Chapter 255: The Two Armies Meet
Pan Yun stood quietly on the shore waiting for the boat to dock.

Zhang Ning and Li Ji led Zhang Weiliang and his team to greet them.

The soldiers who came ashore checked their identities before letting them pull over and starting to get people off the boat.

Pan Yun and Miao Zhen Miao He were leaning against the car, holding their swords and looking at the people coming down from the boat, commenting from time to time, "Look, that person is soaked, he must have been fished out of the sea. It seems that you have to learn how to swim when fighting in a sea battle, otherwise you will fall into the sea and die waiting for rescue."

"Uncle Junior, do you want to learn how to swim after we return to the mountain?"

"Let's learn. There's a pond on the mountain."

Miao Zhen Miao He shuddered at the same time and exclaimed, "Swimming in the Hanxing Pool?!"

Pan Jun turned to look at them, "Any questions?"

Miaozhen: “It’s so cold.”

Miaohe: "It's still winter."

Pan Yun waved her hand and said, "This is called winter swimming, it's just exercise."

Miao Zhen asked, "Is Junior Master going swimming too?"

"Of course!" Pan Jun, who had no detailed idea about the winter in Hanxingchi, agreed immediately.

Miao Zhen exhaled and said, "In this case, we can do it."

Miao He: "Do we have to go to Hanxing Pond to wash clothes?"

Pan Yun: "Hanxing Pond is so nice, it's just a few more steps away, isn't it more spacious than Danjing, and you don't have to fetch water."

Miao Zhen smiled gently, "Let's wait until we get back to the mountain and make a decision, Junior Master."

As they were chatting, the three saw Xuan Miao and Tao Ji getting off the boat.

The three of them immediately put down their arms and stood up straight, waving at them excitedly: "Senior Brother, Senior Sister!"

"Third Uncle, Fourth Uncle!"

"Master, uncle!"

Everyone turned their heads and saw three young Taoist priests waving their arms vigorously.

The people from the Tianshi Mansion following Xuanmiao were surprised when they saw this: "Are you a disciple from Sanqing Mountain? You are so young, how come you brought him to the battlefield?"

Some people were upset and asked, "Why are they here?"

Xuanmiao turned around and immediately walked towards Pan Yun and the other two. The Taoists followed him subconsciously.

They were not all from Mount Longhu, but the Taoists in the world were under the jurisdiction of the Tianshi Mansion. In a tripartite cooperation like this, the Jianghu heroes were under the jurisdiction of the Jianghu Alliance, no matter if they were summoned by the Jianghu Alliance or came here on their own after hearing the news. Since they were here, they were under the jurisdiction of the Jianghu Alliance.

The same goes for Taoists.

No matter if they are Taoist priests organized by the Tianshi Mansion or they come to participate on their own after hearing the news, as long as they are Taoist priests, they are under the jurisdiction of the Tianshi Mansion regardless of whether they have a certificate of ordination or not.

Xuanmiao was once a member of the Zhang family in Longhu Mountain. She had the highest martial arts skills. Although she was not a staff member of the Tianshi Mansion, the Taoists subconsciously obeyed her orders.

Seeing her turn around, everyone turned around at the same time.

Cao Daoji from the Daolu Division of Fujian Province followed with a helpless look on his face.

Xuanmiao walked over and looked the three of them up and down, his eyes fell on Miaozhen's shoulder, "How did you get hurt?"

Hu Jing and Su Ying felt a chill down their spines at the same time.

Miaozhen: "I got hurt during a fight."

"What about people?"

Miao Zhen pointed at Song Bei, who was tied up and gagged and thrown aside, and said, "There's another one who escaped."

Xuan Miao frowned and turned to look at Pan Yun, "Didn't you say you had a breakthrough? How did you let someone escape?"

Pan Jun blinked at her and said, "I didn't think it through."

Xuanmiao looked at her and didn't ask any more questions.

Tao Ji immediately said to Miao Zhen: "Come here, I'll take a closer look at your injury."

Miaozhen and Miaohe followed Tao Ji away. Xuanmiao then slightly turned sideways to reveal Cao Yunhuan following behind him. "This is Cao Daoji from the Fujian Daoji Division."

Dao Ji, the local head of the official Taoist affairs management agency.

The Tianshi Mansion obeys the imperial court, but is not completely under the imperial court. It is a semi-official organization.

The Taoist Discipline Department is different. It is affiliated to the Taoist Records Department, an official agency specially set up by Zhu Yuanzhang to manage Taoists all over the world.

Oh, they are the ones who issue the certificates of ordination.

In addition to the certificate of ordination, some large fasting and offering ceremonies, imperially-commissioned Taoist teachings and Taoist education all need to be applied for and approved by the Taoist Discipline Department before they can be carried out.

In the future, Pan Yun will take the ordination exam and walk in this world as a Taoist priest, so he will inevitably have to deal with the Taoist Discipline Offices in various places and the Taoist Records Office in the capital.

Mysterious and cold, but not a clueless young man.

Cao Yunhuan also graduated from the Longhushan Academy. Fujian is not far from Jiangxi, and news about Taoists spreads quickly. He had heard of this newcomer in the academy a long time ago.

He looked at Pan Yun calmly, and seeing that her blood and qi were full, and spiritual energy was lingering around her body, he knew that her cultivation was not low. Unfortunately, her cultivation was higher than his, so he could not detect it, and he did not dare to test it in front of Xuanmiao.

But this did not stop him from praising her, "She is indeed a young talent. No wonder Tao Ji is so happy and keeps showing off to us that he has a talented junior sister."

Even though he knew it was probably just a compliment, Pan Jun couldn't help but smile.

