Chapter 109 Zhou Shiqiu

Chapter 109 Zhou Shiqiu

Chapter 109 Zhou Shiqiu

For three consecutive days, Tian Lin was refining the so-called Heart-Searching Pill.

He probably really had no talent for alchemy, so after three consecutive days, he could only refine three black, low-quality Heart-Self Pills.

Moreover, these three black Heart-Self ...

Even if he was given another three days, he still had no confidence that he could successfully refine the Heart-Searching Pill, even if it was of inferior quality.

[Inferior quality Shenglong Pill, Shenglong magic auxiliary pill, edible]

Looking at the pills in the box, which looked like black dung balls pushed out by dung beetles, Tian Lin closed the exquisite wooden box.

Outside the house, Senior Brother Zhao's voice suddenly rang out: "Is it you? What are you doing——"

"This is medicine for your senior brother—"

Then came the voice of the man in white.

Tian Lin hurried forward and opened the door, only to see Senior Brother Zhao holding a porcelain bottle in his hand, his eyes staring in astonishment at the wooden stairs leading down the corridor.

Tian Lin looked towards the wooden ladder, but did not see the figure of the disciple from the Wenxin Sect.

"What about people?"

Tian Lin asked, and then he heard Brother Zhao say, "He only gave me a medicine bottle, and left before he could finish his words."

As Senior Brother Zhao spoke, he handed the medicine bottle to Tian Lin, but Tian Lin did not reach out to take it. Instead, he followed him down the wooden ladder.

Tian Lin was extremely fast, and when he rushed downstairs, the man in white had not yet left the inn.

Tian Lin shouted to the man in white who was about to leave the lobby door: "Brother, please wait."

The man in white stopped moving, turned around and looked straight at Tian Lin. He saw Tian Lin dodged the diners and walked up to him and bowed:
"My name is Tian Lin. Thank you for coming to deliver the medicine. But why did you leave in such a hurry? Why didn't you even drink a cup of tea?"

The man in white turned his head away, stared at the corner of the wall and said in a cold tone: "I'm very busy and I have to patrol the town. I won't disturb you."

After he finished speaking, he turned and left, and Tian Lin quickly chased after him.

The man in white heard Tian Lin's footsteps, turned around, pulled the sword halfway out of the sheath, and looked at Tian Lin with a warning look.

Tian Lin stopped immediately, bowed to the man in white and said:
"Since you don't have time to go upstairs for tea, you should at least collect the medicine fee, right? It doesn't make sense for me to be injured and ask you to help me make medicine for free."

The man in white put away his sword, turned his head away from Tian Lin's sight again, and said in a cold tone:

"You got hurt while helping me block the silver needles, so I won't charge you for the medicine."

"No - although I helped you block the silver needle, you did it to save my three brothers. Otherwise, you wouldn't have taken the risk to confront Master Qian and the others."

The man in white frowned, "Killing the blood cultists is within my scope of duty. I'm not here to save you."

"But the fact is that you have saved me, brother."

After Tian Lin finished speaking, he took out a wooden box from his storage bag.

He opened the wooden box, took out one of the three pills that didn't look good and handed it over:

"This Heart-Searching Pill is a token of my gratitude. Please accept it, Senior Brother."

As soon as he said this, the man in white turned his head to look at Tian Lin, opened his mouth and asked in surprise: "Self-examination Pill?"

"That's right. Since I don't practice the Heart-Searching Technique, this Heart-Searching Pill is completely useless to me. I'd rather leave one for you, my brother, so that it can also enhance your cultivation."

As far as Tian Lin knew, the Questioning Heart Sect did not have the recipe for the Questioning Heart Pill.

Not only did the Wenxin Sect not have the formula for the Wenxin Pill, the Yaoyue Sect itself did not have the formula for the auxiliary pills for its Cangming swordsmanship and earth escape technique.

Tian Lin couldn't explain the specific reason, he only knew that the Heart-Self-Searching Pill in front of him would definitely impress the man in white.

Sure enough, the man in white looked at the pill in Tian Lin's hand and wanted to take it but was a little hesitant.

Tian Lin simply stuffed the Heart-Searching Pill into his arms and said with a smile:
"I got this Heart-Searching Pill from the sect, and I only have three of them. I'm giving this one to you, brother, as a way of repaying you for the money you spent on making the medicine for me."

