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Chapter Three Hundred and Sixty-Four
Half an hour later.
Long Xiaoshan set free eight ancient martial arts experts with somber faces.
Under Long Xiaoshan’s relentless interrogation, the eight disclosed everything, even the color of their underwear.
And they recorded it all in videos for Long Xiaoshan.
It wasn’t that their bones weren’t tough; if Long Xiaoshan really resorted to torture, these eight, being martial artists, would never yield to power, even enduring brutal torture if they had to, but Long Xiaoshan was cunning, despicable, and shameless, threatening to make them streak naked through the streets. For these people, who valued their reputation more than their lives, this was absolutely intolerable.
And once someone started talking, it was easy to make them spill all.
In front of everyone else, the eight recounted their own scandals.
It was like handing over their handle to the others.
So how could they let slide those who hadn’t spoken? Without the need for Long Xiaoshan’s coercion, they would make sure the silent ones spoke up to maintain a balance. Once everyone knew each other’s dirty secrets, the pot couldn’t call the kettle black.
After putting away his phone, Long Xiaoshan said, "Just be obedient, and after the auction ends, everyone will be safe and sound. I’ll return these videos to you. Otherwise, don’t blame me for spreading your videos across the entire network. With the internet being so advanced these days, I’m sure you don’t want to become an overnight internet sensation."
The eight martial artists’ cheeks twitched, and they all hung their heads low.
It was truly their bad luck to encounter someone like Long Xiaoshan who would stoop to any level.
After locking them in a room at Bai’s Medicinal Materials.
Long Xiaoshan walked out.
Zhao Xiaoqiao looked at Long Xiaoshan with a strange gaze.
"What are you looking at? Do you think I’ve become more handsome?" Long Xiaoshan touched his chin and said.
"Pah! I’m trying to see who is so shameless, coming up with such sleazy and despicable methods. Don’t say I know you," Zhao Xiaoqiao had witnessed the entire process of Long Xiaoshan’s interrogation of the eight.
These eight people were once renowned throughout Southwest, but in Long Xiaoshan’s hands, they were pressured to such a degree, she felt sorry for them. Profound level experts had fallen to this state, forced to confess things like stealing underwear from the lady next door as a child.
"You don’t know me? That’s great, then. I don’t have to bother crafting Magic Artifacts anymore, nor do I need to prepare any beauty potions."
"Ah, Instructor Gege, I was just joking with you," Zhao Xiaoqiao immediately put on a sycophantic expression and clung to Long Xiaoshan, cursing herself inwardly for being silly.
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The next day.
A piece of news swept out, causing tremors in the underground of Hechuan City.
Last night, experts from the Fan Family, Wu Family, and Hai Family took action together. Four Xuan level experts and four late stage Yellow level warriors launched a night raid on Bai’s Medicinal Materials, only to be all captured by the Special Action Division and detained.
If the crippling of the Jiaohe Double Fiends only stirred the anger of other martial artists,
Then the capture of the eight experts last night truly subdued most of them.
Four at the Xuan level, four at the late Yellow level—these were not mere cabbages. In the whole of Xichuan Province, there were only a handful of ancient martial families that could produce four Xuan level experts, and apart from the Tang Family, no other family dared to say they could easily handle such a formidable force.
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Yet such a force
Was indeed taken down by the Special Action Division.
They had long since investigated that the group coming to Hechuan City was the Special Action Unit Southern Sichuan Group, which was considered the weakest group in West Chuan of the Special Action Division, with only the group leader Zhao Xiaoqiao as a Xuan level expert. Since when had the South Chuan Group become so formidable?
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Either their information was incorrect, or the Special Action Division has hidden experts here.
But to capture eight people at the same time, even with all the experts from the Special Action Division deployed, it wouldn’t be easy, right? After all, experts aren’t fools. If they can’t win, wouldn’t they run? Yet, not a single one of the eight experts managed to escape.
The strength displayed was truly alarming.
No wonder Long Xiaoshan dared to speak on behalf of the Special Action Division, declaring that no one should mess with Bai’s Medicinal Materials during the auction, with such strength, he indeed had the qualification to make such a statement. For a time, the turmoil in Hechuan City has quieted down a lot.
Many people coveting the Snow Lotus also calmed down.
They weighed whether they had enough strength to confront the Special Action Division head-on.
Golden Dragon Garden, inside a luxurious villa.
A figure was practicing swordplay in the courtyard, with the sword light spreading like a mirage of flowers and water.
The fallen leaves all around were lifted into the air.
Following the dance of the sword light and driven by the Sword Qi, they seemed like a dragon and serpent made of leaves, moving along with that figure.
Two elders in their fifties or sixties walked in from the outside.
Watching the swordsman in the courtyard, they nodded in approval.
"Young Master Xiao’s swordplay has become even sharper, reaching the realm where the heart leads the intention."
Suddenly, the sword momentum peaked, and tiny sword energies burst out like a porcupine, slashing all the fallen leaves into fine fragments that floated down.
A suave young man around twenty-seven or twenty-eight stood with his hands behind his back amidst the fluttering leaf fragments, looking at the two elders who had come in, and said, "Uncle Jiang, Uncle Liu, you’ve arrived."
"Indeed, Young Master Xiao, we’ve just received intelligence related to that Long Xiaoshan."
"Oh?" Tang Xiao sheathed his sword and walked over.
The elder in grey recounted last night’s events.
"Interesting, this Long Xiaoshan has actually joined the Special Action Division, and even Fan Guobi of the Fan Family was caught by him. Originally, I wanted to wait for him to succumb to the pressure from all sides, then I would step in to protect him and then subdue him to join our Tang Family," the young man said with a light smile.
"Young Master Xiao, now that he has joined the Special Action Division, it’s indeed difficult to win him over," said the elder in grey.
"No matter, this lad’s sharp edges are showing—he clearly is an unyielding character. I’ll meet him." The young man’s eyes showed a hint of arrogance.
He is Tang Xiao, the number one genius of the younger generation of the Tang Family, famously known throughout the Southwest Hidden Gates. He entered the Xuan Level at the age of twenty-five and stepped into the Mid Xuan-Level before thirty.
Such talent is matched by only a few in the entire Southwest.
A mere country bumpkin blessed with some fortuitous encounters, how could he compare to him?
"With Young Master Xiao taking action, success is assured," flattered the two elders.
Although their strength was more formidable than Tang Xiao’s, they were worship master elders from outside the Tang Family. They could not compare with a core member like Tang Xiao, and with his talent, Tang Xiao was likely to take charge of the Tang Family in the future.
Inside Bai’s Medicinal Materials.
Because of the skirmish the night before, many things were destroyed, rendering the company unable to continue business operations. Thus, Long Xiaoshan simply gave the employees a break, leaving only himself, Bai Susu and Zhao Xiaoqiao to look after the company.
The auction was set for the day after tomorrow.
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So Long Xiaoshan still had two days’ time. However, having captured eight people the previous night, he probably had deterred most people by now—for as precious as the Two-hundred-year-old Snow Lotus was, it wasn’t as precious as one’s own life.
Just as Long Xiaoshan was preparing to practice, he sensed someone stepping into the formation. His Heavenly Eye swept over and saw three people walking in.
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