Chapter 360: It is truly a feast

Shengyan was amused by Lin Du.

Lin Du hadn't finished his complaints yet, "They say that young people have to rely on strategies when they fight to steal treasures, but how come those ghosts from the Lanju world are so old and are still here to play tricks on us?"

"If they come to me and rob me one-on-one, I'll consider them individuals."

Lin Du sighed, "They are just old enough to do this. I don't believe that Fellow Daoist Sheng will really go along with them. Who cares if he has a biological father? It's easy for him to be without a father or a mother."

After she finished speaking, she turned to look at Sheng Yan, "You are right, aren't you, Brother Sheng?"

Shengyan quickly turned the pot over, "My goal is to establish a school. Now that I have a school and a mountain, what remains is to grow and develop it. I will never go back to the Jiang family."

"A feast is a feast. It is called a feast only when it is worthy of its name."

Many people in this world spend their entire lives trying to escape from their original families. She had finally managed to break free, so how could she go back to the cage?

Han Yueling mixed in with the 100th generation disciples of the Supreme Sect and buried her head in her meal.

He Gui and Lin Duqian stopped at the first bite. On one hand, they were dealing with the contents of the notice and the speech to the outside world, while on the other hand, they were watching the five people and Han Yueling scrambling for food.

"Let's not make Wenfu's matter public for the time being. I think the people in the Lanju world don't know Wenfu's true identity and think that Wenfu is one of their own."

Lin Du was talking about his assumptions. "Although the mastermind behind this is indeed a traitor, it is not appropriate to reveal it at this time. I will discuss it with Senior Sister again."

He Gui nodded, but still frowned, "If you don't make it public, in the future..."

"It's not enough now." Lin Du shook his head, "We are also victims, but others don't think so."

"Do you suspect that Wenfu has another clone?" He Gui was troubled when he thought of this. "It is not a pity for a traitor to his sect to die. When I tell the world about it in the future..."

"I didn't think so much." Lin Du smiled, "I was just worried that Senior Sister would be sad."

Lin Du finished speaking, "Actually, I still have a question, where do so many people come from?"

Yan Qing quickly finished his meal and said, "Master Junior, let's go check the court newspaper together. I also have the manuscripts of the strange stories from the past years."

The rest of the people were fighting for the last few bites of food. The table was in chaos. Ni Jinxuan did not forget to express her opinion, "Junior Master, I can help too!"

Lin Du smiled and nodded.

It was already late at night after the group finished their meal, but they were still looking through documents by candlelight.

Until there was a knock on the door, no one wanted to stand up and open it.

"Master Lin, someone from the Jishi Sect has arrived. A fellow Taoist wants to see you."

Lin Du responded perfunctorily, "Chu Guanmeng, open the door."

Han Yueling was taking out her storage bag and shouted, "Fox, open the door!"

Hu You was writing laboriously without even raising his head, "Master Lin asked me to memorize the suspicious forces and people who disappeared in recent years, but I don't have time."

Han Yueling shouted again, "Then nephew, open the door!"

Yuan Ye kicked Yan Qing and said, "You get to eat the last meatball today. Go open the door!"

Yan Qing reluctantly got up, opened the door with a book in hand, and was suddenly met with a familiar look.

"Fellow Daoist Yan, may I ask if Fellow Daoist Lin is here?"

"Sister Du Shao, come in." Lin Du raised his head, "Why is it you who came to visit King Sejong?"

"We heard that the Supreme Sect is studying how to rescue man-made evil demons. My master once received instruction from Master Jiang, so we are quite familiar with him, so we came to take a look."

Du Shao said this, feeling a little awkward when she saw so many people inside.

"I didn't want to disturb you, but I told Master Gui that you were here."

Lin Du's attention was completely drawn back to the cage. "What happened?"

Du Shao said softly, "Hongzhen Sect is gone."

Lin Du was stunned for a moment before he responded, "The sect of my sister's unlucky ex-fiancé?"

Du Shao nodded. "A few days ago, I received a letter from Li Dong, but I didn't pay much attention to it. Later, I heard on the road that the sect had disbanded due to internal strife."

Lin Du raised his eyebrows, "Then you...?"

"I just think this matter is a little unusual. I heard today that you placed a mountain of meat in front of your disciples. Someone said that so many people turned into demons from nowhere, but there were no missing people. That's when I remembered."

