The Husky and His White Cat Shizun - Chap 195
Hearing someone call out to him, Ye Wangxi turned his head. Although her expression was haggard, her spirit was not as bad as Mo Ran had imagined.
Seeing Mo Ran, Ye Wangxi lowered his eyes and bowed to him. It was still the etiquette of a man. She could not change this habit and said, “Young Master Mo.”
Mo Ran looked at her and then looked at Nangong Si beside her.
He couldn’t help but ask, “You … where did you come from? Why are you all covered in blood …”
Ye Wangxi said, “We set out from Linyi and encountered evil spirits on the way. It’s unavoidable that our clothes are disheveled. Sorry.”
Mo Ran was about to ask again when Xue Zhengyong said, “Ran ‘er came? That’s good. Come in and talk. ”
After Chu Wanning entered the room, he no longer looked at Mo Ran. Instead, he sat in his own seat, tidied his clothes, and looked at Nangong Si.
Although he and Nangong Si were not master and disciple in name, he had the grace of enlightening him. He looked at Nangong Si for a moment and couldn’t help but feel sour in his heart. However, he only asked a simple question, “… Are you all well?”
Since the destruction of the Confucian Wind Sect, this was the first time someone had seen them and asked if they were well.
Nangong Si’s eyes immediately reddened. He suddenly lowered his head and clenched his hands into fists. He closed his eyes and endured for a long time before he resisted the urge to cry in front of Chu Wanning. He said hoarsely, “No, no, we’re all well.”
Chu Wanning sighed softly and lowered his eyes. He didn’t say anything else.
He didn’t believe Nangong Si’s words. The road to Linyi was long. How could these two young people not have suffered?
Xue Zhengyong was very distressed and helped explain, “Yuheng, you didn’t come just now. It’s like this. Young Master Nangong and Miss Ye found some clues and specially came to tell us.”
“I heard. It’s related to Xu Shuanglin?”
“En.”
Chu Wanning said, “Let’s sit and talk.”
Mo Ran went to bring chairs over, but Nangong Si and Ye Wangxi felt that they were dirty and smelly, so they were unwilling to sit. Chu Wanning didn’t force them. After a pause, he asked, “After we parted ways in Linyi, where did you go afterwards?”
Nangong Si said, “Ye Wangxi and I were forced to take shelter to Mount Wei. a river.. He paused for a moment before continuing, “Mount Wei is a desolate place, so it’s inconvenient to send messages. Ye Wangxi was also injured, so after the fire was extinguished, we rested for a while before returning … returning to Confucian Wind Sect.”
Now that she heard Nangong Si mention this sect that she had thrown herself into when she first entered the secular world, things were still the same, but the people had changed. Chu Wanning didn’t know what to feel either. After a while, she sighed and said, “That place should be barren.”
. “” Grandmaster, you’re right. It’s true that it’s barren, but some things crawled out of the ruins. ”
Chu Wanning looked up and asked, “What?”
“These bugs.”
Nangong Si opened a bloodstained bag in front of him. It was half open and the other half half open. It was filled with buzzing bugs. There were black spots on their green shells. There were three big spots and two small spots in total. The bugs’ tails emitted a faint smell of blood. Most of the insects were still in the bag, as if they were afraid of the light. But a few of them had flown out and landed on the walls and pillars of the Dan Xin Palace. They left streaks of blood wherever they crawled.
Mo Ran recognized these bugs. They were Soul-Eating Bugs.
These bugs only lived in the blood pool near Linyi’s Confucian Wind Sect. They were half-dead bugs that ate human flesh and souls to survive.
Almost all the Elders found these bugs extremely disgusting. Lucun even covered his nose and mouth with a handkerchief. He couldn’t stand the stench.
“We found these Soul-Eating Bugs in the ruins.” Nangong Si said, “I thought they were attracted by the bugs in the blood pool nearby, so some flew here. But later I found that wasn’t the case.”
“What do you mean?”
“There were too many bugs. Ye Wangxi and I walked through the 72 cities of Confucian Wind Sect. There were Soul-Eating Bugs in the cracks of the bricks, in the mud, and in the ashes. We felt something was wrong. After careful inspection, we found not only adults, but also larvae. … Grandmaster, you should understand what I mean. ”
Chu Wanning didn’t understand Gu bugs. At first, he was a little startled, but after thinking about it carefully, he figured it out.
The blood pool was next to Mount Wei, separated from Linyi by a big river. Soul-Eating Bugs had weak wings. It made sense that some of the adult bugs would rush over when they smelled the scent of the dead. But what about the larvae?
How could the larvae have legs to swim across the river and mountains? How could they come to the scorched earth of Confucian Wind Sect by themselves?
