Mountains and rivers are waiting for you to return

Chapter 67: Death of the Divine Monk Jingjue

Pei Nai said nothing again.

There seemed to be some confusion in Gu Jinheng's eyes. Perhaps she was the one who talked endlessly in the past, but now she was so cold, which made him feel a little helpless.

He paused for a while, then continued, "That force is trying to get close to you. I can't rest assured that you live outside."

"What's there to worry about? No matter how serious the situation is now, it's not as critical as before. You were able to let it go ten years ago, so why should you worry about it ten years later?" Pei Nai said calmly without looking at him.

The pressure from Huo Jiang's Yin Power was gradually weakening within the range she could perceive, and at this moment it was so low that she felt a little pitiful.

Gu Jinheng did not respond, but footsteps were heard behind them.

The two of them turned back at the same moment.

It turned out to be a monk in lotus robe. Pei Nai felt that he looked familiar. He was the monk Jingjue of Nan Temple whom he had seen in the finals of Dengyun Heroes Conference before, who was called the successor of Nakagawa.

He put his hands together and said to Pei Nai sincerely: "Amitabha, my name is Jingjue, may I have a moment to talk with you?"

Although Pei Nai didn't know why the monk Jingjue was looking for her, she still glanced at Gu Jinheng.

Gu Jinheng understood what she meant, "I'll wait for you outside."

After he left, Pei Nai asked, "I wonder why Master Jingjue is looking for Mingzhi this time?"

The monk Jingjue stepped forward and said, "I know that you are a resurrected person, and I also know the original identities of Hun Shupian and you."

Pei Nai was stunned when he heard this.

How did he know so much? Could it be that he was really the successor of the great monk Zhong Lao?
"Before I became a monk, I was a native of Lu State. Seven years ago, I followed the refugees from the fallen country to Tianyao and was accepted as a disciple by Abbot Shi Ming."

Seven years ago, the entire border of Lu State was breached by the Wu tribe.

The Wu cavalry marched freely across the territory of the Lu State, advancing straight into the territory until they occupied the capital of the Lu State.

From then on, the State of Lu was destroyed.

The Wu people were a warlike people. Their soldiers had no order at all in the territory of Lu. They were brutal and cruel, doing all kinds of evil. The people of Lu were in dire straits and their lives were miserable.

In the end, it almost turned into a genocide.

Tianyao opened a checkpoint on the southwestern border and accepted some fleeing refugees.

Pei Nai knew about this, but he didn't expect that the monk Jingjue was also from Lu.

"Before this, my family had been guarding a secret, waiting for the legendary person to come. Now it seems that I have finally waited for him."

Pei Na looked at him blankly, waiting for him to continue.

"donor."

As soon as he opened his mouth to say this, Pei Nai felt the abnormal vibration of the sharp blade cutting through the air.

At the moment before the hidden weapon arrived, she promptly determined the direction of the murderous attack and pulled the person in front of her away.

Three flying knives flew past them. If it weren't for Pei Nai's quick reaction, the monk Jingjue might have been beheaded.

The hidden weapon was fired from the direction of the restaurant. Pei Nai looked over there but could not see the source.

She turned around again, only to be met with the completely pale face of Monk Jingjue.

Pei Nai immediately sensed something was wrong and supported his falling body.

At the same time, Pei Nai saw the three invisible needles inserted in the back of his neck. The skin around them had turned black and purple. It must have been poisoned.

Du Ling appeared near them and disappeared in an instant, probably to chase after the assassin.

The invisible needle that hit the monk Jingjue was shot from the completely opposite direction of the restaurant.

Pei Nai never expected that they would attack from two directions at the same time.

The invisible needle is as thin as a cow hair and kills people without being seen.

Their attention was drawn to the flying knives and they did not notice the existence of the three thin needles at all.

"Go to Nan Temple to find my master and get the water for Lu Guolin's injury." The monk Jingjue spoke in her ear with difficulty in a voice that no one except her, not even Gu Jinheng, could hear.

"What is that?" Pei Nai asked.

The monk Jingjue wanted to say something, but his eyes gradually became dull and completely lost their light.

Gu Jinheng heard the noise and rushed over, with a rare look of panic in his eyes.

