Chapter 6: Opinion on Tea?
Three weeks later, Wudang..
The entrance of the great hall of wudang sect opened, and a young man with black hair, riddled with multiple white streaks, stepped forward into it. His step was confident, determined, every step calculated and perfect, with no difference in pace. As a man who hit every mark as perfectly as possible, Wu Xianlin was the perfect picture of disciplined righteousness.
He knelt before the man on the head seat, bowing his head. "Sect Master."
The Wudang sect master nodded his head and gestured for him to rise. "Report."
"The demons have been defeated, and the villagers are saved, no brethren were injured more than a few scratches."
"Well done, as usual." The sect master stroked his beard, taking a sip of tea. he also carried the same genes as his son, his hair set in stark black with white streaks. "I want to let you rest with the others that have returned, unfortunately, I recently heard news that could use your hands."
"Yes, sect master." Wu Xianlin bowed his head, clasping his hands. "What is your command?"
"Rest one week, and then head to the south, in Zen'gan Town, there have been sightings of Hua Chongxiu at the Taohua brothel, under the name Hua Yuwang. I've already sent 2 shadows ahead of you, when you arrive there, they will find you and meet with you. If they have not already caught her, make sure to catch her and bring her here."
Zhang Xianlin bowed a second time, clasping his hands to accept. "Yes, sect master." Before turning and striding out with the same steady pace he had entered with.
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A week later, Zen'gan town..
A small ink brush bled gently across the page, each character it wrote, seeming to come alive, each brush stoke, a masterful dance.
A small candle flickered nearby, sending flickering orange light across the page in the darkness. A beautiful figure sat there, writing, his brow wrinkled in concentration, his long black hair falling over his shoulder like a waterfall, tied in a very loose lower pony tail. His eyebrows perfectly trimmed and shapely. His nose sharp and long, but not too large. His jaw a perfect, shapely outline, elegant and wise. He continued to focus on his project, as two thin arms wrapped around the simple cloak over his shoulders, folding themselves into a comfortable embrace. A pretty face arrived at his shoulder, kissing his cheek gently, as he mumbled, yawning.
"What are you up to so early in the morning, ah-wang?"
Wu Yang hummed happily, a slight smile upon his face. "I'm making one last gift for you."
Hao Jingzhi clicked his tongue. "Only one more? Have I done so little for you?"
"Stop being so shameless," reprimanded Wu Yang, before reaching up to kiss that pretty mouth, enjoying the softness of it, they continued for a while, before he broke it off again, turning back to finish up the last bit, and hold it up. "This is a more deadly skill for you."
Hao Jingzhi took it from him, turning it upside down and sideways to thoroughly inspect it. "Where do you even get these things anyway? do you just have bunch randomly stowed away in that tiny brain? hmm?"
Wu Yang stood up, coming behind him to wrap his arms around his waist, as Hao Jingzhi leaned against him lazily.
It had already been almost a month since Wu Yang took up residence in Taohua brothel, and he had no problem whatsoever getting used to the role. Only, with a thirsty man like Hao Jingzhi, and Wu Yang's yin constitution, that would get turned on all the time if he weren't constantly injected with yang energy, it didn't even take three days before Hao Jingzhi successfully convinced him to bed him. Only, to Wu Yang's surprise, Hao Jingzhi quickly forced him the top on the first day. Having never been a top before, Wu Yang got so overly curious, that he decided to not mention that he had a yin constitution and just went through with it, only to find out...
"That felt so good!" Wu Yang collapsed next to Jingzhi, who was laying there, completely beat. They'd gone for five rounds already on Hao Jingzhi's side, but Wu Yang had only just finally finished.
"How are you able to hold it so long???" Complained Hao Jingzhi, even though he'd thoroughly enjoyed it during the process, rubbing his sore back. Wu Yang immediately took over massaging, quickly relieving any pain he'd felt earlier.
"Better question, is 'why' did you let me feel so good?" Wu yang replied jovially.
"What do you mean?"
"?" Wu Yang looked at Hao Jingzhi. "the bottom is so very painful, and the top is enjoyable, yes?"
