Chapter 340: Xiao Se's plan, Yun Yun meets Ya Fei
In the reception room of the Nalan family.
"Ms. Yafei, what do you think about Master Xiao Huohuo..." Nalan Su said hesitantly.
"Master Nalan, don't worry. When Master Xiao Huohuo comes back, I will convey your words. I will beg him to save old man Nalan." Ya Fei did not make any promises, she just said to convey and beg. As for whether Xiao Se would come, it was not her business.
"It's troublesome." Nalan Su could hear Ya Fei's perfunctory response, but he also knew how difficult it was to hire a high-level alchemist. Therefore, he could only try his best. If Nalan Jie fell, his Nalan family would be in danger and might very well follow the fate of the Xiao family.
Just then, the housekeeper of the Nalan family walked in. He first bowed slightly to Ya Fei and then walked to Nalan Su.
Seeing that the butler seemed to have something to say to Nalan Su, Ya Fei naturally would not want to make things difficult for herself, so she bowed slightly and said, "Master Nalan, Ya Fei will take her leave first."
"Please go ahead, Miss Yafei." Nalan Su stood up and sent Yafei to the door, then watched her leave.
"Tell me! What's the matter?" Nalan Su turned his back to the butler and said lightly.
"Master, the old master is saved. The young lady just came back and said that the alchemist who possesses the strange fire has been found. It's Master Xiao Huohuo who won the championship in the Alchemist Conference three years ago. The young lady also said that Master Xiao Huohuo would come to visit us soon." The butler said excitedly.
Hearing this, Nalan Su's eyes lit up, and his face showed undisguised excitement, "Where is Yanran? Bring her to see me quickly."
The housekeeper shook his head and said, "The young lady said she was tired and went back to her room directly, but..."
"But what?" Nalan Su asked.
"The young lady seemed to have cried when she came back. Could it be that someone bullied her?" the housekeeper said hesitantly.
"Looking at the entire Jiama Empire, it's good enough that she doesn't bully others. Unless..." Nalan Su raised a sly smile at the corner of his mouth unless it was because he was crying with joy to see Xiao Huohuo again.
Thinking of this, a beautiful plan took shape in Nalan Su's mind. Perhaps it would be best if Nalan Yanran could have more contact with Xiao Huohuo so that things could be settled after the fact...
On the other side, Yafei walked gracefully on the bluestone pavement of the Nalan family compound. Suddenly, Nalan Yanran's voice rang out from behind her, "Sister Yafei, please wait a moment. I'll see you off..."
Ya Fei turned sideways and saw Nalan Yanran walking towards her quickly.
"Is there anything wrong, Sister Yanran?" Yafei asked as she walked, covering her red lips lightly.
"I met Brother Xiao Se today." Walking side by side with Ya Fei, Nalan Yanran glanced at Ya Fei's charming and seductive face with her beautiful eyes, as if she wanted to see something from her face.
Unfortunately, as a social master, Ya Fei would not be shaken by a little girl like Nalan Yanran. He pretended to be surprised and asked, "Is it the famous Xiao Se from Wutan City?"
"Sister Yafei, don't you know?" Upon hearing this, Nalan Yanran was stunned, and a hint of surprise flashed across her beautiful eyes.
"I don't know what?" Ya Fei looked puzzled, thinking to herself, this girl must be upset after seeing that enemy and her teacher getting together! She wanted to get something out of me, but unfortunately, her purpose was too obvious.
"Oh... nothing." Seeing that Ya Fei didn't seem to be lying, Nalan Yanran didn't ask any more questions. If she made a mistake and exposed Brother Xiao Se's identity, she would be uneasy. She immediately changed the subject and said, "Recently, there have been rumors in the capital that Brother Xiao Huohuo and Sister Ya Fei have a good relationship. I wonder if it's true?"
"Well, that's right. We have always had a good relationship." Ya Fei said with a smile.
Hearing this, even Nalan Yanran, who was not good at socializing, could tell that the other party was being ambiguous!
"Sister Yanran, just send you here. If you want to know more about Master Xiao Huohuo, you might as well go explore it yourself." Yafei smiled and walked out of the Nalan family's gate.
Watching the charming figure of Ya Fei going away, Nalan Yanran fell into deep thought. After a while, she murmured in a low voice: "Does she want me to fight for it myself?"
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The meeting hall of Yunlan Sect.
"So the Soul Palace guardian has been looking for you unilaterally all along!" Xiao Se asked Yunshan.
Yunshan nodded solemnly. Although the secret technique that the Soul Palace left in his body had disappeared, the crisis for the Yunlan Sect was far from over. The Soul Palace guardian might come back at any time.
"Then do you have any way to contact him?" Xiao Se continued to ask.
