Chapter 165
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Qingxuan Sect.
The Merit Hall.
This Merit Hall, located on the main peak, is a must-pass place for every disciple who goes down the mountain for training to return to the mountain. Because only by handing the token to the elder in the hall can your training task be considered completed.
Xu Taiping is naturally no exception.
After returning from outside the mountain, he was first sent here by Elder Yunye.
“Disciple Xu Taiping of the Seventh Peak has completed this sect’s training task. This is the token that the disciple retrieved. Please take a look, Elder.”
After coming to the Merit Hall, he handed a small box containing a jade bracelet to the gray-robed elder.
This jade bracelet was naturally the one he took from Haitang.
“Xu Taiping of the Seventh Peak, let me take a look at your training task…”
The gray-robed elder nodded, and then placed the jade bracelet on a bronze mirror in his hand. Immediately, lines of words began to appear on the bronze mirror.
”You went to the Wujiu Kingdom this time？”
After reading the lines of words that appeared on the bronze mirror, the gray-robed elder suddenly looked at Xu Taiping with suspicion in his eyes.
”Yes.”
Xu Taiping nodded.
The gaze of the elder in front of him made a hint of a not-so-good premonition well up in his heart.
However, he wasn’t particularly worried either. After all, before coming back, he had already prepared himself mentally.
”Who gave you this half of the jade bracelet？”
The gray-robed elder picked up the half of the jade bracelet and then looked at Xu Taiping with a somewhat stern expression.
”The sixth princess of the Baishu Kingdom.”
Xu Taiping replied.
”What’s the matter, Elder Sun？”
Just as Xu Taiping was thinking about whether to explain to the elder in front of him, an old man in a white Taoist robe suddenly walked down from upstairs.
”Elder Lu, why have you come？”
When the elder saw the white-robed old man, he immediately bowed respectfully.
This white-robed old man was named Lu Zimu, and his status in the Merit Hall was only inferior to that of a few deputy hall masters.
The white-robed elder nodded, and then looked at Xu Taiping aside and said：
”You are Xu Taiping from the Seventh Peak？”
”Xu Taiping greets Elder Lu.”
Xu Taiping bowed to the old man in white.
”How did you get the other half of this jade bracelet？”
Elder Lu picked up the other half of the jade bracelet from the table and asked Xu Taiping again.
”Reporting to Elder Lu, after sending Li Yu, the sixth princess of Baishu Kingdom, to the imperial city of Wujiu Kingdom, she gave the other half of the jade bracelet as a token to the disciple.”
Xu Taiping had already guessed why Elder Lu and Elder Sun would ask him this question one after another, but he still decided not to mention the matter of Senior Haitang and Senior Xiang Nantian for the time being.
Because of the special status of the two, it is better not to mention it if possible, otherwise it is very likely to involve some unnecessary troubles.
”You’re lying！”
To Xu Taiping’s surprise, after hearing what he said, Elder Lu suddenly shouted at him.
”The sixth princess of Baishu Kingdom has already died in the imperial palace of Wujiu Kingdom. You must have taken this jade bracelet from her before.”
As Elder Lu spoke, he raised his hand and put the bronze mirror in Elder Sun’s hand in front of Xu Taiping.
Xu Taiping took a closer look and saw two big characters and a line of small characters emerging in the bronze mirror——
”Failed the experience.”
“I have received the news. The sixth princess of the White Tree Kingdom assassinated the emperor of the Vulture Kingdom in the name of peace talks. The emperor of the Vulture Kingdom was seriously injured, and the sixth princess of the White Tree Kingdom was killed on the spot in the imperial palace of the Vulture Kingdom. Xu Taiping failed to complete the task of safely escorting her back to the White Tree Kingdom.”
After reading the two lines of words on this bronze mirror, Xu Taiping thought to himself secretly：
“This false news has really reached the Qingxuan Sect.”
He actually still had a glimmer of hope originally, thinking that as long as he had the token, this task could be completed, and in that case, there would be no need to take out the talismans of the two predecessors, Haitang and Xiang Nantian.”
“Elders Lu and Sun, you two don’t know. Although the sixth princess assassinated under the guise of peace talks, she is still alive. Not only is she alive…”
“Nonsense.”
Just as Xu Taiping was about to explain to the two of them, unexpectedly, Elder Lu interrupted him.”
“We also already know about the plan of that imperial concubine in the White Tree Kingdom today. Even with that Infant Crying Sword, with her meager strength alone, it is impossible to deal with so many experts in the imperial palace of the Vulture Kingdom！”
At this time, Elder Lu took out a jade slip again.”
Among the dense small characters line by line on that jade slip, what was recorded was precisely the detailed process of the conspiracy of that imperial concubine in the White Tree Kingdom this time.”
So you already knew？
Upon hearing this, Xu Taiping’s brows furrowed slightly.”
Now it seems that Senior Haitang was right. The upper echelons of the Qingxuan Sect did not participate in this dispute on the surface, but tacitly approved it behind the scenes.
In other words, this sect experience of mine was also deliberately arranged by the Sect Master and the others？
After gradually guessing the inside story, Xu Taiping instead calmed down.
If this experience was arranged by you, then the difficulty at this moment is probably also pre-arranged? Making such a big fuss, is it really just to a Dilemma a small cultivator like me?
While thinking like this, Xu Taiping gave up the idea of immediately taking out the sound transmission talisman of Haitang and her husband to prove his innocence, and instead began to look on indifferently, wanting to see what these people really wanted to do.
“Xu Taiping, do you have anything else to say now？”
When Elder Lu saw that Xu Taiping was silent, he questioned again.
“Elder Lu, the disciple is not lying. The Sixth Princess of the Baishu Kingdom is indeed still alive.”
Xu Taiping insisted.
“Do you dare to say this again in front of the Heart-Questioning Mirror？”
Elder Lu snorted coldly.
“Of course.”
Xu Taiping nodded without hesitation.
He knew about the Heart-Questioning Mirror. It was one of the famous secret treasures of the Qingxuan Sect. When you stood in front of the Heart-Questioning Mirror, as long as what you said did not match your heart, the you reflected in the mirror would say the true thoughts in your heart.
And every word he said now was the truth, so naturally he wasn’t worried about the true thoughts in his heart being revealed by the Heart-Questioning Mirror.