Chu Wanning frowned and said, “Someone put them here in advance?”
“Yes, that’s what I think.”
Elder Tanlang listened from the side and suddenly understood. “These Soul-Eating Bugs can store spiritual power. After the disaster, resentful spirits were everywhere. There were many cultivators in Linyi. When the bugs ate the cultivators’ souls, they became seeds that stored spiritual power of different attributes. With these tens of thousands of seeds, you can activate most of the formations without using your own spells. ”
Then who was the one who put the bugs here? Who could predict the disaster in Linyi in advance? Who needed the spiritual power of the outside world?
No one answered, but the answer was self-evident.
There was only the initiator, Xu Shuanglin. Or should I call him by his original name, Nan Gongxu?
Xue Zhengyong said, “So during this time in the Upper and Lower Cultivation World, we’ve been looking for Xu Shuanglin with traces of magic. In the end, he didn’t use his own power at all, but the bugs’?”
Nangong Si said, “Yes, that’s true.”
Xue Zhengyong muttered, “Well … detection magic can only detect people. It’s true that it can’t detect traces of beasts or demons. If Xu Shuanglin used this method, he could indeed hide his tracks for a long time. ”
He then asked Tanlang, “Can we find Xu Shuanglin’s whereabouts by tracking the bugs?”
Tanlang said, “That’s impossible. The Soul-Eating Bugs go down to the Netherworld. After eating enough soul fragments, they all go underground. We can’t find them at all.”
Hearing this, Xue Zhengyong suddenly thought of something and said, “Since they’re going to the Netherworld, why don’t we ask Master Huaizui? He should know something about the Ghost World. ”
Chu Wanning immediately said, “There’s no need to ask him.”
“Why?”
“It’s useless to look for him.” Chu Wanning said, “He doesn’t want to interfere in the mortal world. He won’t say anything.”
Chu Wanning was once Huaizui’s direct disciple. At this moment, he said this with such certainty. Although everyone was puzzled, they couldn’t say anything. The hall instantly fell into silence.
After a while, Xue Zhengyong muttered, “Then what should we do? Since Xu Shuanglin can use the spirit energy of the Gu worms to avoid the search, it’s useless no matter how we investigate. Are we just going to let him do as he pleases? ”
Chu Wanning suggested, “Can we change the way we search?”
“What do you mean?”
“Lord, when Xu Shuanglin left, he took three things with him. Do you remember what they were?”
Xue Zhengyong counted them one by one: “Luo Fenghua’s spirit core, Nangong …” He glanced at Nangong Si and sighed inwardly, softening his voice, “Sect Leader Nangong, and the Divine Martial.”
Chu Wanning said, “Good, a person always has a reason for doing things. When he was in a hurry to escape, he still insisted on taking these three things with him. He definitely wasn’t doing this because he was bored. Then, in Lord’s opinion, why did Xu Shuanglin take his elder brother away? ”
“Hmm … revenge?”
“Then why did he take the Divine Martial?”
Xue Zhengyong thought for a while: “Using the five types of pure spirit energy to tear open the Ghost World’s crack.”
“He tore open the Ghost World’s crack to obtain Luo Fenghua’s spirit core.” Chu Wanning said, “He didn’t need to tear it open a second time.”
“Then why did he do it?”
Chu Wanning said, “I think there’s a possibility that he did it for the Art of Rebirth.”
Xue Zhengyong was stunned for a moment: “But the Art of Rebirth … can be performed without the five types of pure spirit energy. Didn’t Master Huaizui perform it before?”
Chu Wanning shook his head: “Huaizui once said that the Art of Rebirth in this world isn’t completely the same, so Lord doesn’t need to use his as a reference.”
When Tanlang heard this, he sneered: “Elder Yu Heng, you have no evidence, so how dare you make wild guesses that Xu Shuanglin did all this to cultivate the Forbidden Art of Rebirth?”
Chu Wanning said, “Based on the last thing he took away, Luo Fenghua’s spirit core.”
In the main hall, Chu Wanning’s voice was steady and low, orderly.
“Many years ago, I once interrogated a girl who died unjustly in Colorful Butterfly Town. When the girl was young, she met a madman who was covered in blood. He gave her oranges to eat and said that her eyes looked like an old friend of his. That madman also said one last sentence: If there is a man in Linyi, his heart is already dead at twenty.”
At twenty years old, that was the age when Nan Gongxu was framed and criticized by everyone, never to be able to turn over a new leaf.
During that year’s Soul Mountain Conference, he was high-spirited and proud. He felt that as long as he relied on his talent and lifetime of hard work, he would be able to obtain fairness and justice and everything that he deserved.
