Shushan: Extinction

Chapter 150: The backer is actually the murderer?
The price of this incense is not cheap either, it costs as much as forty spirit stones.

The smoke from the cigarette floated into the divination tube without a drop leaking out.

Then a light flashed in the hexagram tube, and soon a three-inch-long pen phantom appeared, which quickly wrote a poem in the air:

The arrogant man met his doom, and the ferocious beast with many eyes cried out with bloody mouth.

The wind in the forest sounds sad, and the fog on the mountain top is as cold as loneliness.

Unexpectedly, there were big changes in the war, and I didn't check carefully and ignored it.
It is hard to look back to see the heroic spirit gone, and it is in vain to sigh with unfulfilled ambitions.

After the pen illusion hurriedly finished writing, it disappeared directly into the air. Xue Mingchuan frowned when he saw it.

The verdict written on the Zhufen Guatong was actually very clear. This disciple died in the mouth of a ferocious beast in this secret realm, which was obviously different from his previous judgment.

In fact, from the perspective of hindsight, this verdict also points out the behavior of Gong Tianwu, the accomplice - a major variable in the war.

However, such a suggestion is too abstract. Unless one knows the cause and effect, it cannot be applied to Gong Tianwu.

In fact, with the protection and interference of Kang Jinlong, it is quite remarkable that Zhufen can predict to this extent.

Just as Xue Mingchuan was doing these things, a series of exclamations came from the side again. It turned out that the numbers on the list on the light screen started to jump again.

The number of disciples sent by Yufei Sect was originally seven, but one died in the first round.

This time when entering the second round, another person died, leaving only five people.

The key point is that about five or six minutes after the second round of the list appeared, another disciple of Yufei Sect died, leaving only four people.

The key point is that everyone should have already started to enter the rest area at this time, so how come there were still deaths?
So most people looked at Jin Ya next to them. Yes, that was the guy who lost to Liu Xun before. This guy had done in-depth research on the Ningcui Secret Realm and had entered it five times during his Qi Refining Stage. He could be considered an absolute expert.

Jin Ya is a man who cares about his reputation and likes excitement. It is rare for him to be watched by such a strong crowd, so he immediately said proudly:

"You must be wondering why people died even though the list appeared, right? There are only two reasons."

"First, the two of them had a real fight. Now, even if one of them reaches the rest area, he will destroy the other regardless of the consequences."

"Second, during the sixth match, one of the two players received a fatal injury. It could have been poison or a curse. Even if they managed to make it to the rest area, they died from the injury."

After listening to Jin Ya's analysis, others nodded and thought that he was right, and in fact, he was right.

Gong Tianwu witnessed this scene with his own eyes.

***
The unlucky guy who died in the rest area was actually an acquaintance of Gong Tianwu and also his defeated opponent - Zhu Yan.

She was seriously injured when she entered the rest area. A wisp of golden sword energy remained in her chest, which continued to destroy her heart.

The one who did it was none other than Zhu Yin, the senior brother from Emei!
At that time, Zhu Yan was dealing with a special monster in the Ningcui Secret Realm: a six-eyed coiled snake. After finally beating it severely, this creature took the opportunity to escape.

As a result, when Senior Brother Zhu Yin of Emei entered at this time, he encountered this seriously injured six-eyed coiled snake. Of course, he was overjoyed, thanked the gift of nature, and killed it to obtain the True Soul Stone.

When Zhu Yan arrived and found out that she had been taken advantage of, she became furious. She had a bad temper to begin with and had suffered humiliation in the sect these days. She came here with the mentality of dying together with Gong Tianwu.

How could a person who has thrown life and death behind his back care about Emei or his senior brother?
The two of them started fighting as soon as they had a disagreement.

Zhu Yin held back at the beginning, just wanting to teach the other party a lesson. However, in order to deal with Gong Tianwu, Zhu Yan was very ruthless in her approach of dying together, and even practiced the secret technique of self-sacrifice, and actually injured Zhu Yin.

