Chapter 320: Mist Moves

Xiang Minggao fell in the manor, his left shoulder empty and blurred, like a bird broken and left here, his blood almost drained.

He actually understood what happened better than Wudong and An Cang.

He knew Meng Li, actually long before Huan Si Lou invaded the Hushan Jianmen.

It had almost nothing to do with this matter. That was three years ago. There were a hundred and eighty horse bandits entrenched in the Big Snow Village. This kid was seventeen or eighteen, pretending to be a rich young master and was deliberately captured, waiting to exchange for a ransom.

It could be seen that this was not the first time he had done such a thing. When the bandits gathered to share the loot, he skillfully took out some unknown medicine, turned around, entered the treasury, and looted a pile of money and valuables.

That medicine was indeed interesting. Xiang Minggao took a cup and felt a bit dizzy.

That Big Snow Village was precisely a foothold of the Swallow Sun Society. Xiang Minggao was staying there that night.

Xiang Minggao liked such a talented and dissolute young sword player. Later, every time he went to Yangzhou, he would meet and chat with him, and sometimes he would point out a few sword moves.

He never knew what secret this hidden sect called "Hushan Jianmen" was hiding, and even less had the idea of snatching treasures.

It was after the incident broke out that Xiang Minggao received a letter from this young man. When they met, he was almost a bloody man, covered in wounds, hadn't slept for several nights, his eyes revealing a coldness like a sharp blade from behind his matted hair, his long sword wrapped in a layer of blood film.

At this time, Xiang Minggao learned everything that had happened from his mouth.

The Hushan Jianmen did not pass down one ancient object, but two.

They had been passing down a forbidden box for generations, but could only guard it and could not open it. That was a forbidden area that the sect had never allowed to approach for generations. The always reckless Meng Li defied it, but when he opened that jade box... there was only one thing left.

The other piece had long been in the hands of Huan Si Lou. They came to take the remaining piece. This time Meng Li didn't let them succeed again.

The Swallow Sun Society actually didn't know what the thing Huan Si Lou got was until now, but when this news was passed to the society, the society heads agreed without hesitation to let Xiang Minggao chase the Swallow Sun Society.

Because the strange art and unique classic Meng Li brought out was one.

Xiang Minggao thought this was the entire vortex of this matter, because these two things were passed down so closely, they must have some causal connection. Whichever side got them both, this matter would end.

Until he found that Huan Si Lou was carrying out "Soul-Taking and Sword-Stealing" on a large scale and with great energy.

Xiang Minggao didn't know what connection this had with the things they were fighting for, and from some signs, Huan Si Lou even valued the latter more.

After the "Soul-Taking" matter went wrong, they so decisively gave up the pursuit of Meng Li and turned back to Shaolong.

On the way to Shaolong, he told Meng Li that this might be a positive conspiracy—that is, Huan Si Lou knew they would follow anyway, so they simply converted to a more favorable battlefield.

But in fact, if he had decisively taken Meng Li away at that time, then Huan Si Lou would have failed completely and would never be able to touch this strange art and unique classic again.

Where was the significance of "Soul-Taking and Sword-Stealing" success at that time?

It was also at this time that Xiang Minggao felt that the thing on Meng Li was not even the core of the matter.

The thing Huan Si Lou took from the Hushan Jianmen at some unknown time might be more important than the strange art and unique classic. If the two things passed down by the Hushan Jianmen had primary and secondary, then the one in the opponent's hands was undoubtedly the primary one.

And the secondary one, they could even give up and not want.

Therefore, Huan Si Lou, which had already attracted the attention of all parties, decisively began to cut its tail and shrink.

The court and Tianshan knew nothing about all this. They were still at the outermost periphery and couldn't find the door. On this matter, the Swallow Sun Society and Huan Si Lou had always maintained the same tacit understanding—the more important the thing, the more restrained the power to enter the field, and the more secret the fierce competition.

Because once it truly alarmed the Immortal Platform, it would be the common failure of both sides.

The Swallow Sun Society had no foundation in Shaolong, but Xiang Minggao still brought Meng Li to chase here alone.

He knew that Huan Si Lou's situation was very uncomfortable. In Xilong, they didn't get the thing they wanted, but they drew out the Swallow Sun Society; in Shaolong, the Soul-Taking Bead progress was also not smooth, and they were bitten to death by the Immortal Platform and Tianshan. Under the pressure of both sides, Huan Si Lou had reached an extremely difficult situation.

Xiang Minggao knew that to dismantle such a difficult situation, Huan Si Lou would definitely send someone of sufficient weight.

And this was precisely the opportunity he was prepared to take action.

Three days of investigation, the autumn Qi map had already bitten onto his traces.

This was not any conspiracy or trap. This was a step that all parties had to take forward. Xiang Minggao had been careful and decisive enough in this process, and he didn't feel he was a cat catching a mouse. This was just a first opportunity that could be taken.

But he never thought he would be this mouse.

He secretly followed the traces, avoiding the surveillance of the government on the tree—when he passed the old man, he thought he would have nothing to do with the government tonight. And then he pressed his sword and came to the courtyard. The autumn Qi had already sealed the small room first.

But when he appeared inside, what he faced was only a long sword that came out of its own accord. Immediately after, it was an unexpected, violent, and fatal killing intent.

Who wasn't just coming to this small city? This play-master should have been focusing all his attention on dealing with the Immortal Platform and Tianshan, and he should have been afraid to reveal any traces to the Immortal Platform!

How could it be that in an instant, a cat and a trap were all directed at him?

There must be some absolutely fatal things hidden behind that mask. Huan Si Lou's many years of operation in Shaolong revealed the tip of the iceberg here, which was already enough to be shocking.

So now, Xiang Minggao also knew the play-master's next purpose better than Wudong and An Cang.

Tonight, he wanted to turn Huan Si Lou's situation around in one fell swoop.

The Swallow Sun Society was the first opponent to be cleared. He had already succeeded, but the second one was not the Immortal Platform, but must be Tianshan as a potential opponent.

An Cang was still struggling to find an opportunity, but Xiang Minggao knew that the play-master had long been staring at his neck.

Of course, there was also a third purpose.

"... Don't come, don't go," the dying man squeezed a faint voice from his throat.

Everything around was silent.

The whistling sword shadows in the sky were crisscrossing behind the mist. Xiang Minggao knew he had to do more. But although his sword was still in his hand, he truly didn't have the ability to move for a while.

The reason why the black robe didn't come to confirm his life and death was precisely because he was sure that he was no different from a dead man.

But it was at this time that the mist around him suddenly became moist.

No longer rejecting and blocking, they suddenly became very intimate. The soft water mist spread over the wounds, the stiff and broken body began to relax, and the rusty feeling of the broken throat and lungs also dissipated a lot.

More importantly, the body that was difficult to control mysterious Qi received the active favor of mysterious Qi this time! These mists were like obedient lambs, handing the rope of the neck to his hands.

Four miles away, on the Immortal Building, Pu Huaimeng put down the conversation with Wudong and An Cang, started the array disk, and forcibly handed all the gains to this man with a broken body!

It was also at the same moment that a black robe broke through the mist and fell from the sky, falling into the "Cloud Locks Vermilion Building."

The next moment, the mist waves were like tides, and a whistling, autumn-Qi-magnificent sword light suddenly stirred the clouds and mist!

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