Film & TV: Public Enemy of Justice

"I have long admired Young Hero Lin, a prodigy of youth." The Master of the Strange Pavilion, wearing a withered vine mask, appeared on the main seat.

"It's good that you've heard of me," Lin Yaoxie thought with a sneer. "Then the Pavilion Master should also know why we've come here!"

“That’s natural, Green Peak!” After saying that, the Pavilion Master of the Strange Pavilion gestured to the eyebrowless woman to bring over a wooden box. “These are six brocade pouches, which provide the whereabouts of the six divine artifacts.”

"What about the other four?" Shuofeng asked.

"As for the other four items," the Pavilion Master of Yixiu looked at Lin Yaoxie, "Young Hero Lin will find them himself."

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Lin Yaoxie looked at him without saying a word. Nonsense! The Flowing Light Zither is with Bai Zihua, Penglai Niwanzhang also has one, I have one here, and since Qi Sha knows that Shushan keeps the Heaven-Binding Chain, he naturally also has one as a guide. Isn't that four pieces?

"Furthermore, Fellow Daoist Ni, the matter at Mount Shu last time was purely a misunderstanding. My Yixiu Pavilion has specially prepared brocade and pearl hairpins as compensation!"

Ni Mantian glanced at Lin Yaoxie. "Brother Yaoxie is really amazing, he can predict the future!" She took the tray from the green curtain and snorted heavily.

"Young Master Lin, the fragrance emanating from Fellow Daoist Xiao Gu seems to have become much stronger. I have another method. I will take out a teardrop-shaped object from my bosom and use the blood from between Fellow Daoist Xiao Gu's eyebrows to nourish her flesh and blood. This will transfer the blood to the spirit insect. If the spirit insect is fortunate enough, it may even be able to cultivate into human form!"

With Lin Yaoxie's permission, Xiao Gu stepped forward, took the object from the Master of the Yi Xiu Pavilion, and then brought it close to her brow. Sure enough, a trace of essence blood was absorbed into the object.

Lin Yaoxie hung it securely around her neck.

"I wonder what the equivalent conditions are?" Lin Yaoxie asked deliberately.

"Once your wish is fulfilled, young hero, you can simply do a small favor for the Yi Xiu Pavilion!" The Pavilion Master of Yi Xiu Pavilion waved his hand and said, "I hope everyone has a safe journey!"

Lin Yaoxie led everyone away from the Yixiu Pavilion. He glanced to the east, then looked down at the ground, lost in thought.

Chapter H - Heading East

"Fellow Daoist Demon, shall we open the first brocade pouch now?"

Luo Shiyi asked, and he came to Lin Yaoxie with the brocade pouch in his hand.

Lin Yaoxie looked up at him, and he felt a little uncomfortable. After a while, he said, "Eleven, you always call me Fellow Daoist Yaoxie, it feels weird!"

When Hua Qiangu heard Lin Yaoxie say this, she said, "Eleventh Senior Brother, you can call Yaoxie Brother like I do!"

Qing Shui smiled, pursing her lips. She simply couldn't imagine Luo Shiyi calling Yao Xie "brother".

"Then, what should I call you?"

Luo Shiyi glanced at Hua Qiangu speechlessly. He obviously couldn't address her the same way!

"Hmm..." Lin Yaoxie was also pondering in his heart. After all, Luo Shiyi looked older than him, so it wouldn't be appropriate to call him Brother Lin. What should he call him then?

He remembered that his company's junior assistants all called him Boss. Yes, he'd make them call him Boss!

"Just call me Boss, and you guys too!" Lin Yaoxie nodded and greeted everyone.

Shuofeng spoke somewhat awkwardly, "Bao, Si?"

Meng Xuanlang found it quite peculiar: "Embrace death? Embrace death what? What does 'embrace death' mean?" He then posed Meng's signature three-part question!

"Report four?" Dongfang Huoqing frowned and said, "There's no such term in the classics!"

Lin Yaoxie smiled smugly. "That's a real-world term, and from abroad at that! You'd be lucky to find it in a classical text!" "Right, from now on you can just call me Boss!"

"Report to the fourth person, should we set up camp? It's getting dark!" Luo Shiyi said, composing himself.

He really didn't understand why Lin Yaoxie always had some strange ideas.

For example, last time he couldn't persuade Dongfang Huoqing no matter what he did, but when he directly said he would take him on the journey, Dongfang Huoqing immediately agreed. Master was right, this person... I still need to be cautious.

Be wary.

"Brother Yaoxie, are you thirsty? Have some water!" Ni Mantian held the water bottle to Lin Yaoxie's lips.

"Brother Yaoxie, have some fruit!" Hua Qiangu fed Lin Yaoxie some wild fruit.

"Brother Lin, I have some hibiscus cake here, would you like some?" Qing Shui also opened the brocade handkerchief and took out a few pieces of cake.

Three girls surrounded Lin Yaoxie closely, while the remaining boys sat on their own.

"Eleventh Senior Brother, why do they only talk to Bao Si?" Dongfang Huoqing whispered in Luo Shiyi's ear.

"Maybe it's because he's a top student, which is especially attractive to girls," Luo Shiyi said, somewhat puzzled.

After all, he used to be very popular with female disciples in Changliu, and he often received invitations from his junior sisters to spar with them. Since he left the mountain, he has been really puzzled.

Hua Qiangu is one thing, since she was originally brought by Lin Yaoxie, but what about Qingshui and Ni Mantian? They're completely invisible!

“Dongfang, you don’t know this,” Meng Xuanlang chimed in, “You’re not a cultivator, so you don’t know that Bao Si is truly the number one person in the world! Do you know Changliu?”

Dongfang Huoqing shook her head, pretending not to know, which indeed provoked Meng Xuanlang to show off!

