Chapter 256: [Tianyin Pavilion] Life and Death

"The Cold Scale Sage wears a black veil over his face all the time, and is always in the alchemy room, so he has little contact with the outside world, so as long as he controls a person of similar size, it is difficult for others to detect."

Jiang Xi frowned: "You mean that Hua Binan from Lonely Moonlit is a fake"

"Sometimes it's true, sometimes it's not. It is best to mix the real with the fake in order not to be detected."

Jiang Xi mused, "In that case, Shi Mingjing should be able to use the Zhenlong game, but neither of us Drug Clan spirits are strong enough to master this technique."

"Master Jiang is right, the Zhenlong game requires a huge loss of spiritual energy. Hua Binan knew the theory but was unable to use it alone because of his weak magic power. So he had to conspire with Xu Shuanglin before."

Jiang Xi shook his head: "No. Xu Shuanglin once said that the man behind it was his friend, and that he didn't want to betray him, so he didn't tell us who he was even after he died. If, as you say, Shi Mei was Hua Binan, Xu Shuanglin would have recognised him. Then why did Xu Shuanglin not defect after Hua Binan destroyed the Rebirth Boundary?"

Mo Ran said, "Because Xu Shuanglin didn't even know Shi Mei and Hua Binan were the same person."

Next to him, Master Xuan Jing twirled his whiskers and said, "Since they are close friends, how could they not know about such an important event?"

"It was Xu Shuanglin who treated Shi Mei as his best friend," says Mo Ran. Mo Ran says, "but Shi Mei couldn't really be his friend. On this chessboard, Xu Shuanglin was just an important pawn, that's all."

After a pause, he continued: "At the Dragon Mountain Hall, Hua Binan was wounded and removed his veil. The face was ugly, like an echinoderm, but in retrospect, it was probably just an elaborate human skin mask. For Xu Shuanglin, he had probably only seen his best friend's first face in his life, the one that belonged to Shi Mei. He would not have associated Hua Binan's face with Shi Mei's at all. So he did not think he had been framed or used by his friend until his death, and naturally he would not have revealed the truth behind it."

Jiang Xi said, "According to you, Shi Mingjing and Hua Binan appeared at the same time on Dragon Mountain, and one of them was a controlled Zhenlong pawn."

"I guess so. But there's a second possibility."

"What."

Mo Ran shook his head, "The second one I want to talk about later."

Master Xuan Jing said, "Then even if Master Mo's first possibility is correct, I still think there is still one point that does not make sense Hua Binan has no reason to interrupt Xu Shuanglin's rebirth spell. What harm would it do to Fenghua to let him be reborn?"

Mo Ran sighed, "Has the master forgotten the end result of Xu Shuanglin's spell?"

The old baldy didn't respond for a moment and shook his head.

Mo Ran said, "Judging from the rift in the sky that opened that day, Shi Mei did not teach Xu Shuanglin the true art of rebirth at all."

"Ah."

"He has been deceiving Xu Shuanglin. Xu Shuanglin went to great lengths to think he was setting up a rebirth formation, but in fact he was doing it for Hua Binan, who did not have enough spiritual power."

"So what does Hua Binan teach?"

"It's the number one forbidden art in the world." Mo Ran paused before finally speaking, "What he taught Xu Shuanglin was the Gate of Life and Death in Time and Space."

""

Anyone who was present at the battle of Dragon Mountain cannot help but remember the black tunnel that opened up in the sky and the thousands of mysterious and unpredictable monks who came out of it

That's the Gate of Life and Death in Time and Space

Mo Ran said, "This is the second possibility I mentioned earlier. As long as the Gate of Life and Death exists, both Hua Binan and Shi Mei could be real, except that one belongs to this red earth and the other comes from another Xianxia realm."

The crowd fell silent upon hearing this, and then someone clapped his leg and laughed out loud, "Master Mo, are you putting a child to sleep by using this mythical forbidden technique to bluff people. I'm laughing my ass off."

"Yes, how is it possible, it's a forbidden forbidden that was lost thousands of years ago who can learn it"

"The most important volume of the Gate of Life and Death in Time and Space is said to have been sealed in the Yandi Divine Wood long ago. Even if someone is studying this forbidden spell, the most they can learn is space, not likely to be time and space. Otherwise one earthly world would overlap with another, and wouldn't the world be in chaos"

Mo Ran did not bother to argue with them, but spoke all his thoughts to himself. He knew that this was his last confession as a Mo Zong Shi, and that after today, these people might not give him the chance to explain anything afterwards.

