Chapter 116: After the four of them left the dark prison, they each cast a...
After the four of them left the prison, they each cast a dust removal spell and found a snack shop to order a few bowls of wontons.
Bei Liyuan drummed his fingers impatiently on the table. "You two, stop eating and talk. Why do you beat us up so hard, and then let others plot against you and turn you into that person?"
The two pretended not to hear: "This wonton shop is good, next time..."
Li Youyang said coldly: "Master..."
Zhou Yi stuffed his mouth with wontons: "Just %￥#@*"
After finishing the wontons, he put the bowl down and said, "That's it."
Li Youyang frowned: "Master."
Zhou Yi held his forehead with his hand. "Well, Yuebai and I received news from Junior Brother and rushed back to the sect. Then we were tricked into a secret room. I lost consciousness and then saw you. We still don't understand what happened."
Yue Baiyi coughed awkwardly twice: "How did you find out that something was wrong with us, and how did you find us?"
Li Youyang glanced at Bei Liyuan: It seems that the people who sent us the message before were not them.
Bei Liyuan nodded: We have our own people in Tianyi Sect.
Li Youyang asked again: "Master, is your junior fellow apprentice Ying Hongxuan?"
"No, Ying Hongxuan is his most proud disciple. We were deceived by him. This brat is really rebellious. We used to treat him so well and even told him that we found two junior apprentices for him and would spar with him when we returned. But the result..."
Bei Liyuan interrupted: "Does Ying Hongxuan know about your taking in a disciple?"
Yue Baiyi nodded. "My senior brother and I are used to being at ease, and we've never considered taking on any disciples. It's only Junior Brother who has taken on a disciple like this, so naturally we all dote on him, treating him almost like our own. We'll definitely tell him about finding him two junior disciples, and he even wrote back, saying he's looking forward to meeting you."
Bei Liyuan looked at Li Youyang and curled the corners of his lips: It seems that our good senior brother has been eyeing us since we entered the city.
Li Youyang said coldly, "Boss, check out."
Zhou Yi asked cautiously, "Little disciple, are you angry?"
"No."
Zhou Yi didn't dare to say anything more. He had never thought that his little disciple was so scary when he got angry.
After paying the bill, the two got up and left, and Zhou Yi and Yue Baiyi quickly followed.
Li Youyang frowned: "Why are you following us?"
Zhou Yi coughed awkwardly twice: "Our storage ring was taken away, and we are penniless."
Li Youyang: "I am penniless. If someone says these four words are credible, who among you two can believe them?"
Zhou Yi hurriedly said, "Little disciple, tell Master why you are angry."
Li Youyang: "I said I'm not angry."
Zhou Yi: "Hmm...yes, I'm not angry. Then tell me what affected your mood."
Bei Liyuan's face was gloomy. "Being dragged into this kind of thing for no reason would make anyone feel good. We originally thought that rescuing you would be enough, but now it seems that the complexity of the matter is far greater than we imagined. Your good nephew exposed us to so much, and it is destined that the two of us cannot escape unscathed. It's either win or die."
Zhou Yi said "oh".
Li Youyang said coldly, "Oh what? Why don't you two find a place to hide and practice in seclusion? The fact that he can control the Tianyi Sect shows how powerful the person behind him is. Are you expecting us youngsters to beat him to death?"
Zhou Yi: ...
Li Youyang looked at Yue Baiyi again: "I am truly impressed. If only one of you two was reliable, the number one sect wouldn't have fallen to this point."
Yue Baiyi: ...
Li Youyang's eyes darkened: "Why are you still standing here? Why don't you find a place to practice in seclusion?"
Zhou Yi said cautiously, "Why don't we try to see if we can help?"
Li Youyang stopped and looked at the two of them coldly: "Help? You two have the brains of five hundred, and you still want to help? Your nephew is so smart, there must be something fishy about the letter he sent you. If you have any brains, you can see the abnormality, but you just fell for it. I bet he was furious the moment he saw you two return to the sect!"
After Li Youyang said this, Zhou Yi and Yue Baiyi thought carefully about the letter and realized that there were indeed several suspicious points.
