Mo Chen had seen this situation before.
At that time, he was still a teenager, and he went down the mountain with his master and stayed in a bustling town for several days. There were many businessmen coming and going in that town. A passing merchant was killed. The blood of the dead person was sucked dry. People in the town said that there was a monster haunting them, and people panicked.
The master did his part to take over this matter, pretended to be a merchant and lived in a shop, and lured that blood-sucking monster out after a day.
It wasn't a monster, or a woman who knocked on the door in the middle of the night with fine wine, but was killed by a merciless move by the master.
Mo Chen was there at the time... Well, the master let him in after the woman died. The woman was a little bit disheveled when she entered the door, and her clothes were disheveled, but when Mo Chen entered, her clothes were neat, except for her face. Didn't show it either. Apparently, the master was afraid that Mo Chen would be affected badly at such a young age, and he might even dress her up after killing that woman.
Master's carefulness made Mo Chen dumbfounded at the time.
Perhaps it was because of this that Mo Chen had a particularly deep memory of this woman.
After he went in, the woman still maintained the same appearance as before, coquettish, beautiful, and fair-skinned. But after other people who heard the news arrived one after another, her appearance gradually changed. By the time the yamen from the local yamen arrived with disobedience, the woman had completely changed.
Just like Jin Mian now, with wrinkles and spots all over his face, his hair has turned white, and his body is stooped. Everyone gets old, but the aging process takes a long time. And those who use some heresy techniques to maintain the appearance of Qingshu, once they lose the support of this kind of power, the true nature of aging will be revealed.
But the speed of that change was very slow, and it took almost a day. Mo Chen met twice later, and the time spent was about the same. It is very unusual for someone like Jin Mian to change into this appearance just after drinking tea just after his death.
Mo Chen was first surprised that Jin Mian's real appearance was so old! This person hides really well. When Mo Chen met him, he was with a group of people of similar age, and he was Miss Wu's favorite, so Mo Chen inevitably regarded him as someone of his own age.
Then there is Jin Mian's unusual appearance.
He suddenly turned from 20 years old to 70 or 80 years old. What about the process in between? Whether it is true energy, or practicing some kind of magic art, in short, all the powers that can maintain his youthful appearance will be completely disintegrated when he dies, but it will take some time for his appearance to change completely, just like a piece of paper. Meat's transition from fresh to rancid doesn't happen in the blink of an eye.
There must be other reasons for this.
Mo Chen thought of the water.
There must be something wrong with the water.
What happened in those silent houses? Even if the number of people in Burial Sword Valley is reduced by half, the rest should not be so silent.
Mo Chen briefly searched Jin Mian's body.
It turned out that there were quite a lot of things on this person, a lot of bits and pieces. Apart from the weapon whose umbrella was mostly torn, there were at least five or six hidden weapons on his body, some of which Mo Chen could guess, and some of which he couldn't. He still carried some medicines in his bag, most of which were not used for any legitimate purpose, and Mo Chen didn't have time to distinguish them one by one, so he stuffed these things into his pocket first.
He strode towards the door, wanting to get some water from the outside and check it carefully.
But when he stood in front of the door, Mo Chen stopped.
He didn't have to open the door anymore.
The water has already overflowed the threshold, and is bubbling along the crack of the door towards the house. When Mo Chen stepped down just now, he had already stepped into the puddle.
The stench of sulfur in the air is getting heavier and heavier.
Exhaling and inhaling, Mo Chen was horrified to find that the true energy in his body became somewhat suffocated for some reason.
Those who have not experienced this feeling will not understand. The feeling of true essence moving through the meridians is smoother than when it happens naturally, it is almost a kind of enjoyment, a kind of instinct.
Mo Chen practiced Qi since he was a child, this feeling is like walking, like blinking and breathing without thinking at all. But suddenly his true energy was blocked, and his body seemed to become heavy and clumsy along with the blockage of true energy.
Years of diligent training seemed to be in vain, and he could feel the strength in his body being emptied little by little.
At this speed, it doesn't even take a cup of tea, and he will completely turn back into an ordinary person.
If someone else stood in Mo Chen's position, he would definitely be confused.
However, after the initial shock, Mo Chen began to accurately estimate the speed at which his true energy was passing away.
This is already the speed after he practiced silently and held his breath. If he is unprepared, he will be useless in almost a few breaths.
How many ordinary disciples in the Burial Sword Valley can compare to him? Of course, there are many people who are stronger than him, elders, peak masters, there are also elite players in each peak and hall. These people have suffered a lot in the past few days, especially that time when Elder An fought in the same room, not all those who died were the best fighters in the sect.
Mo Chen figured out the key in an instant.
Now he can't leave in a hurry.
One is that he is no different from ordinary people now. Of course, his physique, boxing, kicking and swordsmanship are still not comparable to ordinary people. But if the accident in the water this time was calculated by Wanshi Villa and the Changhe faction, then if I leave rashly, I will definitely fall into the net opened by these people. Even if you don't, it's hard to say who or what you'll meet along the way, and it's definitely not a good way to leave. Even if he leaves smoothly, can his true essence be recovered
And to stay, the risk is about as great.
It is useful to stay, this is the place where the Sword Burial Valley is buried, and the people in the Sword Burial Valley will be easier than others to figure out how this weird situation came about and why the true essence was suppressed. A successful person like Wu Yunshen must have left behind, otherwise Jianjian Valley would not have been suppressed for so many years that the Changhe faction and Wanshi Villa did not dare to take action, so they could only do some small tricks secretly.
It has to be said that Wanshi Villa's move of using Jin Mian is really bad enough. It's fine to provoke the people in Burial Sword Valley to fight among themselves, but he also seduced the owner's daughter. In Mo Chen's view, this kind of detrimental move is too base.
The rain was still going on outside, as if someone poked a hole in the sky, the rain poured down regardless. (to be continued)