Chapter 116 The Heart of the Rock (1)

We sat in two seats in the main hall of the city lord's residence.

One is Shangguan Pianpian, Yan Ruolin, Shi Ziming, Jin Yunqiao, and me;

The other mat was Gongsun Wenlong, Dizang Lion and the girl in white named Huo Xingchen.

——Gongsun Wenlong said that she was a disciple of the Star Sect and was at the top of the Jindan class, and the master did not want to disclose it.

Shangguan Pianpian ordered the servants to serve drinks, fruits and vegetables, and Gongsun Wenlong only drank coffee from the south, and Huo Xing did not let in. The Lion of Dizang swept away all the fruits and vegetables.

The money soldiers outside the city lord's residence patrolled as usual, as if nothing major had ever happened.

Gongsun Wenlong broke the embarrassing silence between us,

"So long has passed, Shi Guanshi must have figured out the situation at Manyinghui?"

Shi Ziming's lips seemed to want to defend something, but in the end he nodded with an awkward expression.

"Manying and I will confirm that they did have a business a few days ago. The person in charge of the business hired some experts to capture Prince Nangong - they were too active! Hum!"

"Ha!" Gongsun Wenlong smiled contemptuously.

"The Taisho Dynasty is the starting tool of the Sword Sect. The Demon-Slaying Academy of the Sword Sect is a precept academy that inspects major sects. Kunlun Sect and Longhu Sect want to compete with the Sword Sect in Middle Earth. Bai Dao could not get started, so he built the organization that walked between the black and white Taoist paths. Who would have thought that the actions of the Sword Sect accidentally hit the foot of his own people. Ha! Ha!"

I asked Yan Ruolin with my divine thoughts

(“Will Man Ying really have a background of Kunlun and Longhu?”)

("Ah, nonsense, why do organizations without sect backgrounds exist in troubled times? Can't they be so well-informed?")

The girl in red dislikes it.

("But Manying Association cannot be classified into evil ways - those people and places abandoned by the Sword Sect and the government have always been helped by the Manying Association - I was entrusted by the Manying Association to kill demons, and I was the slums that were abandoned by them - of course, it is said that Manying Association has not done much to embarrass the Sword Sect and the court.")

She giggled,

"I don't know much."

I nodded. Everyone knows these dark history.

"This is just an occasional misunderstanding. Isn't we here just to solve the trouble caused by misunderstandings?"

What Shangguan Pianpian said was similar to what I thought.

"—Manying will be a single-line contact. The person in charge who took over the business has disappeared. We don't know who his client is and who the person in charge has entrusted it. Therefore, the whereabouts of Prince Nangong still depend on our search here. The families of the Thirteen counties in the South China Sea are all under our Shangguan. As long as we spend time, we can always find it."

She was determined to look at Gongsun.

"Wrong, things are not as easy as you think."

Gongsun Wenlong blew coffee lightly without regard,

"I have fought with Nangong Panshi countless times, and I understand his character in my heart. Nangong never retreated without any urgency - I had killed everyone who rescued him yesterday; Nangong Ru was bound to fight me in a decisive battle - but he didn't. Nangong didn't do impossible things, there was only one result: he did not have the hope of killing me in a battle."

Speaking of the last few words, Gongsun Wenlong's expression showed a sense of loneliness.

"The Lion of Ksitigarbha listens attentively and will not miss anyone's words within a radius of hundreds of miles, and the birds and beasts communicate with the divine thoughts, but we have no idea these days; I believe that the progress of your Shangguan family will not exceed that of us. The appearance of the Bibo Jinqing Beast at the auction house means that the person entrusted by Manyinghui has succeeded, seriously injured or killed Nangong - that beast, which is just the killers selling unnecessary things."

“It’s true.”

Jin Yunqiao reported to Shangguan Pianpian,

"We have not missed any family in the city, but there seems to be no trace of Prince Nangong in the world."

"Nangong Panshi is not dead yet."

Suddenly, the girl in white said.

"Why?" I asked curiously.

"I said he was not dead, so he was not dead." Huo Xingchen said lightly.

"Are you practicing arithmetics in Xingzong?" Yan Ruolin mocked her, thinking to myself that she probably did not forget the shame of being immobilized by the girl in white.

"It's my whim."

Huo Xingchen said.

"Women's whim is sometimes very accurate, and you will understand when you become familiar with your little girl."

Gongsun Wenlong replied frivolously, and the girl in red drew her sword in anger.

Shangguan Pianpian held her hand, and Yan Ruolin resented her sword.

A corner of Gongsun's desk fell in response to the sound, the bone porcelain tea set cracked into two petals, and brown coffee liquid splashed on his brocade clothes.

Gongsun Wenlong tsk, took out his handkerchief and said while wiping it.

"Inheriting the junior sister Huo Ji Yan, I still have the luck of being alive with a rock - assuming he was seriously injured and not dead, he either tried to stay away from the city where there were mixed fish and dragons, or defected to the city lord's residence. No matter what the possibility is, I need the assistance of the Shangguan family: the former, I need your way to enter all counties and counties in the South China Sea; the latter, I will naturally have to wait for him here."

"Let us discuss this. For the Prince Gongsun, Miss Huo, and this Lion Lord Dizang."

...

Shangguan Pianpian led the people from our table to a small hall.

