The mystery of the leader's disappearance
Night falls.
After spending a day dealing with a group of disciples, Song Liubai returned to his guest house exhausted.
Song Liubai took off his coat and casually threw it beside the bed. Then he lay down on the bed and pulled the quilt over his forehead. His voice was muffled. "Fortunately, today was not a complete failure."
Song Liubai stretched his body like a fox cub, his narrow eyes filled with fatigue, and he was about to fall asleep in the next second.
But in the next second, I heard footsteps heading towards the bed.
Song Liubai sat up alertly, his hand already on the weapon at his waist. Fortunately, he caught a glimpse of a familiar figure in his peripheral vision and stopped himself.
"Junior brother."
It turned out to be Yan Meiqian.
Yan Meiqian held the scroll in her hand and sat opposite him, pouring herself a cup of tea.
Song Liubai breathed a sigh of relief, stood up as if nothing had happened, put on his clothes and walked to the opposite side of Yan Meiqian.
"Brother Yan, how was your day?"
Song Liubai pulled over a wooden stool and sat down.
Yan Meiqian shook her head and handed the scroll in her hand to him.
"After you left, I studied the mantra runes for a long time, and it took me a while to figure out a few of the strange things."
The scroll in Yan Meiqian's hand was exactly the same as the secret method of the sect given to Song Liubai by the disciple he met during the day.
It seems that the secret method of our sect is not a secret in the Qinggu Sect.
Song Liubai gestured for him to continue.
Yan Meiqian put the scroll aside, scooped up some tea from the cup with her fingers, and traced it on the table. She said, "The original mantra rune is like adding tiles to the foundation stone, like a steady stream of water flowing long into the future."
Song Liubai looked at the runes on the table, confused. He touched his nose and felt embarrassed.
It’s all because I couldn’t sit still when I was young and couldn’t concentrate on describing and analyzing it, and now I’ve encountered a problem.
Yan Meiqian saw the stiffness on his face and knew that his junior brother was skipping a little after three sessions of chanting runes and a big skip after five sessions. She raised her finger and pointed at a hook on the rune on the table, "This one costs my lifespan, and this pattern is the explosive growth of my blood body. Overall, it means gaining a temporary boost and quickly leaping to a higher level."
Yan Meiqian thought for a moment and continued, "If you continue to practice this technique and don't reach the Nascent Soul stage, you will...bleed to death and die suddenly."
Only up to the Golden Core? With such a serious outcome, how could Liu Han, who added these few strokes, not know about it?
"He did it on purpose." Song Liubai narrowed his narrow eyes slightly, crossed his arms and pondered.
"But if we do this, once a person reaches the Golden Core stage, he will die suddenly. It is impossible that no one in the sect knows about this." Yan Meiqian asked.
Song Liubai replied, "That's why Liu Han arranged for disciples to go down the mountain to gain experience once they were about to reach the Golden Core stage. This is why no one would pass on this secret method of killing people."
"Besides, Liu Han has only been doing this for a few months."
“The time is too short.
“It will take some time to notice.”
…
"And maybe Liu Han still has some people left, waiting to kill these disciples who come down the mountain."
Yan Meiqian: "Isn't this destroying the life of the sect?"
vitality……
Song Liubai's eyes were filled with a hint of coldness, and the corners of his mouth suddenly turned up in a meaningful way as he said, "Liu Han's goal is to destroy the sect."
"Liu Han has been raised by Sect Leader Mu Chuan since he was a child, and they have a deep bond," Yan Meiqian was puzzled. "What kind of hatred could make him resent everything so much?"
Although Yan Meiqian had not had much contact with Liu Han, she had met him several times at the Immortal Sect Banquet, so she knew a little about him. Liu Han was not only the only disciple of Sect Leader Mu Chuan, although his physique was not good and his cultivation was just mediocre, but he was also the candidate for the next generation Sect Leader. Everything could be said to be going smoothly.
Song Liubai pondered every detail in his mind, but found that he knew too little and could not guess the next step.
However, it all seemed to start with the disappearance of the leader.
This may be the breakthrough point.
Song Liubai raised his eyes and looked at the flickering candlelight on the table.
"Master Mu Chuan disappeared a few months ago. He never showed up when these things happened in the sect. I'm afraid he must have met with an accident a long time ago."
"Perhaps if we find Sect Leader Mu Chuan, we can learn all this."
Yan Meiqian looked confused, "But where should I go to find the person?"
The candlelight flickered, and there was only darkness below.
…………
In the night.
Xiao Cha had been lying on the bed for a long time and hadn't felt sleepy at all, so he simply got up, opened the window, and used the fresh air to relieve his boredom.
Faint moonlight poured into the house.
He looked out into the yard and saw no one there.
Xiao Cha thought that Liu Han would come to see her tonight, and it was destined to be a sleepless night. She didn't expect that in this house, she only saw the servant who delivered the food, and then she never saw anything else.
Could it be that Liu Han was so confident that his residence would not be attacked by thieves?
Xiao Cha crossed his arms and tapped his fingers intermittently.
Xiao Cha thought about the look Liu Han gave her today, and her heart sank suddenly. His eyes were filled with hunger and surprise, as if he wanted to swallow her up. That was not love, but more like possession of a toy.
interesting.
In this case, perhaps no matter what I do, at least before I lose my value, Liu Han will not be able to kill me. So why not go and explore the back mountain of Qinggumen tonight.
At this moment, Song He had completely forgotten the warnings he had given to Xiao Cha during the day.
