Chapter 232 Hell
Chapter 232 Hell
With tentacles extending out and his body moving back and forth, Li Wuxiang left the yard like a ghost in the night and sneaked into the nearby woods.
The mentality of playing badly to make money is completely different from the mentality of being proactive and enterprising, especially when a person has an extremely clear goal.
Even the most pessimistic and lazy people have many things they want to do. No one is born pessimistic and negative. But after growing up, the restrictions in the world are like shackles, gradually imprisoning nature and erasing colors, and eventually many people become old shells that are afraid of "dreaming".
In fact, shackles are not particularly scary. Everyone has long been accustomed to them. They are nothing more than the shackles of money, health, life span, and the countless variations derived from these three things.
Now Li Wuxiang felt that he knew a way to transcend all these shackles. The route was correct and feasible. Once successful, he could do almost anything he wanted.
There is nothing more blissful and satisfying than this – you have a goal, you have determined the method to achieve it, and you know that this goal can solve all problems!
A quarter of an hour later, he sneaked into the Suhua faction’s base.
It was just nightfall, and the Suhua Residence was brightly lit. After thousands of years of accumulation, the lights at night made this place look like a palace in the sky, almost like Li Wuxiang's previous life - not in terms of the building style, the clothes of the disciples, but the cleanliness.
It was a kind of cleanliness that surpassed the productivity of this era, with almost every corner and crevice looking as bright and clean as new.
Li Wuxiang lurked in several shadows several times and eavesdropped on the conversations of more than a dozen disciples, and determined where Kong Jingci lived.
So after more than ten breaths, he hid in the shadow of the inner wall of a small courtyard on the northwest side of the base. After making sure that there were no disciples guarding nearby, he appeared in the courtyard, looked at the candlelight coming from the house, and knocked on the door.
There was a sound in the house. It was the long breathing sound when meditating. It stopped immediately after hearing the knock on the door, and then there was silence for a while, as if holding the breath.
Kong Jingci's residence is located in the northeast of the Suhua Sect, on a gentle slope. It is not the highest point, but it can be said to be high above, which shows that his status in the sect is not low. Suddenly, someone knocked on the door at night, and he should have realized that it was an uninvited guest.
Li Wuxiang was in a very good mood at the moment, so he waited patiently outside the door, wondering how long it would take Kong Jingci to guess that it was his visit.
But it took a little longer than he thought - more than ten breaths passed before he heard Kong Jingci's voice from inside the room, softly and quietly: "Daoyou?"
Li Wuxiang said nothing.
Kong Jingci then asked, "Sect Master?"
Li Wuxiang then smiled in the darkness: "It's me."
After a short while, Kong Jingci said, "Master, please wait a moment."
Then Li Wuxiang heard a rustling sound, like she was putting on clothes. But it shouldn't take so long to put on clothes, unless she was naked before. But the sound sounded for a while, stopped for a while, and then sounded again, as if she was taking off clothes - did she feel that she was wearing too much before?
After more than ten breaths, the door was finally opened. The candlelight in the room revealed Kong Jingci's appearance - he should have let down his complicated bun before, and just tied up his black hair. He was wearing a snow-white middle coat, with a belt tied neatly and the collar not loose, and a black gauze outer coat on the outside.
The way she dresses is quite strange. I heard her putting on and taking off clothes before, and it seems that this undershirt is what's left after she took it off. If she wants to seduce someone, she shouldn't wear the undershirt so tightly.
But if you say there is no other meaning, the gauze cloak on the outside is very strange - Li Wuxiang didn't know whether Kong Jingci meant this, but wearing the cloak like this actually made him feel a bit like a lady from an unknown place wearing an oversized men's shirt, revealing her bare legs.
The two looked at each other for a moment, Kong Jingci lowered his eyes slightly and turned his body slightly: "Sect Master, is there something important that you came to me at this time?"
Her behavior was quite strange. On the way here, she was extremely bold—although she was not good at being bold, but she was also very resolute.
But now she has become shy, as if she is worried about gaining or losing...
If a person's attitude suddenly changes, it is something to be wary of.
Li Wuxiang immediately suppressed his joy and tensed up, sensing any unusual movements nearby: "I'm going to talk about the matter of the Sect Master. Is it important?"
Kong Jingci let out an "Ah" sound, looking very surprised. But after that he said, "Master... have you changed your mind?"
When Li Wuxiang just left You Jiuyuan, he knew that Kong Jingci was not very good at acting. For example, her surprise just now came a little late, she first said "ah" and then opened her eyes wide, as if she had already thought of or known that he wanted to be the master of the seal.
