Chapter 76: I have seen that guy again

Chu Wanning has never been the kind of teacher who is a good teacher, and Mo Ran is not a child of five or six years old, so when he asks such a trick question, Chu Wanning doesn't even bother to talk to him, his eyes dropping indifferently.

The begonias he threw out were under a blinding spell and soon he was scouting the whole of Peach Blossom Yard. Within moments, a golden charm fell from the sky and into his hands.

"The Abyss of the Patriarchs"

The Ancestral Abyss is the place where the Lords of Wrath emerge daily and the monks rush to pluck their hair. Feathermen said earlier that the abyss was filled with endless red flames, and that whoever fell into the abyss, except for the Lords who had lived there since ancient times, would be melted to a cinder.

Chu Wanning put a boundary on himself and Mo Ran to hide their traces from the Feathermen.

When they arrived at the Abyss of the Patriarchs, they saw that it was bottomless, with a treacherous red light, and that the cliff walls were densely inhabited by thousands of strange birds and beasts, all asleep at the moment, their heads buried in their wings, and from a distance they looked like countless dense dots.

According to Chu Wanning, if the Zhenlong game is located in the abyss, then the Feathermen's talk of blazing fires, of falling in and being burnt to ashes, would be a fabrication.

"But how can you be sure that the fire down here won't burn someone to death?" Mo Ran murmured, staring at the ghostly light lurking beneath, "It looks real anyhow."

"Throw something down first."

"Then I'll go and hunt a rabbit."

"No need." Chu Wanning got up and swept away, his white clothes waving as he was already far away in the middle of the peach forest next to him. Within a few moments, he floated back to his original place like an immortal in the ninth heaven, with an extra peach flower in his hand.

Mo Ran understands that peach blossoms are naturally more delicate than rabbits, and if they can withstand the so-called "blaze", there is obviously no danger of a living person entering.

Chu Wanning brushed his fingertips over the peach branch and recited a silent incantation, only to see the burning peach instantly enveloped in a soft layer of crystalline blue light, he nodded to the abyss and whispered, "Go on."

The peach blossoms slowly drift down, one foot, two feet, ten feet, a hundred feet.

The shadow of the flowering branch was long gone, but the spell Chu Wanning had cast allowed him to sense the peach blossoms, and he closed his eyes for a moment before his eyelashes rustled back into place.

"The peach blossom is unharmed and viable."

Since Chu Wanning was so sure, there was nothing more to say. Mo Ran immediately joined him and flew down to the Abyss of the Patriarchs. Even though he was prepared, Mo Ran still felt a chill when he saw what lay beneath the great abyss.

He knew exactly what the red light within the abyss was.

Inside the great abyss were thousands of wooden frames, each with a Feathermen hanging from it, naked, their beautiful bodies dripping with blood. In each of their mouths was a lingering fruit that glowed a blinding red. Thousands of red lights converge and, looking down from above, it is easy to believe that these are the red flames of the true fire beneath the abyss.

Chu Wanning's face was unpleasant. He knew that this red fruit was a forbidden fruit that everyone in Xianxia was talking about, and that by putting it in the mouth of a dying man, he could prolong his last breath for 365 days.

In other words, people who are clearly relieved in an instant have to undergo an extremely long death, and what would have been sudden cardiac arrest in the blink of an eye can turn into an endless torture known as torturing.

Mo Ran stared at the jungle-like layers of the Feathermen living dead and muttered, "The Soul Locker."

Using a living creature as a human pillar to trap the grievances, even if thousands of dead souls are trapped in the Zhenlong game, not a single breath will escape

No wonder he could not detect even the slightest bit of Zhenlong's forbidden resentment in the chess game despite all his probing.

Mo Ran wondered if the fake Gouchen at Jin Chengchi was the same person behind the Peach Blossom Yard.

From Jin Chengchi's experience, it seems that the fake Gouchen could only use the Zhenlong chess game to simply manipulate the underwater spirits, so he must have only learnt a few things, but this time the fake Feathermen outside Peach Blossom Yard are no different from the original, except for their stupidity and lack of intelligence. The Feathermen spell is of an upper-middle-class standard, so the fake Gouchen has improved so much!

Chu Wanning comes to the centre of the Soul Locking Formation, where a pillar of crystals ground into stone stands.

A Feathermen is also bound to the stone pillar, but this Feathermen is already dead, the lingering fruit in her mouth having shrivelled and her body beginning to rot. But her previous identity can be seen in the bright yellow gold embroidered phoenix robe she wears and the star-shaped spell mark on her brow.

