If we can't get anything out of Wang Chao, then we can only try to get some clues about the treasure map from Zuo Xintian.
Liu Xiaoyuan asked, "Tell me the truth, or I'll have to take action."
Zuo Xintian glanced at Liu Xiaoyuan and said, "I'm telling the truth, I'm not lying."
"Looks like you're going to have to suffer the consequences instead of being polite." Liu Xiaoyuan immediately summoned the prank master Zhou Xingxing and gave him a truth lollipop. However, Zhou Xingxing was only a powerful figure in the realm of mastering internal energy, and his truth lollipop had no effect on Zuo Xintian.
Left with no other choice, Liu Xiaoyuan had to resort to other methods.
After being tortured, Zuo Xintian immediately confessed the information about the treasure map.
This treasure map originally belonged to the Zuo family. More than a hundred years ago, the Zuo family produced an extremely powerful figure who was already a cultivator, although he had only just entered the Qi Refining realm. Nevertheless, this was already quite remarkable.
At that time, the Zuo family was incredibly wealthy because of this Qi Refining Realm expert. They could get whatever they wanted and accumulated countless riches.
However, fame brings its own set of problems, and the Zuo family's immense wealth immediately attracted the covetous eyes of many. Thus, a conspiracy against the Zuo family was launched.
In this conspiracy, the Zuo family was devastated and was basically wiped out by their opponents, with only Zuo Xintian's grandfather escaping.
Long before the incident, the Zuo family had hidden a treasure trove of assets, including a manual that showed how the Zuo family's most powerful ancestor had cultivated to the Qi Refining Realm.
However, when Grandpa Zuo Xintian escaped, he did not take the treasure map with him.
For three generations, Zuo Xintian and his family had lived in anonymity until Zuo Xintian became a master of the first level of the Innate Realm. Only then did they dare to venture into the capital to see if they could find any clues to their family's treasure map.
Who would have thought that after searching high and low, the treasure map of the Zuo family would appear at the auction so easily? Zuo Xintian was overjoyed and immediately ordered Wang Chao to buy the treasure map at all costs.
Others may not know if this treasure map is real or fake, but Zuo Xintian does. Ever since he could remember, his grandfather had always mentioned that the Zuo family had a treasure map that had gone missing. On their treasure map, there was a clear mark: a crescent-shaped notch in the upper left corner.
After Zuo Xintian finished speaking, he immediately said to Liu Xiaoyuan, "Brother, I've told you everything I need to tell you. Please let me off the hook."
Liu Xiaoyuan thought to himself, since the treasure map belonged to the Zuo family, he wouldn't try to take what belonged to others. In any case, money wasn't that important to Liu Xiaoyuan anymore.
"Get lost!" Liu Xiaoyuan said.
Upon hearing Liu Xiaoyuan's words, "Get lost," Zuo Xintian felt as if he had been granted a pardon and immediately left, not even bothering to care about Wang Chao.
After Zuo Xintian left, Liu Xiaoyuan sighed, wondering if he had been too merciful to let Zuo Xintian go so easily. If it were someone else, they would probably have snatched the treasure map and kept it for themselves.
"Looks like I'm still a really good person!" Liu Xiaoyuan shook his head and muttered to himself.
Liu Xiaoyuan stood by the roadside, preparing to flag down a taxi to go back to the hotel. Just as he was waiting for a taxi, Zuo Xintian fled back in a disheveled state. Seeing Liu Xiaoyuan standing by the roadside, he shouted, "Brother, save me, save me!"
Liu Xiaoyuan looked over and saw two people chasing after Zuo Xintian, who was running towards him in a disheveled state.
Panting heavily, Zuo Xin ran up behind Liu Xiaoyuan and cried out, "Brother, save me! Brother, save me!"
The two men chasing Zuo Xintian also stopped in front of Liu Xiaoyuan. The two men, one fat and one thin, looked quite comical together.
"Kid, this is none of your business. Get out of the way, or don't blame us for being impolite!" the skinny man said.
Liu Xiaoyuan glanced at the skinny man, then turned to Zuo Xintian, who was hiding behind him, and asked, "What exactly is going on?"
Zuo Xintian glanced at the two men and said, "They want to kill me. I beg you, brother, to save me."
"Kid, this is between us and Zuo Xintian, please don't interfere," the fat man said.
"What exactly happened?" Liu Xiaoyuan ignored the fat man and the thin man and continued to press Zuo Xintian for answers.
The fat man and the thin man wouldn't be chasing Zuo Xintian for no reason; there must be a hidden reason, perhaps related to the treasure map on Zuo Xintian's body.
Zuo Xintian said, "They're after the treasure map I have."
Sure enough, these two people were after the treasure map on Zuo Xintian's person. What puzzled Liu Xiaoyuan was how these two knew that Zuo Xintian had obtained the treasure map.
"Zuo Xintian, hand over the treasure map," the skinny man shouted.
Zuo Xintian said, "You're dreaming if you want the treasure map. I'd rather destroy it than give it to you!"
"Zuo Xintian, don't be so greedy. The treasure map belongs to all of us. Isn't it too greedy of you to try and keep it all for yourself?" the fat man said coldly.
Hmm? Hearing the fat man's words, Liu Xiaoyuan's gaze fell on Zuo Xintian. It seemed that Zuo Xintian had been lying to him before.
"What exactly happened? You were fucking lying to me, weren't you?" Liu Xiaoyuan grabbed Zuo Xintian by the collar and asked.
Knowing his lie had been exposed, Zuo Xintian quickly said, "Brother, if you help me defeat these two, how about we split the Zuo family's treasure equally?"
Damn it! It turns out I was tricked by Zuo Xintian before. Damn it, only Liu Xiaoyuan is good at lying, not the other way around. This made Liu Xiaoyuan very angry.
"Damn it, I hate being lied to the most!" Liu Xiaoyuan slapped Zuo Xintian across the face, threw Zuo Xintian in front of the fat man and the skinny man, and said, "I just met this guy, and I was just lied to by him."
Upon hearing this, the fat man and the thin man cupped their hands to Liu Xiaoyuan and said, "Brother, since it's a misunderstanding, we won't hold it against you."
The fat man and the skinny man immediately began searching for the treasure map on Zuo Xintian's body. After searching through it, they finally found the treasure map in Zuo Xintian's hand.
After obtaining the treasure map from Zuo Xintian, the fat man and the skinny man exchanged glances, then said to Liu Xiaoyuan, "Brother, come here for a moment, we have something to tell you."
The Feast at Hongmen!
Liu Xiaoyuan could tell from their eyes that they had ill intentions. They were just pretending to ask him to come over to talk about something; they probably wanted to kill him to silence him, since the fewer people who knew about the treasure map, the better.
(End of this chapter)
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