Li Wuxiang suppressed the faint smile on his face and looked at Kong Jingci: "Has there been any changes in the Suhua Sect?"
Kong Jingci was silent for a moment, looked at his face, and then said: "Actually, there is. Thank you, Sect Master, but... Sect Master, please don't blame me. Originally, I was thinking, maybe there is another way-"
Li Wuxiang frowned: "Wait a minute."
He looked at Kong Jingci carefully: "What are you thanking me for? What did I do for you?"
A trace of bewilderment flashed across Kong Jingci's face. If Li Wuxiang hadn't been staring at him, he would never have noticed. Then she hesitated and said, "Master, are you really asking me this?"
So Li Wuxiang realized that Kong Jingci’s previous behavior was not shyness, but fear!
She is afraid of herself?!
That’s why she isn’t as resolute as before - has something happened that made her feel “uncertain” or “unable to grasp” herself?
Or is there something wrong with this yard?
Li Wuxiang immediately took a step back, with the flying sword slipping between his fingers - he didn't notice anything unusual nearby, but at this time, he had to be on guard!
As soon as his flying sword appeared, Kong Jingci seemed to be frightened. She immediately retreated behind the door and slapped her waist. A silk ribbon wrapped around her body and began to dance.
She is just afraid of herself!
Li Wuxiang held the flying sword tightly and frowned: "I am really asking you - are you afraid of me? What are you afraid of?"
Kong Jingci also stared at him, his eyes not on his face, but on the flying sword between his fingers: "Master, if you really ask me - it's because you killed Mou Jinchuan."
what? !
Li Wuxiang didn't ask himself to frown: "Is Mou Jinchuan dead?"
Kong Jingci was silent for a moment, hesitated for a while, and seemed to muster up the courage to grab the silk ribbon beside him: "You also... killed Lu Pan. And the other two Qianji Sect disciples who lived with him - the Sect Master..."
She took a deep breath: "Did you do this?" Lu Pan? !
The one possessed by Lou He? !
Li Wuxiang quickly looked around, bent his fingers, took the flying sword into his body, took two steps forward, stepped into the door, and closed it with his foot.
Kong Jingci took half a step back, but did not retreat any further and stood firm.
Li Wuxiang lowered his voice and said, "Do I look like someone who would do that? What happened? When did Mou Jinchuan die? When did Lu Pan die? After something like this happened, there was no movement at Dajie Mountain?"
Kong Jingci stared into his eyes for a while, then suddenly exhaled a breath that almost blew on his neck: "It's really not you? Then..."
She pursed her lips and frowned, "Mou Jinchuan is dead, tonight, an hour ago. He died on the way down the mountain. I heard that there were not many people around him at the time, but some people from afar heard Mou Jinchuan arguing with others, and mentioned the Sword Sect several times, and then...someone saw the flash of the flying sword, and then went over to see that Mou Jinchuan was dead."
"After the people of Juque Sect collected the bodies, they said that the flying sword killed them, but they thought that it was you, Sect Master, that Mou Jinchuan met again on the way down the mountain and started arguing with you. You two had agreed to fight before, and Juque Sect was in the wrong at this time, so they didn't make a statement for the time being. You should discuss what to do now."
"The sword light of the flying sword? How far is the sword light?"
Kong Jingci looked at Li Wuxiang and said, "The people who saw it said that the beam they saw was dozens of miles long. It should have come from the direction of the courtyard where you, the sect master, live."
"Someone from your factions should be monitoring me, right?" Li Wuxiang looked at her. Kong Jingci didn't say anything, which was considered as his agreement.
"Then didn't you see that I stayed in the yard the whole time and never went out?"
Kong Jingci bit his lip: "...You are the Baili Sword Immortal."
Li Wuxiang wanted to laugh at this moment, but couldn't: "What about Lu Pan?"
"It is said that... after he returned to the Qianji Sect's base from your courtyard, he was called over by the Qianji Sect's elders and questioned about some things. He received a punishment that was neither too light nor too heavy, and then he returned to his own residence."
"He lived with two fellow disciples, and the people from the Qianji Sect also saw the sword light of the flying sword. At that time, several servants from the Qianji Sect were outside the courtyard of Lu Pan's residence. They said they saw the sword light go in through the window, fly around, and then go out through the roof. When the servants went in to see, the heads of Lu Pan and the other two fellow disciples had fallen off."
"The Machine-pulling Faction... there's no movement either?!"
Kong Jingci slowly wrapped up the cloak he was wearing: "It seems that it really isn't you..."
