Chapter 105

There is one, but it is said that it fell a few years ago.

May I ask you, what are you looking into? Mo Yizhou replied honestly.

Jiang Yu of course would not reveal the truth, only said: "I happened to meet a male cultivator who said he is a disciple of your Hehuan Sect's Nansu Real Person."

Mo Yizhou: "Hehe, Jiang Yu, you're already out of luck; Nansu Real Person has only one disciple, and he has already fallen."

"Fine, it was a conflict with a female cultivator surnamed Mi; she used Nansu Real Person to threaten me, saying he was her uncle, but she dared not name her master." Jiang Yu's transformation was also very smooth.

Mo Yizhou, looking at the words on the message jade, couldn't help coughing several times, pondered for a moment before writing: "Then you probably encountered a concubine raised by Nansu Real Person; I recall there is a Mi‑surname woman by his side, especially favored."

But since Nansu Real Person returned to the sect to close his cultivation, I haven't seen the four female cultivators who were with him return; I even thought they had long since perished.

I don't know, Jiang Yu fellow cultivator, how many you met this time, but I advise you either stomp them to death, or don't entangle with them.

I don't know, which one you choose.

"After a few moves, thank you. Next time I'll treat you to tea." Jiang Yu will not tell him the truth; that Mi‑surname female cultivator's death will not be at her hands.

Jiang Tu, watching her put away the message jade, said, "In terms of numbers, it's the same as what that mid‑Foundation Establishment person said."

At that time, the Demon Sect and Dao Sect each completed their core formation, and each brought five Foundation Establishment cultivators into the ancient cultivator's cave.

Both sides, about eighty percent, had privately agreed to explore the treasure together.

"I'm going to speed up." This time Jiang Yu did not use a flying sword or flying boat, but before departing, a cloud‑shaped flying device given by her master.

Its speed can exceed a thousand li per hour, faster than even a top‑tier flying sword, and its invisibility is excellent; it requires no personal cultivation power to drive, only a single medium‑quality spirit stone to fly for two days.

With such a treasure as a foothold, and Jiang Yu racing day and night without rest, after only a few days they entered the borders of the Tang Kingdom.

She followed the location in her memory to her hometown county seat, learned that her village had been repopulated, then used the silver she exchanged at the sect to buy a set of mortal clothes, changed into them, bought some candy, snacks, and pork, and set off on a horse.

But upon entering the village, the kinship‑search rod she held in her hand gave no reaction at all.

Within these forty to fifty households, she only found two that were original village neighbors.

First, she went with the village elder to the first household's door, a dilapidated thatched cottage, where only a young woman and a child were at home.

Seeing her offering placed on the table, the woman felt a bit embarrassed, "I married here after the flood, and I don't know who the big Jiang head you mentioned is, but Aunt Yao next door might remember."

Jiang Yu thanked her and left; the woman hurriedly handed her tea leaves and brown sugar, saying, "I couldn't be of help."

"For the children." She naturally declined, and the village elder accompanying her in the search also gestured for the woman to accept.

A few zhang away at the neighboring house, it was a half‑brick‑and‑tile house, and men, women, old and young were all present.

But when asked about the Jiang family, the male and female heads, though they remembered, did not know their fate.

Just as Jiang Yu was leaving, slightly disappointed, Aunt Yao, after seeing her at the gate, suddenly asked, "Which branch of the Jiang family are you a cousin of? In the big Jiang head's grandfather's family, only a boy is still alive."

"Is it Big Fu brother or Big Shan brother?" Jiang Yu's heart jumped; her own father was the sole descendant for several generations, but the grandfather's house ten‑some li away was not; she had heard that their whole family had been washed away by the flood.

Aunt Yao was startled: "You really are a Shen family person, huh?"

"Aunt, who would come around without reason to claim kinship?"

"Do you know where he is? I've been searching for a long time." Jiang Yu was using her grandfather's name.

She is now a cultivator; in the future she will have enemies, and revealing her identity before old acquaintances would not be a good thing for them.