So the two of them started fighting with real fire, and Zhu Yin used the Tianqiong Gengjin sword technique that he had practiced to cut off the weapon in Zhu Yan's hand. However, he did not expect that Zhu Yan did not dodge and directly hit him hard in the vitals!
Faced with the terror of life and death, Zhu Yan regained consciousness and fled away injured. Zhu Yin came to his senses and felt somewhat annoyed, so he did not pursue her.

After entering the safe rest area, Zhu Yan struggled to find her companions, but died due to severe injuries. Gong Tianwu happened to be witnessing the scene not far away at the time, and he found the dog-eat-dog fight between the two sides quite funny.

Originally, Zhu Yin had made up his mind to have a good explanation with the people from Yufei Sect in this rest area. However, after arriving at the rest area, he discovered through the loss of resonance between the waist badges that Junior Brother Wen had also died in the battle. His mood immediately became very bad!

After all, as the eldest brother who led the team, Zhu Yin was to blame for messing things up. In this case, he was too lazy to explain. It was a misunderstanding. Anyway, Yufeimen was just a dog of Emei. What else could they do?
***
As for Gong Tianwu, he certainly didn't know that so many twists and turns had happened behind this. After the second break, he directly changed into the clothes of the Blood God Sect and also put some paint on his face to make himself look better.

By this time, Gong Tianwu had fought six battles in total.

Among these six battles, the first three were against the Black Snake, Huo Xian from the Yufei Sect, and a disciple from the evil sect.

In the next three battles, he encountered the unlucky Junior Brother Wen from Emei and Lin Jin from Yufei Sect. In the sixth battle, he did not encounter any cultivators, but two special local eight-eyed monsters.

During the seventh battle, Gong Tianwu directly encountered two disciples of Yufei Sect! ! Gu Ming and Cha Baidao.

After the second break, the rules of the secret realm changed. It was no longer a 1V1 duel, but became a stage for group fights.

Everyone will enter the core area of ​​the secret realm to fight, and they will be in the same area at this time.

According to Mr. Mingchuan's arrangement, he believed that even if Xu Tianwu was not dead at this time, he should be exhausted and covered with wounds, so these two disciples should be his destined calamity! !

However, Xue Mingchuan had no way of knowing the specific details.

From his point of view, after communicating with the Ningcui Secret Realm through a special ritual, there is a high probability that Gong Tianwu will encounter two other opponents belonging to Emei or Yufei Sect alone after entering the group battle.

And it's just a high probability, not 100% certain.

The way Ningcui Secret Realm "identifies" Gong Tianwu and the disciples of Emei or Yufei Sect is that a small amount of special substance is smeared on the pass tokens they carry with them.

This thing is colorless, odorless and harmless. It is a by-product obtained when Xue Mingchuan was refining the elixir. He is confident that no one can recognize it - and this is indeed the case. Even the Kang Jinlong on Gong Tianwu's body did not notice the trick, which is very telling.

The disciple of Yufei Sect was also stunned when he saw Gong Tianwu dressed in the style of the Blood God Sect. He just happened to meet a disciple of the evil sect at this time, so the leader, Cha Baidao, spoke up and said:

"My fellow Daoist from the Blood God Sect, please listen to me. The two of us have other important matters to attend to and need to conserve our energy. We have no intention of getting entangled with you here!"

Gu Ming also said:

"Yes, if you are interested in the True Soul Stone, we will not fight for it and let you take it."

Gong Tianwu let out a long, sinister laugh:
"Do you really think I don't know your tactics? You just want to make me careless and then launch a surprise attack."

The leading disciple shook his head and said:

"That was never the intention."

Gong Tianwu said:

"If that's the case, then swear on your sect's honor and I'll believe you."

The two men looked at each other, discussed for a few words, and still felt that the people of the Blood God Sect were very troublesome. It would be better not to fight this battle if possible. The priority was to complete the tasks entrusted by their master, so the two men swore an oath.

After hearing this oath, Gong Tianwu nodded and said with a smile:
"Okay! I still trust the reputation of Yufeimen." After hearing this, the two men's mood suddenly relaxed.