This time, Tian Lin did not bother with the man in white anymore, but strode back to the inn.

As soon as he returned to the inn, he walked quickly to the window.

However, he found that the man in white did not take out the Heart-Self ...

Tian Lin was a little puzzled, and heard Brother Zhao frowning beside him and saying:
"This brother from the Questioning Heart Sect seems to have a weak temper, so he was teased by a rogue. You just put the pill into his arms, which seemed to have caused misunderstandings among others, who thought you were giving him money for his head."

Tian Lin was stunned, not understanding what all the nonsense Senior Brother Zhao was talking about.

"That guy is too deceiving. It just so happens that this brother from the Wenxin Sect has a much better temper. If it were me, I would have beheaded that scoundrel with a sword long ago."

After Senior Brother Zhao finished speaking, he raised his sword and was about to open the window, but was stopped by Tian Lin.

Tian Lin said, "This brother from the Wenxin Sect is a bit eccentric and doesn't seem to like receiving favors from others. He may not appreciate our help if we go out to help him now, even if he can solve the problem himself."

Not long after Tian Lin finished speaking, Senior Brother Zhao had already broken free from the scoundrel's hand and ran away, disappearing into thin air.

Junior Brother Jiang echoed:

"Yeah, I saw Senior Brother Zhangfeng gave him the elixir, but he didn't seem to appreciate it!"

Just as Junior Brother Jiang finished speaking, Senior Brother Zhao next to him also asked Tian Lin: "Senior Brother Tian, ​​what is the elixir you gave him?"

Tian Lin didn't want to talk about the Heart-Searching Pill for the time being, so he said casually:

"This medicine was given to me by the elder. He spent the past three days refining medicine for me to heal my injuries, so I can't go without rewarding him."

After Tian Lin finished speaking, he said to Senior Brother Zhao and Junior Brother Jiang:

"I'm going out to collect some herbs these two days. You two will wait here. If that brother from the Wenxin Sect comes to look for me, tell him that I will be waiting for him at the inn when I come back."

He actually didn't have anything to do when he went out, but he felt that the inn seemed a little dangerous at this time.

He didn't believe that after the Heart-Searching Pill was used, the people of the Heart-Searching Sect would not be tempted.

He was not sure about the character of the man in white, and was afraid that he would commit murder and robbery in order to get the Heart-Searching Pill.

After a while, Tian Lin really went out.

But he did not go far. Instead, he booked a private room in the restaurant across the street.

This private room faces the street by the window, directly in the direction of the inn.

When Tian Lin left his room, he deliberately opened the screen window. So even though he was in the restaurant, he could see everything in his room.

Tian Lin kept eating devil-head swallows throughout the afternoon.

His Wind Walking Technique and Dragon Elephant Magic Skill have now been perfected, and it is no longer useful for him to eat the Grass God Fish and the Three-legged Toad.

He might as well eat the ghost-head swallow so that the Yaoyang Finger can reach perfection as soon as possible.

When the lights come on, the town is bustling with people.

Tian Lin did not wait for the man in white to appear, but saw that Junior Brother Jiang actually changed his clothes and left the inn with his face covered.

Looking at Junior Brother Jiang's sneaky back, Tian Lin frowned.

He tore off the dried meat of the swallowtail in his hand and chewed it while looking away from Junior Brother Jiang's back.

He cast his gaze towards the room where Senior Brother Zhao was. The screen windows were closed and the lights were off. He thought that Senior Brother Zhao was sleeping at this moment.

This lasted all night, and before dawn the next day, Tian Lin saw Junior Brother Jiang running back to the inn.

Tian Lin watched the tavern all night and did not find any other suspicious persons, but he found that Junior Brother Jiang's behavior was the most suspicious.

For the next two days, Tian Lin stayed in the tavern and kept an eye on the inn.

Senior Brother Zhao is fine. He never goes out except for eating these two days.

Junior Brother Jiang, on the other hand, would quietly leave the inn whenever the lights came on, and quietly return to his room at dawn.

Tian Lin couldn't help but suspect that Junior Brother Jiang was in collusion with the Blood Cult.

