"I'm Xie Tian of the Death Camp. I'm here to deliver a letter to Lord Xing Yan."
Xie Tian cupped his hands and bowed, then looked up at the two in front of him. "Which one of you is Lord Xing Yan?"
Xing Yan and Wu Shang were speechless.
Apart from Xing Sha's pained cries, everyone else was as quiet as cicadas in winter. Something shocking had just happened!
Someone had punched Xing Yan's son, then barged into Xing Yan's quarters.
Everyone who'd been struck by lightning came to their senses the next moment and rushed at Xing Sha.
"General Xing Sha, are you alright?!"
"Damn it, where are the guards? Are they all dead?!"
Xing Sha was stunned. He hadn't expected someone to dare hit him here. Even if he tore down the army, not many people in the Jin Dynasty would dare bare their teeth.
"Where's that brat?!" Xing Sha was both pained and furious. He pushed the crowd aside, suppressing his hedonistic aura for a long time.
"That brat's in the quarters!"
Hearing this, Xing Sha rushed towards the office but was stopped by the crowd.
"Get out of my way! I'm going to tear that bastard apart!"
"General Xing Sha, please calm down. Even if you don't punish him, he'll still be sentenced to death for barging into the minister's quarters!"
"The quarters are quiet now. He must've been executed by the minister!"
"That makes sense. General Xing Sha has no need to barge into the quarters and sully his good name!"
"That bastard got off lightly, hiss!"
Only now did Xing Sha realize that the place where he'd been hit hurt even more. He couldn't dispel that strange power. He wanted to cover his eyes, but he was afraid of being laughed at.
"Damn it, I'll fight whoever dares to ask me to follow the rules in the future!"
Xing Sha's words came from the bottom of his heart, but he'd forgotten that he'd followed the rules along the way. In the end, he'd broken them and snatched Xie Tian's medal.
The eerie silence in the quarters was finally broken by Xing Yan. When he saw that his precious son was fine, he frowned and shouted, "I'm Xing Yan. Hand it over!"
Xie Tian quickly took a few steps forward and handed over the letter, then waited with his head lowered.
"This brat swallowed a Onyx Soul fragment!"
A single letter and a mere eight words caused Xing Yan to explode with rage. He glared at Xie Tian with bloodshot eyes.
Xie Tian didn't know that the previous head of the Xing Family, Xing Yan's father, Xing Miao, had been killed by Black Soul. He also didn't know that Xing Yan had single-handedly facilitated the establishment of the Spirit Testing Pavilion in the Jin dynasty army!
When a brat who had devoured a black soul's soul fragment stood before him in such a dignified manner, Xing Yan's first reaction was to fly into a rage. What else could he do?
Wu Shang was delighted when he saw this. Xie Tian's heart also shook at the same time. Why was Xing Yan looking at him with such fury?
"Could it be that the true trump card of the person who schemed against me is in this letter?"
Xing Yan shot to his feet and shouted at Xie Tian, "You!"
Just as the word 'you' came out of his mouth, a light suddenly flashed in his mind, and his angry shout came to an abrupt stop.
Something's wrong.
Especially when he thought of Wu Shang's strangeness, the degree of abnormality immediately rose to the peak.
"Wu Shang's goal must be this brat, and this letter is the source of everything!"
Just as Xing Yan was deep in thought, Wu Shang spoke up.
"Xing Yan, give me some face. I like this brat, so don't kill him."
Xing Yan was stunned. When did I say I wanted to kill this brat?
Xie Tian was also stunned. He looked at Wu Shang in confusion. Xing Yan didn't say he wanted to kill me. This black armor … Eh? Is he also from the death camp?
Wu Shang regretted his words so much that he wanted to commit suicide. He hadn't expected Xing Yan to stop after saying 'you'.
He was clearly expressing goodwill towards Xie Tian, but now Xie Tian was looking at him with a hint of hidden hostility in addition to confusion!
Fortunately, Xing Yan wasn't an ordinary person. He figured it all out in the blink of an eye!
"The letter can't be false. This young soldier in front of me has devoured a black soul fragment. This was used by someone to send this letter to me. I wanted to kill this brat in my rage, but Wu Shang is here!"
At this thought, he released his divine perception to scan Xie Tian's mind. He was even more clear when he didn't find a trace of black soul's aura.
"I won't kill him without the aura of a black soul, but this young man doesn't know that Wu Shang is using this opportunity to kill two birds with one stone!"
