Xuanxia

Chapter 267 Siblings
"That's what it is."

Fu Qingzhou swayed on horseback and said leisurely, "I went around the Wulin Alliance, suspected Alliance Leader Jiang, met three great guests, and finally was cheated of dozens of taels of silver by an old charlatan and was scolded by Master Wu..."

Ning Wushu chuckled: "At least you know that Alliance Leader Jiang is not a suspect, and you also know that Master Wu is safe."

"Yes."

Fu Qingzhou touched his half-healed right leg injury and said helplessly: "I also know that there is a third party mysterious person who likes to hire assassins."

Ning Wushu nodded slightly: "This person knows a lot about the whereabouts and plans of the little prince of Beiyi. If we find him, our work will be much easier."

As they were talking, a cold wind blew from the front, startling the horses under their crotches and causing them to breathe heavily in anxiety.

Mass grave, here we are.

Almost every big city or small town has such a mass grave. In this era, there are too many unknown people who died in a foreign land. If the body is left at the government office for seven days and still no relatives claim it, and no one knows who it is, then they can only be wrapped in a straw mat and buried here.

There are also some poor people who have no land or farmland, and don’t even have a place to bury their relatives. A mass grave is the best choice. At least they can build a grave here without worrying about occupying other people’s land.

The two men dismounted and slowly walked toward the mass grave.

In the dark night ahead, there were faint flashes of ghost lights.

The dark blue flame floated in the air, looking quite strange and terrifying.

"Who is playing tricks?" Ning Wushu frowned and reached for the big bow behind him.

"Don't worry."

Fu Qingzhou stopped her: "Xia Tian, ​​normal."

Ning Wushu: "What does this mean?"

"It's a mass grave, with lots of corpses. The various substances in the corpses undergo decomposition reactions, and some phosphorus elements will generate phosphine gas under certain conditions."

Fu Qingzhou smiled and said, "Phosphine is often mixed with diphosphine, and diphosphine has a very low ignition point. It is enough to spontaneously combust when it encounters oxygen at room temperature, not to mention on a hot summer day."

Ning Wushu: "Ah? Did you just speak Dayan Mandarin?"

"I'm talking about chemical knowledge..." Fu Qingzhou coughed lightly: "Anyway, it's no big deal, it's normal, don't be nervous."

People who have opened their martial arts acupoints have very strong eyesight. Although it is extremely dark at night, they can still roughly see the surrounding terrain with the help of the phosphorescent light of the ghost fire.

"What kind of person would choose to meet and chat here?"

Fu Qingzhou said helplessly: "Don't you think it's weird?"

"It's quite strange to hire a killer from Xiyu Pavilion to protect someone." Ning Wushu also frowned slightly: "This kind of behavior is not like a normal person."

Fu Qingzhou laughed: "You're right, I don't think this guy is a good person either."

"Humph, I don't think you are a good person!"

Just then, a voice suddenly came from a distance, and it sounded like a young man.

Fu Qingzhou raised his eyebrows: "Why does this voice sound familiar?"

The two looked in the direction where the sound came from - they saw two figures walking slowly in the darkness.

Soon, two figures appeared, a man and a woman, but they were both acquaintances!

The woman was no one else but Murong Xuan, who had attacked and killed the Northern Barbarians in the grove the day before. She still looked like a female ghost, her clothes were torn and dirty, she was too thin and pale to look like a living person, which fitted in very well with the surrounding scene.

And the man was none other than the elegant young man that Fu Qingzhou saw today, who came out of Jiang Baichuan Tea House!
"Is it you?"

Fu Qingzhou was slightly surprised: "Are you together?"

"It turned out to be them."

Ning Wushu first showed a look of realization, then curled his lips and smiled: "Murong sister and brother."

"Sister and brother?" Fu Qingzhou seemed to understand something: "That young man, is he Murong Xuan's brother?"

