Chapter 82: Four Sect Supreme Leaders, Nine Gates Secrets
Yin Nanfeng saw Huo Xianggu, at such an advanced age, actually kneeling to Zhang Qiling, and could not help but be extremely surprised.
Su Mo, however, smiled faintly:
“You should indeed kneel!”
The reason he said this was because there was a cause.
Zhang Qiling was the Zhang Family Clan Leader, successor to the Fa Qiu Heavenly Official, and also the guardian of the Bronze Gate. Even if Zhang Rishan were here, he would need to kneel!
Back then at Four Girls Mountain, if not for Zhang Qiling’s intervention, the Huo Family would likely have been wiped out long ago!
And back then, the Nine Gates had an agreement with the Zhang Family to send one person to the Cloud Top Heavenly Palace every ten years to guard the Bronze Gate. Now, more than ten years had passed since the Nine Gates people went to the Bronze Gate, but the Nine Gates had not kept the agreement.
Therefore, it was Huo Xianggu and the others from the Nine Gates who had wronged Zhang Qiling!
After Huo Xianggu was silent for a while, she stood up, looked at Su Mo, and said coldly:
“I knelt to a Zhang Family Member, not to you!”
Su Mo smiled coldly:
“I am the Banshan Daoist Successor. Now Fa Qiu, Mojin, Mountain Mover, and Xie Ling, all four factions revere me. How can you not kneel to me?”
Upon hearing this, Huo Xianggu could not help but feel her heart jump suddenly, and she looked at Su Mo in shock once again.
Before, when she heard the conversation between Su Mo and Yin Nanfeng, she was only surprised by Su Mo’s identity as the Banshan Daoist and suspicious about Zhang Qiling’s identity, but she had not thought that Su Mo was actually the Venerable of the Four Factions: Fa Qiu, Mojin, Mountain Mover, and Xie Ling.
And Su Mo really was not boasting.
Hu Ba Yi and Wang Pang Zi were Mojin School Lieutenants, Chen Xia Zi was the Xie Ling Bandit Leader, and Zhang Qiling was the successor to the Fa Qiu Heavenly Official. Naturally, these three revered Su Mo.
Plus his identity as the Banshan Daoist, was there any falsehood in being the Venerable of the Four Factions?
Fa Qiu, Mojin, Mountain Mover, and Xie Ling were the four factions with the longest inheritance among Tomb Raiders, even more ancient than the so-called Old Nine Gates’ inheritance. And Su Mo was actually the Venerable of these four factions. Speaking of which, Huo Xianggu really should kneel to him!
Thinking of this, Huo Xianggu’s expression changed slightly. Suddenly, she really knelt down toward Su Mo, bowed very respectfully, then turned and walked outside.
Yin Nanfeng was stunned and slightly opened her mouth. Seeing Huo Xianggu come out, she quickly said:
“Where are you going?”
Huo Xianggu said faintly:
“Since the Venerable of the Four Factions of Fa Qiu, Mojin, Mountain Mover, and Xie Ling has arrived, my Huo Family should naturally yield the position. Just give me another private room!”
Yin Nanfeng had never expected that Huo Xianggu, who always thought highly of herself and was very arrogant toward everyone, would actually obediently give up her own private room.
In her shock, she was also stunned for a few seconds, but quickly led Huo Xianggu to the adjacent private room and seated her.
Su Mo, however, casually sat directly in this private room.
Zhang Qiling and the others also immediately sat in the nearby seats.
Wang Pang Zi and Hu Ba Yi exchanged a glance without speaking, but Da Jin Ya could not help but grin:
“Master, aren’t we being a bit too high-profile?”
Su Mo smiled faintly:
“Since we’ve come this time, we definitely can’t be low-key. Isn’t this just right!”
“Moreover, starting today, I don’t plan to be low-key anymore, because no matter what, we will become the focus of many people. Since that’s the case, why bother hiding it deliberately!”
For this auction’s Ghost Seal, Su Mo was determined to get it, so it would definitely cause quite a stir in the Capital City, and his identity would definitely enter the sight of many people.
