Chapter 78 Hiding in the Secret Realm
When Xiao Dan heard that the monks were eaten by the black bear, he covered his mouth in fear and asked, "Will the people from their sect come to avenge us?"
Fu Ning touched his chin and said, "They had no evidence that we did it, so I killed all those people."
Xiao Dan was still worried, "How about I report this to the village chief and we move to another place."
"If we move immediately, it will make us look even more guilty." Fu Ning consoled him, "Don't worry, I did it, I won't implicate the village."
Xiao Dan stamped her feet, "Do you think I don't worry about you? You are always like this, taking everything on yourself."
Fu Ning smiled and said, "I only take on things that I am sure of."
Yunlan was worried, "Sister Shuang, if those people really come looking for us, how are you going to deal with them?"
Fu Ning said: "You should know the purpose of so many monks coming to Yanshan this time. There is a secret realm nearby. I plan to hide in the secret realm."
Yunlan said: "But I heard that the secret realm is very dangerous, and no one has come out alive so far."
Fu Ning held her hand and said, "Yunlan, believe me, I can get out of this alive."
There are quite a few treasures in her secret realm. If she could sell them, the money would definitely be enough to rebuild the village. However, selling such a large number of treasures would attract too much attention, so she would need to find a few people to help.
There are not many people that Fu Ning trusts who can enter the secret realm. Wang Minglu is one of them, Shen Qingning can barely be considered one, and Song Jinghe can also be considered one.
It seems that I have to look for them in the secret realm for a while.
She had a plan in mind and began to wait and see, waiting for the unknown sect to make a move.
After the village chief encouraged everyone, the atmosphere became lively again.
She said: "The first thing we need to solve is the problem of food and housing. If you have money, you can take it out first. I will write it down one by one, and when I have enough, I will return it to you double."
Fu Ning took some time to take a look at his small medicinal field, which had been burned to nothing left. Other families' farmlands had suffered the same fate.
The village’s accumulation over the years was destroyed in an instant by the fire. She cursed fiercely in her heart, those arsonists did not deserve to die.
All the villagers placed the valuables they brought with them in the middle, and searched their houses for copper coins and silver pieces that had not been burned black.
After the village chief took inventory, he concluded that this amount of food was barely enough for a week's worth of food for the village.
Fu Ning felt sorry for the small pieces of silver on the ground and took out her purse. She had brought a lot of money with her to buy food, which should be enough for a few more days in the village.
Fortunately, none of the adobe houses collapsed seriously, so they can still be lived in after a little repair.
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Donghui reached the gate of the Thirty-Eight Villages and found that the entire village had been burned black by the fire in just one day.
He had a vague feeling that it was his fellow apprentice who did it, but he couldn't be sure, so he found a kind-looking aunt and asked, "What's going on with this cottage?"
The aunt had never seen him before, but seeing that the young man was handsome, she was willing to give him an answer, "Oh, it was burned to ashes last night."
Donghui asked: "Who burned it?"
The aunt slapped her thigh and said, "I don't know where this monk came from. He molested our girl yesterday and made a grudge against us. He sneaked up the mountain at night and burned us."
When Donghui heard this, he thought it must have been done by his unlucky fellow apprentices who were eaten by the black bear. However, he roughly observed the villagers and found that they were all ordinary people, not cultivators. It was impossible for them to kill his fellow apprentices who had reached the enlightenment stage.
"By the way." The aunt asked curiously, "Young man, where are you from?"
Donghui was about to answer when he suddenly saw two women in the enlightenment period among the crowd.
He pointed at the two people and said, "Aunt, are they also from our village?"
The aunt looked over and said, "Ah, you mean Xiaoshuang and Xiaolan, they naturally..."
The village chief saw the strange man chatting with the villagers, so he walked over and asked, "Who are you?"
The aunt introduced Donghui: "This is our village leader."
Donghui immediately bowed and said politely, "Hello, I am Li Donghui from the Yuanshan Sect of the cultivation world. Because several unpromising fellow disciples of the sect have disappeared, the elders asked me to investigate the surrounding area."
The village chief said with a serious expression: "We haven't seen any men."