Bei Liyuan couldn't help but curl his lips. Master rarely scolded people like this. His angry look was really cute. But he couldn't let these two get angry. "Grand Master, Grand Uncle Master, you must listen to Master and practice in seclusion. When we need you, we will send a message. If you are plotted against again, we really don't know where to find you."
Seeing that they were still not leaving, Li Youyang glanced at the two of them with cold eyes, and they hurriedly dodged and left.
Bei Liyuan gently embraced Li Youyang: "People with high cultivation have a common problem, they are not willing to use their brains. After all, who wants to waste time thinking when they can solve the problem with their hands? Master, there is no need to be angry with them. Your body is your own."
Li Youyang took a deep breath. "Now that I think about it, helping Lan Wenxuan was probably something our senior brother deliberately arranged. He wanted us to join the Tianshen Sect and use Lan Wenxuan to control the Tianshen Sect. Since everyone in the Tianshen Sect follows Lan Zhao's lead, there must be something wrong with this Lan Zhao."
Bei Liyuan: "Bei Liyuan and Li Youyang are dead. I can no longer use this identity publicly."
Li Youyang nodded: "First, find an opportunity to contact Lan Wenxuan and test Lan Wenxuan's opinion of Lan Zhao before taking the next step."
Li Youyang nodded.
After the two men left, an ordinary man not far behind them flashed away from the crowd. After retracting his transformation, he turned out to be Ying Hongxuan: "Fortunately, although the two uncles are stupid, the younger disciples are very smart and can see through his intentions. Then the next game of chess will be much easier."
"Brother Ying wants us to play chess with you, so you should give us the chessboard first, right?"
Ying Hongxuan was startled for a moment, then smiled. "My two junior brothers are even smarter than I thought. I don't have much free time. To make a long story short, three years ago, Master suddenly went into seclusion to cultivate. Not long after, I received a message seal threatening Master's life. I went to the place where Master was in seclusion, and Master was indeed not there. Later, this person threatened me to work for him with Master's token. For the past three years, I have been searching for Master's whereabouts, trying to break free from his control, but to no avail.
I originally thought that his goal was to control Tianyi Sect, but as time went on I discovered that this was not the case. He did not seem to have any interest in Tianyi Sect. He mainly wanted to use Tianyi Sect to refine living blood puppets. As for the purpose of refining human puppets, I still couldn't figure it out.
I also discovered that the situation of Tianshen Sect was similar to that of Tianyi Sect. The time when the Sect Master of Tianshen Sect was seriously injured and in seclusion was almost the same as the time when my master disappeared. It is very likely that he was also under control and might have been refining living blood puppets in private.
As for the person who orchestrated this, I think it's more likely to be an organization hidden within the major sects. At the moment, I've only spotted two suspicious individuals: Yue Xiuping, who suddenly switched to practicing the Hundred Flowers Dao, and Lan Zhao, who was once a pure and unselfish man but suddenly began to gather power and take control of the Tianshen Sect.
Bei Liyuan: "You want us to use Lan Wenxuan to find out the whereabouts of the leader of the Tianshen Sect."
Ying Hongxuan nodded: "Master and the leader of the Tianshen Sect are very likely together."
Bei Liyuan curled his lips and said, "Brother, have you ever thought that perhaps your master and this sect leader were the ones who planned all this? After all, Tianyi Sect and Tianshen Sect are both top-tier immortal sects. It's not easy for ordinary people to tamper with them."
Ying Hongxuan shook his head: "If it were them, they would have taken action long ago. Why wait until now? Besides, they have no motive."
Bei Liyuan smiled and said, "Maybe they are waiting for a certain opportunity, and it just happened recently."
Ying Hongxuan frowned, and Li Youyang said coldly: "We will investigate the Tianshen Sect, you must be careful in the Tianyi Sect."
Ying Hongxuan nodded.
Bei Liyuan looked at the direction where Ying Hongxuan left and asked, "Master, don't you have this doubt?"
Li Youyang: "Suspicion without any clues can easily lead to the wrong direction."
…
In Tianshen Sect, Lan Wenxuan was about to leave after waking up, but was stopped by two disciples: "Young Master, the eldest brother has ordered you to stay in the sect for the time being."
Lan Wenxuan said angrily: "Where is he? I want to see him."