"This is"

Mo Ran exclaimed, "This is the real Feathermen on the fairy"

"Good." Chu Wanning looked at the endless array of human pillars and his lips parted, "There are 800 if not a thousand Feathermen who have been captured for the soul locking formation here. If the Feathermen were still alive, how could they have endured such a blood feud? Not to mention that when I fought with the Feathermen outside, I felt that she was not as strong as Butterfly Town's Ghost Master. If I am correct, I am afraid that the Feathermen of Peach Blossom Yard have already been exterminated and those outside are just corpses under the control of Zhenlong's chess game."

""That's what Chu Wanning had in mind,"" he said, and Mo Ran was so shocked that he turned back. Chu Wanning stopped him with a wave of his broad sleeve.

"Where are you going?"

"I'm going to tell my uncle and the others about this, if that's the case, it's too dangerous."

"Do not act rashly." Chu Wanning shook his head, "I'm in the dark now, I'm in the light. There are many monks in Peach Blossom Yard and we don't know who is behind it, so we will only make things more difficult."

"Hee hee. It's been a long time, Master Chu, but you're still so discreet."

A soft laugh, with a hint of playfulness, came from mid-air, but it rang out like a thunderclap in the Abyss of the Patriarchs. The two men looked up in disbelief to see a bloody Feathermen toddler sitting on a branch poking out of the cliff face, his legs wobbling. When they turned around, the dead child cocked his head, his bloodshot eyes rolled a few times and a wide smile appeared at the corners of his mouth.

Mo Ran exclaims: " Zhenlong game of chess"

Chu Wanning cursed and said grimly, "Another white disc."

"Hee hee hee, yes, it's a white child." The Feathermen kid creepily stroked his palm and said, "Otherwise you think I'd be here in my real body? Mo Ran said, "You're really the fake Gouchen from Jincheng Lake, you crazy bastard, what are you trying to do?"

"Hehehe, what are you, a mere little cultivator of foundation building, you are also worthy to question Yu I call your master to ask."

"You."

Chu Wanning waved his sleeves wide and held down Mo Ran, who was smoking with anger, with long fingers. Raising his eyes, he asked in a cold voice, "What is your plan?"

The Feathermen were wobbling on their legs, obviously dead, but they were being manipulated like marionettes by the forbidden magic.

"I'm seeking it, it's not really a big deal."

Chu Wanning's voice was even colder: "Then why did you repeatedly try to take my pupil's life?"

"It's not a big deal, but it just so happens that your little apprentice's spirit core is needed to complete it." The boy smiled and said, "A thousand things are to blame for the fact that his spirit core is fantastically good. It's even better than yours, Master. I knew at Jincheng Lake that he was a wonderful wood spirit essence, but if not for that, I am afraid I would have preferred you, Sifu."

He spoke in a greasy, childish voice with an adult accent that made Mo Ran sick to his stomach and said angrily, "I'll be damned if I'm going to get caught by you, I'll blow my own fucking core and you won't even think about touching me."

"I didn't want to touch you either." The child still had the same sweet tone of exasperation, "I had no choice but to run after you. All men in this world love beauty, and your master is better looking than you, so I'm more than happy to touch him."

"You" Mo Ran's hair was about to explode, "You're an ugly thing who doesn't even dare to show your face, who uses Hakko as a puppet all day long, and you're worthy of touching my master"

But the little boy gave him a blank look and seemed not to care about him any more, turning his head back to Chu Wanning.

"Master Chu, back at Jincheng Lake, I advised him not to pursue the matter any further. But he didn't listen, and I was so heartbroken."

"Now that I am aware of this, even if your Excellency does not lay hands on Mo Ran again, I will investigate to the end and will not tolerate it."

"Pfft, I knew you would say that." The boy was silent for a moment and laughed, "Why are you Grand Masters, all so single-mindedly good, since Master Chu won't listen to advice, let's see, I actually want to see whether your Heavenly Question is powerful or my Forbidden Technique is tough."

Chu Wanning raised his eyebrows in anger and said grimly, "Do you really want to kill innocent people so indiscriminately?"

"All the people of the world are like the hedgehogs of Huainan."

"What does it mean?"

"Sour." The child giggled, "Sour, these dead rotten people, they're all so sour, they make me sick, I can't squash them and stomp them all out."

Mo Ran :""

Chu Wanning's voice was full of murder: "Your Excellency is, indeed, incorrigible."

"The Patriarch thinks I am incorrigible, and I think the Patriarch is incorrigible. Why dwell on this when the path is so different?" The child shook his head and said, "You are playing a game of chess with me, Jincheng Lake. "

He paused and his eyes narrowed abruptly, obviously smiling, but squeezing out more plasma.

"But you'll have to protect him, I'd like to see if the Patriarch can protect him for a while, but can he protect him for life."