"Yes, Murong Xuan has some reputation in the martial arts world, but most people don't know her brother Murong Yu." Ning Wushu chuckled: "The two of them were originally royal family of a small country in the northern border. Later, they encountered an invasion by the northern barbarians, and their country was destroyed and their families were ruined..."

The young man Murong Yu interrupted her halfway through her words with a cold snort, "Our country has its own name! My sister and I are descendants of the royal family of Dayue Country!"

As they were talking, the brother and sister had already approached.

"So, it was you who hired assassins from Xiyu Pavilion to sabotage the Beiyi people's plan?" Fu Qingzhou narrowed his eyes and looked at Murong Yu, then cast his gaze on Murong Xuan: "Your sister is so powerful, why did you hire assassins?"

"I just want to kill people."

The one who spoke was Murong Xuan, her voice was hoarse and sharp: "As for protecting people, I'm not interested."

Murong Yu took over the conversation and said calmly: "As long as Xiyu Pavilion accepts a mission, it will complete it at all costs, regardless of the reason or good or evil. It is the best partner in the world, so why not use it?"

Fu Qingzhou smiled and said, "Interesting... You know Alliance Leader Jiang, and you have a grudge against the Northern Barbarians. So when you heard that the Northern Barbarians were coming, you got involved in this matter? No... That's not the case."

He tilted his head and analyzed, "Alliance Leader Jiang doesn't seem to know much about this matter. But you, whether it was the Northern Barbarians sending people to kill Lady Ning or they were going to attack Master Wu, you were one step ahead of them and knew their plans in advance..."

"…Did you leak the information about the immortality pill?"

Fu Qingzhou said word by word: "You two want to lure the northern barbarians here to complete your revenge!"

As soon as these words came out, Ning Wushu beside him looked stern.

On the contrary, Murong siblings smiled at the same time.

"How smart."

Murong Yu chuckled and said, "But there is one thing you are wrong about."

Murong Xuan took over her brother's words and said with a sinister smile: "There is no immortality pill at all." Fu Qingzhou understood instantly, but before he could speak, Ning Wushu was shocked: "You made up this news!"

The Murong siblings smiled in a sinister and satisfied manner.

"So you guys are the ones who did all this."

Fu Qingzhou shook his head and said, "Then I am confused. Since you want to destroy the Beiyi people's plan and you know that Lady Ning is here, why don't you contact her? With her identity, is it possible that she can't help you?"

This time, before the Murong siblings could say anything, Ning Wushu had already sneered.

"Since it's them, then the reason is simple."

She said slowly: "Because the destruction of Dayue Kingdom by the Northern Barbarians was part of the plan made by the Dayan court."

Fu Qingzhou was startled and turned to look at her.

Murong Yu sneered: "That's right! Although the Northern Barbarians have long been eyeing our Dayue, if it weren't for you Yan people, all this wouldn't have happened so quickly! We don't want to vent our anger on you, but it's impossible for us to cooperate with you!"

"Absolutely impossible?"

Ning Wushu also sneered: "You have attracted Mannar, but do you have the ability to kill him? No, not only do you not have this ability, but you are also worried that Mannar will cause trouble in Luoyi and we Yan people will cause trouble for you! Otherwise, why would you hire a killer to do the job?"

"You have to cooperate now even if you don't want to!"

Fu Qingzhou felt a headache after hearing this: "Alright, alright, I'm not interested in these grudges, let's talk business... let me make a guess."

He paced a few steps on the spot and quickly sorted out his thoughts.

Then, he pointed at the Murong siblings and said, "It was you who deliberately brought in the Northern Barbarians' royal family in order to seek revenge."

As he spoke, he glanced at Ning Wushu again: "But at the same time, you siblings don't have the ability to kill the little prince directly, so you have to sabotage the little prince's plan to prevent him from making a big fuss and causing more trouble for you."

Then he pointed at himself and said, "Then I showed up again, and you were afraid that I would mess up your plans...so you decided to meet us and cooperate with us?"

