Chapter 14: Riot
Every time Yuxuan Peak carries out a mission, Jian An Ning will have all the staff go out together. However, her disciples' cultivation is not very high, so she always considers the issue of safety.
Therefore, every time she left Qingyun Sect, she would cast two spells on her disciples, one to confirm their existence, and the other to confirm their location.
Now, the second spell that Jane Anning cast on Lu Fei has failed, and she has completely lost track of Lu Fei.
Jane Anning frowned. She couldn't figure out who had broken her tracking spell, and she felt inexplicably anxious.
"Then let's split up and look for him," Fan Qingyue said to her after thinking for a while, "After all, Junior Brother shouldn't have left Jinxi City."
Jiang Tan also agreed with Fan Qingyue's proposal, and Jian Anning did not object.
So the two of them left Jane An Ning's side. Gradually, the moon rose to the zenith, and the bustling crowd in the daytime also left her side.
The invisible divine consciousness spread like water waves with Jian An Ning as the center, covering the entire Jinxi City almost instantly, but she still did not feel any trace of Lu Fei.
But it shouldn't be like this. There is only one Yuanying stage cultivator in Jinxi City, and that is Fan Guanfu who is almost dead. Apart from him, there should be no one else who can erase her magic and hide her away.
Her expression looked colder than the moonlight, and almost subconsciously, she took out a bronze mirror from her storage bag.
The vast fog had begun to spread in Jinxi City at some point, even obscuring the moonlight and making it dim a little, but the faint moonlight could still reflect her face on the bronze mirror.
Jane Anning's appearance instantly appeared on the mirror, but she had no expression on her face. The person in the mirror was smiling wantonly, and the naked malice flowed like mud.
But Jian An Ning didn't care, and also ignored the gradually noisy sounds in the fog. She simply raised her hand and tapped the bronze mirror a few times with her slender jade-like fingertips.
A sharp and piercing laugh suddenly emerged.
"Where did you hide Lu Fei?" Jian An Ning asked straight to the point without any hesitation.
The person in the mirror kept smiling and said, "You ask me?"
"Even I can sense that there's another force invading your city. Are you just going to sit back and do nothing?"
"Jane, An, Ning?"
She pronounced Jane Anning's name word by word, as if chanting an ancient spell.
Jane An Ning was really annoyed by what she heard, and she moved her fingertips slightly to block out the voice of the person in the mirror again.
However, from the fog covering Jinxi City, screams and wails gradually emerged, which made her more upset than the words of the person in the mirror.
She decided to go into the fog to see what was going on.
Just as Jane An Ning was about to leave, someone suddenly rushed out of the fog and bumped into her.
The person was a girl of about thirteen or fourteen years old. Her clothes and face were splattered with black and red blood. She looked full of panic, but her eyes lit up when she saw Jane An Ning.
Jian An Ning looked at her with a frown. She had just seen this girl in the Fan Mansion.
"Master," Fan Shiliu said, trying to wipe the blood off his face with his sleeve, but the more he wiped, the more his face became blurry, until his features could no longer be seen. "Today is the anniversary of my mother's death, and I want to visit her grave."
"It's just that Mom doesn't like to see me dirty, so can you lend me your mirror?"
Jian Anning thought for a moment, then put the bronze mirror in her arms and leaned over to Fan Shiliu and said, "The shop in front sells rouge and powder, and also sells bronze mirrors. You can just go there and take a look."
"But how am I supposed to get in when the store is locked late at night?" The girl looked bewildered.
But Jian Anning smiled lightly and said, "Isn't this simple?"
She took a few steps forward and kicked the lock on the door.
Fan Shiliu stood there in a daze, but Jian An Ning didn't care what she was thinking and walked straight into the thick fog.
Those wails and painful groans completely disappeared after Jane Anning entered the thick fog, as if the fog had blocked her ears and cut off one of her six senses.
"Who's there?"
Jane Anning heard human voices coming from the thick fog not far away, and the voice sounded quite familiar to her.
So she walked closer and saw Fan Zhengyu through the thick fog.
His face looked terrified and panicked, but there was no blood on his body. When he saw Jian An Ning, he showed a vigilant look and said, "It must be because of you!"
Fan Zhengyu shouted angrily, "Jinxi City has never been attacked by monsters in all these years, yet something like this happened right after you arrived."
Jian Anning had no intention of arguing with Fan Zhengyu. She looked around and said, "Where did the monster come from?"
Fan Zhengyu was stunned and said, "Can't you hear the howling of monsters and the wailing of humans?"
Jian Anning frowned and said, "Where are the most concentrated directions of those sounds?"
Fan Zhengyu pointed.
Jian An Ning didn't care about anything and rushed straight in that direction.
Fan Zhengyu was left alone standing there in confusion.
The Fan family has been operating in Fuyu for many years, so they are certainly not helpless just because the head of the family has fallen. It's just that this monster riot came suddenly, and Fan Zhengyu himself is not fully aware of the Fan family's hidden tricks.
