Lingyuan Immortal

Chapter 24 Lure the snake out of its hole
The next day.

As soon as the sun rose, Han Jing came to the door.

"Junior Brother Chen, I asked Senior Brother He this morning. This city has no city lord, and no one has ever recorded the cultivators entering and leaving the city gate. Where should I start investigating?" Han Jing said distressedly.

Chen Mu thought for a moment and replied, "It's okay. As long as Wang Teng really entered the city, he would definitely leave some clues. We can go to the city market or the treasure pavilion to ask."

After agreeing on the route, Chen Mu and He Hua met up and left the house together.

First, I went to the city market. He Hua told me that there were fewer monks coming and going now...

The three of them approached the stall owners and asked them if they had ever seen a cultivator carrying a snake-like monster. Unfortunately, none of them had seen one.

Han Jing was a little anxious. It would be better for her to go and fight with others than to look for someone here.

Chen Mu looked calm and said, "Let's try the next place."

The three of them came to some famous chambers of commerce in the Zhao Kingdom's cultivation world and the treasure pavilions they set up in the city.

For example, the Yuanshan Pavilion in front of them was opened by the Yuanshan Chamber of Commerce, which was founded by the foundation-building cultivator Yu Boyuan.

When I was in the outer sect, I heard Uncle Zhang talk about this person. He was originally a casual cultivator and was unknown. After successfully building his foundation, he changed his style and established the Yuanshan Chamber of Commerce with great fanfare.

Then, he spent sixty years to develop Yuanshan Chamber of Commerce into the number one chamber of commerce in Zhao State, and even spent a lot of treasures to invite a Jindan Zhenren to be a guest official of the chamber of commerce.

Nowadays, the Yuanshan Chamber of Commerce is comparable to some immortal cultivation sects...

As soon as I entered the pavilion, a maid who was at the first level of Qi Condensation came forward to greet me.

She led him into a side room, and after waiting for a while, a steward came in.

"Three fellow Taoists... Oh, and Brother He, I wonder what you want from my Yuanshan Pavilion?" The steward asked in surprise after seeing He Hua.

He Hua first bowed his hands in greeting, then smiled slowly and said, "We are here to compete with the gods."

The steward's pupils shrank slightly, and he looked at Chen Mu and the other two, then he understood and said, "But are you looking for information about this person?"

Han Jing, who was standing by, was delighted when she heard this: "Are there any traces?"

The steward looked regretful and shook his head: "No, this person seemed to appear out of thin air..."

Chen Mu hesitated for a moment and asked, "Why do you say that?"

The steward thought for a moment and spoke softly.

"Cangwu City isn't just a city for cultivators, so my Yuanshan Pavilion is considered one of the most powerful forces in Cangwu City. We know a little bit about which cultivators have come to the city in the past and what they have done..."

"But after the incident of the God Race happened half a month ago, I immediately ordered a review of the relevant records. I did the same three days ago, but there was nothing... It's strange that there is nothing."

"Either his cultivation level is far higher than anyone else in the city, or he possesses a rare treasure to help him hide his tracks... I can't think of a third reason..."

Seeing this, Chen Mu asked, "Have any cultivators brought snake-like monsters into the city recently?"

"No."

Chen Mu and Han Jing looked at each other, their eyes slightly gloomy.

After chatting for a while and finding no useful information, the three of them said goodbye and left.

He returned to the house without stopping.

"Junior Brother Chen, I didn't expect that we couldn't find any information at all..." Han Jing said dejectedly.

Chen Mu frowned slightly and didn't reply. Instead, he directed Han Jing's gaze to He Hua who was walking in front of him.

Han Jing narrowed her eyes and understood what he meant.

She took two quick steps, caught up with He Hua, turned around and asked, "Brother He, I forgot to ask you, when did you break through to the seventh level of Qi Condensation?"

He Hua was startled when he heard this, and said with a wry smile: "No comparison to Junior Sister Han, who luckily broke through half a year ago..."

While He Hua was replying, Chen Mu stepped forward and asked, "Brother He, you really have no recollection of the scales you found yesterday? At that time... you seemed to have something to hide."

After hearing this, He Hua's eyes flashed, as if he suddenly realized something, and he replied straightforwardly: "I think I made a mistake. I ate a demon fish before, and the scales on it were similar to the one I saw yesterday. After careful identification, I found that it was not it."

Seeing his straightforward response, Chen Mu was moved, but he didn't show it on his face: "So that's how it is..."

After separating from He Hua, Chen Mu and Han Jing returned to their room. As soon as the door closed, Chen Mu looked towards Han Jing, only to find that Han Jing also looked at him immediately.

"Brother He has a problem!"

They both spoke at the same time, their eyes lighting up.

"Senior Brother He must be hiding something...but I don't know what it is or why he is hiding it." Han Jing said slowly.

Chen Mu said, "What puzzles me is, if this matter is related to Senior Brother He, then why did he report it to the sect?"

Han Jing also shook her head in confusion.

"How about this, we go back to the sect tomorrow..."

……

The next morning.

Chen Mu and the other man found He Hua and said goodbye to him.

"Senior Brother He, what happened to Wang Teng this time has exceeded our expectations. Junior Brother Chen and I will go back home and ask for instructions from our senior masters." Han Jing said with a bow.

He Hua looked embarrassed: "I've troubled you two junior brothers and sisters to make this trip for nothing. I made a wrong judgment..."

Chen Mu and the other man exchanged a few polite words with him, then called over the Liuyunhe crane and flew off into the distance.

He Hua looked at the two people gradually walking away, and a hint of relief appeared on his face.

He turned around and went back to the room, pressed a mortal mechanism, and a hole extending downwards appeared on the ground.

After walking a few dozen steps along the cave, we came to a dark room with flickering candlelight.

If Chen Mu were here at this moment, he would be able to see a pile of black snake scales in the corner of the dark room.

He Hua took two steps forward, picked up the snake scales on the ground and looked at them in his hand.

"What on earth is this? Why is it in my training room?" He frowned and muttered.

"Did I kill those two female cultivators... Impossible, it must be a coincidence!"

"I can't let my two junior brothers and sisters know about this. Otherwise, how will I answer if they ask me..."

Shaking his head, He Hua sat cross-legged on the bed, took out a jade slip, and prepared to start practicing.

"Thanks to this secret method, I was able to achieve a breakthrough in my cultivation."

He just made hand gestures with his hands, and suddenly a white light appeared around his body, making him look like an immortal.

He Hua looked at it twice and closed his eyes with satisfaction.

Soon, He Hua had a smile on his face and a lazy look, as if he had entered a happy dream.

After another stick of incense had passed, the faint white light that was originally shrouded in mist suddenly dimmed into gray, and then turned into black.

He Hua's expression remained unchanged, as if he didn't feel anything.

Time passes, candlelight flickers...it's getting dark.

He seemed to be invaded by a black glow, and his exposed skin gradually turned darker, reflecting a hint of coldness from time to time.

When it became as black as ink, dense white lines appeared, crisscrossing each other.

From a distance, it looks like... snake scales!
Despite such a sudden change in his body, He Hua still seemed to be immersed in a beautiful dream.

At this time, his changes also stopped, and the scales on his body were slightly opening with his breathing, which was very scary.

After a while, He Hua shuddered suddenly, and then opened his eyes. His pupils shrank and his round black pupils turned into pointed snake-tailed pupils with green light, full of madness and evil.

There were also bursts of shrill roars coming from within the body.

After a moment, he suddenly stood up, without even looking, and rushed out with extraordinary agility...

(End of this chapter)