Shen Mo looked at Qi Cheng, whose sternum was neatly broken and his face was as pale as a piece of paper due to excessive blood loss, and shook his head slightly and sighed.
His sudden sword attack did not kill Qi Cheng, which surprised both of them.
Shen Mo leaned down, and with lightning strikes, he instantly sealed several acupuncture points around the wound on Qi Cheng's chest, allowing his almost exhausted life breath to be relieved for a moment.
Qi Cheng was lying on the ground unable to move. The wound on his chest almost shattered his internal organs. Fortunately, Shen Shen's knife did not cut into his heart, so the old housekeeper was still breathing for the time being.
Qi Cheng tried his best to open his eyes wide, and relying on his still somewhat clear mind, he gradually understood what was happening in the Yan family at this moment.
Because the only person squatting in front of him at this moment was Shen Shen. Besides him, there were also those white-clothed believers lying on the ground in the lobby.
The old housekeeper's heart suddenly sank into the abyss, but after he regained consciousness, he also understood his situation.
He was dead. Although he was still breathing heavily, he knew in his heart that he wouldn't be able to delay it for long.
Qi Cheng, who was not safe in the evening, suddenly regretted his betrayal of Yan Shouyang.
Silently staring at Qi Cheng, the reason why he chose Qi Cheng as the first target to draw his sword was because he already knew his identity from Qi Cheng's unintentional name for Yan Shouyang. Even if he is not Yan Shouyang's relative, he must be the closest person to Yan Shouyang.
Although Silent is straightforward and never likes to beat around the bush, no one knows what he has experienced, and no one knows where he comes from or where he learned from. But there is one thing he hates most in his life, and that is betrayal.
So the first person he killed with his Seven Killing Sword was Qi Cheng. That's why he left the "Guanshan Ninth Level", which was once considered a forbidden move, in Shi Huang's body.
Because these two people are betrayers of others. The reason why he hates betrayers so much is because he has also been betrayed by others. This is somewhat similar to the Holy Evangelist Yue Wuque.
Unlike other people who travel in the world, Shen Shen does not travel in the world to become famous. For so many years, he has wandered around the world alone just to find the betrayer related to him. This is the purpose of his travels in the world. So this is also the reason why despite his superb martial arts skills, he has no reputation in the world.
He is not a martial arts hero, but he hates evil; he does not care about fame and fortune, but this does not affect his chivalrous heart that can distinguish right from wrong.
But he never considered himself a knight. The two words "hero" are just two simple words when spoken by others, but the meanings contained in these two words and the price to be paid are not that simple. A hero is not a title that someone casually utters out of gratitude after someone casually resolves an injustice for someone else.
Shen Mo remembered that someone once said to him, if you are not capable enough to shoulder the responsibility represented by the word "xia", then you should never try to be a hero.
"What's your name? Who is Yan Shouyang?"
After carefully observing Qi Cheng for a while, he asked in silence.
The muscles on Qi Cheng's face twisted and trembled due to severe pain. He did not answer the silent question immediately, but his eyes wandered and asked: "Where are those people?"
This question is simply not a question. So Shen Mo frowned and said, "If you still want them to deal with me, you will be disappointed."
When Qi Cheng heard this, he smiled miserably, but said two words whose meaning was unclear, and said: "That's fine, that's fine."
The silence was also a bit baffling. He frowned and said, "What are you talking about?"
Qi Cheng's face was miserable. He glanced at Silence, and then sighed: "Although I know that you are not my friend, I still want to thank you."
After pondering in silence for a moment, he suddenly sighed and said, "Thank you for giving me the knife, right?"
"Yes. I have followed the master for decades, and he treated me like a brother. However, I betrayed him in revenge. Not only did he die at the hands of the Demon Cult, but the entire Yan family was slaughtered and wiped out. Since then, Even if I die, I, Qi Cheng, will not be able to atone for my sins." Qi Cheng's voice was very low, and his face and eyes were full of regret. He murmured: "If it hadn't been for your knife, I don't know how I would have done it for myself in the future. There are so many evil things that selfish desires can do, so I want to thank you for making me repent. Although I don’t regret dying, this knife can be regarded as mitigating my sin."
Shen Mo roughly guessed the clues about what happened from the other party's few words.
"If I had known this, why did I do it in the first place?" Shen Mo didn't mean to sympathize with him, but felt a little sad. He shook his head and sighed: "Are those desires really more important than the decades of friendship between people? "
Tears flowed from the corners of Qi Cheng's eyes. He shook his head and said, "Now that the matter is over, I don't hate that woman. I only hate myself for not guarding my conscience and bottom line, which is why I made a big mistake."
"That woman will reap the consequences sooner or later." Silence said in a deep tone. "It's just that Yan Shouyang lived an upright life, but in the end he ended up like this. It's really not worth it."
His tone was full of helplessness.
Qi Cheng's expression suddenly changed, and he said hastily: "That woman is still alive? You didn't kill her?"
Mo Mo slowly stood up and looked around the entire Yan family hall, frowning and said: "Enough people have died today, and I am not a person who likes killing. Although I let that woman go, her current situation... It’s actually more uncomfortable than death.”
