I am the villain in the book

It was late Si Shi (9-11 AM), Guanghan County Office.

It was already midnight, and apart from a few night watchmen, there was no one else in the county office.

However, outside a secret room hidden underground, Chu Xianping was pacing back and forth in the secret passage, occasionally looking at the tightly closed door, a worried expression on his face.

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"Senior, are you sure we won't be noticed doing this?"

Inside the secret room, Wei Changtian's expression was not as nervous as Chu Xianping's, and he even seemed a little excited.

He glanced at the copper clepsydra in the corner, then looked at the Xuantian Sword floating in the corner of the room.

"Tsk tsk, I thought Senior was going to possess me or something."

"Possession?"

The remnant soul's tone was a bit irritable: "If I could possess someone, why would I be living in this broken sword?"

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"By the way, Senior, since you've been in the Xuantian Sword for so long, wouldn't it be very boring?"

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"What do you usually do? Sleep? But you're just a remnant soul, can you even fall asleep?"

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"Senior, why aren't you talking?"

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The pointer on the copper clepsydra was getting closer and closer to Zi Shi (11 PM-1 AM), and the atmosphere in the room was relaxed a lot by Wei Changtian.

He had actually been deliberately joking with the remnant soul.

After all, this time he was going to impersonate a Kui Long elder, and if he was exposed, the consequences for both of them would be extremely miserable.

And the more this was the case, the less tense he could be, otherwise he would easily reveal himself due to nervousness.

That's why Wei Changtian deliberately made fun of the remnant soul, the purpose was to ease his own mood, including the remnant soul's nervous mood at this time.

Then

"Pa."

The cyan-white jade pendant was gently placed on the table in front of him, and Wei Changtian's tone gradually became serious.

He glanced at the Xuantian Sword in the corner, and took a light breath.

"Senior, Zi Shi is here."

"Huff!"

Butterflies in dreams, moonlit ground on cloud stairs.

When countless rays of light rose and intertwined in the air, forming the appearance of Dharma patterns; when everything in the secret room disappeared, replaced by a hazy black mist; when four blurred black shadows appeared in the black mist one after another... Wei Changtian's heartbeat seemed to pause for a beat.

Even though the remnant soul had already described this scene to him, the impact of seeing it with his own eyes still made him feel恍惚 for a moment.

It was really too mystical.

Just using a token, you can actually achieve "VR chat"?

At this moment, even though Wei Changtian knew that everything he was seeing was illusory, he couldn't help but turn his head to look around.

Dense fog surged from the surrounding illusory places, wisps and clumps, constantly飘渺 like black纱.

Including himself, five black shadows stood on the five corners of a non-existent pentagon, separated from each other by about several zhang.

Then, five stone platforms of different colors suddenly slowly emerged from under the feet of the five people, raising each of them by a few inches.

Green, red, white, black, yellow.

Looking at these few unique colors in the black mist, and looking at the black platform under his feet, Wei Changtian thought that this Kui Long token actually used Taoist magical powers.

The number five is very important in Taoism.

Not only are there the five colors of "green, red, white, black, yellow", but also the five elements of "metal, wood, water, fire, earth", the five immortals of "heavenly gods, earthly humans, and ghosts", and so on.

Of course, none of this is important.

The key is that, as the remnant soul said, Wei Changtian couldn't actually see the appearance of any of the black shadows.

Including the shape, clothing, height, and weight, they were all blurred by the black fog, making them impossible to窥视.

Good家伙!

VR video conference is one thing, but it even has an automatic mosaic function?

No wonder these elders can't know each other's identities...

Pursing his lips, Wei Changtian quickly thought in his heart, but didn't say anything.

Since he was impersonating, he definitely had to speak as little as possible, so as not to say something wrong and be noticed.

The others also seemed to be waiting for something, until the black shadow standing in the "green" position slowly opened his mouth and lightly recited:

"Silence and noise, speech and silence are originally the same, how can one talk about dreams in a dream."

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What does that mean?

What are they doing here?

Anyway, others can't see his expression, Wei Changtian didn't hide it at all, and his face was filled with懵逼 for a while.

However, before he could think about it carefully, he heard two black shadows standing on the red and white platforms say in turn:

"飘飘乎 as if independent from the world, ascending to immortality."

"The ups and downs of a hundred years, like a dream passing by."

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Obviously, this is not a "poetry competition", so this group of people can only be doing one thing—

That is to exchange passwords.

Damn, so cautious?

The remnant soul didn't say it in advance!

More importantly, it seems like it's his turn now...

Is he going to be exposed before it even starts?

Wei Changtian was madly cursing the unreliability of the remnant soul in his heart, and then he heard a voice that seemed to be coming from outside the black mist.

"The solitary crane speaks at the Huabiao for a thousand years, the evening cicada chirps in a human dream."

"Huh?"

Subconsciously raising his head, Wei Changtian heard that it was the remnant soul's voice.

So the latter could actually observe what was happening in this black mist? And he could still transmit sound to himself?

Looking at the other four black shadows who didn't seem to hear this sentence, but were waiting for him to exchange the password, Wei Changtian didn't hesitate and immediately repeated:

"The solitary crane speaks at the Huabiao for a thousand years, the evening cicada chirps in a human dream."

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"Only by understanding everything in the world first can one then speak of transcending the world."

Soon, the black shadow standing on the yellow platform connected the last sentence of the password, which also showed that the remnant soul's reminder was correct.

Alright, he didn't坑 himself.

Breathing a sigh of relief in his heart, Wei Changtian still didn't say a word.

The black mist rolled, and finally the black shadow on the green stone platform broke the silence.

"Everyone, this meeting was proposed by Zhuang Zhiming, the leader of the Bing San branch."

"Now I will first tell you about the general matters..."

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Elder meetings need to be proposed by Kui Long members at the helm master level, the remnant soul did say this in advance.

However, Wei Changtian is now more concerned about the two pieces of information, the Bing San branch and Zhuang Zhiming.

The elder meeting proposed by the Bing San branch is obviously about Qin Zhengqiu.

As for Zhuang Zhiming... he seems to have heard this name somewhere.

Wei Changtian frowned and thought for a while, but couldn't recall it immediately, so he temporarily gave up and focused his attention on the "Green Elder" who was speaking.

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"...The general process of the matter is like this."

"Zhuang Zhiming has already found out the identity of this person, his name is Qin Zhengqiu, and he was previously the leader of the Tianluo Sect."

"He had reached the late stage of the second rank a few years ago, and has not changed since then."

"However, just a few months ago, he suddenly went to Fengyuan, the capital of the Da Feng, and used a rather strange sword technique there."

"After that, he disappeared, until he reappeared in Shuzhou, Da Ning, eleven days ago..."