Unparalleled Double Harmony

Chapter 495: Second Life Still in Danger

If someone with an impulsive personality were here today, faced with the abbot's blatant provocation, he would probably start fighting with him without saying a word.

But Wu Mingzi is obviously not that kind of person.

"From the looks of it... Brother Fang, are you intentionally trying to make things difficult for me?" Before taking action, Wu Mingzi made sure to use words to confirm that the other party was primarily responsible.

Because at this moment, everyone in the backstage had already turned their attention to the tent, and everyone must have seen the confrontation between Wu Mingzi and the abbot.

If the two really start fighting later, there will be a big difference between saying this one more sentence or saying this one less sentence before the fight.

It's like someone asking you "Is this melon ripe?"

If you reply to him with "I run a melon stall, how can I sell you green hands?" or "Are you deliberately looking for trouble, are you? Do you want one?", then you will still have room to maneuver if there is an argument afterwards, because this is not a positive, affirmative response.

But if the other party asks again, "What if I'm not familiar with it?"

If you give an answer like "I'll eat it if it's not cooked", which is a confirmation, a bet, or a promise, then you will be responsible for the consequences.

This is what Wu Mingzi meant when he was able to keep his composure and asked this question.

As long as the abbot dared to say in front of so many people, "I am making things difficult for you today, so what?", then if Wu Mingzi attacked again, no matter what the consequences were afterwards, the abbot would not be able to settle the score with him.

But who would have thought that just as the abbot was about to speak, a neckless man suddenly popped his head out of the tent behind him.

"Senior Wu Mingzi, this is wrong." Huang Donglai said as he lifted the curtain and walked out of the tent. "Brother Fang is just doing his duty. How can you say he is deliberately making things difficult for you? It's you who is making things difficult for him, right?"

"That's right." Two seconds later, Sun Yixie followed Huang Donglai out and said, "Senior, you are also an old hand. You should know that Brother Fang's words are not pleasant to hear. Just from those few words just now, you don't want to make it look like he is going to fight, right?"

As soon as these two guys came out, the already tense atmosphere backstage suddenly relaxed.

Because everyone subconsciously thought: as long as Sun and Huang could still maintain such a relaxed attitude, it meant that nothing serious had happened in the tent.

The only person at this moment who not only did not let go of his worries, but was even worried about them, was Wu Mingzi.

Not to mention that Sun Huang used just two sentences to force him, the person being argued with, to be the wrong party, which was considered a small matter...

For Wu Mingzi, the real question was: if the two guys were not pretending to be calm, and no one was killed in the tent, what happened in there? Could it be that... the young master of the Huangmen had resolved the trick of Wuying Duzun?
Of course, even so, Wu Mingzi was not yet panicked.

Because he didn't know that the other party had already known that he was pretending to be a "masked man", so he thought that his current actions had not revealed any major problems.

Moreover, it is not certain now whether Sun Huang just discovered that Dugu and his son were poisoned, or he already knew that the poisoner was the Shadowless Poison Lord.

To take a step back, even if they already knew that the person who poisoned was Shadowless Poison Lord, it doesn't mean they know who hired Poison Lord.

After all, Wu Mingzi had witnessed the retreat of Poison Lord with his own eyes before, which meant that at least before Poison Lord ran away, everyone here was still in the dark. Now that everyone is gone, even if they have any suspicions, they cannot track them down.

"Uh... I... I also saw that there has been no movement inside for a long time. I was anxious and wanted to ask about the situation." Wu Mingzi said, "Since there is nothing wrong, then..."

Wu Mingzi settled the account in his mind, calmed himself down a little, and wanted to say a few perfunctory words to get away.

However, unexpectedly, at this moment, there was a commotion outside the venue, and many disciples of the Baquan Sect and the Murong Family ran into the backstage and reported something to Huo Ming's direct disciples and several young masters of the Murong Family.

Upon seeing this, Sun and Huang looked at each other without saying much. Sun Yixie immediately took the initiative and said, "I'll go outside and take a look." Then he walked away.

Huang Donglai also understood that Sun Yixie was a cunning person. At first glance, he seemed to be taking the initiative to take the blame, but in fact, he saw that there were many people and a large place outside, so he could take advantage of any situation. On the contrary, the backstage... both inside and outside the tent was in a precarious situation. Once someone broke the window paper and said something like "the food in the kitchen was poisonous and had caused Dugu Sheng's life to be in danger and Dugu Yong to be seriously injured", the place would immediately fall into chaos.

"Master Fang, Master Huang, I have something to ask the master. Could you please let me into the tent to talk?" As soon as Sun Yixie left, Kong Biao, one of Huo Ming's three disciples, came to the tent. He knew at a glance that he had just received some urgent news from the spy.

"We want to go in too!" On the other side, the two brothers Murong Ji and Murong Dian also walked quickly and started talking loudly about seven or eight meters away.

Obviously, what these two groups of people wanted to report was the same thing as the "situation" that Sun Yixie went out to check.

So what's going on?

I think some people have already guessed it - at this moment, a large group of people from the Cao Gang are rapidly approaching the competition venue.

There were more than 150 people there, so the two groups of disciples at the venue were quite nervous when they saw this scene.

Of course, the most crucial thing is that those people who were watching had no way of knowing that the people coming were from the Cao Gang.

The Cao Gang members were all wearing plain clothes or smocks specially made for ambushing in the sand and grass. It was impossible for them to bring gang flags or something like that during this ambush. So from a distance, it looked like more than a hundred martial artists were marching in a hurry. Who knew what they were doing? How could they not panic?

However, by the time Sun Yixie ran out to check, the Cao Gang's men were already quite close, close enough for Sun Yixie to recognize the two leaders, Di Buyan and Hu Wenzhi.

