Aspiring to the Immortal Path

v5 Chapter 17: Suspicion

The first rays of the sun shone on the body through the shade of the trees, bringing out a little bit of light. Falling on Xi Canhen's face, the young man shook his head slightly, turned his face and wanted to continue sleeping, but felt that something hurt him.

I opened my eyes and saw a huge tiger head lying next to him, his face hurting like a needle with the tiger's whiskers.

A smile appeared on Xi Canhen's face, she involuntarily stretched out her hand and touched Xiaohu's forehead.

Maybe because he didn't like someone doing it this way, Bo'er turned over. The direction it turned over was towards Xi Canhen, and this time it pressed Xi Canhen under her body.

Xi Canhen, who weighed hundreds of kilograms of body, rolled his eyes wildly: "Boer... Boer... You crushed me to death!"

The shouting made Xiaohu a little awake. It woke up dimly, and saw the residual mark of Xi underneath itself, so it tilted its head, seeming to wonder how he got under his stomach.

Xi Canhen has begun to vent more and less intake.

He waved his hand and slapped Xiaohu feebly.

Xiaohu finally realized that Xi Canhen was wrong, and then slowly got up, shook his body and went to the other side to continue to sleep, seemingly not cold to Xi Canhen's weakness.

Xi Canhen sat up, clutching her chest, and pointed to Xiaohu: "You... hello... the assassin of the Shimen faction hasn't killed me yet, you, the one who protects me, will kill me first."

Xiaohu glanced at him lazily, tilted his head and continued to doze.

Xi Canhen reluctantly murmured: "You are ruthless."

After waking up anyway, Xi Canhen stood up altogether, took out the long sword she was carrying, and danced in the forest like this.

The sword technique passed to him by Tang Jie automatically reflected in his mind, and Xi Canhen waved in accordance with the memory.

He is the one who opened the Yumen, even if the aura is still empty, there is aura running in the body by itself. At this moment, he dances like a tiger, and it is quite a bit of sword aura.

Even if he is not a formal cultivator, at least he has the posture of a martial arts master.

After a sword skill dance was completed, Xi Canhen took a single sword and said to Xiaohu: "Bo'er, what do you think?"

The little tiger yawned lazily, and the tiger paw patted a tree, and a piece of bark had already been photographed. The bark whizzed and flew towards Xi Canhen, and Xi Canhen waved a sword to block it.

He practiced this twelve sword style for three days, and the sword is basically familiar with it. At this moment, he naturally used the sword style to split the bark. He didn't expect the tip of the sword to hit the bark as if it were cutting. The iron block was average, but it smashed Xi Canhen's sword away, and he was hitting Xi Canhen's body. A strong force had already sent him away.

Fortunately, this power was used extremely skillfully. It flew out with the Xi residual scar, did not hurt him, only caused him to fall.

Xi Canhen sat up on her ass, and said in surprise: "It's amazing, is this the fairy law?"

Xiaohu looked at him contemptuously.

Xi Canhen has already rushed over, clutching Xiaohu and said, "Will you teach me?"

"Um..." Xiaohu's neck was suddenly upended by the boy's diligent look, and he took a few steps back for an unprecedented time.

Do people worship tigers as their teachers? Do you want to make a face?

Little Tiger turned his head, he was completely reluctant to look at him, and Ren Xi Canhen just ignored him how he asked for it.

"Well, if you don't teach it, don't teach it." Seeing it's indifference to herself, Xi Canhen reluctantly retreated.

He was retreating, and the little tiger suddenly turned his head to look at him, a sharp light in the tiger's eyes.

Seeing it like this, Xi Canhen froze for a moment, and then a chill rose in his heart, and if he knew it was not good, he rushed forward without looking back.

At the same time, not far behind Xi Canhen, a black shadow suddenly appeared, rushing towards Xi Canhen at high speed, and split a sharp sword light against Xi Canhen.

Even though Xi Canhen's reaction was quick, she was just an ordinary person. The sword that came from behind him brought the cultivator's unique aura and brilliance to catch up, and Xi Canhen couldn't dazzle it anymore.

"Roar!" Xiaohu roared loudly.

The Tiger King roared and moved in all directions, and the sword light in the air was slightly condensed, as if time had stopped at this moment.

