Mortal Bones

"Master Xu?"

Seeing that Xu Taiping didn't reply for a long time, Shopkeeper Song reminded him again.

"Mr. Song, I want to find a treasure. I wonder if your Shili Zhai has it."

Xu Taiping took a pen directly from the counter, then dipped in ink to write while asking the shopkeeper Song without looking back.

"Looking for a treasure?"

Storekeeper Song was very surprised and put his head over to see what Xu Taiping was writing.

After just one glance, his pupils suddenly opened.

Xu Taiping wrote on the paper:

"Song Lao, I am Xu Taiping, what did Princess Xiaoxiao want you to tell me?"

The situation was urgent, so Xu Taiping did not explain why he knew that Shopkeeper Song wanted to tell him about this matter.

At the same time, he also took out the water-breaking knife kept in the iron gourd and placed it gently on the counter.

After seeing the knife, the surprise and confusion in Shopkeeper Song's eyes suddenly turned into surprise.

The scene of the battle with the Ghost King seven years ago was still vivid in his mind, so he immediately recognized Xu Taiping's water-breaking knife.

Immediately, he took out a letter from his sleeve and handed it to Xu Taiping very discreetly.

At the same time, he turned to look outside the door and said:

"Since you are not interested, Mr. Xu, then I won't force you."

Hearing this, Xu Taiping smiled and bowed his hands to Shopkeeper Song:

"Then I will take my leave."

After saying this, he gently brushed his hand over the paper on which the words were written, and the ink stains on it immediately dissipated.

Immediately, he walked out of the Collecting Room without looking back.

At this moment, the carriage of the Goddess Juemingtian passed by him, but Xu Taiping strode straight past without even looking at it.

On the contrary, the goddess Mu Yuchen who was sitting on the carriage looked slightly sideways.

There was a hint of surprise in her two ice-blue eyes exposed outside the veil.

A young man sitting next to her saw this and immediately asked:

"Chen'er, what's wrong?"

Mu Yuchen frowned slightly and said:

"Brother, this person's soul is pure and white, which is extremely rare. Moreover, with my mind-observation skills, I can't see what's in his mind."

Hearing this, the young man also frowned.

But immediately, Mu Yuchen looked forward again, and said in a calm tone:

"I can't tell anything from just a quick glance. Maybe I saw it wrong. Let's talk about it when we meet again."

The young man nodded when he heard this and didn't think about it anymore.

Xu Taiping naturally didn't know that the goddess Mu Yuchen had almost seen through him with just a quick glance.

After leaving the Scavenging Room, he immediately threw the letter into the gourd and asked Bai Yu to help him read it.

"Xu Taiping, do you want me to read it to you?"

"read."

"Brother Xu, there have been many changes in the royal family in the six years since you left. For some reasons that I don't know, some people don't want you to participate in this Golden Scale Meeting."

"For this reason, they hired a divination master and calculated that the first place you would stay after returning to the capital would be Shiyi Zhai."

"So before the Golden Scale Club begins, every guest who comes out of the Scavenging Room will be monitored by them."

"That is to say, Brother Xu, every move, word and deed you make at this moment is already under their surveillance."

After reading this, Bai Yu suddenly stopped, and then said with a scared look on his face:

"Fortunately, Taiping, you were just cautious and didn't directly acknowledge Shopkeeper Song."

Xu Taiping was also filled with fear.

If it hadn't been for the seven-kill calamity that made his character more cautious, he might have been in trouble this time.

"Bai Yu, continue reading."

Xu Taiping urged Bai Yu.

"good."

Bai Yu responded, then continued to read:

"The only way to break the situation at the moment is for Brother Xu to immediately go to the Golden Scale Hall where Youyun Mansion is located, take out the token that Youyun Mansion invites you to join the Golden Scale Society, and then engrave your name on the Golden Scale Monument, officially I declare you to be the participating disciple of this Golden Scale Association.”

"Because all the disciples whose names are engraved on the Golden Scale Tablet will be protected by the Golden Scale Tablet and Youyun Mansion during the next competition period. Even the masters of Transformation Realm will not dare to do anything to you."

"But those people have obviously thought of that as well."

"So they will try their best to stop the disciples who have been to Shiyi Zhai on the only way to the Golden Scale Pavilion, and then interrogate them."

"But Brother Xu, don't worry. His Highness Tiancheng has helped you arrange a secret passage leading to the Golden Scale Pavilion. Next, you only need to go to the entrance of the secret passage according to what I wrote in my letter."

After reading this, Bai Yu suddenly asked Xu Taiping:

"His Royal Highness Tiancheng, could it be that we rescued him in Golden Toad Valley?"

Xu Taiping nodded secretly and said:

"It should be her, otherwise Princess Xiaoxiao alone would not be able to arrange this matter in such detail."

In his opinion, Chu Xiaoxiao's carefree personality was unable to carry out such a complicated plan.

"But since His Highness Tiancheng knows about this, it's impossible for Junior Sister to not know about it. Is it possible..."

When he thought of this, Xu Taiping suddenly had a bad premonition in his heart.

After suppressing many questions in his heart, Xu Taiping asked Bai Yu again:

"Besides the location of the secret passage, is there anything else written in this letter?"

Bai Yu looked at it carefully and then replied:

"The letter also said that even if you enter the Golden Scale Pavilion through the secret passage, you may not be safe. Those who don't want you to participate in this Golden Scale Meeting may have bribed people in Youyun Mansion and will attack you after you enter the Golden Scale Pavilion and wait for the Palace Master to receive you."

"However, because the Golden Scale Pavilion is heavily guarded, a cultivator in the Transformation Realm will definitely be discovered if he enters it, so the cultivators who attack you should be cultivators below the Transformation Realm."

"But even so, you still have to be careful and cautious. After all, they are in the dark and you are in the light."

"As for other things, after your name is on the list, you can go to the palace to ask her, and she will answer your questions."

He briefly explained the last paragraph of Chu Xiaoxiao's letter to Xu Taiping.

"Who exactly doesn't want me to participate in the Golden Scale Meeting?"

After listening to Bai Yu's story, Xu Taiping's mind was full of confusion.

"What should I do next?"

Bai Yu asked Xu Taiping.

At this moment, a bell suddenly rang in the sky above the capital, followed by a majestic voice that resounded throughout the capital—

"Jue Mingtian, Sanyuan Sect disciple Lu Xiao, is on the list."

Obviously, this was the name of the Golden Scale Club's disciples on the list.

Hearing this voice, Xu Taiping exhaled lightly and said:

"Bai Yu, let's go find the secret passage, and then go to the Golden Scale Hall to register for the list."

After spending so much money to come to Youyuntian, he couldn't just stop there when he saw that the Golden Scale Club was about to start a war.