After all, when it comes to male-oriented novels, the more you are not allowed to go to the right place, the more likely it is that there are some treasures hidden there.
Xiao Cha thought about it and quietly opened the door, walking in the yard as usual until he approached the closed gate.
Xiao Cha frowned and touched the heavy door wood with her fingers.
It seems that according to the routine in the story, the male protagonist has to climb over the wall and then meet love and beauty around the corner.
Forget it... I am hurting someone, so if you hurt someone, you should behave yourself. Let's go through the main door.
“Squeak—”
The door was pushed open at a slight angle.
Xiao Cha looked outside a few times before stepping out of the door.
But when he really walked out, Xiao Cha felt strange. He put his hands on his hips, looked at his feet in confusion, and felt strange.
There's really no one watching this yard.
Xiao Cha instantly wanted to retreat. If someone had tried to stop him, he would have run away without hesitation. However, things were going too smoothly, and he was afraid that Liu Han had planned this move for him long ago.
Just then.
The whispers of boys could be heard from the wall.
Xiao Cha's ears twitched slightly, and he walked lightly around the corner, only to find a man in blue clothes wandering stealthily around the corner.
"Hiss, is this Liu Han's house?"
Shangguan Qing touched his chin in distress, fearing that if he jumped, he would come face to face with the master inside.
Oh, it turns out to be this big brother.
Xiao Cha held his forehead helplessly.
"Never mind, if you can't win, just run away." Shangguan Qing suddenly gritted his teeth, rolled up his sleeves and decided to give it a try. He bent his knees and jumped, but the next second, he was pinned down again.
Shangguan Qing, who was being held down, dared not move. He leaned his hands against the wall, his voice trembling with guilt, "Who is it?"
"My Lord, climbing over a wall of people at night is easy to be misunderstood!"
Xiao Cha took back the hand that was on the blue-clothed man's shoulder and said with a smile, "If you have anything to do, just go through the main entrance."
Shangguan Qing turned around and saw his old friend. He was overjoyed and immediately hugged him. With bitter eyes, he cried, "Great! It's you. I want to go back to the sect! I don't want these three hundred merits anymore."
Xiao Cha's body froze when she was hugged by someone else. By the time she reacted, her hand had already patted Shangguan Qing's back in her arms.
He then realized that Shangguan Qing had not yet had his coming-of-age ceremony and was three years younger than the original owner, so it would not be an exaggeration to say that they were brothers.
"Senior Sister Lin also abandoned me. I want to go back to the sect—to find my master."
Xiao Cha lowered her head, and the person in her arms reminded her of a child crying for his mother.
Xiao Cha asked in a rare soft voice, "What happened to you?"
Shangguan Qing came out of Xiao Cha's arms and turned his head away, as if he didn't want him to see his vulnerable appearance. He said in a sullen tone, "Brother Song, we were asked to check if there were any demons entering the border, so..."
Shangguan Qing briefly described what he had encountered. It turned out that when they were tracking the demonic energy along the border of Qin River, they found a trace of residual demonic power in the border temple. Then Lin Xingwan decided to follow the whereabouts of the demonic power with Shangguan Qing, while the rest of the people continued to eliminate it.
Unexpectedly, the evil spirit passed through the barrier formation and headed straight for the back mountain of Qinggu Gate. The closer they got, the stronger the smell became, until they saw that the source was actually dozens of medicine furnaces, in which the flesh and blood of men and women were refined, leaving only their souls imprisoned in the furnaces, and then they were sent into the cave by the evil spirit in a cruel scene.
What happened next was very dramatic. When the two entered the cave to explore, they stepped on the formation set up by the monster and entered a fantasy world, and were separated from then on.
Xiao Cha's eyelids twitched when he heard this. "So, what does this have to do with you climbing over the wall of Liu Han's house?"
Shangguan Qing wiped his nose and said seriously, "After all, this happened in their sect. I guess there are some magical tools in the room. I'm going to steal them and save my senior sister."
"My Lord, is there any need to steal? Just enter through the main gate."
"ah?"
"There is no one else here except me." Xiao Cha waved his hand.
"Xiao Cha, this... am I too useless?"
Shangguan Qing sighed.
He looked down at the palm of his hand and realized that even if he had the magic weapon, he would not be able to defeat the monster.
Finally, he squatted in the corner, his eyebrows drooping, and he was lost in thought. "Senior Sister is still trapped in the illusion. It will take some time for the spirit bird to deliver the message. Even if Second Uncle arrives by then..."
Xiao Cha lowered his head slightly and looked at Shangguan Qing's miserable appearance, and couldn't help but think of the young man who was taller than the sky in the center of the original novel.
The leopard has not yet grown up and is now like a 'puppy' with baby teeth.
Xiao Cha patted Shangguan Qing and asked, "You just said that the demon sent human souls into the cave."
"Uh-huh."
Xiao Cha rubbed his chin.
There is also a formation illusion for sending human souls, but it should not be a magic scroll, but something that is guarding the offerings.
Xiao Cha stared at Shangguan Qing quietly with deep eyes.
The magic scroll was probably not in Liu Han's own yard. He was probably hiding it on his body.
In that case... let's try to find out what's enshrined in that cave.
"I have a way to find your senior sister for you." Xiao Cha coughed lightly.
Shangguan Qing immediately grabbed the other person's sleeve and said, "Really? But you don't have any cultivation?"
Xiao Cha pulled the man up, pointed at his solar plexus, and said, "Sometimes, even the brain can fool an immortal."
Shangguan Qing blinked, not quite understanding, "Then what should I do?"
"Be arrogant."
"Set a fire."
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