【Chapter 060】Death of Chu Jingcheng
【Chapter 060】Death of Chu Jingcheng
At first, Ye Yishen only planned to use the two to find Hua Lingyao and then kill them.
What he didn't expect was that Nangong Chenyu was even more ruthless than him. Not only did he kill the two men, he also made them infamous.
He had to admit that Nangong Chenyu's method was very good and it touched his heart. But when he thought about Nangong Chenyu’s behavior just now, he was at a loss for words.
His eyes were too direct, and it was hard for Nangong Chenyu not to notice it.
"What's that look in your eyes?"
"I think you were not only fabricating the illusion that the two of you had eloped, but you were also taking the opportunity to collect money." Ye Yishen said bluntly.
Nangong Chenyu had no bad intentions at all: "The process is not important, as long as the result is good. Besides, I'm already here, I can't make a wasted trip."
Ye Yishen: “…” What he said made a lot of sense, and he was speechless to refute.
To avoid being discovered, the two did not speak again. A quarter of an hour later, the two returned to Ye Mansion quietly.
After entering Yiranju, Nangong Chenyu said to Ye Yisheng beside him: "Come in with me first, I have something to ask you."
Ye Yisheng happened to have something to ask Nangong Chenyu, so he followed him into Nangong Chenyu's room.
After the two sat down, Nangong Chenyu asked, "What happened when you wanted to kill Hua Yueyi before?"
Originally, he followed Ye Yishen because he wanted to see what Ye Yishen wanted to do. However, when he saw that something was wrong with Ye Yisheng, his sword moves had already been released before his brain could react.
Ye Yisheng recalled: "I just wanted to kill Hua Yueyi and Huo Zichen. But just as I was about to act, I felt like someone was strangling my throat. The sword in my hand couldn't stab any further."
"It seemed like there was an invisible force preventing me from killing Hua Yueyi. But after Hua Yueyi and Huo Zichen died, the feeling of being strangled by the throat disappeared all of a sudden."
"I felt very relaxed, as if I had broken free from some kind of bondage."
After listening, Nangong Chenyu fell into deep thought.
He thought about the plot in the storybook, the facts that were not written in the storybook, the master who looked exactly like Ye Yisheng's mother, and his own experiences...
Everything in the storybook seemed to be a trap, a trap without him.
But he broke the situation.
Could this be the reason why he came here, to disrupt the plot in the storybook?
Otherwise how to explain that as a resentful cannon fodder in the storybook, Ye Yisheng cannot kill the male and female protagonists, but he can easily kill the male and female protagonists in the storybook.
As soon as this thought came to mind, Nangong Chenyu felt his sea of consciousness suddenly vibrate.
He immediately said to Ye Yisheng: "You go back first, we will talk about it tomorrow if there is anything."
Originally Ye Yisheng wanted to ask Nangong Chenyu something, but now he could only swallow what he wanted to ask and just said, "Thank you for tonight."
“You’re welcome.” Nangong Chenyu stood up to see him off.
After Ye Yishen left, Nangong Chenyu took out the jade and set up a simple defensive formation. Afterwards, he sat cross-legged on the bed, his mind sinking into the sea of consciousness.
Originally, there was only the sea and the dark sky in his sea of consciousness, but now there was a notebook shining with golden light in his sea of consciousness.
This is strange, how come there is an extra storybook in his sea of consciousness?
When Nangong Chenyu saw the five familiar words on the storybook, he was shocked.
The storybook reads "The Supreme Path to Immortality".
Compared to the "Supreme Path to Immortality" that he was reading in the Xuanwu Realm, which was currently being updated, the "Supreme Path to Immortality" in his sea of consciousness was five centimeters thick.
Just by looking at the thickness, Nangong Chenyu felt that the notebook in his sea of consciousness should be complete.
Now the male protagonist and one of the female protagonists have been killed by him, and I don’t know what the plot will be like next?
Thinking of this, his soul floated in front of the book.
Originally, he wanted to open the storybook and read its contents. But as soon as he stretched out his hand to touch the storybook, he saw the five words "The Supreme Way to Immortality" on the storybook turned into stars and disappeared.
Nangong Chenyu looked bewildered.
What's going on?
He didn't do anything!
Why did the words on the storybook disappear for no reason?
Looking at the notebook without a name on it, Nangong Chenyu was unwilling to give up and wanted to open it and read the contents. It turned out that the book was sealed and he couldn't turn the pages at all.
After studying it for a long time, he still couldn't figure out what was going on with this notebook that appeared out of nowhere in his sea of consciousness. However, I could vaguely sense that there was a connection between him and the storybook.
But he didn't remember when he had received this book.
