Chapter 153 Rare Rage

The second day of the first lunar month, early morning.

In the main hall of the Xianwang Mansion, Xie Xuan, Jiang Yiwei, Deng Changchuan, Murong Bai, and Ling Xiaoxiao sat on both sides, while Su Tang, Luo Qi, Lin Fangda, and Ling Qing stood in the middle. Everyone's eyes were focused on Luo Tianjin. At this moment, he was reading a letter carefully, and a hint of anger gradually emerged between his brows.

This letter was the secret letter from Wang Xutong to the Mongolian general Wang Dechen, which was intercepted by Su Tang and Lin Fangda outside the city last night.

"boom!"

Suddenly, Luo Tianjin waved his hand and slammed the secret letter on the table. The sound was so loud that it was like a bolt from the blue in the silent hall, and everyone was startled.

Luo Tianjin's face was extremely gloomy at this time. He slowly picked up the teacup, as if he wanted to drink some tea to suppress his anger. However, just as the teacup was brought to his lips, Luo Tianjin's five fingers suddenly tightened. With a crisp "pop" sound, the teacup was instantly crushed into pieces, and the boiling hot tea overflowed his palm.

Seeing this, Ling Xiaoxiao hurried forward, took out a handkerchief and carefully wiped Luo Tianjin's hair, and asked with concern: "Brother Jin, what is written in the letter? Why did it make you so angry?"

Luo Tianjin took a deep breath and slowly pushed Ling Xiaoxiao away. He stared at everyone with a sharp gaze, but he remained silent.

For a moment, the atmosphere in the hall was extremely depressing.

In everyone's impression, Luo Tianjin always looked calm and composed. Even when the sky was collapsing, he remained calm. It was rare to see him so angry. Therefore, seeing this scene today, no one in the hall dared to talk to him casually.

"Brother Jin." Ling Xiaoxiao asked again, "What exactly is written in the letter?"

There was another silence. After an unknown amount of time, Luo Tianjin slowly spoke, "Although I had expected that Wang Xutong would not let go of the revenge for the loss of his son, I never expected that he would do it so ruthlessly. In the letter he wrote to Wang Dechen, he actually said that we were all traitors and even said that I was the number one spy hiding in Mongolia. He falsely accused the disciples of the Xianwang Mansion of being an ambush force planted by the Song Dynasty court in Luoyang, ready to cooperate with the Song Dynasty troops at any time to help the Song Emperor regain the lost territory in the north. These are simply fabricated and unfounded lies!"

Xie Xuan said in a deep voice: "Before, the Mongolian court had been trying to please us... even to win us over. Now Wang Xutong is slandering us. It seems that he does not want to leave any room for easing the relationship between us and the Mongolian court. He wants to kill us with one blow."

Deng Changchuan snorted angrily, "Yes, if Wang Xutong hadn't written it that way, the Mongolian court would have been concerned about the status of the Xianwang Mansion in the Central Plains martial arts world, and would have tried every means to mediate, and eventually make a big deal out of a small matter. They would never become enemies with us or even the entire Central Plains martial arts world just because of a dead Wang Qingshu. Once that happened, Wang Xutong would never be able to avenge his son, so he would fabricate these false charges to put us in an irreparable situation."

Luo Tianjin's eyes were gloomy, and he said coldly: "He asked the Marshal's Office to allocate 100,000 elite troops to besiege Luoyang, and use this to force the people of Luoyang to sacrifice their own people for the sake of justice, capture all the people in the Xianwang Mansion, and send them out of the city. Afterwards, all the men in the Xianwang Mansion will be sent to Mobei as slaves, and the women... will be sent to the military camp to be prostitutes!" Obviously, these words were the real reason that made Luo Tianjin so angry.

"How cruel!" Ling Xiaoxiao exclaimed, "Wang Xutong didn't want to waste a single soldier, so he came up with the strategy of killing someone with a borrowed knife, threatening the people of Luoyang to capture us. Once the hundreds of thousands of people in the city are instigated by him, I'm afraid... we won't be able to escape even if we have wings."

