Peking Opera Cat Heart Feather

Chapter 28

Shouzong Palace, foundry interior

I saw a huge jar filled with green liquid. A cat was trapped inside with countless tubes inserted into its body. A huge figure stood beside it, also connected to tubes extending from the jar.

After Sect Leader Ling Xi walked over and activated the mechanism, he saw the chaos drawn out from the jar and transferred to the ultimate weapon next to it. The ultimate weapon moved twice due to the input of chaos, but soon stopped again because the cat in the jar was exhausted.

"Is it not possible for me to use Chaos as a substitute?" Ling Xi slammed his hand on the green jar and said angrily.

"Failed again, failed again, the progress seems to have been less than ideal." At this time, the Marionette Cat made a sheep-like voice, which seemed very creepy. "Lord An has high expectations for this strongest weapon," said the Marionette Cat controlled by the puppeteer.

An: I didn’t slander him. I’m not interested in such little things.

"It's obviously just the last step. As long as I have strong and pure rhythmic power, I can complete it, but..." Lingxi didn't care what the cat said, he just turned his back to look at the blueprint.

"I do have a few good candidates, and one of them is no weaker than you." The cat heard Lingxi's mumbling and said in a very bewitching voice behind him.

——The screen turns——

"I'm so thirsty and tired. I want to sleep. And Xinyu, take your hands off your ears." Bai Tang and others had already left the dungeon and continued walking according to the map. Because Bai Tang was hungry again, Bai Xinyu took the opportunity to help him and stretched out his evil claws again.

"It's here." Xiaoqing moved her eyes away from the map and looked at the town ahead.

"Great, I can finally take a break." Bai Xinyu, who was standing with Xiaoqing, looked at the Shouzong City in front of them. At the same time, she was thinking about whether to ask Shouzong to make two hot weapons for her to play with. Then she saw Bai Tang suddenly jumped out, and it seemed that he jumped out from under them.

"Alas, you see, the Tianshou Sect has probably been taken over by chaos," Wu Song said, looking at the ominous sky in front of him.

"You can't act rashly again and repeat the same mistake as before." Bai Xinyu applied medicine to the bump on Bai Tang's head that he had just made and warned Bai Tang.

"Yuwan, I'm here!" When the group arrived at the gate of the Shouzong Mechanical City, Baitang shouted and ran in. Everyone had no choice but to follow him.

After entering the Skill City, everyone saw not a row of shops and a bustling crowd, but only people making weapons. At the same time, the villagers next to them looked at them with strange eyes, but Bai Tang was so focused on finding Yuwan that he didn't notice.

"This place looks like a big factory," Bai Tang said curiously as he looked around.

"Providing weapons and props to all twelve sects is not just a casual talk," Bai Xinyu said helplessly as he looked at the few people who had not noticed anything unusual about the surrounding villagers.

"But this place doesn't look like a clan palace." Xiaoqing frowned, looking at the dust rising everywhere from the blacksmith's work, and felt very unhappy.

"Xiaoqing, look up," Bai Xinyu, who had been walking with Xiaoqing, suddenly said.

Everyone looked up and saw the Shou Zong Palace floating in the sky. Did the Shou Zong technology tree go wrong? The Palace could even fly into the sky. How did An take it down in the first place?

"I'm so hungry, let's go find something to eat first." Bai Tang lowered his head and touched his stomach which was already protesting. But when he turned around, he found that except Bai Tang himself, the other four people were all looking around with serious expressions.

"What's wrong with you?" Bai Tang, who was a bit nervous, still didn't notice anything wrong.

"I'm afraid the person who comes here has bad intentions," Dafei said to the villagers around him.

"Everyone follow me," Bai Xinyu said as he took out an unexploded pepper smoke bomb that he had picked up from the dungeon and threw it out, causing a cloud of dust to rise.

After Bai Xinyu led everyone away, a big cat wearing a black cloak looked at the deep pit on the ground and fell into deep confusion.

"If I remember correctly, how come that pepper smoke bomb that looked like a mushroom was in her hand?" said the big cat wearing a cloak, looking at the deep pit on the ground.

On the other side, everyone also avoided the pursuit by hiding in boxes and jumping onto the roof. When they reunited, they successfully saw Bai Tang's wanted poster. When they saw Bai Tang's wanted poster, they ignored it and Bai Tang was still stuck in the box.

"Since there are meatballs, I'm afraid we all deserve a share," Wu Song said as he looked at Bai Tang's wanted poster.

"Come, I'm ready. Let's dress up." Bai Xinyu pulled Bai Tang out of the box and handed over a piece of clothing.

Passerby A: "The rhyme selection is about to begin, and I wonder if these criminals have been caught yet."

Passerby B: "Yeah, yeah, and you keep asking us to draw such ugly cats here."

