Chapter 805

But Hearing Fu Qingzhu's chivalric fame had spread far and wide, and he had Wu Yuanying accompanying him on the journey.

Regarding what they had said, Liu Jingyi actually believed most of it, and was therefore deeply worried.

So he sat here, to guard against any change.

He had only waited bitterly the whole night, and on the east side, apart from the wind and sand, there was nothing else.

Let alone a human shadow, he couldn't even see a trace of any beast.

"Could it be that they were really telling lies?"

Liu Jingyi muttered to himself.

"Who is telling lies?"

At this moment, a voice suddenly sounded beside Liu Jingyi.

Immediately after, a coat was draped over his body.

"Yufang, why are you up so early?"

Without needing to turn his head, Liu Jingyi knew the one who had come was none other than his beloved daughter.

"You've got some nerve saying that to me?"

Liu Yufang pouted, circled around to stand in front of Liu Jingyi, wearing an expression of reproach,

"Last night you promised me you'd rest early.

But the moment I opened my eyes, I saw you standing here at the east end like a block of wood.

What is it? Are you staring at some auntie or something?"

"Don't talk nonsense."

Liu Jingyi was amused by her teasing and laughed, patting her head,

"Me! I just had some things on my mind, couldn't sleep."

"What things?"

Liu Yufang had known since last night that Liu Jingyi had something on his mind.

But since Liu Jingyi wouldn't say, there was nothing she could do.

Now that Liu Jingyi had brought it up, she was naturally curious and wanted to know.

Liu Jingyi was about to say something when Qiu Dongluo suddenly leaped over and arrived at this spot.

"Big Brother, Yufang, why are you both here? You really gave me a hard time looking for you!"

"Uncle Dongluo."

In truth, Liu Yufang and Qiu Dongluo were not all that far apart in age.

But since Qiu Dongluo was after all Liu Jingyi's sworn brother, she could only call him Uncle Dongluo.

After the greeting, Liu Yufang stood up and said to Liu Jingyi again,

"Dad! Once you're done, come back quickly, I'll go prepare breakfast for you!"

"Aye!"

Liu Jingyi nodded with satisfaction.

Then Liu Yufang, without looking back, headed toward the manor.

Qiu Dongluo watched her departing figure, a trace of something inexplicable flashing through his eyes.

"Dongluo, Dongluo…"

"Ah! Big Brother…"

Only after Liu Jingyi called out to him several times did Qiu Dongluo finally snap out of his daze.

"How did it go? Did you get to the bottom of it?"

Last night, after that strange person had suddenly broken into the very heart of the manor's ancestral hall, Liu Jingyi had ordered Qiu Dongluo to go investigate.

He hadn't expected that after an entire night, Qiu Dongluo had only now come to report back.

"I checked. They should have come from the west.

Because the brothers on sentry duty at the west side have all already…"

At this point, Qiu Dongluo's eyes reddened, filled with grief and indignation.

"What happened to them?"

Liu Jingyi's heart tightened, and he hurriedly asked.

"They were killed…"

Qiu Dongluo said with a sigh.

"Damnable, how could this happen?"

Liu Jingyi's face darkened.

Clearly, Fu Qingzhu and Wu Yuanying had said that Fenghuo Liancheng and the Qing court's people were coming from the east.

This strange person was obviously a running dog of Fenghuo Liancheng or the Qing court.

But now the path by which this person had slipped in was actually from the west.

Doesn't that mean the enemy came from the west?

Then were Fu Qingzhu and Wu Yuanying lying?

How could that be possible?

"Big Brother, if it's from the west, I really can't think of which sect or faction would make trouble for us.

You've seen plenty of the world—can you point me in the right direction?

I'll take some men right now and go teach them a lesson."

Qiu Dongluo's face was full of fury, his fierce eyes brimming with hot tears.

"The west…"

Liu Jingyi fell into deep thought.

Within the borders of the Great Qing, the world's elemental force is restricted, causing the martial way to languish.

And this northwestern frontier is even more of a wild wasteland among the lands beyond civilization.

Most of the Wulinmen Sect are concentrated within the passes.

In this northwestern region, aside from that one sect, Liu Jingyi could think of no other that could possess such strange Wu Gong.

"Big brother, do you know?"

Seeing Liu Jingyi's expression, Qiu Dongluo hurriedly asked.

"Sigh! If we're talking about the west, aside from the Tianshan Sect, no other sect has this kind of Wu Gong."

Liu Jingyi didn't think it could be someone from the Tianshan Sect, but in the end only the Tianshan Sect had such strength.

"Tianshan Sect?"

Qiu Dongluo's face was full of confusion.

The Tianshan Sect within the Great Qing's borders originated from the legacy of the Great Ming's generation's strange hero, Zhang Danfeng.

It's just that the sect's founding time is even shorter than Wu Dangpai's, so much so that no one knows of it until now.

Liu Jingyi knew, only because of a fortuitous coincidence.

"This sect's origins are no small matter — it comes from the Great Ming's generation's strange hero, Zhang Danfeng.

His strength, placed within the Great Ming, was also outstanding.

It's just that he was a Weirenzheng Sect person, he would never suddenly attack us."

Mentioning Zhang Danfeng, Liu Jingyi's face was full of admiration.

"Big brother, they've already killed their way right under our noses, and you're still making excuses for him?"

Qiu Dongluo, filled with righteous indignation, immediately said,

"I'll rally the men right now and go find trouble with their Tianshan Sect."

"Wait…"

Liu Jingyi immediately stopped him.

It was one thing that Qiu Dongluo didn't know the Tianshan Sect, but Liu Jingyi himself knew full well how formidable the Tianshan Sect was.

Setting aside the elusive generation's strange hero Zhang Danfeng, just look at the other disciples of the Tianshan Sect — which one of them is an easy mark?

"Dongluo, the Tianshan Sect is divided into northern and southern branches. Before Zhibang and Wu Yuanying were taken as disciples by a master, they were apprenticed under the northern branch's Master Huiming.

If you rush in rashly and there's a misunderstanding, won't that ruin everything?"