He used his admission of guilt as a bargaining chip to gain some calm from the men who were seeking his life, hoping that he could tell all those present what he had guessed and known. Whether they believed him or not at the moment, the fact that he had said it was a wake-up call, and if there was any unrest in the future, someone would more or less remember his warning today, and it might not be too late.

"Imagine, gentlemen, if I were Hua Binan and I mastered the essentials of the Zhenlong game of chess and the Gate of Life and Death in Time and Space, but I was born with insufficient spiritual power and was not in a position to act in a big way, what would I do"

Most of the people in the room had a grudge against Mo Ran and were not willing to listen to his instructions.

But Jiang Xi, who still had some admiration for Mo Ran because of previous events, not to mention his own suspicions about the Lonely Moonlit bloodbath, thought hard for a moment and said, "I'll get help."

"Who will help you?"

"There's no one."

Mo Ran says: "Yes, there is really no one, so you have to cheat. Someone like Xu Shuanglin, who has a great thirst in his heart, to help him with his plans step by step."

Master Xuan Jing said, "Master Mo is absurd, there is no way that spell could be another time and space life and death door when it is really not something that ordinary people can learn, for thousands of years, no one has ever been able to do it. The most important volume of the essentials has been lost, who can practice it"

"That's it, it's a pipe dream."

"Why don't you just say that the Great God Fuxi has descended into the world, it's not much different from the opening of the door of life and death in time and space."

"It's really so ridiculous that the storytellers wouldn't dare to tell it like that."

At last, someone sneered, "Master Mo, after all this time, you're not going to tell us that the person who killed all the heroes at Lonely Moonlit is the other you who came to this world through the Gate of Life and Death, are you?"

Mo Ran :""

Seeing that he didn't say anything, someone in the main hall laughed out loud, "Awesome, really awesome. Patriarch Mo has really made up anything to excuse himself."

"Dare I say that after all this detour, I'm trying to clear my name?"

Jiang Xi couldn't stand the noise, so he turned around and flicked his sleeve, saying angrily to those who had taken the lead, "Just talk, what are you doing?"

Master Xuan Jing joined his hands and said, "Master Jiang, it is not because the other people are strange, but because Master Mo's words are too unbelievable. In my opinion, it would be better to invite him to the Tianyin Pavilion for questioning before making a decision."

"Yes, Pavilion Master Tianyin will be here in a moment, so when she arrives, let Patriarch Mo take a trip with her."

Before Jiang Xi could say anything, Xue Zhengyong spoke up, saying, despite his mixed feelings, "I think Mo Ran's story makes sense, perhaps the time portal has been torn apart. The Tianyin Pavilion is a place where the worst of the worst are interrogated, and he cannot go with you until we know what happened."

"That's right," said a disciple from the Top of Death and Life. Dragon Mountain."

Master Xuan Jing was stunned: "This"

Someone said, "Indeed, when everyone was trapped in the Dragon Mountain tunnel, it was Master Mo who managed to get us out, and he wanted to do harm, so he could have done it then."

This was true, and a number of people pondered the question in momentary silence.

But silence is not the same as approval. Many of those present were still in mourning, with friends and relatives newly bereaved, and in great grief. The survivors at the Dragon Mountain Flower Hall had seen Mo Ran's murder with their own eyes, and all the witnesses, except Mei Hanxue, were sure that it was Mo Ran himself. How easy would it be for them to abandon their quest for Mo Ran's life and instead believe in the mythical Gate of Life and Death?

So soon, someone retorted, "But I feel uncomfortable about this, don't you remember that at Phoenix Mountain, Master Mo was very precise about the whole situation and the Zhenlong game. He said that Shi Mingjing knew the Zhenlong game, but I think that the person who knows a lot about this forbidden art is himself."

"Right." As soon as there was a rebuttal, someone else chimed in, "And another thing, don't you think it's strange how Mo Ran was able to break the Dragon Mountain boundary?" He's not the heir of the Nangong family.

