My Scales Can Make Equivalent Exchange
Chapter 184: Signal of War?

Chapter 184: Chapter 184: Signal of War?

"Woo Woo!"

The magic panther at the side was released by Wang Zijia too. It came to its master, who was now like a mire, whimpering, and sticking out its tongue to lick its master’s face.

"Huff... exhale..."

Min Xin gasped for breath for quite a while before he managed to crawl up unsteadily, his whole body soaked as if he had bathed in water.

As a wine monk, in such a state with not much mana consumed, it was really incredible.

Wang Zijia glanced at him, without immediately asking anything. Instead, he gestured outside the courtyard.

"Shoo Shoo!"

With the flow of mana, several array flags were transformed into streaming light and flew into Wang Zijia’s hand. He flipped his hand and put them into his storage bag, then he stepped into the room that Min Xin had just come out of.\

Dragging his somewhat exhausted body, Min Xin followed Wang Zijia into the cultivation room and voluntarily activated the concealing array method inside the room.

The black panther also followed them into the room. Although it often snarled at Wang Zijia, it didn’t dare do anything else.

Wang Zijia sat in the room. It was only then that he looked at Min Xin who had come into the room.

"Da Da!"

Wang Zijia’s fingers unconsciously tapped on the table as he scrutinized Min Xin. His old face and bent figure exerted enormous pressure on Min Xin.

An oppressive atmosphere filled the room, adding pressure to Min Xin’s heart.

"Greetings, senior brother!" The overly stressed Min Xin took the initiative to greet formally.

"First, talk about your situation and that of your Beast Hidden Group," Wang Zijia said as he stopped tapping, speaking calmly.

Hearing Wang Zijia’s words, Min Xin was terrified. It seemed that not only had the sect noticed them, but it had even gathered a lot of information about them.

He dared not hide anything, nor did he dare hold out any hope. He immediately answered, "In response to senior brother’s question, I was sent to Wanyu Sect by the Devil Gate when I was ten. I have been a beginner for over one hundred and twenty years."

"I am one of the earliest disciples of the Beast Hidden Group. My codename is ’Spirit Tiger’. I am now the deputy team leader of the group. Apart from me, there is also senior brother Jiang Mingda in our group. He is the main person in charge of our group. His code name is ’Indestructible Bone’."

"Huh, what a big mouth," Wang Zijia remarked upon hearing the codename ’Indestructible Bone’.

Indestructible Bone was a legendary top-level zombie, similar to a true immortal amongst monks?

The speaker, Min Xin, unconsciously trembled for a moment. Facing Wang Zijia, he showed signs of post-traumatic stress syndrome. His black panther companion glanced at its master and gently rubbed against him with its back and leopard head.

Min Xin steadied his mind, then continued, "Apart from us, the whole Beast Hidden Group has ten teams. Each team controls nine to ten people. Looking further down, there are the ordinary sect disciples who are controlled or manipulated by benefits and don’t know anything."

"Da Da!"

"So you’re saying, there are almost a hundred spies in the Beast Vein?" Wang Zijia asked, tapping his fingers on the table.

"Yes!" Min Xin nodded. "Including senior brother Jiang and myself, there are ninety-eight in total. Since it’s very challenging to infiltrate the sect silently, the Sect sends only a few disciples every five years."

"The loyalty of the disciples developed within the sect is hard to ensure. Even threatening them with their lives might get us those who would rather die than betray. In the end, it could lead to the exposure of the entire group."

"So, the members of the group within the sect are controlled to work under the pretext of being involved in a gray area industry, letting them believe that they’re just doing something prohibited by the law enforcement team. They are unaware that the matters involve treason against the sect."

Upon hearing this, Wang Zijia fully understood. In other words, each Beast Hidden Group’s spy was more like an intelligence agency.

"So who is in charge of you two?" Wang Zijia looked at Min Xin and asked.

"The Hall Master of the Ghost Spirit Hall, though I don’t know his exact identity," Min Xin quickly answered.

"Huh?" Wang Zijia furrowed his brows, questioning with a light hum.

Min Xin’s body shivered for a moment, and he hurriedly explained, "Since I achieved the status of a wine monk and, along with senior brother Jiang, took charge of the Beast Hidden Group, we have been led by the Ghost Spirit Hall Master."

"But in the seventy years or so we have worked with him, I have never seen the Hall Master’s face or even his real body. Whenever there is a matter, at most a power-less ordinary ghost will come to communicate with the two of us."

"Da Da!"

Hearing this, Wang Zijia’s fingers were tapping on the table, and his eyebrows furrowed.

So secretive, huh?

Not showing his face even once in seventy or eighty years!

And, by its implication, even the puppets used for meetings are disposable items. This was truly secretive.

Hmm, it sounded familiar!

Eh... isn’t this the scheme I used when I was trading?

Thinking this, Wang Zijia paused for a moment, and then asked, "Besides your group, which members of other groups have you contacted?"

"The Ten Thousand Changes Group of the Transformation Pulse, because of some emergency tasks a while ago, we had some contact with its team leader ’Ghost Bird’, but we’re not too sure about his true identity,"

Min Xin cautiously glanced at Wang Zijia and continued, "Apart from that, it’s the deputy main vein of the Essence Blood Vein. When the Blood Hidden Group was first established, we had some contact."

"So many years, and you have only seen these few men?" Wang Zijia asked, furrowing his brows.

"Yes, the Dark Hall acts incredibly discreetly. Each group, even when working together, barely knows the identities of the others. The contact is all on individual lines. Let alone other groups, even within our own group, we might not be aware of the people we have developed."

Min Xin carefully explained, "Only the lower disciples, when doing tasks together, might have some real contact and know certain identities. Once a code name is obtained, everyone has been in the group for years, so everyone is very careful."

Good Lord, they conducted espionage operations even more intensely than in my previous life!

"So, what’s your main business?" Wang Zijia asked.

"There’s no main business. We had one a few years ago, but about fifty years ago, it became that all secret information involving Wanyu Sect would be reported," Min Xin carefully glanced and Wang Zijia and said,

"Including but not limited to, the list of genius disciples, information about spiritual fields and spiritual objects in various places, the state of families under the sect, and even the coordinates and basic information of subordinate worlds, anything involving Wanyu Sect is reported."

Hmm?

What’s this signal?

"Is Bone Soul Sect preparing for a full-scale war?" Wang Zijia abruptly asked.

"I really don’t know about this. Anyway, starting fifty years ago, all secret information started being collected. The specifics of why and because of what..." Min Xin paused for a moment, revealing a wry smile, and said, "Senior brother, do you really think I belong to Bone Soul Sect?"

"Heh, if the Old Taoist hadn’t come today, and you weren’t in such a state, would you have said these words?" Wang Zijia stared at him and countered.

Hearing his words, Min Xin couldn’t argue, and he fell silent.