Jiaohua

Zhili said slyly, "So that's how it is, Brother Shen. I just said it was my junior sister's idea, and you immediately said that my junior sister was thoughtful. You two are really in sync and understand each other perfectly."

Shen Lie liked hearing this and laughed, "That's right."

After laughing, Shen Lie looked at Dan Xianzhou and asked the question he was most concerned about: "Master Dan, did Senior Li Ling really write a letter to Ali, asking her to come over?"

Danxianzhou smiled like an aunt: "I wrote it and sent it! She should arrive in the next couple of days, either today or tomorrow."

Shen Lie was overjoyed: "This junior will now go to Yunwan Village to pay my respects to Senior Li Ling."

Danxianzhou thought of something: "By the way, Shen Lie, could you help me to a place along the way? The Half-Nine Immortal Master of Yuanhe Sect and his disciples, as well as Zhili's subordinates, are there. I told them to go back as soon as possible, but as you can see, I almost couldn't get back. Luckily, I met you."

Zhili hurriedly replied, "No, no, he's not my subordinate. Liu Jia was assigned to me by Zhao Ning to do things for me. Brother Shen, could you please take a look around for me and Abbot Dan on your way into the village? I'll go get some paper and pen so Abbot Dan can draw the route for you!"

Shen Lie nodded: "Okay."

Danxianzhou was extremely skilled at drawing maps and had a very strong sense of direction. With just a few lines, he could easily create a clear and well-proportioned drawing.

Shen Lie replied, "I will leave all my troops here and disperse them. Once the wounded have been treated, you can enter the village immediately."

"No problem, Brother Shen. Now that you've seen my master, please give him my regards!"

"Ah."

Shen Lie left Liang Jun and Chang Zhicheng behind, taking only Ye Zheng and Wu Shaoning with him, and the three of them rode away.

On the way, the prisoners of the Fang family army, under the supervision of Yan Jun, were cleaning up the corpses of their own men one by one.

There was a lot of blood on the ground, which could directly guide Shen Lie.

The dirt road that Danxianzhou had pointed out on the map was indeed difficult to travel and very narrow for horses. Shen Lie simply dismounted and handed the horse over to Ye Zheng, while he and Wu Shaoning walked in.

When they arrived at the residential area that Danxianzhou had mentioned, Shen Lie and Wu Shaoning smelled a foul stench.

Wu Shaoning looked at the row of houses and took out a map: "...Is this really the place? It smells so bad, how could Master Banjiu and the others hide here?"

Shen Lie remained silent and stepped inside.

The stench grew stronger and stronger, making it impossible to open one's eyes. Shen Lie narrowed his dark eyes and looked at the collapsed ground.

Wu Shaoning covered his mouth in surprise and exclaimed, "They didn't fall down, did they?!"

This hole in the ground is indeed "fresh".

Shen Lie said, "Let's go, let's go down too."

The tunnel was pitch black and the air was thin.

The group of Banjiu Immortal Master and others who came down early had been walking for nearly an hour.

Few people ventured into the tunnels, which had many forks. They marked each spot they reached. Since Master Banjiu's leg was injured, his disciple Liu Jia and Liu Jia's subordinates took turns carrying him, switching every three hundred steps.

At first they could still talk, but eventually they found that talking made their mouths dry and they didn't have any water with them, so they stopped communicating.

The sound of footsteps became clearer, and the clear footsteps sounded even more eerily silent in the long tunnel.

We've reached another dead end.

Master Banjiu sighed, "I have become a burden to you all."

Liu Jia hurriedly said, "Senior, please don't say such things. We will definitely find a way out!"

“Turn around,” said Master Banjiu. “If there is no other way to go, put me down and go find a way. Come back to me when you find a way.”

The disciple of the Half-Nine Immortals disagreed: "Master, I will carry you on my back. I will carry you all by myself. I am not afraid of hardship."

As soon as he finished speaking, both Banjiu Immortal Master and Liu Jia heard a voice and quickly raised their hands to their lips to shush. Liu Jia stepped forward and pressed his ear against a stone wall, and sure enough, there was a voice coming from the other side of the wall.

One person said, "Feng Qingang is truly disgusting."

Another person said, "I wouldn't be surprised if such a beast did something."

"I suddenly wondered if Feng Qingang and Shang Taiyu were related."

"Shang Taiyu?" Xie Huaichu stopped and turned to look at the limping Lü Wuwei. "Why are you suddenly bringing him up?"

Lu Wuwei said, "Because Shang Taiyu also has a Cold Palace, which is full of the heads of the most ruthless people he has collected. Moreover, each one is carefully selected and the cut surfaces are very neat. He wants to fill all those high shelves with them."

Xie Huaichu said, "It's disgusting! What's so interesting about dead people?"

However, when it came to the Northern Yuan people, Xie Huaichu looked at Lü Wuwei, especially at Lü Wuwei's leg: "You haven't told me in detail how your leg was injured. Is it really as they say, that Lin Wumei hurt you?"

Lu Wuwei's face immediately darkened.

Xie Huaichu remained unfazed and continued, "Wasn't Lin Wumei extremely fond of you before, always following you around and clinging to you all day long? What did you do that made her so cruel to you, even breaking your bones?"

Lu Wuwei sneered, "What can I do? Women are just like that, narrow-minded, and they become suspicious and resentful at the slightest dissatisfaction, going crazy and ridiculous. Poisonous woman, madwoman, shrew, resentful woman, shrew, wicked woman, aren't these all ways to describe women?"

Xie Huaichu said, "I used to envy you, having a woman like Lin Wumei who would do anything for you and follow you around like that. But now it seems like it's a curse rather than a blessing."

Lü Wuwei did not respond.

Several ears overheard these words from behind the wall, unable to immediately guess their identities.

To call Feng Qingang worse than a pig or a dog shows that this person is not Feng Qingang's person.

They didn't know who Lin Wumei was.

I do know Shang Taiyu; he's a piece of trash, worse than a pig or a dog.

After they had gone some distance, Liu Jia looked at Master Banjiu with a questioning look in his eyes.

Master Banjiu shook his head: "He is not someone I know."

Liu Jia was somewhat worried: "If we encounter them on the road ahead, we may not be their match."

The disciple of the Half-Nine Immortal Master said, "Or, shall we go back the way we came? If Abbot Tan comes back looking for us and can't find us..."

"No!" Master Banjiu immediately said, "It stinks so badly, it's suffocating. If we go back, we might be suffocated to death by the stench."

No sooner had he finished speaking than another voice came from behind him.

But it wasn't the sound of a person speaking; it was the sound of a mechanism being triggered.

They were so close, yet so far away. The ground beneath their feet trembled slightly, as if a stone door was being slowly pushed open.

Liu Jia immediately pressed his ear back against the stone wall.

Lu Wuwei and Xie Huaichu, who were separated by a wall, also stopped and turned to look in the direction from which the commotion came.

Xie Huaichu was a master; judging by his hearing, the commotion was probably about thirty paces to their southwest.

But these thirty steps were cut off by one secret passage after another and underground mud and rocks.

“Someone’s here!” Lu Wuwei said in a low voice.

"Go back!" Xie Huaichu said immediately. (End of Chapter)