Chapter 101: Lying Through One's Teeth

Tang Yuansheng, male, 102 years old, Nascent Soul stage cultivation, currently serving as the Inspection Envoy of the Immortal Sect.

He received a message from Branch Master Chu to come earlier, so he decided to advance his schedule. He first arrived at Qinghuai County, which was only separated from Yanjiang County by a mountain.

"After climbing over this mountain, I'll be at the location Little Chu mentioned."

"Hmm?" Suddenly, Tang Yuansheng felt a trace of peculiar aura fluctuation. "What is this aura?"

Following the induction, he came to the stable of a post station. Inside the stable, an old horse with dragon scales on its forehead and a small brown mare were snuggling together, looking deeply affectionate.

The post station attendant brought a bundle of selected grass feed and put it into the manger. The old horse looked at it with disdain and had no intention of eating it at all.

Seeing the old horse like this, the post station attendant muttered in a low voice: "After the little white horse left, it got together with a new horse so quickly?"

The old horse seemed to be able to understand human speech. It glared at the attendant, who didn't dare to provoke this exotic beast and ran away quickly.

The high-quality grass feed entrusted here by the owner of the old horse had long been eaten. After the high-quality feed was eaten, there was no movement from the old horse's owner for a long time. The post station boss guessed whether the other party had an accident or died directly. After all, the old horse's owner went to Songshan.

After the high-quality feed was eaten, the post station boss asked the attendant to feed other grass feed. If the owner didn't come for a long time, he would use this old horse to offset the feed money.

As a result, the old horse showed disdain for the post station's feed and didn't eat a single bite. A month passed like this.

The post station boss was terrified. This old horse was definitely not just an exotic beast with scales on its forehead, but a high-level demonic beast that had already reached the Grain Bigu realm!

Exotic beasts are a species between demonic beasts and wild beasts. They possess demonic beast bloodlines, but the bloodlines are too thin, and they don't have the ability to mobilize the bloodlines. They show some atavistic phenomena externally, growing scales, feathers, horns, etc. Their bodies are stronger than wild beasts, but the strength is limited.

Tang Yuansheng was overjoyed when he saw the old horse. This was actually a dragon horse, rare in the world. He just didn't know the purity of the bloodline.

"If I hadn't accidentally been to the Wang Yang East Sea, I really wouldn't have recognized it." Tang Yuansheng was quite excited. This was completely an unexpected joy.

How rare is a dragon horse? There was actually one in the stable of this remote small county. It must be that the owner of the dragon horse didn't recognize the treasure, and the dragon horse hadn't awakened yet, which was why it was covered in dust here.

"As a Nascent Soul stage power, I have never had a suitable mount. This must be the opportunity bestowed upon me by the Immortal Sect because I am pious!"

Tang Yuansheng prayed to the Immortal Sect for a moment and jumped into the stable.

The old horse looked back at Tang Yuansheng, ignored him, and continued to be intimate with the small brown mare.

"Poor dragon horse, you don't know your noble identity and fell in love with a mortal horse. Come with me, and I will let you know how powerful you are!"

Tang Yuansheng stretched out his golden hand, wanting to take the old horse away. The old horse kicked back with both hooves, breaking Tang Yuansheng's hand. Tang Yuansheng felt a tightness in his chest and spat out a large mouthful of blood. His aura weakened instantly.

He looked at the old horse with horror, no longer having the previous excitement. Replacing it was endless fear. He turned and ran.

There must be a power playing in the world living here, raising the dragon horse as a mortal horse in the stable!

The previous action must not have been hidden from the power playing in the world. Run quickly, hoping the other party would spare his life for his ignorance!

The old horse let out a roar, showing off its power to the small mare.

Tang Yuansheng fled for a while and didn't see the power catching him back for a long time, so he knew the other party didn't care about his actions.

"Wow!" He spat out another mouthful of blood, found a place where no one was around, sat cross-legged, took elixirs, and recovered from his injuries.

Those two kicks just now had severely injured his vitality.

When he opened his eyes again, he heard a rumbling sound from the other side of the mountain, as if some behemoth had fallen.

"It's already night?" Tang Yuansheng was surprised to see that the sky was dark. He didn't expect that it took him a whole day to recover from his injuries.

He recovered some of his injuries and was safe to protect himself, so he climbed over Songshan and came to the landing site of the flying boat. He saw Branch Master Chu pierced by Lu Yang's sword, and he had no breath.