Xue Shao followed the soldiers down from the boat and saw Xuan Miao and Pan Yun standing beside the car, and immediately stepped forward.

Xi Jin, who got off another boat later than him, hurriedly ran after him.

He can't let the young master suffer!

But the young master was so fast that Xijin staggered and almost fell, and still couldn't catch up.

Xue Shao ran over and apologized to Pan Yun, "...I delivered the letter. Master Xuanmiao said they were going to attack the island and couldn't come to save you. I...I went with them. Are you guys not hurt?"

After looking him up and down, Pan Yun asked, "Did my senior sister say that you would only cause trouble if you came to see me, so she didn't let you come?"

Xue Shao: "... about the same. My kung fu is indeed average."

Pan Jun nodded: "It's very ordinary. Fortunately you didn't come, otherwise I would be in more trouble."

Xue Shao breathed a sigh of relief and nodded, "I'm glad I didn't cause you any trouble."

When Xi Jin ran up, the two had finished their conversation, and a group of people were surrounding Song Bei to watch the fun.

A Jianghu person said: "I have heard of his name. It is said that he is generous and magnanimous. Many Jianghu heroes want to work for him. I didn't expect that he is a Japanese pirate."

"It seems that he is quite good at creating momentum. Isn't this just deceiving people? Even if they are not pirates, they are still pirates, deceiving people into doing illegal things."

Everyone present turned their heads silently to look at the knight who was speaking, their eyes revealing the same meaning.

A chivalrous man who travels all over the country and does good deeds is actually afraid of breaking the law?
The existence of Jianghu people is itself a crazy test of the edge of the law, okay?
As a man of the world, no matter if he is a knight or not, who hasn’t made a mistake or two?
Fighting is against the law. Let me ask everyone present, who has not broken the law?

Seeing that everyone was looking at him, the knight's stomach tightened, his back straightened, and he whispered, "Did I say something wrong?"

"No, it's quite well said," Cao Daoji smiled and turned back, lowering his head to continue looking at Song Bei, commenting: "He has a mixed aura, and his forehead is filled with strong hostility, which shows that he has committed many sins and has killed many people; and his narrow forehead and exposed nose bridge show that he is a narrow-minded person who will take revenge for any slight. Even if he is not a pirate, you will not have an easy life under his control for a long time."

This is the specialty of the Taoists. They immediately became alert. Their eyes, which seemed to be watching Pan Yun, fell on Song Bei's face at the same time. They commented on him one after another. One said that he had a "dark complexion" and another said that his "nostrils were tilted downward"...

Anyway, Song Bei was not good in every way in their eyes. Just from his appearance, they could tell that he was not someone they could have close friendships with.

The heroes in the martial arts world were stunned when they heard this.

When Jianghu Alliance leader Lin Jin came up with Zhang Ning and Li Ji, they only had time to hear a little bit of the tail end.

He glanced at Song Bei who was surrounded by people, but ignored him. Instead, he looked at Xuanmiao and Cao Yunhuan and said, "Master Xuanmiao, Cao Daoji, Zhang Ning said that the young Taoist priest of your Tianshi Mansion also captured another Japanese pirate leader."

Xuanmiao looked at Pan Yun.

Pan Jun seemed to have just remembered something and said, "Ah!" and pointed to Lin Zi: "I handed it over to Zhang Weiliang and Zhang Weiqin. They are still interrogating people in there."

When the people from Jianghu Alliance rescued Song Pu from Zhang Weiliang, Song Pu was already in a daze.

These prisoners and captured convoys were to be handed over to officers and soldiers for processing.

A centurion came up with soldiers to take over. His eyes fell on Ah Xin and others who were not tied up. He raised his chin and asked, "Who are these people?"

Zhang Weiliang and the others looked at each other and then at Pan Yun.

Pan Yun also raised his chin and said proudly: "They were kidnapped and forced to be slaves by the Japanese pirates. Later, after we persuaded them with emotion and reason, they joined forces with us to resist. They were also victims."

The captain couldn't help but glance at her, then looked at Ashin and the others, pointed at the prisoners being escorted over and asked, "Do you know the people in there?"

Ashin and his friends saw their families in the crowd. Seeing their hands tied with ropes, they almost rushed over.

But as soon as they moved their feet, Pan Jun kicked them on the buttocks, and they fell to the ground with a thud. "The master is asking you questions, answer them quickly."

Before the captain could scold him, Ah Xin had already stood up from the ground and shouted, "I know them! They are our family members and fellow villagers who were kidnapped by the pirates along with us."

The captain looked at him deeply, then looked at Pan Yun, glanced at the miserable Song Bei and Song Pu, turned around and said, "You wait."

He soon brought in a man who looked more senior.

Xue Shao stood behind Pan Yun without knowing when, and said, "This is Captain Chen Wen, the commander of this bandit suppression mission."

The captain walked over and glanced at all the captured Japanese pirates before looking at Axin and the others.

He stretched out his hand, and the soldier beside him immediately handed him a pile of portraits.

He looked at the people in front of him one by one through the portraits.

Not only Ah Xin, but also Hu Jing and Su Ying were waiting nervously.

Because they saw themselves in these portraits.

It’s a pity that Sanzhu watched them too closely, otherwise they would have escaped long ago. Alas, I hate dealing with soldiers the most.

Chen Wen flipped through the pictures one by one, and finally held up a portrait and asked, "Where is this person?"

Pan Jun leaned over to take a look, then slowly turned back to his original position and remained silent.

Li Ji, who was standing nearby, said with shame: "This man is called Zhu Zixun, and he escaped."

(End of this chapter)