Chapter 20: Undercurrents Beneath the Turbulent Stream
Gu Family Pawnshop, Southern Branch Hall.
Xie Xiang paced nervously in the branch hall, holding the silver dagger in his hand.
After he reported the situation regarding the silver dagger, he was immediately summoned in secret to the southern branch hall of Gu Clan.
The business of Gu Clan spanned the entire Daxia, and the Southern Branch Hall governed the various pawnshops across one hundred and twenty commanderies. Even the shopkeepers of the branch shops in these one hundred and twenty commanderies could only enter the Southern Branch Hall when they received a summons.
After truthfully reporting the details of the silver dagger, he was directly summoned to the Southern Branch Hall. One could well imagine just how extraordinary the origins of that dagger collected from Baici Town truly were.
Xie Xiang took out the dagger and inspected it closely. Perhaps this was the treasure that would allow him to rise above his station like a phoenix.
With a creak, the door opened, and a white-haired old man along with a handsome young man walked in.
The white-haired old man leaned on a snake-headed cane, his pitch-black robes embroidered with white koi fish.
Seeing him, Xie Xiang was greatly shocked.
He was a guest elder of the main Gu Clan branch, one of the ten grand martial masters who had shaken Daxia ten years ago—the Poison Python, Ximen Feng!
He then looked at the youth beside him.
Dressed in robes as white as snow, with a delicate face, a slanted crescent moon between his brows, and six fingers on his hand.