"Now that you mention it, I remember it." Yunshan took out a black jade token with the word 'Soul' on it from his storage ring and said, "This was left by the Soul Palace guardian. He asked me to keep a close eye on the Xiao family's movements after I broke through to Dou Zong. If there is any major discovery, I can crush the jade token and send him the news."
Xiao Se nodded, with an intriguing smile on his face: "Well, then you contact him directly and tell him that you found a powerful soul body that uses the white flame in the Xiao family kid. In three years, the Xiao family kid will come to Yunlan Sect."
"Do you mean to use the kid from the Xiao family as bait to lure the Soul Palace guardian to show up?" Yun Yun, who was sitting next to Xiao Se, asked in surprise.
"Yes, if it were any other reason, the Soul Palace Guardian might become suspicious, but with this reason, even if he knows it is a trap, the Soul Palace Guardian will jump into it." Xiao Se explained with a smile.
Yunshan swallowed his saliva and said, "Isn't this too risky? The strength of the Soul Palace Guardian is..."
"I know that the Soul Palace has a strict hierarchy. There are three levels of guardians alone: human level, earth level, and heaven level, which correspond to low-level Dou Zong, mid-level Dou Zong, and high-level Dou Zong respectively. The guardian you came into contact with is undoubtedly an earth-level guardian. If his conspiracy succeeds and he devours your soul and the souls of most of the disciples of the Yunlan Sect to break through to the high-level Dou Zong, then I will still be afraid of him. But for the mid-level Dou Zong, I am confident that I can make him fall here." Xiao Se explained.
"There are high-level Dou Zongs..." Yunshan took a breath of cold air. At this moment, he seemed to have aged by dozens of years. The guardians were so strong, so he dared not think about being any stronger.
"I believe you." Yun Yun held Xiao Se's hand and said gently.
Hearing this, Xiao Se gave a reassuring gentle smile. Then he continued to say to Yunshan: "Senior Yunshan, don't worry too much. Although the Soul Palace is strong, it can't deploy too many people in the small border country of the Jia Ma Empire on the Dou Qi Continent. As far as I know, there are only two Soul Palace guardians in the surrounding countries and even in the Black Horn Region. The other one is weaker than the one who contacted you, and we won't see him for a short time. But as long as you kill the guardian who contacted you, everything will be fine."
"Then when is the right time for me to notify the Soul Palace guardian?" Yunshan asked.
"Three days before the three-year agreement!" Xiao Se pondered for a moment, and said, "If I notify him in advance, there's no guarantee that the Soul Palace guardian won't call another one. If one of them escapes, the consequences will be disastrous. Three days in advance, even if he wants to notify, the time is not enough. In order not to alert him, I will show the aura of a Dou Huang to the outside world, so that I can catch him off guard at the critical moment."
Next, Xiao Se discussed the specific details of the ambush plan with Yunshan and Yun Yun. An hour later, he took Yun Yun out of the conference hall.
After walking out of the gate, Xiao Se put on the Xiao Huohuo mask again, and under the envious and awe-inspiring gazes of all the disciples and elders of the Yunlan Sect, he walked towards the gate of the Yunlan Sect hand in hand with Yun Yun.
"I don't understand you. You are so powerful, yet you still wear a mask." Feeling the vague gazes around her, Yun Yun's pretty face flushed slightly. She tilted her head to look at Xiao Se's profile after his disguise and said a little depressed.
"Before you have absolute strength, it's better to keep a low profile. I don't want the Soul Palace to know that I'm from the Xiao family. Xiao Yan should attract the fire." Xiao Se smiled.
"That kid from the Xiao family is unlucky to meet you." Yun Yun rolled her eyes and said. Although she was coquettish, she didn't mean to think Xiao Se was being too much. She was indifferent by nature and only cared about the people she cared about. She didn't care how many people who had nothing to do with her died.
"No storm, no rainbow. Xiao Yan has always been so awesome since he was young. It would be good for him to suffer more beatings in society." Xiao Se curled his lips.
"It's up to you." Yun Yun said, "By the way, there is something I want to ask you."
"What's the matter?" Xiao Se asked puzzledly.
"Did you kill Elder Yun Leng?" Yun Yun asked casually.
"Well, at the Miter auction, I bought a low-level earth-level fighting skill, and it was given to me to kill and rob. I sent him off and scattered his ashes." Xiao Se curled his lips and said half-jokingly, "Why? Yun'er, you are not going to avenge that old guy, are you?"
"If I wanted revenge, I wouldn't have suppressed this matter. When I came back from the Monster Mountain Range, I heard that Elder Yun Leng was missing. After some investigation, I thought of you." Yun Yun glanced at him with her beautiful eyes and said with some resentment: "Although Elder Yun Leng was wrong first, he is the chief elder of Yun Lan Sect after all, representing the face of Yun Lan Sect. I beg you not to publicize this matter."
