Chapter 194: Rainy Road in Shu, Golden Goose Cup (1/2)
Chapter 194: Rainy Road in Shu, Golden Goose Cup
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Immortal Palace!
This was the first time this man mentioning the name of their organization, a very weird name.
”Immortal Palace?!”
”Hey, lad, don't be so surprised! Our organization is called Immortal Palace. What do you think of it? Not a bad name, right?”
”Its indeed very interesting!” Junior Leopard nodded, ”How far is the foothold?”
”At most 30 miles. Do you still have any energy left to go on?”
Junior Leopard nodded, but never said anything more. That was because they only had 30 miles left to go. There was no need to complain, or else he would become the laughingstock. On the remaining journey, this man was not like before, where he used his body's movement to dump Junior Leopard far behind. Instead, he was keeping up with Junior Leopard's speed, keeping a certain distant of about 5 feet. Although Junior Leopard was not using his full body movement, he was still maintained a fast speed and finished the journey within an hour.
”It's here?” Junior Leopard looked at what was in front of him with a dark face.
”Yes, it's here.” The man laughed, ”What, not satisfied?”
”It's a mortuary!” Junior Leopard gave a bitter smile.
The mortuary was actually a public morgue, where people who met a mysterious death, died uncleared of a false charge or whose body was unclaimed would be sent to.
In this world, a mortuary was usually built by organizations like yamen, temple or Taoist temple. Of course, the imperial court provided the most capital to show its righteousness and justice. What was more, building a mortuary didn't need much money. It was no more than finding an empty place, building a big house and finding a lonely jinx to guard it.
The cost was really low.
Junior Leopard had heard of this mortuary, for it was not far from Jiang City and founded by County Administration of Jiang City.
However, he would never think that this was the foothold of the Immortal Palace.
”This place is spacious, secluded, hardly being visited by people, and even if there is someone here, it is the best foothold. Is it wrong to choose this place?!”
”Yes, spacious and people rarely come here. Even if someone would come, they would be dead, right?”
”You are afraid of dead people?!”
”Of course I am! I am so afraid of death! This place is so ominous!”
While they were speaking, the door of the mortuary opened.
A little old man in gray came out. He was trembling. From his short stature, it was clear that he was not far from being dead. His light footsteps showed that he had no martial art skills. His eyes were covered in dirty sleep, which was almost blinding his eyes, making Junior Leopard feel so uncomfortable.
The door of the mortuary was opened. The chilly wind was blowing from the inside, fanning the horrible smell of corpse.
Despite Junior Leopard's martial arts, he still could not help shivering on such a weird night in such a weird place.
The old man raised his head and looked at these two people. When he looked at the man in front of Junior Leopard, a bright light flashed in his blurry eyes. However, the bright light was not because of a certain level of Internal Strength practice, it was the pure surprise of an ordinary person.
”You are...!”
The man raised his right hand, waving the black ring on his fourth finger to the old man, who then stopped talking, lowered his head and led the two people into the mortuary.
”Hey! We are actually staying here tonight?!”
”Or why did you think I brought you here?”
Following the old man, they passed through the lobby of the mortuary's dead morgue, then a yard full of reeds and coffins and entered into the backyard of the mortuary through a round door.
The backyard was not large, yet there were plenty of rooms, well-cleaned and with neat bed sheets. It seemed that the old man did a lot, however, did the old man know that they would come here today?
Having seemed to sense the doubts of Junior Leopard, the man laughed, ”It's regularly cleaned in here!”
”No wonder!” Junior Leopard nodded, and his eyes shifted to the man's ring on his left hand. He was a blacksmith, which could be recognized naturally by seeing the ring, whose texture was very common, only created by ordinary black iron.Yet, what drew the attention of Junior Leopard was the big rooster carved on the surface of the ring, the same one that had been embroidered on the back of his eccentric robe when he arrived at the backyard of the Wen Family.
When he first saw this man, he did not have this ring on his finger and Junior Leopard did not know when he put it on.
Seeing Junior Leopard looking at the ring on his hand, the man smiled, waving the ring in front of him, ”This thing is of no use, but a little thing for identification in our organization!”
”For identification!” Junior Leopard smiled, ”Having met for so long, I still don't know your name!”
”Oh, I thought you would not ask!” He said, ”My name is Jin Yuquan, and people call me Golden Rooster!”
”Golden Rooster?!” Junior Leopard laughed, ”This is a good name!”
”If it's good, you can call me Golden Rooster!” Jin Yuquan said.
”So, can you tell me, what our t...task is?!”
”We are going to South Yuezhou State to solve a problem!”
”South Yuezhou State?!” Junior Leopard eyes were suddenly wide open, ”It is thousands of miles from Qianzhou!”
”I know!”Jinyu Quan nodded, ”after resting for one night, we will arrive at Wuzhou City tomorrow, and there will be someone who will prepare horses and money for us!”
”I was scared to death! I thought we'd go on foot!”
”Going thousands of miles on foot! You'll be dead!” ”Jin Yuquan patted Junior Leopard's shoulder,” Well, don't think so much. Take a good rest tonight, and tomorrow I will explain to you in detail! ”
Immortal Palace was an underground organization. This was the only thing Junior Leopard knew after setting out the next day.
Of course it was an underground organization! If not, this name would have long been famous in the world.
Although, in his heart, Junior Leopard was cursing this Golden Rooster who was infront of him, the mouth of Golden Rooster was as though locked by an oversized iron lock. No matter how Junior Leopard asked again and again, he no longer spoke a word.
Although he didn't talk about the secret of Immortal Palace, he explained clearly the task at hand. Governor of South Yuezhou State Ruan Ming had gotten a treasure recently, which was the target of their mission, to take back this treasure.
”Just as you took Tianluo Dark Gold the other year?!”
”No, I robbed the Tianluo Dark Gold because I needed it to build a weapon. It's personal. But this time, it's an order from the organization!”
”What kind of treasure is worth the organization going to all this trouble to get it?”
”A luminous pearl, but not a normal one. It is a Blue Moon Pearl from the body of a Blue Moon Octopus which lives at the bottom of the sea. It's a very precious Mysterious Object which can be used to make External Elixir!” Speaking of this, he looked at Junior Leopard, ”I heard from Wang She that you have already made your External Elixir. Is it the earring dangling on your ear? Where is it now? Show me!”
”HeHe!” Junior Leopard cursed Wang She in his heart again and unwillingly took out the Dragon Chimera skull which was hanging on his neck and handed it to Jin Yuquan, ”This was picked up by the river accidentally when I was young. I thought it was interesting so I kept it with me, not knowing that it was the perfect material for making External Elixir!”
”What a good thing!”
Golden Rooster held the External Elixir, feeling the surging Internal Qi in it, and showing slight envy in his eyes, ”It's such a good thing. I never expected to see such an eccentric External Elixir. The texture is top class even among External Elixirs! Eeeh? This External Elixir's Internal Qi is not the Nine Dragons Heavenly Fire Technique, is it?”
”It's the Green Jade Qian Yuan Skill that I inherited from Chief Wang!” Junior Leopard said.
”Green Jade Qian Yuan Skill?!” Golden Rooster was stunned, his face was puzzled, ”Why do you need Green Jade Qian Yuan Skill? If you successfully practiced Nine Dragons Heavenly Fire Technique, then the External Elixir can support you with Internal Qi every minute. Although your cultivation is only at Level Four, with the addition of the External Elixir, you can achieve the strength of Level Six cultivation!”