Volume 1: A stone strikes a thousand waves, the world surrounds Li Daosheng Chapter 16: A small setting can be found by connecting the context
Finally, in front of a candle, a man in brocade clothes who looked like a scholar spoke.
He shook the fan in his hand and spoke softly.
"Master Mu, I haven't seen you for a long time. You are still as charming as ever."
The man in black still had a stern expression on his face. Maybe it was because of him that the air in the room seemed a little cold.
"No need to waste time talking nonsense. What's the matter with you coming to see me today ?"
"Master Mu, why do you have to pretend to be stupid?" The man in brocade clothes covered his mouth with a fan, his narrow eyes narrowed like a fox.
"Of course, the reason I came to you now is because of the matter of the thief saint Li Si."
The man in black still sat there without any expression. After a while, he placed his sword half a finger away from his side.
"You want to arrest someone, why are you looking for the Bloody Clothes Building where we killed people?"
Everyone in the underworld knows that the Blood Robe Tower never leaves anyone alive. If you want to kill someone, you can come to them at any time, but if you want to arrest someone, you have come to the wrong place.
The man in brocade clothes listened to the answer of the man in black clothes . After listening, he chuckled and nodded.
"Of course I know this, so I'm not here to look for your Bloody Robe Building."
As he spoke, he put away his fan, slowly raised a finger, pointed at the man in black and said.
"I came to see you."
"What do you want from me?" The man in black raised his eyes, with a terrifying gleam in his black and white eyes.
The man in brocade clothes looked at him without any fear: "Help me catch Li Si."
"Why?"
"For 10,000 taels of gold, there is one more piece of news."
"What news?"
"One, news about your first wife and your children."
…
There was silence in the room for a moment.
Then, a sword light appeared.
An extremely cold sword sound rang out.
After the sword rang, the sword light dimmed, and the scene in the room gradually became clear again.
The man in black held an unsheathed sword in his hand, with the blade against the throat of the man in brocade.
"tell me."
He said, his voice calm, but with a chill that brooked no refusal: "Then I will help you catch Li Si."
The man in brocade clothes smiled with his eyes narrowed, not caring at all that his throat was bleeding from the sword's tip.
"Help me catch Li Si first, and then I'll tell you the news."
Neither of them showed any intention of backing down. There was dead silence all around, which seemed like two completely different worlds compared to the bustling voices coming from outside the window.
The dim candlelight flickered.
After a moment, the man in black put away his sword, looked sullen, and sat in front of the man in brocade again.
"Don't forget what you said today, otherwise, no matter where in the world or in the Bloody Clothes Tower, we will find you."
"Don't worry." The smile of the man in brocade clothes seemed even gentler. He took out a handkerchief from his arms and wiped the blood off his neck.
"We at Fengyulou do business with integrity."
After saying that, he stood up and walked towards the door.
The footsteps echoed in the empty room, and when he reached the door, the man in black suddenly called him.
"Why did you arrest Li Si?"
Fengyu Tower is not short of money, and they don't need to meet the emperor. They are all doing underworld business and there is no possibility of them joining the royal family.
Then the purpose of the leader of Fengyu Tower to capture Li Si seems very strange.
The smile of the man in brocade clothes faded a little. He stood at the door for a while and finally answered softly.
"I want Li Si to help me find someone, someone only he can find."
"Who?" the black-robed man asked concisely.
The man in brocade clothes raised his eyebrows, put a smile on his face again, and looked back.
"Some of the news about Fengyu Tower is not for sale."
After saying that, he left.
In the corridor, sunlight shone through the window onto the man in brocade clothes.
He walked slowly, and the smile on his face gradually faded.
…
At the same time, on the Minjiang black market, a young man in blue clothes with seven iron swords on his back walked to a stall that had little business.
He looked at the stall owner, was silent for a moment, and spoke in a voice that only the two of them could hear.
"Long sails shine in the moon."
The stall owner was smoking a pipe. When he heard the boy's words, he exhaled smoke, frowned and raised his head.
"I'm traveling alone on the river. What do you want, little brother?"
"News about the thief saint Li Si." The young man in blue looked very capable and went straight to the point.
"Okay, ten taels of silver." The stall owner spread out a dirty palm with dirt on the face that had not been wiped off.
The young man in blue frowned. He knew that the price was definitely too high, but he still took out a silver ingot from his arms and handed it to the vendor, saying.
"Where is he now?"
The vendor took the silver with a smile, weighed it in his hand, raised his pipe and pointed his chin in a certain direction.
“Hangzhou.”
"Okay." The young man in blue responded calmly, turned and walked towards the west.
The seven iron swords on his back stood out in the crowd.
On the way, a few people dressed in gangster style accidentally saw him, and they dodged away in panic with looks of surprise on their faces.
As for the reason, it is because these seven iron swords symbolize this identity, an identity that should never be provoked.
…
If you ask who is the most astonishing genius in the world of martial arts in the past hundred years, no matter who you ask, you will probably only hear one name.
The young master of Tiejianmen, Tie Muyi.
Li Si doesn't count, because most people think he is an old monster who has lived for at least a few hundred years.
However, Tie Muyi was a genius who grew up in front of everyone in the martial arts world.
Ten years ago, Tie Mushan, the previous head of Tiejianmen and a famous master, died of illness.
Although the Tiejian Sect has a lot of assets, the family has always been a single-line family.
Tie Mushan's sudden death from illness left the huge Tiejian Sect with only Tie Muyi, who was only 12 years old at the time, and his mother, who did not know much martial arts.
At that time, almost everyone thought that the Iron Sword Sect was finished. All its servants had been dispersed, its property had been shrinking, and its status in the martial arts world was so low that it was even lower than that of a third-rate sect.
But what no one expected was.
It only took Tie Muyi ten years to transform from a third-rate boy into a famous swordsman who surpassed the first-rate masters. His skills were so profound that he even surpassed Tie Mushan in his time.
In the past three years, he has challenged four famous masters in the martial arts world one after another and has hardly ever been defeated.
The Seven Life and Seven Deaths Sword in one hand makes it flawless.
There are even rumors that in the way of swordsmanship, he has the potential to rival the best swordsman in the world today.
So no one wants to provoke Tie Muyi. The seven swords on his back may very likely become the next legend in the martial arts world.
It is said that this time , as soon as the imperial court's wanted order for the thief king spread to the world, Tie Muyi left the mountain gate.
Someone once asked him what he was going to do.
He only answered with two words.
Repay a favor.
