Chapter 19: Good Intentions
To be precise, Lu Fei just couldn't remember clearly what he had experienced in Dongchang.
If he forced himself to think, he could only recall the interwoven black and red blocks of color, and the heavy and depressed mood he felt even when just looking at those blocks of color.
"How come?"
Jian An Ning's eyebrows were twisted into a ball, and she channeled her spiritual power into her fingertips, intending to touch the center of Lu Fei's eyebrows to explore his spiritual center.
But it was just a little bit off, and a black shadow flew towards Lu Fei like a small cannonball.
Jian An Ning had to change her tactics temporarily, pulling Lu Fei with one hand and grabbing the black shadow with the other.
She was a girl who looked about the same age as Fan Shiliu. She wore a furry hat with furry ears and had her long hair braided into small pigtails.
She was wearing a furry dress, and her big round eyes were full of panic.
"I'm sorry! I'm sorry!" She apologized repeatedly, even with a hint of tears in her tone.
"Stop! Don't run, thief!"
Behind the girl, a group of people were chasing her with rolling pins, shovels and brooms.
Those people also said: "The people in front, please help stop him, he is a thief!"
Jian An Ning felt a huge force coming from her hand and almost couldn't hold on.
She let go of Lu Fei and looked at the girl in front of her.
Although she was wearing extremely thick clothes, it was still possible to tell that underneath the fabric was just a thin girl.
Jane Anning frowned slightly, and the person chasing the girl had already come to her.
The leader was a burly man holding a rolling pin longer than the girl. He said to Jian An Ning, "Thank you for your help, Taoist priest. This person stole things from my house. Please hand her over to me."
Jian Anning looked a little puzzled and asked, "What did she steal?"
The girl's big watery eyes suddenly looked towards the ground, and she struggled even harder, like a rabbit trying to crawl into a crack in the ground.
"Meat buns!"
Another burly woman shouted, "Luckily I reacted quickly! Otherwise, none of those ten baskets of buns would be left!"
This seemed to touch the hearts of those people, and some people started to say, "And there's the half pork I just chopped!"
"Those twenty-seven chickens and fifteen ducks in my cage!"
"Ten big carp in my tank!"
Fan Qing, who was standing by, became more and more confused the more he listened. He pointed at the thin and petite girl and said, "You said she stole so many things by herself?"
"Can she get it?"
"She didn't take it, she ate it!" The crowd seemed even more angry.
"ah?"
Fan Qingyue really couldn't imagine it. Judging from the things they described, the pile of things there was probably much higher than the girl. How could she have eaten them all by herself?
"How much did she spend on food?" Jane An Ning asked expressionlessly.
The crowd discussed it incessantly, and finally the man in the lead spoke up and said, "At least ten taels of silver."
Jian Anning took out twenty taels of silver from her storage bag, threw it to the leading man, and said, "Is that enough?"
The crowd got what they deserved and went back happily to discuss how to divide the money.
The girl who was caught by Jian An Ning widened her eyes in shock, obviously not expecting to meet such a kind person.
She touched the ears of her hat sheepishly and said, "I'm so sorry, I'm just too hungry."
Jiang Tan was somewhat surprised to see that the girl actually acknowledged what the crowd had just said, so he asked, "What's your name? Are you from Jinxi City?"
The girl lowered her head slightly and whispered to her finger, "My name is Su Mei, and I'm not from Jinxi City. I was sleeping in the mountains, but suddenly I heard a lot of loud noises and was woken up."
"After waking up, I found myself very hungry, so I followed the scent of my own kind and came here to find food."
After saying this, she raised her head and looked at Jian Anning and her disciples with her big, watery eyes, and said, "Could this be Jinxi City?"
"Yes," Fan Qingyue forced a smile and said to Su Mei, "Welcome to Jinxi City."
"Daddy said that Jinxi City is the largest city in Buyeo," the girl said, turning her head around with a puzzled look on her face. "Why do I feel like this place is so shabby?"
Fan Qingyue's smile turned ugly, but Jiang Tan explained softly, "This place was attacked by a monster not long ago."
"ah?"
Su Mei's round eyes were filled with astonishment. Her legs subconsciously moved as she asked in confusion, "How could this be?"
But Jane An Ning held her tightly and she couldn't get away at all, so she could only let Jane An Ning hold her by the back of the neck.
"Come with me."
Jian Anning, who had been silent for a long time, suddenly spoke.
"Why? I don't know you!" Su Mei's eyes were full of vigilance, as if she was worried that Jian An Ning was a bad person.
Jian An Ning smiled sinisterly and said, "I am your creditor. You have to follow me until you pay me back."
Su Mei was frightened by Jian An Ning's smile. If she were some kind of small animal, she would probably have been completely furious.
"You, you, you let me go, I will pay you back!"
As Su Mei spoke, she whispered, "No wonder Dad didn't let me go down the mountain. It turns out there are so many scary people down there."