""

"As for the secrets under this Patriarchal Abyss, you two had better not let slip." The little child said, twirling a golden and red plume out of his fingertips at some point.

Mo Ran said in dismay, "This is Peach Blossom Yard, the gold plume that serves as currency."

"Good." He smiled, "These golden feathers have been scattered all over Peach Blossom Yard. If you keep your secret and leave, you will be safe in Peach Blossom Yard, but if you do not behave and make my actions public, these feathers will have Feathermen's anger attached to them, which will not kill those monks, but will dissipate most of their power."

Mo Ran was furious: "You set this up from the start."

"And what else," said the boy in wonder, "do you think everyone is as stupid and rude as you are?"

Mo Ran :""

He admitted that he was not very good at beating around the bush and did not know how to calculate, but when this little beast said it in such a grand manner, he wanted to summon the devil to his face and show him what stupidity and rudeness really meant.

" Master Chu, whether you say it or not, you should know it very well in your heart. Even if they know the truth, but then their cultivation will be greatly damaged, I am afraid that they will not appreciate Master Chu's efforts to remove the demons and defend the Way."

Chu Wanning said coldly, "You have overheard me, and I had no intention of disturbing them now."

"Now ha ha, it seems that the Patriarch had planned to tell them later, but there is no point in telling them later." The child smiled and said, "As soon as the monks leave, Peach Blossom Yard will be completely destroyed by me, just like Jincheng Lake. Then there will be no proof, and you will see who believes you."

Chu Wanning's eyes were cold: "How can you be ashamed to say that Mo Ran is rude and foolish when you behave like this?"

The boy, unconcerned by Chu Wanning's sneer, got up and spun around a few times, a cascade of flame suddenly rising from beneath his feet, slowly burning away flesh, bone and blood.

"Say that to me again when you have caught me. Master Chu, I respect you as a gentleman, so I'll give you one last word of advice today, don't interfere again, if you don't listen, we'll always meet again"

With a loud boom, the flames suddenly burst into the air.

The Feathermen puppet burned up and a crystal white piece fell from the sky, rolling twice on the ground and stopping.

For a long time there was dead silence.

"" Mo Ran knew that the mysterious man behind the curtain was telling the truth, but he was reluctant and asked, "Master, is this really the way to go?

"It is prudent to leave Peach Blossom Yard first." Chu Wanning did not look good either, and Yu Chen said, "Since that man has gone to the trouble of making the Soul Locking Formation so that no one can detect that he is controlling the Zhenlong game, it is at least a sign that he does not want to make a big deal out of it for now. I will send him a message from the Lord, telling him to try to take Xue Meng and Shi Mei away as soon as possible without alerting the snake. As for you"

Chu Wanning paused and continued, "Jincheng Lake and Peach Blossom Yard were both aimed at you. This time, he designed to plant evidence against you in the hope of isolating you. Don't worry about this matter, your Holiness is the head of the sect and it would be best for him to mediate."

"What can I do?" Mo Ran said, "I can't just put it all on someone else and do nothing."

"After Jin Chengchi's divine wood collapsed, he has been looking for a replacement spirit body. You are a wood spirit essence, the most suitable, but if he never gets you, he will also retreat to other alternative top quality spirit bodies." Chu Wanning paused and said, "If he finds it, I am afraid it will be another bloodbath, he must be stopped."

"That's true, but Master, it's not like the Essence Spiritual Body can be found so easily, and even if he wanted to find a replacement, he would have to"

Mo Ran said here, suddenly paused, abruptly raised his head, a pair of satin-soft black eyes stared at Chu Wanning, and said for a long time: "That little beast wanted to find out who was the essence spirit body, he had to go to each sect to probe, and cultivators would not release their spirit roots for no reason, only when picking weapons or refining stones, they would sense with their spirit roots. So the easiest way to test for spirit bodies is to peddle weapons and spirit stones. We just need to observe more of the recent weapons bazaars in front of the major mountain gates, and we may find traces of that beast."

After saying this, he saw Chu Wanning staring at him thoughtfully, and was overcome with a sense of weakness.

"Uh I guessed."

"You guessed right." Chu Wanning said slowly, and after a moment, suddenly feeling that he knew a little more, he narrowed his eyes and asked, " Mo Ran . Is there something you're not telling me"

"What could I possibly be hiding from the Master?" Even though he said that, the hairs on Mo Ran's back stood up, feeling as if Chu Wanning's glazed, pale eyes were locked through his reborn skin, locking up the real soul huddled inside.

Luckily, Chu Wanning was quiet for a few moments and said nothing more.

He lowered his eyes faintly and said in a deep voice, "From now on, you will go with me to secretly investigate the great sects. Do not return to the Peak of Death and Life for the time being."