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The wind from the river blew in their face, carrying the smell of fireworks and fire fragments; blowing the peerless beauty Wanwan’s beautiful hair, brushing on the two boys’ fake faces.

Smiling wryly, Kou Zhong said, “Wan Dajie certainly possesses great magical power; all along you were following behind us, uncle and nephew?”

‘Pfft!’ Wanwan giggled tenderly and said, “Uncle and nephew, fancy that you guys have such big guts; one is called Mo Wei, one is called Mo Yixin. I want to see when the Li Family are going to lock you up in the prison.”

Pulling his attention away from her fragrant, flexible, tender and soft body, Xu Ziling spoke indifferently, “What trick are you going to play this time?”

Wanwan’s beautiful eyes floated over to him; slightly angry, she said, “You have not seen me for such a long time, can’t you be a bit more polite? Answer my question first.”

Kou Zhong said, “Just now we went to the temple to implore the gods and worship Buddha, asking for good luck. Right now we are leaning on the railings is to wait for the good luck to arrive. Is it clear enough?”

Wanwan pointed to fireworks exploding in the sky, saying, “Look! How beautiful!”

Xu Ziling and Kou Zhong looked at each other; they were at a loss on how to deal with her. They were groaning inwardly even more, because if she entangled them endlessly like this, how were they going to carryout their grand plan tonight?

Wanwan suddenly turned her gaze to the river again. Her lucid-and-elegant, free-from-vulgarity jade countenance revealed deep thought expression, she spoke unhurriedly, “Since the news spread out that you two are coming to Guanzhong for a treasure hunt, Li Jiancheng sent out his men all over Chang’an to investigate a total of twenty-eight buildings related to Yang Su, big and small, nearly having the buildings flipped over, but still could not find any trace of any treasure-trove, before he finally gave up. If the treasure-trove is inside Wu Lou Si, that is indeed beyond anybody’s expectation. Didn’t Shao Shuai say that tonight is the best propitious day for treasure hunting?”

Hearing that, Kou Zhong was nearly dumbstruck and unable to reply. Revealing another bitter smile, he said, “I wonder who is Wan Dajie’s spy and informer in the Palace? It seems like there is nothing happening in the Palace that Dajie does not know.”

Wanwan leaned half of her tender body against Xu Ziling, and whispered softly in his ear, “Ziling is a bit more honest. Oh, Ziling! Persuade your good brother, without my cooperation, you obtaining the buried treasure might only convenience Shi Zhixuan in vain.”

Resisting her intimate nuzzling, Xu Ziling said, “Who would dare not to cooperate with you? The problem is that we have another important matter tonight; the treasure hunt will have to be left for another day.”

Hardening his heart, Kou Zhong spoke heavily, “What I, Kou Zhong said has never been something that you cannot count on. In short, the hidden treasure that we are trying to find, you will have a share. But if you so disturb the plan by muddying the water, at most we break up the partnership, we are going to copy the Li Clan’s government and military system, from then on we will remove our armor and return to the farm, each one will take his separate way.”

Wanwan leaned into his bosom; looking up to him, she laughed in spite of herself and said, “Shao Shuai, please calm down. I just want to help you. I thought you were going to appreciate it. But I am afraid it will be difficult for your threat to be effective. Shao Shuai has so many brothers in Chang’an, you want to remove your armor and return to the farm, it won’t be that easy!”

Having his weak-point hit by her, he sighed bitterly and said, “Luckily I have Wan Dajie reminding me, otherwise I would have certainly forgotten about this point. Xiaodi can guarantee that when the treasure is found, we will send crimson bridal sedan chair to take you to share the booty.”

Wanwan totally occupied the upper hand.

Straightening up her tender body, her bright eyes flickered brightly, her bearing returned to her usual confident and calm demeanor, as she softly said, “Now, that’s not bad. What you said is pleasant to hear. However, nice words are usually not honest. I want to know your plan clearly. This is your last chance to express your sincerity in cooperation.”

Kou Zhong and Xu Ziling exchanged a glance. They both felt that they were helpless against her. Xu Ziling spoke with serious expression, “Basically we do not have any plan. If you don’t believe me, there’s nothing that I can do.”

Wanwan calmly said, “In that case, let Wanwan know the current situation. This is not an excessive request.”

Kou Zhong leaned over to her small ear. He played the ghost by blowing a breath of air into her ear first before saying, “The truth is that we, two brothers are still groping about to find the location of the entrance to the treasure-trove. If you could provide the list of those twenty-eight buildings that Li Jiancheng investigated, it would definitely be great help to our work. Huh? How come your little cheeks are turning bright red?”

Red clouds descending on her jade cheeks, Wanwan hatefully glowered at him, and said, “When I want to kill someone, my face will turn red. If you are not lying to me, then you basically don’t know where the treasure-trove is. Xiaomei [little sister, counterpart of Xiaodi] is thinking, should I continue cooperating with you, or should I uncover your identity, so that Li Yuanji, who hates you to the bones, could redeem his lost face.”

Xu Ziling smiled and said, “Please don’t scare us. As long as there’s still a thread of possibility, your honorable Sect definitely will not be willing to give up the opportunity to acquire the Demonic Emperor Relics, which is also the only way to defeat Shi Zhixuan.”

Kou Zhong joined in, “We might as well cooperate in other things; for example, joining hands to kill Shi Zhixuan. As long as you can find out his hiding place, we could help you getting rid of him.”

Xu Ziling knew that Kou Zhong was sounding out Wanwan, to see whether she knew that Wu Lou Si’s manager was Shi Zhixuan.

Wanwan shook her head and said, “Even if we know where he is, we have no way to kill him. Otherwise, he would have lost his life under the Four Monks’ hands that year. Unless there’s a way to force him to fight to the death, otherwise, based on his Immortal Image Method and Huan Mo Shenfa [lit. fantasy demonic pose/motion (of the body in martial arts)], even if Zhu Shi [master] and Ning Daoqi join hands, they would still be unable to hold him down.”

Hearing that, the two were shocked in their hearts. No wonder both orthodox and demonic ways were so afraid of Shi Zhixuan, who was indeed the practically-invincible-and-unrivalled demonic lord.

On the other hand, it was also clear that at least at this stage, Wanwan had the sincerity to cooperate with them, otherwise she could not possibly be this forthcoming toward them.

Kou Zhong said, “Leaving Shi Zhixuan aside, his subordinates do not know Immortal Image Method; at least we could find a few to be offered as sacrifice, to weaken the Old Shi’s power.”

Wanwan sighed and said, “Currently, between us and Shi Zhixuan, we maintain a certain delicate balance, both sides have misgivings about each other. Once the balance is destroyed, the consequences will be unbearable to imagine. Therefore, at least before obtaining the Demonic Emperor Relics, we do not wish to act bli