The sudden knock on the door stunned Hua Shi who was packing his things. Because he had just met the person and was not familiar with him, it took him a while to remember who the voice outside the door belonged to.
He hesitated and asked, "Master?"
Although the formal ceremony of becoming apprentice had not yet been held, the fact that the two became master and disciple was witnessed by everyone at the Spirit Transformation Conference. Hua Shi was quite satisfied with his master, so the call came out quite smoothly.
Xuan Shuzhi's concerned voice came from outside the door: "Are you still preparing for tomorrow's trip?"
Hua Shi responded, and did not dare to let his master stand outside the door for too long. He quickly dropped what he was holding and went forward to open the door for him.
He leaned over to take a look and saw that Xuan Shuzhi was the only one outside the room. Hua Shi muttered to himself that he didn't know what was going on. He looked at Xuan Shuzhi's expression before he took the initiative to invite him into the room.
After Xuan Shuzhi entered the room, he sat down on a stool beside the table, fiddling with the teacup on the table, and looked at the mess in the room caused by Hua Shi's packing. He then asked, "You are the young master of the Hua family. You brought a lot of people with you on this trip. I think it must be very uncomfortable to dismiss your followers and accompany me back to Xuanling Pavilion, right?"
Hua Shi quietly glanced at Xuan Shuzhi's expression and couldn't help but ask, "Master, do you know my name?"
Xuan Shu paused for a moment, then said in an angry and amused tone, "I just heard about it. Hua Shi is a good name."
Hua Shi blinked and stopped talking. He took the initiative to ask, "Master, do you have something to tell me this time?"
The two chatted like this, even though they had just become master and disciple, both of them acted as if they already had a deep master-disciple relationship. Fang Wei, as the only spectator in the room, found it extremely funny in his heart.
Both of these people were people he was familiar with. One of them was with him day and night, and the other was a friend with whom he had fought together in the past. Fang Wei knew best what the two people were like. Now they were pretending to get along with each other in a serious manner, and the scene was indeed very interesting.
While he was listening carefully to the conversation between the two, Hua Shi somehow avoided Xuan Shuzhi's question and took the initiative to ask, "Master, can I ask you a question?"
Xuan Shuzhi was somewhat curious about the question he was going to ask: "Go ahead."
Hua Shi rested his elbows on the table, staring at Xuan Shuzhi carefully with his face raised: "Master, you knew the Lord of the Spiritual Path and the Lord of the Wind and Rain Palace before, right? Are you old friends? How long have you known each other?"
From the moment Hua Shi said this, Fang Wei already understood what he was thinking.
Sure enough, after Xuan Shuzhi answered "yes", Hua Shi immediately stepped forward and asked, "Have you known each other for a thousand years?"
Xuan Shuzhi hesitated for a moment and said, "Of course there is." This time, before Hua Shi continued to ask, Xuan Shuzhi smiled and said, "Whatever you want to ask, you can ask directly. Master will not hide anything from you."
Hua Shi was not guilty when he saw that his purpose was known. He scratched his head and asked directly, "Master, do you know Liu Qishuang?"
When Xuan Shuzhi heard the name, his eyes changed: "Liu Qishuang?"
Hua Shi nodded, looking expectant: "Master, you know him, right?"
Xuan Shuzhi stared at Hua Shi for a moment, then whispered, "Of course I know him, but I'm curious. He has been dead for a thousand years, and there are no traces left. There are even fewer people who know him now. Where did you hear his name?"
Hua Shi couldn't explain why he had been to the abandoned main hall of the Spiritual Path and saw the portrait in the room. He hesitated for a moment and said, "It was from a book. Our Hua family has a record of events that happened a thousand years ago. I saw the name Liu Qishuang there, but there is very little about Liu Qishuang in that record. I only know that he once served as the acting Spiritual Master, and I don't know anything else."
Xuan Shuzhi listened to his words and said "Oh" seriously, but did not answer immediately. He waited until he finished speaking before asking, "Why do you want to know about him?"
Hua Shi: "Um...curious, I'm just curious. I heard that he and Ji Yuanling Lord had a very good relationship in the past. I want to know how someone like Ji Yuanling Lord could..."
His impression of Ji Yuan was still that of the hot-tempered and impulsive boy in Huiguangzhu. When he mentioned this to Xuan Shuzhi, it was difficult to change his impression for a while, and he didn't know what to say. Fortunately, Xuan Shuzhi spoke for him: "How can someone with Ji Yuan's temper be so close to others, right?"
Hua Shi nodded: "Yeah!"
Hua Shi reacted immediately after he heard the response. Judging from Xuan Shuzhi's appearance, he should be closer to Lu Yao, and not so close to Ji Yuan. However, even he knew that Ji Yuan was close to Liu Qishuang back then. How close are these two people?
The more he thought about it, the more bitter he felt, and he couldn't help but lower his opinion of Ji Yuan by several points in his mind.
Fang Wei not only watched his conversation with Xuan Shuzhi, but also saw clearly what was going on in Hua Shi's mind: "..."
It was clearly in Hua Shi's mind, but Fang Wei sometimes really wanted to know where all of his ridiculous ideas came from.
Xuan Shuzhi didn't know what Hua Shi was thinking, he just said slowly: "I don't know much about Liu Qishuang, but if you want to know, I will tell you what I know."
Hua Shi immediately moved a stool and sat down in front of Xuan Shuzhi, then began to pour tea and water, and brought a plate of fruit to place in front of Xuan Shuzhi.
