Chapter 94: Clues
Monk Chenya stood outside the shop and politely asked Da Quan, “Excuse me, are you the person with the great nose?”
His tone was friendly, containing no hostility.
However, all Da Quan’s muscles contracted, and he retreated while putting on his iron-needled gloves that slid out of his sleeves.
Although Da Quan was already fast, he knew that if the person outside the door wanted to kill him, he wouldn’t have time to react. While leaning on the staircase, Da Quan shouted upstairs without turning his head, “Go! Don’t come down!”
Chenya shook his head with a smile and said, “Great Sui is known as a nation of rites and etiquette. How come you are not coming down to greet the guest? Since I’m here, you should treat me as a guest. Also, I will be direct. With your cultivation strength, you can’t protect your peers. However, if you and your peers join hands, you might be able to last until the reinforcements are here. You are asking them to leave; aren’t you afraid of dying?”
As soon as he said that, Mu Xiaoyao appeared on the stairs with Chen Qingshan, helping the latter stand.
“I’m coming down,” Mu Xiaoyao said this and prepared to go downstairs.
Chen Qingshan shook her head, and her face was so pale that others would feel pity for her.
“Sword, come,” Chen Qingshan said these two words, and that unsheathed sword flew into her hand from the table like magic.
Standing on the stairs, Chen Qingshan looked at Da Quan and said, “You come up as well.”
Just as Da Quan was about to reject, he heard Chen Qingshan’s proud voice. “Even though I’m injured, you two don’t need to face enemies when I’m around. It has been this way for those 12 years, and it will still be this way until I die.”
Even though Chen Qingshan was severely injured, she was still prideful.
“Foolish,” Chenya sighed at the door, “You could achieve something impressive with your talent, but you walked on the wrong path. I thought that you are the smartest among these people, but it seems like I overestimated you. If you use your internal forces right now, you will die without me doing anything.”
Chen Qingshan’s expression changed as if she sensed something from this man’s words.
“You are also foolish.” At this moment, a crisp voice sounded from the dark.
“Some people entered Great Sui but don’t follow Great Sui’s rules. I thought that a big figure arrived, but you are only a little punk who only dares to come out at night. Do you really think that your cultivation strength is high, and no one in Great Sui can suppress you?”
The voice sounded from afar, but it quickly approached.
Chenya slowly turned around, and his expression turned grim as he saw a man approaching him.
“You guys set up this trap and have been waiting for me?” After a moment of silence, Chenya returned to normal as he looked at the middle-aged man who had his hands behind his back. This man was wearing a flying-fish robe, and Chenya had heard that there were many masters in the Royal Guard of Great Sui.
“Is your last name Luo or Hou?” he asked.
Luo Weiran laughed and said, “You sure know a lot. Are you coming over? Or do you want me to walk over to arrest you?”
“This trap isn’t that pretty,” Chenya said with a smile, “It turns out that the royal guards aren’t that great. You guys couldn’t find me, so you prepared to sacrifice the lives of these people to lure me out. It is disgusting. Even though I walked into this trap, you didn’t win.”
Then, Chenya raised his chin and said proudly, “I can come and go at will. Although I’m standing in front of you, you can’t see my face. Once I leave here, you wouldn’t be able to recognize me on the street even if I stand next to you. Don’t you feel defeated?”
It was true that Luo Weiran couldn’t see the face of this man in white.
“It doesn’t matter.” Luo Weiran took a step forward and said to Chenya, “I will see your face once I break your disguise.”
“What do you mean by disguise?” Chenya replied calmly, “What can you see through? This is how it should be.”
After saying that, Chenya slowly raised his two hands, and one of his hand pointed at Luo Weiran while the other pointed at Da Quan who was fully alerted. “People of Great Sui are all disgustingly conceited. If you surrounded this place with hundreds of royal guards, perhaps I couldn’t win. However, you trust your cultivation strength too much, so you came alone. Being confident is a good thing, but being overconfident will make you experience pain.”
“Sword!” Chenya suddenly said this, and two almost tangible sword spirits that were visible to the naked eye shot out of his two hands. These two sword spirits were so fast that air around his hands vibrated. In the next second, these two sword spirits were already before Luo Weiran and Da Quan.
Tink! Luo Weiran held the sword spirit that was aimed at him by his index finger and middle finger, and a metal-colliding noise sounded when his fingers hit the sword spirit. However, the sword spirit that he locked between his two fingers started to struggle unwillingly like a living being. That sword spirit looked like a poisonous little snake twisting and coiling around.