She pretended to adjust her sleeve, but actually took out two taels of broken silver from her storage bag and slipped it into Aunt Yao's hand.

She couldn't give too much; too much would bring them trouble.

Aunt Yao declined, but her eldest son, upon seeing the silver, immediately said, "Years ago when I was working in the capital city, I met Big Jiang head's cousin Da Fu; he now works as a driver for a wealthy household."

When he treated me to noodles, he also said he would soon meet someone, a bit like Big Jiang head.

"Do you know which wealthy household?" Jiang Yu thought, hoping that Da Fu wouldn't encounter Jiang Du again.

Aunt Yao turned back, glared at the son who gave the address, and said to Jiang Yu, "Miss, we accept the meat and snacks, but we cannot take the silver."

"Your search for kin is difficult; take it as travel expenses."

"Aunt, this is the most … piece of news I've heard in years."

"Please don't think it's insufficient." Jiang Yu forced it into her hand, turned, mounted the horse, and left.

The whole family watched the horse disappear, also received a gift from the village elder, and happily went home.

But Jiang Yu couldn't possibly ride a horse to the capital city; she stored the horse in a dragon‑pearl space, and Jiang Tu, who was extremely annoyed, said, "You really are being redundant."

"No, it can be given to my cousin." The capital city is far for mortals, but Jiang Yu's flying device only takes a quarter of an hour.

Then find an uninhabited spot to release the horse, ride flamboyantly into the city, but that is impossible.

Because mortal cities do not accept spirit stones but accept copper coins, Jiang Yu only had broken silver, so she tossed a tael into the box.

Unexpectedly, the city‑gate soldiers, seeing her as a stranger, demanded that she show her travel permit.

Jiang Yu: …

While Jiang Tu was loudly mocking her in the space, he suddenly saw the kinship‑search rod she concealed under her sleeve flash.

Jiang Yu immediately looked around; she cautiously did not use her spiritual sense, yet she still caught a glimpse of Jiang Du emerging from the city.

And beside him was a young man in his twenties walking with him.

Jiang Yu thought to herself, "Is that Big Fu?"

"The travel permit might have been dropped at the relay station," she said, then led the horse away, but unexpectedly was stopped by a spear, "You may not leave; without a travel permit, return with us to the yamen."

People coming in and out of the city gate often glanced at her side, but Jiang Du kept his gaze elsewhere as he walked on the other side.

"Jiang Tu, compare with what we just saw, make a fake one, and give it to me when Jiang Du leaves," Jiang Yu said, unable to use spiritual power for fear of startling Jiang Du.

Jiang Tu went up to the wooden house, fetched a sheet of paper, performed a sleight of hand, and said, "No, there is a spiritual energy fluctuation, and a Foundation Establishment cultivator's spiritual sense range is two or three li; you'll probably have to go to the yamen with the mortals."

"Don't worry, I will use my spiritual sense to track them both."

"Stop, someone's senses are sharp and will notice." Jiang Yu had to go into the city once, but after entering only a short while, she pretended to produce the travel permit for inspection, then tossed out a few taels of silver, rode the horse and chased back out of the city.

A few soldiers looked at each other and said, "Is this a wandering heroine? She won't be coming back at night for revenge, will she?"

Jiang Yu could not know the soldiers' imagination; at this moment she did not use her spiritual sense, and after a short ride the horse also saw the walking Jiang Du and Shen Da Fu.

However, Jiang Du was clearly not heading toward the dock; instead he was leading Shen Da Fu along a small path turning toward the banks of the Bichun River.

Jiang Tu: "You aren't going to go rescue him right away?"

"Wait until they walk to a place with no people."

"Anyway, I'm using your breath-concealing technique to hide my cultivation; now I look just like an ordinary mortal, with no spiritual power." Jiang Yu also rode her horse slowly following; not long after, she saw Shen Dafu actually with Jiang Du, jumping onto a boat in the reed marsh.