MOF Chapter 87
by VolareIt doesn’t matter if it’s embellished or not, whether it’s true or false anymore.
Si Wumian, with the stubborn Shopkeeper Qian, handed him over to Wen Rumeng to look after.
Looking after one is the same as looking after two, so Wen Rumeng naturally agreed without hesitation.
At this moment, Si Wumian remembered the Spring Breeze Tower’s gate, where the likely Autumn Water Hall’s lackey was, and asked Qian Tong, “Shopkeeper Qian, where did you find the lackeys at the entrance of the restaurant?”
Qian Tong glanced at Nie Xiangsi: “Her! She brought them all. Said they were distant relatives looking for something to do, no need to pay wages, just room and board.”
Everyone’s gazes immediately fell on Nie Xiangsi. Nie Xiangsi’s eyelashes fluttered twice, and she said in a low voice, “They are indeed people from the Autumn Water Hall.”
“What hall?” Qian Tong’s sharp eyes narrowed, sensing something was amiss.
Si Wumian briefly explained to him, focusing on the evil deeds done by Autumn Water Hall.
After hearing this, Qian Tong’s face first turned pale from the murders and trafficking, then turned as black as thunderclouds: “Miss Nie, you want to kill me! Where did I offend you? In this restaurant, among all the dancers, singers, and musicians, you are the best. Food, clothing, and everything I use, I always pick the best for you, you, you, you! How could you lead wolves into the house!”
“No, it’s a conspiracy!”
Wen Rumeng pursed his lips tightly, his face not looking too good. He stood in front of Nie Xiangsi, shielding her from Qian Tong’s spittle.
Si Wumian said, “Now that things have come to this, you should find a safe place to hide first.”
Wen Rumeng immediately replied, “I’ll take them away. As for the other things, we’ll talk about it after the Immortal Lord has dealt with the demon.”
Si Wumian watched the four of them leave, then turned around with peace of mind.
Although Yu Qiong was a rare demonic evil, he couldn’t withstand the various techniques of the immortal sects. Moreover, his whereabouts had been exposed, so it would be difficult for him to hide again.
Beset on all sides, he could only endure Feng Ying’s sword energy, being cut until his body was torn and bleeding non-stop.
But it wasn’t blood that flowed, only black, muddy water.
A string of muddy water splattered onto Xie Yiling’s shoulders and back below.
After tossing and turning all night, it was almost dawn. Originally, there weren’t many pedestrians on the street, after all, it was difficult to get up on a winter morning.
But the guests who escaped from Spring Breeze Tower shouted and yelled, claiming that demonic fire had descended. The surrounding residents, hearing this, opened their windows and went out their doors, curiously and fearfully spying on the source of the fire.
The fire soared into the sky, and the Spring Breeze Tower’s roof beams collapsed. It couldn’t be saved, but the excitement could be watched.
Seeing that it was just an ordinary fire, the people sighed with emotion, wanting to take a closer look at how this most luxurious restaurant in Shuo City collapsed and turned to ashes. So they slowly approached, forming a shrinking net of people.
Xie Yiling had just been doused with a body full of sewage and was disgusted. Looking down, he saw a sea of people on the ground, and almost fainted.
Without him saying anything, Si Wumian knew how serious the situation was.
Yu Qiong was worried about being at the end of the line, unable to escape. Seeing that the people were completely unaware of the danger overhead, an evil thought arose.
He dispersed a few strands of demonic energy, quietly approaching the people, wanting to grab a few hostages to threaten these immortal sect people to let him leave.
The demonic energy was invisible and intangible, quietly approaching. Just as it was about to entangle a person, it was burned by a strong spiritual force.
Nangong Ci grabbed Yu Qiong’s demonic power from afar and shattered it all with a gentle palm.
Si Wumian took the opportunity to shout, “Demonic evil has appeared in the world! The immortal sects are ordered to eliminate the demon here! Everyone, leave quickly!”
The phrase “demonic evil has appeared in the world” was as awe-inspiring as the Black and White Impermanence coming to the world to claim lives. The people then looked up at the rooftops near the Spring Breeze Tower.
“That’s a demon in the sky!”
