Stealing the Pen: Kirin's Primordial Lotus

Although Xie Yuchen was surprised that his father actually knew the village deep in the mountains where people practiced Gu, after all, Gu worms had existed for a long time, but he had only heard of them and had never actually seen them.

But the subsequent developments seemed to be beyond Xie Yuchen's understanding.

Xie Yuchen got up early this morning to warm up his voice. As soon as he turned around, he saw a honest but tall middle-aged man standing behind him. He was so scared that he was actually warming up his voice, but suddenly he did the splits!

"what!!!!"

The middle-aged man seemed not to hear the scary voice. He still looked honest and simple, smiling at him.

Xie Yuchen put his hands on his waist, where was the silver-thread soft dragon whip that his father had specially refined for him before they went to Banai.

"Master Xie, I am from the Daishan Sect, the leader of the Five Mountains—Feng Yukui."

Xie Yuchen looked at Feng Yukui's figure and appearance. The word "Kui" really suits him, but what about this "Yu"?

"Mr. Feng, what are you doing?" Xie Yuchen was unsure how this person got behind him without being discovered by the secret guards in the mansion.

"I almost forgot, Mr. Xie. This is a little gift from the Daishan Sect, please accept it." Feng Yukui suddenly seemed to turn on a computer, and took out a one-foot-long wooden box from his wide cuffs. The box was intricately carved with crabapple flowers.

Only then did Xie Yuchen notice that Feng Yukui's attire seemed different from theirs. It was more like the attire of the ancient people in film and television dramas, with a calm green robe with mountain patterns, a jade token representing his identity worn around his waist, and his hair tied up with a green jade mountain-shaped crown. His every move showed his demeanor.

"What is this?" Xie Yuchen took the box handed over by Feng Yukui.

He had once seen this kind of box in his father's study, which was full of books and antiques. At that time, the mysterious box was quietly placed in a corner of the bookshelf, exuding an alluring smell.

However, just when he was full of curiosity and couldn't wait to find out, he was caught by his sharp-eyed father. Without saying a word, the father picked him up and hurriedly left the study, while the box was carefully picked up by his father and disappeared.

At this moment, Feng Yukui, who was standing in front of him, smiled and gracefully made a "please" gesture, indicating that Xie Yuchen should open the box himself to resolve his doubts.

Although Xie Yuchen had never opened such a box himself before, he had some understanding of how to open it because he had witnessed his father and grandfathers doing it many times.

The boxes I have seen in the past were either decorated with intricately carved patterns of lotus buds or blooming lotuses, or lifelike images of unicorns, or majestic images of flying dragons soaring into the clouds.

But the box in front of him was quite unique, with a crabapple tree carved on it. Such a unique design caught his eye.

Although the pattern is different, the way to open it should be similar, right? After all, looking back from the depths of memory, Daddy and Father always use the same gestures and press the same places to open the box.

Thinking of this, Xie Yuchen took a deep breath and slowly stretched out his hand towards the box...

From top to bottom and from right to left, Xie Yuchen pressed down the corresponding crabapple flower stamens one by one according to the trajectory of the nine stars in a row.

Sure enough, after a while the wooden box was opened. From the outside it looked like a box carved from a single piece of wood with perfect seams, but the moment it was opened, it was like a blooming crabapple flower, and wood chips fell to the ground piece by piece like withered petals.

Xie Yuchen looked at the heavy stone in his hand and suddenly felt something emerging from the ground.

Xie Yuchen looked down at his feet and saw the ground was slightly arched. The next moment, Xie Yuchen jumped and landed steadily on the stone table in the yard, avoiding the objects that came out from the ground.

"How dare you show off your skills in front of me!" Feng Yukui looked at the thing that came out from the ground and shouted loudly.

Xie Yuchen was now sitting on the stone table, looking at the three-foot-long sword that appeared directly in Feng Yukui's hand. The sword was shining brightly, and it seemed that something was engraved with gold patterns. There was also a green jade inlaid in the hilt, and the red sword tassel moved in the wind.

Opposite Feng Yukui stood a short man with shifty eyes and a hunched back.

"Bold rat demon, how dare you appear in front of us! Mr. Xie, please leave here. I will kill it and then tell you in detail!" Feng Yukui jumped over the rat demon's head lightly and protected Xie Yuchen behind him.

"Mr. Feng, please feel free to do as you please. I have already set up a barrier here. This courtyard also has the reflux technique set up by father and others. Any damaged part of the courtyard can be restored to its original state by activating the reflux technique." Xie Yuchen didn't seem to be afraid of the rat demon that Feng Yukui mentioned.

The hideous-looking rat demon with a foul odor made strange chirping sounds, stretched out its extremely sharp claws that flashed with cold light, and pounced on Feng Yukui like lightning! In a flash, Feng Yukui was not afraid of danger. He raised the long sword in his hand in an instant and accurately blocked the rat demon's fierce claw attack.

