Zhou Liuyun was stunned for a moment, with an indescribable embarrassment on his face, he clasped his fists and bowed to Zi Xiaosheng: "Brother Zi, are you really coming to Qizhou?"

Zi Xiaosheng frowned unhappily: "Brother Zhou, Brother Zhou, I followed you to Jizhou on purpose to watch the fun... Oh, no, I came to Jizhou on purpose to cheer you on. What do you mean by this? You don't welcome me? Just now on the official road at Huyakou, I was sitting there, and you didn't even see me?"

Zhou Liuyun's face was extremely strange. He laughed dryly a few times, turned around and introduced Chu Jie and Sima Zhuifeng, "Young Master Chu, Governor Sima, this Brother Zi is a literary friend I met in the capital. Brother Zi is truly extremely intelligent, a very romantic and wealthy man. Ha, ha, ha!"

Zhou Liuyun’s introduction to Zi Xiaosheng was quite interesting, especially the three dry laughs at the end, which were extremely meaningful.

Chu Jie and Sima Zhuifeng looked at Zi Xiaosheng deeply again. They gathered together, pointed at the corpses in the weeds, and began to exchange their views on the matter.

After a few words, Chu Jie suddenly asked: "Master Zhou, this is a desolate mountain area. How do you know that these people died here?"

Chu Jie was asking Zhou Liuyun, but his eyes were looking at Ling Yue.

Ling Yue, who had just gotten up from the ground and was brushing the dust off his clothes, froze up and smiled with a guilty look. Although he said he was guilty, there was something else in Ling Yue's smile that was meaningful and hard to fathom.

Chu Jie looked at Ling Yue with a strange look in his eyes. He smiled and said, "It turns out that the person in charge of this mine is no longer a member of our Chu family, but a close confidant of your Ling family. Good, good, good, very good!"

Ling Yue lowered his head and said nothing. This kind of thing always gets worse the more you explain it.

Chu Jie smiled more brilliantly: "No wonder, even I haven't received any news, but you, Lord Zhou, know everything. Hey, now is not the time to talk nonsense, let's talk about serious matters."

With a smile on his face, Chu Jie put his hands into his wide sleeves. He looked at Zhou Liuyun seriously and asked him, "Master Zhou, Master Zhou, I am just curious about why the guards of your disciples would appear in the important mine of my Chu family?"

Sighing softly, Chu Jie continued, "Don't say you just happened to pass by. Our Chu family's mine is deep in the Ten Thousand Wild Mountains, and it's not a thoroughfare. Not to mention outsiders, even hunters and herbalists who were born and raised in Jizhou rarely pass by by chance."

Chu Jie asked seriously. Zhou Liuyun glanced at the Chu mine guards who were holding heavy crossbows and not relaxing at all, and shook his head solemnly.

"Master Chu, can you believe me? I really know nothing about this!"

Zhou Liuyun was also puzzled. He only sent Li Qian, Zhao Kuo and others to kill Chu Tian and his followers. Lin Baimei and others must have acted in private, secretly following behind their master to protect him.

But how could these idiots end up at the Chu’s mine?

And judging from the traces, it seems that they had a conflict with Chu's private soldiers and were killed by Chu's people?

Zhou Liuyun's heart was trembling. Lin Baimei and the others died here. What about their son, Zhou Liuyun's disciples? Li Qian and Zhao Kuo, they were not only Zhou Liuyun's disciples, but also the bond between Zhou Liuyun and the families behind them, and the basis for Zhou Liuyun's cooperation with those big families!

Gritting his teeth, Zhou Liuyun squeezed out a few words from between his teeth again with difficulty: "Why did they come here? Why did they conflict with the Chu family's guards? I really don't know, I don't understand, I don't comprehend!"

Chu Jie looked at Zhou Liuyun suspiciously. Do you really not know, don’t understand, and don’t comprehend?

He looked at Ling Yue again, his eyes full of distrust.

Suddenly, Chu Jie laughed. He patted Ling Yue's shoulder affectionately and said with a smile: "Ling Yue, who tipped you off? Ask him to come out! How did he find out the situation here? What exactly was this place like when he found out? You have to find out."

Chu Jie smiled gently and said, "This is my family's mine. It is of great importance. We cannot afford any mistakes. Do you understand?"

Sima Zhuifeng stood aside, looking expressionlessly at Chu Jie, who was smiling, and Zhou Liuyun, who was dark-faced. If it weren't for his sufficient Qi cultivation, Sima Zhuifeng would have burst into laughter.

Zhou Liuyun’s followers died outside the Chu’s mine?

This is simply, so wonderful; this is simply, so wonderful.

It’s a pity that the Bailu Academy behind Zhou Liuyun has a huge influence, and he absolutely cannot die in Qizhou. Otherwise, Sima Zhuifeng would not have dissuaded Chu Jie just now. He would have hoped that Chu Jie would brazenly order to chop Zhou Liuyun into meat sauce and feed it to the wolves.

However, being able to see that Zhou Liuyun and Chu Jie are suspicious of each other is already the most perfect result.

Several people were exchanging sharp words here, while Zi Xiaosheng was already tiptoeing with great interest, going in and out of the bloody bushes. He would shout in surprise from time to time, just as excited as a child on New Year's Day.

Sima Zhuifeng, Chu Jie and Zhou Liuyun all had smart and capable tracking experts under their command. These people went out one after another and quickly covered the mountains and forests within a radius of dozens of miles, carefully searching for any suspicious clues.

More than ten miles away, Chu Tian stood on a big tree with lush branches and leaves, watching coldly as a member of the Chu family wearing heavy armor and carrying two straight swords on his back slowly approached.

Lord Rat stood on a small branch, gently wagging his thin tail: "Chu Ye, the general of the Chu family's private army of a thousand men. He has the cultivation level of a Dijun, and has a martial arts level of about four hundred years. Why did you choose him?"

Chu Tian nodded and said softly, "Didn't Lu Gu always want to understand why the Chu family suddenly surrendered to King Huai and became the strongest henchman under King Huai? Is this reason enough?"

Grandpa Rat swung his tail, raised his head, opened his mouth and bit a leaf on the top of his head.

I watched as the Rat's silver fur quickly turned into a pale green color, and his petite body blended into the branches and leaves, almost perfectly concealing his figure.

The branch moved, and Rat Lord jumped down from the tree and ran towards Chu Ye.

Chu Tian took a deep breath and carefully took out three long golden hairs from the interlayer of the cowhide arm guard on his right hand. He stuffed the three long hairs into his mouth and bit them hard.

A violent, turbid breath rushed out from the three long hairs, like a volcanic eruption, and terrible heat quickly surged throughout Chu Tian's body.

With a "hissing" sound, a two-inch thick layer of golden hair quickly grew on Chu Tian's body. His head was slightly deformed, and at first glance it looked like a tiger's head.

In just a few breaths, Chu Tian turned into a tiger-shaped creature that could walk upright.

He slipped down the tree silently and rushed towards the distant mountains and forests with silent steps.

Chu Ye was carefully searching for any suspicious clues in the mountains, and he had already found some possible traces.

Suddenly, the grass in front of him moved slightly, and there were extremely quiet footsteps rushing out.

Chu Ye was startled, then delighted. He took big strides and quickly chased in the direction where the footsteps came from.