Chapter 119 Her adoptive father’s enemies blamed her for being ungrateful!
Huo Yunzi originally thought that the treasures in Mingjian Villa were all lies told by Yi Youjian to deceive her, but she didn't expect that there really was a secret room.
Although the treasure has not been seen yet, it is obvious that the location where this secret passage leads to is most likely the so-called treasure hiding place.
Huo Yunzi took out a tinderbox and blew it out, then took a thick candle from the wall-mounted lamp holder, lit it with the tinderbox, and then placed the burning candle at the entrance of the secret passage. Seeing the candle flame swaying faintly, she judged that the air at the entrance of the secret passage was circulating. After waiting for a while, she felt relieved, closed the door of the armory, and stepped into the secret passage.
The secret passage was dark, with only a small ray of light from the candle in Huo Yunzi's hand.
She walked slowly into the secret passage, carefully observing the situation inside to see if there were any traps, taking every step very cautiously.
However, what surprised Huo Yunzi was that there was no trace of any mechanism in the secret passage, and the secret passage was not long. In just ten meters, she arrived at a not-so-big secret room.
Looking at the boxes in front of her that filled up most of the secret room, Huo Yunzi raised her hand and used the palm wind to shake open the lid of the box without opening the lid at close range. Then she saw a golden light flashing in the opened box - the box was filled with neatly stacked gold bricks!
This surprised Huo Yunzi. There really is a treasure!
The treasure was so easy to find that Huo Yunzi even suspected that someone had set a trap for her, or someone had deliberately tricked her into finding the treasure.
Huo Yunzi's mind was full of various conspiracy cases in the martial arts world that Si Yuan had instilled in her before she went down the mountain to gain experience.
Yi Youjian, who followed her and was caught by her and inexplicably told her the information about the treasure, the entrance to the secret passage that she accidentally opened by coincidence, and the dozen boxes in the secret room that seemed to be filled with gold nuggets...
No matter how you look at it, it seems like an opportunity tailor-made for her. It's such a coincidence, so coincidental that it seems like a conspiracy.
However, Huo Yunzi did not give up on these gold bricks because of this doubt. She used the wind from her palms to open more than a dozen other large boxes, which contained gold bricks, silver ingots, jewelry, jade... and even martial arts secrets.
It can indeed be called a treasure.
After Huo Yunzi confirmed that the treasure was real, she closed the boxes again. Then she returned the same way, exited the secret passage, and bent the weapon rack that she had accidentally knocked off angle back into place. The entrance to the secret passage then slowly closed.
However, after this wall was opened, a lot of the evenly distributed dust on it was rubbed off, leaving obvious marks.
Huo Yunzi used her inner strength to roll up a cloud of dust and spread it evenly on the wall, covering up the traces of the secret passage.
Then she opened the door of the armory and walked out. However, as soon as she came out, she saw a familiar figure on the opposite roof, peeking at her.
Huo Yunzi: “…” Fortunately, she remembered her father’s teachings and remembered to close the door of the armory before entering the secret passage, otherwise this guy might have seen her entering and leaving the secret passage.
The person on the opposite roof was Yi Youjian, who had returned after leaving Mingjian Villa. When Huo Yunzi was exploring the secret passage, Yi Youjian was also looking for her inside Mingjian Villa.
At first, Yi Youjian was waiting for Huo Yunzi to come out outside Mingjian Villa, but when no one came out, he thought Huo Yunzi left from another direction and did not go out through the main gate, so he could not help but come in to check what was going on.
After all, Mingjian Villa had been abandoned for a long time, and the traces of someone having been there would be quite obvious. Yi Youjian wanted to come in and see where Huo Yunzi had explored and whether he believed what he said about the treasure.
Then he was lucky enough to find that Huo Yunzi might have entered the armory. He didn't know when she entered, but she definitely hadn't come out yet.
When Yi Youjian was hesitating whether to show up and go to the armory, he was just hesitating and looking around, and Huo Yunzi came out of the armory and discovered his whereabouts.
Yi Youjian: “…” This was awkward. He said he just happened to meet her and wanted to be friends with her, not follow her. Would she believe him?
Huo Yunzi took a deep breath and flew onto the roof, drawing her sword and stabbing at Yi Youjian. Yi Youjian also drew his sword in time to block, but his martial arts skills were far inferior to Huo Yunzi's. He was knocked to the ground by Huo Yunzi in just a few moves, and the sword in his hand flew out and was nailed to the wall.
Yi Youjian looked in disbelief at Huo Yunzi who was looking down at him with the tip of the sword against his throat. He was two or three years older than Huo Yunzi, but his strength was so much weaker than hers!
Before, when Huo Yunzi put a sword on his neck, he could still comfort himself that he was ambushed by Huo Yunzi because of his negligence. He didn't want to fight with Huo Yunzi at that time. If they really fought, he might not be Huo Yunzi's opponent.
