Chapter 122 Infiltration

Chapter 122 Infiltration

Chapter 122 Infiltration
Wu Hao pouted, but soon he couldn't help but smile again: "Now you believe I'm a swordsman, right?"

Li Wuxiang nodded and followed him for a distance. "Oh, no, it shouldn't be Senior Brother Wu, but Junior Brother Wu. Junior Brother Wu, but is the situation different from what you said? Senior Brother Lou said that he never thought of asking you to be a spy in Coffin City."

Wu Hao laughed twice: "What's the difference? There is no difference, right? I knew that he would have to recognize me when things got to this point. What's the difference? Can't I figure it out myself?"

His voice was not low, but he looked very proud at the moment, and he walked with his head held high and his hand on the hilt of his sword, which made him look unsuspecting. The monks passing by would at most glance at him briefly, then frown and go back to their own business.

Li Wuxiang followed him timidly and sighed, "That is to say, Senior Brother Lou did meet you several times and did tell you about the swordsman, but he never asked you to be a swordsman or save him. This time, are you making the decision yourself?"

Wu Hao turned and looked at him: "I said, are you still testing me?"

"No, I just think you are brave and careful. Senior Brother Lou didn't ask you to do this, but he could tell at a glance that we are swordsmen."

Wu Hao smiled slightly and turned his head away. But after walking a few steps, he couldn't help but say, "Actually, I have tried it several times. The previous few groups of dealers looked suspicious, so I asked them the same question and scared them to death. Haha, this time you couldn't hold it back and asked me to find out right away. You see, this counts as a fight between us. You are completely defeated, right?"

Li Wuxiang smiled and said, "It shouldn't be 'you guys', it should be 'we'."

"Yes, yes, yes. Now we are all from the same school. Haha, I won't bother with you about what happened before." Wu Hao let out a long sigh. "So what should we do now? How are we going to rescue him tonight?"

"I have a rough idea, but I have to discuss it with them when I get back. I should ask you to bring us here again in the evening."

"Tell me first, and let's discuss it."

Li Wuxiang just smiled and said, "Junior Brother Wu, you haven't officially joined the sect yet. To join our Sword Sect, you must first go through some tests and experience to see what your ability and character are like. Saving Senior Brother Lou this time is considered a test and experience. After a while, if you go outside with us, you will have to meet a sword master, and then help that sword master to accomplish this task, and then you can go to Youjiuyuan."

Wu Hao frowned and thought for a while: "Then...what did they ask you to do?"

"I killed a True Form walking creature."

Wu Hao was stunned for a moment, then immediately turned to look at him, and paused slightly.

After taking a few more steps, his face didn't look as happy as before, and he fell silent.

Li Wuxiang looked at him and asked, "You've never killed anyone?"

"Who would kill someone for no reason? But it doesn't matter. Do you think I don't dare to do it?"

"Okay, let's not talk about this anymore." The two walked out of the mountain master's mansion and returned to the streets of Coffin City. At this time, the sky was getting dark, and every household was lighting up. The lights were also different from Deyang - at night in Deyang, the lights of the houses on the roadside were dim, but the people in Coffin City didn't seem to care about the money for candles and oil, and the lights were brighter, which actually made Li Wuxiang feel a little bit like his previous life.

By the time they returned to the mountain, it was completely dark. The rocky slope where Wu Hao had been interrogated was empty, so Li Wuxiang asked Wu Hao to wait a little longer, and he sat down to look at the lights of the coffin city from afar.

A quarter of an hour later, Zeng Jianqiu and two other swordsmen strode out of the forest: "No one is following you. Have you met Brother Lou?"

"Yeah. I told him to go get him out tonight."

Zeng Jianqiu was stunned: "Tonight?"

Li Wuxiang pointed at Wu Hao and said, "We were too cautious before. Senior Brother Lou never asked Junior Brother Wu to be a swordsman, but he wanted to do it himself, and now it seems that he has done it very well. I have an idea--"

He looked at the other two people, then looked at Wu Hao.

Wu Hao sighed and raised his hands: "Okay, I'll go away."

When he retreated to the edge of the stone slope, Li Wuxiang spoke again: "Let him take us there at night. It would be best if nothing goes wrong. If something goes wrong, as long as the three of you can drive away the people who come to stop us, I can take us all out."

Zeng Jianqiu frowned: "How do we take it out?"

