After the killer who asked about the sixth level of heaven fell, the middle-aged women and young men did not escape the disaster.
Of the five cultivators who had reached the realm, only the master of Yin Beast was left alive, but he was sealed away by Bayan Zhensuo.
The trees fell and the hozens dispersed. Seeing that there was nothing they could do, a large number of bandits wanted to flee.
However, they had already seen Gu Chen's true strength, how could Gu Chen let them leave smoothly?
Needless to say, Gu Chen said that Wuli was frantically encircling and suppressing the remaining bandits. Without the Taoist cultivators, they were vulnerable. The scene was just a bloody massacre.
The Shadow Guards, who were lucky enough to survive, saw five emperors fall one after another in a short period of time. They were greatly shocked in their hearts, but they were more happy about the aftermath of the disaster.
He helped clean up the battlefield until the entire starry sky was silent. Apart from the corpses on the ground, only he, Gu Chen, Wu Li and the captive Yin Beast Master were left.
"Thank you, Mr. Gu, for saving your life!"
After the war, the shadow guard immediately saluted Gu Chen, feeling very uneasy.
Before today, his impression of Mr. Gu was limited to words such as "defeated and imprisoned prison star" and "bereaved dog".
Because of this, to be honest, he was actually a little dismissive in his heart.
However, the battle just now completely subverted his original imagination, and made him realize that Mr. Gu, who had developed an extraordinary sense of smell in the film department for many years, had been hiding his strength!
Because Mr. Gu hid his strength, he managed to escape today, but because his true strength was revealed, he felt a little worried now. Mr. Gu wouldn't kill people and silence them, right?
In addition, even if Master Gu did not kill him, thinking of the person who arranged this killing would make him feel very heavy and his future would be bleak.
"There will be an ambush on the road. You guys already knew about it, right?"
Gu Chen looked at the shadow guard and asked coldly.
In this moment, he had figured out the whole idea of the matter, but it needed to be verified.
"A few of us were worried, but we didn't expect that Master Peng would even dare to kill Master Gu, and what he did was so ruthless."
The shadow guard was surprised for a moment, then smiled bitterly and answered truthfully.
"Master Gu, this person is more likely to be a spy sent by Peng Fu."
Wuli walked over at this time, his eyes unkind.
The route back to Xingjun was arranged by Peng Fu, and this shadow guard was Peng Fu's. Even if several of his companions died in the previous explosion, it still could not prove his innocence.
"No, Master Gu, I was also persecuted!"
Shadow Guard felt anxious when he felt Wuli's murderous intent, and hurriedly explained.
Gu Chen waved his hand to signal him to shut up. "I have my own opinion on whether you are innocent or not. Just answer my questions honestly."
The shadow guard immediately shut up, feeling panicked.
"Why did Peng Fu want to kill you?" Gu Chen asked first.
When he was still in the Forest of Star Sea, he noticed that several shadow guards were restless, as if they had an omen.
When the spaceship exploded, his consciousness also noticed that the source of the explosion was another shadow guard.
The shadow guard was poisoned with a vicious spell, and his body exploded on the way, directly implicating the entire spaceship.
The person in front of me reacted quickly enough at the time and had good cultivation skills, so he luckily escaped.
Because he had witnessed the other party's narrow escape from death, Gu Chen didn't think that everything before was just an act and that he was Peng Fu's spy.
So, here comes the crux of the question, why did Peng Fu want to kill him and several shadow guards together?
The shadow guard felt a lot relieved when he heard that Gu Chen's tone seemed to trust him. At this moment, he hated Peng Fu deeply and couldn't help but tell him in detail.
"We didn't make any mistakes. If we made any mistakes, it was because we knew too much."
"Master Gu was sent to rescue Master Peng. He must also know about Master Peng's disappearance. In fact, several of us were arrested together with Master Peng at that time."
Gu Chen's eyes narrowed for a moment. The information given to him by the shadow department only said that Peng Fu was missing and did not mention the other shadow guards.
This may be because the film department felt that these shadow guards were too low-level and irrelevant, or it may be that they did not know that the shadow guards were with Peng Fu at the time, so they did not investigate their whereabouts in detail.
"Dignified Tianying, who captured him?" Wuli frowned next to him.
"It's the Xuanwu that controls the world. Mr. Peng was passing by the longevity world at that time. He didn't know what he sensed. He came to find a few of us to investigate the whereabouts of the Xuanwu that controls the world."
"Unexpectedly, that Xuanwu was so cunning that he noticed this and set up a trap to catch us and Mr. Peng, imprisoning us in the Forest of Star Sea."
"We were imprisoned for several months after that, and Xuanwu didn't kill us. Instead, he often chatted privately with Mr. Peng."
"Not long ago, all of us were suddenly released. We secretly speculated that Mr. Peng had reached some kind of deal with that Xuanwu."
Gu Chen listened carefully and finally understood where Peng Fu had been during this time.
"After we were released, we soon received news that the headquarters sent you, Mr. Gu. Mr. Peng was quite unhappy when he found out, so he sent us to the Film Department's headquarters in the longevity world."
"Master Peng asked us to keep silent about our previous imprisonment, and also asked us to send a message to Master Gu to hand over the mission and return to Xingjun."
"In addition, he wants us to cut off all intelligence channels for Mr. Gu."
"We didn't dare to disobey it. We did everything according to Master Peng's instructions, but we still have many doubts in our hearts."
"Master Peng's behavior has become more and more bizarre. Just a few days ago, he even asked us to destroy all connections between the hall and the headquarters."
"These things violated the regulations of the film department headquarters. We had some speculations in our minds, so when Mr. Peng asked us to escort Mr. Gu back to Xingjun, we felt extremely uneasy."
When the shadow guard said this, hatred flashed in his eyes. "We originally thought that with Master Gu here, Master Peng would not be able to do anything. As long as we leave the longevity world, we should be safe."
"Who would have thought that he has already secretly moved his hands and feet to kill us all!"
The few people who died were all his brothers through life and death, so the surviving shadow guard inevitably hated Peng Fu deeply.
Although he tried his best to hide this feeling of hatred, Gu Chen was still keenly aware of it.
Wuli listened to the whole story and said to Gu Chen in surprise, "Master Gu, has Peng Fu rebelled against Xingjun?"
Gu Chen was silent, but he was already sure of the answer in his heart.
"I don't understand why Mr. Peng did this. Could it be that he was threatened by the Xuanwu who controlled the world?"
The shadow guard gritted his teeth and said, "Xingjun is such a giant, and Peng Fu is one of the shadows in the shadow department. He has a high position and has no reason to rebel."
He actually knew very little about the whole thing, but Gu Chen knew the deeper reason and was not surprised.