Chapter 532
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“Yes…”
“Aunt Sun, don’t just watch the joke. Remember to boil the medicine for me！”
The old woman, with her hands behind her back, was just about to explain to Xu Taiping when she was suddenly interrupted by the girl who had just got up from the ground.
After saying this, the girl took a step and rushed into the martial arts hall again.
Immediately, the sound of fighting rang out again in the martial arts hall.
“It’s been boiled for a long time. Remember to settle your medicine money too！”
The old woman rolled her eyes at the girl’s back.
“Young man, are you here to apprentice at this Xuanyun Martial Arts Hall？”
She then turned to look at Xu Taiping again.
“It… sort of.”
Since he had already walked to the door of the martial arts hall, Xu Taiping felt that if he denied it, it would be a bit of an attempt to cover up.
“If it were before, the old woman wouldn’t have bothered to stop you. But now, I advise you to change to another martial arts hall.”
The old woman called Aunt Sun sighed.
“Old man, what’s going on exactly? Didn’t this Xuanyun Martial Arts Hall have a great reputation before?”
Xu Taiping asked curiously.
Judging from the intense fighting sound in the martial arts hall at the moment, the competition inside probably wouldn’t end for a while. So he simply didn’t go in and first inquired about the situation from this old woman.
“That was more than ten years ago.”
Aunt Sun sighed, then took out a pipe from her sleeve and dug a bowl of tobacco from the tobacco pouch.
Before the old woman could take out the fire, Xu Taiping rubbed his fingers and lit the tobacco.
“The young man can also do magic.”
Aunt Sun nodded with a smile.
“Justlearn some fur.” ”
Xu Taiping smiled.
Aunt Sun didn’t ask more questions. She picked up the pipe and took a puff, spitting out a smoke ring and then continued with narrowed eyes:
“More than ten years ago, this Xuanyun Martial Arts Hall was indeed prosperous. The disciples it taught were not only fought over by sects and aristocratic families, but also the imperial court would pick people from the martial arts hall.”
“The worst disciples who walked out of the Xuanyun Martial Arts Hall could also become constables, and there were not a few who entered the palace to be imperial bodyguards.”
“But as the saying goes, misfortunes never come singly. About thirteen years ago, a disciple named Zhou Guanxu in the Xuanyun Martial Arts Hall was summoned into the palace to be a Golden Saber Guard.”
“This Golden Saber Guard is the emperor’s personal bodyguard. Given time, the future is limitless.”
“But who would have thought that Zhou Guanxu was so bold as to kidnap the emperor’s favorite little daughter, Princess Tiancheng.”
“In order to avoid pursuit, he actually tied up Princess Tiancheng and plunged headlong into the Blood Rain Forest where demons and ghosts were rampant.”
“In order to protect the reputation of the Xuanyun Martial Arts Hall, my old sister Lu Rushuang and her husband, along with the eldest disciple in the hall, also chased into the Blood Rain Forest.”
“As a result, they never returned. Ten years have passed, and there is no news at all.”
“Since then, the people in this Xuanyun Hall have left or scattered. Now only the girl and her younger brother are still struggling to hold on.”
When Aunt Sun said this, a pipe of tobacco had been completely smoked, so she took out the tobacco pouch and filled another pipe.
“The girl you mentioned, Aunt Sun, is that the one who just flew out of the martial arts hall？”
While speaking, Xu Taiping helped Aunt Sun light the cigarette again.
“Hmm.”
Aunt Sun nodded while puffing clouds of smoke.
“But my senior told me that Senior Lu Rushuang seems to be quite old. Why are her children so young？”
Xu Taiping was a little Confused .
“Those two siblings were picked up by my old sister from the pile of dead people on the battlefield. Since they didn’t have their own children, they raised these two siblings as their own.”
Aunt Sun shook her head and said.
After hearing this, Xu Taiping nodded with a sudden realization on his face.
“These two children, my old sister didn’t love them in vain. Most of the children accepted by Xuanyun Martial Arts Hall are from poor families. If it weren’t in for my old sister’s, how could they have what they have today?
“But these ungrateful wretches, after learning that the old sister might have died in the Blood Rain Forest, they scattered like birds and beasts in an instant. They all ran away within a few years, and only those two siblings are still holding on until now.”
While spitting out smoke rings, Aunt Sun said with a tone full of contempt.
After hearing this, Xu Taiping almost figured out the matter of Xuanyun Martial Arts Hall seven or eight out of ten.
“Aunt Sun, what about this challenge？”
Xu Taiping asked while the iron was hot.
“Is this your first time in the city？”
Aunt Sun glanced at Xu Taiping.
“Yes, I used to be in the countryside.”
Xu Taiping smiled awkwardly.
“There is an unwritten rule for the martial arts halls in each city of the Southern Chu State. Each martial arts hall can challenge others fifteen times a year and be challenged fifteen times. If a martial arts hall loses more than ten times in the challenges for three consecutive years, this martial arts hall will be removed from the list.”
Aunt Sun explained to Xu Taiping.
“After Curator Lu disappeared, these two siblings have actually lasted for ten years?”
Xu Taiping was very surprised.
“It’s not entirely because of the two siblings. In the first few years, there were still many disciples in the hall, so naturally they were not afraid of being challenged by outsiders. But in the past two or three years, it has been these two siblings who have been holding on. Otherwise, the plaque of Xuanyun Martial Arts Hall would have been taken down long ago.”
Aunt Sun shook her head.
“Bang！ ……”
Just at this time, with another loud noise, a figure flew out of the martial arts hall again and fell heavily to the ground.
This time, it was not the girl who was kicked out, but a gentle-looking boy.
“Alas, it seems that we have lost again today.”
Aunt Sun sighed and then shouted at the boy：
”A-Wen, did you hurt a bone？ If you hurt a bone, you have to change the dressing.”
”No, Aunt Sun！”
The teenager got up from the ground, wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth with a smile, and replied energetically.
”You brat, you can still laugh！”
Aunt Sun gave the teenager a white look, then flicked the pipe, and said to Xu Taiping without looking back： “Little guy, you’ve inquired about what you should, don’t make things difficult for those two siblings.”
This sentence had a rather warning tone.
Xu Taiping smiled, and at the same time muttered in his heart：
”As expected of the capital city of Southern Chu, there are really hidden dragons and crouching tigers. Even an old man who just came out of a shop has a cultivation base of half a step into the Divine Refinement Realm.”
That’s right, just now this old woman was at least a powerhouse in the half-step Divine Refinement Realm.
However, Xu Taiping didn’t explain to the old man, but looked at the teenager again.
”Bang！”
Just as Xu Taiping was about to step forward, another figure flew out of the martial arts hall and happened to fall in the same position as the teenager.
Looking closely, it was the girl who had just been kicked out once.