As a result, seizing this opportunity, two blood miasma particles flew out quietly from Gong Tianwu's hands, and immediately exploded a large ball of blood miasma. The two people's exclamations were heard immediately, followed by a series of screams and intense shouts in the blood mist!

Two minutes later, Gong Tianwu walked out of the bloody miasma, shaking the blood off his hands. His appearance and expression made him look like a tiger licking its paws contentedly after hunting.

Then, he continued to write these words on the stone next to him: "The man was killed by me, the black snake."

Just over ten minutes later, a female disciple of Yufei Sect, Ni Xi, rushed over. When she saw the miserable scene, she was shocked and froze in her place, looking completely distraught. She couldn't help but mutter:
"How could this happen? How could this happen?"

This female disciple has a pretty appearance and is accompanied by a male disciple from the Kunlun sect, who is obviously there to protect her.

In this situation, it was obvious that the male disciple was much calmer. He immediately began to collect intelligence clues around him and then sent a signal for help.

Not long after, reinforcements arrived for this male disciple. He was a big man with a messy beard, and he was called Brother Luo.

This Senior Brother Luo obviously has much more experience in the martial arts world. After he came here, he moved his nose and sniffed hard, saying:

"It has a light sweet taste, but the aftertaste is fishy. It is indeed the style of the Blood God Sect."

Then he took out a green handkerchief and wiped the clothes of the corpse. After waiting for two minutes, he found that the handkerchief had turned into a light gray-black color. Senior Brother Luo nodded and said:
"That's right, it was contaminated by blood miasma."

Then Senior Brother Luo checked the body again and said to his junior brother:
"The corpse's clothes were stained with the Blood God Sect's unique blood miasma. The places where the vital parts were attacked were like being bitten by a snake and there were also signs of poisoning."

"As far as I know, the Blood God Sect has a magic weapon called the Snake Bone Arrow. It is powerful and relatively easy to refine. After causing damage, it will leave traces like this, so it is 80% certain that it was done by someone from the Blood God Sect."

"But it's hard to say whether it was this black snake who did this. After all, it doesn't seem to do any good, and it just makes enemies in vain."

At this time, another person from Kunlun Sect came over and after hearing what Senior Brother Luo said,

"I know this Black Snake. He has a very bad tone and speaks very harshly. He is quite arrogant. Ahem, if it were him, he would really do such a thing as killing someone and leaving a message behind."

At this time, the witnesses, physical evidence, and circumstantial evidence were all there, and they immediately confirmed the shameless behavior of Black Snake. The disciples of Yufei Sect immediately burst into tears, then bit their fingers and wrote a letter in blood, crying sadly:

"If I don't make it out alive, you brothers must hand this blood letter to the sect, lest the truth be buried and you brothers and sisters die with regrets."

The Kunlun sect's group immediately patted their chests and swore that they would definitely protect the junior sister and asked her to rest assured.
***
Five hours later,

There was already a lot of discussion outside the entire Ningcui Secret Realm, and the elders were too busy to split themselves up and seemed quite out of control.

After all, after the secret realm was opened, many unexpected things happened:

For example, the Yufei Sect, which had sent out an unprecedented lineup of seven disciples, suffered heavy casualties and huge losses.
For example, even a powerful family like Emei has lost two people, an unprecedented number of losses.

Of course, two of the three disciples sent out from the Great Snow Mountain also died. Wei and Liu were very worried and only hoped that the one who survived was their disciple Xu Tianwu.

Suddenly, golden light flashed again in the air, and the secret passage was about to open again.

Not only that, a burst of heroic laughter of "Hehehaha" was heard in the sky, shaking like thunder, and even making people feel deafening.

Everyone looked around in surprise, but only Mr. Mingchuan from Emei knew that this was the joyful laughter of the spirit of the Ningcui Secret Realm, or more like the guardian spirits such as the mountain gods and river gods.

This shows that the number of deaths that entered the Ningcui Secret Realm this time is very large, and their quality is also quite high.

These dead were undoubtedly sacrificed to the guardian spirit, and the guardian spirit felt very satisfied, so he let out such a heroic laugh.