Xi Canhen had already turned over and rushed out, and rolled on the spot. Jianguang brushed his back and hit the tree on the opposite side.

The sneak attacker missed a blow, grunted, the sword light swept across, and then stabbed Xi's residual mark.

However, the first attack was unsuccessful, and the sneak attackers had actually missed the best opportunity. Just as Xi Canhen dodges this sword, the little tiger has rushed up, and the tiger’s claws are rising, and he is colliding with the attacking long sword. Together.

Under the impact of the forces, the sneak attackers retreated with a miserable hum.

While being shaken back by the claw of the little tiger, the sneak attacker also uttered an incredulous cry: "The top grade monster tiger? How is this possible?"

Only then can it be clearly seen that the attacker is a strong and strong man.

His name is Hong Antao, a third-generation disciple of the Shimen School, and Linghuqi. He was a hunter before entering the Shimen School, and he was good at tracking. That's why he was sent to chase Xi Canhen. He thought that assassinating an ordinary young man was just a trivial matter, but he didn't expect that there was a top-grade monster tiger beside this young man, and Hong Antao was immediately panicked.

With his strength, let alone an elite high-grade monster like Bao'er, even the average middle-grade monster he may not be an opponent.

Seeing the demon tiger appeared at this moment, Hong Antao yelled and turned his head and ran away. How could Xiaohu let him run so easily, and chased him out with a roar. Its wings stretched out, the wind and clouds thunderous, and its speed was many times faster than Hong Antao. It only sprinted behind Hong Antao, and the tiger's claws raised lightly and it was about to be photographed.

If this time the shooting is true, Hong Antao will not help much if he lives multiple times.

However, at that time, Hong Antao suddenly yelled and turned around and shot a cyan wind blade.

Xiaohu only glanced contemptuously, and was about to ignore it, only to realize that the blow was not at himself, but at the residual scars behind him.

It was taken aback by this shock. Regardless of Hong Antao's life and death, he hurriedly turned around and spit out a flash of electric light. It was the Gale Wind Electric Light Blade.

Taking this opportunity, Hong Antao has escaped Xiaohu's blow.

Little Tiger was furious, and was about to make up for it, but Hong Antao did what he did, turning around to face Xi Canhen with another blow, and the forced little Tiger had to come back again.

Two hits are not effective, which is extremely rare for Xiaohu.

But this is the limit that Hong Antao can do.

His biggest problem is that Xi Canhen is not in his hands. At the same time that the two blows are ineffective, Xi Canhen has been given enough time. This kid tumbling and hiding behind a big tree, no more Hong Antao's opportunity to attack.

Losing the shield of Xi Canhen, Hong Antao's life almost came to an end in the first place.

The roaring tiger shadow came by the wind, but it was close in the blink of an eye.

The huge tiger claws lifted up and slapped Hong Antao's face with a slap, and the Orion's face was smashed with just one blow.

At this time, the little tiger fell back to the ground and let out an angry low growl at Hong Antao.

Although it succeeded in killing the assassin, it was not at all happy.

It was only a Linghu stage, and even let himself fail several times. It was simply unbearable.

Looking back at Xi Canhen, the young man's head was sticking out from behind.

Xiaohu suddenly felt that the strength of this young man was really too weak.

Well, maybe something should be taught him.

Xiaohu realized proudly.

At least let this kid have a minimum of self-preservation when the next wave of attacks comes.

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Shimen Peak.

Liang Xingbang and Shi Jingzhai walked around the house anxiously, until Yu Wanniang came in and asked, "How is it?"

Yu Wanniang shook her head pale.

Their hearts sank at the same time, and Shi Jingzhai said anxiously, "What do you mean by shaking your head, are you talking?"

Yu Wanniang replied: "Lu Dong didn't come back, he and his men suddenly disappeared."

"Disappeared?" The two were stunned: "What about the townspeople?"

Yu Wanniang replied: "Nothing happened in the town. When the sun rises, everything is going on as usual. Only Lu Dong and the others are missing."

Upon hearing this, the two took a breath.

When things reached this point, Shi Jingzhai Liang Xingbang realized that no matter what was wrong.

If someone just got a piece of crystallized sandworm by accident, then there should be no collective disappearance of Lu Dong and others, which means that it is definitely not a coincidence, but someone is deliberately pushing it.

