an eye, a noisy and hurried sound of footsteps rang out in the originally quiet corridor, one after another, like a fierce symphony.

When Xie Yuchen just turned around and left, the Zhang family also evacuated the scene without hesitation. You know, they are not stupid, especially since this is the place where the Zhang family's ancestral tomb is located. With the Zhang family's keen observation and rich experience, they can easily detect the clues of whether those mechanisms have been activated and when they were activated.

Being able to come here before them, open the mechanism and restore everything to its original state, such a stealthy method, except for the terrifying guards around the patriarch, they really couldn't imagine that there would be anyone else who had such a profound ability.

Since the personal guards of the Zhang family leader have already appeared in the Zhang family ancient building, there is no doubt that the patriarch himself must have come here in person. And once the patriarch arrives, it means that the extremely noble and highly anticipated little prince may also come! Coming to the Zhang family ancient building means that the patriarch is also here, and the patriarch's arrival means that the little prince is also here.

Although the Xie family was no longer working in the fields, they still had some insight. Seeing that the Zhang family had evacuated their ancestral tomb, they knew everything. Someone powerful and influential in the Zhang family must have come to the Zhang family's ancient building. Apart from the head of the Zhang family and the little prince who had always been inseparable from the head of the Zhang family, they really couldn't imagine who else would come back.