This made Nangong Chenyu make a bold guess that he might have lost a piece of memory. It was the experience that after he passed the tribulation, he did not ascend to the immortal world, but instead traveled here.
If this is true, then he must have a mission in mind when he came here. Someone didn't want him to complete the mission, so they erased his memory of the time after he overcame the tribulation.
The more Nangong Chenyu thought about it, the more he felt that this was the case.
Although he has a soul in this world, in fact his soul has been completed. One has the conditions to ascend to the fairyland, so there is no need to retrieve this soul.
And he happened to appear in this world.
So, he came to this world with a mission.
So, what is his mission?
Save Ye Xian’s family of four?
Intuition wouldn't be that simple.
Ye Xian's family of four should only be a part of his mission, and he felt that this part was still his master's selfish desire.
So, he should have other tasks.
After thinking for a while, Nangong Chenyu still had no clue. Since he didn't know what the mission was, he just followed his heart.
He exited his sea of consciousness and tried several times to remove the scripture from his sea of consciousness.
As expected, they all failed.
Before I knew it, it was already four o'clock in the morning.
Nangong Chenyu just lay down and went to sleep.
A dreamless night.
The next morning.
Two rumors were circulating in the streets and alleys of Guyuan County, one about the Ye Mansion and the other about the Hua Mansion.
"I heard that yesterday evening, the second branch of the Ye Mansion and its family stole one million taels of silver from the first branch of the Ye Mansion and left Guyuan County. When they left, they also set fire to Madam Ye, who had suffered a stroke, and burned her to death."
“The second family just left, why did they burn Madam Ye to death?”
"My cousin's third uncle's uncle's brother-in-law's nephew works in the Ye Mansion. He heard that the head of the Ye family is not the biological son of Old Madam Ye. The second family was afraid that the head of the Ye family would threaten them with Old Madam Ye. So when they left, they simply burned him to death."
"It turns out that the head of the Ye family is not Madam Ye's biological son. No wonder Madam Ye has disliked him since he was a child."
"That's right. In the early years, Old Madam Ye broke the leg of the head of the Ye family and kicked him out of the house. Later, when the head of the Ye family made money as a merchant, Old Madam Ye brought the second branch of the family to the house to recognize her as a relative."
"The head of the Ye family is too miserable. He has supported Madam Ye and the second family for so many years in vain."
"That's right. He even raised a bunch of ungrateful people and lost a million taels."
"Tsk, one million taels, I can't spend it all in several lifetimes."
"Have you heard that the third young lady of the Hua family eloped with someone?"
"The Third Miss you are talking about is Hua Yueyi?"
"Yes, it's her."
"That girl is so ambitious that she doesn't even like the second young master of the Ye family. How could she elope with someone?"
"Well, don't disbelieve me. I'm telling you, yesterday the third young lady asked the servants of the Hua Mansion to secretly bring a handsome young man who lived in the Yunlai Inn to the Hua Mansion. Just after dawn this morning, someone saw the third young lady and the young man leaving Guyuan County in a carriage."
"This doesn't mean they eloped, does it?"
"My neighbor's niece works for the third young lady of the Hua Mansion. She said that the third young lady left a letter."
"What did the letter say?"
"That third young lady said she was going to pursue her true love and asked Hua's father and mother not to look for her and to pretend that they had never given birth to her. When she left, she also took her own little stash of money with her. Don't you think this isn't elopement?"
"If you marry her, she'll be your wife. If you run away, she'll be your concubine. Miss Hua San will suffer in the future."
"If you ask me, she deserves it. She didn't even look down on the good conditions of the Ye Mansion, but eloped with someone. She is really shameless."
"If this happened to my girl, I would beat her to death."
"The Hua family has lost face this time."
In the next half month, everyone in Guyuan County was talking about the second branch of the Ye family stealing one million taels of silver, and the third daughter of the Hua family eloping with someone.
But these things have nothing to do with Nangong Chenyu.
He got up early in the morning, had breakfast, and left Ye Mansion on horseback. When he sat on the horse, he always felt as if he had forgotten something.
But for a moment he couldn't remember what it was. It was not until he was about a kilometer away from Guyuan County and saw people waiting on the roadside that he remembered what he had forgotten.
"Oh~"
The horse neighed and stopped.
Nangong Chenyu looked down at Ye Yisheng and asked, "Why are you here?"
"Wait for you."
"Waiting for me to do what?"
"I want to go to Xiqi with you."
Nangong Chenyu frowned unconsciously: "You want to enter the secret realm?"
Ye Yisheng nodded: "Yes."
Seeing the determination in his eyes, Nangong Chenyu frowned even tighter: "The situation in the secret realm of Xiqi is unclear. If you go in, I can't guarantee your safety. I don't want you to go."
