The Immortal Fire

Chapter 03: The Birthmark of the Phoenix Tribe

"I'll just look at the sign, the rest of it I won't scratch at the end of it!" Bai Ma looked on standby, he retreated a few steps.

"Patriarch Bai ... Please don't go too far, he's still a kid." Xi Guan has a frutation.

Bai Ma tightened his pressure on the blade as he began to feel slightly threatened, "Listen! Don't try to attack covertly, or..."

Xi Guan walked forward a few steps and stopped when he saw Bai Ma pressing the blade deeper on Liu Ying's neck, "You're in too much of a hurry, Patriarch Bai. You can prove it, hand over the boy first."

"You think I'll be easily fooled?" Bai Ma was already unable to hold back his patience anymore.

"All right! Liu'er, show him." Xi Guan turned to face behind him.

Liu Ying who got the order began to move his hair from the back of his neck to his left shoulder, revealing the smooth, white back of his neck.

Seeing that Bai Ma was very surprised, Liu Ying's neck seemed clean from the stains, there was not the slightest sign of Phoenix wings that Bai Ma had been looking for.

"No way! How can!? I clearly felt the aura of the Imperial Phoenix on this brat, I can't possibly misidentify, what tricks are you guys actually playing?" Bai Ma grabbed her hair in a fret.

Xi Guan walked over to Bai Ma with a deep sigh, "Calm down, Patriarch Bai. Maybe this is just a misunderstanding, my granddaughter really has nothing to do with the issues of the martial world. Uh! I haven't been expecting you well since your arrival,"

Xi Guan walked over to one of the Clan disciples, "Xiao Ming, prepare a place to entertain, Patriarch Bai. Patriarch Bai, come!" he said as he opened both hands and pointed them at the banquet hall.

Bai Ma still looked unsatisfied with what he saw, but inevitably he stepped on his feet to follow Xi Guan.

Liu Ying breathed a sigh of relief after Bai Ma's departure, it was fortunate that he could be free from the witch woman. Liu Ying had no intention of following the old man Xi Guan and Bai Ma, preferring to return to his room and rest his still-painful body.

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In a room not too large with a distinctive white color and rows of rattan chairs, it appears that some people are sitting accompanied by a glass of green tea in front of them.

But none of them touched the tea pot as if more interested in their discussion.

Bai Ma the Patriarch of the Eternal Flute Sect along with the 30 main Elders of the Golden Lotus Sect were deliberating on the matter earlier.

You could say, the negotiations did not go well. It could be seen from the look on Bai Ma's face that looked upset and displayed an expression of uncertainty.

The Elders were also not much different, their expressions could not be said to be friendly.

They had even forgotten that someone who had a higher standing than them was also among them.

"Patriarch, Bai. It's an honor if the Patriarch can pay a visit to our sect, but the act of infiltrating is not something a Patriarch deserves to do." said one of the oldest elders among others by emphasizing each word in his sentence.

Bai Ma turned his face the other way while snorting in annoyance, "Then? Does someone from a neutral stream like me need to follow the ridiculous rules of your Sect?"

The Sepuh elder became irritated, "You're really messing around with the rules of the martial world? Infiltrating is a weak and cowardly act that is very embarrassing!"

Hearing that, Bai Ma laughed so hard that he made the Elders in the room stare intently at him.

"What's the difference with your Sect members? Cowardly and humiliating, I think those two words are suitable to describe your weak Sect Defense as if it has been very powerful. Are you sure enough that no one can enter your Clan?"

"You..!"

"Patriarch Bai, Elder Du. Let's address this issue by being more mature, aren't we here to talk well?"

The words that shot out from Xi Guan's mouth successfully made them stop arguing.

"Chairman Du, what happened to the Clan's security members?" xi Guan said in a satirical tone.

Du Xing, the man in his mid seventy years was stunned to hear the loud insinuations from Xi Guan. Du Xing was the 46th Elder in the Golden Lotus Clan, in full authority over the sect's security forces.

"Chairman. From my knowledge, there's nothing wrong with the Sect's security forces, it's just... "

"You're not watching?" xi Guan said with an intimidating look.

Du Xing showed a guilty countenance, yet it looked more like a pang of heart and looked agitated.

"Sorry, Chairman. I have been negligent, but I I have a reason that requires me to leave the task. I have family issues to deal with."

Xi Guan rubbed his face roughly, "Look, Patriarch Bai. Earlier I apologized for welcoming you with disrespect. I want us to solve the matter just now, so is the Patriarch willing to discuss this further?"

Bai Ma sighed harshly, "I did indeed come here to avenge that matter, so explain about Physician Wu's case."

Xi Guan got up from his seat then folded his hands behind his back, "Ah! Physician Wu, huh? The news of his death's association with the Golden Lotus Clan did have a relationship as rumored."

Xi Guan explained that at that time some of his Senior Sect disciples had come to pick up Ruo Yuan's body to the residence of Wu Sacred Medicine Sect, but the rumors about the assassination plan by his clan were not true. Because at that time, after the great chaos ended there were still many small sects that clashed and split, including the Wu Sacred Medicine Sect.

Sacred Medicine Sect Chief Wu had a long-standing grudge with the group of black streams from YanJing the Black Death Temple, after the chaos made many of the Black Sects to dare to attack the small sect of white and neutral streams.

Regarding the typical Jade of the Phoenix tribe, Xi Guan vowed that he had no idea about it at all. According to the Wu family eyewitnesses, the discovery of the Jade of the Phoenix Tribe was a hoax.

The killer of Physician Wu was never found until now, but investigators found an object on Physician Wu's body - a humpback dagger that was a special weapon of the Black Death Sect - stuck on his shoulder.

But it did not contain any poison or cause fatal injuries, even though the strong cause of the death of Physician Wu was poisoning the drugs that were being concocted himself.

Having no clear and strong evidence, the investigators and those involved were forced to keep the case secret.

Bai Ma was still suspicious, yet seemed quite satisfied with Xi Guan's reply, "Your granddaughter... I felt that there was something strange about his soul aura. You're not hiding anything, are you?"

Xi Guan laughed bitterly, "Oh my god, I don't dare. His soul aura was indeed a little chaotic due to the illness he had suffered, but the Physician said it was still normal."

"really?" Bai Ma looked at Xi Guan full of probes.

Xi Guan became a little panicked, yet he still looked calm and smiled kindly. "You can hold my word."

Bai Ma nodded slowly, they talked about the matter in the martial world for quite some time. Soon Bai Ma bade farewell to everyone there, and returned to his Sect.

Simultaneously, all the Elders in the room dispersed back to their respective jobs, leaving Zhou Li with Xi Guan there.

"Chairman Zhou, make an order to establish a Protective Magic formation in the Sect." Xi Guan turned his back to Zhou Li then passed leaving the middle-aged woman there.

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