"What the hell? Why are people from Cao Gang here?" Although he was relieved after recognizing the other party's identity, Sun Yixie didn't know why Gang Leader Di came.

However, he quickly figured out why Hu Wenzhi appeared next to Di Bujuan, because on the journey back from Japan, Hu Wenzhi also told Sun Huang about some of his experiences back then.

Let’s not talk about how Sun Yixie went up to contact Boss Di and the others, and let’s go back to the backstage…

"What do you mean? What do you mean it's enough to just tell you? Do I need to go through you to talk to my father?" Murong Ji, who was still blocked outside the tent by Huang Donglai, became a little anxious.

Kong Biao of the Naha Fist Sect actually wanted to say something similar, but he was somewhat cunning and cautious, so he didn't take the lead. Anyway, there was a fool like Murong Ji who went ahead first, so it wouldn't be a loss for him to wait and see.

"Hmph... Big brother, there's not much to say to them..." As for Murong Dian, even though he's only seventeen years old, he's really mean. He encouraged his big brother at the time, "Let's just force our way in. What can they do to us?"

He said this, but he didn't take a single step forward. In his heart... he thought it would be best if he let his brother go up first and get beaten up by the abbot.

"Heh..." Upon hearing this, the abbot chuckled, "You little brat is quite arrogant. Don't hide behind your brother. Come forward and try it yourself."

These words… Murong Ji’s anger had almost subsided. He turned around and followed the abbot’s words, saying to his brother, “Yeah, why don’t you go up first?”

"You..." If there weren't so many people here, Murong Dian would have started a very ugly verbal fight with his brother right then.

Fortunately, Murong Xiao's voice slowly rang out at this time. He calmly asked, "Young Master Huang, may I ask...what happened in the tent that made you so alert? Isn't it a little suspicious that you have kept all of us out of the tent like this?"

Compared with his two good-for-nothing brothers, Murong Xiao's words once again went to the crux of the matter.

Not only did these words make the other people backstage alert again, they also invisibly put Huang Donglai and his group on the opposite side of everyone outside the account, which invisibly put a lot of pressure on Huang Fang and the other two.

Just as Huang Donglai secretly sighed that this Murong Xiao was "something" and tried hard to think of how to delay...

"Xiao'er, you are too suspicious." Murong Shu walked out of the tent at the right time and helped Huang Donglai out of the predicament. "My father and Sect Leader Huo were just helping someone heal his wounds. This matter is not urgent and it is not appropriate to disturb us. There is no need to be suspicious."

Seeing their father coming out, the three sons of the Murong family immediately lost their tempers. However, Murong Ji was still eager to take credit and said, "Father, the spies reported that a group of people, about a hundred people, came from outside and their origins are unknown. What should we do..."

"Hey~" Seeing his son hurriedly reporting the information to everyone in the background, Murong Shu felt a headache. He quickly waved his hand to let Murong Ji stop talking, and then continued, "Father will go and take a look."

As he said this, he left with his sons, and Wu Mingzi, who was a player hired by the Murong family, also saw the opportunity and slipped away quietly.

However, before Murong Xiao turned around and pushed his wheelchair, he still looked deeply towards the tent, as if his doubts had not been dispelled by his father's words.

Fortunately, most people were not as suspicious as Ah Xiao. As soon as Murong Shu came out, the atmosphere backstage relaxed again. Now everyone really felt that Dugu Yong was fine.

"Brother Kong, this is also what you want to talk to Master Huo about, right? Then I'll go in and say hello for you." Huang Donglai took advantage of the situation and immediately said this to Kong Biao.

Kong Biao thought to himself: Since Mr. Murong has already gone out to deal with it, my master really just needs to know the situation and wait for the opportunity.

So he immediately responded, "Okay, thank you, Young Master Huang."

But actually, it doesn't matter whether Huang Donglai spread this message or not... With Huo Ming and Murong Shu's martial arts skills, even when they were using their skills to heal people, they could hear clearly the noises outside. Otherwise, Murong Shu would not have come out to help Huang Donglai at this critical moment.

Of course, there was another reason why Murong Shu left first, and that was: with his internal strength, he had almost done everything he could to help Dugu Sheng.

As we mentioned in the previous article, Murong Shu, the "King of Gambling", is "the best martial artist in the gambling world and the most skilled in gambling in the martial arts world." In other words, in terms of gambling skills alone, he is not the best in the gambling world, and in terms of martial arts alone... he is far inferior to Huo Ming.

If Murong Shu's martial arts skills were close to Huo Ming's, or not that far behind, he would not have asked for external help.

So what is the situation of Dugu Sheng in the tent now?

Four words—life hangs by a thread.

At this moment, the only meridian in Dugu Sheng's body that had not been completely destroyed by "Chongmai Powder" and could barely hold on was the area near the heart meridian.

Fortunately, Huo Ming was able to protect him for a short period of time with his powerful internal strength.

As for the other damaged meridians, since they were already "broken bridges and rotten embankments", it was convenient for Murong Shu to help him remove some of the remaining poison along the remaining meridians.

But Huo Ming's "human heart stent" cannot hold on forever. As long as the poison in the heart meridian is still there, to solve this dilemma, he has to find the culprit, the Shadowless Poison Lord.

Therefore, the arrival of the Cao Gang can be said to be just in time.

Although Di Buyan was a little embarrassed at first, his thorough preparations finally allowed him to capture the Poison Lord safely.

By the time the effect of the poisonous mist on his body faded away, Di Buyan had already joined up with his scattered ambush troops, resulting in a scene of more than 150 people rushing towards the venue.

However, he didn't expect that they had just contacted Sun Yixie and hadn't said a few words yet, behind the scenes... Wu Mingzi, the mastermind behind the Poison Lord, also came out with the Murong family father and son.