In this way, the nature of the matter is completely different. Thinking of this, the three of them felt uneasy at the same time.

Who on earth is against them in secret?

Spread news, create rumors, and even secretly kill the Shimen faction?

After thinking for a while, Shi Jingzhai said: "I think Tang Jie is very suspicious of this. After all, all this happened after Tang Jie came, and his mission is also prospecting. Could it be that he found it in the mine? what?"

Yu Wanniang asked: "If this is the case, why didn't he ask anything that night? Besides, if he found something, why didn't he just tell the Moon Washing Sect and act like this?"

Shi Jingzhai couldn't answer this question either, and said in a bad mood: "How do I know? From my point of view, it will be known at the first trial."

Liang Xingbang coldly snorted: "Whether the matter is related to Tang Jie is still unknown, but I know that if we catch Tang Jie, within three days, the real person of the Washing Moon Sect will be killed, and the Shimen Sect will be killed. Keep."

"I'm afraid that it's the end if I don't catch him!" Shi Jingzhai roared: "I found this person yesterday and didn't get it. This kind of thing happened that night. If it has nothing to do with him, I absolutely don't believe it."

Unexpectedly, Yu Wanniang's expression suddenly became wonderful: "This matter really has nothing to do with Tang Jie."

"En?" The two looked at Yu Wanniang together.

Yu Wanniang replied: "The two maidservants I arranged with Tang Jie told me that Tang Jie came back last night and has been cultivating since he came back, and never went out again."

"Why didn't you say it earlier?" Shi Jingzhai asked urgently.

Yu Wanniang didn't have an angry answer: "I just found out this morning too. That kid travels in the mountains and rivers during the day and practices qigong at night. I'm going to stare at him every day when I'm idle?"

"Can you confirm that it is Tang Jie himself?" Shi Jingzhai always felt a little worried.

Yu Wanniang replied: "There must be no doubt. The two girls were originally arranged by me for Tang Jie, and I shouldn't try my best to seduce them someday. It's just that the kid is eager to say nothing. It is also daily contact, waiting for idlers to deceive."

"I'm afraid that kid is not waiting for leisure." Liang Xingbang surveyed.

"Brother did you mean to look for Tang Jie?"

Liang Xingbang hesitated for a moment, but finally shook his head: "That's not true, actually..."

In fact, he didn't say anything, but at that moment, a thought arose in the three of them at the same time:

If the matter has nothing to do with Tang Jie, who else will it have to do with?

The three of them looked at each other, and suddenly they were shocked at the same time, but they stopped talking.

The atmosphere suddenly became awkwardly silent. After a long time, Shi Jingzhai laughed and said, "Brother Liang, I remember you kept the crystallized silkworm all the time, right?"

Liang Xingbang's face sank: "Third Junior Brother, what do you mean by this?"

"Just ask, don't worry about the second brother." Shi Jingzhai smiled.

Liang Xingbang snorted: "I'm afraid it's not me, but some people. I have a good care of the crystallized silkworm, but how much is there in my stock? There is one piece missing. On the contrary, the person in charge of the excavation is you, Junior Brother Shi, it is not your decision to dig up. It is not impossible for one or two pieces to be excavated but not recorded in the account."

Shi Jingzhai angrily said: "You fart, whenever I go in or out, I can't take it off naked first. No matter how many things I take out and fall into your eyes, where can I hide it? Is it in my asshole? I risked my life for everyone. It is really unreasonable to get these benefits, but in exchange for such slander!"

Liang Xingbang also said angrily: "Don't you talk about me first?"

Yu Wanniang rushed to the side to make a round: "It's alright, it's all my own, what are you fighting for?"

Shi Jingzhai said in a huff: "Yu Wanniang, don't be okay with this. You will have your share if you can't get away with this matter. You did the contact with the other side, and you took the sample stone. I gave you five at the time. You didn't get one back. Who knows if this is one of them?"

Yu Wanniang heard angrily: "Yeah, why do you still rely on me for this? Aren’t those crystallized silkworms used to win trust over the other side and open up the joints? It’s easy for you to do this as an old lady? Those guys who eat people but don’t spit out bones can’t easily let them hold the handles. There are too many of them. From time to time, they have to make people take advantage of them. You eat it. It took so much effort to get things done. In the end, how come I was charged with it again? This is really thankless."