However, despite all his hard work, he only received a lifetime of infamy.
With a sharp blade in his hand and ambition in his heart, he couldn’t win against his brother’s eloquent words and flattery.
He hated.
He hated so much that he couldn’t seek redress. Everyone laughed at him, criticized him, and spurned him.
In the end, the living became the dead, and the dead became the evil spirit.
The evil spirit crawled out of the blood of hatred on the mountain and wanted to seek justice from all the righteous people in the world.
“Needless to say, this madman is Xu Shuanglin. Then, who is his old friend? Who does Luo Xianxian’s eyes look like? ”
“They look alike and have the same surname …” Xue Zhengyong was stunned. “Could it be Luo Fenghua?”
Chu Wanning said, “I think it should be Luo Fenghua. At the bottom of Jincheng Lake, Xu Shuanglin tried two spells, the Exquisite Chess Game and Rebirth. The Exquisite Chess Game was to manipulate others, but who was Rebirth for? He only took two bodies, Sect Leader Nangong’s and Luo Fenghua’s. It can’t be for Sect Leader Nangong’s. ”
Xue Zhengyong muttered, “But why did he resurrect Luo Fenghua? Wasn’t Luo Fenghua the one who framed him? ”
“It’s hard to predict people’s minds. Don’t talk nonsense.” Chu Wanning said, “But I can’t think of any other reason why he took Luo Fenghua’s body, other than to resurrect it.”
Everyone was silent. After thinking carefully, they all felt that Chu Wanning’s analysis was indeed correct, but there was still no evidence. In the end, these were only their inferences. The answer to this question could only be answered by Xu Shuanglin, who was hiding somewhere at this moment.
After the meeting, Mo Ran thought for a long time. That night, he went to the warm room to find Xue Zhengyong.
Xue Zhengyong was looking through ancient books, looking for something related to the “Soul-Eating Insect”, hoping to find some clues to track down Xu Shuanglin’s whereabouts.
“Uncle.”
“Ran ‘er? It’s so late. Why aren’t you sleeping? ”
“I can’t sleep. I have something to ask uncle.”
Xue Zhengyong raised his chin and motioned for him to sit down. Mo Ran didn’t beat around the bush and asked directly, “Uncle, do you know what kind of person Luo Fenghua … Xu Shuanglin’s master is?”
“Luo Fenghua.” Xue Zhengyong frowned and thought hard for a long time, then shook his head. “I have little contact with him, so I can’t tell you the details. He’s probably … upright, resolute, fair, a man of few words, but he has a good temper. He’s also bold in doing things and won’t drag his feet. When he was the head of the Confucian Wind School, he even sent disciples to the Lower Cultivation World to kill demons.”
Mo Ran said, “So, in short, except for seizing the position of the head of the Nangong family, he has no other faults, right?”
Xue Zhengyong sighed. “That’s right. He’s not only a good person, but he’s also a good person. I don’t understand why a person like him would put such a heavy curse on his disciple.”
Mo Ran pondered for a moment and suddenly said, “Uncle, don’t you think your description of Luo Fenghua is a bit like a person?”
Xue Zhengyong was stunned. “You mean Yu Heng? … Come on, Yu Heng doesn’t have a good temper. ”
“No, it’s someone else.”
“Who?”
Mo Ran said, “Ye Wangxi.”
“Ah …” Xue Zhengyong slowly opened his eyes wide. He silently chewed on the three words between his lips and tongue, then slowly said, “Ye Wangxi …”
This person was benevolent and resolute, tenacious and unyielding. He was indeed very similar to Luo Fenghua, who had only been the head of the school for a short year or so.
“Do you?”
“… Yes.” Xue Zhengyong was gradually surprised. Because Ye Wangxi and Luo Fenghua were of different genders, and their ages were also very different. Their statuses in the Confucian Wind Sect were also different, so he had never compared the two of them together. Now that Mo Ran pointed this out, he was shocked to realize that the two of them were practically carved from the same mold, exactly the same.
The more Xue Zhengyong thought about it, the more shocked he became. The memories that had been buried for a long time surfaced one by one. He could even vaguely remember that when Luo Fenghua was still a guest elder of the Confucian Wind Sect, the clothes he wore were extremely similar to what Ye Wangxi was used to wearing.
There was also the way the two of them talked and acted, the way they spoke.
Even the way they drew the bow — —
When he was young, he had also seen Luo Fenghua draw the bow. At that time, it was to celebrate Nangong Liu’s birthday, and the Confucian Wind Sect had also invited the two brothers of the Xue Family. Xue Zhengyong remembered that in the midst of the flying snow, Luo Fenghua only held the bowstring tightly with three fingers, his little finger pulled taut, and the arrow whizzed through the air, cutting through the vast expanse of white snow. A Snow Demon Rabbit a hundred steps away fell to the ground.
