Tang Yuansheng, male, 102 years old, has reached the Nascent Soul stage, and is currently serving as the Inspector of the Immortal Sect.
He received a message from Captain Chu to come earlier, so he decided to advance his schedule. He first went to Qinghuai County, which was only separated from Yanjiang County by a mountain.
"After crossing this mountain, we will reach the location Xiao Chu mentioned."
"Hmm?" Tang Yuansheng suddenly felt a strange breath fluctuation, "What is this breath?"
He followed his feeling and came to the stable of an inn. Inside the stable, an old horse with dragon scales on its forehead and a brown mare were snuggling together, looking very affectionate.
The servant at the post station brought a bunch of carefully selected grass fodder and put it in the trough. The old horse looked at it with disdain and had no intention of eating it at all.
Seeing the old horse like this, the post station servant whispered, "After the white pony left, he got together with the new horse so quickly?"
The old horse seemed to understand what people said and glared at the servant. The servant did not dare to provoke this strange beast and ran away quickly.
The owner of this old horse had long finished eating the high-quality grass feed that he had entrusted to him. After finishing the high-quality feed, the old horse owner showed no sign of movement. The owner of the post station guessed that the horse might have had an accident or had died. After all, the old horse owner had gone to Songshan.
After the best feed was eaten, the innkeeper asked the servant to feed other grass feed. If the owner was late, he would use this old horse to pay for the feed.
As a result, the old horse disdained the feed at the post station and refused to eat a single bite. A month went by like this.
The innkeeper was terrified. This old horse was definitely not a simple beast with scales on its forehead, but a demon beast of a very high level that had reached the state of Bigu!
Alien beasts are a species between demon beasts and wild beasts. They have the blood of demon beasts, but the blood is too thin and they do not even have the ability to mobilize the blood. They show some atavism phenomena, growing scales, feathers, horns, etc. Their bodies are stronger than wild beasts, but to a limited extent.
When Tang Yuansheng saw the old horse, he was overjoyed. It turned out to be a rare dragon horse in the world, but he didn't know the purity of its bloodline.
"If I hadn't been to the vast East China Sea by chance, I really wouldn't have recognized it." Tang Yuansheng was quite excited. This was a complete surprise.
Dragon horses are so rare, yet there is one in the stable of this remote county. The owner of the dragon horse must not know how precious it is, and the dragon horse has not yet awakened, so it is covered in dust here.
"As a powerful Yuanying stage master, I have never had a suitable mount. This must be an opportunity bestowed upon me by the immortal immortal because of my piety!"
Tang Yuansheng prayed to the immortal for a moment, then turned over and jumped into the stable.
The old horse looked back at Tang Yuansheng, ignored him, and continued to be affectionate with the brown mare.
"Poor dragon horse, you don't know your noble status and fall in love with a mortal horse. Come with me, I will let you know how powerful you are!"
Tang Yuansheng stretched out his big golden hand, wanting to take the old horse away. The old horse kicked back with its two hooves and broke Tang Yuansheng's hand. Tang Yuansheng felt a tightness in his chest and spit out a mouthful of blood, and his breath weakened instantly.
He looked at Lao Ma with horror, no longer feeling the excitement he had before. Instead, he was filled with endless fear and turned around and ran away.
There must be some powerful person who plays with the human world and lives here, keeping the dragon horse in the stable as an ordinary horse!
The action just now would definitely not be hidden from the powerful person who plays with people. He quickly ran away, hoping that the other party would spare his life because of his ignorance!
The old horse roared loudly, showing off his strength to the young mare.
Tang Yuansheng ran for a while, but he didn't see the powerful man coming to capture him, so he knew that the other party didn't care about his actions.
"Wow!" He spat out blood again, and randomly found an empty place, sat cross-legged in meditation, and took pills to recover from his injuries.
The two kicks from the hooves just now seriously injured him.
When he opened his eyes again, he heard a rumbling sound from the other side of the mountain, as if something huge was falling.
"It's already night?" Tang Yuansheng was a little surprised to see that it was already dark. He didn't expect that it would take him a whole day to recover from his injuries.
After he recovered from his injuries to some extent and was able to protect himself, he crossed Song Mountain and came to the place where the flying boat crashed. He saw that Captain Chu had been pierced by Lu Yang's sword and was dead.