But he still calmed down and just stayed in the tavern and stared at the inn.

Finally, another day passed, and not long after Junior Brother Jiang left, the white-robed disciple from the Questioning Heart Sect appeared. He wandered alone on the street in front of the inn for almost an hour, and then entered the inn.

It was not until another hour later that Tian Lin saw the man in white leave the inn.

Tian Lin was puzzled, but he stayed in the tavern for another half an hour before leaving and returning to the inn.

Tian Lin pushed open the door of his house. The layout of the room was no different from when he left, and there were no footprints on the dust on the ground.

So he was no longer careful when pushing the door, but deliberately made the door creak.

Sure enough, after he lit the oil lamp, the voice of Senior Brother Zhao next door was heard at the door:

"Brother Tian, ​​you are finally back."

Tian Lin turned around and smiled at Senior Brother Zhao. He raised his hand to invite Senior Brother Zhao to take a seat, poured a cup of tea, and asked Senior Brother Zhao:

"I was away for the past two days. Nothing happened, right?"

Senior Brother Zhao said: "After the death of Hall Master Qian and his men, the Blood Cultists in the town should not dare to commit crimes for more than a month, so no one came to disturb us during this period of time.

However, Senior Brother Zhou Shichou came to see you today."

"Zhou Shichou?"

Tian Lin frowned, and Senior Brother Zhao quickly explained to Tian Lin: "It's the Senior Brother from the Questioning Heart Sect."

"What did he come to see me about?"

After Tian Lin asked, Senior Brother Zhao quickly replied:
"That Senior Brother Zhou doesn't like to talk. He just said he wanted to see you, Senior Brother Tian. As for why he wanted to see you, he refused to tell me when I asked him."

Tian Lin asked him again, "How long did Brother Zhou stay in the inn?"

Senior Brother Zhao said, "When he heard that you were not here, he just left."

Tian Lin saw that Senior Brother Zhao didn't look like he was lying, but Tian Lin was sure that Zhou Shichou stayed in the tavern for an hour before leaving.

What did he do in the inn during this hour?

"Oh, where's Junior Brother Jiang?"

"Junior Brother Jiang is probably still sleeping now."

Senior Brother Zhao doesn't hate Junior Brother Jiang as much as before, but he still remembers that Junior Brother Jiang "betrayed" him.

So in the past two days, he didn't say anything to Junior Brother Jiang, nor did they spend any time together.

He thought Junior Brother Jiang was still in the guest room, but Tian Lin knew that Junior Brother Jiang had already left the inn.

"It just so happens that I haven't eaten yet, so let's ask Junior Brother Jiang to have a chat while we eat."

After Tian Lin finished speaking, he turned around and left the house.

The two of them arrived at Junior Brother Jiang's guest room, but no matter how they knocked on the door, there was no response.

Tian Lin was fine, but Senior Brother Zhao felt something was fishy. He frowned and kicked the door open.

When the door opened, where was Junior Brother Jiang?
Senior Brother Zhao's face changed, and he couldn't help but ask, "Could it be that the Blood Cultists were here?"

Tian Lin shook his head and said:

"Junior Brother Jiang is at the tenth level of Qi Refining after all. It would be difficult for ordinary people to take him away quietly. And I see no signs of a fight in this house. It seems that Junior Brother Jiang took the initiative to leave the house."

"What did he go out for?"

As Senior Brother Zhao spoke, he walked to the bed and reached out to pick up the clothes that Junior Brother Jiang had changed out of.

"Could it be Zhou Shichou? I heard that the Inquiry of the Heart Sect is good at 'bewitching' people. Maybe Junior Brother Jiang was bewitched by Zhou Shichou's Inquiry of the Heart and followed Zhou Shichou out of the door in a daze."

It would have been fine if Tian Lin hadn't seen Junior Brother Jiang leave the house on his own, but he saw with his own eyes that Junior Brother Jiang changed his clothes and left the house -

Therefore, Tian Lin did not doubt Zhou Shichou.

"I don't think Senior Brother Zhou is that kind of person."

"I understand - the man surnamed Jiang must have been afraid of revenge from the Blood Cultists, or was afraid that the Questioning Heart Sect would detain him, so he fled alone. He is the kind of person who is afraid of death, so it is not surprising that he fled in danger."

