Chapter 246: Jianghu Affairs
Chapter 246: Jianghu Affairs
"Hengshan City!"
A long crowd of people poured in from the city gate. Yu Ju, leading a nag, looked around the long street filled with people and the endless shops on both sides:
"After so many years apart, nothing has changed."
Hengshan City handles tens of thousands of people every day. Yu Ju was dressed like a woodcutter and was not noticeable at all. He led his horse through several long streets and stopped in front of a private house.
He knocked on the door gently, and a hunchbacked old man walked out of the yard, glanced at Yu Ju, and opened the door.
"Tsk."
Yu Ju looked at the old man and said, "Old Liu, I am really surprised by your outfit."
Just from his appearance, who could tell that this old man was one of the only few serial killers in Zhaixing Tower in Hengshan Road?
The famous earth-shattering star, Liu Seng?
"The people from Zhenwu Hall and Jingping Division are chasing us too closely, so we have no choice but to disguise ourselves."
After the gate closed, the old man stood up. Although he was still dressed in an old-fashioned manner, he was not stiff or clumsy at all:
"But speaking of disguise, you really look like a woodcutter."
“After so many years of collecting wood, sometimes I feel like I’m just a woodcutter.”
Yu Ju sighed, followed the old man into the house, and took a few sips of tea.
Liu Seng returned to the inner room at a leisurely pace and took out a handful of various letters and many files recording intelligence.
He handed it over, but Yu Ju didn't take it. He just sat there holding the teapot.
"I'm too lazy to read it, just tell me directly."
"The sudden action of the host this time not only shocked the government and the public, but also shocked those in the building. It seems that everyone is asking..."
Monk Liu put down the letter and said briefly:
"In short, they are all asking about the leader's intentions, where she is now, and whether the King of Zhenwu has crossed that threshold..."
"Who knows?"
Yu Ju casually flipped through the letter, his expression solemn:
"With the leader's peerless martial arts, he actually lost all the information. The King of Zhenwu is too terrifying..."
"Master Wang, don't you know that?"
Monk Liu asked tentatively.
"Master was stripped of his title of Heaven a long time ago, how could he be qualified to know these things? The leader... when he went into seclusion, the leader was not even born yet, so there is no friendship to speak of."
Yu Ju answered casually and asked:
"Come to think of it, among all these pieces of paper, is there nothing useful?"
"If you want to say it's useful..."
Monk Liu picked out a letter from the paper and said, "This letter comes from the imperial capital and mentions Emperor Qian and King Zhenwu. However, it is difficult to tell whether it is true or false from such a long distance."
Intelligence gathering is difficult.
Especially information about some major forces, such as the Dragon and Tiger Temple, is almost inaccessible to outsiders. The deep secrets of the court and the information about Emperor Qian and King Zhenwu are definitely not accessible to ordinary people.
"Oh?"
Yu Ju took the letter and glanced at it, his eyelids twitched:
"The Sea-Suppressing Black Turtle Armor?!"
"This letter is unsigned, and I don't know who wrote it. According to the letter, the moment the leader entered the imperial capital, King Zhenwu caught his aura and then they fought..."
The letter was not long. Monk Liu read it several times and had already memorized it: "The reason why the leader was defeated was because the King of Zhenwu not only held the Demon Subduing Dragon Divine Sword, but also wore the Sea-Suppressing Black Turtle Armor!"
"He actually subdued two Heavenly Destiny Mystical Soldiers by himself?!"
Yu Ju took a deep breath and felt his scalp tingling.
"It's hard to tell whether it's true or not, but if it's the King of Zhenwu, it's not impossible. This person is truly a once-in-a-millennium figure."
Liu Seng felt heavy-hearted and a little worried: "Isn't it possible that the leader..."
"impossible!"
Yu Ju frowned:
"The leader has become a dragon demon, with all forms added to his body. If he has thousands of lives, even if the Zhenwu King has two Tianyun Xuanbing, the leader will not perish!"
"But after such a long time, there is still no news from the leader. It is really worrying..."
"okay!"
Yu Ju was too lazy to argue with him, so he stuffed the letter into his arms, got up and left.
Monk Liu watched him go away, hunched over and closed the gate. Suddenly, his eyes fixed:
"Who?"
He held his breath but then instantly retracted it. It turned out to be a kitten walking over the eaves of the house next door.
"Are you too nervous?"
Monk Liu breathed a sigh of relief and returned to the house.
"Woo~"
On the eaves, a kitten with half black and half white fur looked back at the house, turned around, and disappeared over the eaves.
……
After leaving the house, Yu Ju looked for a cheap inn and a small restaurant to have a drink, just like a traveler who had just entered Daocheng.
When he staggered back to the house, he sobered up instantly:
"Has anyone been here?"
Although he had been recovering from his injuries in Gaoliu County for many years, Yu Ju was a veteran killer after all. He was alert enough about his residence and noticed something unusual as soon as he entered the door.
There was an extra letter on the table.
"This is?"
He flicked his fingers and picked up the letter through the air, and his internal energy opened the letter like a palm:
"This word is so ugly..."
Yu Ju frowned. The words on the letter were crooked and did not look like calligraphy with sharp strokes. Instead, they looked like the work of some small animal using its claws dipped in ink to scribble.
But when he saw the contents of the letter clearly, his pupils couldn't help but shrink.
"Emperor Qian is suspected to have obtained the Sea-suppressing Black Turtle Shell from the 'Eight Directions Temple'..." "The wandering scholar Shen Qisheng has entered the court as a guest official..."
"...Tell Wang Wenyuan to pass on the message to all the people in the order. Stay dormant for a while and wait and see...There is no need to look for me."
Signed: Qin Shixian.
