The dark clouds in the sky were getting lower and darker, as if they were trapping her inside.
For a moment, there was a strong wind, and lightning streaked across the sky. The sky seemed to have cracked a hole, and huge raindrops poured out from it. First they crackled into a mess, and then poured down neatly.
A ray of orange light penetrated the white rain curtain and flashed into Zuimenglou. The guard at the door was stunned for a moment, and then chased in: "Our store is not open yet!"
Following the water trail to Yingmei's house, the guard hesitated. Did he come to discuss matters with Aunt Yingmei, or did he seek revenge from her?
"I'm fine, go down."
Ying Mei's voice came, and the guard exhaled and left.
Inside the room, Yunli's eyes were red. With trembling hands, she gently placed the portrait on the long table in front of Yingmei. She tried her best to suppress the trembling in her voice, "What's going on? How could my senior brother's identity be leaked? Where is he now?"
Ying Mei's eyes fell on the wrinkled portrait on the table. There was a drop of water on the character 'Nine' on the right, and the ink was smudged, so light that it was almost invisible.
She looked away and scolded: "Why are you here at this time? You are so impatient!"
She had just entered Taiyi Sect, and her foundation was not yet solid, yet she dared to come so unabashedly. If she was discovered, not only would this damn girl want to play with her, but she wouldn't be able to get anything back.
The more Ying Mei thought about it, the angrier she became. She looked at Yunli with eyes that seemed to be cannibalistic. If she hadn't relied on her to lurk in the Taiyi Sect, such restless and unruly subordinates would have been thrown out long ago.
Yunli stared at her and asked word by word: "Where is he now?"
Ying Mei said sharply: "Is this something you should know? Do your job well. If you are so reckless again, be careful about your life."
Yunli took a few deep breaths, calm down, calm down, calm down.
She suppressed the raging anger in her heart and said patiently: "Aunt Yingmei, it is not an exaggeration to say that the situation of our intelligence officers is like a dragon's pool and a tiger's den. Today, the killer's identity can be leaked casually. If we can't protect it, tomorrow our identities will be revealed." If you leak it, how can you let us intelligence officers feel at ease?"
"From what you hear, do you think it was someone in the pavilion who leaked the news?"
Nonsense, apart from the people in the pavilion, even Wen Xueruo also knows the code name of senior brother Qianjiu, but if it were her, she would definitely reveal her identity first.
She sneered: "Auntie, do you think you are an outsider?"
Ying Mei moved her eyes away. Normal people could tell that this was done by someone from within. Not only insiders like them could see it, but even the so-called decent people from famous families also had such speculations.
She just said calmly: "This is not something you can know."
Yunli clenched his fists and said firmly: "Now that I'm here, I won't leave if I don't get the answer."
Seeing her attitude of not giving up until she was asked, Ying Mei shook her fan irritably. If it weren't for the fact that she was the most promising person to get the news, she would have been thrown out long ago.
But this matter told her that with her indifferent appearance, she was afraid that she would have to abandon the mission and go directly to find him. Almost all the Jindan monks from the Beishan Department were dispatched, and one more person would die if he went there.
Yingmei was distraught and shook the fan in her hand harder and harder, as if she was holding not a fan but this annoying dead girl.
Yunli was extremely anxious. So many Golden Core cultivators were dispatched, and Tiandao, who was eyeing him eagerly and ready to take action at any time, was staring maliciously at him. How could his senior brother, who was in the early stage of foundation building, escape?
She begged: "Auntie, please tell me, where is my senior brother now?"
Ying Mei was stunned. The confusion, anxiety and fear in the girl's almond-shaped eyes were so familiar that they instantly brought her back to that nightmare.
"aunt."
Yunli shouted again, hesitating whether to take the risk and try to confuse the heart, but Yingmei was a monk who practiced charm, so she didn't know if the conceit would work on her.
Yingmei took a deep look at her, then looked away at the cascading rain outside the window, "Three months ago, a special mission was issued in the pavilion. He, Wen Ming, and Yue Yi went to Yuan'an Temple to collect Buddha relics. Got discovered.”
"Three, three months?" Yunli couldn't believe her ears, "He has been hunted for three months?"
