Chapter 21

At the same time, the scholar gently curled his fingers, and Cang Yin Yue, unable to control herself, walked toward the valley.

At this moment, although Cang Yin Yue was anxious in her heart, she still calmly pondered the method of breaking it.

At the same time, she glanced at Li Musheng from the corner of her eye, but found that the other party was staring ahead, seemingly dazed.

"I thought this kid was some hidden expert? Turns out there isn't even a trace of true qi in his body."

In the valley, the scholar glanced at Li Musheng from afar, sneered, and shook his head.

He had already silently activated the Mutual Puppet Technique to invade Li Musheng's body, so naturally, he knew the situation within the other party's body inside out.

Upon hearing this, the woman suffering deeply from severe injuries began circulating her cultivation technique to heal herself while speaking indifferently:

"Since he is an ordinary person, Junior Brother, just kill him directly. This person is of no use whatsoever to my cultivation of the Mutual Poison Claw Technique."

"True." The scholar nodded.

He stopped looking at Li Musheng, moved his fingers slightly, and prepared to manipulate the other party into suicide, slitting his throat on the spot.

But very quickly, he suddenly let out a soft "eh," and looked at Li Musheng again.

The expected suicide did not occur; that handsome young man still stood there exactly as before, not even moving a muscle.

The scholar frowned and curled his fingers again.

However, he discovered that the Mutual Puppet Technique, which had worked flawlessly a hundred times before, failed again.

The scholar's face gradually turned ugly; immediately, he fully circulated the true qi in his dantian into his fingertips, trying to manipulate the threads connecting to Li Musheng's body.

But the result was still useless!

"How is this possible?" The scholar found it hard to believe.

The woman looked at her Junior Brother, who had suddenly become distracted, with confusion, and was about to ask what was going on.

At this moment, Li Musheng over there suddenly shook his head:

"This Wu Gong doesn't look that impressive. If there were a complete cultivation technique, I might study it."

Having said that, he raised his hand and grabbed forward; the dense threads coiling around him all entered his palm.

At the same time, the scholar, who was still doubting whether he had made a mistake in his cultivation practice, suddenly felt an overwhelming, irresistible power surge from his palm.

He saw the scene before him suddenly recede rapidly, and then his entire body crashed down onto the ground with a boom.

Only the sound of a "bang" explosion arose in the silent mountains; rocks shattered, and dust and earth surged upward.

Before Li Musheng, the scholar's entire body was buried in a pile of rocks crushed into fragments; the powerful impact had broken all his bones, leaving his flesh and blood a blur.

Yet at this moment, he only felt intense pain covering every corner of his body, but still hadn't realized what exactly had happened?

"You..."

The scholar's eyes, blurred by mud and blood, looked at Li Musheng standing nearby, but before he could speak, blood and fragments of his internal organs surged violently up his throat, forcibly blocking his words.

At this time, Cang Yin Yue, whose body movement had already recovered, flashed over to Li Musheng's side.

Those clear, cold eyes looked at the severely injured scholar in the rubble, then at Li Musheng, her gaze filled with shock.

"You actually broke his Mutual Puppet Technique; how did you do it?"

Li Musheng clapped his hands, glanced at Cang Yin Yue, and said somewhat amusedly:

"Miss Cang, why do you always ask that same question? Can't you change it to something like 'Your Highness the Imperial Prince is amazing' or 'Simply terrifying' and so on?"

Cang Yin Yue paused for a moment, then nodded seriously with a serious expression:

"Indeed very amazing!"

However, the next moment, a sharp glint suddenly flashed in her eyes; her entire body vanished from the spot, transforming into a dark shadow that leaped swiftly toward the valley.

The scholar's senior sister, upon seeing the scholar fly out for no apparent reason and then be smashed half to death, knew immediately that they had encountered a ruthless opponent.

Thus, she immediately took the opportunity to flee; after all, given her current state of suffering deeply from severe injuries, staying would certainly mean death.

However, how could she outrun Cang Yin Yue now? Within a few breaths, she was caught, subdued, brought back, and thrown beside the blood-blurred scholar.

"Which sect's disciples are you? What is your purpose in going to Shangyang City this time?"

The long, slender blade in Cang Yin Yue's hand descended, hovering before the neck of the ugly woman with a scarred face.

The complete Mutual Puppet Technique had never appeared in the Jianghu before; its sudden appearance now very likely means the revival of the Ten Thousand Phases Demon Sect.

Moreover, these two people before her are ambiguously connected to General Wu An's men, making this matter something that must be investigated.

Upon hearing this, the ugly woman moved her lips, about to speak.

However, Cang Yin Yue stopped the other party in time, saying:

"To prevent the two from colluding, we must interrogate them separately."

Upon hearing this, Li Musheng nodded:

"I have no problem."

Then, Cang Yin Yue took the ugly woman aside to interrogate her.

At this time, Li Musheng slowly squatted in front of the scholar, thought for a moment, and said:

"Hand over the Mutual Puppet Technique for me to study."

Upon hearing this, the scholar swallowed a mouthful of blood, stared at Li Musheng, but said nothing.

"Hmm? Don't want to give it?" Li Musheng raised an eyebrow.

The scholar did not reply, only speaking weakly and intermittently, saying:

"You... why... no true qi..."

Li Musheng smiled and asked:

"Do you know what 'Unity of Heaven and Man' is? What 'Perfection in the Martial Dao' is? What 'Returning to Simplicity and Truth' is?"

The scholar opened his mouth, his eyes widening momentarily, but then he slowly shook his head with great effort, speaking indistinctly:

"You... impossible... Heaven and Man..."

Li Musheng rolled his eyes and asked another question:

"Will you give me the cultivation technique?"

However, the scholar only shook his head, repeatedly repeating his earlier words, and did not answer his question at all.

Seeing this, Li Musheng also shook his head:

"If you won't give it, then fine; I don't care for it anyway."

Having said that, he flicked a finger and extinguished the scholar's life force.

He was not a skilled agent of the Hidden Intelligence Bureau like Cang Cang Yin Yue, and had no patience to continue the interrogation.

And until death, the expression of disbelief on the scholar's face did not fade.

After a while, Cang Cang Yin Yue returned, carrying the half-dead, ugly woman.

"She has confessed everything; how did your questioning go?"

Cang Cang Yin Yue looked at Li Musheng, wanting to compare their two confessions.

But when her gaze fell upon the already dead scholar, her delicate brows furrowed, and she asked suspiciously:

"You didn't get anything out of him before killing him, did you?"

Li Musheng shrugged and said:

"I am not a professional; getting two sentences out of him was already good."

"Interrogation is naturally a job for someone like Miss Cang; I believe you certainly made some progress?"

Upon hearing this, Cang Cang Yin Yue sighed lightly and said slowly:

"Both of them were disciples of a master named Wu Xiang Lao Ren, and all their martial arts were also received from him. As for the purpose of their journey..."

At this point, she paused, staring at Li Musheng and said:

"It was to impersonate your identity."

(End of this chapter)