"What are you promoting? Yun Leng? Have I ever seen this person?" Upon hearing Yun Yun's words, Xiao Se immediately pretended to have lost his memory.
Seeing Xiao Se's expression, Yun Yun couldn't help laughing and said, "Well, it's time for you to go to Nalan's house. Yanran must be waiting anxiously."
Hearing this, Xiao Se was stunned and asked in confusion: "Aren't you going?"
"I still don't know how to face Yanran." A hint of panic flashed across Yun Yun's beautiful eyes. After all, she was her disciple. Knowing that her disciple liked Xiao Se, she still started a relationship with Xiao Se. Although it was all passive, embarrassment was inevitable.
"Then just wait outside. As for the poison in that old guy Nalan Jie, I can just sneeze and it will be cured." Xiao Se held Yun Yun's hand and said with a smile.
"Yeah." Yun Yun nodded. It had only been less than a day since she started dating Xiao Se, and she was reluctant to part with him so early.
After a while, Xiao Se and Yun Yun arrived at Nalan's house.
Since Yun Yun currently doesn't know how to face Nalan Yanran, she chooses to stay in the air and wait.
"Hmm? It's that girl Yafei." Yun Yun was floating in the sky, looking around in her spare time, and happened to see Yafei who had just got off the carriage at the Mittel Auction House headquarters. Recalling the rumors about Yafei and Xiao Se, Yun Yun hesitated for a moment and finally decided to go and ask what was going on.
At the same time, Xiao Se, after disguising himself, walked into the Nalan family mansion under the hospitality of the Nalan family's steward.
"Lord Xiao Huohuo, please wait here for a moment. I will go and inform the master of the family and the young lady." The butler said respectfully.
"No need, I'm in a hurry, take me to see Mr. Nalan." Xiao Se said impatiently. Just now, his soul power sensed that Yun Yun seemed to go to Miter Auction House, which meant something was wrong.
"This is it." After hesitating for a moment, the butler winked at the maid and asked her to inform Nalan Su and Nalan Yanran, while he took Xiao Se to Nalan Jie's residence.
"Old patriarch, Master Xiao Huohuo is here to remove the poison for you." As soon as he entered the room, the housekeeper came over and helped Nalan Jie, who was lying on the bed, up.
Nalan Jie's skin was black, he was skinny, his body was trembling slightly, and he was sweating. He was obviously in great pain. When he saw Xiao Se coming in, he said in a weak voice, "Xiao Huohuo, my friend, please excuse me. I am poisoned. Please don't blame me if I am not a good host."
Xiao Se waved his hand without answering. He suddenly stretched out his right hand, and golden light pulsed in his palm. Strands of invisible and intangible Fallen Heart Flame quietly sank into Nalan Jie's body.
The next moment, Nalan Jie's heart-wrenching screams echoed in the room, "Ah!"
"Lord Xiao Huohuo, what are you doing..." The butler looked terrified, he didn't understand what was going on.
"Detoxify." Xiao Se replied with two words indifferently.
At this time, Nalan Su and Nalan Yanran, who were attracted by Nalan Jie's screams, also rushed over.
At this time, Xiao Se had just finished removing the poison. He slowly withdrew his palm, and in his palm there appeared a pill that was completely black and emitted bursts of black mist.
"Brother Xiao Huohuo, this is..." Nalan Yanran glanced around the room, looked at Nalan Jie whose complexion had returned to normal, then looked at the frightened housekeeper, and finally fixed her gaze on Xiao Se, and couldn't help asking.
"The poison has been completely removed from the body. After a period of recuperation, your grandfather will wake up." Xiao Se put the black pill into the jade bottle and threw it into the storage ring. Then he patted Nalan Yanran's shoulder and said, "Yanran, I have something to do first."
As he spoke, Xiao Se walked out of the room on his own, without paying any attention to Nalan Su and the others in the room.
"Oh! I'll see you off." Nalan Yanran was slightly startled when she heard that. When she came to her senses, she chased out of the room, but Xiao Se was no longer there.
She looked far away in a certain direction of the sky, a hint of shyness and secret joy appeared on her beautiful face, and she thought to herself, he just called me Yanran.
In the room, Nalan Su, who had just checked Nalan Jie's body, saw Nalan Yanran's performance. Although the Nalan family was puzzled about Xiao Huohuo's dislike for him, it seemed that his precious daughter got along well with him.
He immediately walked out of the room, patted Nalan Yanran's shoulder, and said with a wry smile: "Daughter, the person has left, it's time to come back to your senses."