Chapter 185: A Familiar Face from Xing Han Empire (2/2)
”Thank you for coming to Xing Han Empire, our king of Xing Han is holding a banquet for all immortal masters. Once we knew that immortal masters from Heaven Seeking Palace were coming, I was sent to invite the both of you,” The red clothed man was an ordinary mortal, and spoke with great deference.
Nodding her head, Cen Shuyin said, ”Please lead the way.”
While she was a cold person, she was not someone who did not know how the world worked. The king of Xing Han Empire was a good leader of an empire, and she possibly had to frequent this area in the future, so giving this much face was required.
Mo Wuji naturally did not say much. He only wanted to apply for an identity token after Cen Shuyin did, in order to accumulate contribution points.
After the two of them followed this red clothed official across the plaza, they then walked through a wide bluestone path, before finally reaching a grand hall.
Even though this was only Xing Han Empire’s temporary palace, compared to Cheng Yu State’s palace, it was much more majestic.
”Both immortal masters please enter,” After the red clothed official ushered Mo Wuji and Cen Shuyin to the hall’s door, he bowed and gestured for them to enter.
Cen Shuyin entered without hesitation. As a legacy disciple of Heaven Seeking Palace, wherever she went, being treated with the highest regard was the norm, and she had become accustomed to it already.
Both sides of the hall were seated full of people, and in front of everyone there was a table of food.
‘Ha ha, genius disciples of Heaven Seeking Palace, welcome to the Xing Han Empire alliance encampment,” A hearty laugh echoed through the hall, following which, Mo Wuji saw a yellow robed muscular man stand up at the end of the hall.
As Mo Wuji thought to himself, this must be the king of Xing Han Empire, Cen Shuyin had already bowed respectfully to greet him, ”Heaven Seeking Palace disciple Cen Shuyin pays her respect to the king.”
This act gave the king a shock. Logically speaking, a disciple of Heaven Seeking Palace should greatly lack any form of etiquette. The normal practice was for a disciple to automatically report which dao and what kind of disciple of Heaven Seeking Palace one was upon being asked.
However, Cen Shuyin actually just said that she was a disciple of Heaven Seeking Palace, which seemed to be rather rude. Thankfully the king already knew who she was. This was one of the most beautiful women of the Five Great Empires, and a legacy disciple of Heaven Seeking Palace’s Sword Lake. She was a frightening existence.
Mo Wuji followed suit, ” Heaven Seeking Palace’s Mo Wuji pays his respects to the king…”
Just as he finished his sentence, his gaze fell on one person. In the whole hall of people, he actually recognised one of them
”Both of you, please don’t stand on ceremony. Take a seat. Come men, add on to the banquet,” Cui Qianjun enthusiastically waved his hands while ordering the men around. The voice of this king was especially loud.
In reality, for the Heaven Seeking Palace, this was nothing much. As for Cen Shuyin and Mo Wuji’s simplistic introductions, he dared not voice any opinions on that either.
Two tables were quickly added, and their positions were very close to the front, seemingly within the top three. As one could observe, Heaven Seeking Palace was held in high regard.
Cen Shuyin was about to ask about Ni Nan, Heaven Seeking Palace’s in charge of this area, but she saw Mo Wuji walking straight to one of the seats at the back.
”My king, we meet again.” Mo Wuji chuckled as he stood in front of an unenergetic man.
As the man saw Mo Wuji walk over, it was like he saw a ghost. Actually, once Mo Wuji set foot in the hall, his disposition was as such.
”Drug refiner Mo, I really didn’t expect...that I'd be able to meet you here…” The pale beardless man quickly stood up, and stuttered his way through the sentence.
Chuckling once more, Mo Wuji replied, ”We would have met sooner or later. Even if we didn’t meet here, I would have gone to Rao Zhou City’s mayor’s house to look for you.”
When Cui Qianjun saw Mo Wuji speak to one of the lord, he also laughed, ”So dao friend Mo and Cheng Yu State Lord Situ Qian are acquainted. This is a good thing, a good thing…”
Towards Cui Qianjun, Mo Wuji bowed respectfully, ”My king’s judgement is not wrong, I am indeed acquainted with State Lord Situ. My ancestor was originally Xing Han Empire’s next prefecture lord, the prefecture being Northern Qin Prefecture. However, many years ago, my grandfather, Lord of Northern Qin Prefecture Mo Tiancheng, travelled to Rao Zhou, and went missing. After that, my father Mo Guangqian travelled to Rao Zhou in search for the Lord of Northern Qin Prefecture, and at the same time, pleaded for State Lord Situ to transfer the Northern Qin Prefecture to the Mo clan…”
At this point, Mo Wuji made an intentional pause, before carrying on, ”All you dao friends, all you kings, is it too much for my Mo clan to ask for this?”
Most of the people present could infer that Mo Wuji’s intention was to look for trouble from Situ Qian. But since Mo Wuji was now a disciple of Heaven Seeking Palace, no one dared to say a word in defense of Situ Qian.
Xing Han Empire’s king, Cui Qianjun could also understand the meaning behind Mo Wuji’s words, and his expression turned slightly black, ”The position of prefecture lord has always been passed down from father to son, so how would this be unreasonable?”
”Thank you my king for being direct. However, State Lord Situ simply does not care about Mo clan’s request, and directly passed the title of Northern Qin Prefecture Lord to someone else. On top of that, he wiped out everyone in my clan, imprisoned my father and me in Rao Zhou City, until my father died of illness, and I went crazy.
When Mo Wuji finished speaking, he stared coldly at Situ Qian. He knew that the Mo Clan was not directly eradicated by Situ Qian, but for now, the blame would be put on him. Once he was finished with Situ Qian, he would move on to the guy that occupied Northern Qin Prefecture.