Chapter 91: Senior Disciple, The Price Of Immortality
The man caught by Su Mo was a man in his forties, with dark skin and a lean build, but his joints all over his body were very prominent. At a glance, he was clearly the type who had practiced martial arts bitterly since childhood, with muscles like garlic cloves all over his body.
At this moment, after being grabbed by Su Mo by the back of the neck, the joints in his arms and chin had already been dislocated by Su Mo. His arms now dangled powerlessly with no ability to resist, his mouth unable to close, and with one leg broken, he was grabbed by Su Mo by the back of the neck, looking dejected and desperate, yet his eyes glared venomously at Zhang Qishan.
“This guy knows Shrinking Bone Skill!”
Su Mo said to Zhang Qishan:
“Just now, he drilled directly into the drainage channel under the wall, so your men couldn’t catch him!”
Zhang Qishan was delighted in his heart and nodded to Su Mo:
“Master Su did a great job. Although I brought so many people, you must have laughed at me!”
Su Mo smiled faintly:
“Buddha is too polite! This person is handed over to you, which can be considered repayment for that half day’s sky lantern fee!”
After saying that, he handed this black and skinny man over to Zhang Rishan.
Hearing this, Zhang Qishan couldn’t help but laugh:
“Master Su really doesn’t want to take advantage. Actually, that half day’s sky lantern fee was extra because of me, so I still owe you this favor!”
Su Mo smiled slightly and didn’t dwell on the favor issue, instead asking:
“What does Buddha plan to do with him?”
Zhang Qishan frowned and was silent for a moment, then said in a low voice:
“This person’s identity is very mysterious. I need to go back and interrogate him properly!”
Su Mo nodded:
“This person should be surnamed Wang. If Buddha interrogates anything, I hope you can inform me!”
Actually, Su Mo didn’t hold much hope that the Wang Family could interrogate anything from the Wang Family members, because these Wang Family members were likely all in single-line contact, with shallow relationships between each other, so there probably wouldn’t be much to interrogate.
Just like the old shopkeeper of the coffin shop at the stone tablet shop, he was just a warehouse manager responsible for storing grave goods, with the account book only recording which Wang Family member transported how many grave goods on what day, and who took what away.
The only common point was that they all had the surname Wang.
The Wang Family had lasted for hundreds of years, using this contact method to hide in Huaxia since Wang Canghai in the Ming Dynasty. Even if one or two were caught, it would be hard to uproot them all.
Therefore, Su Mo handed this black and skinny man over to Zhang Qishan without much hesitation.
Firstly, he wasn’t very good at interrogation, and secondly, Buddha Zhang Qishan had released the ghost seal precisely to lure out the Wang Family members. Su Mo had taken the ghost seal, and handing this person over to Zhang Qishan was mutually beneficial.
Zhang Qishan pondered for a moment and nodded:
“Master Su’s skills are superb. In the future, Zhang will probably need to ask for your help again! I’ll hand this person over to professionals for interrogation, and when there are results, I’ll notify you!”
After saying that, Zhang Qishan clasped his fists at Su Mo, then had Zhang Rishan and two Zhang Family Members take this black and skinny man out of the alley, while he himself brought two subordinates to Su Mo’s courtyard.
At this time, Zhang Qiling was holding the black gold ancient blade, standing beside the black flying bug. Chen Xia Zi had also come out of the house and, hearing Su Mo return, walked toward Su Mo:
“Master Su, this thing is extremely eerie. In my opinion, its making method is very similar to the gu people production method in Diannan!”
Seeing this old blind man immediately state the origin of the black flying bug, Zhang Qishan quickly asked:
“Master Su, this is…”
Su Mo smiled slightly:
“This is the Xie Ling Bandit Leader from back then, the Leader of Changsheng Mountain, Chen Yu Lou!”
Hearing this, Zhang Qishan immediately showed great respect:
“So it’s Leader Chen!”
He glanced at Zhang Qiling and Hu Ba Yi and the others, sighing:
“Master Su has a Fa Qiu Heavenly Official, a Mojin School Lieutenant, a Xie Ling Bandit Leader by his side, plus you as a Mountain Mover Daoist. It’s truly all four factions gathered—it’s fair to call them the four faction leaders!”
“I’ll take this black flying bug corpse first. When I have news, I’ll send Deputy Zhang over!”
After saying that, Zhang Qishan had two subordinates pack the black flying bug corpse into a body bag, carry it on their shoulders, and take it away.
Meanwhile, Zhang Qishan walked to Zhang Qiling and bowed down to him on the ground.
Zhang Qishan didn’t say anything, just bowed once, then turned and left silently.
He was also a Zhang Family Member. Although he had left the Zhang Family since his father’s generation, upon seeing the Zhang Family Clan Leader, he still paid respects as one would to the clan leader.
But Zhang Qiling had lost his memory and forgotten many past events, so Zhang Qishan didn’t want to say too much to him.
Zhang Qiling watched Zhang Qishan bow to him, his expression still calm as water.
Wang Pang Zi and Hu Ba Yi and the others saw this old man actually bow to Zhang Qiling and were extremely shocked.
“This old man is so old, yet he bows to this little brother…”
“What is this little brother’s background exactly!”
Zhang Qiling was always taciturn, and Su Mo hadn’t told them about Zhang Qiling’s background, so Hu Ba Yi and the others were all confused.
After seeing Zhang Qishan off, Su Mo turned to Hu Ba Yi and Wang Pang Zi and said:
“I have already taken Little Brother as a disciple. Although he joined as master later, he should be your Senior Disciple!”
Hearing this, Hu Ba Yi and Wang Pang Zi were immediately somewhat dissatisfied:
“Master, there should be some seniority order!”
“Exactly, he’s younger than us and joined later. No matter what, he should be the junior disciple!”
Su Mo smiled slightly:
“He’s not young. In fact, he might even be a bit older than the old man who just bowed to him!”
“What!”
Hu Ba Yi and Wang Pang Zi were immediately greatly shocked.
This little brother looked only in his twenties, yet he might actually be a few years older than Zhang Qishan?
What Su Mo said was the truth.
Zhang Qiling’s actual age was indeed about the same as Zhang Qishan’s, or even possibly a few years older.
During the late Qing Dynasty, a Zhang Family member fell in love with the Tibetan doctor Baima in Tibet, and they had a child— that child was Zhang Qiling.
Shortly after Zhang Qiling was born, his mother Baima became a Yama sacrifice and was buried by the lamas in Tibet in the Tibetan Sea Flower flower bush.
Later, Zhang Qiling was brought back to the Zhang Family old residence by his father, but soon his father died in internal strife. At that time, Zhang Qishan’s father also left the Zhang Family due to internal strife, taking some Zhang Family Members to wander outside, which later led to Zhang Qishan.
Then, after Zhang Qishan grew up, he led a portion of Zhang Family Members into the army and eventually became the Garrison Commander of Shacheng!
Zhang Qiling not only had kirin bloodline, but also possessed his mother Baima’s white phoenix bloodline. His bloodline power was extremely pure, and because he had to enter the bronze gate every certain period to guard the Zhang Family’s ultimate secret, he had always maintained the appearance of someone in his twenties.
He could truly be called immortal!
The only cost was that every certain period, he would completely lose his memory, so he often wandered in various places, only hoping to recover his memories, like repeating reincarnation after reincarnation.
And precisely because, although he possessed mythical beast bloodline and could live forever, he always couldn’t find all his memories, when Su Mo wanted to take him as a disciple, he agreed without hesitation.
