"Comfortable." The tea drinker with slightly gray hair on his temples was Qiao Mu. He looked at the reactions of the tea drinkers around him with satisfaction, his tail almost raised to the sky.
When he was burned to death before, he didn't have the energy to appreciate other people's expressions, but now he can finally see enough.
The storyteller was talking about a very exciting part when suddenly a burst of footsteps was heard and a group of constables in black clothes came in one after another.
"When telling a story, one must tell the truth and falsehood. This man Qiao committed a serious crime and has been burned by the Saint of the Immortal Sect himself. He will never be reincarnated. Why are you still making up stories about this sinner?"
The leading constable shouted, and Jiang Chen, the storyteller with a sword, leaped up with his internal energy bursting out. His movements were agile and nimble, and he actually climbed out the window and escaped.
"This storyteller with a sword is actually not just a showpiece, but a martial artist with internal strength?" The tea drinkers were also slightly surprised.
"These storytellers are all internal force warriors. Could they be related to the Tingchao Tower..." someone whispered quietly.
"Chase!" The detectives immediately chased after him and the previous storytelling came to an abrupt end.
Qiao Mu's eyes fell on the faces of the detectives and he narrowed his eyes slightly.
These detectives were all unfamiliar to him, and he had no impression of the head detective.
Although Qiao Mu has not been a detective for long, he is still able to recognize people's faces.
"Is someone pretending to be a constable?" He stood up, paid the bill and followed him.
He had seen the sword-carrying storyteller Jiang Chen several times, and he didn't want to see him being threatened and killed by some bad guys.
... .
Jiang Chen is a ninth-grade internal force warrior who is good at light skills.
After escaping from the teahouse, he continued to use his lightness skills to escape into the alleys. He thought he could get rid of the pursuers as before, but unexpectedly, the constable and the head of the police followed him very closely this time.
Ordinary constables in the city are actually usually warriors in the strength training stage. They don't have internal strength yet, so their explosive power is much worse than that of warriors with internal strength.
But what surprised him was... all of these detectives had internal energy, and some of them even seemed to have better lightness skills than him
"I'm going to fail this time..."
A figure suddenly appeared in the alley ahead. It was the leading constable. He had somehow circled to the front of the alley and blocked Jiang Chen's way.
The detectives behind him had caught up and surrounded him.
"... You are so skilled, you are not ordinary constables, right?" Jiang Chen finally came to his senses.
"It's not important." The leading constable smiled and said:
"Jiang Chen, 31 years old. From Tiger City, Nanzhou. He joined the local sword sect Mingyue Sect at the age of 14 and married a fellow apprentice sister from the sect at the age of 20."
"At the age of 31, you traveled to Yancheng with your wife. You were humiliated in the street by the son of the local city lord Guo Yan. You were almost taken into the mansion as a slave. Not long after this incident, you voluntarily became a storyteller. You no longer told anecdotes about martial arts or strange stories, but only loved to tell stories about the Qiao family..."
"Am I right?"
Jiang Chen's expression froze. Although he didn't think of himself as a big shot, the fact that his origins were known so clearly made him feel inexplicably terrified, more than if he were killed with a single sword.
"I only ask you one question. If you can answer it, you can live." The fake police chief smiled and said:
"You told the story of the father and son of the Qiao family in Yancheng before, and now you are telling the story of the Qiao man in Heyangfu City."
"So, is this Qiao Pifu from the same Qiao family as the father and son of the Qiao family in Yancheng?"
Jiang Chen was slightly startled.
Only then did he realize that the reason he had offended these mysterious people was because of the Qiao family
I guess it's because I've had contact with the Qiao family before, so they've been targeting me... .
"I don't know." Jiang Chen pondered for a long time and could only say this.
"Don't know? That's not a good answer." The captain still smiled, but the smile gradually turned cold.
"If you don't know, why do you specifically talk about the story of that Qiao Pifu and the Qiao family father and son in Yancheng? Are you lying to me?"
Jiang Chen was stimulated by the murderous aura, and subconsciously tensed his body, but he still said with a stiff upper lip:
"I was indeed saved by the Qiao family, so I was grateful, and that's why I became a storyteller."
"But what I want to be is a storyteller who spreads the Qiao family's righteous deeds, not someone who tells stories for the Qiao family and spreads their reputation."
"As long as you have a sense of justice and take action, does it matter whether your last name is Qiao or whether you are from the same family?"
The captain was slightly startled.
Jiang Chen stiffened his neck and said seriously:
"I'm just a storyteller who likes to tell stories about heroes. I have no connection with the Qiao family. It's just that these famous heroes all happen to have the surname Qiao."
The captain stared at Jiang Chen expressionlessly for a long time, until the latter felt a chill all over his body and his hair stood on end. Then he suddenly smiled:
"There is one more question. If you answer it correctly, you can live."
"There are not many people in this world who dare to speak the truth. Are you willing to join my Tingchao Tower and become its storyteller?"
Tingchao Tower
Jiang Chen blinked, a little confused.
"That's right. You are only a ninth-rank monk. Although you are thirty-one years old, you joined a small sect like the Mingyue Sect in Tiger City. It is normal that you have limited experience."
The head constable smiled faintly and said:
"Forty years after the Alien War, the Martial Saint became a sage through martial arts, and single-handedly conquered the entire old martial arts world."