However, as the young master of the family in the eyes of most people, he still knows a little.
So, Fan Zhengyu made up his mind and headed in another direction.
In the vast fog, although Jian An Ning did not hear the sound of the monster, she saw the monks of Jinxi City fighting back.
Only then did she become certain that Fan Zhengyu had not pointed her in the wrong direction.
Amidst the flashing swords and shadows, Jian An Ning saw a familiar figure.
They are Fan Qingyue and Jiang Tan.
They also saw Jane Anning.
"Master, the monsters seem to be rioting due to the influence of the fog." Jiang Tan was the first to explain her thoughts.
Jian Anning's face was expressionless. She simply stared at the thick fog ahead and whispered, "The monsters have no intelligence and it's impossible for them to choose the right time to attack the city. This must be someone secretly manipulating it."
Fan Qingyue frowned and said, "If that's the case, these methods are somewhat similar..."
"Demon cultivators," Jian Anning added to Fan Qingyue's unfinished words, "I don't know how long these demon cultivators have been hiding in Fuyu and stalking Jinxi City."
Fan Qingyue and Jiang Tan both felt a tightness in their hearts when they heard this.
Demonic cultivators are never easy to deal with. They practice evil methods, and their skills are strange and cruel, making it difficult for ordinary cultivators to resist them.
"Don't worry," Jian Anning saw the concerns in the disciples' hearts, and a ruthless look flashed in his eyes. "As long as we kill all these monsters, the evil cultivators will not be able to succeed no matter what they plan."
"But this matter has to be left to you," Jian An Ning changed the subject and said, "Have you seen where Lu Fei is?"
Fan Qingyue and Jiang Tan both shook their heads.
In fact, Lu Fei himself didn't know where he was.
He was just following Jian An Ning's instructions and wanted to ask people on the street if they had heard about the monster riot or noticed anything unusual.
As a result, somehow, the further we walked, the darker the road became, until now we couldn't see our hands in front of us and couldn't tell the direction with our eyes.
But all kinds of chaotic voices rang in his head, disturbing him and making him restless.
Among the countless chaotic voices, only one hidden among them could be heard clearly, and that voice kept telling him to move forward.
Lu Fei instinctively felt close to the voice, so he kept walking like this, and the boundless darkness seemed to have no end.
Until, star-like fire appeared in front of his eyes, so he quickened his pace and walked towards the place where the fire was.
There is a cave there.
Lu Fei didn't know how he got into the cave, but this was the only place that was different from darkness, so he kept walking towards the cave.
Until they reached the end of the cave, there was an extremely wide cave. The sparks turned into oil lamps, which completely illuminated the cave.
Half of the cave was filled with flowing water, while on the other half, countless skeletons were piled up like a mountain on land, and some people were sitting on seats made of bones.
Lu Fei looked at the man and saw that he was wearing a black mink fur coat and had disheveled hair. He looked wild and unruly.
When the man saw him coming, he walked towards him with an excited look, shook his hands directly, and said, "You really came!"
Lu Fei was actually very resistant to physical contact with strangers, and the one in front of him was no exception, but he still instinctively sensed a sense of closeness.
He couldn't understand it and thought, could this person actually be his relative who was living away from home?
However, whenever he thought about his relatives and the Lu family, he felt a buzzing in his mind and a splitting headache.
He seemed to see scenes alternating between red and black, and the dampness of heavy rain.
But the man didn't seem to notice Lu Fei's abnormality, and just introduced himself: "My name is Murong Jing, and I have been welcoming you for a long time."
Lu Fei stopped thinking about her relatives and the Lu family. When she felt her headache was getting better, she heard Murong Jing's words.
"I don't know you." He said calmly.
"Of course I know! You've already told us that you won't be able to 'wake up' until you break through to the Nascent Soul stage." Murong Jing didn't look surprised at all.
Is there anyone in this world who knows him better than he knows himself?
Of course Lu Fei wouldn't believe it.
But Murong Jing didn't seem to care about Lu Fei's trust. He just said to himself: "You stay here, and I will seize the inheritance of Fuyu. It will definitely be a great achievement."
Lu Fei keenly grasped the key words and said decisively: "Do you want to take action against Jinxi City?"
"As expected of you," Murong Jing complimented him, then responded, "I've already tested it in other places in Fuyu. This level of strength should be enough to force out the Fan family's stuff."
"But the Fan family has a cultivator in the Nascent Soul stage. How can you fight against him?" Lu Fei asked tentatively.
Murong Jing smiled complacently and said, "I have already made preparations for what you are talking about. I have someone from the Fan family to help me. Fan Guanfu will not be a problem."
Lu Fei realized that the person in front of him was probably related to the Fuyu monster riot and the attack on the head of the Fan family.
But how can we bring him to the Master?
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