"That's right." Luo Tianjin gritted his teeth and said, "Wang Xutong is even more treacherous and vicious than I thought. If we don't get rid of him, there will never be peace in the Xianwang Mansion."

"The Palace Master's intention is..." Xie Xuan was shocked and asked solemnly, "You want to take action against Wang Xutong?"

"Master, please think twice before you act on this matter, and never act on impulse." Murong Bai advised, "No matter how bad Wang Xutong is, he is, after all, a general sent to Luoyang by the Mongolian court, and an upright Mongolian prince. If we take action against him, I'm afraid the consequences will not be much better than what is written in this letter. As the saying goes, once the bow is shot, there is no turning back. Once the decision is made, there is no room for regret!"

"Although I don't want to provoke the Meng people, I am not afraid of them at all." Luo Tianjin said gloomily, "Wang Xutong is a man who has been pushing me around again and again. When he arrived in Luoyang, he first deliberately left me alone, and then joined forces with the Golden Sword Sect and the Iron Palm Gang to set a trap for me. On the one hand, he pretended to please me, and on the other hand, he secretly made small moves in various places in the city to undermine my authority. Later, he set his sights on my daughter. It was obviously him who was pushing his feet and making mistakes again and again, but in the end he brought people to my house to ask for punishment. Now he is writing a letter to mobilize troops and slandering me in every way... During this period of time, I have been tolerant again and again for the sake of the overall situation, but today I can no longer tolerate it, so there is no need to tolerate it anymore!"

Luo Tianjin seemed to be getting angrier and angrier as he spoke, and his face became more and more ferocious. He changed his usual elegant image for the first time and cursed viciously: "Wang Xutong, that bastard, doesn't want me to live, so I'm going to let him know. No matter who it is, if he dares to offend me in the Central Plains, I'm going to make him... die a miserable death!"

Luo Tianjin almost shouted out the last sentence. At the same time, his right palm slammed heavily on the table, instantly breaking the huge pearwood table into pieces. This move showed how furious Luo Tianjin was today.

"Palace Lord, calm down!"

Everyone was shocked when they saw this, and they all knelt on the ground, trying to comfort him. "If I had known this would happen, why would I have tolerated him?" Luo Tianjin seemed to have calmed down a little, exhaled a long breath, and said faintly, "This time, I will not give him a chance to breathe."

"The mansion master said it well!" Lin Fangda nodded excitedly, "Since it has come to the point where both sides are desperate, there is no need to show mercy. I will take people to destroy the general's mansion first, and then we can talk about other things!" After saying that, Lin Fangda changed the subject and said, "In this case, then Xun Yi... does he not need to be handed over to Wang Xutong anymore?"

When Liu Xunyi was mentioned, Ling Qing's expression suddenly straightened up, and he turned to Luo Tianjin and said, "Palace Master, we have already found out last night that the singing father and daughter were the murderers of Wang Qingshu. They are the killers known as the 'Qin Demon and Dancing Demon' in the martial arts world."

"Not only was Wang Qingshu killed by them, but they also instigated the deadlock between the Xianwang Mansion and the General's Mansion today." Deng Changchuan said, "So it seems that their appearance in the East Sea Teahouse was not a coincidence, but a deliberate act. In order to attract the attention of Lin Fangda and others, as well as the attention of Wang Qingshu, they wrote and performed a good play of loneliness, misery and helplessness, with the purpose of provoking us to fall out with Wang Qingshu. After that, when one plan failed, they tried another one and deliberately let Wang Qingshu capture them so that Wang Qingshu could use this to threaten Ning Yu. After that, when we went to Fengming Tower to rescue people, they took the opportunity to kill Wang Qingshu and put the blame on Liu Xunyi, so that the hatred between Wang Xutong and us became deeper and deeper, and finally reached a completely irreconcilable point. It seems that all of this is a huge conspiracy. In order to achieve their goal, they did not hesitate to disguise themselves, pretend to be crazy and stupid, and took great pains to lure us into the trap."

"Fifth Master is right!" Ling Qing nodded heavily, "I almost died in their hands last night. At that time, I concluded that with their martial arts skills, it was impossible for them to be captured by the drunkard next to Wang Qingshu. It must be intentional."

