His good intentions
"Read my move." Bai Linchuan's eyes were frosty and sharp, and his hands turned into spiritual ice blades.
Seeing that he came empty-handed, the big man sneered and looked down upon him, raising his hand and slashing with his sword.
…
Mo Xue clapped his hands. The big man had been tied up tightly and tied in the corner.
Mo Xie stood in front of Bai Linchuan, "Little Junior Sister is so awesome!"
The big man asked with a look of desperate suspicion, "When did someone like you appear on Lingzhong Mountain?"
"Now we are the ones asking you questions." Mo Xue asked, "Tell me quickly, who sent you?"
The big man lowered his head, looking extremely unwilling. When Mo Xue put the sword on his neck, he stammered, "It's... Ruan, Ruan Yi."
"...It's him indeed." Mo Xue raised his eyebrow, "Where is he now?"
The big man's face was gloomy. "I don't know."
Mo Xue put the sword close to his neck: "I advise you to tell the truth. If you die here, no one will know."
The big man suddenly frowned and gave Mo Xue a complicated look. He sighed suddenly, as if he had made up his mind, and cursed heavily at the floor: "He's a beast!"
This curse made Mo Xue startled. He turned to look at the little apprentice sister, then asked the big man, "What do you mean? Aren't you the cultivator he found?"
The big man said, "It was me. He asked me to catch a ghost for him. He told me that he suspected the ghost was the spirit of his wife, He Shuangran. But a dead soul wouldn't turn into an evil ghost for no reason.
I was afraid of getting into trouble if I acted rashly, so I said I wouldn't do anything unless he told me the truth. He then told me that his wife had betrayed Ruan Yi, and when Ruan Yi found out, he was heartbroken and wanted to let her go. But He Shuangran and her lover decided to kill Ruan Yi and take all his property.
So...Ruan Yi invited her to Chishui Lake and personally pushed her into the lake."
Mo Xie's eyes widened: "And then?"
"From then on, evil and strange things happened frequently. He often woke up from nightmares in the middle of the night, dreaming that He Shuangran came back to take his life." The big man continued.
"So you killed her ghost?" Mo Xie asked.
The big man shook his head. "Yes and no. I set up a soul-locking formation, but I haven't been able to catch her yet. Anyway, this matter is very strange. I advised him to retrieve her body, bury her properly, and dispel her resentment."
But later on, as you all know, Redwater Lake dried up, the bodies disappeared, and the evil spirits never appeared again."
Mo Xue and the other two looked at each other.
"However, something even more bizarre is yet to come," the big man's eyes flashed fiercely as he continued, "He Shuangran has appeared in Heqiao Town again."
"!" Mo Xie gasped, "Isn't she dead?"
The big man licked his cracked lips and continued, "I don't know. Maybe she didn't die at all? Anyway, after Ruan Yi found out about this, he asked me to kill her. Your appearance was an accident. He asked me to kill you first, fearing that you would bring her back."
Mo Xue had already put down his sword. He stroked his chin and said, "This isn't right. If she wanted to take revenge on Ruan Yi, she wouldn't have left. Now that she's gone, and gone far away with her lover, why would she come back?"
"And that evil ghost is really strange too?" Wei Si said.
The big man explained, "The ghost has only come from his mouth. The soul-locking array has not caught any trace of him. He has done nothing wrong and is not afraid of ghosts knocking on his door. I am afraid he has something to hide."
Before you came, I also thought of this. There was no reason for He Shuangran to come back. After all, she was the one who betrayed Ruan Yi in the beginning, but Ruan Yi insisted on killing her, no matter where he went.
But after some secret investigation, I found out…” The big man raised his head and looked directly at Mo Xue, his dark and cruel eyes flashing.
"He's been lying from the beginning."
The three of them listened with bated breath. Just as the big man slowly opened his mouth to continue speaking, a sudden cry came from the door.
"What have you done!" the shop owner shouted angrily as he looked at the mess inside the house.
Mo Xue stepped over the broken pieces of teapot on the ground, "This..."
"We will definitely compensate for all losses." Bai Linchuan turned around and said coldly.
In front of the first floor counter, the shopkeeper was clattering away on an abacus, his fingers leaving afterimages. Bai Linchuan stood in front, while Mo Xue and Wei Si stood behind him, pinning down the big man, one looking up at the sky and the other at the ground.