Luo Weiran’s expression changed, and his fingers suddenly turned slightly golden.
Crack! The sword spirit was shattered by his two fingers.
When Luo Weiran took another look, the man in white already floated far away like a cloud.
Luo Weiran snorted and chased after Chenya.
Inside the shop, Da Quan slowly looked down at his chest, and his face paled as he slowly fell toward the ground.
…
Fang Jie stood next to the bed and breathed heavily. He ran back and used a ton of his energy. He was sweating profusely, and his clothes were soaked. His head was shaking a little, and the anger that he tried to suppress was still revealed.
“It is ok. I won’t die.” Da Quan tried to sit up, and Fang Jie quickly supported him.
The sword spirit pierced through his body, and the tip of the sword spirit appeared out of his back. Although the wound in his chest was small, it seemed like a TNT exploded on his back. A big portion of his flesh was missing. Since this wound was so big, blood was still flowing out even though it was bandaged. The thick bands were soaked through by blood, and the medicinal powder was washed off by it.
When the sword spirit appeared, Chen Qingshan slashed out her sword. However, she was too severely injured, so she couldn’t send out a sword spirit. She threw out her sword instead, blocking the sword spirit.
She didn’t expect this man in white’s cultivation strength to be terrifyingly high. After the sword spirit penetrated her steel sword, it was only slowed down by a bit before it continued to move toward Da Quan.
Da Quan only reacted after the steel sword broke and wanted to dodge, but the sword spirit seemed to carry a force that made him unable to move. He felt like hundreds of chains suddenly appeared in mid-air and tied him onto the ground.
Although Da Quan couldn’t move, Mu Xiaoyao could.
Chen Qingshan’s sword only blocked the sword spirit for a second, but it was enough time for Mu Xiaoyao to move. Her red silk ribbon flew down from the second floor and coiled around Da Quan’s waist, pulling him to the side before the sword spirit pierced through his body.
Fortunately, it was this slight shift that helped Da Quan escape from death. The sword spirit barely missed Da Quan’s heart.
Zhuo walked to the bed, looked at Da Quan’s injury, and took out a bottle of healing ointment from his sleeve. He handed it to Fang Jie and said, “Although it isn’t a god-tier medicine, it is better than the medicine that you have.”
Fang Jie quickly accepted the bottle, opened the bandage on Da Quan’s body, and helped him apply the ointment.
When the bandage was opened, even Mr. Zhuo frowned subconsciously. A big portion of flesh on Da Quan’s back was missing; it was about the size of two hands. The bloody wound showed the white bone, and there were even bone fragments in the mushed flesh. Two chunks of the spine were almost showing, making others shiver in fear. Since Da Quan was thin to begin with, it made others feel like a monster took a bite out of a piece of dry wood.
“Such a strange technique,” Mr. Zhuo said as he walked out of the building. “I will go and see the situation. Captain Luo chased after that man, so it wouldn’t be easy for that man to get away even if his cultivation strength is extremely high. I already stationed people outside your door, and I will probably return in a short while. From now on, don’t leave here if you don’t have to.”
Fang Jie nodded and thanked him.
Zhuo Buyi shook his head as he had an ominous feeling. After he left Fang Jie’s shop, he didn’t return to the headquarters of the Royal Guard. Instead, he rushed to Pure Hollow Daoist Temple in Chang’an.
After Spiritual Master Xiao came to Chang’an, he lived in Pure Hollow Daoist Temple. He was the leader of Daoism, so all the daoist temples in Great Sui saw him as the spiritual leader. After learning that Spiritual Master Xiao was coming to Chang’an, the daoists in Pure Hollow Daoist Temple started to prepare to receive him.
Spiritual Master Xiao was given the title as the Imperial Teacher. His personal glory was the glory of Daoism as a whole.
In a small courtyard deep inside Pure Hollow Daoist Temple, Spiritual Master Xiao was arguing with someone, not looking like a spiritual leader at all.
“Xiang Qingniu! If you dare to go out, I will… I will… I will instantly destroy your cultivation strength!”
Xiang Qingniu snorted with his hands on his waist, “Old cow nose, will you die if you stop bragging? Destroy my cultivation strength? Even Second Senior Brother doesn’t dare to do it! Did you forget what Master said? He said that Daoism will become prosperous because of Qingniu! If you destroy my cultivation strength, you will be destroying the future of the Daoist Sect!”
[TL Note: Cow nose is a bad name for daoists in China.]
