Chapter 422: Chapter 422

"You did very well. I would have done the same!" Xuanwu Wenyuan was very satisfied with Xuanwu Lingfeng's arrangements, finding basically no flaws. As for some minor details, he didn't say more—such things relied on experience that developed slowly.

"Where's Lingjian?" Xuanwu Wenyuan suddenly noticed this problem. Shang Lingjian had gone out after Xuanwu Lingfeng—how come he still hadn't returned after so long?

"Did Lingjian go out? I didn't see him," Xuanwu Lingfeng was a bit surprised. Shang Lingjian had gone in another direction just now, so naturally he hadn't encountered him.

"He went out during the second scream, not long after you left. You didn't see him?" Xuanwu Wenyuan frowned.

"No, I already arranged for the second person who was attacked, and there was no mention of Lingjian being there. Where did he go?" Xuanwu Lingfeng also frowned. "Could it be..."

"No need to guess. I'm back. I just went around in a circle but didn't see any enemies," Shang Lingjian walked in at this moment, responding.

"Lingjian, don't act alone when there's no emergency!" Xuanwu Lingfeng reprimanded. At a time , if something happened, it would be troublesome.

"I know! Didn't I come back?" Shang Lingjian said, then walked toward the door.

Just at this moment, Xuanwu Lingxiao suddenly drew her sword...

Xuanwu Lingfeng and the others felt puzzled. Drawing her sword now meant there should be movement, but they hadn't detected any. Could Xuanwu Lingxiao's sensitivity be higher than theirs?

No, that wasn't it. She seemed to be pointing at—Shang Lingjian!!

"Lingxiao, what are you doing?" Shang Lingjian dodged Xuanwu Lingxiao's attack, asking irritably.

Why would Xuanwu Lingxiao draw her sword to attack Shang Lingjian? Everyone found this very strange. Had Shang Lingjian made her angry? Even so, they'd never seen her attack someone just for being angry.

"You don't have that annoying feeling about you!" Xuanwu Lingxiao looked at Shang Lingjian and said.

"??" This statement left most people confused. What did this mean?

"So that's how it is!!" Xuanwu Wenyuan said, then also attacked, trying to capture the Shang Lingjian in front of him.

Normally, if Shang Lingjian faced Xuanwu Wenyuan, he wouldn't last even one move. But this time, not only did he dodge, he also conveniently took Xuanwu Lingxiao hostage.

All this happened too quickly. Whether it was Xuanwu Wenyuan's attack or Shang Lingjian taking Xuanwu Lingxiao hostage, everything occurred almost instantly. That speed was definitely Saint Level or above.

Xuanwu Wenyuan was Saint Level—this was unquestionable. But Shang Lingjian...

I understand!! So this was what Xuanwu Lingxiao meant. This Shang Lingjian was fake—naturally, a fake Shang Lingjian couldn't give Xuanwu Lingxiao that annoying feeling!

Speaking of which, Shang Lingjian was really pitiful—constantly being disliked by Xuanwu Lingxiao to the point where she could clearly sense the annoying feeling from him.

However, if this Shang Lingjian was fake, one could only say the fake was too realistic, almost identical without any flaws. Only Xuanwu Lingxiao recognized him.

But this made sense. Although Xuanwu Wenyuan was Shang Lingjian's uncle and Xuanwu Lingfeng was his cousin, neither father nor son had much contact with Shang Lingjian. Under such sophisticated disguise techniques, not recognizing him was quite normal.

"Who are you, and what do you want to do?" Xuanwu Wenyuan looked at the fake Shang Lingjian. He hadn't expected the opponent to have such speed, almost as fast as himself. Because of this, the opponent had managed to capture Xuanwu Lingxiao.

"Xuanwu Wenyuan, you're too despicable and shameless!!" The fake Shang Lingjian didn't answer the question but pointed at Xuanwu Wenyuan and scolded him.

"??" Xuanwu Wenyuan was confused. What was this situation?

"How could you do this? How is anyone supposed to steal anything? Is this how you do things? I gave you advance notice because I wanted a challenge. I didn't expect you to use human wave tactics to block the entrance. I lost this time, but I won't be embarrassed when word gets out!!" the fake Shang Lingjian said.

Now the identity of this fake Shang Lingjian was obvious—he was the real world's number one divine thief. He had come here and been thoroughly frustrated. He hadn't expected the Xuanwu family to handle things this way. Was this even interesting anymore?

Of course, he hadn't given up and still wanted to try. He attacked people on the perimeter, planning to draw the tiger away from the mountain. Later, when Shang Lingjian appeared, he got an idea and pretended to be Shang Lingjian to try to get through.

