"Yes!" The woman looked at me with gritted teeth and said, "It's that old bastard Gu Piaoran! Where is he?"
"Surely, how would I know where he is?" I have never felt so aggrieved - for an irrelevant matter, I almost died inexplicably at the hands of an irrelevant person.
The man's face turned cold: "You don't know him, how come you have his scent?"
"Breath? How come I don't know it?" I was stunned.
I have only seen Gu Laotou twice, once in Sanxi and once in Guan's house. Besides, we have never met in close proximity, how could he leave his scent on me
Gu Laotou should be able to do this. The means of the descendants of Rumor Sect are unpredictable, and forgery is one of them. Moreover, none of us doubted Gu Laotou's identity at that time, and we would not be on guard everywhere. He did have the opportunity to do something to us.
I said anxiously, "Big sister, you are tracking the old man, right? Have you ever thought that the old man is trying to escape on purpose?"
"I've thought about it!" The woman nodded solemnly, "But I think you're the successor chosen by that old bastard!"
"The prerequisite for becoming a disciple of Rumor Sect is to escape with deception under absolutely disadvantageous circumstances. The old bastard threw you down just to let you go through the experience of entering the sect."
I immediately got furious and said, "Fuck your experience of breaking into a house! I have lived an honest life. Who the hell relies on deception to make a living!"
"That's even more like it!" The woman narrowed her eyes and said, "'Sadness, joy, surprise, suspicion, greed, confusion, anger, and the mind will follow the heart' is the basic skill of Yao Men. You've practiced it well!"
"Bullshit basic skills..." I was almost mad at her.
Later, I realized what that sentence meant: every disciple of Yaomen is an actor, they can act out any role well, they can be laughing one second and burst into tears the next. If they can't do that, how can they deceive others
I roared, "Let me go! I swore a blood oath, you should believe it, right?"
"I don't believe it. The secret of Rumor Sect is 'false oath'." The woman shook her head again and said, "The oaths of the followers of Rumor Sect are worse than shit. They swear without thinking, and can even swear on their ancestors for eight generations, but they have never suffered retribution."
The woman's eyes were filled with coldness: "You have even learned 'false oath', you should have learned 'avoid oath' as well? And you still say that you are not the descendant of Rumor Sect."
False oath, as the name suggests, means that the oath is false and can never be fulfilled. However, evading oath is even more serious than false oath. In other words, the oath is true, but they have ways to evade the oath and avoid being punished by ghosts and gods.
The disciples of Yao Sect deceived not only ordinary people, but also sorcerers and even ghosts and gods. It was easy for people to see through a false oath, so there was a secret method of avoiding oaths. Avoiding oaths was the real secret of Yao Sect.
But I don’t want to discuss the secrets of the Rumor Sect with that woman now. I just want her to believe me as soon as possible: “Sister, tell me yourself, how can you believe me?”
The woman held the spoonful of yellow stuff under my nose and said, "Not only is there shit in this spoonful, I also mixed poison in it. You can choose to eat it yourself, or you can choose to feed it to any one of them. It's your choice!"
“Bullshit! You…” As soon as I opened my mouth, the other party slapped me hard in the face, cutting off the rest of my words.
The woman waved her hands and said, "I like to curse, but I don't like to be cursed, so you'd better stop spewing shit. Tell me, do you want to drink it or give it to them?"
My eyes suddenly turned red.
I am not afraid of death, but I don’t want to die in such a cowardly way.
The woman pulled out her Rakshasa and cut the ropes on me. She put the tip of the knife against my throat and stared at me and said, "Drink or not, you'd better make a choice quickly."
"Drink shit!" Monk Shi roared at the top of his lungs, "Old Wu, throw it on her face! Damn it, if we have to die, let's die together!"
"Dying together is also an option..." the woman said with a half-smile, "At least, we won't be lonely on the road to the underworld."
"Ha—" Ye Jin, who had been silent all this time, suddenly shouted loudly, raised his arms angrily, broke the ropes tied to him, and stood up and rushed towards us.
I saw Ye Jin suddenly rising from the corner of my eye and wanted to attack him, but the man on the other side raised his blade without any scruples: "Don't move!"
Before she finished her words, Ye Jin, who was in mid-air, inexplicably spat out a mouthful of blood. His whole body seemed to suddenly lose inertia and fell flat to the ground, unable to get up again.
At this moment, white smoke like mist suddenly rose above Monk Shi’s head—was he forcing himself to practice martial arts
Warriors all have ways to fight to the death, but once they do, 90% of the time the result is that both the enemy and I will die. Monk Shi also wanted to break the ropes on his body and give me a chance to fight.