Then, he seized the opportunity, stretched out his right foot, and kicked the rat demon with all his strength. This kick was so powerful that it sent the rat demon flying backwards like a kite with its string cut, and hit the hard wall heavily.

Feng Yukui did not give the rat demon any chance to breathe, and quickly released his hand to cast a spell. In an instant, a dazzling light shot out from his hand and directly injected into the long sword standing in front of him. The next second, the long sword that had been standing quietly seemed to suddenly come to life, the sword body trembled slightly, and then turned into a stream of light at lightning speed, flying straight towards the rat demon.

Xie Yuchen, who was standing by and watching the fight, witnessed this thrilling scene, and couldn't help but secretly sweat for Feng Yukui. At this moment, he saw that the rat demon that was kicked by Feng Yukui and flew onto the wall had not yet landed. Suddenly, a layer of strange gray fog emerged without any warning, like a huge gray curtain, tightly covering the rat demon. Because the gray fog was too thick, Xie Yuchen couldn't see what was going on inside.

However, in just a blink of an eye, Feng Yukui's sword flew into the mysterious gray fog like an arrow. Almost at the same time, a heart-wrenching, horrifying scream came from the gray fog, resounding throughout the space.

The screams were like the roars of evil spirits from the Netherworld, making people's scalps numb and their hearts tremble with fear. As the screams gradually stopped, the surroundings fell into a dead silence, and no more sounds were heard. And the gray fog that originally enveloped the rat demon also dissipated as abruptly as when it came, as if it had never appeared.

Fortunately, Xie Yuchen had already covered the entire yard in a barrier, otherwise, with the noise, the guards of Xie's mansion would have appeared at the gate of the yard.

Xie Yuchen saw the rat demon that was pierced by the long sword and nailed to the wall. As Feng Yukui walked forward and pulled out the long sword, the rat demon fell to the ground without any movement and turned into a big rat as big as a five or six-year-old child.

However, this mouse is slightly different from those basketballs that often appear in homes. Perhaps because he has already been cultivated, his prototype fur appears so unique, as if moonlight is draped over his fur, and every strand of hair is so silky and smooth.

Feng Yukui muttered something as a small flame emerged from his fingertips. As he pointed at the lifeless rat demon on the ground, the flame immediately turned from orange to blue as if it had obtained fuel after coming into contact with the rat demon's body. In just one breath, the rat demon was burned to ashes without a trace left.

Xie Yuchen took out a small purse from his pocket and took out a jade compass from it. The compass was like a sundial used to record time in ancient times. Xie Yuchen reached out and moved a pointer on the compass.

Feng Yukui looked at the wall that had just been hit by the rat demon and then hit by the flying sword. It had already recovered as before, with no trace left. The crack on the ground that was created when the rat demon came out had also long since disappeared without a trace.

"As expected of Your Highness and Lord Qilin, they actually have such a formation in their hands. It really opens my eyes!" It was also the first time that Feng Yukui saw the formation of time reversal.

"This should be a medium-grade spirit stone." Xie Yuchen had just said this when he saw Feng Yukui's eyes widened across from him.

"Mr. Xie has really good eyesight!" Feng Yukui was originally proud of his status and was unwilling to deal with Xie Yuchen properly.

After all, he is one of the most elite in Daishan Sect. If it weren't for the fact that the sect leader's direct disciple Daizong was about to attack, it would not be the turn of him, the perennial runner-up.

"I have a lot of these things, but you are the only one who treats them as treasures!" Xie Yuchen tossed the spirit stone up and down, and finally threw it directly to Feng Yukui.

"Give it back to you. I don't want this thing."

Xie Yuchen took out the green jade from his purse, along with a piece of blue jade, and gave them to Feng Yukui.

"I can't use your spirit stones. This is given to me by my father. Let you open your eyes!" Xie Yuchen stood on the stone table, raised his chin slightly, clasped his hands, with a small purse floating beside him, looking down at this man who looked honest but actually had a lot of bad intentions in his heart.

"Top-grade spirit stone!!!!" Feng Yukui screamed as he looked at the blue spirit stone that Xie Yuchen casually threw over.

Only then did Feng Yukui restrain himself and look honest, but in fact, both his actions and his tone of voice were somewhat arrogant.

"Mr. Xie, I'm sorry for the offense before! Please forgive my disrespect." Feng Yukui respectfully performed the first salute to Xie Yuchen since they met.

"No need to be so formal. I guess you came to Xie Mansion because your clan leader saw the information, right?"

Xie Yuchen jumped down from the stone table and led his men to the study. After all, this was the yard where he rested and was not suitable for discussing serious matters.