"... Is this the surprise Little Chu mentioned?"

It was hard to say whether it was a joy, but Tang Yuansheng was definitely shocked.

Before coming, the high-level officials of the Immortal Sect asked him to pay attention to Lu Yang, Meng Jingzhou, and Man Gu, and also gave him portraits.

Now he had to pay attention even if he didn't want to.

"Who are you!" Lu Yang held his sword and looked at Tang Yuansheng vigilantly.

Tang Yuansheng looked at Lu Yang with a smile that was not a smile: "Lu Yang, do you dare to point your sword at me? I am Tang Yuansheng, the Inspection Envoy of the Immortal Sect."

Lu Yang learned of Tang Yuansheng's identity and made a gesture behind his back, asking Lan Ting to leave quickly. It was not easy to explain Lan Ting's existence to Tang Yuansheng.

"So it's Inspection Envoy Tang." Lu Yang was a bit polite, but he still looked at Tang Yuansheng suspiciously, obviously not fully believing the other party's identity.

Tang Yuansheng disdained to explain to Lu Yang and asked: "Why did you kill Li Shouyi?"

Li Shouyi, the County Magistrate of Yanjiang County, Branch Master Chu's real name. Tang Yuansheng was accustomed to calling him Little Chu.

Lu Yang said in a deep voice: "Because he almost exposed his identity as a disciple of the Immortal Sect!"

"Oh?" Tang Yuansheng looked at Lu Yang with great interest, seeing what kind of explanation the other party could give.

Suddenly, there was a commotion at the foot of the mountain. It was Fang Qingyun leading a large group of people to check the situation of the flying boat crash. Among the large group of people were doctors responsible for rescue.

"Leave first!" Tang Yuansheng was still in a state of serious injury and was unwilling to meet with the government. He swept his sleeves and wrapped Lu Yang and the other three to flee.

Tang Yuansheng brought the three into the Yanjiang Branch with familiarity. This was the safest place in Yanjiang County.

"Now tell me, Li Shouyi was rigorous in his work, how did he expose his identity?"

Lu Yang told the whole story of the Anti-Longevity Formation and said: "Branch Master Chu... oh no, County Magistrate Li's plan was not rigorous. First, he let Yizhanghong be the scapegoat, and then secretly set up the Anti-Longevity Formation. As long as the small flags were destroyed afterward, there would be no traces left."

Tang Yuansheng nodded. Li Shouyi had always been cautious in his work, using the extremely unpopular Anti-Longevity Formation. This plan was impeccable.

"But the accident still happened. We three opened a barbecue shop here. This kind of place is most suitable for collecting local intelligence. We noticed a disciple of the Moon Laurel Xiangong passing by here by chance. She seemed to be proficient in formations and saw through the Anti-Longevity Talisman on the small flag!"

"The disciples of the Five Great Immortal Sects cannot be moved. We were worried that County Magistrate Li's incident would implicate the entire Immortal Sect, so we persuaded him to hide quickly. He said that now is a critical period and he wants to use the Anti-Longevity Formation to promote to the Nascent Soul stage and absolutely cannot hide. We had no choice but to kill him before the Great Xia caught County Magistrate Li to prevent future trouble!"

"You also noticed the government people just now, right? The leader is the Chief Constable Fang Qingyun. Why did he bring so many people? He must have been trying to stop the Anti-Longevity Formation from activating and arrest County Magistrate Li!"

Tang Yuansheng nodded, thinking that Lu Yang and the other three did the right thing. The matter of the Moon Laurel Xiangong disciple in Yanjiang County could be checked and couldn't be faked. Li Shouyi also really valued promoting to the Nascent Soul stage.

An ordinary Branch Master is at the Nascent Soul stage. Yanjiang County is a small county, so the Branch Master would be at the Golden Core stage. If Li Shouyi wants to be promoted to a Branch Master in a region with developed practice, he must promote to the Nascent Soul stage now.

The same is true for the government identity on the surface. If the realm is not enough, promotion is full of difficulties.

Man Gu looked at Lu Yang in surprise. The plan didn't include meeting Tang Yuansheng after killing Branch Master Chu, and the reason for killing was not even thought of. How did Brother Lu manage to lie through his teeth?

Meng Jingzhou quietly gave Lu Yang a thumbs up. The reason Lu Yang thought of was not much different from the one he had made up on the spot.

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