"Master, have you never heard of such a mysterious organization before?"
Ye Li asked.
Ou Qianxie shook his head and said, "I have indeed never heard of such a mysterious organization. They must be hiding very secretly.
However, no matter how they hide, as long as they make moves in the underworld, they will not be able to hide forever.
Just like this time, they were exposed in front of you, and you passed the news to me.
I will discuss this matter with your Uncle An first. He has more knowledge than me. I will ask for his opinion first.
But I won’t mention you. I will selectively tell him the cause and effect of this matter.”
Hearing Ou Qianxie's words, Ye Li nodded. He also intuitively felt that this organization was not simple. Now that Ou Qianxie was helping with the investigation, he felt a lot more at ease.
"By the way, Master, you mentioned Uncle An. I met a man named Mu Tianzhi during the trial to enter the city. Is he Uncle An's apprentice?"
Ye Li thought of Mu Tianzhi and asked casually.
Ou Qianxie was stunned for a moment, then nodded and said, "Tianzhi, he is indeed Brother An's apprentice. How did you meet him? Did he pass the test?"
When Ye Li heard Ou Qianxie confirm Mu Tianzhi's identity, he was completely relieved and said, "Hey, Brother Mu secretly went to participate in the city entrance test. He said that Uncle An didn't want him to take the test so early, and wanted him to wait two years until he was 24 years old before participating. This way, he would have a better chance of passing successfully.
He and I both qualified for the second trial, but Uncle An probably doesn't know about this yet."
Ou Qianxie smiled and nodded, saying: "Tianzhi is about your age and very stubborn. If he is determined to participate in the city entrance test, unless your uncle An ties him up, he will definitely sneak away.
Your Uncle An also knows this, so I guess your Uncle An had already noticed that he had sneaked away to take the trial, and the reason why he didn't step forward to stop him was that he tacitly agreed that he could take the trial.
By the way, Ye Li, can you tell me what your next round of trials is about? "
Hearing Ou Qianxie's question, Ye Li said: "Master, I can tell you the content of the second round of trials, only the content of the first round needs to be kept secret.
The second round of trials will be the year-end competition in the Imperial City six months later. The four of us who passed the first round of trials will duel in pairs. Those who win the first round will be considered to have truly passed the trials and can officially become disciples of the Imperial City."
Hearing Ye Li's words, Ou Qianxie nodded and said, "Six months later, that's still a lot of time, you might as well stay here with me and prepare well.
You have just entered the Descendant Stage, and you probably don’t know the true fighting style of the Descendant Stage. If you are not well prepared, it will be difficult for you to win the trial in six months.”
Ou Qianxie's words were exactly what Ye Li meant, and he said, "Master, this is exactly why I came to you.
But I also feel that I am coming here just to learn some combat skills, and it would be a bit unfair for me not to learn weapon forging."
Ou Qianxie laughed and said, "Who said you don't want to learn weapon forging? Your main mission in coming here is to learn weapon forging, and combat skills are just a by-product."
Hearing Ou Qianxie's words, Ye Li was stunned and said, "Master, this..."
Ou Qianxie reached out and patted Ye Li on the shoulder, saying, "Don't worry, the weapon casting skills you are going to practice next can actually help you improve your combat skills.
I will also teach you the secrets of my Weapon Foundry. If you can learn them, your combat effectiveness will definitely be greatly improved."
After hearing what Ou Qianxie said, Ye Li finally nodded with joy. He believed that Ou Qianxie would not harm him. After all, Ou Qianxie also hoped that he could join the Imperial City smoothly.
"Ye Li, it's already afternoon, and it will be dark soon. You have traveled such a long way, it's time to take a rest. Let's start our training plan tomorrow morning."
As Ou Qianxie spoke, he retracted the shadow behind him. The power covering the stone house suddenly disappeared, and the sound from outside came in again.
"Yes, Master!
By the way, Master, are all the brothers in the base?"
Ye Li asked casually. He hadn't seen everyone for a long time and he missed everyone a little.
Ou Qianxie shook his head and said, "My Weapon Foundry has been developing rapidly recently and is expanding outward again. Several of your brothers are busy handling affairs in various places. Now I am the only one left in the base."
Ye Li was surprised and asked, "Ah, they are all gone!
What about Third Senior Brother? Did he leave too?"
Ou Qianxie nodded and said with a smile: "Ah, he left too, after all, I have too few people I can trust under my command now.
Although he is a little dull, he has a lot of experience and is capable of handling things, so he left here to help."
Knowing that none of his fellow disciples were here, Ye Li felt a little regretful, but he still nodded, then said goodbye to Ou Qianxie, and found a guard to lead the way to his residence to rest.
Thousands of miles away, in a secret underground cave, lies a huge underground palace.
The underground palace is built entirely with extremely hard black square bricks, and thirty-six huge carved stone pillars are distributed throughout, supporting the entire underground palace in a strange shape.
A stone path extends out between the two huge and strange six-armed stone men. Beside the path, besides a burning brazier, there stand thirty-five men covered in black robes.
Each of the black-robed men had a black sign on his chest, and in the middle of the sign was a relief of a six-armed stone man sitting cross-legged.
If you look closely, you can see some different words written on the lower right corner of the sign, such as "Tian Gang", "Tian Kui", "Tian You", etc.
At the end of the stone path, there stood a huge, strange statue as black as ink.
The statue's shape is somewhat similar to an octopus, but it has more tentacles than an octopus, and the shape of the tentacles even resembles a soul-splitting monster.
The most eye-catching thing is that the statue is covered with strange eyeballs, almost everywhere.
If there really is such a strange monster with eyeballs all over its body in this world, what a bizarre and creepy creature it would be.
This huge statue is about twenty meters high, almost reaching from the ground to the top of the underground palace. In front of the statue, a black throne is built on a five-meter-high platform.
On the throne, a tall figure wearing a black robe and looking misty and unreal was leaning on the armrest of the throne, quietly looking at a man in a black robe kneeling on the ground in front of the platform.