Chapter 494: Gu Insect

Li Miao did not stop the monk's actions.

He stared at what the monk threw into his mouth and laughed.

"Sect Leader Ji, long time no see."

He was all too familiar with that thing.

In the world, only one person could refine that thing. Besides a certain demoness, even a Great Shaman or the Miao King couldn't refine it. Xiao Si and An Ziyang, together with dozens of Great Shamans, relying on the foundation of the entire Great Shu court, had pondered for more than three years, and now they had only just made some progress.

A Gu insect capable of storing the *Tianren* realm.

Ji Tianrui's fundamental method.

Now it inexplicably appeared in the hands of a monk who could barely be considered to be in the supreme realm.

"Did Sect Leader Ji have an accident?"

Li Miao thought while twisting his fingers.

This method was Ji Tianrui's foundation, her reliance for avoiding the Five Decays of *Tianren*; she would never hand it over easily.

Either she had made a deal with Enryaku-ji in addition to entering the Ise Grand Shrine, betting on both sides, weaving her plans; or she had had an accident herself, and even her trump card had been seized.

To be honest, Li Miao preferred to believe the former; Ji Tianrui was a demoness who calculated everything and was heartless, even Li Miao would be in trouble if he faced her—who could scheme against her to the point of cutting off her tail to survive?

But after fighting the Bodhidharma remnant corpse and knowing that two martial arts grandmasters were trapped in Japan, Li Miao also knew how deep the waters of Shintoism were... who knows, maybe even Ji Tianrui had failed?

Li Miao shook his head.

Master Zhang Sanfeng's whereabouts, the culprit who killed Venerable Bodhidharma, Ji Tianrui's plans, the entanglement between Shintoism and Buddhism, the origin of the True Original Intent Sword Dao, and the River Master who had yet to show his true face.

One thing after another, pressing down the gourd and the ladle pops up; now he could only faintly see a vague clue strung together by Shintoism, but the truth was still hidden beneath the water, hard to discern.

However—

"I have a premonition."

Li Miao covered his mouth and coughed lightly, raising his hand to point at the monk in the void.

"Once we go to Toshodai-ji and see Master Jianzhen's remains, many things will become clear."

He closed his five fingers abruptly.

On the residential buildings on both sides of the street, Miyoshi Ryota slashed the last crossbowman to death and turned to jump off the roof, but stopped at the edge.

Lu Wushuang was dangling her legs, humming a tune without a melody, tilting her head to look down, with a pile of corpses behind her.

Miyoshi Ryota tilted his head in confusion, looked down along Lu Wushuang's gaze, and his eyes widened abruptly.

"Bad!"

He lifted his foot to jump down.

"After that monk eats that bug, he can rival a 【Sword Saint】! He is from the orthodox lineage of Enryaku-ji!"

"Quick! Your companion is going to be in trouble!"

He understood Enryaku-ji's methods; the "companion" he had finally found was about to die at the monk's hands after saying only a few words. He was anxious and couldn't care about his own strength, wanting to jump down to save someone.

But as soon as his foot left the ground, he was pulled back by Lu Wushuang.

"Nothing will happen."

She said with a smile, her gaze locked on Li Miao.

"No! You don't know Enryaku-ji's methods!"

Miyoshi Ryota struggled, watching the sturdy monk's momentum grow stronger after swallowing the Gu insect, his muscles bulging, stretching his loose monk's robes, his voice becoming more urgent.

"It really won't work! Can you listen to me once!"

*Boom!

Before he could finish, he saw the monk rush toward Li Miao abruptly.

"It's over!"

Miyoshi Ryota closed his eyes in despair.

The monk's speed was even faster than he had expected, even far beyond an ordinary 【Sword Saint】. The key was that with such speed, the ground under his feet didn't even have a speck of dust, which showed how proficient he was in controlling his force; he probably hadn't used this Gu insect for the first time.

In front of such an enemy, he probably didn't even have the qualifications to block him. Let alone that weird, weak man; even he would probably die at the monk's hands in a moment, without even a chance to run away.