Confused
It would take three or four days for the resentful woman to reach the boundary marker, Shen Siyan said so himself.
She didn't think Shen Siyan would lie about such a thing. Chang Xia lowered her eyes, and finally felt that the matter had become somewhat interesting.
She stretched herself, used magic to reduce the pear core to ashes, and scattered them under the pear tree. Then she picked up the file and prepared to go back and read it slowly.
Xie Fengxue's voice came coldly from behind.
“Nothing else to ask.”
Chang Xia asked back: "Can you speak?"
"I'll tell you if you call me Senior Brother ten times."
Changxia shrugged and said, "Forget it." Then he walked out of the yard.
Xie Fengxue, as if accustomed to it, also followed Chang Xia's example and ground the core into ash. He waved his hand, and the water from the well obediently fell into his hand. While washing his hands, Xie Fengxue said to Li Bai, "See? Don't try to imitate your senior sister. You'll only suffer if you lose face."
Li Bai had long been attracted by his skill of summoning water, and she secretly tried to make a hand gesture to try it herself, but she had never been able to do it. She could only casually respond to Xie Fengxue's words with a few "hmm".
Xie Fengxue: ...
One or two of them never make me feel at ease.
Changxia sat in his yard and began to look through the files of the resentful woman.
The resentful woman is a spirit of dead wood. For some reason, a section of wood that was sawed off did not rot. It was buried in the soil for who knows how many years, until a girl who ran away from her lover died in front of it. The girl's blood dyed the wood red, and the unwillingness and resentment in the wood became her nourishment. The dead wood then became intelligent and began to think that it was the girl who ran away from her lover.
For years, she had been wandering around places where young girls had died, occasionally singing to scare people and absorbing their resentment to survive. After the Privy Councilor negotiated with her and signed a series of contracts prohibiting her from harming mortals, they left her alone.
Ever since the Human Emperor failed in his attack on Heaven and the gate to the demon world was opened as a punishment from Heaven, Yun Ting really didn't bother to care about this little demon.
This is also a helpless move. Most of the forces in the four realms are on the human-demon front to resist the invasion of the demon clan. Demons like the resentful woman who have no intention of hurting people can protect some mortals after signing a contract, which actually reduces the workload of the Privy Council.
This behavior is commonly known as recruiting.
As for why the resentful woman took hostages and fled the northern border this time, the file Shen Siyan gave her didn't explain. Also, the file didn't record who the mortal Qiao Songbai was.
I don’t know if he really doesn’t have it or if he is deliberately not giving it to me.
After reading about the resentful woman's past experiences, Changxia calculated the time and leaned back in a lazy posture.
She began counting silently in her mind from one.
When she counted to thirty-three, Xie Fengxue knocked on her door.
However, the two knocks seemed to be polite, and the next moment the man pushed the door open and walked in.
Changxia's mouth corners curved upwards a little, and he squinted his eyes with a smile, as if he had expected this.
"I knew it."
Xie Fengxue snorted, and with a forced smile, threw the booklet in her hand onto her desk.
"You don't even want to call me Senior Brother."
Changxia put his hands together on the table, smiled triumphantly, and looked at him without saying a word.
Xie Fengxue was no longer surprised and continued, "I used Bookworm to help you find out. The key to this matter lies with Qiao Songbai."
The Cloud Pavilion's dedicated intelligence collection center is the Shanhai Pavilion, one of the octagonal buildings within the Cloudshang Pavilion. From the vast expanse of Cangxuan's mountains, rivers, and seas to the details of a mortal village or town, everything is contained within. The Shanhai Pavilion's intelligence is linked to the kites of every Cloud Pavilion disciple, and is accessible to each rank. Given Changxia and Xie Fengxue's current status, the Shanhai Pavilion's authority has reached the highest level, allowing them to freely access a vast expanse of information.
But this is not enough, some information will not be recorded in Shanhai Pavilion.
That information was sealed in a special file, shielding it from any unauthorized means of investigation. Yunting disciples could only access it when necessary, and only after applying and receiving approval from various levels of authority. Even the sect leader couldn't claim to have complete authority.
For example, the reason Shen Siyan had sent her the dossier on the resentful woman this time was because using a kite to investigate would only reveal her basic abilities and the circumstances of her recruitment, but would never reveal that she was a dead wood spirit. That was her vital point; if someone with ulterior motives knew this, a single drop of Samadhi Fire would incinerate her to the point of ash. Yun Ting still had some protection for the demons that had been recruited.
After all, Yunting has many disciples with complicated minds, so it is inevitable that some people with bad intentions will use this information to do bad things.
The Bookworm is a spell created by Xie Fengxue that can mimic the patterns of a seal array and sense the subtle spiritual fluctuations within the volume itself. Xie Fengxue transforms these fluctuations into the contents of the sealed intelligence.
In his words, no two leaves in the world are exactly alike, and files containing different information will also have different spiritual energy fluctuations. Since the founding of Yunting, Shanhai Pavilion has had its own set of recording practices. Xie Fengxue spent over a hundred years, starting with publicly available information, and finally deciphered the various spiritual energy fluctuations that represent different pieces of information.
From then on, all the secrets of Yunting were revealed to them.
They didn't know who else possessed similar abilities, but what was certain was that they were definitely not the only ones who could bypass the seal and obtain intelligence.
