Chapter 152

"Boy, who are you insulting?!" The four beauties of Qingcheng Sect's faces changed, and they all began to shout.

Hou Renying even drew his sword from its sheath.

But Jiang Sishui was faster than him.

"Now that I know who you are and know whom to make enemies with, you can go die."

With those words, a streak of sword light flew out, a sword aura fully three zhang long sweeping across.

Afterwards, Jiang Sishui did not even look back, but leisurely urged his horse away.

On the spot, the five men froze for a moment.

The moment the three-zhang sword aura appeared, they knew they had misjudged; that seemingly small boy was actually an extremely terrifying grand master.

This made them tremble with fear, their intestines turning green with regret.

They had fully expected a bad omen today, but unexpectedly, after the sword aura passed, they were actually unharmed...

What is this situation?

He threatened them and just left?

With no time to think much, the five men who felt they had picked up a life immediately tried to run.

However, as soon as they took a step, they felt a sensation of the world spinning, their vision constantly shifting.

Immediately following, an indescribable agony struck.

Only then did they discover they had been cut in half at the waist!

"Ah――"

A piercing scream tore through the sky; the five men collapsed on the ground, wailing in despair.

Half an hour later, a group of people arrived here, and seeing the corpses on the ground, everyone's face changed.

Among them, the only short man cried out in grief, shouting as he threw himself forward: "Renyan, my son!"

Yu Canghai looked at Yu Renyan's corpse cut in two, unable to hold back his tears of old age; then he ground his teeth: "Who! Exactly who dealt this poisonous hand!"

Suddenly, Yu Canghai turned his head to look at the group of women behind him; though he said nothing, suspicion was in his eyes.

The women looked at each other with furrowed brows; the one at the head said: "Elder Yu suspects us of Huangshan Sect?"

Yu Canghai indeed suspected it was people from Huangshan Sect who did this.

Huangshan Sect is a sect composed entirely of women, among whom there are many with outstanding beauty.

The five men of Yu Renyan had always been greedy for flowers and fond of lust; upon first arriving here, their hearts itching with desire, they had once used lewd words to tease them, acting with extreme rudeness.

Huangshan Sect originally wanted to kill all five of these rakes, but because this place was suspected to hide a grand master of Qingcheng Sect, they had Gu Ji in their hearts and dared not go to extremes.

So they merely drove the five men down the mountain.

But obviously, a conflict had already arisen; Huangshan Sect had a motive for murder.

168 Friends come from afar, kill someone first

Now, Yu Canghai seriously suspects that it was people from Huangshan Sect who, while he was away, killed his son and four disciples.

However, this is after all Huangshan Sect's territory, so he did not dare to be too unrestrained.

Besides, he only suspected it and had no concrete evidence.

Although Qingcheng Sect has a senior grand master living in seclusion on Mount Huangshan, in fact, that grand master long ago left the sect.

Whether the other party still remembers the old feelings with Qingcheng Sect, whether they would truly support him, no one can say for sure.

Especially the death of the five men of Yu Renyan made Yu Canghai feel insecure in his heart.

Nowadays, borrowing the name of that grand master to bluff like a fox borrowing a tiger's might and scare Huangshan Sect is the limit; if he pushes the other party too hard, they might do everything or nothing and fight him to the death, in which case he would truly have to settle his account here.

Therefore, Yu Canghai forced down a breath and spoke gloomily: "I dare not! It is just that your sect just sent disciples to summon me up the mountain, and then the incident happened immediately after. The timing chosen is so clever; the murderer is truly cunning."

The women of Huangshan Sect heard him speaking in a sarcastic tone and felt very uncomfortable in their hearts.

Just then, a disciple came rushing over and whispered a few words into the ear of the eldest senior sister, Kong Xingyi.

Kong Xingyi's expression became solemn: "Are you sure?"

That disciple nodded.

Kong Xingyi waved her hand to let her withdraw, then said to Yu Canghai: "Elder Yu, just now two strangers ascended Mount Huangshan; regarding the fate of your son and your disciples, they might know a thing or two."

Yu Canghai narrowed his eyes slightly, half believing and half doubting: "Is it really so?"