"I met Zhao Kui again in Deyang. I got a good thing from him that can do it, but I can't say much about it now. I asked Senior Brother Lou in the Coffin City, and after listening to what he said, I think this matter should not be a big problem."

Pan Muyun opened his mouth, but only said: "How confident are you?"

"Sixty to seventy percent."

The three swordsmen looked at each other, and Zeng Jianqiu nodded: "That's enough. Okay, let's do as you say."

This made Li Wuxiang silent for a while before he said, "Okay."

In his heart, he felt that the trust between swordsmen was a little too much, and even wondered if the fact that there were only a hundred or so swordsmen today might be partly related to this kind of trust.

But the next moment he thought, if there was no such trust, perhaps there would not even be a hundred swordsmen today.

However, there is no contradiction between "trust" and "caution". Zeng Jianqiu spoke highly of him when he mentioned him to Pan Muyun before. Did he think he was trustworthy enough or cautious enough? Li Wuxiang thought about it and suddenly felt that among swordsmen, the evaluation of "evil intentions" might not necessarily be derogatory. If there were more people like him with "evil intentions", it might be much better.

For nearly half an hour, the three swordsmen were talking to Wu Hao, and they got along very well. Li Wuxiang just sat aside and listened quietly.

Most of the people they talked about were naturally Lou He. From their conversation, Li Wuxiang learned more about Senior Brother Lou.

It sounds like he is very similar to me, the kind of person with "evil intentions". If we regard the Sword Sect as a class, Senior Brother Lou, Zeng Jianqiu, and myself are obviously the kind of people who have good grades but like to play tricks.

Pan Muyun felt that Senior Brother Lou often took risks, while Zeng Jianqiu felt that most swordsmen were a bit old-fashioned and timid. When talking about the rise, he even commented on the current Sword Sect leader Jiang Jie, thinking that since the Nine Abyss of the Netherworld was destroyed by the six Xuan Sects several hundred years ago, the new leader Jiang seemed to be scared and almost never let his disciples set foot in the sect. As a result, most of the Sword Sect’s understanding of the six Xuan Sects remained at the time of several hundred years ago.

Li Wuxiang did not join them in discussing the leader behind his back. Instead, he became more curious about You Jiuyuan. Neither Zeng Jianqiu nor the relatively conservative Pan Muyun seemed to think there was anything wrong with saying these things. What was the atmosphere like in You Jiuyuan?
He also interrupted and chatted for a few words, bringing the topic back to Coffin City, and gradually felt that Coffin City was actually more like the city he came from - Wu Hao said that there were no scavengers in the city, but it seemed that every resident and shop in the city had the responsibility to clean up in front of their own doorsteps, and if the area around someone's house was too dirty, they would be punished by the town soldiers.

A similar point is that the debris and garbage after cleaning cannot be thrown away at will, but will be collected every ten days and uniformly thrown away outside the city. At this point, Wu Hao looked very dissatisfied with Li Wuxiang's evaluation in the afternoon, saying that the reason why he felt that the streets were not very clean when he entered the city was because tomorrow was the end of the ten days, and the impression would be very different the day after tomorrow. In this way, several people talked, took turns to watch the night, and took a nap, and it was almost Yin time.

As Zeng Jianqiu and Wu Hao said, the Coffin City was actually quite lively after nightfall. The residents of the Coffin City actually only had one duty, which was to serve the practitioners in the city.

As cultivators sleep less, they naturally have some needs at night. The residents in the city are physically strong and have no worries, so they are not very quiet at night. So when Wu Hao led the four people to carry their loads into the city again, they could still see some food stalls and sporadic passers-by on the street, and even some soldiers who drank and staggered on the street.

This time they did not take the original route, but went from the west of the city to the mountain master's mansion. When they reached an empty alley, they put down their burdens and prepared themselves. They no longer walked on the road in a swaggering manner, but took advantage of the cover of the night shadows to pass by the wall and the woods.

Soon, we saw the mountain lord's mansion brightly lit in the night.

The five people were on the hillside covered with ancient trees in front of the mountain owner's mansion, close to the road leading to the front gate.

There were people walking on the road at this time - some were blue-clothed servants of the monks, and some looked like merchants in the city, delivering things to the mansion. The five of them stayed in the dark for a while, and Li Wuxiang spoke: "Wu Hao, go out and show yourself."

Wu Hao was stunned: "Aren't you going with me?"