After all, Yunting is really big, and sometimes even if you have no intention of harming anyone, you still need to be on guard.
Changxia flipped through the booklet given by Xie Fengxue. The part about the resentful woman was similar to the one given by Shen Siyan. The difference was that it recorded Qiao Songbai's life in detail.
Qiao Songbai is the apprentice of Pei Miaoyi, the sword master of the Western Territory.
Although the contemporary swordsman Bie Jingchun resides in the Northern Territory, most Cang Xuan sword cultivators originate from the Western Territory. This is because the Western Territory is dominated by the Three-Foot Dao, where all other methods are lost, leaving only the sword supreme. And the Sword Master is the foremost of the Three-Foot Dao.
Such a person would have a bright future if he were not the lover of the girl who gave the resentful woman wisdom.
There is a sequel to the story of that year. The girl and her lover were caught by her fiancé's servants. The girl begged those people to spare her lover's life and said that she was willing to marry her fiancé, the consumptive who was bedridden and dying.
The vicious servants did not listen to her and together they threw her lover off the cliff. The girl looked at the place where her lover died with sorrow, and with all her strength she broke free from the servants' hands that were restraining her, and without hesitation she threw herself against the huge rock on the edge of the cliff.
The real body of the resentful woman was buried under the stone.
The story ends here as a tragic love story, but the lover miraculously did not die.
Just like the most popular immortal cultivation stories on the market now, he was cushioned by a giant tree on the cliff and fell into the cold pool below the cliff. The biting cold pool instantly froze him into ice, but it also froze his injuries.
Decades later, Pei Miao passed by here, found him and cured him.
But perhaps because he had been frozen for too long, he could no longer remember his past. Pei Miao tested his talent in swordsmanship and found that he had excellent talent, so he brought him back to Sanchi Dao, gave him a new name, and accepted him as his apprentice.
Changxia didn't know the name Qiao Songbai, but if he was called by another name, Changxia would know it like thunder.
Pei Xilai is known as the third best swordsman in the world.
Changxia originally wanted to find an opportunity to fight with him, but he suddenly disappeared when he became famous, and Changxia felt sorry for it for a long time.
It turned out that he was involved with the resentful woman.
Now she understood why Shen Siyan didn't give Qiao Songbai's information.
Unlike Shen Siyan, who had to perform in front of his master before becoming the head of the sect, Pei Xilai was almost appointed by Sanchidao as the next sword master.
Different from Yunting's recruitment of the monsters, Sanchidao has only one way to ensure peace in the Western Territory, and he would rather miss it than let it go.
Sword cultivators didn't have the fancy formations and spells of Yun Ting, so they couldn't confidently control demons even if they were released into the mortal realm. So, they simply treated them all equally. The demons in the Western Territory either kept their tails between their legs, concealing their demonic aura and pretending to be mortals. If discovered, the innocent were imprisoned as forced labor on an outlying island, while the guilty were executed on the spot.
Monsters have a very low status in the Western Territory. If the rumor of the future Sword Master and a monster were to spread, it would be a huge blow to both Pei Xilai personally and the reputation of Sanchi Dao. Therefore, it was very important to keep it secret from unimportant people.
The dossier Shen Siyan gave Chang Xia was approved by the sect, and he was granted access to it. He then copied it to the relevant personnel to understand the details. When it came to the future Sword Master of the Three-foot Dao, these procedures had to be clearly communicated to the higher-ups on both sides. Every move required extreme caution, as a single mistake could affect the relationship between the two factions.
A thug like Changxia, who was only there to suppress Diaoxue, was just an extra staff member in this incident, so there was naturally no need to let her know about it openly.
If she guessed correctly, Shen Siyan should tell her Qiao Songbai's identity in private tomorrow.
However, knowing Qiao Songbai's identity, this became a big problem. Chang Xia would never believe that a little monster like the Wrathful Woman, who absorbed resentment by scaring people, could kidnap the future Sword Master, unless the future Sword Master was willing.
Moreover, Chang Xia remembered that Pei Xilai had "disappeared" for many years. This time, he suddenly launched an attack and even sacrificed the life of the resentful woman - this restless demon, no matter what the reason, would not be tolerated in the second northwestern region.
They approached Diaoxue, and Changxia didn't believe it was a coincidence.
What senior brother meant was that the head sect leader knew that something had happened to Diaoxue. After all, if he could calculate something, the master of Morning Star Mountain could definitely calculate it too.
But the head of the sect still let her go, and did not make any other arrangements on the surface. Apart from her and Shen Siyan, the disciples sent out by the Privy Council were only enough to capture the resentful woman.
This is very interesting.
Is it because she is sure that she has the ability to solve the Diao Xue issue? Is it because the leader wants to attack Cang Feng Shan and use Diao Xue to suppress her?
Or was it that the problem with snow fishing this time was originally related to her?
Changxia pressed her solar plexus. There was too little information now and she had no clue at all.
Xie Fengxue leaned against the door frame with her hands folded. Seeing her face turn pale and blue, she suddenly asked, "Do you want me to tell you a fortune?"
Chang Xia paused his hand on his solar plexus, looked up and said, "You know I hate charlatans the most."
Xie Fengxue sneered: "The information you have now was given to you by a charlatan."
Chang Xia said shamelessly: "My information was given to me by my senior brother. My senior brother learned swordsmanship from Master, he is not some charlatan."
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