Liu Luo gathered her spiritual power and walked outside. She saw a figure from a distance. He raised his voice and called out, "Zong Xiao!"
Zong Xiao was wearing a black bamboo hat. Hearing the sound, he turned around and held a xylophone in his hand.
He looked at Liu Luo and whispered, "Senior Brother Liu."
Zong Xiao said and handed the xylophone in his hand to Liu Luo, "The Qi Jue Qin has been repaired."
Liu Luo took it, played with it a bit, and then happily handed the reward to Zong Xiao.
Liu Luo frowned slightly when he saw Zong Xiao looking distracted, "Zong Xiao, what are you worried about? Is your master's injury not healed yet?"
"If it's because of this, I can ask my master to heal your master's injury."
After hearing Liu Luo's words, Zong Xiao still showed a bit of worry in his eyebrows, which showed that he was not worried about this.
Zong Xiao pursed his lips, his eyebrows were tangled, and there was a hint of hesitation in his tone.
"Senior Brother Liu, can you go out to the sect in the near future?"
Liu Luo was stunned for a moment, "How recently?"
"It may not be possible recently. I'm about to break through in the past few days. Master doesn't allow me to go down the mountain. If it's not urgent, I can leave the sect after I break through."
When Zong Xiao heard the answer, he fell silent instantly.
Liu Luo saw Zong Xiao's gloomy expression and couldn't help but worry, "Did something urgent happen?"
Zong Xiao frowned, his eyebrows lowered, and he said vaguely, "It's some tricky things, I need some help."
He sighed, looked up at Liu Luo, and raised the corners of his lips, "In this case, I won't disturb Senior Brother Liu. I wish Senior Brother Liu a successful breakthrough."
With that said, Zong Xiao was about to turn around and go down the mountain.
Liu Luo looked at Zong Xiao's back, frowned slightly, and suddenly shouted, "Zong Xiao."
Liu Luo's eyes flashed with worry. Zong Xiao was very strange today, which made him feel particularly uneasy.
"If you need help, you can go to a newly opened shop in the market at the foot of Wanfo Sect Mountain and find a female swordsman named Yu Shu."
"She has great swordsmanship and a nice person. If you give her some reward, she will probably help you."
Zong Xiao looked at Liu Luo, his eyebrows flashed, and he nodded slightly, "Thank you, Senior Brother Liu."
Zong Xiao cupped his hands and immediately went down the mountain.
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Zong Xiao raised his eyes and looked at Yu Shu, "That's it, Liu Luo said you can help."
Yu Shu suddenly said, "So you are a good friend of Senior Brother Liu."
Ji Jue tapped her tea cup with her finger, "Tell me the important points."
Zong Xiao heard the reputation and turned to Ji Jue, looking up and down at the sudden appearance of the person.
The meaning in his eyes was unclear, and his brows were lowered, as if he was making a decision.
The sound of Ji Jue's fingers tapping the teacup sounded intermittently, urging Zong Xiao like a bell.
Zong Xiao's eyelids were drooped, his Adam's apple rolled, and he said dryly, "There have been many casual cultivators dying one after another recently. I believe you should also know about it."
Yu Shu frowned, and she exchanged glances with Ji Jue and Li Sheng.
Then he looked at Zong Xiao and shook his head very honestly, "I haven't heard of it."
"Ah?" Zong Xiao's brewing emotions were instantly dispersed, his eyes widened slightly and he said in surprise.
"Don't you all know this?"
Yu Shu shook her head, "I really don't know."
She turned her head and looked at Li Sheng. Li Sheng was hanging out in the market, and he was the one most likely to know about him.
Li Ye narrowed his eyes and tried to think back, "I seem to have heard that there are some casual cultivators who I haven't heard from for a long time."
"As for life or death, I really don't know."
"We, all casual cultivators, work in our own camps, practice individually, and live and die by our fate."
Ji Jue frowned, a glimmer of light flashed in his eyes, and murmured in a low voice, "So that's it. If you attack a casual cultivator, it really won't be easy to be discovered in a short time."
He suddenly raised his eyes and looked at Zong Xiao, "Who is your master? Why did you become a demon? How long has it been?"
He asked the question three times in a row, until Zong Xiao was speechless.
After a long while, Zong Xiao smoothed things over and said slowly, "I'm sorry for the inconvenience of telling you the master's name. I hope you won't tell anyone about this matter."
He lowered his head slightly, looking a little sad, "I want to preserve my master's reputation."
After Zong Xiao finished speaking, the room was silent for a moment.
Li Cheng suddenly spoke up and said a little out of the blue, "Hey, you are quite filial to your master. You have thought about everything for him after his death."
The corners of Li Ye's lips curled up, and he couldn't help but burst into laughter.
This Zong Xiao is really interesting. On the one hand, he wants to kill his master, but at the same time, he also thinks about his master and wants to preserve his master's name.
He looked at Yu Shu and the others in a funny way, but found that everyone's expressions were not very relaxed.
Zong Xiao's face turned pale instantly.
Li Shan immediately realized that he had said the wrong thing, so he suppressed his smile, sat upright, and apologized in a low voice.
"That was not what I meant......"
Li Shan closed his mouth angrily. He didn't have a master. After his parents died, he had been alone all his life. He didn't understand Zong Xiao's complicated emotions at all.