“There’s a monster, there’s a monster! Run!”
The people scattered like birds startled by the forest, and the street was instantly empty.
Under the swift and fierce fire of the demon fire, only a black ash remained of the Spring Breeze Tower. The demon fire gradually extinguished and cooled.
Yu Qiong stopped the body that was constantly leaking turbid water like a broken cave, and the voice changed from a high-pitched male voice to a cold and eerie female voice, saying word by word: “Ruin my good deeds.”
With no time to deal with the sewage on his body, Xie Yiling attached spiritual power to his sword and killed him.
Although Nangong Ci couldn’t see, among these immortal sect people, he had the strongest spiritual power and the deepest cultivation, so it was naturally impossible for him to sit by and watch.
Yu Qiong couldn’t escape the encirclement of layers of immortal techniques, and suddenly saw a powerful spiritual art burst out from the white blindfold, rushing straight to his face.
Advancing is death, and retreating is death. Yu Qiong instantly had an evil thought. The blindfolded man’s cultivation was better than other disciples, and he might be an important figure in the immortal sect. Before dying, he would pull someone to be buried with him, which wouldn’t be a waste of his life.
In an instant, several spirit swords followed Yu Qiong and shot at Nangong Ci.
“Master!” Xie Yiling noticed Yu Qiong’s thoughts and quickly opened his mouth, “Don’t send, stop!”
The silver-gray demon shape was as fast as a star, flashing like lightning, and arrived in front of Nangong Ci in the blink of an eye.
The others were forced to stop their spirit swords, but forcibly stopping would inevitably damage their own spiritual power, and the spirit swords still pierced forward a certain distance.
A demonic aura attacked, but Nangong Ci’s face didn’t change, and he stood still. When Yu Qiong’s demonic aura wrapped around him, Azurefall lit up, reflecting the first bright morning light in the east, and shattered the silver-gray figure with one sword strike.
Thousands of pieces fell mixed with the flying snow, fluttering like catkins, rolled away by the wind, or merged with the snow on the ground.
Mo Wuchou and others quickly locked the acupoints in front of their chests to suppress the bloody sweetness in their throats.
Xie Yiling was extremely fast and frightened and went to Nangong Ci, regardless of other people’s eyes, he raised his hand to check his injuries: “Master, are you injured anywhere? Let me see.”
Nangong Ci allowed him to check and confirmed that he was unharmed before speaking: “Don’t worry, I’m fine. Yu Qiong has been eliminated.”
“Right.” Xie Yiling breathed a sigh of relief belatedly, “Yu Qiong has been eliminated, and our purpose of this trip has been fulfilled as desired.”
Mo Wuchou and his party landed on the ground and respectfully saluted Nangong Ci.
“Thank you, Fufeng Daoist, for taking action to deal with it.”
Nangong Ci said: “It’s my duty, Young Master Mo is being polite.”
Yu Qiong’s corpse fragments emitted a stench, scattered in the air, Xie Yiling and Si Wumian quickly eliminated the smell.
Just after doing these, Wen Rumeng brought Nie Xiangsi and Shuisheng back here.
Si Wumian asked, “Where is Shopkeeper Qian?”
“He’s already staying at another inn. Shopkeeper Qian suffered too much shock.” Wen Rumeng glanced at the ruined Spring Breeze Tower, “It may take some time to recover, after all, his losses are really huge. I gave him all the silver I had on me. With his ability and temperament, making a comeback shouldn’t be a problem.”
Xie Yiling glanced at Wen Rumeng with slight surprise: “Young Master Wen is so kind-hearted, he will surely have a lot of good fortune and wealth.”
Si Wumian leaned close to Xie Yiling’s ear and whispered, “Xie Shixiong, you took one or two silver from me before.”
Xie Yiling hooked his lips: “Go back and use this money to buy some candied fruit snacks for A Si, just consider it a gift from you.”
Si Wumian touched his chin and said, “So that’s what Xie Shixiong plans to do, you’re still very thoughtful.”
“Master.” After speaking to Si Wumian, Xie Yiling turned to the business, “If Autumn Water Hall is not eradicated, I’m afraid there will be endless troubles.”
