Chapter 20 Escape
Night falls quietly. In an ordinary inn in Jinxi City, there are unusual people talking about unusual things.
Upon hearing this, Fan Qingyue looked at the leading cultivator and after thinking for a moment, he said, "So you were also there when the monster attacked earlier?"
Even though the leading cultivator saw that Fan Qingyue was young and unfamiliar, he was polite and replied, "That's right."
"So why didn't you help?"
Jian An Ning asked directly and bluntly, with a suffocating tone. Just by looking up slightly, she could see that behind the leading monk, there was someone with an indignant and indignant look on his face.
"Who says we didn't help?"
"Who says we just hide and wait and see?"
Jian An Ning held her chin with both hands and said expressionlessly, "But I don't see that you have any intention of expelling the monsters from Jinxi City."
"It's more like they're always ready to abandon this city and flee elsewhere."
"You didn't see it, how can you say that!"
After the monk behind him shouted this, the leading monk quickly signaled the people behind him to shut up.
He seemed to have great prestige among this group of monks. With just a glance, he could instantly silence the people behind him.
Jian Anning looked thoughtful. After a moment, he said to the leading monk, "What's your name?"
"Qi Mingzheng, I am honored to be the head of the Buyeo branch."
Jian Anning nodded slightly, then smiled faintly and said, "So, the Fuyu Hall Master fled to Jinxi City with a group of key members? You guys just abandoned the branch?"
Jian An Ning was clearly smiling and speaking casually, but when people heard her words, it made them feel a little uneasy, as if she was being aggressive.
Among the monks behind Qi Mingzheng, several of them changed their expressions immediately.
However, Qi Mingzheng was also a man who had seen big things before, so he replied calmly, "It's really helpless. I have no choice."
"When I asked for help from the sect before, the monster beasts attacked with great force, but we could still resist them. But after asking for help, the monster beasts seemed to know that reinforcements were coming, and they attacked fiercely. Some fellow Taoists even died as a result."
As Qi Mingzheng spoke, he sighed, as if regretting the people who died because of this, and glanced at Jian An Ning inadvertently.
Just one glance and he took his breath away.
Jian Anning looked indifferent, but her eyes were staring at him, her gaze as sharp as a knife, as if it could cut through all the lies and falsehoods.
Qi Mingzheng's heart tightened, and he thought to himself that he had considered this statement over and over again for a long time, and it should not be something that Jian An Ning could see through.
He also knew Jian Anning's reputation when he was in Qingyun Sect. He thought she shouldn't be as difficult to deal with as Zhao Tan or Chu Menghuai.
Jian Anning nodded slightly, then asked another unrelated question.
"How long have you been in Jinxi City?"
Qi Mingzheng breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that as long as Jian An Ning didn't ask about the branch's affairs, even the group of useless people behind him would not reveal any flaws.
"It was only a few days. I can't remember the details." He replied as usual.
"Do you have a place to stay? If not, I can book a few rooms for you in this inn." Jian An Ning said, looking a bit like an elder.
But Qi Mingzheng waved his hand and refused, saying, "We have more people. How can we let Elder Jian spend money? If you don't mind, you can come to our side."
Qi Ming was walking towards the window, pointing to the street in front of the inn, and said, "Follow this road to the courtyard at the end, and that's where we'll be staying."
After saying this, he bowed and said, "If Elder Jian has no other instructions, we will go back and discuss how to deal with the monster riot."
He saw that Jane An Ning still had that heart-pounding look in her eyes, which made him want to run away, so he did so.
"Oh," Jian An Ning said in a long voice, "But, didn't I come to Fuyu to help you solve the monster riot?"
"Why did you go back to discuss this?"
Qi Mingzheng was stunned. He didn't expect Jian Anning to ask this question, but he quickly realized what was happening and added, "After all, we can't always rely on the sect to rescue us."
Jian An Ning nodded slightly, agreeing with Qi Mingzheng's statement. The crowd left in a mighty manner, and the room finally became a little quieter.
"Master, why did you let them go like this?"
Jiang Tan frowned slightly, not quite believing what Qi Mingzheng said.
However, Jane Anning's eyes were a little empty, and she seemed to be looking out the window, but if you look closely, you will find that there is nothing in her eyes.
"The monster attacked the branch first," Jian An Ning said softly, "and then came to Jinxi City."
"Now, both the monster's initial target and its subsequent targets have converged in Jinxi City. Those monsters and the people behind them will definitely come again."
"Then what should we do now?" Fan Qingyue asked tentatively.
Jian Anning turned her head to look at him, and the emptiness in her eyes disappeared instantly. She smiled at her apprentices and said confidently, "Of course it's to sleep!"
Fan Qingyue:?
Isn't this right? At least cultivators in the Foundation Establishment and Golden Core stages absolutely don't need to sleep.