Yan Qing moved a chair for Du Shao, "Please sit down. Our sect is a little informal and a little chaotic, please don't mind."

The disciples of the Supreme Sect did as they pleased, lying all over the room, some on the tables, some on the couches. The chairs that were originally arranged neatly were pulled to everyone's side and piled with bamboo slips and books.

Du Shao thanked him and sat down. "Later I heard that the Hongzhen Sect was in chaos. The leader and several disciples practiced the wrong martial arts and became obsessed. They were very unscrupulous and did not care about food. The sect was in chaos, the disciples scattered, and finally a fire broke out. The mountaintop was burned down and the people disappeared."

"But Li Dong wrote to me that he wanted to come to me because the number of Hongzhen disciples was increasing, and Ni Si had fallen in love with someone else, so there was no place for him in the sect."

Lin Du understood, "You think it's too contradictory."

"Although Li Dong is full of lies, given his character, he will certainly exaggerate his misfortunes. If someone goes astray and falls into internal chaos, there is no way he will not tell me."

Du Shao always spoke softly, and did not even pause when she spoke about Li Dong. "So I suspect that perhaps the disappearance of the Hongzhen Sect is unusual."

It is not uncommon for such small sects to go bankrupt and disband. Some small sects just go bankrupt overnight.

Yan Qing was polite at first and didn't listen attentively. He just read his own newspaper. Finally, his attention was drawn to it. When Du Shao finished speaking, he stood up and looked at Lin Du.

"Master Junior, is it possible that these people are not dispersed, but have been turned into evil demons..."

"There are also several hundred people in the Hongzhen Sect." Lin Du nodded, "Let's check. Maybe there are some people who are already wandering in the gray area. Then the number can be matched."

"The culprit said that those were the ones who made mistakes. The Hongzhen Sect's style is indeed average. Perhaps in his eyes, they are the ones who made mistakes."

Lin Du said, putting down the things in his hands, "I'm going to go out for a while, you can entertain the guests for me."

"Wait a minute, Master Lin, I remember now!" Hu You shouted, "In the past one or two hundred years, there have been frequent jailbreaks in prisons in several cities."

"And the spies in Fusifang these years, those bounty hunters and spies, how quickly they have been replaced in recent years."

"My godfather told me that many mountain bandits and forest bandits used to work as gold hunters and information sellers, but in recent years they have either changed their profession or disappeared, so we in Fusifang have fewer information channels."

"Will it be possible..." Hu You said, and then thought of his godfather, and suddenly his voice became hoarse.

Lin Du just nodded when he heard that, then spread his legs, strode out of the door frame, and walked into the night.

In the dungeon, the guard was drowsy until Lin Du walked past him, giving the guard a chill.

Wenfu was in the deepest part of the dungeon. Lin Du walked all the way to the end, opened three bans and checkpoints, and finally arrived in front of Wenfu.

She walked very quickly, and when she arrived in front of Wenfu, the cool night breeze was still on her body, and her face was covered with frost from the moonlight, which was shockingly cold.

"When did the process of turning humans into demons begin? One hundred years ago, two hundred years ago, or even earlier."

Wen Fu was handcuffed tightly. Hearing this, he opened his eyes and laughed, "Did you guess it?"

Lin Du sneered, "A small sect, a small family, a forest bandit, a prison inmate, what else?"

Wen Fu's joints from the neck to the entire body were tied to the pillar with heavy iron soul-binding buckles. Even his finger joints were trapped, making him completely unable to move. Upon hearing this, he blinked slowly and smiled calmly.

"In the future, maybe there will be the Jiang family... who knows." He said calmly.

Lin Du suddenly punched him in the eye.

That punch did not use any spiritual power, but the pure human strength was enough to blow his eyeball out.

"Do you really think you are a scavenger? Are you doing good things for Zhongzhou?" Lin Du laughed instead, "No wonder, no wonder... No wonder you had to turn yourself into a demon first."

"I am not worthy of being a human, so I turned into a demon." Lin Du suddenly realized, "That's what you think, right?"

She stared at the man's injured eyes, finally raised her hand, took off the half mask, and prepared to deliver a symmetrical punch.

The metal mask fell to the ground with a clang. Lin Du stared at the half of his face that was exposed and suddenly held his breath.

It was a face completely different from the half that was exposed. It was covered with scars, and even the shape of the bones was completely different.