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Chapter 23 - Chasing

When the maid saw Su Ziyan calling her, she tidied her appearance and had to go over.

But she was still feeling upset, and soon she appeared next to Su Ziyan.

She bowed to Su Ziyan and said slowly, "I wonder if you have any instructions for me, or if you need me to help you."

The maid silently recited the Heart Purification Technique and tried to speak to Su Ziyan in a calm tone.

Su Ziyan turned his head and glanced at the maid, then said coldly, "Why did you see me so flustered? Could it be that you are hiding something from me?"

The maid was looked at like this by Su Ziyan, and her adjusted mentality was destroyed again by Su Ziyan.

He shook his head in panic, and even his voice sounded a little unnatural. "No, you don't need to think too much."

"Really? Then why are you so flustered, fellow Taoist?" Su Ziyan looked at the maid calmly. With his knowledge and having seen so many different kinds of life, he had already noticed something strange in the maid.

The monks who were looking at the elixirs around cast strange looks at the two of them and looked at them with interest.

Su Ziyan lowered his head and thought for a while. Based on the experience gained from previous experiences, there must be something he didn't know.

And it is very likely that this maid knows something of the truth.

He recalled, and after a while, the incident of being besieged by two monks a few months ago suddenly appeared in his mind.

He raised his head and glanced at the maid expressionlessly. The more he thought about it, the more he felt that this matter was a little strange.

He looked at the maid with cold eyes and was about to say something when a voice came from the corridor at the side.

"Haha, why are you so serious about the maid of this pavilion? Could it be that she did something that made you unhappy? If so, tell me and I will punish her."

Su Ziyan looked towards the source of the sound and saw a middle-aged man in his forties who was smiling at him.

Su Ziyan released his spiritual sense to scan, but was shocked because he could not tell the cultivation level of the person in front of him.

He thought that the person in front of him might also be a cultivator above the normal Condensation Vortex Stage. Although his heart was trembling, his expression did not show anything.

The maid breathed a sigh of relief as soon as she saw the middle-aged man.

Although Su Ziyan's cultivation level was not very high, it was still higher than his own, who was at the second level of Qi training.

If he finds me to settle the score when I'm out alone, I won't be able to resist at all and might even die.

At this time, Su Ziyan bowed to the middle-aged man and said, "Junior greets senior. She didn't offend me. I just think it's a bit abnormal for her to be so flustered."

"Then I just wanted to ask you something. Since you are here, I don't dare to say anything more."

"Oh? Do you think there's something wrong with her?" The middle-aged man suddenly narrowed his eyes and looked at Su Ziyan. "Besides, if you have any questions, you don't have to ask him. You can also ask me directly."

As the middle-aged man spoke, he slowly released a faint spiritual pressure that enveloped Su Ziyan.

However, after Su Ziyan felt this spiritual pressure, he immediately released his own aura to resist it.

He didn't expect that he could actually resist it. He thought that maybe he was occasionally affected by the spiritual pressure emitted by Ming Daozi's fingers, and he had become somewhat immune to the spiritual pressure.

The monks around immediately cast a look of watching a good show, but the monks who were closer felt the spiritual pressure of the middle-aged man, as if they were carrying a thousand-pound stone on their backs, and they all took a few steps back.

They quickly left the range of the spiritual pressure. They still looked frightened and looked at the middle-aged man in horror, panting.

Then they realized that something might happen, so they filed out of the door one by one and left Danding Pavilion.

But they didn't go far from Danding Pavilion before they stopped again and continued to watch everything that happened inside Danding Pavilion.

Besides, the spiritual pressure released by the middle-aged man has been covering Su Ziyan and gradually increasing.

But there was nothing Su Ziyan could do.

Su Ziyan, however, didn't care much. The spiritual pressure of this middle-aged man was not as strong as that of Ming Daozi's fingers.

After all, Ming Daozi released a cultivator in the Mahayana stage, who was no match for him. Therefore, Su Ziyan did not lose his composure under this spiritual pressure and was forced to his knees on the ground.

Su Ziyan was not embarrassed by the middle-aged man's spiritual pressure, but the middle-aged man gradually showed an expression of surprise, and he couldn't help but let out a light exclamation.

He had not expected that a cultivator at the fifth level of Qi training could actually withstand the spiritual pressure from himself, who was a cultivator at the Condensation Vortex stage.

The middle-aged man couldn't help but look up to Su Ziyan, but afterwards he released all his spiritual pressure, but in the end he was still helpless against Su Ziyan.

He immediately put away his spiritual pressure, then smiled and said, "Haha, it seems that you are a little bit unusual, which makes me a little surprised."

Su Ziyan did not show any complacency, and he bowed to the middle-aged man again, "Senior, if I have done anything wrong, please forgive me."

"That's fine, but I don't know why you came to our pavilion. If you need anything, just tell me."

Su Ziyan did not hide his feelings and said, "Senior, I just want to buy some elixirs suitable for my cultivation from your pavilion. I wonder if your pavilion has the best ones."

The middle-aged man chuckled, looked at Su Ziyan and said slowly, "Yes, there are, but I don't know what kind you need."