He was a professional divine thief. When coming here to strike, he had already figured out the Xuanwu family. He knew what people the Xuanwu family had and what they were like, allowing him to transform into any of them at any time. Disguise techniques were a very important part of his thievery skills.

What he hadn't expected was that his disguise would be seen through by Xuanwu Lingxiao. But this was because he wasn't annoying enough—this was actually comforting.

"So you really are the divine thief's accomplice. Did you come to provide support?" Xuanwu Wenyuan didn't know the person in front of him was the real world's number one divine thief. He thought he was an accomplice of the person inside, responsible for providing support.

"What divine thief's accomplice? I AM the world's number one divine thief!!" the divine thief shouted somewhat unhappily. How had he become an accomplice? Accomplices were unimportant characters—was this insulting him?

"You're the divine thief? Then who's inside? Your accomplice?" Xuanwu Wenyuan was confused. What was this situation? But he believed the divine thief wouldn't joke about this because there was no need to now.

"Accomplice? Does a divine thief like me need accomplices? Xuanwu Wenyuan, I'm telling you—what you did today was already shameless enough. Don't blacken my name further, or I'll never let this go!!" The divine thief was angry. He felt he was being insulted again.

This divine thief was also quite a character. He didn't steal to obtain things—he stole purely for the sake of stealing. After stealing things, he would steal them back and put them somewhere, leaving you to find them yourself. This was also one of his great hobbies.

Many people he had stolen from still hadn't found their stolen items to this day. This was also a headache-inducing aspect.

Perhaps it was for this reason that Xuanwu Wenyuan had personally waited inside. The Xuanwu Heart Scripture couldn't be stolen away so frivolously and then hidden just as frivolously.

"What did you say? You're alone? Then who's the person inside?" Xuanwu Wenyuan asked in surprise. For this great family head to be surprised meant this was no small matter.

The others weren't just surprised—they were completely shocked. They never would have thought such a situation could occur. The person trapped earlier wasn't the divine thief, nor was he the divine thief's partner, but another completely unrelated person.

From the beginning, everyone had been wrong. This was truly a huge misunderstanding. All their speculation about the person inside might have to be overturned!

"What person inside? Are you saying you're guarding here because someone broke in?" The divine thief was also greatly surprised. He hadn't expected that today someone had beaten him to it. However, he didn't think the other party had stolen their way in, but had broken in.

"No, not broken in. He should be one of your fellow professionals," Xuanwu Wenyuan looked at the divine thief. He now wanted to get some information from the divine thief. Since they were fellow professionals, he might know the person inside. Fınd the newest release on novèlfire.net

"Fellow professional?" The divine thief looked at Xuanwu Wenyuan with some confusion. What did he mean by this?

"Could you first release my niece? Let's have a proper talk," Xuanwu Wenyuan pointed at Xuanwu Lingxiao, still in the divine thief's grasp. He didn't want his niece held hostage while he was talking.

"Fine!" Without another word, the divine thief released Xuanwu Lingxiao. Having reached this point, he no longer wanted to steal what was inside—at least not today.

He also believed Xuanwu Wenyuan wouldn't do anything at this moment. That would make the Xuanwu family too low-class, and word getting out would damage their reputation.

Indeed, after the divine thief released Xuanwu Lingxiao, no one moved against him. He and Xuanwu Wenyuan had created an equal dialogue environment.

"Also, could you change your disguise?" Xuanwu Wenyuan looked at the divine thief. At this time, the divine thief still looked like Shang Lingjian, making him very uncomfortable.

"No way. How can I expose my true face?" The divine thief refused Xuanwu Wenyuan's suggestion.

"Then could you change to a different disguise? This one makes me feel very strange," Xuanwu Wenyuan tried asking. This appearance was really unbearable—it would make him confuse his roles.

"That's possible!" After the divine thief spoke, he turned around, then changed faces in front of everyone, switching hairstyles and even changing to a complete set of clothes. Even his body shape changed.

If it had just been this, it would have been surprising enough—even unbelievable. However, this wasn't all. What followed was enough to make everyone feel that everything above was actually trivial.

That's right, all that was trivial and not strange. The final change was truly magical.

The divine thief had now become a delicate young maiden!!

Even gender had changed in an instant. What did the other changes matter?

"How about it? Does this look better? Can it meet your requirements?" The divine thief smiled coquettishly at Xuanwu Wenyuan and threw him a flirtatious glance.

"..." Xuanwu Wenyuan looked at the divine thief in maiden form. He had heard that disguise techniques were powerful—one could disguise as anyone: tall, thin, old, young, male, female, and so on—all transformations were possible.