"Big Brother is busy with sect affairs all day long, how can he have time to see you! Young Master, please stay quiet for a few days and stop causing trouble for Big Brother!"
"That's right, Young Master, instead of going out and doing nothing to cause trouble, you should think about how to improve your own cultivation and support the sect so that your eldest brother won't have to work so hard."
Lan Wenxuan clenched his fists and returned to the room.
"Brother Lan, being the young master is really frustrating. It's not as good as being an independent cultivator."
"Fellow Daoist Li? Is that you?"
"Shh, keep your voice down, unless you want them to find out."
Bei Liyuan and Li Youyang appeared and immediately set up an isolation formation.
Lan Wenxuan was overjoyed: "It really is you! You're not dead. That's great."
Bei Liyuan smiled. "Brother Lan, you're so worried about us! We're really touched. But we risked our lives to escape. In the eyes of others, we're already dead. Brother Lan, do you understand?"
Lan Wenxuan nodded repeatedly.
Li Youyang said coldly, "What do you think of Lan Zhao?"
Lan Wenxuan lowered his eyes. "Big Brother used to be a very kind person. When I returned to the sect, everyone looked down on me for being an illegitimate child. Big Brother was the only one who treated me like a normal person and took good care of me. But ever since my father was seriously injured and went into seclusion, Big Brother has become a completely different person. He's become extremely strict and has begun to gather his power and manage the sect's affairs."
Li Youyang: "He has become a different person. Has his character changed?"
Lan Wenxuan shook his head. "No, he still treated me with care, but he became very impatient, as if someone was chasing him to do things. He urged everyone in the sect to practice all day long, and he was especially strict with me."
Li Youyang continued, "Besides this, are there any other anomalies, such as suddenly disappearing for a period of time, or..."
Lan Wenxuan said hurriedly, "Yes, now the eldest brother disappears for two days at the end of every month. No one in the sect can find him. When he comes back at the beginning of the month, he becomes even more strict. I can feel that he is hiding something, but he won't say a word when I ask him."
Bei Liyuan casually picked up a teacup and asked: "Why was the sect leader seriously injured? Have you visited him since he went into seclusion after being seriously injured?"
Lan Wenxuan shook his head. "It was our senior brother who told us that my father was seriously injured and in seclusion. He also told us not to allow anyone to visit him after he went into seclusion."
Bei Liyuan was slightly startled and put down his teacup: "Doesn't anyone suspect that the Sect Master was murdered by Lan Zhao?"
Lan Wenxuan shook his head: "Impossible, anyone in this world could harm Father, but Senior Brother would never do that to Father."
Bei Liyuan curled his lips and smiled: "Are you sure?"
Lan Wenxuan nodded seriously.
Li Youyang said coldly, "Find a way to get Lan Zhao to come look for you. Tell him this and you'll know if he believes it."
Lan Wenxuan: "This..."
Bei Liyuan stood up and patted his shoulder: "Don't you want to know what happened to your father? Don't you want to know why Lan Zhao became like this? Don't you want to do something for them within your ability? If you do, just do it. It's just a few words and it won't hurt him."
Lan Wenxuan thought about it and nodded.
After nightfall, Lan Zhao came to visit him: "Wenxuan, don't blame me. I did this to protect you."
"Big Brother, are you trying to protect me, or are you trying to use the emperor to control the other princes?"
Lan Zhao clenched his fist: "You clearly know..."
"I don't know! Three years ago, Senior Brother suddenly said that my father was seriously injured and in seclusion. Then he began to seize power and control the sect. You even refused to allow me to visit my father. I even suspected that my father had been killed by you a long time ago!"
Bang!
Lan Zhao slapped Lan Wenxuan hard on the face, then regretted it immediately: "Wenxuan... I... I'm sorry."
Lan Wenxuan sneered, "I was right. You're furious! Lan Zhao! My father treated you so well, but I never thought you'd be such an ungrateful villain. You actually killed him! Is this how you repay his kindness?"
"I didn't! I didn't kill Master! I didn't allow anyone to visit because Master..."
Lan Zhao stopped talking at this point and clenched his fist silently: "In short, even if I die, I will not harm Master. Wenxuan, you are tired, have a good rest, I will see you again tomorrow."
