The court lackeys of the eight-hour workday

Chapter 269 Stone Wall
Hua la la la——

The rocks collapsed, and Li Miao's claws dug into them, sliding down several feet, leaving five deep claw marks on the mountain wall.

Bang!
Li Miao stepped on the mountain wall with one foot, and then he fell to the bottom of the cliff like a cannonball again.

There was no light inside the cliff, and even Li Miao could only see things about ten feet away. But fortunately, there was a trace of blood guiding the direction, leading Li Miao to move forward towards the bottom of the cliff.

Suddenly, Li Miao punched into the mountain wall, stopped his fall, and looked to his side with a frown.

About seven or eight feet away from him, there was a dead pine tree extending out from a crevice in the rock, swaying slowly in the mountain breeze.

The smell of blood was still at the bottom of the cliff, but a trace of it was carried to Li Miao by the mountain breeze.

The smell of plant juice.

Li Miao took a deep look at the dead pine tree and fell to the bottom of the cliff again.

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Hong Chou grabbed Lan Chongyi's arm and pulled him up from the ground.

"You are not dead yet. If your Emei disciples are the same as you, they should not be dead either! You are the only one who is still awake in this mountain gate, so cheer up!"

"Take me to see Elder Liu first. If he is like you, maybe he can be saved!"

Lan Chongyi slowly stood up, forced himself to cheer up, and walked towards the mountain gate with Hong Chou.

As soon as he stepped onto the square, Hong Chou followed the doors on both sides that were torn apart by Li Miao and saw the outer disciples lying in the houses on both sides.

"Are they the same as you?"

Lan Chongyi nodded slowly.

"……Yes."

"What method is this?"

"I don't know..."

Lan Chongyi answered with difficulty.

Hong Chou clenched his fists and thought secretly in his heart.

"Looking at the state of these outer disciples, they were clearly doing their own things, and then lost consciousness and fell down in an instant. Their arms were not protecting their chests, which means they were already unconscious before they fell to the ground."

"There aren't many disciples in the Emei Sect, but the martial arts world has been in turmoil recently, so most of the disciples should have returned to the mountain gate. There should be more than a hundred outer disciples. What method could have made so many people faint at the same time?"

While thinking, the two walked into the main hall of Emei Sect.

Hong Chou saw the corpse sitting on the main seat at a glance, and then looked around with an unpleasant expression.

"There was no resistance. Elder Liu was killed before he could even unsheathe his sword. The other elders couldn't even stand up."

"The outer disciples were unconscious on the spot, the elders died in their seats, and Elder Liu died when his hand was on the hilt of the sword."

"This method...is based on martial arts."

"If you are below the second-rate, you will lose consciousness instantly. If you are at the first-rate, you will die. If you are at the highest level, you can only survive for a breath... It's horrifying."

The gap between a celestial being and the top is like a chasm. If Hong Chou wanted to kill Elder Liu, it would only take him a few moves. But he couldn't make him unable to draw his sword no matter what, let alone keep all the disciples of Emei Sect.

This method of wiping out a major sect silently is terrifying.

Suddenly, Hong Chou's expression became serious.

"wrong!"

"The outer sect disciple fainted and the elders didn't even have time to get up. How could Lan Chongyi, an inner sect disciple, know that Ruan Mei jumped off the cliff with the true teachings? Shouldn't he have fainted at the mountain gate? "

"Everyone is in their place, why is he the only one at the door?!"

Although Hong Chou is old-fashioned and stubborn, he is very meticulous. Otherwise, how could he have noticed the strangeness of Xue Jinxi's disappearance, and how could his fake death have remained undetected by the court for more than twenty years!
He suddenly turned around and looked at Lan Chongyi.

"you!--"

Bang!
A palm strike hit Hong Chou in the chest.

He took a few steps back, and the wound on his chest that he had barely suppressed suddenly burst open, and blood gushed out like a fountain.

A figure flashed and disappeared outside the courtyard wall in an instant.

Hong Chou turned around and ran towards the Sheshen Cliff.

Li Miao picked up the bloody clothes on the ground and sniffed them gently.

The bloody smell he smelled came from the bloody clothes.

Li Miao looked around, turned around and walked to the side of the mountain wall.

There is a pair of footprints here, deeply embedded in the ground.

Apart from the blood-stained clothes and footprints, there was nothing else at the bottom of the cliff.

Li Miao narrowed his eyes and twisted his fingers habitually.

Footprints, like bloodstains, may seem insignificant, but in the eyes of Li Miao, the "outsider demon", they will reveal countless information that others cannot obtain.

For example, the footprints were from a man who was slightly shorter than Li Miao. The bloody clothes were from a woman. In other words, the injured woman and the man who left the footprints were two people who jumped off the cliff.

The woman jumped off the cliff first, took off her bloody clothes and threw them to the bottom of the cliff. Then the man fell down, and the force of the fall from the height left these footprints deep into the ground.

There was no second pair of footprints around, which means the woman did not fall to the bottom of the cliff.

So where did she go?

Li Miao sneered and paused.

Bang!
Gravel flew everywhere, and Li Miao soared into the air, shooting straight up more than ten feet.

Bang!
Li Miao inserted his claws into the rocks to stop his body, and then kicked out sideways, carving a mark half a foot deep on the stone wall like an axe.

Stepping on this "step", Li Miao rushed upwards again.

A moment later, he smelled the scent of plant juice again.

Li Miao glanced to the side and saw the dead pine tree again.

He stepped on a protruding rock and used a light body technique, and then he floated towards the dead pine tree as light as a goose feather.

When he got closer, Li Miao looked closely.

Sure enough, several branches and leaves of this dead pine tree had been broken, and emerald green juice continued to seep out from the broken ends. The smell that Li Miao smelled was coming from this juice.

Li Miao laughed, but he dug one hand into the rock and slowly raised the other hand. His true energy surged and he slowly clenched his fist.

"Mr. Ruan, don't you recognize me?"

He smiled at the stone wall.

"You were the last group of priests to escape outside the imperial mausoleum that day. You were one of the priests who escaped after seeing me taking away the commander. You should still remember my voice, right?"

"I'll give you three breaths to open the stone wall. This is because your Emei Sect worked for me in Miaojiang that day and you are in great trouble today."

"But after three breaths, I will directly blast open this stone wall."

"one."

"two."

Suddenly, an extremely faint voice came from within the stone wall.

"Master Li...is that you?"

"I have something I want to ask... Who was the worshiper that Your Majesty killed that day?"

Li Miao frowned.

"Wu Zhiheng...why are you asking this?"

Rumble, rumble——

The stone wall in front of Li Miao suddenly cracked, revealing an old face.

She opened her cloudy eyes, stretched out her hands to protect several true disciples of Emei Sect behind her, looked at Li Miao's face with difficulty, and after a long while, she slowly sighed.

"Master Li..."

"This time, it's real..."

(End of this chapter)