Tian Lin thought the same thing on the first night when he was monitoring the inn, and Junior Brother Jiang came back early the next morning.

He also suspected that Junior Brother Jiang was colluding with the Blood Cult to plot against him and others, but after a few days of surveillance, he didn't see any suspicious people around the inn.

"Why not wait until tomorrow morning to see if Junior Brother Jiang will come back to the inn. If he doesn't mention it after he returns, we won't ask him either. We can just wait and see what he does next."

After Tian Lin finished speaking, he asked Brother Zhao to put the clothes back on the bed, and then the two of them left the room.

Senior Brother Zhao couldn't sleep and stayed in Tian Lin's house all night.

But Tian Lin hadn't slept for several days, and he fell into a deep sleep as soon as he got into bed. This made Senior Brother Zhao particularly admire Tian Lin's concentration.

The next morning, Tian Lin opened his eyes and asked Senior Brother Zhao, "Is there any noise coming from Junior Brother Jiang's room?"

Senior Brother Zhao shook his head, and Tian Lin said, "Let's go to his room and take a look."

Senior Brother Zhao could no longer hold back, so he stood up and knocked on Junior Brother Jiang's door.

As Tian Lin expected, Junior Brother Jiang's door opened from the inside. Junior Brother Jiang looked at Tian Lin in surprise and said, "Senior Brother Zhangfeng is back?"

Without waiting for Senior Brother Zhao to speak, Tian Lin smiled and said, "I just came back last night, and I came to have dinner with Junior Brother Jiang this morning."

Junior Brother Jiang yawned, rubbed his bloated stomach and said, "Go ahead, senior brothers. I'm not hungry now."

Tian Lin and Senior Brother Zhao went downstairs. Senior Brother Zhao gossiped to Tian Lin, "The smell of alcohol coming out of his mouth is real. It looks like he drank a lot with others."

Tian Lin also frowned, but didn't say anything.

In fact, he didn't care about Junior Brother Jiang. After all, his main goal was to enter the Wenxin Sect safely, and his main target was Zhou Shichou.

As for whether Junior Brother Jiang was colluding with the Blood Cult or wanted to escape, Tian Lin didn't really care.

But if things are not clear, there will always be hidden dangers. Tian Lin said to Brother Zhao at the dining table in the lobby: "If he goes out again at night, you should follow him quietly."

Senior Brother Zhao nodded and waited anxiously for the night to fall.

Sure enough, when the lights came on, Junior Brother Jiang changed his clothes and went downstairs.

Senior Brother Zhao, who had been watching the movements in the corridor from the room, nodded with Tian Lin, then opened the door and followed him out.

Tian Lin was alone in the house eating black fungus. When all the lights in all the houses went out and only the restaurants and martial arts halls on the street were still on, a figure suddenly moved outside the house.

Tian Lin frowned. He looked at the figure outside the house who seemed to be floating back and forth outside the corridor like a wandering soul.

After half an hour, Tian Lin couldn't bear it any longer.

He turned over and jumped out of the second-floor window onto the street outside the inn, then climbed the wooden ladder with his sword in hand and returned to the corridor on the second floor.

Upon taking a closer look, he discovered that the person who had been 'hanging around' outside the door was actually Zhou Shichou.

Zhou Shichou was seen wandering outside his room with a worried look on his face and two curved eyebrows.

Tian Lin suddenly remembered that when Zhou Shichou entered the inn yesterday, he also lingered at the door of the inn for almost an hour.

"What kind of evil method is this?"

Tian Lin's heart trembled, but he observed in secret for a long time and did not see Zhou Shichou chanting any spells or placing any hidden weapons.

After thinking for a while, Tian Lin went down the wooden ladder again, and jumped back to his guest room from the street when no one was paying attention.

Sure enough, Zhou Shichou was still lingering outside the door.

Tian Lin also wanted to know what Zhou Shichou was going to do. He coughed dryly, picked up the teapot on the table and opened the door.

Zhou Shichou, who was in the corridor, stopped and looked up at Tian Lin coldly, then turned his head away.

Tian Lin smiled and said, "It turned out to be Brother Zhou - I just happened to be going out to get some hot water - Brother Zhou, are you here to see me?"

(End of this chapter)