A Mortal's Journey to Immortality: Wang Yu Transmigrates into a Book, the Dao Ancestor of Rein

Chapter 18 The golden cicada escapes from its shell
“I didn’t let him know, so he was completely unaware.”

"You mean you're not going to tell him?"

"Hmm, we can't tell him."

"Heh, you've been hiding your martial arts skills from him all along, and you're even hiding this from him. Are you two still fellow disciples or not?" They're clearly very close, so why are you acting like you're guarding against a thief?

"I don't want to put him in a difficult position."

"Alright, I don't understand you two." Li Feiyu shook her head, then her expression turned serious: "So, when do you plan to leave?"

"The sooner the better, ideally in the next few days."

"So urgent?"

Li Feiyu squinted.

Han Li took a deep breath and pursed his lips: "If I don't leave now, I'm afraid I won't be able to leave."

"Because of Doctor Mo?"

Li Feiyu frowned slightly.

Han Li remained silent in response: "..."

"How can I cooperate with you? Do you have a plan?"

"Of course there is. Let's use the head chef in the main kitchen to get out of this mess..."

...

a few days later.

As night fell.

Manager Qian of the Seven Mysteries Sect's main kitchen found a letter in the corner of his residence.

"Huh? Who's sending me a message at this hour?"

Looking around and seeing no one, he quickly put the letter in his pocket, pushed open the door, and closed it behind him. After lighting the candles in the room, Manager Qian found a seat and then opened the envelope to take out the letter inside.

Holding the letter, Manager Qian, with his mustache, twitched his face and his beard trembled slightly at just one glance.
"This is... Xu Feng's letter?"

The letter bore their agreed-upon unique mark, and he immediately recognized the writer's identity.

Why is that guy contacting me at this time?

Light the letter over the candle flame.

After the entire letter had burned to ashes, the somewhat mercenary-looking steward immediately blew out the candles and left the residence, heading towards Chishui Peak. Before leaving, he glanced casually at a corner of the room.

That was where he stored the rest of his intelligence correspondence.

"We need to find an opportunity to deliver the intelligence we've gathered over the years to Chief Jia."

Manager Qian thought to himself.

Then I thought of Xu Feng and this meeting:

"Making me meet at Chishui Peak so late at night? Aren't you afraid of encountering ghosts if you walk too much at night?"

"Hmph, you surnamed Xu, I'll give you a good scolding later..."

Manager Qian was one of the spies that Jia Tianlong, the leader of the Wild Wolf Gang, had planted in the Seven Mysteries Sect a long time ago.

Xu Feng, on the other hand, was a disciple of the Seven Mysteries Sect who was recruited with real money.

The Wild Wolf Gang, a bandit gang that once boasted tens of thousands of horsemen, had been locked in a bitter struggle with the Seven Mysteries Sect in the northwestern part of Jingzhou for over a decade. Their animosity was palpable. It was standard practice for them to infiltrate each other's forces with spies or to win over members of the opposing faction.

just.

so far.

The Wild Wolf Gang is better at infiltration and defection.

Without any delay after reading the letter, Manager Qian went straight along the mountain path to the secluded cliff platform agreed upon in the letter.

From afar, his gaze could penetrate the low bushes in front of him, and by the moonlight overhead, he could see the two figures standing at the agreed spot.

"Huh? Why are there two people?"

Realizing something was amiss, the money manager immediately stopped.

Because they were twenty or thirty feet apart, and it was nighttime, he couldn't make out the faces of the two people on the platform. He could only tell from their builds that one was burly and resembled Xu Feng. The other was smaller and looked like a boy who hadn't fully grown up.

Just as he was filled with doubt and hesitation about whether to continue forward, a sudden change occurred on the platform: a scream was heard, and the boy was knocked off the cliff outside the platform by a burly man.

This scene startled Manager Qian:
"What is Xu Feng up to?"

Before he could go out along the path through the bushes to find out what was going on, the man who looked just like Xu Feng used his lightness skill to flee in another direction. In the blink of an eye, he darted into the woods on the side like a nimble monkey and disappeared.

Upon seeing this, Manager Qian immediately frowned: "They've left?"

