Chapter 290

"This, this is...!"

Liu Wenbin turned his head slowly.

That bloody footprint extended from inside the mountain gate.

Someone, with soles covered in blood, had stepped out from inside the mountain gate, passed by his side, and walked down the mountain along the mountain road.

The closest footprint was less than a foot away from where he was sleeping—he suddenly shivered.

"Something happened... something happened!"

This bloody footprint could extend such a long distance, this shoe was afraid it had been soaked in a pool of blood. But inside the mountain gate was his own sect, where did so much blood come from!

What happened inside the mountain gate, why didn't he hear a trace of movement!

He was panicking, when Cao Hanyan gave him another stab.

"The depth of this bloody footprint seems to be different."

Cao Hanyan turned to Li Miao and said.

"Look, it goes from deep to shallow from inside the mountain gate to the mountain road, this is normal. But—" Cao Hanyan pointed to Liu Wenbin: "The footprint beside him is extra deep."

"The owner of this bloody footprint stood here for a while after coming out of the mountain gate. Judging by the orientation of the footprint, it was just toward him."

Cao Hanyan said in a deep voice.

"This person killed someone in the Kongming Sect, pushed open the mountain gate and walked out, then stood by his side for a while, watched him for a while, and then walked away slowly, without a trace of panic."

"This little brother."

Cao Hanyan turned to look at Liu Wenbin.

"You picked up a life."

"I, I..."

Liu Wenbin was already incoherent, not knowing how to answer, his mouth stammering.

Cao Hanyan sighed, reached out and pushed him away, stepped forward, and pressed his hand on the mountain gate.

No bolt was dropped.

The mountain gate was pushed open slowly, and just as it revealed a slit, Cao Hanyan frowned. By the time the mountain gate was fully opened, a human body fell out with a thud, falling in front of Liu Wenbin.

Liu Wenbin was startled, and when he saw the person's face clearly, his teeth collided, and his hands trembled uncontrollably.

"Little brother, do you know who he is?"

Cao Hanyan turned to look at Liu Wenbin and asked.

"Long, Elder Long..."

Liu Wenbin answered tremblingly.

Hearing his answer, Cao Hanyan's brows were tightly locked. Not just him, Zheng Yi and Gao Anyu were also frowning, even Li Miao let out a cold laugh.

Cao Hanyan looked at the corpse carefully, as if in disbelief, he looked up and asked.

"How many people surnamed Long are there in your Kongming Sect?"

Liu Wenbin replied tremblingly.

"One, one... only one... that is, Long Haifeng, Elder Long... that's him..."

He pointed to the corpse on the ground.

Cao Hanyan pursued.

"Could you have recognized him wrong?"

Liu Wenbin shook his head violently.

"No, won't, I, I... I greeted him at noon, it was he who told me that only entry and no exit was allowed inside the mountain gate... I, I..."

He suddenly raised his hand to cover his chest.

Cao Hanyan knew he was anxious and had gone astray in his internal energy, and already had signs of going into devilish obsession. He hurriedly chopped him on the side of the neck, knocking him unconscious.

Helping Liu Wenbin to lie down on the ground, he then squatted down and flipped the old man's corpse over.

Li Miao walked over, reached out and pinched the corpse's wrist, and after a moment, let out a cold laugh.

"Meridians broken, excessive blood loss."

Cao Hanyan asked hesitantly.

"Did we find the wrong person? When interrogating those 'Meteors' before, they said Long Haifeng, could it be that they heard wrong at the time, or were injured in their sanity during the interrogation and randomly confessed a name?"

"No, the person is not wrong."

Li Miao dropped the corpse's arm, stood up, and looked up and down at the old man's corpse.

"That so-called Su Mingjun, indeed gave us clues, whatever 'names she revealed unintentionally', it must have been deliberately revealed to Little Gao through those punks."

"We didn't find the wrong person—although he had been dead for a while, this Elder Long was a genuine heavenly being in his lifetime, and looking at the foundation of his Wu Gong, it was indeed the Penglai inheritance without a doubt."

Li Miao reached out and twisted twice on the side of the corpse's ear, and with a swish, peeled off a piece of skin as thin as a cicada's wing.

Zheng Yi walked over, looked at the face revealed on the corpse that was three or four points similar to her and Li Miao, and let out a long sigh.

"It's really him."

"Zheng Huaijin, it's Long Haifeng... the clues are true, the person is also true, the position left by my mother is also true..."

Li Miao threw the human skin mask to the ground.

"Unfortunately, a step too late."

He looked up at the silent mountain gate of the Kongming Sect and walked in.

"The one who designed the murder of Xue Bangzhu is your Penglai fellow sect member, the one who killed your mother is Yingzhou, now this Zheng Huaijin is the third Penglai dead person—it's as if except for you, no living Penglai person can appear in front of me."

"Xiao Yizi, you go and chase these footprints, see if you can catch up."

Zheng Yi nodded, turned around with her sword, and left.

Gao Anyu looked at Li Miao, then turned to look at Zheng Yi who left along the mountain road.

He was a bit strange, why did Uncle Li call Aunt Zheng "Little Yizi," could it be that Aunt Zheng's sister was Uncle Li's wife?

Why did Uncle Li let Aunt Zheng chase people... Aunt Zheng is a woman and doesn't know Wu Gong, what if something happens?

And what Xue Bangzhu, what Yingzhou Penglai... what does it mean? Why would it be related to Su Mingjun?

Before he could ask, Li Miao walked into the mountain gate, and he had no choice but to follow quickly, said two words to Cao Hanyan, and after getting the reply of "I'll explain to you in detail later," he didn't speak again.

Unlike what Li Miao imagined, there were no corpses everywhere inside the Kongming Sect mountain gate.

Long Haifeng died at the gate, and the starting point of these bloody footprints was also at the gate, and the places further in were clean and tidy, neither seeing other corpses nor seeing any traces of fighting.

It was as if nothing had happened.

The three continued to walk in, and after walking dozens of steps, they could faintly hear human voices ahead.

Neither wailing nor roaring, just extremely ordinary human voices, as if talking and walking normally.

Cao Hanyan frowned, stepped forward to Li Miao's side and was about to speak.

He had just opened his mouth, when a very urgent sound of footsteps suddenly came from the front. Someone ran over from the corridor in front, panting while running and shouting.

"Junior Brother Liu, Junior Brother Liu! Sorry, I overslept, I'm here to replace you, I'm here, I'm... here..."

The voice gradually became smaller, and finally disappeared with the stopped footsteps.

"You, you..."

This person looked at Li Miao and the three in astonishment, then turned his gaze to the open mountain gate, and finally, the unconscious Liu Wenbin and the corpse lying on the ground came into his eyes.

Blood, corpse, Junior Brother Liu.

And these three strangers opposite.

The open mountain gate.

An extremely reasonable logic instantly formed in his mind.

Evil thieves came to the door—killed Junior Brother Liu who was guarding the gate—kicked open the mountain gate—ran into me—they want to kill me!!!

"Help!!! Help!!!"

The shrill and full-voiced cry for help instantly echoed inside the Kongming Sect mountain gate.

Li Miao raised his eyebrows, a smile of interest appeared on his face, and even Gao Anyu laughed out loud.

Only Cao Hanyan slapped his own forehead and shook his head with a sigh.