“You…” Spiritual Master Xiao froze for a second before replying with anger, “Which one of Master’s sayings is reliable? He said that you are the most intelligent and talented person, but you are the dumbest among us four brothers.”
“Xiao Yijiu!” Xiang Qingniu pointed at Spiritual Master Xiao’s nose and cursed, “Once I obtain the inspiration, I will pull out all the beard on your face!”
Just as Spiritual Master Xiao was about to flip out, he suddenly calmed down and said, “There is a guest here; I won’t drop myself to your level.”
“You can meet your guest, and I will go out and see who dares to be this arrogant! That guy clearly used the Phaseless Technique of the Buddhist Sect, but you are scared and acting like a turtle! The leader of Daoism? Yuck!”
…
-The Headquarters of the Royal Guard-
Hou Wenji looked at Luo Weiran in surprise and said, “He actually escaped from you?”
Hou Wenji hadn’t been surprised like this in many years.
Luo Weiran nodded and said, “I rarely left the Capital these years, so I don’t have as much experience. Although I couldn’t see that man’s background, I suspect that he used a technique of the Buddhist Sect. It seems like there was a layer of mist around his face, so I couldn’t see what he looked like. Although he turned his internal forces into sword spirits, I feel like it isn’t his strongest attack; he only used it to distract us.”
“Before he attacked, he quickly made a hand seal,” Luo Weiran added as he gestured, “Buyi headed to Pure Hollow Daoist Temple, and we should know this person’s background after consulting Spiritual Master Xiao. If he is really from the Buddhist Sect, then it would be shameful to have our people killed by him. Fang Jie thought of the idea of using himself as bait, but he only attracted a few small fish. The big fish escaped from my hand.”
“If this person is really from the Buddhist Sect.” After a moment of silence, Hou Wenji suddenly laughed with his head lowered, “The case with the Ministry of War can be closed. Since someone from the Buddhist Sect is here, we will have an answer for His Majesty and the people of Great Sui.”
Luo Weiran rolled his eyes and said, “How come you are laughing? I don’t know how to answer if His Majesty asks about this!”
“We wouldn’t need to give any answers,” Hou Wenji replied, “Doesn’t His Majesty want to show the strength of the Daoist Sect? If someone from the Daoist Sect captures this person, and we promote it, it would be a great thing for Pure Joy Mountain, the entire Daoist Sect, and His Majesty’s western expedition.”
His tone was friendly, containing no hostility.
However, all Da Quan’s muscles contracted, and he retreated while putting on his iron-needled gloves that slid out of his sleeves.
Although Da Quan was already fast, he knew that if the person outside the door wanted to kill him, he wouldn’t have time to react. While leaning on the staircase, Da Quan shouted upstairs without turning his head, “Go! Don’t come down!”
Chenya shook his head with a smile and said, “Great Sui is known as a nation of rites and etiquette. How come you are not coming down to greet the guest? Since I’m here, you should treat me as a guest. Also, I will be direct. With your cultivation strength, you can’t protect your peers. However, if you and your peers join hands, you might be able to last until the reinforcements are here. You are asking them to leave; aren’t you afraid of dying?”
As soon as he said that, Mu Xiaoyao appeared on the stairs with Chen Qingshan, helping the latter stand.
“I’m coming down,” Mu Xiaoyao said this and prepared to go downstairs.
Chen Qingshan shook her head, and her face was so pale that others would feel pity for her.
“Sword, come,” Chen Qingshan said these two words, and that unsheathed sword flew into her hand from the table like magic.
Standing on the stairs, Chen Qingshan looked at Da Quan and said, “You come up as well.”
Just as Da Quan was about to reject, he heard Chen Qingshan’s proud voice. “Even though I’m injured, you two don’t need to face enemies when I’m around. It has been this way for those 12 years, and it will still be this way until I die.”
Even though Chen Qingshan was severely injured, she was still prideful.
“Foolish,” Chenya sighed at the door, “You could achieve something impressive with your talent, but you walked on the wrong path. I thought that you are the smartest among these people, but it seems like I overestimated you. If you use your internal forces right now, you will die without me doing anything.”
Chen Qingshan’s expression changed as if she sensed something from this man’s words.
“You are also foolish.” At this moment, a crisp voice sounded from the dark.
“Some people entered Great Sui but don’t follow Great Sui’s rules. I thought that a big figure arrived, but you are only a little punk who only dares to come out at night. Do you really think that your cultivation strength is high, and no one in Great Sui can suppress you?”
The voice sounded from afar, but it quickly approached.