Zong Xiao's fist hanging by his side suddenly tightened, and he gave a stiff smile, "No problem."
"My master is a well-known weapon refiner, and he was deeply in love with my master and his wife. However, my master had a hidden poison in her body, and she died of the poison a few years ago."
"My master has never been able to get out. Not long ago, my master disappeared for a while. When he came back, everything changed."
Zong Xiao's eyebrows furrowed, a trace of sadness flashed in his eyes, and his throat tightened. He continued with difficulty, "He seems to be practicing some kind of magic weapon. The casual cultivators who came to find the master to repair the magic weapon disappeared one after another."
"Maybe I haven't seen Master for a long time."
"Master probably had inner demons and fell into the devil's path..."
Zong Xiao's eyes immediately turned red.
Ji Jue's eyebrows wrinkled slightly, and a few complicated lights flashed in his eyes, "Is your master Hengjin?"
"Hengjin?!" Yu Shu's eyes showed a bit of surprise, "That Hengjin who is known as the 'Qian Ji Lian'?"
As long as you are a monk, there is no one who doesn't know Hengjin. He is a truly talented weapon refiner.
He jumped up the ranks and defeated the great master in the weapon refining world at that time, and became famous in one battle.
When Zong Xiao heard Ji Jue's words, he was suddenly startled. His eyes widened with a horrified expression on his face.
With this look, Ji Jue guessed the answer even if he didn't say anything.
Ji Jue lowered his eyes slightly and frowned, "Hengjin doesn't seem like someone who would be possessed by inner demons."
"How did you guess that?!"
A cold light flashed in Zong Xiao's eyes, and he looked at Ji Jue with unclear eyes, as if he was planning something.
Before Ji Jue could answer, Zong Xiao asked again in a deep voice, "Do you know my master?"
Ji Jue raised his eyebrows, "There are only a few famous weapon refiners in the entire Cultivation Continent, and there is also a Taoist couple who is secretly poisonous and deeply in love."
"Isn't it just that one?"
Ji Jue looked at Zong Xiao, with the word 'stupid' written nakedly in his eyes.
Ji Jue withdrew her gaze and responded to Zong Xiao's second question in a deep voice, "I have had several contacts with your master."
"So, you don't know what your master is doing?"
Zong Xiao's eyes flickered and he avoided answering.
Ji Jue's eyes suddenly became sharp and the corners of his lips raised, "You want to kill him if you don't know what he is doing?"
"Weird." Ji Jue sneered.
Zong Xiao avoided Ji Jue's sight, "You don't need to know the rest, just promise me to kill... Hengjin."
"Then keep it secret for me, and I will naturally give it to you the high-level magic weapon I promised you."
Ji Jue stood up, walked slowly to Zong Xiao, and looked at him condescendingly, "It's okay if you don't tell me, I will see for myself."
"If your master really falls into the devil's path, I will immediately rectify him on the spot without you having to say anything."
Zong Xiao clenched his fists hanging down by his sides, his long eyelashes flickered, his eyes were reddish, and his Adam's apple rolled, as if he was trying his best to endure something.
After a long while, he replied dryly, "That's great."
Ji Jue glanced at him and said, "We will gather here at Mao tomorrow and we will go with you..."
He raised his eyebrows and uttered four words coldly, "Kill, Heng, Jin."
As soon as these four words fell to the ground, Zong Xiao's face turned pale.
He lowered his eyes and said softly, "Okay."
Zong Xiao cupped his hands and arched his fists, "I'll take my leave first."
Then, Zong Xiao turned around and left, with a bit of panic in his back.
Yu Shu looked at Zong Xiao with a deep look, her brows furrowed, not knowing what she was thinking.
"Are we really going to kill his master tomorrow?" Li Sheng asked timidly.
Yu Shu raised her head and glanced at Ji Jue, "Master said to go, then we will go."
"But..." Yu Shu groaned and said hesitantly, "This Zong Xiao seems a little weird, and his speech is vague."
Ji Jue's eyebrows moved slightly, "It's really strange. He should know what his master is doing."
"It's okay, I'll find out if I go take a look tomorrow."
Li Shan's eyes wandered back and forth between the two of them, and when he saw this, he said, "Then do we have to prepare something? That Hengjin is so powerful."
Yu Shu raised her eyebrows slightly and looked at Li Shan, "Who said they would take you there?"
Li Ye's eyes widened slightly, his eyebrows furrowed, and he protested, "Why?!"
"I'm going to go even if I don't!"
"You don't know how to fight, so what are you doing here?" Yu Shu looked at Li Sheng and suddenly felt a little funny.
Li Shan pouted immediately, "I, I am very fast. If the situation is not right, I can still escape."
"And...and, I am more familiar with demonic energy than you are. When the time comes, I will know exactly what is going on in Hengjin when I take a look!!"
Li Shan frowned and racked his brains to find his own use.
A dark light flashed in Yu Shu's eyes. What Li Shan said made sense. He was very familiar with demonic energy.
She thought about it for a few times and felt a little moved in her heart.
Yu Shu looked up at Ji Jue, only to find that Ji Jue was also looking at her.
The two looked at each other and immediately agreed to Li Shan's request to travel with him. This chapter has been completed!