Xuan Shuzhi asked with a smile: "What are you doing?"
Hua Shi said seriously: "Master, just keep talking, I will serve you tea and water."
Xuan Shuzhi stared at Hua Shi thoughtfully for a while, and without wasting any time, he took a breath and began to speak: "When Liu Qishuang was picked up by Lingdao, she should have been about ten years old..."
Xuan Shuzhi began to talk about what happened when Liu Qishuang first arrived at the Lingdao headquarters, and how he later temporarily became the master of Lingdao.
These processes were not detailed, and most of them were heard by Xuan Shuzhi from others, and there were some differences from the reality. Therefore, Fang Wei, who was listening to the conversation between the two, was not worried about what Hua Shi would find out after coming into contact with the information, nor was he worried about exposing his identity.
Because just as Xuan Shuzhi said, he did not have much contact with "Liu Qishuang" and was far from familiar with him. What Xuan Shuzhi was really familiar with was his identity as the evil master Fang Wei.
Although Xuan Shuzhi has now become the extremely powerful leader of the Xuanling Pavilion and has nothing to do with evil ways, and is even highly respected in the spiritual way, Hua Shi actually does not know that the current leader of the Xuanling Pavilion was once an elder of the evil Blood Crow Sect.
He is also one of Fang Wei's most trusted friends.
But is it true that Fang Wei once had two identities? Few people knew about it, and Xuan Shuzhi didn't know it either. So in his eyes, Fang Wei was Fang Wei and Liu Qishuang was Liu Qishuang. He and Liu Qishuang were indeed not familiar with each other.
Hua Shi just listened to Xuan Shuzhi telling the story of Liu Qishuang. It was just a few brief sentences, but for some reason Hua Shi listened attentively. Xuan Shuzhi couldn't help but teased him at the end, "Why are you asking about this? If Liu Qishuang hadn't been dead for many years, I would have thought you were attracted to him."
Hua Shi was stunned and couldn't help touching his cheek, not knowing what expression he had at the moment.
Is it that obvious?
Hua Shi couldn't help but ask the system in his heart.
Fang Wei remained silent and did not answer. The person involved really didn't know how to respond to him.
Although Liu Qishuang had indeed died a long time ago and the story about him had ended for too long, he had indeed participated in many things in the Spiritual Path and had changed the Spiritual Path a lot, so even if he spoke briefly, Xuan Shuzhi still spoke for a long time.
"But the battle between the spiritual path and the evil path was indeed something that many people did not expect, including those who were..." Xuan Shuzhi's narration finally came to an end. He paused for a moment before changing his words and saying, "Including me at that time."
Hua Shi was completely immersed in the story at this time. He had been brooding over the cause of Liu Qishuang's death for a long time. Now that he was finally about to know the truth of that year, he couldn't help feeling a little nervous.
"At that time, Xie Dao only wanted to enter the Ling Dao headquarters to take away a few things. When Fang Wei led his men to Ningshan, there was no big fanfare. Ling Dao refused to hand over the things. As the leader of Ling Dao at that time, Liu Qishuang took the initiative to discuss with Fang Wei alone to see if there was any room for maneuver."
Hua Shi was extremely worried after hearing this: "Fang Wei is both powerful and ruthless. How could Liu Qishuang agree to negotiate with him alone? Isn't he afraid that guy will take action?"
Xuan Shuzhi was interrupted by Hua Shi in the middle of his speech. He paused for a moment, then couldn't help laughing: "You worry a lot."
Hua Shi: “…”
Because he was too nervous, he almost forgot that he was listening to a story whose ending was already determined.
However, whenever he thought about the fact that the ending of this story had already been determined, the gloom in his heart could not help but grow even greater, as if he was watching things happen right before his eyes but had no way to stop it.
He waited for a while with a bitter face, and then continued to ask: "And then?"
"Then the two of them went into the house." Xuan Shuzhi drank some wine and tea, and recalled the past. He was present when this incident happened, so his description was a little more detailed than before. He continued: "At that time, they were talking in the study of the Lord of the Spiritual Path. What was strange about the Spiritual Path was that their study was hung with portraits of every Lord of the Spiritual Path..."
Hua Shi was stunned when he heard this.
portrait!
He knew that room! He had been there!
So it turns out that room... was the place where Liu Qishuang and the Lord of Evil had their conversation?
Hua Shi's mind was in turmoil, and he quickly asked, "What happened next?"
"Then it became what you know." Xuan Shuzhi observed Hua Shi's expression and saw that he had special concerns about Liu Qishuang, so he didn't have the heart to speak too directly, and only said: "At that time, everyone else was guarding outside the door. No one knew what happened in the room, and what the two of them talked about. Everyone only knew that they talked in the room for four hours. The room was very quiet at first, until the end, when suddenly there was a loud noise. Everyone was very nervous at the time, and when they heard the noise, they didn't care about anything else. No matter if they were from the spiritual path or the evil path, they all rushed in regardless of anything. The one who rushed in the front was the current master of the spiritual path, Ji Yuan."
Before Hua Shi could say anything, Xuan Shuzhi said, "So he was the first to see the situation in the room."
Hua Shi grabbed the hem of her clothes tightly: "So what does the room look like?"
Xuan Shuzhi said: "Liu Qishuang is dead. Fang Wei stabbed her in the chest with a sword."
With a flickering look in his eyes, Xuan Shuzhi glanced at Hua Shi's expression, and then added: "And the sword that killed him was his own sword, the Lingsha Sword."
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