However, Su Mei's protests were ineffective. Jian An Ning tied her wrists with a rope and tied the other end to her own wrists.
Su Mei followed dejectedly at the end of Jian An Ning's group, and they went to the inn where they had stayed before.
Rather than worrying about where to find the demon cultivator, Jian An Ning was more worried about Lu Fei's memory problem.
After returning to the inn, Jian An Ning handed the rope that bound Su Mei's wrist to Jiang Tan, and she made hand gestures again, and a wisp of spiritual power lingered at her fingertips.
Exploring the spiritual platform requires extreme caution and cannot take too long. More importantly, the other party's will cannot be resisted, otherwise it is very likely to damage the other party's mind.
"Don't worry," Jian Anning's expression didn't show any sign of relief. "Relax, don't resist, I won't hurt you."
Lu Fei did as he was told. He didn't even think about anything, letting Jian An Ning's spiritual power easily flow from her fingertips into his eyebrows.
Lu Fei's spiritual altar was still pitch black, as if all the light had been swallowed up.
However, if there is no spiritual light in the spiritual center, then the person is just a bird or beast without intelligence and cannot be a normal person.
That strand of spiritual power wandered freely in the darkness. No matter which direction, east, south, west or north, it was all the same deep darkness.
And Lu Fei was about to collapse.
Jane Anning was very unwilling to accept this. She was almost certain that it was because she failed to investigate completely.
There must be something wrong with Lu Fei.
If there was a third party here, they would be able to see that in Lu Fei's dark spiritual altar, there was a small corner where an extremely lively halo was nailed to the spot by a long nail.
When Jane Anning's spiritual power swept over, the long nail emitted a halo of light that was the same as the darkness, blocking its own light and the spiritual light that was nailed, just like a young cub in the animal kingdom who uses camouflage to avoid natural enemies.
Therefore, no matter how many times Jane An Ning comes, she will return empty-handed.
Jian An Ning withdrew her spiritual power and felt a sense of depression stuck in her heart, which made her feel very uncomfortable.
She rarely encountered a situation where she had energy but didn't know where to use it. This feeling always reminded her of some very bad past events.
"Master,"
When Fan Qingyue and Jiang Tan were silent, Lu Fei stepped forward, seemingly unaware of Jian Anning's anxiety, and as if trying to soothe her anxiety, she said:
"Are we still going to the Buyeo branch?"
The reason why Jian An Ning brought people to Buyeo was because of the task assigned to her by the Great Elder.
Jian Anning slapped her thigh and said, "Go! Of course!"
After all, it was a rare opportunity for her to come to Buyeo. Not only could she not find the demon cultivator, but she also had to complete the task assigned by the Great Elder first.
Jian An Ning did what he said. He raised his hand and used a sound transmission talisman to communicate with the monks in the branch. Then he formed a hand seal and was about to use the magic of traveling thousands of miles to directly reach the Qingyun Sect's Fuyu branch.
However, the branch's reply came much faster than Jane Anning could cast the spell.
The burning sound transmission note only brought back one sentence.
"We have already gone to Jinxi City."
This made Jane Anning frown.
She originally planned to kill first and report later. The spell of traveling thousands of miles consumes a lot of energy and is not something that ordinary cultivators can do. It can allow them and their group to reach the Fuyu branch in an instant.
But it may take a long time for the sound transmission note to fly.
The fact that the sound transmission note arrived so quickly could only mean that the monks from the branch had already arrived in Jinxi City.
But the branch of Qingyun Sect in Fuyu is mainly for the mineral resources in Fuyu. If the cultivators of Qingyun Sect are not there, who will guard those mines?
Jian An Ning suddenly felt something was wrong in her heart.
After a while, the bad feeling in her heart became a reality.
There was a loud bang, and several figures appeared in the small room and came in front of Jane An Ning.
The leader looked respectful and asked, "Which elder is coming to support us?"
"Jane Anning."
Jian Anning's expression had become somewhat ugly. For various reasons, she didn't want any problems to arise in the Qingyun Sect, but now it was very likely that things would go against her wishes.
But the leading disciple didn't seem to notice Jian Anning's displeasure. Instead, he showed a look of joy and flattered, "Great! With Elder Jian here, we will definitely be able to take back the branch."
Now even Lu Fei looked confused.
Logically speaking, after the Great Elder received the request for help from the Buyeo branch and assigned the task to Jian An Ning, it would not take more than half a month.
But within just half a month, the Buyeo branch was completely lost. Aren’t the monks in this branch too useless?
"When did you come to Jinxi City?"
Fan Qingyue asked on behalf of Jian An Ning.
The group of cultivators stared at each other in complete silence. The leading cultivator smiled and said to him, "We've only been here a few days, and we've caught up with the monsters that attacked our branch and are now attacking Jinxi City."
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