Chenya slowly turned around, and his expression turned grim as he saw a man approaching him.
“You guys set up this trap and have been waiting for me?” After a moment of silence, Chenya returned to normal as he looked at the middle-aged man who had his hands behind his back. This man was wearing a flying-fish robe, and Chenya had heard that there were many masters in the Royal Guard of Great Sui.
“Is your last name Luo or Hou?” he asked.
Luo Weiran laughed and said, “You sure know a lot. Are you coming over? Or do you want me to walk over to arrest you?”
“This trap isn’t that pretty,” Chenya said with a smile, “It turns out that the royal guards aren’t that great. You guys couldn’t find me, so you prepared to sacrifice the lives of these people to lure me out. It is disgusting. Even though I walked into this trap, you didn’t win.”
Then, Chenya raised his chin and said proudly, “I can come and go at will. Although I’m standing in front of you, you can’t see my face. Once I leave here, you wouldn’t be able to recognize me on the street even if I stand next to you. Don’t you feel defeated?”
It was true that Luo Weiran couldn’t see the face of this man in white.
“It doesn’t matter.” Luo Weiran took a step forward and said to Chenya, “I will see your face once I break your disguise.”
“What do you mean by disguise?” Chenya replied calmly, “What can you see through? This is how it should be.”
After saying that, Chenya slowly raised his two hands, and one of his hand pointed at Luo Weiran while the other pointed at Da Quan who was fully alerted. “People of Great Sui are all disgustingly conceited. If you surrounded this place with hundreds of royal guards, perhaps I couldn’t win. However, you trust your cultivation strength too much, so you came alone. Being confident is a good thing, but being overconfident will make you experience pain.”
“Sword!” Chenya suddenly said this, and two almost tangible sword spirits that were visible to the naked eye shot out of his two hands. These two sword spirits were so fast that air around his hands vibrated. In the next second, these two sword spirits were already before Luo Weiran and Da Quan.
Tink! Luo Weiran held the sword spirit that was aimed at him by his index finger and middle finger, and a metal-colliding noise sounded when his fingers hit the sword spirit. However, the sword spirit that he locked between his two fingers started to struggle unwillingly like a living being. That sword spirit looked like a poisonous little snake twisting and coiling around.
Luo Weiran’s expression changed, and his fingers suddenly turned slightly golden.
Crack! The sword spirit was shattered by his two fingers.
When Luo Weiran took another look, the man in white already floated far away like a cloud.
Luo Weiran snorted and chased after Chenya.
Inside the shop, Da Quan slowly looked down at his chest, and his face paled as he slowly fell toward the ground.
…
Fang Jie stood next to the bed and breathed heavily. He ran back and used a ton of his energy. He was sweating profusely, and his clothes were soaked. His head was shaking a little, and the anger that he tried to suppress was still revealed.
“It is ok. I won’t die.” Da Quan tried to sit up, and Fang Jie quickly supported him.
The sword spirit pierced through his body, and the tip of the sword spirit appeared out of his back. Although the wound in his chest was small, it seemed like a TNT exploded on his back. A big portion of his flesh was missing. Since this wound was so big, blood was still flowing out even though it was bandaged. The thick bands were soaked through by blood, and the medicinal powder was washed off by it.
When the sword spirit appeared, Chen Qingshan slashed out her sword. However, she was too severely injured, so she couldn’t send out a sword spirit. She threw out her sword instead, blocking the sword spirit.
She didn’t expect this man in white’s cultivation strength to be terrifyingly high. After the sword spirit penetrated her steel sword, it was only slowed down by a bit before it continued to move toward Da Quan.
Da Quan only reacted after the steel sword broke and wanted to dodge, but the sword spirit seemed to carry a force that made him unable to move. He felt like hundreds of chains suddenly appeared in mid-air and tied him onto the ground.
Although Da Quan couldn’t move, Mu Xiaoyao could.
Chen Qingshan’s sword only blocked the sword spirit for a second, but it was enough time for Mu Xiaoyao to move. Her red silk ribbon flew down from the second floor and coiled around Da Quan’s waist, pulling him to the side before the sword spirit pierced through his body.
Fortunately, it was this slight shift that helped Da Quan escape from death. The sword spirit barely missed Da Quan’s heart.
Zhuo walked to the bed, looked at Da Quan’s injury, and took out a bottle of healing ointment from his sleeve. He handed it to Fang Jie and said, “Although it isn’t a god-tier medicine, it is better than the medicine that you have.”
Fang Jie quickly accepted the bottle, opened the bandage on Da Quan’s body, and helped him apply the ointment.