"A total of one hundred and six spirit stones." The shopkeeper forced a smile and pushed the abacus in front of Bai Linchuan.
"What!" Mo Xie yelled, "I just accidentally smashed your house. The inn didn't collapse. How could you use so many spirit stones?"
The shopkeeper said sullenly, "Sir, you can't talk nonsense. This is a first-class guest room. Just the pile of teacups costs thirty spirit stones, not to mention my gold-thread quilt and jade lantern. They are all top-notch items."
"Okay." Bai Linchuan said. Mo Xue wanted to argue again, but Bai Linchuan glanced at the big man and stopped him with his hand because business was more important.
As soon as he finished speaking, he touched the spirit stone bag, but stopped awkwardly, pushed his hand away, and handed over all the money in the spirit stone bag.
Hakka took back the bag of spirit stones, counted them and said, "Five missing."
Bai Linchuan exuded a cold air all over his body. Under the white veil, he glanced at Mo Xue and Wei Si vaguely.
Mo Xie stepped forward with a smile, "This is unfortunate. How about I give you the fire talisman package as a substitute?"
The shopkeeper banged the table, glared, and shook his head firmly.
Mo Xue smacked his lips and reluctantly handed over the five spirit stones given to him by Bai Linchuan.
"Bang!"
The door of the inn was slammed shut.
It was already late at night. Mo Xue and the other two were holding the big man down and standing on the dark street. They only had a broken Yuling lamp in their hands, which emitted a faint jade-like light.
A light drizzle had begun to fall. Wei Si sighed and said, "This is great. I really have to wander the streets."
The big man followed them into the rain and said, "Are all the disciples of Lingzhong Mountain so poor?"
Bai Linchuan felt even colder, and he glared at Mo Xue deeply again.
Unfortunately, the veil obscured his features, making it impossible to convey his intense murderous intent. It all began when he paid a fortune to buy the weasel. His spirit stone bag had begun to shrink, and now it was completely deflated...
Mo Xue said to the big man, "Why, do you have money?"
The big man said, "For the mission of killing you, Ruan Yi will pay me one hundred spirit stones, and six more for travel expenses and supplies."
Mo Xie looked at him in surprise, "!!! We are actually so valuable."
"I originally planned to bring He Shuangran back and kill you along the way." The big man said honestly.
Mo Xie: "Then..."
Wei Si glanced at Mo Xue and said, "Don't even think about it."
"No cooperation." Bai Linchuan said immediately, fearing that he would be half a step slower.
Mo Xie sighed in frustration, "Okay, what did you mean when you said he was lying from the beginning?"
Seeing the rain getting heavier, the raindrops hit Bai Linchuan's fence, and the white veil gradually revealed his face. He had no choice but to say, "Let's find a place to shelter from the rain first, and then talk in detail."
However, things did not go as planned. As he walked along, he found that all the inns on the street were closed and had already gone out of business. Mo Xue went forward to take a look and saw that there was no one in the store. It must have been closed for a long time.
Seeing that the rain was getting heavier, the four had no choice but to hide in a temple at the end of the street.
After Chishui Lake disappeared, no one came to Sichuan anymore. The temple had been deserted for so long that a thick layer of dust settled on the ground. On the altar, the offerings on the plates were riddled with holes left by rats and insects.
Wei Si walked in, first found a pile of firewood, and borrowed a fire talisman from Bai Linchuan. The flames illuminated the tattered altar and the spider webs on it, making it even more miserable and dilapidated.
The temple enshrines a Buddha statue, the brass of which has long been mottled, the gold paint has faded, and the eyebrows and eyes have been corroded by time so that the face can no longer be seen.
The big man stood in front of the Buddha and bowed respectfully three times before sitting down.
Bai Linchuan stood quietly in front of the Buddha and nodded slightly.
"Tsk, it's really dirty in here."
Bai Linchuan looked up and saw Mo Xuebuji sitting at the serving table. He swiped away the spider webs on the corner of the table and said shamelessly, "You almost got my robe dirty."
Bai Linchuan's heart trembled.
Mo Xue slapped the scabbard of his sword and killed a spider on the Buddha statue.
Bai Linchuan looked at the bunch of spiders that were beaten to death, and his heart was speechless again. He didn't know what to say.
Suddenly, Mo Xue opened his lower garment and cut off a section of the robe from the hem. He handed it to Bai Linchuan: "Here, Junior Sister."