Hao jingzhi looked at him for a moment. "Are you not gay?"
"?What do you mean?"
"Have you never been a bottom before?"
"No, I've done it hundreds, if not thousands of times, but this is my first time topping! I never understood why people made sex till now, who knew it felt so good!!!" Wu Yang responded innocently.
Hao Jingzhi suddenly sat up. "Wait, that doesn't make sense. You do know that the bottom should feel really good, right?"
Wu yang looked at him like he was speaking nonsense. "No, it's incredibly painful."
Hao Jingzhi just said: "turn around."
After inspecting for way longer than what made Wu Yang comfortable, Hao Jingzhi finally gave his thoughts. "Wow, you're constitution sucks."
"What do you mean? I've a yin constitution."
"You're a yin?" Hao Jingxhi looked at him in shock. "Was I just topped by a yin?"
"What does that make you?" Teased Wu Yang back.
"Just sexy enough to tempt a yin, is what it does!" Replied Hao Jingzhi, posing, before getting serious. "Actually, about that, you really aren't a good bottom."
"?"
"Your hole is so small, that it will tear every time someone enters, unless they're really teeny tiny."
"Oh, so I just need someone small?" Wu Yang thought about it, he really didn't remember any small d*cks in his history, but he also hadn't cared a whole lot to inspect.
"No, no, that's not all, your prostate is so high, and hardly makes contact with your intestinal track. I can't even feel it, even when I put the full length of my fingers in or more...
"Okay, so long and large." Wu yang Interrupted before he could continue. "Isn't that contradictory?"
"That, or you could just do it with a big d*cked yang constitution guy since the yang will heal you and his d*ck would reach your prostate. That, or you get with a yang woman, which would be like getting topped, but you don't need to be entered."
Wu yang fell back in bed, sighing, "Ugh, this sucks, not only are there barely any pure yang guys, where would I even find a yang girl???"
Hao Jingzhi wasn't very upset though, jumping on top of him and snuggling close. "Or, I have a much better solution, forget your constitution and just become a top!"
"You just say that because you want me to top you! Get off!"
"No!"
And thus, a week passed, and they found out something incredibly strange. Normally, yin constitutions were female. Because females have higher amounts of yin energy. It was also found that a yang male can increase his cultivation by injection yang energy into her, and thus increase his yang energy in response. However, it still benefited the yin person more than the yang person in this case, since, he could directly inject it.
Therefore, when there is a yin male, people also just assume to top the yin, since they enjoyed it more, following the same process. Wu Yang had followed this principle all his life. Until now, when he, a yin man, injected yin into a male with smaller amounts of yang energy, and a surprising thing occurred. Hao Jingzhi ended up greatly benefiting from it.
Now, without a doubt, after a week of almost constant sex, Hao Jingzhi was already carrying high amounts of pure yin spiritual energy, increasing his cultivation base, for a normal person, into that of a cultivator.
However, having spiritual qi, without knowing how to circulate it, was also a danger to your own body, since the chaotic qi through duel cultivation could attack your insides, if it didn't follow a set path. So, as the perpetrator of the problem, Wu Yang felt inclined to provide him with some qi circulation and breathing manuals. And thereafter began to teach him a set of unique skills.
He mostly just taught him simply things that were of use to him in his current work, such as disguise techniques and escape techinqeus, as well as a little qinggong. however, there was only so much he dared teach him, lest he be forced into the jianghu conflicts.
However, Hao Jingzhi, after getting a taste of the yin, wasn't about to quit it, and Wu Yang, with his constitution was bad at keeping him off him, thus, he continued to teach him basic protection spells and the like to use the increasing energy. This time, he was writing up the last technique he was going to share, which was an ultimate skill, it would kill fast, untraceably, and easily. It was just in case the worst happened, and Hao Jingzhi was really forced into a fight one day.
He folded the paper in Hao Jingzhi's hands and set it down, before slowly undressing him, feeling him down like a lover, rather than the servant he was, as he redressed him in fine orange robes.
"Indeed, it is really the best to have such a servant as you," complimented Hao Jingzhi, enjoying Wu Yang's lavish attentions. Wu Yang smiled, and headed out to the balcony, to take down the laundry from the night before.