"Do you know about Mount Shu?" Dongfang nodded.

"Changliu is many times more powerful than Shushan! But Bao Si can directly confront the Changliu sect leader head-on! And he didn't lose! He didn't lose! Do you know what that means? He is the number one person in the world. If I were a woman, I would want to marry him too!"

Meng Xuanlang said with an envious look, as if he was somewhat disappointed that he was not a woman.

"Brother Shuofeng, is what Brother Meng said true?" Dongfang Huoqing turned to ask Shuofeng, looking somewhat incredulous.

Shuofeng glanced at Lin Yaoxie, who was surrounded by girls, and nodded: "He's very strong!"

"Eleventh Senior Brother, did you ask about opening the brocade pouch just now?" Yin Shangpiao looked at the gossipy men and finally brought the topic back to the main point.

Luo Shiyi scratched his head: "I forgot."

He did indeed go to ask for directions, but how did it turn into a change of address? "Report Four," that's toxic!

He took out the brocade pouch again, then walked up to Lin Yaoxie and asked, "Fourth Brother, shall we open the pouch now?"

Lin Yaoxie was extremely pleased to hear this title, and waved his hand, indicating that it should be opened.

"Brother Demon, why did you ask them to tell you to report four?"

What does "报四" mean?

"Does it mean it's very powerful?" The girls speculated, each offering their own guesses.

"Boss, it's not 'four,' it's something like that, it means 'very powerful'!" After saying that, he ate a piece of pastry that Qing Shui handed him.

Looking at Lin Yaoxie's enjoyable appearance, Dongfang Huoqing suddenly felt a little regretful. Why did he disguise himself and infiltrate such a team just to watch others enjoy life?

"Heading east?" Luo Shiyi opened the note and read the words aloud. "What does 'heading east' mean?"

Yin Shangpiao accepted it with a disappointed look.

Lin Yaoxie found it somewhat amusing; the Strange Pavilion was really incompetent! But had he actually guessed right? He casually mentioned going east, and it really did go east!

"He's heading east? Why doesn't he head north?"

After thinking about it, I casually made a joke!

“Perhaps, there are mountains to the north?” Meng Xuanlang said.

Lin Yaoxie laughed when he heard him say that. He really had a good-natured companion!

"In that case, shall we continue our journey eastward tomorrow morning?" Shuofeng asked.

“What do you think, Report Four?” Luo Ho asked.

“Well, we were heading east from the start anyway, so let’s continue heading east tomorrow. After all,” he turned to look east, “the East, being a mere mortal, has great trust in the Yi Xiu Pavilion.”

Dongfang Huoqing felt that something was off about what was said, but she couldn't quite put her finger on it, so she could only nod in front of everyone.

“So, get some rest tonight, and continue your journey tomorrow morning. We two (De Nuo’s) will take turns keeping watch on the eleventh, so let them go to sleep first,” Lin Yaoxie said.

Night fell so quickly, the wind howled through the deep forest, and Hua Qiangu buried her head in Lin Yaoxie's arm.

Lin Yaoxie patted his head and sat there quietly, motionless like a statue.

The first half of the night passed quickly. Luo Shiyi woke up groggily and signaled to "Bao Si" that it was time to rest. Then, while yawning, he added firewood to the fire.

A faint fragrance then filled the air. Luo Shiyi slowly closed her eyes. A dark figure then rose from its curled-up position and disappeared into the nearby woods.

Lin Yaoxie's lips curled into a cold smile. He had been waiting for this informant all along. It was really strange. What was so secretive about conveying such a simple phrase as "heading east"?

It has absolutely no value as intelligence! I just don't understand these people!

After thinking it over, he pretended to fall asleep again.

Chapter Twelve: Impoverished Town

"Brother Demon, don't you feel it getting colder and colder?"

Hua Qiangu was wearing several cloaks, but she was still shivering from the cold.

“Really, I feel a bit cold too!” Qing Shui also said. “Xiao Gu might feel cold because she doesn’t know any martial arts techniques yet, but since I feel a bit cold as well, it means there must be something wrong.”

"Ok!"

Ni Mantian nodded heavily, and with a flick of her wrist, she ignited a small flame.

She hadn't felt cold for a long time, but the further east she went, the more biting the chill became.

"Is there something fishy about the report number four?" Meng Xuanlang asked.

Have you seen this situation before?

Lin Yaoxie couldn't explain why either. If we apply geographical knowledge, does this mean they moved from a tropical climate to a temperate climate? And then it happened to be winter? Just like winter in Beijing and winter in Hainan?

But shouldn't regional differences be due to different latitudes? Didn't they agree to head east?

Luo Shiyi also shook his head, indicating that he had never encountered this before.

"Does this mean it's going to snow?" Dongfang Huoqing asked.

Lin Yaoxie glanced at him, utterly speechless. What happened to the Oddity Pavilion's supposed omniscience? How dare you say it's going to snow?

"The temperature dropped very quickly." Shuofeng sensed the temperature.

190 “Something unusual must be amiss. Let’s keep going,” Lin Yaoxie said, adjusting Hua Qiangu’s hat as she put it on.

Yellow sand rose up, scattering pebbles across the road, which bounced and clattered far away.

"Huh?" Hua Qiangu felt a few fine beads of sweat on the tip of her nose. "Brother Yao Xie, why do I feel hot again?"

Meng Xuanlang glanced at her and said, "You're wearing so many layers of clothing, you must be hot!"

"Yes, the weather seems to have returned to normal! It's not cold anymore." Yin Shangpiao stretched out his hand to sense the wind direction.

"Looking at it this way, that gust just now might have been a sign that it was about to rain or snow," Luo Shiyi said.

Hua Qiangu took off the extra clothes, and Ni Mantian also put away the palm fire.