"Mr. Futian Yizhi, I admire your courage to plead for them, but do you really understand what ’audacity’ ans? Do you know our Huaxia customs?" Lin Tian dropped the ninja and looked at Futian Yizhi leisurely, with a hint of mockery in his tone.
Futian Yizhi was startled and didn’t quite grasp the aning of Lin Tian’s words, unable to co up with an answer imdiately.
Lin Tian didn’t intend to wait for an answer and continued, "It seems you don’t quite understand our Huaxia customs. However, I can tell you, there is a way for them to leave safely, and that is if you take on the punishnt they deserve. It’s said that every Japanese person venerates the Great Samurai Spirit, and since Mr. Futian Yizhi has just used the term ’audacity,’ I assu your Great Samurai Spirit is also very noble, but do you have the courage to suffer for your compatriots?"
"This..." Futian Yizhi hesitated, truly wishing he could smack himself.
He had been studying Huaxia culture recently and was fascinated by the classical Chinese language, finding it both elegant and straightforwardly powerful like modern Chinese, which is why he had used it involuntarily just now.
Little did he know that by doing so, he had given Lin Tian a handle to use against him. Now Futian Yizhi realized the profound and extensive nature of Huaxia culture; rely studying it for a few days and then showing off was not impressive but rather laughable.
"Futian Yizhi, this young man is absolutely right. If you take the punishnt for them, their sentences could be reduced. However, just now soone attempted to commit violence with a knife, which I’m afraid is not sothing you, Mr. Futian Yizhi, can endure," said Second Young Master Yun, surprisingly backing up Lin Tian. No, he was actually upholding the rules.
Second Young Master Yun, from the mont he entered the hall, had not taken sides, and as the Second Young Master of the Yun Family, he did not need to take any side.
"This..." Futian Yizhi hesitated again. As for the six n’s earlier assault to steal the jade, he could still try to excuse it as a mont of greed that led to the robbery, but the escalation to knife-wielding could not be so easily explained by re ’greed.’
Moreover, in Japan, family-run private punishnts are more frequent and harsher than in Huaxia, so Futian Yizhi knew that he could not gloss this over, and any further entanglent would only cast suspicion on himself.
After much consideration, he deliberately put on a serious face and said, "Since it has co to violence with a knife, even as a Japanese, I will not shelter them. Whatever punishnt you decide, I will not oppose."
All were sly old foxes, changing faces faster than flipping a book, Lin Tian thought with inward disdain. But he had anticipated this outco; pushing Futian Yizhi to an awkward position and leaving him speechless was his goal all along.
"Since Mr. Futian Yizhi has no objections, then I shall proceed," Lin Tian said coldly, and then he reached to lift the unconscious ninja.
"Lin Tian, he’s already passed out, why do you still insist on punishing him?" Futian Shenyi spoke up, sowhat discontentedly.
"Because he attempted to attack with a knife. Do you have any objections?" Lin Tian glanced at him sideways, making no effort to conceal his desire for retribution.
Everyone fell silent at his words. There’s no need to be so blatantly vengeful, is there? But while so were speechless, others admired the forthrightness, deeming it the way a real man should act.
Lin Tian knelt down, looked at the unconscious ninja for a mont, and said with a faint smile, "Do you think that just because he’s passed out, that’s the end of it?"
He rolled up his sleeves, revealing a golden thread on his wrist, and untied the thread before giving it a flick, straightening it out.
"Ghost Valley Inheritor!" Just as the golden thread appeared, an exclamation burst out from upstairs.
Ghost Valley Inheritor? Lin Tian was startled and puzzled. The Nine Needle Technique indeed related to Gui Guzi, and if one were to split hairs, he could be loosely considered an inheritor, but he hadn’t yet used the Nine Needle Technique, and already soone was shouting ’Ghost Valley Inheritor.’ Could this golden thread be a mark or a token of the Ghost Valley Inheritor?
Lin Tian looked upstairs, where Second Young Master Yun was standing up, watching him with excitent. Moreover, there was a rich array of expressions in Second Young Master Yun’s eyes: thrill, surprise, astonishnt, as well as doubt and disbelief.
What on earth had caused such a commotion in Second Young Master Yun’s emotions? Lin Tian was very perplexed and understood even less why, upon seeing the golden thread, he had concluded that Lin Tian was a Ghost Valley Inheritor. And what exactly was a Ghost Valley Inheritor?
After all, Gui Guzi had spent his life studying the harmony between heaven and n, politics, military strategies, astronomy and geography, the Yin Yang Five Elents, traditional Chinese dicine, and Taoist techniques. What exactly the Ghost Valley Inheritor inherited was difficult to say.
As soon as Second Young Master Yun shouted out, the people on the first floor didn’t react much, but it caused quite a stir on the second floor. In the private rooms upstairs, several people stood up, their gazes fixed on Lin Tian with keen interest—these people were all elders.
Now the people downstairs noticed this unusual situation, wondering why several respected elders would act so excited, with Lin Tian at the center of the commotion.
Could it be that this Lin Tian was so sort of treasure? But what kind of treasure would cause the elders to be this agitated? Nurous questions bubbled up in the minds of many there.
At this mont, Second Young Master Yun ca back to his senses and noticed the exceptional expressions of his old companions upstairs. He composed himself, casually sat back down as if nothing had happened.
Seeing his countenance, confusion flickered in the eyes of the other elders, but they too sat down.
"Old Man Yun, was what you just said true?" Elder Zhao asked, trying to ingratiate himself.
Second Young Master Yun rolled his eyes, saying impatiently, "Can’t you see for yourself whether it’s true or not!"
"Hey, now you’re getting worked up. If I could tell, why would I ask you? I’ve heard the Yun Family once t a Ghost Valley Inheritor, and saw the token of the Ghost Valley Inheritor. Just tell us about it, it won’t kill you!" said Elder Zhao anxiously and dissatisfied.
"Who said that? It’s all hearsay. I’m warning you, you know the rules. There are things you shouldn’t ask about or talk about, otherwise, you’re not going to like the consequences!" Second Young Master Yun warned.
Elder Zhao was startled by the warning and dared not ask further. The other elders continued in silence, swallowing their questions.
Li Zhengyang glanced at the elders, then at the Xiao Family’s mother and daughter, and finally set his gaze on Lin Tian, his eyes also flickering with doubt, though he didn’t ask questions like Elder Zhao.
Others wearing similar expressions included Ou Qinglan, Futian Yizhi, and Bai Zhengchu; they too looked at Lin Tian with uncertainty.
"Sister, what do they an by that?" Xiao Manxuan asked out of curiosity.
"I don’t know either," Miss Xiao shook her head.
"Even with your martial arts training from Master, you don’t know?" Mrs. Xiao asked, puzzled.
Miss Xiao shook her head and said with a slight frown, "Gui Guzi is too mysterious, and so even consider him a myth. You could say you know many stories about Gui Guzi, or that you know nothing at all. But I know that Lin Tian’s golden thread cos from Zi Yan, as does the latter part of the Nine Needle Technique. So, what exactly is Zi Yan?"
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