However, as he reached up to unhang it, he suddenly felt something cold press against his neck. Two men in black had appeared out of nowhere.
"Keeheehee" cackled a man wearing a mask, with bright orange hair, and bandages around his thin chest. "You are caught so easily, and to think we spent so much effort to plan this out to, Hulu, you were thinking too much about the skills of this 'Hua Yuwang!'"
Wu Yang's eyes drifted to alight upon the second man, he was also fully clothed in black, with a black mask and hat, but was much broader than the skinny man with crazy orange hair and had the ugliest skin around the bottom of his face. He grunted as a response to the other's cackling.
Wu Yang made to attack the two surrounding him, only for a voice to suddenly carry over. "What's taking you so long, a-wang?" Called Hao Jingzhi, poking his head around the corner, immediately sighting them.
Wu Yang refrained, instead turning to his attackers. "Who are you from?"
The orange head seemed to find this question incredibly funny, spieling in high pitched laughter: "Keehahaha, if you don't know, why do you deserve to know? Surrender and come with us, or maybe we should show you some blood before we go?"
Wu Yang knew what they meant. He couldn't move, so long as they were to harm Hao Jingzhi, so he lifted his arms up. "I'll go, I'll go, no need for blood, my friends, let's keep this nice."
The two smiled, or well, he couldn't tell whether they were actually smiling, but he assumed they were, before each took an arm and leapt of the balcony, using qinggong to hop their way over the rooftops of the pretty town.
"The young master should arrive here today." Spoke Chenzi to Hulu. "So let's take him somewhere quiet, and you'll hold him there, while I go look for the young master."
"mmm," agreed Hulu.
only, as soon as they touched the ground in a small alley, Wu Yang struck back, twisting both his arms in a circle, he broke out of the Chengzi's grip, but almost broke his arm in Hulu's.
He glared at Hulu, swinging his leg up, to kick at his face, using his held arm as an anchor point. But Chenzi was quick to act, grabbing his robe, and pulling him down. Wu Yang, off centered from his kick, couldn't avoid it, and fell back to the ground. Getting back up, Wu yang glared at him viciously, when suddenly, a shadow fell from overhead and Wu Yang's expression changed instantly, "Help, help, someone help me, please, I don't want it!"
His robe had been pulled down by Chengzi, revealing a fine shoulder and collarbone, and the sweat from the hot day glistened off his skin excellently, Hulu was still gripping his arm, keeping him from escaping, and Chengzi, already had his hands back on Wu Yang's robe to restrain him from making another move, but could easily misinterpreted as Zhong Xianlin looked down from his vantage point at the call for help.
Instantly realizing what was going on, and seeing two men try to rape a younger, smaller, weaker one, he couldn't just stay on standby. He leapt down, and in an instant, his scabbard had shocked both men upside the head, making them fall to the ground, unconscious.
"Thank you, thank you! Who might you be?" Asked Wu Yang thankfully, as he pulled his robes back up to cover himself. They were a simple servant's design, nothing fancy, but they somehow only made the great beauty of his face more obvious.
Even Zhong Xianlin found his disposition pleasing to the eye, and toward an earnest question, he of course answered in earnest. "I am Zhong Xianlin, courtesy name, Zizheng, from the Wudang sect, I was just passing by, and couldn't stand the injustice, there's no reason to thank me."
Wu Yang smiled, this man was extremely upright, and extremely modest, he couldn't lose the chance to meet such an outstanding man. "I am called Yu Wang by my coworkers. For saving me just now, I can't just let this be, at least let me treat you to a meal or to tea, I know of a good place nearby." He quickly offered.
Zhong Xianlin thought about it for a moment. He wasn't in a huge hurry at this point anyway, having to wait until the shadow's placed in the town found him to make a move, so it only made sense to take the time for a meal first. Having someone pay wasn't bad. "Please show the way." He agreed.
Wu yang excitedly showed him to his favorite tea shop, it had a few good dishes, and he quickly ordered at his discretion, since Zhong Xianlin had told him to do so.