His eyes swept over Pei Nai's body from top to bottom, "Are you hurt?" Pei Nai shook his head.

A black shadow flashed before their eyes. Du Ling stopped in front of them and put down a dead body dressed in black.

Du Ling half-knelt down in front of Gu Jinheng, "When I caught up with him, he had already taken the poison."

Another hidden guard appeared right after him, "Report! A dead body was found on the third floor. Willow Leaf Flying Knife and Flying Locust Stone were found on the body. There were no external injuries on the body. It is suspected that the person committed suicide by taking poison."

"Another suicide by taking poison?" Pei Nai asked in surprise.

Gu Jinheng looked at Du Ling and asked, "Are they from the same group as Jin Chen's people?"

Pei Nai didn't quite understand what he meant.

But Du Ling replied: "They are not the same group of people. There is too much Hongmeng Gangqi left in this person's body, and the flow direction and speed are not consistent. They are from completely different martial arts factions."

Pei Nai was surprised, "There are two forces?!"

Gu Jinheng nodded, "Based on previous investigations, we can already make this conclusion."

His eyes fell on the monk Jingjue, "What did he just say?"

Everyone understood that it was because the monk Jingjue wanted to tell her something that he was killed.

Pei Nai carefully put down the body of the monk Jingjue.

At this moment, she finally realized that she alone could not fight against those forces hiding in the dark.

Pei Nai stood up and said, "He only said that he and his family were guarding a secret. He didn't have time to tell me anything else."

She couldn't tell if there were other spies around and couldn't trust anyone, but at least she was sure that Gu Jinheng shared the same goal as her on this matter.

Pei Nai pretended to have weak legs and leaned weakly in Gu Jinheng's arms.

She could feel Gu Jinheng's body stiffen instantly.

Under her fingertips was his unconcealable heartbeat. Pei Nai wrote a few words intermittently on his chest through his clothes.

Nan Temple, his master, Lu Guo, was injured by water.

When she wrote those ten words, Gu Jinheng had probably already made arrangements.

So when Pei Nai got on the carriage waiting outside Duke Duan Ding's mansion and saw another girl in the carriage whose clothes and figure were almost identical to hers, she was stunned for a moment.

She could understand what Gu Jinheng meant. Those people had been staring at her in the dark.

They didn't know what information the monk Jingjue had revealed to her. If she disappeared after tonight, hundreds of lives in Nan Temple would be in danger.

Therefore, this "substituting a cat for a prince" trick was used to avoid alerting the enemy.

Pei Nai just didn't think it through.

The people who had just attended the banquet went downstairs one after another, and the scene was a little chaotic for a while. Gu Jinheng then sent people to notify the other disciples of Nan Temple who had not attended the banquet due to the precepts.

By just wasting a little time, he can arrange a substitute?

Not to mention that Pei Nai couldn't figure it out, even if those people acting in the dark were given ten brains each, they wouldn't be able to figure it out.

After sending the substitute back to Tang Mansion, Pei Nai went back to Duke Duan Ding's Mansion with him.

The carriage pulled into the mansion, and Pei Nai still didn't dare to speak, wondering how he could leave the carriage without being seen.

Gu Jinheng spoke at this time: "Go down, there are layers of security outside, and the secret guards are patrolling all the time, so outsiders can't get in."

Pei Naian calmed down and got off the carriage behind him.

"When do we set off tomorrow?" Pei Nai asked.

Gu Jinheng wanted to help her, but was too late and lowered his eyes.

"Not too early. We have to take the carriage carrying goods from the palace tomorrow and change carriages after leaving the city. I'm afraid you will have to bear with me at the beginning of the journey."

Pei Nai had imagined before what Gu Jinheng would look like after he was cured of his muteness, but no matter how he thought about it, he would be pretty much the same as the cold and taciturn person people described him to be.

How could I have known that he would talk so much nonsense nowadays?

Or is it that they are all people who grew up in the city and are so used to being pretentious that they even think riding in a horse-drawn carriage is a grievance?
Pei Nai pouted, "The location of the guest rooms hasn't changed, right? Can I pick one?"

(End of this chapter)