The court lackeys of the eight-hour workday

Chapter 268 you jump, i jump
The territory of Emei Sect is not large. Inside the mountain gate is a wide square with two courtyards on each side. On weekdays, the disciples rest in the courtyards on the left and right at night and practice martial arts in the square during the day.

After walking through the square, you will reach the main hall of the Emei Sect. Behind the main hall is a three-courtyard building where the headmaster, elders and inner disciples live.

Li Miao walked slowly to the center of the square, raised his hands into claws to both sides, and suddenly pulled them forward!
boom!
Dozens of doors on the buildings on both sides of the square exploded.

Li Miao looked around and sneered.

"No wonder I couldn't hear any noise. They all fell to the ground."

In the buildings on both sides, bodies were lying on the ground in all directions, without a sound. Judging from their clothes, they were all outer sect disciples.

Just like the inner sect disciple who fell at the mountain gate, the long swords on these people's waists were still lying safely in the scabbards, with no external injuries on their bodies, their clothes were neatly dressed, and there was no sign of fighting at all.

If you look more closely, you will see that these people fell in different positions. Some were lying on the table, some were lying in front of the desk, some were still holding dishes and chopsticks tightly in their hands, and some were lying on the bed in just their underwear, looking like they were sleeping.

It was as if these people were living their normal lives, but suddenly lost consciousness.

Li Miao raised his eyebrows and continued walking forward.

Stepping into the main hall, Li Miao glanced around and sighed softly.

A person was sitting on the main seat in the main hall.

His body leaned forward, his hands tightly grasping the hilt of the sword at his waist, as if he was about to draw his sword to fight someone. But his whole body was already showing signs of livid rigor mortis, his long sword leaned forward, his drooping arm pulled out half of the sword, and the sword tassel was swaying gently in the wind.

After entering the Emei Sect, the first dead person Li Miao saw was someone he knew.

The top master of Emei Sect attacked the twelve branches’ stronghold that day.

He died before he even drew his sword.

Moreover, there was not a single external injury.

On the left and right of the main hall, three old men were sitting on chairs, their eyes were closed, and they were leaning to the sides. Judging from their clothes, they should be elders of Emei, and they were indeed silent.

Half of the Emei Sect’s heritage is contained in this main hall.

Li Miao walked around the main seat and headed towards the courtyard behind the main hall.

After passing the main hall, Li Miao smelled a very faint smell of blood.

Following the scent, Li Miao passed through several courtyards, stepped over several unconscious inner disciples, and finally walked out of the Emei Sect's headquarters and arrived at the edge of a cliff.

The place where the mountain gate of Emei Sect is located is called "Golden Summit", which is an open space on the main peak of Mount Emei. Behind this open space is a steep cliff hundreds of feet high, named "Sacrifice Cliff". It is bottomless and makes people's feet numb at the sight of it.

Li Miao walked to the edge of the cliff and squatted down. He twisted his fingers on a stone and rubbed them together. A handful of scarlet powder floated down between his fingers.

This is a drop of dried blood.

There were also several drops of blood on the rocks nearby.

Li Miao picked up a bloody stone and looked at it carefully. The bloodstain was oval in shape, with burrs on the edge and extremely tiny blood spots distributed around it.

The oval shape of the bloodstain means that the blood is "dripping" rather than "spattering". From the size of the bloodstain and the length of the burrs on the edge, we can roughly calculate the height of the blood dripping, which is about three or four feet, about the height between the cuffs and the waist.

Looking at the direction of the oval shape of the bloodstain, it can be seen that the trajectory of movement is towards the bottom of the cliff.

A person, injured, walked slowly to the edge of the cliff. Blood dripped from her cuffs and palms onto the stone, leaving oval bloodstains.

There was no circular bloodstain here, which meant she didn't stop here.

She jumped without hesitation.

Li Miao stood up and sneered.

"interesting."

Then he turned over and jumped off the cliff!
Apart from the sound of the whistling mountain wind, there was only deathly silence on Mount Emei.

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"Hiss—" The inner disciple of Emei Sect who was rescued by Li Miao suddenly gasped, but his hands unconsciously hugged his arms, and the whole person curled up on the ground, shaking constantly.

Hong Chou released the hand that was pressing on his throat and slapped the man on the back.

"Hold your breath and concentrate. You don't have any true energy now, but your meridians and tendons have long been accustomed to the feeling of true energy flowing. It is normal to feel itchy and painful all over your body."

"I will transfer a little bit of my true energy into your meridians. You can circulate my true energy into your meridians and it will alleviate the pain. But don't use your Emei internal energy, otherwise it will conflict with the internal energy of the Beggars' Sect and you will go crazy immediately."

"Then even the gods won't be able to help."

Ta-da-da-da——

The man's teeth kept chattering, and his face was red, obviously in extreme pain. But he was an inner disciple of Emei after all, and his heart was not bad, so he immediately held his breath and concentrated, and did what Hong Chou said.

After a while, he finally stopped shaking and stood up tremblingly.

Seeing that he had regained consciousness, Hong Chou hurriedly asked.

"Are you an inner disciple of Emei? What's your name?"

"Reply...Senior, I...Lan Chongyi..."

His throat was cut by Li Miao and he was just healed by Hong Chou. However, Hong Chou's attainments in healing techniques were not deep, and he could not achieve the same "heal and use" effect as Li Miao, so he spoke word by word and could only barely put together a sentence.

"Senior... Beggars' Sect?"

He asked reluctantly.

Hong Chou nodded.

"I am the elder of the Beggars' Sect. The current leader of the Beggars' Sect is my disciple's grandson."

Lan Chongyi, however, looked doubtful.

Hong Chou slapped his forehead, he had not been in the martial arts world for more than 20 years, and he had even faked his death to escape the imperial court's pursuit. It would be strange if Lan Chongyi would believe him now if he talked about elders and disciples.

So he quickly added.

"I came here with Lord Li, the Jinyiwei pacification envoy. He was the one who woke you up just now. You should have seen him when you opened your eyes."

Lan Chongyi widened his eyes upon hearing this and looked around.

"Lord Li has gone to your mountain gate to check the situation, leaving me here to heal your wounds."

Hong Chou said.

"Let's not talk about this anymore. What disaster has befallen your Emei Sect? Who could have knocked down all the people in the Emei Sect without making any noise?"

"Where is your Elder Liu? He is also a top master. Why is he nowhere to be seen? Has he escaped with his disciples?"

When Lan Chongyi heard this, he was immediately overwhelmed with grief and tears welled up in his eyes.

He suddenly fell to the ground.

"The elder...is dead..."

"Grandmaster, protect the true teachings...jump off the cliff..."

"That person... also went down..."

Hong Chou's pupils suddenly shrank.

"Someone broke into your Emei Mountain Gate and killed Elder Liu. Your ancestor Ruan Mei came back and jumped off the cliff with the true teachings. Did the person who broke into the mountain gate also follow him down?"

Lan Chongyi burst into tears and nodded slowly.

(End of this chapter)