Wandering Gods of Day and Night-Chapter 1190 - 454: Catastrophe Without Asking_3

"Senior Brother You Ting, the Ancestor Master requests your presence."

"Alas."

Zhao Youting responded with a sigh, hurriedly put down his cup, and stepped out of the carriage.

...

Zhao Youting entered the Hulu Taoist’s carriage with the child, where a strong aroma of liquor pervaded the air.

The Hulu Taoist was quite displeased, saying, "Too much wine leads to mistakes. On such important tasks, you are just like those undisciplined senior brothers, unable to resist the desires of the flesh."

"The Ancestor’s lesson is correct, however, You Ting has something to report."

"Speak," the Hulu Taoist said.

Zhao Youting immediately laid out his suspicions about the ’Butcher’s theft of the household’ in full detail.

Yet the Hulu Taoist listened the whole time as if hearing a joke.

Once Zhao Youting was parched from speaking, the Hulu Taoist coldly said, "Walking the Jianghu, surpassing the mundane world, it’s best to have less intention to harm others and more intention to guard against them,

but You Ting, I’m afraid you guard against others too much."

He sipped his cold tea and said, "If that butcher wants to steal from our Tunnel Armor Sect, he would face two difficulties,

first, how could he avoid the Ancient Tree Golden Bell of the Capital Mansion?"

The Ancient Tree Golden Bell is a monitoring magic artifact of each prefecture city’s Divine Department; if a master of six incense or more enters the city, the bell will ring loudly.

Once that butcher sets foot in the city, the bell will ring fiercely, and both the Divine Department and the Qintianjian would go to interrogate.

He wants to steal, but that would be as difficult as reaching the heavens.

"The second issue is, the mountain gate is not unattended. Your senior brother Zhao Zhibi is guarding the mountain. If he sees the butcher, he will surely send us a hall secret letter,

and I, along with Brother Copper Mirror, could return to Dunjia Mountain in an instant. Such a large mountain gate, how could a mere butcher cause havoc?"

"But..."

Zhao Youting wanted to say more, but was immediately cut off by the Hulu Taoist, "There’s no ’but’... there’s no need to keep talking about theft... You Ting, I only ask you, does Zhou Xuan have anyone to rely on in Mingjiang Prefecture?"

Seeing the Ancestor Master was angry, Zhao Youting no longer dared to act on his own and had to answer the question, saying,

"Reporting to the Ancestor Master, the so-called support Zhou Xuan has is just the You Shen of Mingjiang Prefecture and Ping Shui Prefecture."

"Anything else?"

"Also the butcher he’s recently befriended, and... the Incense Fire Taoist God."

Zhao Youting noticed some slip of the tongue in his words and corrected himself, saying, "The relationship between the Incense Fire Taoist God and Zhou Xuan has no substantial evidence according to the Qintianjian, it’s likely rumors twisted into a deep friendship."

"Even if it were a deep friendship, so what."

The Hulu Taoist’s brow finally relaxed, saying, "The Incense Fire Taoist God is at the Heavenly God Level, a Jing Country’s God, restricted from intervening meaningfully in the mortal world, we don’t need to worry,

as for the You Shen of Mingjiang Prefecture and Ping Shui Prefecture, I, the Ancestor, do not consider them a threat."

After the Hulu Taoist said this, he stretched lazily and said, "As for Zhou Xuan, he has no help before him, no magic treasures behind him. If we were to invade Mingjiang Prefecture and capture him, it would be as easy as catching a turtle in a jar. What else can he do but obediently follow us?"

"A person ready to be captured, yet he leaves me unsettled. The Ancestor Master is indeed old, having not moved through the Jianghu for a long time, and gets intimidated by such a young kid."

The Hulu Taoist waved toward Zhao Youting, saying, "Go, go, I also need to rest and recharge."

"Yes, Ancestor Master."

Zhao Youting lifted the carriage curtain, about to leave, when the Hulu Taoist admonished, "When you return to the carriage, rest well, don’t just indulge in wine."

"Yes."

After getting off the carriage, Zhao Youting was preoccupied with worry.

He increasingly felt that the butcher was very likely going to steal from them, launching a surprise attack on the Tunnel Armor Sect.

But the Hulu Taoist was obstinately ignoring his advice.

"Alas, if the butcher hasn’t gone to the Capital Mansion, it’s fine. But if he really has, what am I going to do?"

Zhao Youting served as a Star Official in the Capital City, having already moved out of Dunjia Mountain to own a large yard in the Capital Mansion, where he got married and started a family.

However... his wife also esteemed the Taoist path, and on the middle and end of each month, she would take the children to stay a few days at Dunjia Mountain.

During these days, his wife and children were residing in Dunjia Mountain.

"If the butcher went, my Yun Niang, Cai Er, and Huan Bao would all..."

Thinking this, Zhao Youting took out some talisman paper, wrote a sincere letter of advice for them to leave, folded it into a paper crane, and then used his own finger blood to give the crane vision.

Watching the crane automatically fly towards the Capital, Zhao Youting sighed and said, "Yun Niang, if you see the letter, make sure to take the family and leave, don’t delay. This is all I can do."

Zhao Youting was a person at the level of eight incense, but in the Capital Mansion, such a person was very small, very small indeed.

So small that the Tunnel Armor Sect had him go to meet with the "Earth Child," and, out of respect, he had no choice but to go.

So small that he knew coming to Mingjiang Prefecture to capture Zhou Xuan was likely a dead end, and yet he could only come,

so small that he guessed the butcher’s knife would go slaughter the Tunnel Armor Sect, and yet he could only write a letter urging his family to leave.

"Alas, in these troubled times, being such a small figure, being able to keep my family safe is already a blessing from the heavens... what I fear most is not being able to protect even them."

Gazing at the distant paper crane, Zhao Youting’s heart remained unsettled for a long time...

...

Today, many people entered the city of Mingjiang Prefecture,

not for anything else, but because the people of the prefecture city had already received a message from the government — that Mingjiang Prefecture’s great teacher, Zhou Xuan, was going to give a lecture in Xie Family’s Cave.

Thus, the citizens of the prefecture eagerly awaited, and those from the surrounding areas wanted to partake in the fortunate event and have the chance to admire Zhou Xuan’s magnificence.