"Then I will go to Xiqi with you. I have other things to do in Xiqi." Ye Yisheng added: "I will not enter the secret realm."
Nangong Chenyu: “…”
Seeing that Nangong Chenyu didn't say anything, Ye Yisheng said again: "If you don't agree, I will go to Xiqi State by myself."
Nangong Chenyu released his divine sense to scan the surroundings, then asked Ye Yisheng: "How did you get here?"
"Following a caravan."
Ye Yishen lied without blinking, saying that he came here on horseback by himself. As for the horses, they were naturally taken away by the guards.
Nangong Chenyu moved back a little, making some space, and stretched out his hand towards Ye Yishen.
"Come up."
Ye Yisheng was prepared to be rejected by Nangong Chenyu, but he didn't expect that Nangong Chenyu actually agreed. He immediately took Nangong Chenyu's hand and sat in front of Nangong Chenyu.
Nangong Chenyu flicked the whip and the horse immediately galloped forward.
The whistling cold wind blew across his face, but Ye Yisheng didn't feel cold at all. The constant heat from behind him flowed into his body, making his heart pound.
Three horses galloped on the official road.
A quarter of an hour later.
Just before reaching a three-way intersection, one of the guards whipped the horse. The horse sped up and soon surpassed the horse that Nangong Chenyu was riding.
Nangong Chenyu saw the guard taking the path on the left, so he followed him.
Ye Yisheng remembered that to go to Xiqi State, one had to go on the right side, and couldn't help but ask, "Aren't we going to Xiqi State?"
"Before going to Xiqi State, do one thing first."
Nangong Chenyu didn't say what it was about.
Ye Yisheng didn't ask.
An hour later, passing through a small town, Nangong Chenyu asked his guards to buy a thousand-mile horse. So Ye Yisheng's plan of riding on the same horse together all the way came to an end.
After most of the day, Ye Yishen discovered that they were heading towards the imperial city of Dongli Kingdom. Now without asking, he could guess what Nangong Chenyu was going to do.
At first, the four of them took the official road, and later they took a shortcut. Each of them changed three horses along the way, and finally they arrived at the imperial city in the evening of the next day.
Nangong Chenyu asked two guards to wait outside the imperial city for two hours, and he and Ye Yisheng entered the imperial city.
The two first found an inn to stay in.
After dinner, when it was completely dark, the two of them left the inn in their night clothes.
Soon, the two arrived at the Imperial Master's Mansion.
The guards at the Imperial Preceptor's Mansion were all skilled in martial arts, but the two men, as cultivators, easily evaded the guards and headed towards the place where the previous Imperial Preceptors had been in seclusion.
After walking around in twists and turns for half a quarter of an hour, the two entered a tall tower. Generally, when the national teacher wants to perform some sacrificial ceremony, it will be held in the tower. The place where the national teacher is in seclusion is under the tower.
As soon as they entered the tower, they found a cultivator who was at the fourth level of Qi Refining and another cultivator who was at the fifth level of Qi Refining.
"who."
As soon as the man's low growl was uttered, he and his companion fainted the next moment.
Nangong Chenyu took Ye Yishen and walked past the two of them and headed underground.
After walking down for a quarter of an hour, a stone door appeared in front of Nangong Chenyu and Ye Yisheng.
After observing the stone gate for a while, Nangong Chenyu gathered the spiritual energy in his hand and slapped it on the stone gate. The stone gate did not break, but slowly rose up.
There was a stone bed in the stone chamber, and a person was lying on it.
When they got closer, they saw that the person on the stone bed was Chu Jingcheng. His consciousness was injured by Nangong Chenyu and he is still in a coma.
Nangong Chenyu didn't rush to take action because he found that a gentle energy was coming from under the stone bed, nurturing Chu Jingcheng.
He checked Chu Jingcheng's body and found that if he didn't come, Chu Jingcheng would wake up in a month at most.
Because he didn't know how long the secret realm of Xiqi would be open, he wanted to solve the hidden danger of Chu Jingcheng before going to Xiqi.
Fortunately, he came.
Otherwise, I really don’t know what the consequences will be.
If he is indeed an enemy, he should be killed on the spot.
After taking away Chu Jingcheng's Qiankun bag, Nangong Chenyu picked him up and threw him to the ground. He pierced his forehead with a sword and then burned his body.
After doing all this, Nangong Chenyu turned his gaze to the stone bed.
Ye Yisheng didn't say a word the whole time, just watched quietly.
Nangong Chenyu reached out and knocked on the stone bed.
"Boom boom boom~" a hollow sound was heard.
"Sure enough, there is something underneath."
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