"Hmph, it's fine that you drew me so ugly, but how many layers of beauty filter did Wu Song use? And why is Dafei's drawing quite cute?" Bai Xinyu looked at the two cats who were drawing the wanted poster and was about to take action when she saw Xiaoqing swung her sleeves and pulled the ladder down. Bai Xinyu looked at the two buckets of paint that fell and used a little bit of rhythmic power to make the paint completely pour over the two cats.

"How do we get up there?" Xiaoqing asked Zong Zonggong while looking at the hand floating in the sky.

"Unless you can fly. By the way, Xinyu, your Suzaku." At this time, Dafei remembered Bai Xinyu's Suzaku bow. After transforming into the Suzaku mythical beast, he could take everyone flying up.

"No, the Vermillion Bird is too big a target. I'm afraid we'll be caught before we even take off. Instead of that, it's better for us to separate and collect intelligence and keep a low profile," Bai Xinyu said to Dafei.

After a period of intelligence collection, all the information obtained was basically the three words "Xuanyundian".

"Strange, where did Zhong go? I just saw him here." Bai Xinyu followed Bai Tang secretly, wanting to find Zhong, the other leader of the Shou Sect first.

"What's going on with the system? I just saw Zong in front of me. Logically, our rhyme power should be about the same now. How come I can't find him?" Bai Xinyu didn't think much and directly summoned the system.

[Oh! Of course he went with Bai Tang. Oh, by the way, the mission will be triggered after you meet the two sect leaders.] Without caring about Bai Xinyu's thoughts, the system transformed into her appearance again, sat on her shoulders, and slid out a screen. The screen showed the National Treasure Agent.

——The screen turns——

Bai Tang had successfully made a noise by this time, attracting Wu Song, Xiao Qing and Da Fei, and Zhong also ran over behind.

"Get out of the way, get out of the way, what's happening here?" A big cat with two heart-star eye patches on its head walked over.

"Two-star craftsman, I was testing my weapon, but he suddenly rushed out and destroyed my artillery carriage," said Passerby A.

"How dare you bully others? Take off the cloak on your head first." When the two-star big cat was about to reach out to take off Bai Tang's cloak, Bai Xinyu even took out the white tiger claws, but Zhong suddenly appeared.

"It's a misunderstanding. He is my disciple. Since the rhyme selection is about to start, he is a little impatient. Please forgive him." Zhong said to the two-star big cat after coming out.

"Who dares you to do that? I'm a three, three, three-star craftsman. I'm sorry to offend you." When the big cat was about to say something, Zhong took out a token. After seeing the token, he instantly turned from a strong man into a mouse.

Jiligulu: I feel like you are implying something about me, but I haven’t found any evidence.

"Thank you for saving us, but why did you help me?" Bai Tang stepped forward to thank Zhong, and also asked why he wanted to help them.

"To be honest, I have been observing you for a long time. You want to go to Shou Zong Zong Palace, right? Let me tell you how to get there." Zhong looked in the direction of Shou Zong Zong Palace, and his tone became noticeably softer when he mentioned Shou Zong Zong Palace.

——After a series of explanations——

After Zhong led Bai Tang to the Duanyun stage, they saw a large red drum in the middle of the square. Bai Xinyu knew that this was the drum that had been tampered with. As long as she used pure Yun force to reach it, she would not be able to use Yun force for a short time.

"The rhyme selection ceremony is about to begin. Masters, please wait outside." The cat in charge of hosting the rhyme selection ceremony said loudly. After hearing this voice, Zhong said "good luck to you" and walked out.

"Don't use your rhythmic force to attack Bai Tang for a while." Before Bai Xinyu finished speaking, she saw Bai Tang had already mobilized his rhythmic force and was hitting the big drum.

"Full marks passed." The older cat in charge of hosting the show was also very surprised to see Bai Tang's results.

"My reputation as the genius Bai Tang is not for nothing," Bai Tang said arrogantly, but he didn't pay attention to the road in front of him and tripped over the electric wire, falling heavily in front of everyone.

"You're not called Maru for nothing. It's so embarrassing." Bai Xinyu and the other cats looked at the fallen Maru and walked away silently, indicating that we don't know him.

Then several people went up to beat the drum in turn, but except for Bai Xinyu, everyone else basically used more or less rhythmic power.

"Is it an illusion? Why do I feel a little tired after touching that shield?" Bai Tang, Xiao Qing, Wu Song and Da Fei thought so in their hearts after hearing that they passed.

Zhong also came over, but he was only thinking about entering the clan palace and did not notice the abnormality of Bai Tang and others. Bai Xinyu also noticed the abnormality of several people, but they did not listen to him and used rhythmic power when beating the drum. He had no way to save them. He could only hope to act quickly and not let Lingxi capture them.

Bai Tang was standing next to Zhong at this time and saw Zhong's serious face and bared teeth.

Just as they were discussing how to deal with Bai Tang after meeting the sect leader, they turned around and saw that Zhong had quietly left.