"So, what brings a Daoist of Wudang down here?" Asked Wu Yang curiously.
Zhong Xianlin had liked his company so far and, feeling it would not hurt to share, spoke, "I was sent here on orders to catch a certain thief that made off with a treasure from my sect. We got news that the thief may be hiding in this town."
"Oh?" Wu Yang was surprised by this news. Few would dare to anger the Wudang sect by stealing something. "I wish you well on your mission then."
"Thank you." Replied Zhong Xianlin, as the food and tea finally arrived.
Wu Yang was quick to introduce. "This place has very good oolong tea, I have ordered you some Tieguanyin, and I hope you enjoy it well. There are also some simple dishes of pickled cucumbers, spiced tofu, braised bamboo shoots and a dish of Lo Han Jai. I hope this palate is to your taste?"
Zhong Xianlin smiled at his thoughtfulness. "Indeed, it is very good. I will enjoy."
They continued to talk, touching on many topics, speaking on great writings and art pieces, and even some military tactics. Both enjoyed the meal and one another's company well.
"You are very well-read," complimented Zhong Xianlin, smiling at the acquaintance he'd made.
Wu Yang smiled back, embarrassed by the praise. "No, no, I know nothing compared the great Daoist, just read some things in my free time." he replied modestly and called the waiter over for the bill.
The food was good, and the tea better, but the bill was high, and Hao Jingzhi hardly paid him. Luckily, Wu Yang had a good hand at painting, and the other courtesans of the brothel often hired him for portraits, or he wouldn't have been able to fork out the money for the meal. As it was, he merely emptied his wallet, and left it with the waiter, exiting the inn with Zhong Xianlin.
"Let me repay you," offered Zhong Xianlin as they exited, feeling bad that the man had spent all his savings on a meal for himself.
"No, no, no, this meal was my gesture for Daoist Zizheng's kindness, please don't refuse it." Wu Yang turned him down. It wasn't like he was worried about how much money he had currently, it wouldn't be hard to earn more later. Rather, there was something else he wanted.
"Might I ask the Daoist to take me back to my place on your sword? I have always wondered what it is like to fly like the immortals." He didn't want to have to walk all the way back and risk attack from those men in black again.
Zhong Xianlin grinned at this simple request, quickly accepting it.
He gripped the man's shoulder and brought him onto his sword, and they both flew up into the air.
"I work at Taohua brothel." Instructed Wu Yang.
Hearing this, Zhong Xianlin, couldn't help but ask, as they made their way to the destination, "Has there been any recent disturbances at Taohua brothel?"
Wu Yang thought for a moment. "About a month ago, one of our guests, a great man of court, Lord Xu, died by the Danqing killer, other than this...Nothing to note. Why do you ask?"
"Nothing much, I am just looking into the news." Replied Zhong Xianlin shaking his head. "Do you know of anyone by the name of 'Hua Yuwang that works there?"
Wu Yang was surprised. Why was he looking for the fake name that Hao Jingzhi had given him? Everyone in the brothel already knew it was a ruse by Hao Jingzhi anyway. He shook his head. "I don't know of whom you speak."
Zhong Xianlin was surprised by this, but didn't press further and dropped him off at the balcony, checking in with the other servants and seeing all their information matched, flew away again, to returned back to sit at one of the inns and await the shadows.
Wu Yang, on the other hand, quickly got his semicircle twin blades, and altered his disguise slightly, leaving the brothel for good. He didn't see Hao Jingzhi, so he left him a note and left without saying goodbye.
Zhong Xianlin on the other hand, was having another cup of tea at the tea shop he'd been in previously (he liked the tea), when suddenly two men in black leapt out of the darkness. "Young master!" They spoke in unison
He looked at the two bowing before him. they were obviously the two he'd just beat up a couple hours ago.
Wait a second... "...are you the shadows my father trained?" perhaps?
"Yes! Young master!" !!!! Zhong Xianlin immediately looked away.
"...I'm sorry for my rudeness."
"That isn't a problem, young master! Only.."
"Yes?"
"Where did you put Hua Yuwang?" Finished Chengzi.
Zhong Xianlin blinked.