"But from what I heard from this aunt just now, the arsonists might be some of my fellow apprentices. I wonder if anyone has seen them. If they are indeed them, our Yuanshan Sect is willing to compensate the village."
Several aunts whispered, "That's good."
"But none of us saw the man who set the fire."
"That's right. Maybe the person who was on guard yesterday saw it."
Fu Ning noticed the commotion here, and quickly came over to listen to the aunts' explanation of his identity and the cause. He crossed his arms and said to Li Donghui, "We didn't even have time to escape yesterday, so how could we have the time to catch the arsonist? I wish you can find your junior brother soon and pay compensation to our village as you said."
Seeing her unhappy expression, Li Donghui said in a good-tempered manner, "Thank you for your good words. I see that you are at the Kaiguang stage of cultivation. I wonder if you are also from the cultivation world."
The aunt next to her answered for her: "Xiao Shuang grew up in our village, but she is very hardworking. Did she just come from that Ten Immortals Mountain yesterday?"
"Twelve Immortal Mountains?" Li Donghui was surprised, with envy in his eyes, "Miss Xiaoshuang is a cultivator from the Twelve Immortal Mountains?"
Fu Ning nodded, "Yes."
Li Donghui had great admiration for the Twelve Immortal Mountains, and immediately felt that it was impossible for Fu Ning to have done it. Moreover, even if she was so powerful that she could deal with cultivators in the Kaiguang period, it was impossible for her to kill Junior Brother Wang who was in the Jindan period.
He cupped his hands and said, "I'll go look somewhere else. I won't bother you any more."
After Li Donghui left, several aunts said with regret: "He is a good boy, how come he is from the same sect as those rotten guys yesterday? This is unacceptable."
Yunlan came over and asked Fu Ning: "I think he got away with it."
"We have fooled them for now, but we still have to see how important those people are in the sect. If they can't find the murderer, they might come to the mountain stronghold." Fu Ning said, "I'll go back to the tent of the Twelve Immortal Mountains."
She found Wang Minglu's tent and briefly told him what happened last night. Finally, she proposed to go back to the fairy mountain to bring Xiaoya and Weifeng with them.
Wang Minglu said, "Master, the teleportation stones given by Zhenshu Peak are exactly the right amount, no more, no less. Even if you use the ones you need to go back in advance, you won't have any spirit stones to teleport to the cultivation world."
Fu Ning frowned and said, "It's impossible that they don't have extra teleportation stones at the Formation Technique Peak."
Wang Minglu looked embarrassed, "But I have an average relationship with the people at Zhenshu Peak."
Fu Ning thought about it and realized that he didn't know anyone else in Zhenshu Peak except Song Jinghe. "Then I will guard the village and not enter the secret realm."
"The leader of Yuanshan Sect is at the Spiritual Transformation Stage. You can't deal with him alone." Wang Minglu thought about it and compromised, "I will swallow my pride and help you get one."
Fu Ning smiled and said, "When we get back, you can choose any treasure from my treasure pavilion."
Wang Minglu's eyes lit up immediately. He had been coveting the crystal cup for a long time, and this time he was finally going to get it!
With Fu Ning's promise, Wang Minglu worked more efficiently. That afternoon, he gave her a teleportation stone from Xianshan to Yanshan. Fu Ning took the stone and immediately put it into the storage bag, returned to the Twelve Xianshan Mountains, and rushed back to Changwu Peak.
Yan Hengyu stared at Fu Ning blankly, unable to believe that she appeared before him.
Fu Ning waved his hand in front of his eyes and said with a smile: "Are you stupid?"
Yan Hengyu came back to his senses, stepped forward and asked, "Why did you come back?"
Fu Ning sighed, "I ran into a little trouble, so I need to bring Xiaoya and Weifeng with me. You don't mind, right?"
Yan Hengyu shook his head and said, "They are all your Luwu, you don't need to ask for my opinion."
"Okay, then I'll leave."
Yan Hengyu gritted his teeth secretly as he looked at Fu Ning's back. He wanted to help the Immortal Lord, and he hoped that the Immortal Lord would think of him when he encountered trouble.