“… Is this the surprise Xiao Chu mentioned?”
It’s hard to say whether he was happy or not, but Tang Yuansheng was definitely shocked.
Before he came, the Immortal Sect's higher-ups asked him to pay attention to Lu Yang, Meng Jingzhou and Man Gu, and also gave them their portraits.
Now you have to pay attention even if you don’t want to.
"Who are you!" Lu Yang looked at Tang Yuansheng vigilantly with sword in hand.
Tang Yuansheng looked at Lu Yang with a half-smile: "Lu Yang, you dare to point your sword at me? I am Tang Yuansheng, the inspector of the Immortal Sect."
Lu Yang learned of Tang Yuansheng's identity and gestured behind his back, asking Lan Ting to leave quickly. It was difficult to explain Lan Ting's presence to Tang Yuansheng.
"It turns out to be Inspector Tang." Lu Yang was a little more polite, but still looked at Tang Yuansheng suspiciously, obviously not completely believing the other party's identity.
Tang Yuansheng was too disdainful to explain to Lu Yang and asked, "Why did you kill Li Shouyi?"
Li Shouyi, the prefect of Yanjiang County, is the real name of the leader of Chu. Tang Yuansheng is used to calling him Xiao Chu.
Lu Yang said in a deep voice: "Because he almost exposed his identity as a member of the Immortal Church!"
"Oh?" Tang Yuansheng looked at Lu Yang with interest to see what kind of explanation the other party could give.
Suddenly, there was a commotion at the foot of the mountain. Fang Qingyun brought a large group of people here to check the crash of the flying boat. There was also a doctor in the group, who was responsible for the rescue.
"Let's leave first!" Tang Yuansheng was still seriously injured and didn't want to meet the government. He swept his sleeves and took Lu Yang and the other two and fled away.
Tang Yuansheng was familiar with the place and led the three people into Yanjiangdu, which was the safest place in Yanjiang County.
"Now tell me, Li Shouyi is a very meticulous person, how did he reveal his identity?"
Lu Yang told the whole story about the Anti-Life Array, and then said, "Captain Chu... Oh no, County Magistrate Li's plan is very careful. First, he made Yi Zhang Hong a scapegoat, and then secretly set up the Anti-Life Array. As long as the small flag is destroyed afterwards, there will be no trace."
Tang Yuansheng nodded. Li Shouyi has always been cautious in doing things. He used the extremely unpopular anti-longevity formation. This time the plan is impeccable.
"But an accident still happened. The three of us opened a barbecue restaurant here. This kind of place is most suitable for collecting local intelligence. We noticed that a disciple from the Laurel Palace passed by here by chance. She seemed to be proficient in formations and could see through the anti-longevity talisman on the small flag!"
"The disciples of the five major sects cannot move. We are worried that something will happen to Li Junshou and the entire Immortal Sect will be implicated. We advised him to hide quickly, but he said that now is a critical period and he needs to use the Reverse Life Formation to advance to the Nascent Soul stage. He absolutely cannot hide. We have no choice but to kill Li Junshou before Daxia catches him and eliminate the trouble forever!"
"You also noticed the government officials just now, right? The leader is Chief Constable Fang Qingyun. What did he bring so many people with him for? He must be here to stop the Anti-Longevity Formation from being activated and arrest Magistrate Li!"
Tang Yuansheng nodded, thinking that Lu Yang and the other two were right. The fact that the Laurel Palace disciples were in Yanjiang County could be checked and no one could be deceived. Li Shouyi did attach great importance to the advancement to the Nascent Soul stage.
Generally, the helmsman is in the Yuanying stage. Yanjiang County is a small county, so the helmsman will be in the Jindan stage. If Li Shouyi wants to be promoted to be the helmsman in a region with developed spiritual practice, he must be promoted to the Yuanying stage now.
The same applies to the official status. If the level is not high enough, it will be difficult to get promoted.
Man Gu looked at Lu Yang in surprise. It was not in his plan to kill Captain Chu and then meet Tang Yuansheng. He had never thought about the reason for killing. How did Brother Lu manage to say it so easily
Meng Jingzhou secretly gave Lu Yang a thumbs up. The reason Lu Yang came up with was almost the same as the one he made up on the spur of the moment.
(End of this chapter)