"The leader is actually in Hengshan City? This, this..."
It took Yu Ju a while to come back to his senses. Sweat appeared on his forehead. He quickly took out an envelope and put the letter that looked like animal graffiti into it.
He took out a pen and ink and wrote on the envelope: "To Wang Wenyuan, do not open."
Then he took out a 'Soul-Confusing Pill' from his arms and swallowed it.
"The more you know, the more dangerous it is... I'd better forget it."
Yu Ju wiped off the cold sweat, lay down with his clothes on, and let the effect of the Soul-Confusing Pill spread slowly. When he woke up, he felt dizzy and had forgotten everything that happened today.
"I took the Soul-Confusing Pill?"
Yu Ju rubbed his temple, took out the letter from his arms, and stuffed it back as if it was too hot.
"I'm afraid it's something big?"
He murmured and opened the window. If it weren't for the dark night, he would have been ready to leave immediately.
……
……
"My Taoist robe!"
In the inn, Li Yuan caught a glimpse of his Taoist robe which was covered with a lot of black claw marks, and he felt distressed immediately.
He made three Taoist robes in total, and this was the last one.
"Woo~"
Shaking its wet paws, the little tiger looked over with sidelong glances, looking as if it was about to get angry at any moment.
"Nervous cat!"
Li Yuan felt a little toothache, but he withdrew his hand and endured it.
He had managed to feed the fish half-cooked with great difficulty, but if he did that, all his efforts would be wasted. Cats are very vengeful.
"Let's go and move."
Pinching his nose, he rolled up his Taoist robe and pulled the little mouse out from the corner. Without any greeting, the 'Cat Ancestor' had already jumped onto his shoulder.
Li Yuan took the cat and the mouse, which were the only belongings he had. He casually told the innkeeper about these and drove back to Longhu Temple.
……
The Longhu Temple is divided into three branches: Longshan, Hushan, and Daoshan.
The main peak of Longshan is located outside the Thirteen Peaks of Hun Tian and is adjacent to the Nine Peaks of Long Yin. The mountain is thousands of feet high, with lush vegetation and numerous temples.
In the main hall of Longshan Mountain, the lights are bright.
When Monk Dou Yue walked in, shaking his robes lightly, there were already two people sitting cross-legged on cushions in the hall. On the wall behind them, there was a huge mural.
In the mural, there are clouds and mists, and on the top of the mountains, a huge black dragon is coiled and descending, with its head raised high. Above the dragon's head, a monk can be vaguely seen sitting in meditation.
"Junior Brother Dou Yue's merits and deeds have improved again. It seems that he will soon enter the Dao."
Monk Dou Yue narrowed his eyes slightly. There were two people in the hall, one wearing a green Taoist robe, and the other wearing a gray robe, with a long sword across their bodies.
The one who spoke was the swordsman in gray.
This person's name is Han Tong. He is one of the three halls of Longshan and one of the two deputy hall masters of Weishen Hall.
"Isn't Senior Brother Han just one step away?"
Monk Dou Yue also sat cross-legged on a cushion with a calm expression.
"It took me twenty years to get to this point, but Junior Brother Dou Yue only took less than eight years. I am really envious of you."
Han Tong stroked the long sword gently:
"I heard that the junior brother that Master Uncle just accepted has a talent that is almost as talented as Junior Brother Long?"
Chu Xuankong also looked over.
"Not as good as Junior Brother Long."
Monk Dou Yue shook his head, not wanting to say more, and asked:
"My two senior brothers called me over, but has the Taoist Master and the other hall masters received any news?"
"Ah."
Seeing that he was unwilling to say more, the two of them looked at each other and temporarily stopped talking. They took out the letter and handed it to Dou Yue:
"The owner of Zhaixing Tower assassinated the king, causing outrage among the government and the public. Not only the Zhenwu Hall and Jingping Division, but even the Imperial Guards sent out their experts to the city..."
Monk Dou Yue took the letter, opened it, and couldn't help but frowned slightly:
"Random person Shen Qisheng... If I remember correctly, this great master is from Yunmeng Dao, Changhong Sword Sect?"
"A traitor from the Changhong Sword Sect."
Longyin Hall was also responsible for collecting intelligence, and Chu Xuankong knew quite a bit about it:
"In the past two hundred years, among the sixteen people who rebelled against the Dao Sect, this person has the highest talent and is the youngest. Twelve years ago, he stepped into the Tiangang and aspired to be the immortal realm on land. It is said that this person practiced the 'Worship the Hundred-armed Taoist Method'..."
"It's the worship method again."
Monk Dou Yue looked indifferent.
Over the past thousands of years, countless martial arts masters have been bewitched by the method of worshipping gods and have betrayed their sects. The more powerful a person is in martial arts, the more likely he is to be tempted to betray his sect at the end of his life.
Half of the two great elders, four great Dharma Kings, and eight great Dharma protectors of the Evil God Cult are from the five great Daoist sects...
But Shen Qisheng was different. He was only sixty years old when he rebelled against his sect. He did not rebel for his life span, nor did he join the evil god cult. He just wanted to impact the realm of earthly immortals, and he actually succeeded.
"After coming out of retreat, the Taoist master fought this man three times. Although he won, he was not able to win by a large margin. Therefore, the Taoist master cannot come back for the time being. He only asked us to guard the mountain gate carefully."
Han Tong paused for a moment and said:
"By the way, sweep away the spies from Zhaixing Tower and the Evil God Cult, and don't let the imperial court get hold of any evidence against them."
"This matter..."
Chu Xuankong glanced at Monk Dou Yue:
"It would be safer if Longyin and Huntian Halls attacked together. What do you think, Junior Brother?"
"can."
(End of this chapter)