Chapter 78: My dear old friend, please don’t do this to me. Don’t do this to me…
Cold pool.
"Master, your identity has indeed been exposed." Xu Cen frowned and said, "That man has now been kidnapped and killed by Feng Xue and his men. However, we haven't yet found out who sent the letter."
Li Jing was completely immersed in the cold pool. He didn't even raise his eyelids, but said calmly, "Well, continue investigating."
Xu Cen raised his head and hesitated to speak, "Master, did you really give half of your demon spirit to Miss Mu?"
Li Jing opened his eyes and glanced at him coldly, and Xu Cen suddenly felt cold all over.
He smiled bitterly and said, "Also... we did find out that Mu Qinxin had an injury on her hand. I sent someone to test her, but I didn't expect her to be no match for Liu Yu. If she's at the Burning Soul Realm, there's no need for her to risk being killed and continue to hide her cultivation, right?"
Li Jing's eyes darkened.
"That day, apart from that evil cultivator, the only one who saw you, my lord, was..." Xu Cen frowned to the extreme.
There is only Mu Qing.
"It's not her." Li Jing said firmly, "There's no injury on her hand."
Xu Cen heaved a sigh of relief: "I'll check again."
"Um."
Mu Xingchen, who was squatting on a tree outside the yard and eavesdropping, breathed a sigh of relief.
Xiao Qi was speechless and said, "This is the first time you've done something like this, sending a message to have someone kill your own guests."
Mu Xingchen pursed her lips and said firmly, "Even if I don't send the message, he will still handle it. That person will not return alive no matter what."
Xiao Qi asked back, "Then why bother with this?"
Mu Xingchen's eyes darkened: "Just in case."
After saying these four words, she was stunned for a moment, just in case...
She has never been the kind of person who would take precautions, but today she was actually taking precautions because she was worried that Li Jing's identity would be exposed. Moreover, it was the first time that she violated her business principles.
Xiao Qi warned sternly, "Mu Xingchen, I have to warn you. This is the first and last time! The Seven Stars Tower has its own principles in doing business. If the Tower Master violates these principles multiple times, the Seven Stars Tower will find another Tower Master!"
Mu Xingchen's palms faltered slightly. She was silent for a moment before she replied, "I understand."
Xiao Qi immediately breathed a sigh of relief.
She said in a gentle tone, "If you encounter this kind of thing in the future, you don't have to answer it. The Gu Spirit has been resolved anyway. It's a good thing that Li Jing planned it in advance this time. That person would have died even if you hadn't delivered the letter. Otherwise, it wouldn't have been so simple..."
"knew."
After saying that, Mu Xingchen disappeared into the tree.
The moment the Gu Spirit was destroyed, the Seven Star Tower was completely connected to her, and the spiritual energy inside was slowly filling up. At the same time, Xiao Qi was also slowly recovering.
Mu Xingchen chose to go to a nearby mountain. From today on, she would continue her practice.
Qiansha Pavilion.
Bai Xu looked at the countless skulls piled up around him, and the gloom in his eyes was overwhelming.
Zizhu knelt below, sweating profusely.
"Zizhu, tell me, what message did you intercept?" His voice was as cold as an ice cellar, and his eyes were dark.
Zizhu immediately raised her head and nervously explained, "Master, I didn't send any message in because you were in seclusion and I didn't want to disturb you. I knew you were eager to find someone, so I went looking for them as soon as I received the message. I can be sure! That Mu Qing is definitely not the person you are looking for!"
After she finished speaking, she suddenly remembered something, then knelt down and took two steps forward and said anxiously, "Master, I remember you once personally met Mu Qing, and you also said at that time that person was not her!"
Bai Xu raised his eyes slightly, his eyelashes trembled slightly, and his cold fingers lightly clicked on the seat. No one could tell what he was thinking.
"Get up."
Zizhu breathed a sigh of relief.
Bai Xu stood up, looking down at Zizhu and warning her coldly, "There won't be a next time. Remember that?"
Zizhu's eyes lit up: "Yes, my lord."
Bai Xu looked forward and said calmly, "Tonight, I want to meet her in person."
Zizhu's palms clenched immediately, and she said with an ugly smile: "I will accompany you, my lord."
"No need!" After saying that, Bai Xu disappeared into the pavilion.
After he left, Zizhu's eyes immediately turned cold. She clenched her fists so tightly that they creaked, and secretly said resentfully, "Why, why does this woman get so much attention from the master? He has been looking for that woman for twenty years." After she said that, her palms suddenly loosened, and a sarcastic smile appeared at the corner of her mouth.
She said frivolously, "That's right. I haven't been able to find it in Qiansha Pavilion for twenty years. I will never find it again in this lifetime."
After saying that, she also disappeared into the pavilion.
The night was eerily quiet, with only the faint chirping of cicadas to be heard everywhere.
In the west corner of the Mu Mansion, there was no one except for the six gourd babies hanging outside.
Bai Xu stood in Mu Xingchen's room, his eyes filled with darkness.