Then, some things suddenly fell from the sky like raindrops. The elders came to see them and found that they were rare and exotic flowers and fruits which were very valuable, so they rushed to grab them.

Not only that, at the end, a dozen True Soul Stones fell down, which caused another round of scramble. Needless to say, the lucky ones who got them immediately smiled with joy.

Soon after, the Qi Refining Stage disciples began to return from the secret realm one by one. Unlike when they entered, they were full of vigor and vitality. Now they showed a variety of expressions:
Some were all smiles, some were crestfallen, some were extremely sad, and some were gritting their teeth.
Among them, the face of Zi Chengzi, the elder who led the Yufei Sect, became increasingly ugly. Although he had already known the bad news and was mentally prepared, when he saw with his own eyes that only one of the remaining disciples survived, the shadow in his heart must have been extremely huge at that moment.

What’s even more terrible is that Zi Chengzi saw his target - Xu Tianwu from the Great Snow Mountain actually escaped safely!

Zi Chengzi suddenly felt dizzy and gritted his teeth, feeling that the Yufei Sect was going to become a laughing stock in the world!

He went forward with a sullen face, and said to the surviving female disciple of Yufei Sect, Ni Xi, with gritted teeth:

"What's going on? Did the people from the Snow Mountain resort to some despicable and shameless means?"

Yes, Zi Chengzi, and even the other elders who were watching actually thought so. The Yufei Sect had planned intentionally but not intentionally, and had an absolute advantage in the number of disciples, but under such circumstances, most of them still died.

Apart from the other party cheating, there is really not much reasonable explanation.

Ni Xi, a female disciple of Yu Fei Sect, burst into tears, sobbing and looking very sad. Zi Chengzi roared:
"Hurry up and speak up. If you have any grievances, I am here to seek justice for our dead no matter what means they used!!!"

Ni Xi stole a glance at Zi Chengzi and said timidly:
"Uncle Master, let's go back and talk."

After hearing this, Zi Chengzi thought to himself that this disciple was quite considerate and knew that he was no match for Liu Xun and Wei Liang from the Great Snow Mountain.

But the current situation simply cannot be fooled. It is under the watchful eyes of the public, with people from several factions watching here. If I retreat, I will ruin the reputation of the entire Yuhua Sect, and my fate will be even worse!
Besides, he had the Emei Sect behind him. They were his strongest backing, so if he didn't pursue the matter now, when would he pursue it?
Therefore, Zi Chengzi shouted even louder:
"Tell me, tell me right now. I will avenge them even if I die. What about Zhu Yan? How did Zhu Yan die?"

In Zi Chengzi's heart, Zhu Yan, the disciple who was determined to die, was actually a trump card, which was used to die together with Xu Tianwu in the Great Snow Mountain.

Before setting off, they conducted various targeted trainings for Zhu Yan and prepared corresponding magical instruments and treasures for her.

So until now he is extremely curious about what happened. Are the people in the Snow Mountain shameless and cheating?

However, Ni Xi pursed her lips, glanced at the furious Zi Chengzi again, then burst into tears and sobbed:

"Senior Sister Zhu Yan was killed by the senior brothers of the Emei Sect!"

Zi Chengzi suddenly froze in place. For a moment, he felt that all the malice in the world was gathering towards him, and then turned into a club and hit him hard on the head.

"Can you be a decent person in my Emei Sect? Aren't you the backer of our Yufei Sect?"

At this moment, Zi Chengzi noticed the strange look from the monk next to him and couldn't help but yelled:

"How can this be?!!"

Ni Xi shook her head and cried:
"I don't know what happened. When Senior Sister returned to the rest area, she was still alive. There was still a trace of sword energy from the Sky Sword Technique on her chest, and we couldn't get rid of it. We watched her bleed to death!"

Zi Chengzi turned his head and glanced at Mr. Mingchuan, the leader of the Emei team, and saw that his face was as gloomy as water. After all, none of the Emei disciples showed up at this time, and he was in a very bad mood.

(End of this chapter)