"Shaolin, Wudang, Kongtong, Huashan, the four great martial arts families... the great martial arts sects and families of the past have all returned to dust."
"On the corpses of the old martial arts sects, a behemoth was born that surpassed any sect or family: the Wuji Society."
"But there is still a mysterious martial arts force that still survives in the world and has not been destroyed by the Wu Ji Club."
"This is our Tingchao Tower, where storytellers gather to collect strange stories." The captain said with a smile:
"Tingchao Tower has a long history, even more than a thousand years, and it existed during the previous dynasty."
"Fifty years ago, there was a man in Tingchao Tower. You may have heard of him."
"He is known as... the man who knows everything about the world."
Jiang Chen's heart was suddenly shocked.
The legend of Bai Xiaosheng is known to everyone in the martial arts world. This man loves to compile weapon lists and hero lists, and no strange stories in the martial arts world can escape his eyes.
He roughly knew what kind of organization Tingchaolou was.
Over the past thousand years, the world has changed dramatically, dynasties have risen and fallen, but the storyteller has just sat high up in the building and listened to the ups and downs of the world, telling stories.
The captain continued:
"The people in Tingchao Tower can be roughly divided into two categories."
"One type is the people who take risks and spread the truth, which often brings trouble to the upper echelons or even immortal cultivators."
"The other type is people who specialize in telling strange stories but don't really care whether they are true or not."
"If you join, what category do you want to be in?"
This person said that he was inviting him to join. Jiang Chen thought to himself that as a mere ninth rank cultivator, he had no choice.
"What kind of strange stories do the second type of people spread?" Jiang Chen asked.
He was a little curious.
I just heard the captain smile and say:
"For example, in Tingchao Tower, there is a storyteller known as 'Shunfenger', who loves to tell stories about that..."
"A list of the top ten most beautiful women in the martial arts world, a list of the top ten most rotten crotches in the martial arts world... anecdotes like that."
Jiang Chen:
He almost wanted to ask the captain to explain in more detail.
After thinking it over again and again, he finally made a decision:
"Such scandals are indeed easy to attract attention... But I still prefer to be the first type of person."
"Good." The captain clapped his hands immediately.
"From now on, you will be the storyteller of Tingchao Tower."
"But I have something important to deal with now, so you should leave with him first."
The captain waved his hand to call a constable and asked the constable to take Jiang Chen away quickly.
Then, he turned around with a smile and looked in a direction in the alley.
"Are you a friend of Wujihui?" the captain asked loudly:
"The Xingxuan Envoy of your Wu Ji Association has issued a hunting order. You are not in a hurry to hunt down the former disciple of the Martial Saint, the current Saint of the Immortal Sect, Wu Qingxin. Why did you come to eavesdrop on my conversation? Did you come to the wrong place?"
After hearing this, Qiao Mu, who was hiding in the dark, not only did not run away, but even took the initiative to stand up.
This mysterious force is usually accompanied by danger, and danger means death.
He naturally flocked to it.
Qiao Mu stepped out from the darkness and walked in front of the fake constable.
"Wu Qingxin is the Saint of Xuantian Sect after all. It's not easy to hunt her. Before that, I want to deal with the rats in the dark alley."
Qiao Mu stood up and looked at the fake constable coldly.
He likes this kind of mysterious power.
Wu Ji Hui is also Qiao Mu's enemy. If he can stir up some trouble, it will be a good thing for Qiao Mu.
But he didn't expect that as soon as he said this, the fake constable looked him up and down several times.
"Oh... so he's not a member of the Wuji Society, but it's almost the same."
He smiled suddenly:
"You have practiced the 'Martial Spiritual Rhinoceros Technique'? Then you are considered half a member of the Wu Ji Association."
"The local Star Mysterious Envoys also like to recruit people like you. If you go over now, you can still catch up with this Saint Hunting operation."
"The first thing the Martial Saint hates is strangers, and the second is the Great Yan court."
"This former disciple has become a lackey of the alien, so the Martial Saint is naturally furious."
“However, Wu Qingxin is a talent who practices both immortal and martial arts. He was even a disciple of the Martial Saint in the past. He should not be underestimated.”
"I see that you are also a person of extraordinary skills. If you kill Wu Qingxin, it can be regarded as a meritorious service in the Wu Ji Association. You may even be favored by the Martial Saint."
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There is also a special bounty for the cover cat.
Many people are interested in the cat picture on the cover of this book and want to know where it came from, but I actually don’t know. It’s just an emoji package I used from the internet...
The reason why I used this cat emoticon pack as the cover was actually a sudden idea that came to me when I opened the book.
If I open a book and write "Hedgehog Cat Bestseller" on it, and put a cover like this, wouldn't it make all the hedgehog cat people look at my emoticons...
I just thought about it and didn't take it seriously. Then I briefly got first place last night, and I actually did it... Even if it was only for a short while, I was satisfied.
This wave is really a good thing, I was very happy watching it.
Another thing that surprised me was that when this cover was posted, many readers of Maoke actually said that the cat in this picture looked like it was being pouty... ..
All I can say is that I was shocked. I've been using emoticons for several months and never thought about it in this way.
If any reader can find the source of this cat picture and provide a searchable link to the cat picture, I will punish him by lingchi... No, it will be counted as 5 additional chapters, which will be accumulated to the above reward.