Ying Mei briefly summarized: "Wen Ming was seriously injured. Qian Jiu led his men to divert the pursuers. Unexpectedly, his identity was revealed later and he was chased all the way from Anxi City. Ying Qi and others who followed him were all dead."
After a pause, she continued: "According to our clues, those fellow sect members all died at the hands of Qian Jiu, a sword that penetrated the heart."
Yunli's pupils shrank and she murmured: "They betrayed."
There were interceptions in the front and pursuers in the back, and people around him rebelled. Yunli didn't dare to think about the situation his senior brother was in now, and asked hurriedly: "What happened next?"
Ying Mei was amused, "Why do you think they were betrayed? One sword penetrated the heart without any struggle. It was clearly Qian Jiu who made a sudden attack. Ying Qi and others were unprepared, so they were easily killed."
"Senior brother will not take people's lives randomly for no reason. What happened next? Where has he escaped to now?"
Yunli didn't want to argue with her about this issue. The most important thing now was to find her senior brother first.
"You believe him. Later, the Beishan system was completely blocked. He was discovered more than ten times. The last time there was news about him was in the Feng Yin Plains in Central Continent half a month ago. The Wanli Feng Yin Plains were reduced to a sea of fire. The fire burned the whole Seven days later, when the next people arrived, there was only a charred corpse on the ground, and there was no news about him after that."
Speaking of this, Ying Mei also had to admire that in just the early stage of the foundation building period, he was able to break through the joint blockade of the Beishan system foundation building and the Golden Core monks and reach Central Continent.
I don’t know what the people in the pavilion thought, but they had to give up such a genius and actually let all the intelligence bases along the way take the initiative to leak Qianjiu’s whereabouts to the pursuers.
Yunli's fingertips were trembling. She had been discovered more than ten times. Didn't she go through more than ten fierce battles? She asked nervously: "He is not injured, is he?"
Yingmei was speechless, "What do you think? There are so many golden elixirs, foundation-building monks, and talented disciples from various sects. How do you still expect him to escape unscathed? It's good to be alive now."
Seeing that her face was as pale as paper and her lips were so pale that they were almost colorless, she couldn't bear it and comforted her: "Don't worry, I haven't heard from him for so many days. Maybe he thought of a way to escape."
It would be nice if that was the case. Others didn't know it, but she knew how unlucky her senior brother would be if he was injured.
"We should be thankful that the Buddha's relics have little effect on the Nascent Soul stage monks who have already given birth to infants. Otherwise, those hypocrites would not think that hunting down a Foundation Establishment stage person would degrade their status, and they would definitely take action with all their strength. At that time, how could they still Take the slightest chance.”
"Thank you, aunt." Yunli twitched the corners of her lips and hurried out of Zuimeng Tower.
There was a thunderstorm outside, the sky was dark and the earth was dark. Lightnings were falling from the sky like the Milky Way. The huge thunder was like a mountain collapsing and the earth was cracking. The streets of Tianyun City were empty.
Yunli rushed towards the direction of Fengyin Plains, murmuring over and over again: "Fengyinyuan, Fengyinyuan"
She tried her best to calm down. Fengyin Plains is close to the junction of Zhongzhou and Dongshan systems. To the north is Zhongzhou, where the Ye and Xiao families are entrenched. There are many monks. The senior brother probably fled to Fengyin Plains from the direction of Zhongzhou;
At the junction of the Beishan System and Central Continent are the undulating Hundred Thousand Mountains. Although the monsters inside are not comparable to those in the Tianwu Forest, there are also big monsters, even monsters in the transformation stage.
With the precedent of Tianwu Forest, the senior brother would not take the initiative to escape from the dangerous mountain system, but he appeared in the nearby Fengyin Plain. There must have been some accident that forced him to choose this route.
Just after leaving Tianyun City, she landed on a high branch. Just as she was trying to figure out the direction, a flying sword came out from the side and stopped in front of her. "You stand on a tree in this kind of weather. If you want to survive the disaster in advance, ah?"
Seeing the person clearly, Yunli's heart skipped a beat, why is he here!
Without waiting for her answer, Mo Huai asked, "Why did you come to Tianyun City suddenly?"
Yunli took a breath and said perfunctorily: "I need to buy some things."
All the way to immortality