Bai Linchuan's veil was wet, and the damp white gauze stuck to his face. In order not to be discovered, he kept using his sleeves to block it all the way.
Seeing Mo Xue's move, he was stunned where he was.
Mo Xie thought that Junior Sister was disgusted, and said, "It's clean."
Bai Linchuan then took it, went to the back of the Buddha statue and replaced the white sand with black cloth, leaving only a narrow gap in the middle to see the road.
The big man looked at Bai Linchuan curiously. This cultivator had amazing skills, but he had always been wearing a veil that almost covered his entire upper body. There was only a white shadow on his body. Even before he made a move, no one could see what his hands looked like. When he took the black cloth, only a piece of white jade fingertips was exposed.
The big man looked at his back. He turned around and walked behind the Buddha statue. His narrow waist was wrapped by a jade-white belt, and his figure was slender and graceful.
His probing gaze was too intense, and his sticky gaze followed the little apprentice sister. Mo Xue gritted his teeth and warned: "If you look at me again, I will dig out your eyes."
The big man withdrew his gaze.
When Bai Linchuan came back, Mo Xue said, "Go on, what did you find?"
The big man said calmly, "Actually, Ruan Yi is the outsider."
Mo Xue immediately sat up straight, his eyes widening a little: "That mountain and that property all belong to He Shuangran?!"
The big man nodded. "That's right. When I heard the news, I was convinced that Ruan Yi lied. Maybe He Shuangran never betrayed him in the beginning. He tricked her into marrying him, so he was afraid that she would come back to kill him."
The big man looked at Moxue. Unexpectedly, Moxue did not continue to speculate about Ruan Yi's motives. Instead, he asked him, "What about you? You knew he was a villain, but you helped him kill us. You don't look like a chivalrous man, so righteous as to help a woman whose property was taken away."
Two drops of rain from the hair fell on the big man's forehead. "People die for money, birds die for food." His rough voice chuckled twice. "I will help Ruan Yi kill He Shuangran first. When the time comes, He Shuangran will definitely beg me, and I will come back to help her kill Ruan Yi."
Mo Xue clapped his hands in praise, "What a good plan! It's a win-win situation." He suddenly stopped laughing, "But why are you telling us this? After all... we're not on the same page."
The big man lowered his head and swallowed his saliva. "I used to think that the disciples of Lingzhong Mountain were very good at cultivation and upright people. They couldn't stand the dirty things in the world."
Mo Xie raised the corner of his mouth and said, "Then you guessed wrong. We are not good people."
Wei Si paused as he was stirring the firewood: "..."
Not a good thing. Bai Linchuan: "..."
Mo Xue continued to speculate, "You recounted a long list of Ruan Yi's hypocritical actions in murdering his wife, then righteously claimed that you were deceived and innocent, as if you were the victim. Only after I exposed your true intentions did you reveal them. You simply wanted us to help you."
The big man sighed, "Yes, I want you to help me. Since a month ago, Shu has been sealed for no reason. Only entry is allowed, not exit."
Mo Xue lowered his eyes and murmured, "Another month ago."
Out of the corner of his eye, he saw his junior sister immediately take out the talisman, but she couldn't figure out how to use it.
"Even the news can't get out now." Mo Xue raised the corner of his mouth and smiled: "Don't worry, little sister, I will protect you. Don't count on the eldest brother."
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Bai Linchuan: "...Thank you..."
Mo Xie suppressed his smile and said to the big man with a stern face, "But why should we help you?"
The big man hesitated for a moment and said, "If you help me get out, I will give you half of my reward."
"Deal!" Mo Xue made a quick decision.
Wei Si and Bai Linchuan: "......"
"Huh?" The big man was stunned: "...Are you agreeing a little too quickly?"
Mo Xue said very experiencedly: "Life..."
The big man nodded in agreement and sighed, "Yeah, who wouldn't want to make money..."
It was already late at night at the hour of Yin. Apart from the light from the fire inside the temple, it was pitch black outside. Wind and rain blew in through the crack in the door, and the flames jumped up and down restlessly.
Mo Xue wiped the altar and generously decided to give this Feng Shui treasure land to his junior sister: "Junior sister, the ground is cold, you might as well come and sleep here."
Bai Linchuan looked at the altar and the huge Buddha statue behind it, and said slowly: "No, I can just meditate."
"Oh." Mo Xue had no choice but to enjoy it by himself.
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