Transmitting sound through the air is not a very advanced martial art.

But being able to transmit sound so steadily, even as if it is right next to your ear, is indeed a terrifying thing.

The guests below broke out in cold sweats instantly, and some even felt a little restless.

Before, most of them thought that the person performing upstairs was an actor who had never appeared, but when this sound rang out, this group of people still had something to understand.

There is probably only one person in the entire inn who can transmit sound through the air like this.

-The person who has not shown up since the beginning.

And indeed, many people came tonight with the intention of spying on the shopkeeper, and they vaguely sensed the solemn atmosphere in the air.

Although the song in his ears was still moving, his life was more important than his own.

However, among this group of noisy people, there was only one man who closed his eyes and listened quietly.

Li Qi noticed this man at a glance.

To be honest, if it was before, Li Qi would not pay attention to these things, because he was a swordsman, and he only needed to be fast when he drew his sword. He rarely cared about these details.

But since he took the medicine given to him by the shopkeeper last time, Li Qi actually vaguely felt that his meridians, which had been damaged for a long time, began to have internal strength slowly surging again.

He can see more clearly now, and hear more clearly, and sometimes even a gust of wind in the night can wake him up.

Just as he had keenly captured the difference of that person at this moment, Li Qi observed carefully to avoid alarming him.

This man... is different from the others.

The moment the singing upstairs ended, the guests below seemed to wake up.

Many people sighed deeply, and some shuddered all over. Everyone came to their senses and looked up at the same time. It

was quiet up there, without a single sound.

The strange man also sighed slightly at the moment the sound ended.

And the second before he sighed, he was still sitting in his chair.

The next second, he disappeared without a trace.

Not even a trace was left, just like a gust of wind blowing by.

"Dumb scholar?" It was also at this time that Li Qi's expression changed slightly.

He realized who that person was.

A crazy painter who liked to paint all kinds of beauties in the world.

This person had a strange temperament and would not easily appear in front of others. Only beauties could attract this man.

But how could this person appear in the inn?

Many people present sighed and hurried out.

Their footsteps seemed to be escaping, as if they didn't want to stay any longer, because they were afraid that the shopkeeper would come down from the building in a while.

Li Qi walked over to clean up the mess.

However, he found a flower at the place where the scholar just disappeared.

A fresh peony, it seems to have just been picked from nearby.

The dumb scholar would always give a flower to the beauty he admired, and he would paint this beauty into his painting and then keep it. Many people would pay a high price just to buy one of his paintings.

An idea suddenly popped up in Li Qi's mind.

Could it be that the dumb scholar wanted to paint the shopkeeper into his painting?

Chu Changzui also came over to clean up the plates at this time. He looked at the peony and asked in surprise, "When was it put here?"

"The dumb scholar's." Li Qi didn't say much.

But with just these few words, Chu Changzui understood everything, and his eyes gradually widened.

After a long, long time, Chu Changzui seemed to have suffered a huge blow.

He kept repeating "crazy, all crazy" as he slowly walked out of the lobby...

Li Qi didn't understand why Chu Changzui had such an expression, it was just like the expression he had when he saw the new books that the shopkeeper had sent a few days ago.

But he was more concerned about another thing.

If the dumb scholar wanted to do this, he would definitely appear in the inn again in the next few days.

As everyone knows, the dumb scholar is very serious about painting, he will definitely observe the shopkeeper carefully before he starts to paint.

Although the dumb scholar has not been heard of any behavior that likes to kill people, he looks like a crazy and dumb painter, but his lightness skills are first-class, and he is a person who needs to be more careful.

Li Qi was prepared to be more cautious.

As a swordsman, he would have some unique ways of dealing with these first-class people with light skills.

...

The next day was a very foggy day.

Feng Qing stretched lazily in her own tavern, and simply opened the door to let the fog into the inn.

She would definitely not dare to do this in modern society, because she really thought her body was too good.

But in ancient times, Feng Qing breathed in the fresh air and felt that her whole body was unblocked.

Then she opened a bottle of Coke.

A figure slowly walked over in the mist, and the shadow was very conspicuous even in the mist.

Feng Qing was drinking Coke, and she paused slightly when she saw the person coming in.

Is it Hua Jing?

Didn't he go back early because he was not feeling well? Why did he come here so early this morning?

Feng Qing sat up straight quickly. She thought Hua Jing came here to apologize for what happened yesterday despite being sick. This moved her a little.

Hua Jing is really worthy of her name. She is as gentle as her name.

Feng Qing has only seen such a gentle person in her life. She felt a little embarrassed.

Hua Chao did not come home last night and only returned to the inn this morning. In his arms, he still had the mask that the shopkeeper gave him.

Yesterday, he thought about why the shopkeeper gave him this thing for a whole night.

The things behind this mask are not so simple, and the things behind it are very big.

Hua Chaodu also spent a whole night thinking about what kind of person the shopkeeper is.

At first, he thought that the shopkeeper was a man who tried to disrupt the whole world like those ambitious people he had seen before. Later, he thought that the shopkeeper was a complete madman who didn't care about the constraints of the world and only wanted to achieve his desired goals.