Xu Feng specifically asked to meet him, but he brought along a young man from his sect, and then inexplicably knocked the young man off a cliff.

That cliff was over two hundred feet high; anyone who fell from it would surely die. The boy who fell was bound to be smashed to pieces.

Manager Qian couldn't understand why his contact had become so reckless, and a wave of doubt washed over him. Just as he was about to chase after Xu Feng out of the woods to find out what was going on, another fight suddenly broke out in the woods not far away, followed by a shrill scream.

"It's Xu Feng's voice!"

Manager Qian was terrified.

next moment.

He heard an angry shout:

"Who's in the bushes over there?"

"come out!"

The one who shouted angrily was Li Feiyu, who was carrying a broadsword.

The direction they were looking was precisely where Manager Qian was hiding.

At first, Manager Qian suspected a trap and didn't reveal himself from the bushes. But when he saw Li Feiyu charging straight at him with a knife through the gaps in the trees, his mustache trembled, and he thought to himself, "This is bad."

They wanted to escape, but it was too late.

"Misunderstand…"

There must be some misunderstanding here!

"I just happened to be passing by..."

In this regard.

Li Feiyu grinned without saying a word, then swung his knife and slashed.

"Just passing by? Bah, I don't believe it. You're definitely a spy like that Xu Feng!"

The young man said: The person who wronged you knows better than you how wronged you really are.

Where did Manager Qian bring any weapons on this trip? Besides, his status in the Seven Mysteries Sect is merely that of a head kitchen manager, so how could he possibly possess superior martial arts skills? Therefore, when facing Li Feiyu, the most outstanding young talent, he was completely powerless to resist.

"Bitterness."

Xu Feng misled me.

Even now, Manager Qian has never imagined that this is a setup.

A scheme to help someone fake their death and escape.

...

After breaking Manager Qian's legs and arms, Li Feiyu delayed for a while before returning to the woods where he had appeared earlier.

He dragged a burly man who had recently died out of the woods.

It was the traitor Xu Feng.

However, it seems that Xu Feng's mouth was previously gagged.

His pressure points had been acupunctured, rendering him completely immobile.

He lay dead in a pool of blood.

soon.

Manager Qian was taken back to the Seven Absolutes Hall and interrogated by the hall's experts. The people there subjected him to brutal torture; how could Manager Qian, this mercenary kitchen manager, possibly withstand it?

He immediately revealed everything he had seen and heard, as well as his identity and purpose as a spy for the Wild Wolf Gang.

Combining multiple clues.

The conclusion is:
Xu Feng, a traitor to the Seven Mysteries Sect, arranged to meet with Manager Qian, a spy from the Wild Wolf Gang, intending to betray important information about the sect. However, before the two met, Han Li, having finished his cultivation at the Red Water Peak Waterfall, happened to pass by and bumped into Xu Feng.

To prevent Han Li from ruining things and to prevent his own affairs from being exposed, Xu Feng committed murder to silence him.

Li Feiyu witnessed this scene again.

However, due to the darkness of night, Li Feiyu did not know who Xu Feng had knocked off the cliff. Li Feiyu had tried to stop Xu Feng to find out what was going on, but Xu Feng, fearing that the matter would be exposed, once again considered killing to silence him. However, he was no match for Li Feiyu and was killed in return.

Manager Qian was caught in the crossfire.

This is the general outline and cause of events that the Seven Mysteries Sect members came to after combining the accounts given by Li Feiyu and Manager Qian.

It is reasonable.

As for the truth of the matter?
...

A few days ago, the two discussed their plan.

"Han Li, you want me to impersonate Xu Feng? And then knock you off the cliff with one palm?" Li Feiyu was quite surprised by this.

"Yes. You and Xu Feng are similar in build. Use your bone-shrinking technique to make a slight adjustment, then change into his clothes. Under the cover of night, it will be convincing enough to fool everyone. After we're done acting, you go back to Forest No. 1, wake up the drugged Xu Feng, and kill him. At that time, you should make a little noise like a fight, and let Manager Qian hear Xu Feng's dying screams. After we capture Manager Qian, we can hand him over to the Seven Absolutes Hall for interrogation. He will help us complete this fake death escape plan."

(End of this chapter)