Li Wuxiang patted him on the back and said, "Let's go together. But now you go out and show yourself, and then come back. Wait, when that person comes over there, you can go out from here."

Li Wuxiang was talking about a servant who was holding a wooden box. It was unclear whether it was a food box or something else. Wu Hao frowned and said, "I went out of the forest at this time and came back? Don't you think it's suspicious?"

Li Wuxiang smiled at him and said, "Just listen to me."

Wu Hao was about to speak, but Li Wuxiang pushed him from behind: "Go!"

Wu Hao was caught off guard and staggered a few steps out of the woods and onto the road, which scared the servant. When he saw that he was dressed like a garrison soldier, he frowned, glared at him, walked around him and continued walking into the mansion.

Wu Hao stood on the road, looked around, reached out to touch his belt, as if he was going to pretend to have just relieved himself in the woods, then frowned and hissed, holding his stomach and running back.

As soon as he entered the forest, he immediately lowered his voice and asked, "What are you doing?"

Li Wuxiang grabbed his hand, and then grabbed Zeng Jianqiu's hand: "Senior Brother Pan, Senior Brother Helian, put your hands on me, hold on tightly and don't let go, I will move in a moment."

The forest was dark, but Li Wuxiang could see clearly that the three people were stunned. But after a little hesitation, he did not ask any more questions and just did as he was told.

"Are you going to perform a ritual?" Zeng Jianqiu lowered his voice, "In Coffin City, we can't—"

The next moment, Li Wuxiang suddenly leaped toward the road on the gentle slope. Several people only felt that something seemed to appear in front of their eyes for a moment, and they were already standing in the middle of the road.

But they also saw something else - an extremely twisted and weird building that enshrined the statue of Donghuang Taiyi.

Li Wuxiang released his hand and let out a sigh: "Don't wander around, just stay by my side. You are in one of my treasures now, it may be dangerous to wander around, but people outside can't see us now."

Wu Hao opened his mouth slightly, still in a daze. Zeng Jianqiu looked around and said, "Isn't this how you do it?"

"No."

"So what now? Can you use this thing to save Brother Lou?"

Li Wuxiang was silent for a while: "Brother, I'm afraid we can't save him tonight."

"……What's the meaning?"

Li Wuxiang sighed, sat cross-legged on the road, and looked towards the entrance of the Mountain Lord's Mansion: "I hope I am wrong. Don't worry, let's wait a while."

Zeng Jianqiu was stunned for a while, then slowly frowned. He looked at Li Wuxiang and opened his mouth, but then closed it and sat down beside him.

This "a while" didn't last long. About a quarter of an hour later, a monk in a Taoist robe walked out of the entrance of the mountain master's mansion, as if he was just strolling around. He walked in front of the five people and then stopped.

He looked to be in his thirties, with thin eyebrows, eyes, and a long face, but his eyebrows were wrinkled. Probably because of the long frown, he seemed to have a bad temper. He looked around and walked back into the forest - exactly where Wu Hao was pushed out just now.

He also looked carefully at the ground and saw fallen grass. He then looked at the surrounding trees and raised his hand to move the branches.

Then, he pressed his palm downward slightly, and an invisible air wave turned into a breeze that rustled through the forest, blowing the debris on the side of the road swaying.

The monk raised his face slightly, closed his eyes, stood quietly for a moment, put his hands behind his back, and walked back to the mountain master's mansion.

Li Wuxiang turned around and saw the expressions of Zeng Jianqiu and Wu Hao. Zeng Jianqiu's mouth was slightly open, staring at the monk's back with his eyes wide open. Wu Hao looked even more surprised. When he saw Li Wuxiang looking at him, he immediately took three steps back: "No, I, I'm not..."

"Well, I know it's not you." Li Wuxiang nodded, sighed and looked at Zeng Jianqiu again, "Brother, do you recognize that person?"

Zeng Jianqiu sat there without moving. He was silent for a while before saying, "That's Wu Shanzhu. Li Wuxiang, Lou He..."

"I was just guessing before, so I came here to take a look. But there is still another possibility now, that is, when I was talking to him, someone else heard it."

Zeng Jianqiu suddenly sneered: "Based on his previous cultivation and knowledge, this is impossible."

He stood up slowly and patted his chest a few times: "Tell me! How did you figure that out? Why didn't you tell us before?"

(End of this chapter)