Luo Tianjin listened thoughtfully to the conversation between Deng Changchuan and Ling Qing, and sneered, "Qin Mo and Wu Yao? They are just two low-class gangsters. Even if they have ten guts, they will never dare to go against me. There must be another mastermind behind them. And this person behind the scenes is our biggest threat."

Hearing this, Ling Qing couldn't help but feel guilty, and apologized, "Ling Qing is incompetent and failed to capture the Qin Demon and Wu Yao and find out who is behind it. Please punish me, Lord of the Palace."

Luo Tianjin turned a blind eye to Ling Qing's apology and muttered to himself, "Actually... at the same time when the Qin Demon and Wu Yao came to Luoyang, another thing also arrived in Luoyang City..."

"The mansion master is talking about... the 'Painting of Wind and Rain' in Wang Xutong's hand?" Xie Xuan reacted very quickly and hit the nail on the head.

"That's right!" Luo Tianjin pondered, "The Qin Demon and the Dancing Demon came for Wang Xutong and me, and that fake picture just happened to connect Wang Xutong and me for the first time. Is there really such a coincidence in the world? Who gave that fake picture to Wang Xutong?"

"Does the mansion master suspect..." Xie Xuan frowned and pondered, "The person who gave Wang Xutong this fake picture is the one who secretly instructed the Qin Demon and Wu Yao? In other words, from the beginning, someone has been secretly watching us and Wang Xutong. This person is not only familiar with our Xianwang Mansion, but also has a thorough investigation of the background of the Wang family father and son."

"Thinking about it this way, Liu Xunyi might have really been deceived when he was in the Western Regions." Deng Changchuan muttered, and then his eyes lit up, and he hurriedly said, "Could it be the Jiangnan Lu Mansion? Liu Xunyi said that the Lu Mansion had also sent people to the Western Regions, and then Liu Xunyi deliberately left a fake map for the Jiangnan Lu Mansion. Could it be that Lu Tingxiang was resentful about this, so he schemed to instigate a quarrel between us and the Mongols?"

Luo Tianjin speculated with a suspicious look on his face, and slowly shook his head and said, "Lu Tingxiang is very scheming. Since I can see through this so easily, how could he not have thought of it? Although Lu Tingxiang has a grudge against us, he is not stupid enough to take the risk of becoming my enemy. At least now he is not fully grown, and he will never dare to fight with me."

"Who could it be?" Xie Xuan guessed, "Could it be... the Young Qin King of the Western Regions? Liu Xunyi said that the picture was given to the Palace Master by the Young Qin King. He clearly wants to win over the Palace Master. Since the Young Qin King wants to win over the Palace Master, he will definitely not allow us to be on good terms with Mongolia, so he asked the Qin Demon and Wu Yao to deliberately sabotage it?"

Luo Tianjin shook his head again and said, "No. Since the picture was given to me by the Young King of Qin, it means he should not know that it is a fake picture. If he knew that the picture was fake, wouldn't he be asking for trouble by giving it to me?"

"Then... maybe the Young King of Qin was also deceived?" Xie Xuan hesitated, "The Jade Dragon Palace deceived them, and what they got at the beginning was a fake map, so..."

"It's even more impossible!" Luo Tianjin asserted, "If they thought this picture was real, why would they copy an identical one and send it to Wang Xutong? If you deliberately turn the real one into a fake one, aren't you destroying your own stage? If it were you, would you do such a stupid thing?"

"This……"

For a moment, many speculations were denied by Luo Tianjin, and the hall fell into a dilemma.

At this moment, everyone felt as if a huge rock was pressing down on their hearts. They clearly felt that the crisis was imminent, but they didn't know where it came from. How could they not worry?
"That's it!"

Suddenly, Luo Tianjin waved his hand to interrupt everyone's thoughts and said solemnly: "The most urgent task is to deal with Wang Xutong first! Quickly, steadily, and ruthlessly! Other matters can be discussed later. As for Liu Xunyi... let's wait for the third leader of Fan Humen to arrive, let them confront each other, and then decide their life or death!"

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(End of this chapter)