Su Ziyan thought for a moment and replied, "Senior, I want the best Huanglong Pills in your pavilion. I wonder if you can give me some."

The middle-aged man agreed and turned to the maid, "Go get the best Huanglong Pill from our pavilion and send it here later."

The maid responded and turned and walked out.

While the middle-aged man was drinking tea, he was trying to find out Su Ziyan's background.

But Su Ziyan is not a newcomer, so how could he easily explain his origins to others?

She answered the middle-aged man's questions vaguely.

Because he knew that the more he revealed, the more danger he would be in.

Unless you keep yourself mysterious, others will be less sure of you and will be less likely to take action against you.

Seeing that Su Ziyan was unwilling to tell him his origins, the middle-aged man stopped asking and waited quietly with Su Ziyan.

After a long while, the maid came over with four porcelain bottles and placed them on the table.

The middle-aged man stretched out his hand to signal Su Ziyan that he could take the bottle to check the pills inside and let Su Ziyan see if he was satisfied.

Su Ziyan did not shy away from it either. He opened the lid of the porcelain bottle directly in front of the middle-aged man and checked it with his spiritual sense.

After a while, Su Ziyan withdrew his spiritual sense, looked up at the middle-aged man, and then nodded.

The middle-aged man asked Su Ziyan, "How is it, are you satisfied?"

Su Ziyan said, "Well, the quality of this pill is okay, the same as last time. The price of this pill should be the same as last time."

The maid said, "Yes, 1,200 low-grade spirit stones."

Su Ziyan nodded, took out 1,200 spirit stones from his storage bag and handed them to the maid, then took the four porcelain bottles on the table.

He bowed to the middle-aged man again and said, "Senior, I have already got what I wanted. I will not bother you any more. I will take my leave now." Then he turned and left.

Not long after Su Ziyan left, the middle-aged man sat quietly, and after a while he looked at the maid indifferently.

"Is this the person that I asked two disciples to follow last time?"

The maid hummed and then stopped talking.

The middle-aged man murmured to himself, "Maybe the two disciples were not killed by the law enforcer last time, but by the person just now."

"Then Pavilion Master, I wonder if you need to ask your disciples to follow him?" said the maid standing aside.

The middle-aged man waved his hand and said, "No need. Let's not cause any trouble recently, because I feel that those guys from the law enforcement department have already set their sights on our Danding Pavilion."

"If we ask our disciples to go over again, they will be discovered by the law enforcement guys, and then we will be in trouble."

When the maid heard what the middle-aged man said, she said nothing more. She bowed and left, leaving the middle-aged man standing there, not knowing what he was thinking.

Su Ziyan walked on the street, and from time to time he looked at the small stalls along the street to see if there was anything he needed, but he did not find what he needed along the way.

But his consciousness was still always paying attention to what was behind him.

Just as he was walking and stopping to look at things at some stalls, three monks, two men and one woman, came towards him.

But he didn't care about these three monks, because there were many monks in this market every day, so these three monks did not attract Su Ziyan's attention.

Although Su Ziyan didn't care, when they passed by each other, one of the three cultivators, a fat young cultivator of the fourth level of Qi training, accidentally saw something on Su Ziyan's body and was instantly startled.

He immediately informed his companions. After hearing what the fat man said, his companions were also shocked. Then they looked at Su Ziyan's waist and found that what was hung around Su Ziyan's waist was indeed the storage bag used by their family's disciples.

The fifth-level Qi training cultivator who was walking in the front said, "It looks like this is indeed Zhou Heming's storage bag. Could it be that Zhou Heming fell into this person's hands? Let's follow him and take a look at him. If necessary, we can capture him and ask him whether Zhou Heming fell into his hands."

When the other two heard the leader say this, they did not refute. They followed the leading monk and quietly followed Su Ziyan, intending to find a good opportunity to capture Su Ziyan.

Because it is not easy to take action in the market town. Even if they are cultivators of the Zhou family, if they take action in the market town and are caught by the law enforcement officers, they will be in trouble.

They had been following Su Ziyan, and they thought that Su Ziyan didn't know they were following him, so they followed Su Ziyan more than sixteen feet away.

As soon as Su Ziyan stopped, they stopped too. However, they didn't know that they were discovered by Su Ziyan not long after they started following him. It was just that Su Ziyan didn't expose them.

Su Ziyan did not continue walking towards his cave. He walked all the way out of the market town. He was not afraid of these three cultivators.

Because he was already a cultivator of the fifth level of Qi training, and among them, except for the one in front, the other two were at the fourth level of Qi training. If he found anything wrong, he could immediately activate the talisman to kill them.

The three cultivators didn't know Su Ziyan's intention. They just thought that Su Ziyan's cave was outside the market, so they walked out of the city.

And they were also very happy, because once Su Ziyan left the market town, without the intervention of the law enforcement officer, they would have no worries when taking action.

When they reached the exit of the market town, Su Ziyan told the guards there that he wanted to go out. The guards let Su Ziyan out without asking any questions.

Afterwards, the three cultivators of the Zhou family also left the market. When they did not find Su Ziyan, they hurried out. After they got outside, they released their spiritual sense and finally found Su Ziyan on the streets of Fuyue City.

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