Kong Xingyi said indifferently: "Whether it is true or false, Elder Yu will know if you go with us."

Yu Canghai pondered for a moment and said: "Good! I will go with you all to take a look."

After a pause, he seemingly carelessly added another sentence: "Perhaps those two did not just ascend Mount Huangshan, but arrived last night."

Arrived last night?

The women of Huangshan Sect immediately heard the implied meaning.

Last night, the first grand master of Huangshan Sect, Qiu Duandao, was killed, and the entire Huangshan Sect was searching for the murderer.

Including Yu Canghai, who was "invited" to investigate.

Although Huangshan Sect feared that "Qingcheng Grand Master," the nature of Qiu Duandao's death was too heinous; Huangshan Sect could not swallow this anger.

So even if it meant a fish dying and the net breaking, they had to investigate until the truth came out.

Nowadays, Yu Canghai's suspicion can basically be ruled out, yet he said such a sentence, obviously trying to draw hatred towards those two who might be the murderers.

Kong Xingyi understood Yu Canghai's little scheme, but just as he said, such a possibility indeed exists.

Afterwards, the group hurriedly rushed up the mountain.

Following the guidance of the "Luo Pan for Finding Objects," Jiang Sishui changed routes multiple times in the mountains and finally arrived before a stone wall.

On the stone wall was a crack, wide enough only for two people to walk side by side; inside it was pitch black, and no one knew what was hidden within.

And this was the entrance to where the "Heavenly Sword" was hidden.

The unknown and darkness were often the source of fear. Jiang Sishui said to Ah Zhu, "How about I send you back first, and once I have the 'Heavenly Sword' in hand I'll bring it for you to see?"

Ah Zhu held his hand and smiled gently: "Let's go together."

Hearing this, Jiang Sishui gave a slight nod and did not insist.

He figured that with the "Sun Shadow Golden Wheel" and the "Kunji Seal," the mechanisms here couldn't do much to them.

The two, feeling confident, were about to enter the crevice.

But before the foot that had just been raised could come down, his "Cicada Sense" was triggered!

Immediately after, a gust of violent wind wrapped in smoke blew out from the crevice, sending sand and dust flying into the sky and enveloping the two of them.

Leaves from nearby trees fluttered down one after another, and a fierce killing intent hidden among them came rushing in powerfully.

Jiang Sishui instinctively looked up, and in the darkness, a pair of eyes met his gaze!

In an instant, his heartbeat quickened, his pulse became irregular, and hallucinations began to appear unbidden in his mind.

But the hallucinations did not truly manifest, because a layer of protective light barrier had spread open around Jiang Sishui's body.

His heartbeat instantly returned to normal.

A spiritual attack!

No, it wasn't a pure spiritual attack—it was mixed with other methods as well!

Jiang Sishui's gaze turned cold. His longsword left its sheath in an instant, and a three-zhang sword aura hacked viciously into the crevice.

His true qi channeled into both eyes, and he could clearly see blood light spurting within.

Jiang Sishui's figure moved—going in and coming back out—and in his hand was already a masked black-robed man with a severed arm.

Jiang Sishui slammed the black-robed man onto the ground, then looked at Ah Zhu beside him: "Are you alright?"

"Being with you, how could anything happen to me?" Ah Zhu smiled lightly, her eyes curving.

Jiang Sishui gave a slight nod, then kicked the black-robed man in the face, shattering the mask and revealing beneath it a blood-drenched middle-aged man's face.

It was an ordinary, common-looking face with no obvious features. At this moment his complexion was dark, his spirit listless, yet he still clenched his jaw tightly and did not cry out in pain.

He looked like quite a tough nut.

Jiang Sishui sized him up and said coldly: "Who are you?"

The black-robed man's facial skin twitched from the intense pain. Just as he was about to speak, a burst of chaotic footsteps suddenly came, rapidly approaching.

Jiang Sishui frowned slightly and sealed the black-robed man's acupoints to prevent him from bleeding to death.

Then he turned around.

The arrivals were uniformly women, all wearing robes of yellow and white—precisely the standard uniform of the Huangshan Sect.

The moment the women arrived, they surrounded the three of them.