The surrounding people were praising his amazing archery skills, but Luo Fenghua just smiled gently. He casually held the bow and arrow in his left hand, his fingertips subconsciously rubbing the body of the bowstring.
It was a set of natural movements, free and unfettered. The final ending was also different from other people’s majestic and grand movements.
Xue Zhengyong watched from the side and felt that it was breathtaking, so he remembered it in his heart.
At this moment, he suddenly remembered that during the Battle of the Heavens Splitting Sky, Ye Wangxi and Nangong Si used the bow and arrow together. Nangong Si’s arrows were swift and fierce, but Xue Zhengyong didn’t have much of an impression of them. On the other hand, Ye Wangxi, after a round of Flying Feather Arrows, would habitually hold the bow in his left arm and hold it in his right hand, his fingertips subconsciously rubbing the bowstring.
At that time, Xue Zhengyong couldn’t help but take a few more glances, as if that gentle and smooth, confident and at ease posture was very similar to a certain person.
He suddenly slapped his forehead and said, “Aiya, it’s true … it’s true, it’s true, it’s true! It’s exactly the same! ”
Mo Ran raised his eyebrows and said, “What’s exactly the same?”
“The way Luo Fenghua shoots the arrow is simply too similar to Ye Wangxi, exactly the same, exactly the same!”
Mo Ran looked at Xue Zhengyong’s amazed expression and couldn’t help but laugh, but he said, “Uncle’s words are wrong.”
“Ah? What’s wrong? ”
Mo Ran said, “Cause and effect are wrong.”
“Cause and effect?”
“Yes, it’s not that Luo Fenghua looks like Ye Wangxi.” Mo Ran sighed and said, “It’s Ye Wangxi, very much like Luo Fenghua.”
When he said this, the luster in his eyes was very bright. He felt that this time, he could finally be sure that he hadn’t guessed wrong: Xu Shuanglin’s rebirth technique was to revive Luo Fenghua.
Although he didn’t know how many secrets were hidden in the Confucian Wind Sect’s past, in two lifetimes, Xu Shuanglin was willing to die for Ye Wangxi. In this life, he had betrayed the Confucian Wind Sect, but he didn’t betray her. Why?
He didn’t think that Xu Shuanglin simply didn’t have the heart to kill Ye Wangxi because she was his adopted daughter.
Xu Shuanglin appeared to be very free and easy. He said something like ‘there are men in Linyi, twenty hearts are already dead’. He named the place he lived in ‘Sansheng Bie Courtyard’. It was as if he had forgotten all about his past. Even when he gave his adopted daughter a name, it was so blatant.
Forget the past.
Forget the past, forget the past, forget the past, forget the past hatred, and forget the kindness.
But Xu Shuanglin had unwittingly cultivated Ye Wangxi into that unforgettable reflection. He had raised this abandoned orphan into the appearance of another person.
This person, who earnestly wanted to forget all of the past, might have been living in the mire of memories from the beginning to the end.
At this point, Mo Ran had a vague guess in his heart. Probably because he had also gone crazy in the darkness, he felt that his prediction of Xu Shuanglin’s actions should be more accurate than others. However, it wasn’t convenient for him to say these thoughts to others. He could only guess and wait and see.
The next day, Xue Zhengyong, who had flipped through the ancient books to no avail, summoned the crowd again. He said, “Poisonous insects and strange beasts are Lonemoon’s strong points. Why don’t we first report to Jiang Xi that we found Soul-Devouring Insects in the old site of the Confucian Wind Sect?”
Xuanji agreed. “The world’s number one medicine master, Cold Scale Divine Hand, is under Jiang Xi. Let him think of a way to investigate. It shouldn’t be wrong.”
But Chu Wanning frowned and asked Ye Wangxi, “Miss Ye, since you were young, have you ever seen your adopted father raise any poisonous insects or beasts?”
“No.”
“Then what about medical skills and beast taming skills? Have you dabbled in them? ”
“He … only raised a parrot. Not to mention strange beasts and strange beasts, he didn’t even have the heart to take in an ordinary puppy. His medical skills are even worse.”
After hearing this, Chu Wanning said to Xue Zhengyong, “Don’t tell Lonemoon about the Soul-Devouring Insects first.”
“Why?”
“Since Xu Shuanglin isn’t good at medical skills or beast taming skills, then the one who fed and controlled the Gu worms might not be him. It’s most likely the hand that reached out from the last crack.”
“You suspect that Lonemoon …”
“Don’t jump to conclusions.” Chu Wanning said, “But it’s always right to be cautious.”