Fu Ning brought Xiao Ya and Wei Feng into the teleportation array and returned to Yanshan in a blink of an eye.
Xiaoya jumped for joy when he returned to a familiar place.
Weifeng raised his head and observed the surrounding environment, then growled to Fu Ning: The spiritual energy here is very thin.
Fu Ning pinched the back of its neck and said, "Yes, this is the place with the weakest spiritual energy in the human world, but this is where I came from and where Xiaoya lived."
The majestic gaze became much softer and he asked: What do you want us to do?
Fu Ning said to them, "I need you to help me guard the village. If anyone threatens the people in the village, tear them to pieces."
Xiaoya roared twice with high morale, and Weifeng nodded his huge head.
The man and the two beasts returned to the Thirty-Eight Villages. Everyone was busy cleaning the house. Even if someone saw Weifeng, they were not afraid, even though it was big and had a long tail. Xiaoya was really used to seeing it. In their subconscious, they no longer thought that Luwu was a dangerous animal.
Xiao Dan even curiously touched the majestic furry tail and exclaimed: "It looks so handsome."
Fu Ning knocked her head, even Lu Wu was a fangirl of her.
With the protection of Xiaoya and Weifeng, Fu Ning felt much more at ease. He lived in the mountain village waiting for Song Jinghe's arrival and entering the secret realm with him.
Three days later, someone from Yuanshan School came to the door, and it was Li Donghui again.
He said, "Our Elder Lu wants to talk to Miss Xiaoshuang and Miss Xiaolan."
Fu Ning said, "I don't even know your elders, what can we talk about?"
"I just want to ask about the details of the day when the village caught fire." Li Donghui said, "We have found a few junior brothers, but they refuse to admit it. Our elders are serious and want to talk to you."
Nonsense, those people are already dead. Fu Ning narrowed her eyes. Yuanshan Sect must have suspected her and Yunlan.
She said, "Okay, I didn't expect they would dare to do it but not take responsibility. I will go and confront them now."
Yunlan wanted to follow her, but Fu Ning held her back and mouthed to her, "Don't worry."
She whistled all the way as she followed Li Donghui. When she confirmed that he was alone, she said, "Brother Li, tell me the truth. Are those people dead?"
Li Donghui turned around with a horrifying look in his eyes, "It's you."
Fu Ning raised his lips, "I tricked those bastards out and killed them in this way."
"You!" Li Donghui drew his sword, "How did you do it alone?"
"It's very simple. I tricked them out one by one. As for the one in the Jindan stage, Black Bear helped me kill him."
"You vicious woman! I want to avenge my junior brother!" Li Donghui swung his sword at her with a ferocious face.
Fu Ning dodged the sword and said, "Your fellow apprentices burned my stronghold and insulted my companions. They deserve to die."
Li Donghui's sword stabbed at him, and Fu Ning retreated repeatedly, pretending to be defeated.
Suddenly she whistled, and Weifeng rushed in front of her. She skillfully flipped over and whispered in its ear, "Go fifty miles north so he can catch up."
Weifeng and Fu Ning had a tacit understanding that had lasted for decades. He immediately let out a low roar and ran wildly.
They soon arrived at the location that Fu Ning mentioned.
At the foot of the mountain on the south side of Yeonsan, there is a dark cave.
Li Donghui quickly caught up with them and saw that the eight-tailed Luwu was stagnant and was unwilling to go in no matter how Fu Ning drove it. Then Fu Ning stepped into the cave and disappeared. After she went in, the Luwu ran away quickly.
Li Donghui went close to where she entered and looked inside. There seemed to be a very long passage. He soon realized that this might be an entrance to a secret realm.
He immediately went back to report.
Elder Lu pondered for a moment and then issued an order: "Now that we have found the murderer, we must comfort the souls of your fellow apprentices. We will also go in through that entrance. We must find the person alive or the body dead."
【Author has something to say】
The day before yesterday, when I was writing about a black bear biting my head, I was listening to the playlist "Language of Nature". Suddenly, the roar of a wild beast popped up, which really scared me. In fact, I wanted to describe it in more detail, haha.
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