After saying that, he opened the door and left: "Keep an eye on the young master, don't let him sneak out again."
After Lan Zhao walked away, Li Youyang and Bei Liyuan put away the formation.
Lan Wenxuan looked at the two of them and said, "I'm useless. I can't help him."
Bei Liyuan patted his shoulder: "You have already helped him."
Lan Wenxuan was puzzled.
Bei Liyuan smiled and said, "You've proven that he's trustworthy, which in itself helps him and us. Leave the rest to us. If we need your help, we'll come find you."
Lan Wenxuan nodded.
…
Lan Zhao returned to his room and punched the pillar. How could he hit Wen Xuan! How could he hit him!
"Lan Zhao! You're so useless! Master couldn't be saved! You can't even handle the sect's affairs! And now you're taking your anger out on Wen Xuan! You're so useless! Useless!"
One punch followed another, and soon the whole fist was covered in blood.
"Mr. Lan's self-harm won't change anything."
"Who is it?"
Lan Zhao said coldly.
Bei Liyuan appears.
Lan Zhao frowned: "I remember you, weren't you taken away by Ying Hongxuan? The people he took away can't come back alive."
Bei Liyuan smiled and said, "Originally, he really wanted to kill me, but he underestimated my cultivation."
Lan Zhao's eyes were cold: "Did you teach Wen Xuan to say those words?"
Bei Liyuan nodded. "This is a matter of great importance. We originally planned to help Lan Wenxuan regain control of the Tianshen Sect, but since you are trustworthy and the Tianshen Sect has great confidence in you, we can completely skip this step."
Lan Zhao said in a deep voice: "Why should I trust you?"
Bei Liyuan smiled and threw out a token: "Zhou Yi is my Taoist companion's master. We rescued him and Yue Baiyi not long ago."
Lan Zhao took the token and said, "It is indeed something that Senior Zhou carried with him. Can Ying Hongxuan also trust it?"
Bei Liyuan curled his lips: "Very smart, you two really have a tacit understanding. You doubt him, and he doesn't trust you."
Lan Zhao's eyes lit up: "Then things will be much easier. I originally thought that Tianyi Sect had already fallen, and I originally thought that Ying Hongxuan was one of them."
"They? It seems you know more than Ying Hongxuan."
Lan Zhao sighed. "Master agreed to go on an expedition to Shenyuan with the former leader of Tianyi Sect, Gan Jing. After Master returned, he was saturated with blood evil energy, which became more severe day by day. Now he is unconscious and looks like a madman. On the other hand, the leader of Tianyi Sect, Gan, never returned. Not long after, Ying Hongxuan succeeded him as the leader. At first, I didn't think much of it until I accidentally received a letter with a method to relieve Master's symptoms and attached a spiritual medicine. I tried it and it did work, but it was only temporary. Since then, the person has started using this medicine to threaten me to help him refine a living blood puppet. At first, I was naturally reluctant, but given Master's situation, I had no choice but to compromise and provide him with spiritual materials. Then Tianyi Sect began to recruit outer disciples, and many disciples were taken away one after another. I guessed that they were used as sacrifices, and from this, I concluded that Ying Hongxuan was not trustworthy."
Bei Liyuan: "Then how do you know it's them? And not him?"
Lan Zhao: "They need a huge amount of spiritual materials, but they don't trust us. Every time they order us to leave the spiritual materials at a certain location and they go to get them themselves. It's impossible for one person to carry so many spiritual materials, so it must be an organization."
Bei Liyuan: "Would you please take me to see your master?"
Lan Zhao hesitated for a moment, and Bei Liyuan said, "I can transform into a puppet. You can take it with you without attracting attention."
Lan Zhao nodded and asked, "Have you already cooperated with Ying Hongxuan?"
Bei Liyuan smiled. "When something happens to the sect, how can a disciple of the sect not care? Fellow disciples naturally have a better understanding of each other. My fellow Taoist and I were originally cultivating in the deep mountains and old forests. How do you think we knew that Master was in trouble, how did we happen to run into Lan Wenxuan, and how did we accurately find Master's imprisonment?"
Lan Zhao breathed a sigh of relief: "He is smarter and calmer than me."
Bei Liyuan said solemnly: "He is just holding on. If we don't come, he will not be able to hold on any longer."