Shi Ziming put the stone steps in the middle of the small hall of the Staff ***, and the vast clear light rippled out, covering the hall, and then said to us with relief,

"I used the Tiangang magic 'Qionglu' to block the listening of the Ksitigarbha lion. As long as we don't leave this hall, no one can steal our conversation in the hall unless the Nascent Soul is the one who is in seclusion in this city. I think no Nascent Soul dares to enter the city. Now, you can speak freely."

"Elder Shi, does the sect only ask the Prince of Nangong to escape from danger, and does not ask the Prince of Gongsun's life?"

Shangguan Pianpian was the first to ask Shi Ziming.

"Indeed, the Nangong family and the Gongsun family are both inherited by the Xingzong. If their power in Middle Earth is stronger, the Jianzong will be weaker. Therefore, the sect's attitude is to protect Nangong and release Gongsun. In terms of the court, I only need to report on the Shangguan family's achievements in rescuing Nangong; all the things that the Gongsun family participates can be hidden."

"Then I just need to focus on finding Nangong Panshi. Before I find Nangong, Gongsun will not fight with us for the time being - it's a headache to deal with the two forces."

She smiled bitterly,

"We will wait until night. If Nangong Panshi can't enter the city lord's residence, we will start searching for him from the nearest county."

Shi Ziming said solemnly,

"There are some things I didn't say in the meeting hall just now. In fact, Man Ying would tell me that the person in charge had found the body of the person in charge, and there was only an empty shell and no soul, so it is unknown who was entrusted to him; in addition, the client was not a master, there was only one."

“Only one?”

Everyone's expressions were either confused or surprised.

"That means, the master found by the person in charge of the damn Manying Association is the Nascent Soul Master."

I said.

——I have witnessed the scene where Nangong Panshi's thought clone beat Ao Ning to tears, and also witnessed how he made hundreds of monsters commit suicide collectively like controlling puppets.

In this way, the best among the Golden Pills cannot be seriously injured or killed by any Golden Pills alone. If I were the person in charge, I could only confidently declare that I could handle Nangong Panshi unless I found the Nascent Soul.

"I have integrated the martial arts experience of his generals, and have seen Nangong Panshi's battles. There are many battles - only the Nascent Soul Can kill him, Nangong Panshi is very strong - I think Gongsun Wenlong is quite inferior to him. Perhaps the girl in white gives me a feeling closer to Nangong's combat power."

I added again.

Everyone's eyes turned to me.

"No wonder you have become much stronger every day. You can block Gongsun Wenlong for so long." Yan Ruolin hummed.

"Congratulations to Junior Brother Yuan for getting the opportunity... Why do you say that to the sect's senior brothers?" Shangguan Pianpian pulled the girl in red.

"Ah, what the original master said is not bad, he is indeed a Nascent Soul. A casual cultivator of the Nascent Soul outside our four major sects has a close relationship with Master Zhou of the Dragon and Tiger Sect. He is a guy who is unruly and acts freely in the five continents and three realms."

"Martial God Zhou Jia?"

Shangguan Pianpian blurted out.

"That's right. So I said the people from the Manying Club were too active this time."

The stone is Mingdun’s head.

——After Zhou Chu passed through the tribulation in the south, his bloodlines were either interrupted or lost to everyone. Only one group accidentally released another Nascent Soul three hundred years ago. However, this Nascent Soul Soul Soul did not join the Dragon and Tiger Sect according to the sect's convention, but wandered alone in the world. He either practiced in the Gangsha Fenglei and Mingyi Earth Fire, or drifted around, and for the sake of temporary interest, he fought against the heroes and strong men of the times.

——There are countless people in the world whose name is Zhou Jia, but there is only one martial god named Zhou Jia.

This is Shangguan Pianpian’s explanation to me.

——The person in charge who took over the line of the martial god Zhou Jia is really a talent. It’s a pity that he died. I think.

"Then all things are connected. The Nascent Soul Person cannot enter the Lingya Gate of Marquis Shangguan to attack Nangong Panshi. He must have taken action at the moment when Nangong Panshi was about to enter the city. The result was undoubtedly that Nangong Panshi was defeated and was at least seriously injured. The Bibo Jinqing Beast is a proof of his defeat. The murderer can find someone to deal with this beast in the city. So we don't have to wait for Nangong in the city - if I am Nangong, since I don't have the ability to fight with Gongsun, I should try to stay away from this Lingya Gate City and hide like a wild beast to recover from the wounds - assuming he is still alive."

I sighed,

"Let's go outside the city to search for him. Like the girl in white, I also think that Nangong Panshi is not dead. I always feel that such a person will not die silently in the ditches and wilderness."

I suggest.

——The hero may not die cowardly. But I am willing to believe that he is not dead yet.

Otherwise, will our actions in the past few days be meaningless?

How can I complete the commission of Deputy Commander of the Qinglong Soldier? - I won't go back to this free energy and martial arts experience.

The thoughts are not clear.

"Well. Junior Brother Yuan is right. The popular places on Nanhai Road are under the rule of our Shangguan family. If the Prince Nangong is alive but is seriously injured, he will definitely have to obtain a large amount of elixirs. Well, it is a lot of elixirs to recover, so you can only go to the nearby county town to seize it. General Manager Jin and I went to search for a county. There are transportation formations connecting each county in the city, and a few people will arrive in a flash."
To be continued...