When the bandage was opened, even Mr. Zhuo frowned subconsciously. A big portion of flesh on Da Quan’s back was missing; it was about the size of two hands. The bloody wound showed the white bone, and there were even bone fragments in the mushed flesh. Two chunks of the spine were almost showing, making others shiver in fear. Since Da Quan was thin to begin with, it made others feel like a monster took a bite out of a piece of dry wood.
“Such a strange technique,” Mr. Zhuo said as he walked out of the building. “I will go and see the situation. Captain Luo chased after that man, so it wouldn’t be easy for that man to get away even if his cultivation strength is extremely high. I already stationed people outside your door, and I will probably return in a short while. From now on, don’t leave here if you don’t have to.”
Fang Jie nodded and thanked him.
Zhuo Buyi shook his head as he had an ominous feeling. After he left Fang Jie’s shop, he didn’t return to the headquarters of the Royal Guard. Instead, he rushed to Pure Hollow Daoist Temple in Chang’an.
After Spiritual Master Xiao came to Chang’an, he lived in Pure Hollow Daoist Temple. He was the leader of Daoism, so all the daoist temples in Great Sui saw him as the spiritual leader. After learning that Spiritual Master Xiao was coming to Chang’an, the daoists in Pure Hollow Daoist Temple started to prepare to receive him.
Spiritual Master Xiao was given the title as the Imperial Teacher. His personal glory was the glory of Daoism as a whole.
In a small courtyard deep inside Pure Hollow Daoist Temple, Spiritual Master Xiao was arguing with someone, not looking like a spiritual leader at all.
“Xiang Qingniu! If you dare to go out, I will… I will… I will instantly destroy your cultivation strength!”
Xiang Qingniu snorted with his hands on his waist, “Old cow nose, will you die if you stop bragging? Destroy my cultivation strength? Even Second Senior Brother doesn’t dare to do it! Did you forget what Master said? He said that Daoism will become prosperous because of Qingniu! If you destroy my cultivation strength, you will be destroying the future of the Daoist Sect!”
[TL Note: Cow nose is a bad name for daoists in China.]
“You…” Spiritual Master Xiao froze for a second before replying with anger, “Which one of Master’s sayings is reliable? He said that you are the most intelligent and talented person, but you are the dumbest among us four brothers.”
“Xiao Yijiu!” Xiang Qingniu pointed at Spiritual Master Xiao’s nose and cursed, “Once I obtain the inspiration, I will pull out all the beard on your face!”
Just as Spiritual Master Xiao was about to flip out, he suddenly calmed down and said, “There is a guest here; I won’t drop myself to your level.”
“You can meet your guest, and I will go out and see who dares to be this arrogant! That guy clearly used the Phaseless Technique of the Buddhist Sect, but you are scared and acting like a turtle! The leader of Daoism? Yuck!”
…
-The Headquarters of the Royal Guard-
Hou Wenji looked at Luo Weiran in surprise and said, “He actually escaped from you?”
Hou Wenji hadn’t been surprised like this in many years.
Luo Weiran nodded and said, “I rarely left the Capital these years, so I don’t have as much experience. Although I couldn’t see that man’s background, I suspect that he used a technique of the Buddhist Sect. It seems like there was a layer of mist around his face, so I couldn’t see what he looked like. Although he turned his internal forces into sword spirits, I feel like it isn’t his strongest attack; he only used it to distract us.”
“Before he attacked, he quickly made a hand seal,” Luo Weiran added as he gestured, “Buyi headed to Pure Hollow Daoist Temple, and we should know this person’s background after consulting Spiritual Master Xiao. If he is really from the Buddhist Sect, then it would be shameful to have our people killed by him. Fang Jie thought of the idea of using himself as bait, but he only attracted a few small fish. The big fish escaped from my hand.”
“If this person is really from the Buddhist Sect.” After a moment of silence, Hou Wenji suddenly laughed with his head lowered, “The case with the Ministry of War can be closed. Since someone from the Buddhist Sect is here, we will have an answer for His Majesty and the people of Great Sui.”
Luo Weiran rolled his eyes and said, “How come you are laughing? I don’t know how to answer if His Majesty asks about this!”
“We wouldn’t need to give any answers,” Hou Wenji replied, “Doesn’t His Majesty want to show the strength of the Daoist Sect? If someone from the Daoist Sect captures this person, and we promote it, it would be a great thing for Pure Joy Mountain, the entire Daoist Sect, and His Majesty’s western expedition.”
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