A few miles away, a cliff stood tall, with hundreds of large and small pine and cypress trees growing on it. Chu Tian folded his hands in front of his chest and observed Chu Jie and others' every move from afar.
On Chu Tian's head, he wore a strange helmet made of a whole fox skin. The long fox skin stretched from the back of his head to his ankles. The white fox skin wrapped most of his body, making him look like a white-haired fox spirit walking upright.
A strange, faint fragrance surrounded Chu Tian's body, covering up all his breath and slightly distorting the light around him. A layer of light, almost invisible mist flowed around him. Even if they were close, ordinary people would not be able to spot Chu Tian standing on the tree.
Wearing this strange fox-skin mask, Chu Tian unscrupulously scrutinized Chu Jie and the Chu family's private soldiers around him, and kept letting out low, cold laughs.
Even his sneer was distorted and blurred by the strange power released by the fox skin. His laughter could not be heard if you were three feet away from him.
"They are not human. These Chu's private soldiers are not human!" Chu Tian clenched his fists tightly. "Master Shu, do you think we should thank Zhou Liuyun? If it weren't for him, how would we have the chance to lure Chu Jie out of the Chu's castle, and how would we have the chance to kill his close guards?"
The green Rat Lord was lazily lying at Chu Tian's feet with his four legs up in the air, his long tail standing straight up, swaying from side to side very comfortably.
"Should we inform that girl Lugu now?" Master Shu tilted his head and squinted at Chu Jie and his group who were several miles away: "Next, it will be Dayu Temple's job."
The tail rolled up and tied into an exquisite bow. Lord Rat said slowly, "There are three prisons under the Great Prison Temple. The Imperial Prison deals with officials and aristocratic families. The Iron Prison monitors martial arts masters and outlaws. And the Blood Prison deals with those inhuman things!"
"Green girl wants to avenge her elder brother and redress the injustice done to Mrs. Du. What a great opportunity this is." Lord Rat shook his tail, and the bowknot untied. Another smooth, straight, thin tail pointed straight up to the sky. "Cut the Gordian knot quickly. Deploy troops and surround the city. Break the Chu family's castle and slaughter all the Chu family's private troops. Haha, haha, the rest will be easy."
Chu Tian looked down at Shu Ye with a distorted expression. The fox fur mask covered his face, and Shu Ye could not see Tian's ferocious expression clearly.
“Master Shu, you are not senile, are you? You broke into the Chu family castle and slaughtered the Chu family’s private army?” Chu Tian gritted his teeth and shouted in a low voice: “Then, what about Chu Jie? And those people!”
Lord Rat was stunned. He turned over, jumped several times, and quickly climbed onto Chu Tian's shoulder. He grinned at Chu Tian and slapped his head with his thin tail: "Ah, I'm getting old and confused. I was so focused on killing that I almost forgot that I'm also a member of the Chu family."
With a heavy sigh, Shu Ye's cheeks drooped. He stared blankly at Chu Jie who was questioning Chu Ye and the others in the distance, and asked in a low voice: "Chu Jie, Chu Jie, is he the real Chu Jie, or a fake one? Chu Ye who is in seclusion in the Chu Family Castle, is he a wild boy, or is he not a wild boy? Chu Feng who is now serving beside the King of Huai, is he the real Feng boy, or... these guys who are not human?"
"There's more!" Chu Tian snorted sullenly.
"Your mother!" Master Shu tilted his head and sighed more depressedly: "Chu Jie said that his mother died of complications during childbirth. Is your mother really dead or alive?"
Shaking his head, Master Shu smiled bitterly and said, "For three years, we have not been able to find out any information about the inner fort of the Chu Family Fort. Before you, for a full ten years, Green Girl mobilized so many manpower and resources, but she still couldn't find anything useful."
Chu Tian looked gloomily at Chu Jie who was returning in a team in the distance: "Lu Gu is under a lot of pressure, let's not cause her any trouble. We just need to know about what happened today. She wants to avenge her elder brother and clear the Du family's grievances. Anyway, these things are related to the Chu family, so we can just do it ourselves."
Lord Shu tilted his head and looked at Chu Tian: "Hide it from her?"
Chu Tian straightened his chest and laughed loudly, "Hide it from her! Women should stay away from fighting and killing. She should just play the piano and drink tea. Before she becomes an old maid, she should quickly find a man she likes to marry. As for the fighting and killing, revenge and other things, let us do it."
Master Shu snorted lightly: "You decide. Anyway, Brother Tian, don't forget..."
Chu Tian's expression under the fox fur mask became extremely 'embarrassed'. He laughed dryly and said, "Yes, we have to complete this matter perfectly, otherwise, if Lu Gu and Hong Gu find out our true origins, I don't want to be beaten to death by them!"
Chu Tian sighed deeply and said, "Old Fox said it well. I would rather be remembered by ten thousand bloodthirsty killers than be hated by a woman. Women, ugh, are the scariest and most brutal creatures in the world!"
Lord Mouse was stunned for a moment, then sighed: "That old fox, he doesn't understand the benefits of women. Women, big, white, round and perky, how wonderful!"
A dozen miles away, halfway up a towering old tree, Zi Xiaosheng sat on a branch, dancing a purple jade flute with his five fingers. The mountain breeze blew softly, blowing over the jade flute, and a sobbing "woooo" sound rang out quietly.
Even though they were more than a dozen miles away and it was night time when the light was dim and the mountains were thick with fog, Zi Xiaosheng could see everything that happened more than a dozen miles away clearly. Even every one of Chu Jie's eyebrows was seen by him very clearly.
"Aunt Feng, this is really interesting! This city is really lively!" Zi Xiaosheng smiled so hard that his eyes narrowed into a line: "If I were at home, where everything is stagnant, how could there be such a lively atmosphere?"
"I originally thought that this was a power struggle between the upstarts of the Jin Dynasty represented by Zhou Liuyun and the powerful and aristocratic family of the Jin Dynasty represented by Sima Zhuifeng. With the addition of the Chu family, it was even more of a fight between the local tyrants and the dragons from outside the country. But I never expected that the Six Paths' blood sacrifice dispute would also be mixed in."
Zi Xiaosheng was so excited that his body was shaking slightly: "I can't believe that in this world, all living beings can do such wonderful things in order to survive."
Aunt Feng looked at Zi Xiaosheng lovingly and said slowly, "But we don't have much time. We will have to go back soon."
Zi Xiaosheng's face suddenly froze. He slowly turned his head and looked at Aunt Feng deeply.
Aunt Feng looked at Zi Xiaosheng helplessly and nodded seriously: "You don't want the master to send someone to take you back, right?"
Zi Xiaosheng's face suddenly became extremely gloomy, and he cursed in a low voice: "That old bastard! If I could beat him, I would really want to kill him!"
The smile on his face disappeared without a trace. Zi Xiaosheng's face was as gloomy as water. He slowly stood up and quietly watched Chu Jie and others who were returning from a distance.
A clear and cold breath quietly spread out from Zi Xiaosheng's body. This breath made Aunt Feng shiver. She subconsciously took a few steps back, looking at Zi Xiaosheng's back with doting yet great respect.
"Then, let's not let them stab each other in the back in this muddy water of Qizhou."
Zi Xiaosheng's mouth twitched slightly, and he gave a chilling smile: "Let me add fuel to the fire, and let them fight with swords and guns!"