But these thoughts seemed to have disappeared since the shopkeeper gave him this mask yesterday.

Why would a person with such a mask suddenly appear in an inn in this small town and be willing to be an ordinary shopkeeper?

"You..." Hua Chaodu was slightly stunned when he pushed the door and entered the room.

The shopkeeper seemed to have been waiting for him for a long time.

She was

drinking alone. She always drank in big gulps, as if she would never get drunk.

Drinking alone, even though she was alone, the shopkeeper always drank so happily.

Hua Chaodu had a lot to say to the shopkeeper, but when he saw her like this, he was stunned.

Then he heard the shopkeeper ask, "How do you feel now?"

This sentence choked back all the words Hua Chaodu wanted to say.

Hearing this, he suddenly began to examine himself.

Hua Chao was used to being disliked by everyone. He felt that he had long been used to walking in the dark and being with those dirty things.

However, yesterday he suddenly found that he was doing the same thing as before, but he received some looks that he had never received before.

He had killed those people who looked glamorous on the surface but did all kinds of bad things behind the scenes, but the people around him looked at him with horror and hatred, as if they all wanted him to die.

Those officials hated him, his colleagues envied him, and even the people didn't understand anything. Instead of scolding those corrupt officials who had died with him, they would rather talk about some living people.

- For example, the Dongchang eunuch who they said would always be in a high position and look at the people below with terrible eyes.

But he just robbed an ordinary wealthy family yesterday. He would not even look at such a family before. But a maid recognized the mask on his face.

One person recognized it, and everyone recognized it. After the first exclamation, countless people looked at him, and the light in their eyes was something Hua Chaodu had never seen before.

He even felt that such a look was particularly dazzling.

So he ran out as if escaping, and found a quiet place to meditate quietly, until he came here alone this morning.

What exactly do you want to do?

Hua Chaodu looked at the shopkeeper in front of him with a very complicated look.

He had a strange feeling that he might have been seen through by the person in front of him a long time ago.

Although the shopkeeper doesn't like to show her eyes, Hua Chaodu feels that she has him firmly under her control.

Is this... your original plan?

Hua Chaodu has always wanted to get involved in the martial arts world, but he has always lacked an identity - an identity that allows him to appear in front of the people in the martial arts world openly.

The people in the martial arts world hate and fear the court, but the martial arts world is turbulent. In order to prevent them from causing any trouble, Hua Chaodu still has to do his best to contact them.

But this mask is a brand new identity.

Moreover, it is an identity that Hua Chaodu never dared to think about.

However, the series of reactions it brings are also imaginable.

The shopkeeper is giving him a kind of power, a power to get more deeply involved in the martial arts world.

This shopkeeper...seemed to have unintentionally set up a trap for the entire martial arts world.

On this morning, no one knew that such a huge change had actually taken place in the martial arts world, and all the martial arts people were still kept in the dark.

He didn't think that the shopkeeper's handing of the mask to him was a casual move. In fact, it required taking a particularly big risk, because everyone knew what kind of person Hua Chao was.

A scary, evil and sinister villain.

Could it be that the shopkeeper was not afraid of what he would do after handing the mask to him?

Or did the shopkeeper already determine that he would not do this?

Hua Chao felt that his fingertips were trembling slightly. After thinking clearly about the cause and effect of this matter, even he felt a trace of fear from the bottom of his heart.

The truly scary person is the one who can manipulate the entire martial arts world silently. Hua Chaodu had only heard of it before, but this was the first time he saw it in his life.

Even a man like him trembled at such means, but he heard the shopkeeper opposite him calmly say, "You haven't eaten yet? Sit down first."

Her tone was as calm as if nothing had happened.

Hua Chaodu suddenly raised his head and looked at her.

This calm tone was somewhat unbelievable.

When the shopkeeper met him before, Hua Chaodu always knew that this person had a kind of madness deep in his bones.

Whether it was breaking into the palace at night or asking the East Factory Supervisor to perform for her, these sounded like things that only a madman would do.

However, in this quiet morning, she just looked at him quietly.

As calm as a bottomless lake.

Maybe the shopkeeper is not crazy, or maybe she has already gone crazy.

"The thing you gave me last night..." Hua Chaodu finally asked after being silent for a while.

"What thing?" The shopkeeper on the opposite side interrupted him before he finished speaking.

Hua Chaodu's heart tightened again.

The shopkeeper looked as if she really forgot what she gave him last night.

She deliberately avoided the subject.

Hua Chaodu felt that the sound of his heartbeat was a little loud.

Feng Qing just felt that Hua Chao in front of her was a little strange. She invited the person in front of her to sit down and eat. There were small cookies on the table that Li Qi had just made this morning.

Then she suddenly heard the person in front of her ask with a slightly trembling voice, "What do you... want most?"

What?

On a foggy morning, a beautiful woman suddenly came to her house and asked her what she wanted most.

If it were an ordinary person, they would probably kick the person in front of them out as a lunatic.

But Feng Qing is different.

Because she is a chuunibyou.

So this chuunibyou's expression immediately became serious, and she earnestly said the four words that she would always say when facing this problem since she was a child.

"World peace."