"more or less."

Murong Yu interrupted him and said helplessly: "When I met you at the Wulin Alliance headquarters today, I noticed that you had a strange attitude and suspicious behavior. Later, Xiyu Pavilion reported that you tried to get close to Master Wu. I thought you were a helper sent by the Northern Barbarians."

Fu Qingzhou: “?”

"Fortunately, my sister saw you the night before yesterday."

Murong Yu shook his head: "After we checked with each other, we realized that you are not the enemy, otherwise it would not be us who came now, but the assassins from Xiyu Pavilion."

Fu Qingzhou: "... Come on, that stubborn guy you guys almost targeted me and killed me."

"Alright." Ning Wushu said, "You two deliberately lured the Northern Barbarians to the Central Plains for revenge. We will discuss this matter later. Since you can grasp Mannar's whereabouts, you'd better tell me immediately!"

She raised her brows and said in a very serious tone: "Now Luoyi is a mixed crowd with many people. If the Northern Barbarians cause trouble, I want to see how you end up!"

After hearing this, the Murong siblings looked at each other.

"That's where the problem lies..."

Murong Yu said in a depressed voice: "My sister lost Mannar."

Fu Qingzhou: “…”

Ning Wushu was furious: "You!"

"Okay, okay, don't get angry yet. There is a way." Fu Qingzhou said a few words of comfort and turned to Murong Yu: "Is this why you came to see us tonight? Can you tell me what's going on with the little prince of Beiyi?"

After a moment of silence, Murong Xuan said in a hoarse voice: "He was originally hiding in the suburbs of Luoyi City, but there is a seventh-level shaman with him. I have no guarantee to kill him."

"Our plan was to weaken his forces and force him to send the shaman to the Wulin Alliance to rob people and steal the elixir..."

"There are countless strong men in the Wulin Alliance, so that man will definitely not succeed. At the same time, Mannar has lost his guards, so I can kill him."

"But today, when I was secretly following him, I found that Mannar was no longer in his original hiding place. All clues and traces had disappeared. I realized that I had lost him."

Fu Qingzhou and Ning Wushu looked at each other, both of them looked helpless.

"It should be because of the continuous failures in the operations and the loss of manpower in the past two days, he realized that something was wrong."

Ning Wushu said softly: "I'm afraid he will take more drastic measures."

"That's not difficult."

Fu Qingzhou thought, "The best way is to make him believe that the Immortality Pill is well protected by the Wulin Alliance and there is no possibility of taking action. But at the same time, we must give him hope and make him believe that the reward for the top spot in the Hidden Dragon Hundred Heroes Conference is this pill."

"In this way, he will not easily take action before the conference, but will wait until the conference, when the so-called divine pill appears, before they try to snatch it - by then we will be ready to ambush him, and he will have nowhere to escape."

A few words and a plan made the other three nod slightly.

"This plan is simple, but very effective. I agree." Ning Wushu said, "But the key is, how to publicize this matter? If there is no Everlasting Life Pill at all, but the news is flying everywhere, will the Wulin Alliance refute the rumor?"

"Well..."

Fu Qingzhou scratched his head and asked, "Are you still not going to let Alliance Leader Jiang know? I think he will know about this sooner or later."

"..."

Ning Wushu was silent for a moment, then slowly said, "In that case, I will go find him, and I will handle the situation on my own. But even if the Wulin Alliance does not refute the rumor, how can you convince everyone that the Immortal Pill is the reward for winning the Qianlong Baijie Association? And if the final reward is not this pill, wouldn't it damage the reputation of the Wulin Alliance?"

At this point, she smiled slightly: "I remember that you have a very good relationship with the Young Alliance Leader. If this damages the reputation of the Wulin Alliance, it is not what you want, right?"

Fu Qingzhou laughed: "Oh, this is easy, I have a way."

(End of this chapter)