Xing Yan was speechless and deeply shocked when he understood all this. Wu Shang made such a big fuss just to express goodwill towards this brat!
"Cough, cough. If it wasn't for Lord Wu Shang, I would've killed you today. Hurry up and thank Lord Wu Shang!"
Xing Yan had no choice but to help Wu Shang smooth things over when he saw that even such a good plan had been foiled by Wu Shang. He could have enjoyed watching Wu Shang make a fool of himself, but after that, the entire military might be annihilated at the hands of the enraged Wu Shang.
What was this? Xie Tian was speechless, but he still cupped his fists and bowed to Wu Shang. He said strangely, "Thank you, Lord."
"Oh," Wu Shang responded indifferently. He was so ashamed that he almost turned around and ran away.
Xing Yan found it funny. He thought for a moment and decided to play along to the end, so he took out a white jade token from his desk drawer.
"Come here."
Xie Tian did as he was told.
Xing Yan pressed the white jade token between Xie Tian's eyebrows. Then, with a thought, the token sank into Xie Tian's forehead and disappeared.
"With this token, no one will dare say you're being controlled by Dark Soul in the future if you dare become a soul cultivator." Xing Yan smiled and then said indifferently, "Don't forget, this is all because of Lord Wu Shang."
Xie Tian was overjoyed. After thanking Xing Yan, he quickly bowed respectfully to Wu Shang and thanked him sincerely. "Xie Tian thanks Lord Wu Shang!"
Only then did Wu Shang's pounding heart slow down a little. His stiff body gradually softened, and he grunted again in response.
"I didn't expect a messenger trip to be so full of ups and downs!"
After leaving the office, Xie Tian was all smiles. He didn't notice that a group of people in the hall were staring at him in disbelief, their eyes bulging out of their sockets.
Sensing the token in his sea of consciousness, he summoned the white jade token with a thought. It glowed with a gentle white light and revealed the seal of the military!
"Haha, with this token, I'm now a soul cultivator by imperial decree. Even if I'm a Dark Soul cultivator, I'll be able to walk openly in the Jin dynasty!"
Xie Tian laughed heartily and swaggered off.
"What, what's going on?!"
Even Xing Sha was dumbfounded. The white jade token was so precious that even his own son didn't have one. But now it had appeared in the hands of the person who'd punched him.
Xing Sha took a deep breath and glanced at the office in fear. Then he turned and left.
"Young Master, we're not going to see the Lord!" Xing Sha's men chased after him.
"See my ass. If I see him, my left eye might not be able to escape either!"
"Then, then where are we going now?"
Xing Sha stopped and frowned. He'd come to the capital to participate in the Exchange Conference and visit his father. But now that something so strange had happened, he didn't have the guts to visit his family.
"Young Master, I just heard something. There's going to be a small meeting before the Exchange Conference!"
"Oh!" Xing Sha's eyes brightened. "When is it going to be held?"
"Today, but it's probably already started!"
"Haha, it can't be considered to have started until I, Xing Sha, arrive. Let's go!"
Just as the delighted Xie Tian was about to step onto the transportation formation, Wu Shang finally stood. He was about to leave when he suddenly stopped.
After a moment's hesitation, he turned and nodded to Xing Yan. "Thank you."
"Haha, I wouldn't dare. Have a safe journey, Lord Wu Shang."
Xing Yan was so happy he couldn't close his mouth after Wu Shang left. A word of thanks from Wu Shang was equivalent to another promise, a promise from the number one killing god of the Nine States.
"Just what's so strange about that Xie Tian kid? Even Wu Shang knows about him!"
By the time Xie Tian saw Wu Shang's figure once more, hurried footsteps could be heard from outside the Two Heroes Hall.
"My apologies, I'm late."
Xiao Shu clasped his hands behind his back and walked calmly to the empty seats beside the five Dao Children under the astonished gazes of everyone in the hall.
"Daoist Xiao Shu, your eye!" Daoist Skyspan exclaimed.
"Oh, it's nothing. I met a Pill Tribulation cultivator on the way and wanted to spar with him. In the end, I wasn't a match for that person's One Glance Divine Ability. Sigh!"
Xiao Shu had thought that he could bluff his way through with his cool, pretentious words, but when he realized that no one followed up, he was startled.
But the next moment, he saw a familiar bruised right eye, as well as the shock and mockery in it. He seemed to understand something, and his face darkened.
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