So Su Mo might as well be even more high-profile, not just to establish authority, but also to make the so-called Nine Gates and even the Wang Family Members in the dark even more wary of him!
After speaking, Su Mo glanced at the private room of Zhang Rishan and Uncle Wu San not far away.
However, Zhang Rishan and Uncle Wu San and the others were still sitting inside the private room and did not come out.
Clearly, they were deliberately keeping a low profile and seemed not to want to get involved with Su Mo and the others right now.
Seeing that Zhang Rishan and Uncle Wu San and the others did not move, Su Mo could not help but smile coldly:
“This auction is indeed not that simple!”
Zhang Qiling was stunned for a moment:
“Why do you say that?”
Su Mo snorted coldly but did not explain to Zhang Qiling.
As a transmigrator, he naturally knew many secrets of the Tomb Robbery World.
The Zhang Family, as guardians of the Bronze Gate, had inherited it for many generations, and Zhang Rishan was only a collateral branch of the Zhang Family, without true Kirin Blood in his veins, but rather a Qiong Qi Blood mixed with ordinary human blood!
However, this man was indeed worthy of being a Zhang Family descendant, not only exceptionally capable but also very shrewd. He quickly became the Garrison Commander of Shacheng.
Many people knew about the matters of the Nine Gates.
The upper three gates are officials: Army Lord, Actor, Crutch Immortal.
The middle three gates are thieves: Yan Luo, Prodigal Son, Smiling Buddha.
The lower three gates are merchants: Beauty, Calculator, Chess Master!
And Zhang Rishan even became the head of Shacheng’s Nine Gates, known as the Nine Gates Admiral.
The biggest incident in Shacheng during his time was when a train full of dead people was brought into Shacheng, which opened an ancient tomb of Qingwu Zi in the southwest mountains of Shacheng, through which he learned of the power of Meteorite Copper.
This Meteorite Copper is said to come from outer space and possesses extremely strong power. It can cause mutations in living beings, synergize with the Corpse Beetle King, and even turn people into a Forbidden Woman. People who eat Corpse Beetle Pills containing the power of Meteorite Copper can even achieve immortality.
King Mu of Zhou in the Lu Wang Palace also ate the Corpse Beetle Pill of Queen Mother of the West, eventually wrapping himself in a Jade Coffin, but it was later opened by King Lu Shang and the Iron Masked Man, turning him into a Blood Corpse.
After liberation, the Nine Gates began to lay low, Zhang Rishan entered the leadership level of Huaxia, and began working on Huaxia archaeology and many things hidden behind the scenes, even quietly researching the relationship between Meteorite Copper, Queen Mother of the West, and the Zhang Family Members.
And at that time, Qiu Dekao, who colluded with the Japanese to seek the power of Meteorite Copper, failed in his plan after Zhang Rishan entered the Qingwu Zi Tomb, and with Huaxia’s subsequent drastic changes, he left Huaxia and returned to the Beautiful Country.
In 1956, Zhang Rishan planned the Ba Nai archaeology. In 1963, he planned the Four Girls Mountain archaeology. Both operations ended almost in failure. These two failures made Zhang Rishan feel that there was still a hidden force obstructing several archaeological operations.
Plus the failure of the South China Sea archaeology and the appearance of Qiu Dekao’s subordinate A Ning, perhaps Zhang Rishan felt that the Huaxia archaeology world was already surging with undercurrents.
Back then in Shacheng, he had already witnessed this dark power.
Before the liberation of Shacheng, the Wang Family Members released the Black Flying Bug!
This Black Flying Bug was a symbiotic creature of human and snake trained by the Wang Family Members. It was an extremely cruel and inhumane method, by inserting a black-haired brocade snake into the human body to replace the human skeleton and spine, making the Black Flying Bug possess human intelligence and the snake’s flexibility and viciousness, able to kill invisibly!
Therefore, this Ghost Seal auction was very likely a trap set by Zhang Rishan using the New Moon Hotel, with the purpose of drawing out this hidden force.