Then he sighed again: "The previous generation was so out of touch, and we had to clean up their mess. It was really not easy for us."
Lan Zhao was stunned for a moment, then smiled: "Although it may be a bit disrespectful to Master, but think about it, isn't it just like this? It's not easy for us, it's really not easy."
Bei Liyuan: "With such a large Tianshen Sect, there should be more than just you! Are there any more powerful people in your generation?"
Lan Zhao nodded. "Fifth Junior Brother Lan Chenyi, his cultivation and talent are superior to mine, and he is also smarter than me. However, he was chased by Senior Yue Baiyi and has been hiding everywhere. Now I don't know where he has gone."
Bei Liyuan laughed: "That guy actually still wants to eat young grass, he is not ashamed!"
Lan Zhao: ...
"You are probably the only one in the world who dares to say that about Senior Yue Baiyi."
Bei Liyuan said, "When is the next time I visit my respected master? I will come to find you then."
"Two days later."
Bei Liyuan nodded.
…
Back at the inn, Bei Liyuan repeated his conversation with Lan Zhao to Li Youyang word for word: "Master, do you want to go with me in two days?"
Li Youyang nodded.
Bei Liyuan took out a puppet and curled his lips: "Then Master and I will have to stay in the same puppet. It might be a bit crowded."
Li Youyang casually took out another one and said, "It's okay. I have a more spacious one here."
Bei Liyuan: ...
He had carefully refined it on the way back, and it was just big enough to hold two people, but it could only hold two people. How could he have overlooked that his master also had one? His little plan was ruined!
…
Two days later, the two followed Lan Zhao to the place where Lan Feichen, the leader of Tianshen Sect, was in seclusion.
Lan Feichen's body was imprisoned by magic, his eyes were red, he looked like a madman, and he was roaring.
Lan Zhao clenched his fists tightly: "Master's condition is much worse now than last month."
After saying that, he took out the pill and was about to feed it to Lan Feichen, but Li Youyang appeared in time to stop him: "This pill may appear to temporarily delay the disease, but in fact it is deepening the invasion of evil spirits."
Lan Zhao closed his eyes: "I know, but after taking this pill, Master will be able to stay awake for at least a few hours."
Bei Liyuan also appeared: "It doesn't look as serious as those two guys, but this person's cultivation is far inferior to theirs, and his murderous aura is too strong, so it will be a bit troublesome."
Li Youyang said coldly, "Brother Lan, please set up the isolation formation."
Lan Zhao was stunned for a moment: "Can you save Master?"
Bei Liyuan smiled and said, "It's not a big deal. You set up the formation first, and we'll try to be as efficient as possible to avoid attracting the attention of that group."
Lan Zhao hurriedly did as he was told. Half an hour later, the formation was set up. Lan Zhao carefully checked it twice again to make sure it was foolproof before explaining it to the two of them.
To be on the safe side, Li Youyang cast another formation before taking action, and then began to set up the formation. The process was no different from rescuing Yue Baiyi and the other person, except that Lan Feichen was more ferocious, causing Bei Liyuan and Lan Zhao to suffer some injuries.
After Lan Feichen woke up, Lan Zhao went to greet him, and Bei Liyuan and the other two walked away to give them some space.
Bei Liyuan couldn't help but sigh as he watched the two of them show their deep affection for each other: "Is this what a master and disciple should be like? Look at those two guys we met, they bully us all day long..."
At this point, he saw Li Youyang looking at him coldly: "Come to think of it, did you never consider me your master from the beginning? All that respect was just an act, right? If you really respected me that much, how could you have such thoughts about me?"
Bei Liyuan laughed awkwardly twice, forgetting about it, and quickly changed the subject: "My clothes are newly made, and they're broken. I must ask Lan Zhao to compensate me with an identical set later."
Li Youyang snorted coldly, too lazy to continue arguing with Bei Liyuan about this matter.
Bei Liyuan secretly glanced at Li Youyang and saw no anger in his eyes, so he breathed a sigh of relief. He undoubtedly respected Li Youyang, and he always had. But the more he respected Li Youyang, the more love and desire he felt in his heart, even more, so much so that it was difficult to suppress.
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