Chapter 66 The Truth: Lady Tianxiang Did Not Disappear at All
The mountain path of Xiaokunlun was covered with thick snow. Jiang Qian, wearing a straw hat and carrying a cargo box on his back, walked uphill through the snow. Suddenly, he stopped and looked at the person standing on the mountain path in front of him.
Jiang Qian quickly bowed to her.
Shen Cangyu said, "Take me to the warehouse of Qizhenfang."
The warehouse of Qizhenfang was locked with three locks, but she knew that Jiang Qian must have the key.
Shen Cangyu went straight to the point, without exchanging any pleasantries with Jiang Qian. Upon hearing her words, Jiang Qian turned and walked towards the Qizhenfang warehouse.
Shen Cangyu watched Jiang Qian's retreating figure. She had always known that Jiang Qian came to Kunlun to do something for Wan Qianzhong. But in the past, she didn't care what he was doing; she only focused on information related to herself. It wasn't until one person after another left that she realized how much she had missed.
Shen Cangyu suddenly asked, "What is the purpose of Wan Qianzhong sending you to Kunlun?"
"Wan Qianzhong? Who is Wan Qianzhong?" Jiang Qian pretended to be stupid again.
"Don't pretend with me." Shen Cangyu raised her hand, and a copper coin flipped in her palm.
A copper coin's eye reveals the heart with just a coin.
The next moment, the scene before her eyes began to change, as if a new layer of color had been added. She saw a flowing red aura on Jiang Qian, which was the greed in his heart. Her gaze moved down and saw a copper coin mark on his arm, one of the marks of a copper coin eye, but it was invisible to the naked eye.
Through his ability to see the coin eyes, Shen Cangyu can see the depth of greed in different people, as well as those of others who also possess the same ability.
The copper coin kept turning, and the same Mind-Reading Skill was introduced into Jiang Qian's body. He also saw the same scene in Shen Cangyu's eyes.
Shen Cangyu didn't say much.
He's simply proving his identity through his abilities.
Seeing that she had used this tactic, Jiang Qian returned to his normal tone and said, "Recently, there are many people and eyes in Kunlun, making it difficult to distinguish friend from foe. I couldn't tell if someone was impersonating you, so I resorted to this tactic."
Disguised as...
Shen Cangyu suddenly recalled the memories she had seen in the illusion of the assessment. At that time, Pei Wenjing said that someone had transformed into his appearance and impersonated him to do all sorts of heinous things in Kunlun.
Unexpectedly, the Six-Eared Macaque appeared in Kunlun so early.
"Who are you talking about? What do you know?"
Jiang Qian said, "It is said that the Hundred-Eyed Mirror, one of the Five Evils, has the ability to transform into other people. As far as I know, all five evils have spies in Kunlun, just to seize a treasure that can reveal the secrets of heaven."
Shen Cangyu scoffed.
Kunlun is practically riddled with holes now; all sorts of evil spirits and time travelers can come and go as they please, and no one can detect their existence. That's all they've got; what's the point of talking about cultivating immortality?
"Was Wan Qianzhong sent here also to find that supreme treasure?"
Jiang Qian replied, "That's only one of the reasons. Lord Wan said that Kunlun has confiscated many of her belongings, and she wants to take back what belongs to her."
"The mental techniques she created," Shen Cangyu continued. She was aware of this, because Jiang Qian in his previous life was doing exactly that; he had taken out all the mental techniques related to Wan Qian Zhong from the Kunlun Scripture Pavilion and sent them away from Kunlun.
Jiang Qian hadn't expected that Shen Cangyu also knew about these things. He suddenly remembered that Shen Cangyu was now a disciple of the Kunlun inner sect, but she was also the inheritor of the Copper Coin Eye technique, and Wan Qianzhong must have had contact with her. In that case, Wan Qianzhong must have told Shen Cangyu about these things as well.
Jiang Qian replied, "That's right. When Lord Wan created those mental techniques, she intended them to be usable by everyone, whether they were cultivators or mortals. Now that Kunlun has monopolized those techniques, she is trying to take them back and spread them to the world."
Jiang Qian said, "Lord Wan wants to spread his Taoist arts among the people and enable everyone in the world to master the art of mind."
Jiang Qian spoke with great conviction and passion, but Shen Cangyu knew that the truth behind it was definitely not that simple.
After all, they possess the Taoist Copper Coin Eye, and those who possess the Copper Coin Eye value their own interests most, so they would never do things that don't offer any return.
Shen Cangyu recalled the inevitable destruction of the Scripture Pavilion and wondered if Jiang Qian and Wan Qianzhong were behind it.
"We've arrived," Jiang Qian said, looking at the spacious courtyard before him. He took out his token and showed it to the gatekeeper.
The gatekeeper opened the door, but looked at Shen Cangyu behind him with a hesitant expression.
Shen Cangyu didn't have a pass, but she was wearing the robes of an inner disciple. The words of an inner disciple were law, so he naturally didn't dare to stop her. However, she didn't have a token either. If the elders blamed him, he would end up with nothing.
At this moment, Jiang Qian pulled him aside, whispered something in his ear for a moment, and slipped a few pieces of silver into his hand.
Upon hearing his words, the gatekeeper immediately beamed and bowed to Shen Cangyu, saying, "Please come in. You're not very familiar with this Rare Treasures Pavilion, so how about I show you the way?"
Jiang Qian stopped him and said, "It's alright, I'm familiar with the warehouse, I'll take her there. If it works out, the master will definitely speak well of you to the elders, but you have to keep this a secret."