At this point in time, a female voice suddenly came from outside the Loyalty Palace.

"There is nothing fishy about it. For it is the blood of the Nangong family that flows in this Mojong Master."

The crowd suddenly looked back, but saw a guard dressed in silver and turquoise, wearing a silver medallion with the name of "Heaven" at the waist, driving straight in, led by a beautiful woman of 27 or 28 years old, with bright eyes and white teeth, cloudy hair and flowery face, extremely beautiful, even comparable to Song Qiutong, the number one beauty in Xianxia. She was as beautiful as Song Qiutong, but her whole temperament was cold.

Most of the people paled at the sight of her, and even a few of the sect leaders wore a look of awe on their faces.

Only Jiang Xi didn't react too much and nodded, "The Court Master has finally arrived."

The woman in the suit is Mu Yanli, the long-lost owner of the Tianyin Pavilion.

Mu Yanli heads up the Tianyin Pavilion, and all the major cases in the Upper Lower Fairy World end up in her hands, and she presides over them.

Because she doesn't go out much, Mu Yanli's skin is extremely fair, with faint green veins visible beneath the skin. She enters the hall, stops and says, "Sorry to keep you all waiting."

Master Xuan Jing asked, "The Master has come a little later than the appointed time, but there was a delay in the court."

Mu Yanli shook his head, "That is not true. The Tianyin Pavilion can never arrest people without evidence. That's why before coming here, my Pavilion was thoroughly investigating some past events of Master Mo at the Top of Death and Life."

She paused, her almond eyes looked coldly at Mo Ran and her vermilion lips parted, "This investigation revealed that the matter was not so simple, and that the identity of this Mo master was involved in an old case in Xiangtan many years ago."

The crowd looked at each other with some confusion, "What old case"

Only Mo Ran's face grew white and his palms sweated.

He did not expect this matter to be spoken of at this moment.

Mu Yanli, like an executioner, looked indifferently at the man kneeling in front of the hall and said, " Mo Ran, let's not talk about it. You know your own life, you know it in your own heart, will you tell it to the public or will I invite witnesses into the hall"

"" Mo Ran closes her eyes.

At the beginning of his rebirth, he knew that if he wanted to live a trouble-free life, there were a few people in the world that he had to kill with his own hands to put an end to his problems. But at first, he did not have the strength or the opportunity. Later, when he had the strength and the opportunity, he was no longer willing to take the lives of others for his own personal gain.

In his previous life, he had killed enough people to conceal his birth and hold on to the leverage in his hands.

When Mu Yanli saw that he was silent, he said, "It seems that Patriarch Mo is not going to confess himself."

When she finished, a touch of undisguised contempt appeared on her cool, beautiful face before she turned around with a brush of her sleeve and faced the crowd of guests, her voice like a bell, penetrating the heart.

"Then let me speak. Listen, gentlemen, this renowned Grand Master was already a murderer with dozens of lives on his back before he entered the pinnacle of death and life. Such a vicious person should have been brought to justice long ago."

"What."

"He had killed dozens of people before he joined the sect."

Xue Meng's eyes widened with bewilderment as he muttered, "Brother"

The sound was not soft, but it fell on Mu Yanli's ears, who glanced at the young master at the top of the dead life and said lightly, "Brother."

Xue Meng :""

Outside, the rain and snow were falling heavier and heavier, the dome of the sky was growing heavier and darker, and even though the candlelight in the hall was bright, it weighed him down.

Mu Yanli looked at Mo Ran with contempt, and at Xue Meng with cynicism. Her lips were like a haze as she said, "To have an enemy for a brother, Xue young master is really pathetic."

Xue Meng had clearly not reacted to the meaning of the words, but the thunder had already boomed inside his skull, as if the earth had cracked and the sky had collapsed. His clear eyes opened and he took a step back: "What what what to acknowledge revenge as brother"

He trembled all over: "What are you talking about?"

Mu Yanli paid no more attention to him and turned to say, " Mo Weiyu, is not at all the nephew of Master Xue. What's more." She paused, a pair of beautiful, merciless eyes like sharp knives, raking over the faces of Xue Zhengyong and Madame Wang, and said, not without justice, not without cruelty.

"Master Xue's own nephew, eight years ago, died at the hands of Mo Ran."