Several people looked at Nie Xiangsi, Si Wumian couldn’t bear his temper and said bluntly: “Miss Nie, is there any way?”
Nie Xiangsi shook her head: “Only the Second Hall Master can see the Great Hall Master. Now that the Second Hall Master is gone, I’m afraid the Great Hall Master has noticed and won’t come forward.”
“This is difficult.” Xie Yiling was a little melancholy, his eyes attracted by Shuisheng hiding behind Nie Xiangsi, “Shuisheng, you should know something, right? Where do you usually live, who brought you out, do you still remember?”
Shuisheng now completely lost his previous mischievous temper. He shrank his neck, timidly raised his eyes to look at Xie Yiling, and quickly lowered his head: “I remember, I remember. However, I dare not go back, I am afraid.”
Xie Yiling can be said to be skilled in comforting children, and he can easily do it. He directly touched Shuisheng’s round head, like A Si’s, and spun it back and forth, and patted his shoulder lightly: “Don’t be afraid, you also see, we will protect you. From now on, no one can hurt you.”
Shuisheng bit his lip, the frightened look on his face did not disappear, but his tense body relaxed a lot, and he said in a low voice: “I, I will take you to find it.”
Si Wumian realized the great contrast in his personality before and after, and was still a little unaccustomed to it for a while.
Although he didn’t say this feeling out loud, Nangong Ci didn’t know if he was a wonderful trick or a fluke: “The Gu curse will magnify people’s evil and obliterate people’s goodness, making them different people before and after.”
Xie Yiling glanced at Si Wumian and smiled silently.
Yu Qiong settled, Mo Wuchou should have returned to the immortal gate to report, but he watched the expressions of the Southern Return disciples and listened to their conversation, feeling that the matter was not over, said: “Fufeng Daoist, it sounds like you still have other things.”
“Young Master Mo is smart.” Xie Yiling was worried that there were not enough people, and hearing that Mo Wuchou intended to help, he told him the whole story.
Everyone listened and looked at each other, their faces showing a look of shock like a bolt from the blue.
“This, there is such a thing!” Gu Huanzhi trembled with anger, “So bold under the feet of the immortal gate, the collusion between humans and demons, disregarding human life, is simply too rampant!”
“Yes!” Si Wumian very much agreed and found it strange, “However, even if humans and demons collude, how could there be no news for so many years?”
“Perhaps it is that Great Hall Master,” Xie Yiling’s eyes showed deepness, “Has the ability to cover the sky with one hand.”
No matter what the truth is, the current priority is to dig up as much information about Autumn Water Hall as possible.
Nie Xiangsi said at this time: “Everyone Immortal Lords, please forgive Xiangsi for not being able to go with you. First, I have lived in Spring Breeze Tower for a long time, and I am not familiar with the people of Autumn Water Hall in the city. Second, after a night of disturbance, my body is hard to recover, and my heart is more than enough but my strength is insufficient.”
Seeing that her face was bloodless, Wen Rumeng looked at everyone and couldn’t help but said: “Immortal Lord, why don’t I take Miss Nie to rest first, just at the inn in front.”
Nangong Ci said: “Since this is the case, then I will trouble Young Master Wen.”
Wen Rumeng shook his head to indicate that it was not troublesome, and was about to take Nie Xiangsi away, Xie Yiling suddenly said: “Miss Nie.”
The two turned to look at him.
Xie Yiling took out a talisman paper folded into the shape of a snowflake, with a serious expression: “If you encounter difficulties in the future that cannot be solved, as long as you open this spell and recite the incantation on it, no matter how far away, we will appear.”
Nie Xiangsi’s heart suffocated, and an unspeakable feeling emerged. She stared at Xie Yiling’s dark eyes, opened her mouth, as if she had thousands of words, but only said two words: “Thank you.”
Nangong Ci said: “Let’s go.”
Xie Yiling turned and returned to his side.
The snow began to fall again, fluttering, and the snowflakes fell on the same-shaped talisman paper in Nie Xiangsi’s hand.
She and Xie Yiling walked back to back, and the distance between the two became farther and farther.
I thought it was just across a long street, but I didn’t know it was a heavy snow for nearly twelve years.