The gatekeeper quickly replied, "Understood, understood."
Jiang Qian led Shen Cangyu inside and whispered to her, "I lied to him and said that you came to Qizhenfang this time to prepare a birthday gift for the elder. This is a secret and cannot be told. You don't want others to know what gift you prepared."
“That’s certainly a good excuse.” Shen Cangyu thought for a moment. She didn’t remember when the other people on Dragon Ridge Mountain were born. She had always felt that her birthday was unlucky, so she never celebrated it. But she knew that birthdays should be very important days for others.
After all, one's birth date determines the three elements (of destiny) and thus one's fate.
Shen Cangyu navigated the warehouse of Qizhenfang with practiced ease, passing several gates before finally stopping in front of a house.
Jiang Qian looked at the locked door, pulled out a large bunch of keys from his sleeve, picked them up one by one, and asked, "Why did you suddenly come to the warehouse? What are you looking for?"
“Fragrance,” Shen Cangyu said, “I’m looking for the incense from Xingxiang Hall.”
Through Li Jianbai, she saw the hidden plot clues behind the pills and knew that Dongtang's manipulation was inevitable behind the failure of Xingxiangtang's incense, but she had no evidence.
The pills themselves were not the problem; they were the result of saving Xingxiangtang, but not the cause of its incense burning out.
With incense, one can connect with the Goddess of Heavenly Fragrance no matter where they are.
If there were a way to disconnect everyone, the clues would ultimately lead to only one thing.
fragrant.
"The people at Xingxiangtang said that the incense business is not as good as before, so they need to increase revenue and reduce expenditure. Therefore, they only applied for a very small amount of incense this month. Now all the stock in the warehouse has been taken away, and there is no surplus. If you want incense that is specially supplied to Xingxiangtang, you will have to wait for half a month..." Jiang Qian said. He saw Shen Cangyu walk around the shelves of inventory and head towards the end.
She walked straight to the cabinet at the end, opened one of the shelves, rummaged through a pile of miscellaneous items, and took out a small handful of incense.
“Isn’t this it?” she said.
As Jiang Qian watched her actions, the doubts that had been lingering in his mind grew stronger until now, finally erupting. He couldn't help but ask, "How did you know that these things were in this cabinet?"
The warehouse manager had a bad habit of keeping goods hidden. He liked to take out a small portion of each purchase and hide it in this cabinet. He only took that small portion each time, so no one noticed his actions.
The warehouse elder would hold onto all the goods, waiting to see if prices would rise. If they did, he would sell off his small quantity at a higher price. Over time, he would secretly keep a small portion of everything he saw.
Even though the incense used by Xingxiangtang is something that has no market, he would still habitually keep it.
Shen Cangyu looked at the incense in his hand, crushed the powder on it, and brought it to his nose to smell its fragrance.
really.
She thought to herself.
The problem lies with this batch of incense; this is the key reason why the incense at Xingxiangtang is malfunctioning.
In her previous life, she was also in charge of the incense making for Xingxiangtang. Xingxiangtang's incense was always specially made by a dedicated workshop and craftsmen, but sometimes, in order to reduce costs, those craftsmen would use inferior products to pass off as superior ones, which she had exposed several times.
Just like this batch of incense, the fineness of the powder and the aroma are subtly different from normal incense.
Shen Cangyu put the incense stick into his sleeve and walked out.
"Where are you going?" Jiang Qian asked, seeing that she didn't answer his question but instead quickened her pace and ran towards the door. He couldn't help but chase after her and ask.
"I need to go to Xingxiang Hall."
*
The incense at Xingxiang Hall was not as popular as before, and Shen Cangyu only realized this clearly when he personally set foot there.
The steps of Xingxiang Hall were unusually empty, and even the smoke that usually lingered on the road had disappeared, leaving only the quiet woods and a few birds hopping onto the snow to forage for food.
When Shen Cangyu walked into the third hall, the disciple of the incense hall who was yawning on the incense-leading platform immediately sat up straight and looked at her.
When Xu Qiubai was expelled from Kunlun, Shen Cangyu stood in front of him, and this story had already spread throughout Kunlun. Therefore, everyone felt that the relationship between Shen Cangyu and Xu Qiubai was not simple; as the saying goes, "one is influenced by one's company," and she was probably not a good person either.
Now that Shen Cangyu has entered the Xingxiang Hall, everyone is watching her every move, afraid that she has come to stand up for Xu Qiubai and might do something outrageous.
Shen Cangyu walked to the incense altar and took the incense from the table.
With just one glance, she knew that the incense in front of her was exactly the same as the incense she had seen in the Treasure Shop, and that neither of them was the kind of incense commonly used in the Incense Hall.
Shen Cangyu spoke up, saying, "There's something wrong with this incense."
"What?" The disciple of Xingxiang Hall quickly snatched the incense from her hand, but in his eyes it was just incense. What difference was there between incense and incense?
"You've been disciples of the Incense Hall for so many years, burning incense for so many years, and you still haven't noticed anything wrong with this incense?" Shen Cangyu said, looking at his panicked expression.
"This is not the incense used to pray to the Goddess Tianxiang at all." Without the appropriate incense, the Goddess Tianxiang has no way of hearing their voices.
It wasn't that the Heavenly Fragrance Goddess malfunctioned; it was simply that their connection method was incorrect.
"It seems that you disciples of Xingxiang Hall are not as insightful as an outsider like me."
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