So she followed him secretly. After seeing this, Bai Xinyu knew that Zhong was going to destroy the strongest weapon and she had to go too, which was a good opportunity to complete the sign-in task.

After secretly following Zhong through the ginkgo forest behind and reaching a secret door, Bai Xinyu saw Bai Tang was about to rush over and directly took action to cover Bai Tang's mouth.

"It's me, Bai Tang, Bai Tang's brother Xinyu," Bai Xinyu said while covering Bai Tang's mouth from behind.

After hearing this, Bai Tang stopped struggling and turned to look at Bai Xinyu. When he was about to ask something, Bai Xinyu grabbed Bai Tang's hand and rushed towards the secret door, blocking the door at the last moment.

At the same time, Wu Song and his companions in the square also discovered the disappearance of Zhong, Bai Xinyu and Bai Tang. When they were about to look for them, Ling Xi came down from the Zong Palace.

"Dear skilled craftsmen, welcome to the palace of Shou Zong. Thank you for your hard work in coming here. So your first task in Shou Zong is to capture these wanted criminals for me." As he said this, he waved out a rhythmic force and blew away the clothes that Wu Song and Sanmao used to conceal their identities.

"Could it be that the masked cat told the secret?" Xiaoqing expressed her doubts.

"I can't care about so many things now. Let's deal with the enemy in front of me first." After Da Fei said this, he was about to stimulate his rhythmic power, but he found that he was weak all over and his rhythmic power became extremely weak and could not be mobilized at all.

"I have already tampered with the magic weapon used in Xuan Yun Dian. If you use pure Yun force to attack, your physical strength and Yun force will become weaker and weaker in a short period of time." Ling Xi, who was standing on top, looked at the three cats who were unable to mobilize Yun force and said with a smile.

"Oh no, this is what Xinyu meant when she said not to use rhyme power." After hearing this, Wu Song finally understood why Bai Xinyu didn't want them to use rhyme power.

On the other side, Bai Xinyu and Bai Tang also followed Zhong into the forging room.

"It's still the same, things are piled up so messily." Zhong said this with a doting look on his face, making Bai Xinyu and Bai Tang who were hiding outside the door eat a big mouthful of cat food.

"I didn't expect it to have been completed to this point. Fortunately, I made it in time. I must destroy it now." Zhong walked to the front of the strongest weapon, looked at the strongest weapon that could be activated by just injecting energy, raised his hand and brewed a wave of light, and shot it towards the strongest weapon.

"Bai Tang, don't go. He is ours." Bai Xinyu held back Bai Tang who wanted to rush out to block the light wave.

"Why is Xinyu pulling me? He wants to cause trouble." Bai Tang looked at Bai Xinyu anxiously.

"Bai Tang, think about what he destroyed. You can tell it was a weapon at first glance. Now that the leader of the Hand Sect has been demonized, the weapon he created must be used against us. Since he wants to help us destroy it, then it must be ours," Bai Xinyu said to Bai Tang with a look of disappointment. At the same time, he was thinking that if he held Bai Tang, would Zhong successfully destroy the final weapon and prevent the subsequent darkness from descending? It was exciting just thinking about it.

However, he underestimated the power of the plot revision. Just when Zhong was brewing a light wave to hit the final weapon, a red figure appeared and used the folding of time and space to teleport to the ceiling.

"Oh my, I didn't expect that after looking for you for so long, you were able to run away by yourself." The cash cat floated beside Zhong and said with a sly smile.

"Hmph, you don't have to worry about that." Zhong said and wanted to attack the final weapon again, but at this moment, a voice suddenly came from the sky, "What a rare guest!" When the string cat saw Lingxi coming, it opened the air folding and teleported itself away. After all, it had just seen the cat that blew it up at the door.

Zhong looked up and found Lingxi looking at him from the ceiling. Zhong didn't say anything after seeing Lingxi, but Bai Xinyu, who was peeking outside, clearly saw the emotion in his eyes and the smile on his lips.

"It's really hard for you to hide for so many years." Ling Xi, who was standing on the ceiling, looked at Zhong and said, but it sounded a bit resentful to Bai Xinyu.

"You didn't expect I was still alive, did you? I'm sorry to disappoint you," Zhongye said to Lingxi, but it always felt like he was just showing off his love for her, ah, not cat food.

"It's not too late to get rid of you now." As he said that, he picked up the hammer and jumped down, about to attack Zhong. At this moment, a small red ball was thrown over, and it exploded instantly after landing. The pepper-flavored smoke bomb was online again.

When Lingxi cleared the smoke, he discovered Zhong had vanished. "A trifle, but at this point, even he can't prevent the creation of this most powerful weapon."

P.S. Next, Bai Xinyu will check in on Zhong and receive three blueprints. What do you all want these blueprints to be? Let us know in the comments.