But now he found that Huo Yunzi had already seen him and had prepared herself mentally for action. She even drew her sword a few seconds before Huo Yunzi. Even so, Huo Yunzi knocked her sword away and knocked her to the ground in just a few moves.
This was hard for him to accept, as he had been surrounded by praise and heavy expectations since he was a child.
Isn't he known as a martial arts genius?
Wasn’t he said by his elders to be a martial arts genius who was better than all of them?
Why couldn't he last more than two or three moves at the hands of Huo Yunzi?
If he and Huo Yunzi tried their best and only lost by a little move, he could still accept it. He was a genius, and Huo Yunzi could also be a genius. When martial artists of equal strength fight, it is normal to win or lose by a little move. He can win back next time.
But what he didn't expect was that he didn't just lose a few moves, but could only defeat Huo Yunzi with a few moves.
This gap is like a strong person in the innate realm beating a person in the acquired realm, an adult beating a child, a master beating a newly-entered apprentice, a genius beating a waste...
His expression even revealed a bit of bewilderment. Could it be that his so-called genius was hyped up by his elders at home, and he was actually a waste?
Huo Yunzi was in no mood to care whether Yi Youjian's fragile self-esteem was hurt. She was too lazy to ask him why he was here. Even if she asked, he might not tell the truth.
Huo Yunzi herself was not good at interrogation, and it just so happened that she had to go back to the Sunset Sect to bring people to move the treasure from the secret room of the Mingjian Villa's armory.
So Huo Yunzi raised her hand and pressed several major acupoints on Yi Youjian in mid-air to subdue him, then tied Yi Youjian up and took him to the mountain gate of the Sunset Sect.
Huo Yunzi had just come down the mountain a few days ago when she came back with a handsome young man tied up. The disciples guarding the mountain gate were all stunned: "Huo, Senior Sister Huo, this is...
Huo Yunzi dragged Yi Youjian towards the mountain gate and said, "I caught a thief who was following me secretly. I'm taking him to see my father. You don't have to worry about me."
Yi Youjian smiled bitterly and followed Huo Yunzi's steps. His original plan was indeed to find an opportunity to get close to Huo Yunzi and then sneak into the Sunset Sect, but he never thought of entering the Sunset Sect in this way.
Yi Youjian was thinking hard about how he could get out of this situation.
Although the Sunset Sect is also a righteous sect, the martial arts sects will not be merciful just because they are righteous sects. No one in the martial arts world is merciful. His current identity is a thief who follows the daughter of the leader of the Sunset Sect. No one will feel sorry for him if he is killed by the Sunset Sect. He has to find a way to save himself.
Yi Youjian thought of more than a dozen excuses to save his life. While he was working on his excuses, Huo Yunzi took him to meet Huo Siyuan, the leader of the Sunset Sect.
Si Yuan looked at the boy who was tied up and dragged in by Huo Yunzi, and sized him up. Then he turned to look at Huo Yunzi and asked, "You just came down the mountain, why are you back so soon?"
Huo Yunzi glanced at Yi Youjian and replied, "Dad, this man claims to be Yi Youjian. When I was at Mingjian Villa, he secretly followed and monitored me. After I caught him, he said he came for the treasure of Mingjian Villa. I actually found a secret room in the armory of Mingjian Villa and found a batch of treasures. I suspect his true identity is actually Wan Buyin, the former young master of Mingjian Villa..."
Yi Youjian's pupils trembled as he listened nearby. There were so many elements in Huo Yunzi's words that he was so shocked that he didn't know how to react.
The treasure thing was just something he made up. If there really was a treasure, why wouldn't he go find it himself instead of telling Huo Yunzi?
And how did Huo Yunzi discover his true identity? Where exactly was he exposed?
And how could the treasure he made up so casually really exist?
He has seen it, no, it should be never hidden.
Wan Buyin was completely stunned. He never expected that after only one or two encounters with Huo Yunzi, he was not only caught, but also had his true identity exposed somehow.
Wan Buyin was really puzzled. He even forgot to ask Huo Yunzi whether she really found the treasure he made up. He couldn't help but ask Huo Yunzi, "How did you find out my true identity?"
Huo Yunzi also looked at him in surprise: "You really are not hiding anything?"
Wan Buyin: “…” Stop pretending. If you didn’t really know my identity, how could you have guessed that Yi Youjian was Wan Buyin?
Huo Yunzi kindly explained his confusion to him: "I was just guessing. My father taught me that when you go out, you must not choose a pseudonym that is related to your own name. Because most people like to say their real name backwards or use antonyms when choosing a pseudonym. The pseudonym you chose, 'Yi Youjian', is not 'Yi Youxian'? It just happens to correspond to 'Wan Buyin'. If it was somewhere else, I might not have thought of Wan Buyin, but it happened to be in Mingjian Villa..."
Wan Buyin: “…” He was quite proud of this pseudonym when he first chose it. He felt that it was related to his real name and it was also nice and meaningful.
I never expected that my true identity would be exposed because of a pseudonym.
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