He rubbed his fingertips gently, looking around. This room was different from three years ago. When he came three years ago, there was nothing in the room. But now, the bed was draped with pink curtains, and a basket of high-grade spirit stones was placed underneath. The dressing table also had a fine bronze mirror, and the rouge, pearls and hairpins on it were all top-notch items.
When he came three years ago, Mu Qing already looked very much like her.
Bai Xu clenched his palms tightly, and in the darkness of the night, he slowly sat down on the bed.
The Gu spirit was released, and the Seven Star Tower reappeared. It was undoubtedly her return. But what about this time? Could it really be her?
Bai Xu's dark eyes gradually turned into anticipation. He turned his head and looked out the window. From this vantage point, the moonlight outside was terrifyingly bright. The silver light hit his face, like a frost, cold and dark.
At this moment, the six gourd brothers hanging on the tree were completely unaware of the presence of the people in the house.
When the sky was getting light, Mu Xingchen on the mountain slowly opened his eyes.
She hooked her right hand, and saw a thousand red threads vaguely appearing on her palm, and her lips curled up.
Her Chihiro is back.
She casually flicked her fingertips in a certain direction, and then disappeared from the spot.
"Boom--" The tree behind it suddenly fell to the ground, and the cut on the tree was neat and uniform.
Time passes by every second.
In the room.
Bai Xu raised his head slightly, his eyelashes trembling terribly, and his eyes were scarlet.
The moment she appeared, he almost recognized her breath.
Mu Xingchen looked at the man in white sitting on the bed, and his eyes suddenly became terrifyingly indifferent.
The two recognized each other at a glance through the bed curtains blown by the wind.
Bai Xu rolled his dry throat, raised his trembling hand and pulled open the bed curtain, revealing his already slightly moist eyes.
Mu Xingchen hooked the spiritual silk in his hand with an expressionless face, with murderous intent in his eyes.
Bai Xu seemed not to notice the murderous intent in her eyes. He said nervously in a dry voice, "Xingchen..."
For a moment, a hint of complexity flashed in Mu Xingchen's eyes, and his voice was as gentle as jade as always.
They hadn't seen each other for only a year, but it felt like a lifetime.
Mu Xingchen immediately sneered: "Why? You're trying so hard to find me just for the Seven Star Pagoda in my hand."
Bai Xu's pupils suddenly widened. He immediately stood up with a pale face and explained in a panic, "No! It's not Xingchen! I can explain! It's not like that!"
The sneer on Mu Xingchen's lips did not diminish at all. She looked at him with a clown-like, cold gaze.
"I don't want to fight you here. Let's go to another place."
A trace of fear flashed in Bai Xu's eyes, "No." He said in panic, "I don't want to kill you, I can explain, Ah Xing. When my father knew that you had the Seven Star Tower, he threatened me that I must take the Star Tower from you, but I refused no matter what." His voice was dry and his palms clenched tightly in his sleeves.
Mu Xingchen laughed and sneered, "You don't want to? If you don't want to, how did I get poisoned by the Gu Spirit?"
Bai Xu's face turned pale. He loosened his palm weakly and explained, "My father poisoned my mother. If I didn't do it, my mother would die." As he spoke, he could no longer hold back and a huge tear fell from the corner of his red eyes.
The next second, with a "bang", he fell straight to his knees on the ground.
He lowered his head, his chest heaving as he sobbed, "At first, I just wanted to put on a show to deceive my father, and then explain it to you later." He raised his head, his face full of pain, "But I didn't expect you to be so determined and not trust me so much..."
Mu Xingchen burst out laughing. "How funny! The Gu Spirit has been put on me, and your Bai family is ganging up on me. You tell me I don't believe you?"
Bai Xu shook his head desperately, his face pale as he trembled as he spoke, "After I rescued my mother, I rushed to Linshan. I wanted to remove the Gu spirit from you. But you refused to listen to a single word I said and only wanted me dead."
As he spoke, he placed his hands on the ground and his entire back was shaking.
"Ah Xing, I don't know what to do. If I had resisted you, you would have been hurt even more. But if I didn't resist you, I would have died and no one would have been able to remove the Gu spirit." As he spoke, a tear fell from the corner of his eye. "But you wanted me to die so badly, you wanted me to die so badly that I didn't even have time to say a word..."
In the end, he still didn't resist and was pierced through the heart by her sword.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry..." He knelt on the ground and cried sadly, not even daring to look up at her.
Mu Xingchen glanced at him, raised his hand slightly and set up a barrier in the room.
She walked right past him and sat down beside the bed, then looked down at him with no emotion in her eyes.
Bai Xu turned around trembling. He raised his head fragilely and looked at Mu Xingchen. With red eyes, he pleaded, "A Xing, if you're not satisfied, can you kill me again? I beg you, don't do this to me, don't look at me like that."
Mu Xingchen looked at his face, a faint ripple in her heart. Bai Xu had never been so scared and humble before. Only before his death did he look at her with such eyes and beg her.
She had never treated him so coldly before. In the past, Bai Xu was also the person close to her heart.
But hurt is hurt, and she has already died once.
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