The three of them looked at each other, and sat down in a huff, ignoring each other.

After a while, I felt that it would not be a problem to continue like this. After all, Liang Xingbang said, "You said, will this matter have something to do with those guys?"

"They?" Shi Jingzhai lowered his head and thought: "It shouldn't be right, the price given to them is already very cheap."

However, Yu Wanniang's eyes shone brightly: "It's hard to say that people are always greedy. If they can get more points, they won't get less. If they really make troubles, it is unknown. For example, through this. , Let the wind out, create pressure for us, and then take the opportunity to lower the price afterwards..."

Shi Jingzhai and Liang Xingbang gasped at the same time: "It's not so dark, right?"

"It's hard to tell." Yu Wanniang was worried: "This happened just after Tang Jie arrived. This may not be a coincidence, but someone wants to take the opportunity to force us. After all, Tang Jie is just a student, even a formal disciple. It’s not that he has the ability to discover our arrangement? Even if he finds it, what reason is there to do so? What's more, I have explored his bottom with the secret method. On the contrary, it is those guys who have no matter their intentions, abilities or motivations. Only they can clean up Lu Dong and the others easily and silently."

"If this is the case, things will be in trouble." Liang Xingbang worried.

Yu Wanniang shook her head: "It might not be too much trouble. If they really did it, things would be simpler. What they want is nothing more than a cheaper price. As long as they are willing to lower the price, they should be able to solve the problem."

Shi Jingzhai said angrily: "You said it easy, do you know how much this is? This is the accumulation of more than 30 years in the pie! Not only the crystallized sandworms, but also the spirit stones and other treasures that everyone has hoarded over the years. Mustard bags can’t hold goods. So many goods have been given to them at 60% of the market price. Do you still want to keep it down? How low do you want to keep it down?"

Yu Wanniang was also angry: "Is it possible not to do this? You have been bullied without seeing others?"

Shi Jingzhai roared: "That's also your problem. In the final analysis, the person you're looking for is the wrong one!"

Yu Wanniang was mad: "Okay, then you go find it. This is worth tens of millions of dollars, you will find a school that can take over and dare to take over!"

Shi Jingzhai still wanted to scold him, but was held down by Liang Xingbang: "Okay, okay, why are you arguing again? Don’t argue, the matter is over, always looking for a solution. It’s not yet sure what it is. What's the matter? Wanniang, I'm afraid I will trouble you to take a trip. You contacted those people, so you still have to ask them if they did it. If so, what are your plans."

Liang Xingbang, who is short and chubby, usually looks inferior to Shi Jingzhai, but he has always been considered a think tank among the trio. Many ideas were actually made by him. He gave his opinions at this moment. Wanniang and Shi Jingzhai were also willing to listen.

At this moment, Yu Wanniang nodded her head calmly: "I will contact them later."

Liang Xingbang continued: "In addition, if something like this happens, the goods can no longer be released. This transaction must be completed as soon as possible. I will sleep in the warehouse these days and watch them day and night to prevent accidents. Old stone, you Go and stare at Tang Jie."

"What are you staring at him for?" Shi Jingzhai was puzzled.

Liang Xingbang replied: "Although the maidservants said that Tang Jie was always at ~lightnovelpub.net last night, the words of those **** are still not enough. For Tang Jie, we must always be careful."

"Okay." Shi Jingzhai replied unwillingly.

Yu Wanniang asked: "What about the town?"

"The news can't be blocked anymore. You can only let it spread. Anyway, if there is no evidence, just treat it as a rumor." At this point, Liang Xingbang figured it out. No matter how urgent it is. Even if the Axiomists really come to ask, as long as there is no evidence, it is enough to insist that it is a rumor. The key is to clean up all the hands and tails before this, otherwise it will be called death by leaving criminal evidence.

"In the end, it's the man who sells silkworms. Although Ding Chao promised that the boy was just an ordinary person, An Tao has not returned. Now it seems that it is not easy. He still has to send a powerful person to kill the boy. Yes." Liang Xingbang said.

Yu Wanniang frowned: "If it's really someone over there, would it be inappropriate to just kill it like this?"

Liang Xingbang smiled and said: "You don't need to worry about this. Since they dare to engage in ghosts, they should also have the consciousness to bear the consequences. Those who dare to cheat my Shimen... kill me!"