But what if he did it
I don't believe that after Ye Jin struggled to escape, he didn't even have the strength to fly a few meters. The only explanation is that the woman had placed other restrictions on Ye Jin and the others.
The consequence of Monk Shi forcibly breaking the rope would only result in additional casualties.
"Monk, stop it! I want to drink..." I raised the spoon and put it in my mouth. My only hope now is that Monk Shi can understand the truth of "as long as the mountains remain, there will be no shortage of firewood" and stop making unnecessary sacrifices.
Just as the spoon was about to touch my lips, the woman suddenly raised the long knife in her hand and directly knocked the wooden spoon away.
Before I could react, I heard the other party say sadly: "I believe it now. You are not the descendants of Yaomen. People from Yaomen will not make sacrifices for others, even for sworn brothers."
"In fact, last night under the willow tree, when you each drew your weapons and wanted to commit suicide, I guessed that you were not from the Yao Sect. However, I was unwilling to fail like this, so I still wanted to give it a try."
I said angrily, "You want to try it? Can you gamble with our lives?"
"No!" The woman shook her head. "Actually, I'm doing you a favor."
She pointed at Ye Jin and said, "He suffered serious internal injuries a few days ago. He looks fine now, but in fact, he had a blood clot that had been suppressed in his body. Now that the blood clot is gone, his skills will soon be able to reach a higher level."
I then looked at Ye Jin who was lying on the ground. The blood around his mouth was indeed black. "That monk Shi..."
The woman said, "Look carefully at the route of his Qi flow. He has never been able to break through the bottleneck and enter the Xiantian realm because he is using the wrong route. I tied up his limbs on purpose so that he can use the Qi according to the route I planned. After he succeeds, he will become a Xiantian."
I finally breathed a sigh of relief: "Are you tracking the old man?"
"Yes!" the woman nodded. "I have been tracking him for many years, but I have never been able to catch him. Every time I think I will catch him, I will fail at the last moment. Maybe his deception skills are too high, or maybe I am too stupid."
The man looked at me hopefully and said, "What do you know about him? Can you tell me?"
I shook my head and said, "I don't know much about him. The first time I met the old man was completely an accident..."
After I told her how I met the old man, the woman burst out laughing and said, "So he went so far as to put himself in jail to avoid me. No wonder I couldn't find him even after searching everywhere."
The woman looked at me and said, "How about I pay you to help me find that old bastard?"
I shook my head and said, "We're all bad at finding people."
“I’m not asking you to find someone, but I want to stay by your side.” The woman said, “The Yao Sect can lie about anything except inheritance. That old bastard really wants to take one of you as his disciple, otherwise, he wouldn’t have left his mark and asked me to come find you.”
I shook my head again and said, "I don't have the ability to turn danger into safety by being indestructible. I think you have found the wrong person."
The woman looked at me and said, "No, you have passed. In Rumor Sect, when a master lies to his apprentice and an apprentice lies to his master, it is all a form of practice. Since you are not dead, you can lie to that bastard about how you have passed the test. As long as you deceive him, you can still enter the core of Rumor Sect. So, he will definitely come to find you again."
I shook my head and said, "I have no interest in joining the Rumor Sect, and even less interest in deceiving people. Besides, I cannot accept some of the Rumor Sect's practices."
The woman laughed and said, "What do you mean? You are not willing to sacrifice yourself for anyone? You are indeed a person who is willing to put your life in the hands of your friends, so you don't trust Rumor Gate, right?"
The woman said solemnly: "If I say that rules are rules and people's hearts are people's hearts, what would you think?"
"It is true that people who are good at deception are heartless, heartless, and even have no sense of justice. However, there are also heroes in the Rumor Sect who use their flesh and blood and corpses to defend their beliefs. Otherwise, the Rumor Sect would not have received mixed reviews in the art of magic."
This point, the woman said the same thing as my grandfather. My grandfather has a certain respect for the people in the Yao Sect, but I still don't understand why he admires the Yao Sect.
I still shook my head and said, "No matter what the rumors are, I have no intention of getting involved. I think you are still..."
The woman smiled and said, "I don't need you to join Rumor Sect, just let me follow you. The old bastard will come back for you sooner or later, and I just need to wait and see."
I pointed at Ye Jin and Monk Shi and said, "Could it be that the people that the old man has chosen are not these two?"
“No!” The woman shook her head. “That old bastard only has eyes for you. As for what he likes about you, I’m afraid you know it best.”
I was about to say "I don't know shit", but the woman said: "Don't be in a hurry to refuse. Because you can't refuse the reward I give you."
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Thank you Doudou for the reward! (To be continued)