But Jian Anning said, pointing at Su Mei, who was curled up in the corner and had been meeting Zhou Gong for a long time, and said: "Look, isn't she sleeping well too?"
Of course, Jian An Ning's disciples could not go against Jian An Ning's wishes, so Fan Qingyue, as the eldest brother, could only take a younger sister in each hand and a younger brother in the other hand to take his leave.
So the only people left in the room were Jian An Ning and Su Mei who was sleeping soundly.
Jian An Ning's smile faded. She glanced at the sleeping Su Mei, then took out a book and a bronze mirror from her bosom. She tapped her forehead with a headache and said, "How could so many troubles appear at the same time?"
"Is this what they call fate?"
The other end.
Lu Fei followed Fan Qingyue and Jiang Tan quietly. He heard them saying that the monks from the branch were hiding something about the branch's situation and sometimes asked for his opinion.
But he was silent most of the time.
To be honest, Lu Fei didn't care about these so-called Qingyun Sect matters at all. He couldn't even remember why he had to run to Zhongzhou and to the Qingyun Sect.
Therefore, he didn't care about the rise and fall of Qingyun Sect at all.
But he did have other things that were particularly important to him.
"The girl named Su Mei,"
When Fan Qingyue and Jiang Tan fell silent, Lu Fei suddenly spoke.
"I hate her for some reason."
Lu Fei didn't understand why he hated a stranger, but the moment he saw Su Mei, he felt as if his soul was struck hard.
He didn't know how to describe it, but one thing was clear.
Lu Fei hopes that girl will stay away from Jian An Ning.
"Come to think of it, that girl is a bit strange." Fan Qingyue didn't care too much about Lu Fei's attitude. He recalled the scene when he first met Su Mei.
"Those who were chasing her probably weren't lying, but how could such a small person eat so much?"
Jiang Tan then said, "Master doesn't seem to be planning to ask about this either."
Fan Qingyue scratched his head in annoyance.
He could feel that many things, like tangled threads, were gathering in Jinxi City, but he couldn't make sense of them.
Jiang Tan saw his distress and said directly, "Don't think about it. Just do what Master says at this time."
"What?"
Fan Qingyue was a little confused.
"Go back to bed."
Jiang Tan continued talking to himself.
Fan Qingyue was slightly startled, then followed Jiang Tan.
The three of them separated at the corner and went to their respective rooms.
Fan Qingyue casually pushed open the door of his room. He was still thinking that cultivators in the Jindan stage did not need to sleep, so he planned to meditate and regulate his breathing tonight.
But as soon as the door opened, there was suddenly one more person in the room that should have been empty.
Fan Mao looked like he had been waiting for him for a long time and sat in his room like the host.
Fan Qingyue:?
Although he knew that a large part of Jinxi City was the Fan family's property, this was not right, right?
Fan Qingyue had a lot to say at the moment, but Fan Mao had no intention of wasting time talking to him.
He raised his eyes to look at Fan Qingyue and said in a cold voice: "Father wants to see you, otherwise I would never come to see you."
The place where the monks of the Buyeo branch settled.
Qi Mingzheng completely lost the gentle and polite demeanor he had in front of Jian Anning. He slammed the solid wooden table in front of him and said in a bad tone, "Is she here to help or to cause trouble?"
Even though Jian Anning's name was not mentioned, the other monks knew that the person Qi Mingzheng was talking about was her.
Someone in the crowd tentatively replied, "I've heard from our sect that Elder Jian is a bit off-key. Perhaps it's just her personality."
Qi Mingzheng smiled sarcastically and said, "Then why did the Great Elder ask her to come here?"
"Or has the Great Elder discovered that we've actually never been in the mining area, so he has no intention of rescuing us and just wants to let us fend for ourselves?"
As we all know, the better the quality of the mineral vein, the more likely it is to be distributed in uninhabited areas, and spiritual minerals will also absorb spiritual energy, so the better the quality of the mineral vein, the thinner the spiritual energy will be around it.
In other words, such a place is not suitable for cultivators to practice at all, so no one is willing to do the job of guarding the mineral veins. Only cultivators who know that there is no hope for their practice will want to take the opportunity of guarding the mineral veins to accumulate resources.
The monks led by Qi Mingzheng had obviously found a way to "have the best of both worlds", so they did not stay in the mining area, but stayed in the prosperous and spiritually-filled Jinxi City.
"But Jian Anning has never been to the mining area, how would she know?" Someone was puzzled by Qi Mingzheng's words.
"Then why did she ask that?"
Qi Ming was feeling a little anxious. In fact, when Jian An Ning looked at him, he felt as if all his lies had been exposed.
"Don't worry, Hall Master," someone consoled him, "Elder Jian has never been very reliable. Perhaps they asked her to come because there was no one else in the sect."
"She can't possibly discover the secrets of the Buyeo branch."
"But those monsters are really weird." Someone else said so.
But such voices were eventually drowned out by the crowd.
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