In the forest at the foot of the mountain, quaint houses are scattered in an orderly manner. Men dressed as scholars or women dressed as rich ladies walk through the forest paths from time to time. Leaving behind a faint human voice.
Li Youjun held a scroll and sat under a cage of bamboo, reading with gusto. At the same time, he held a fist-sized emerald green fruit in his other hand and ate it deliciously.
At this time, a young man holding a large pile of bamboo slips ran past Li Youjun. He turned around and saw Li Youjun. He stopped and said hello: "Li Youjun! There is something for you at the back door of the Foreign Affairs Hall. Hurry up and get it." Well, remember to bring it to a small car. When I just passed by, I saw a big box. It's hard to carry it with bare hands."
"Thank you, Senior Brother Chen, for letting me know. I'm going to borrow a car and go get it." Li Youjun stood up quickly and responded, smiling politely and respectfully. It was completely different from the posture he had in a remote town a few months ago.
Because this is not Yongchuan City, but the Imperial Gate Yunzong on Lingxiu Mountain to the east of the capital.
It's not that Li Youjun is changeable, but that he will naturally show a daily state that is most suitable and beneficial to him in different environments. This is just like how many people behave at home and act like chickens when they go out.
Li Youjun followed his uncle Zeng Xianghong to represent the Huangmen Yunzong outside, and he naturally carried a lot of majesty. It was only by putting on a strong show that he could show the majesty of the Huangmen Yunzong.
But in Lingxiu Mountain, Li Youjun is just an outer disciple with a certain status and background, and his cultivation level is only at the early stage of the Xuanmai Realm. There are only a handful of people and occasions for him to show off and show off, so it would be better for him to be kinder than Kuoda, so as not to Get a bad reputation.
He stood up and put the book in his arms back into his arms. Li Youjun trotted to the nearest medicine field, borrowed a small cart, and then walked quickly towards the back door of the Foreign Affairs Hall. On the way, he even finished the fruit in his hand in a few mouthfuls and swallowed it.
It took me a full meal to walk quickly to the back door of the Foreign Affairs Hall.
The huge Lingxiu Mountain stretches for hundreds of miles, and is accompanied by several mountain branches. Even if there is only a small corner of the Foreign Affairs Hall, it is extremely wide.
It's said to be a doorway, but it's actually more like a small warehouse. It is different from the forest where Li Youjun was leisurely before.
Looking around, in the clearing that was leveled out in the mountain col with a radius of thirty or forty feet, there were piles and piles of carriages and horses and goods.
The firewood, rice, oil, salt, and all the daily necessities needed in the mountain gate will be unloaded here, and then the disciples in charge of the gate will arrange for the handymen to move the boxes one by one to the warehouses at the entrance of each hall.
This also includes some of the materials from the inner gate of Huangmen Yun Sect, which will also enter the mountain through this opening.
In addition to supplies, disciples' personal belongings will also be sent here. You need to come out and get it yourself. Only the belongings of the inner disciples will be sent directly into the mountain through other entrances.
"Brother Zhang, I heard that you have something of mine?"
Li Youjun followed the rules and went to a shed at the door, where he found a tall and thin middle-aged man. Be careful with your words.
The middle-aged man glanced at Lan Li Youjun from the corner of his eye without raising his head, and then pointed to a large wooden box in the corner.
Li Youjun was used to the other party's attitude. He thanked him with an unchanging smile, walked to the corner, picked up the wooden box, and went outside. There was a name note and the place of origin posted on the box.
From Yongchuan City.
Putting the wooden box on the cart, Li Youjun's footsteps were much lighter than when he arrived. Although he didn't open the box, he had already guessed what was inside.
He was not in a hurry to return the cart at the medicine field, but went directly back to his cabin.
Although Li Youjun's status and background are not top-notch in the outer sect, he is still decent, and his age and cultivation level are not bad, and he is in the middle of the outer sect, so his residence is not a townhouse, but an independent courtyard. . It's just that it's really "small".
After entering the house, Li Youjun opened the wooden box. As he expected, it was full of piles of bundled documents and transcripts.
Picking up the top one, there is a compilation on it: sorting out the clues before and after the ghost cultivator appears, part three.
Looking at the number of documents in this box, it is estimated that there are no less than thirty piles. Indeed, in accordance with Li Youjun's previous request, he sent over a series of clues and records about ghost cultivators in as much detail as possible. And I also did some sorting in advance. At least it saved Li Youjun a lot of time on the timeline.
"Finally here!"
Ever since Li Youjun came back from Yongchuan, what he has been thinking about is the ghost cultivator over there with no clues. Although his uncle Zeng Xianghong expressed no interest in continuing the pursuit, even within the sect and the deceased Shen Hong's family had no intention of continuing the investigation. But Li Youjun always wanted to try it himself.
Since the practice in the sect was too boring, he originally liked to read some intellectual novels to pass the time as leisure, so he was very interested in tracing the traces of ghost cultivators.
Secondly, it was because the rewards listed in the sea fishing document were enough to impress people, and he also wanted to try to see if he could find out the ins and outs of the ghost cultivator.
There's always a possibility of things happening, right?
Putting the box next to his desk, he found "Clues Before and After the Ghost Cultivator Appears, Part 1" and started reading it eagerly. I also took out a piece of paper and pen, and while reading, I jotted down some findings or things that I felt were important that might be used later.
In the next few days, Li Youjun forgot all about sleep and food. In addition to the necessary homework that needed to be completed, he even hurried to eat and came back in a hurry, for fear of delaying his study of these documents.
But after Li Youjun spent five days with red eyes and carefully flipped through the box of documents, he had a sad look on his face. Because he didn't find anything in these clues that could be directly used as a doubt point. Either it doesn't matter, or the clue is completely broken with no follow-up.
In the end, even though Shen Hong's death was full of doubts, there was no possibility of further investigation. At most, just like Zeng Xianghong did before, he could only speculate on the scene when Shen Hong died. This is completely meaningless to Li Youjun who wants to continue pursuing Guixiu.
"No, although I haven't found any place that can be used as a direction for digging deeper, the movements of this ghost cultivator in Yongchuan City and the conflict points of various events always give people a strange feeling. There seems to be some thread running through it. Among them, but I ignored it?"
Li Youjun always has this weird intuition and is particularly good at finding threads or patterns to follow in chaotic things. This was one of the reasons why he was able to reach the middle level of the outer sect at such a young age. It's considered a bit of a gift. At the same time, it was also the reason why he took the initiative to look for traces of ghost cultivators.
"Check it again. This time, start from the inconspicuous peripheral details." Li Youjun was not discouraged, but continued in another direction. In his opinion, nothing is perfect in the world. It seems there is, but that is because he has not discovered the hidden secret.
(End of chapter)