He shook his head again, "Nothing happened. Lu Pan from the Qianji Sect was ungrateful and flirted with your disciple Zhao Yu. They are also in the wrong. Although two of their fellow disciples died, they are still discussing what to do, just like the Juque Sect. Brother, I just now... my thoughts were the same as theirs -"
"Brother, if you kill these two people, everyone will think that you have a bad temper and are not as good-tempered as you seem. And you must be fearless when you do this kind of thing on the Great Tribulation Mountain... We all think that either you deliberately came to the Great Tribulation Mountain to cause trouble or your Sword Sect has someone hiding in the dark, using these two things to establish authority."
"No matter which one it is, to be honest, for example, our Suhua Sect is happy to see it - I'm not talking about me, I'm talking about the sect leader - Brother, you have suddenly made enemies with the Juque and Qianji Sects, and many people want to see them come to our door to call for punishment."
"As for the two factions, they may also know what we are thinking, or they may guess your intentions in doing these two things just like us, so they are still discussing... That's why it's such a strange situation, it seems like nothing has happened!"
Li Wuxiang felt a chill running through his body.
Some things float through the consciousness without being noticed. But once something happens, such as this, it will suddenly bring out the things hidden under the ocean of consciousness.
At this moment, he remembered what happened in Youjiuyuan, in the lower world, when he met Cui Daocheng!
His behavior at that time and the words he said seemed a bit strange!
When he rescued his soul from Mou Tieshan, Cui Daocheng said, "I just didn't expect to die here, in your hands." [Note 1]
What Li Wuxiang was thinking at that time was that Cui Daocheng felt that he had killed Jiang Jie, so he had to come to the lower world of Youjiuyuan to release the souls of the Sword Sect's past generations to fight against the Xuan Sect. However, he opened the door and could not close it, so he had to sacrifice his cultivation and eventually ended up dying.
When he met him at Jiuzhu Peak in Youjiuyuan, Li Wuxiang felt that Cui Daocheng might be a good person, but his tolerance was a little narrow, and he should blame himself for it.
But what if...
What if there weren't so many twists and turns? What if he just said that everything he experienced in the underworld was caused by me?
He was not talking about Jiang Jie, but about releasing the Sword Sect's dead soul! ?
He felt that he was the one who released the Sword Sect's dead soul, and therefore forced him to give up his Taoism to suppress it? !
Therefore, when I saw him before, I saw him hesitating again and again, and shouting "Li Wuxiang" several times in anger? ! [Note 2]
It wasn't him... nor was it Cui Daocheng... but someone else who triggered the East Emperor Seal and released the Sword Sect's Undead? !
...The person who killed Mou Jinchuan and Lu Pan right now? !
Li Wuxiang almost gasped like a living person - after meeting Cui Daocheng, Cui Daocheng did not mention anything about the incident on Yulun Mountain. Then who was the one who fired three sword lights in a row on Yulun Mountain, broke through the Yulun Mountain restriction, and established himself as the Yuanying Swordsman! ?
Is it an external evil?
still is……
Li Wuxiang's gaze stayed on Kong Jingci for a while, then he slowly walked into the room and sat down on a chair.
"I..." He was silent for a moment, then whispered, "I remember now. You guessed right, it might be."
"...What is it?"
"It could be someone from our Sword Sect. Someone who was chased to the west before. Maybe one of our fellow disciples who has reached the Golden Core stage has made a breakthrough and has also achieved the Nascent Soul stage. You heard what I said to Cui Daocheng in You Jiu Yuan. There are some misunderstandings between me and the sect."
Li Wuxiang nodded and said seriously, "Maybe one of my fellow disciples was sent to the Great Tribulation Mountain to act secretly, hoping to use me and the Thirty-Six Sects to attract the attention of the Xuan Sect in the Great Tribulation Mountain. For example, they wanted me to be the Sect Master with the Seal. In this situation, everyone thinks it was me who did it, so I can neither explain nor back down. I can only be tough and high-profile and get the position of Sect Master with the Seal. Otherwise, after the incident, you Thirty-Six Sects may come after me to settle accounts."
Kong Jingci frowned and thought for a moment: "Brother...are you telling the truth?"
Li Wuxiang said calmly, "Yes. It's the truth. That's what I think. Junior Sister Kong, you said before that if I don't become the Sect Master, then this and that will happen. Now, if I want to be the Sect Master and the Sword Sect wants to take over the alliance, would you, the Suhua Sect, like to be second to none, instead of third or fourth as before?"
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Note 1: See Chapter for details.
Note 2: See Chapter for details.
(End of this chapter)