"That woman is not an ordinary woman. She has a high status in the Demon Cult. If she escapes, I'm afraid more people will die." Qi Cheng's chest rose and fell violently. He had witnessed the Demon Cult leader Yue Completely terrifying, and even more terrified of the power of the Holy Legend, it was a shadow more terrifying than all the nightmares he had ever had. Qi Cheng suddenly said urgently: "There is a snuff bottle hidden on her body, which is a token used by Sunset Racecourse to prove the identity of the master. No matter who has this token, he can mobilize all the money related to Sunset Racecourse on behalf of the master's identity. And the Jianghu forces. Among them, there are Fufeng Villa, Shuangqimen, Screaming Eagle Gang, Wufeng Chaoyang Dao Cao family and Silver Goumen outside the pass. They have a close relationship with Sunset Racecourse. If the woman deceived these five gangs with the token, If the family's power makes them become the minions of the Demon Cult, then the entire Guanwai area will be over, and the master's lifelong reputation will also be destroyed by the Demon Cult's calculations..."
Qi Cheng was already dying, but now he said a series of words in a state of excitement. He suddenly lost his breath and could only stop and take a big breath.
The meaning of his words was very clear. If Shi Huang took that token and pretended to be Yan Shouyang, not only would all the foundation accumulated by Sunset Racecourse over the past decades be controlled by the Demon Sect, but the five forces would also most likely be involved without knowing it. In a desperate situation, he responded to Shi Huang's call and became an accomplice of the Demon Cult. Compared with property, in the heart of Qi Cheng, whose conscience has returned, Yan Shouyang's reputation is more important. Although he is dead now, if he can keep his reputation as a master, it will be the last thing he can do for the Yan family during his lifetime. A little bit made up for it.
Listening to Qi Cheng's words silently and calmly, he began to realize that he seemed to have taken this matter too simply. But he immediately thought of a possibility, so he considered it: "Since these five families all have a close relationship with Yan Shouyang, how can they change their stance just because of a token? Besides, if the Demon Sect really wants to deal with them, I'm afraid Have you already taken action?"
Qi Cheng took a rest and his breathing eased. After hearing this, he shook his head and said: "Not only do those five forces have a close relationship with the master, but they also have business contacts. And the Sunset Racecourse has become more and more popular over the past few decades, so it was With that token appearing. Because the master once said that as long as it involves business and confidential matters, no matter who it is, they can only recognize the token and not the person. Because people may be fake, but tokens cannot." He His tone softened, and he had to stop and exhale again.
Silent and silent, he had to admit that Yan Shouyang had thought this through more carefully. Imagine that the Sunset Racecourse family has a great business and has accumulated an unknown amount of wealth over the past few decades. The value of this wealth is not just the real money and silver placed in the Yan family, but more of the ways in which Sunset Racecourse is involved in making money. Some of those connections are from the government, such as those high-quality horses sold to the government every year. Some are from the private sector, such as investing in banks, furs, etc. These are extremely profitable channels. And once someone covets the wealth of Sunset Racecourse and uses some means to impersonate Yan Shouyang to steal the wealth, isn't that like a dumb man eating coptis and unable to tell the story of his suffering? Because once something like this happens, it will be a big joke.
Therefore, Yan Shouyang's move of using tokens was indeed a well-thought-out move. As long as the token is there, it represents an identity that does not need to be doubted. Because people may be counterfeited, but tokens cannot.
But Yan Shouyang should not have expected another possibility, that is, what if this token falls into the hands of someone with evil intentions?
After Qi Cheng calmed down, he continued angrily: "Before you arrived, the leader of the Demon Cult, Yue Wuque, had just left not long ago, and I heard from their words that this time they aimed to deal with the Central Plains martial arts and the former There are several people who have enmity with them, and it is because the master participated in the war between the Central Plains and the Demon Sect more than 20 years ago that he is hated by the Demon Sect and has been retaliated to this day. So according to my guess, outside the Guan The five forces may not have been threatened by the Demon Cult yet..."
His breath was weak and he spoke quickly. He was afraid that he would die while talking, so he tried to choose the most important words.
Shen Mo frowned, because he could see that Qi Cheng had returned to his former glory.
Qi Cheng suddenly stretched out his hand and grabbed one of Shen Silence's calves. The fear of the Demon Cult in his heart made his face ferociously distorted. He said in a trembling voice: "Fufeng Villa is the closest to here. Just walk straight in the direction of the entrance." You can reach it in more than 10 miles, and the owner there is named Tian Wangye. I know that you have a chivalrous heart, so please consider that you also had some chivalrous reputation during your lifetime. I implore you to go to Fufeng Villa and tell the owner of the farm here. Everything that happened..."
Before he could finish his words, his tone stopped abruptly, the light in his eyes quickly dimmed, and then the hand holding Silence's calf fell to the ground feebly.
Silently looking at Qi Cheng who had expired, his expression became serious. After a long time, two words came out of his mouth: "Demon Cult!"
Silence, who has always been a loner, now realizes that he has been inadvertently involved in a conflict and catastrophe that affects the fate of the entire Central Plains. As for the Holy Demonic Cult that will cause this catastrophe, they have been dormant for many years and are preparing their troops. They will be even more terrifying than before, and this is something that Shen Shen has not yet had the opportunity to see.
The idea before Silence was relatively simple, that is, to hunt down Chong Yuan. In his mind, there should not be too many weird and terrifying masters like Chong Yuan in the Demon Sect. As long as Chong Yuan is killed by the sword, the Demon Sect will definitely be greatly affected. But now Qi Cheng's extremely frightened expression before his death made Shen Mo's heart inexplicably heavy. He realized that it was time to take another look at the mysterious sect of the Holy Tradition.
This heavy feeling does not mean that Shen Shen has fear in his heart. This is no longer a simple personal grudge, but a major event related to the ups and downs of the entire Central Plains world, and he has to treat it with caution. He knew very little about the Demon Cult. This had nothing to do with his experience in the world, but because his goal in wandering around the world was too single, so he had no interest in learning more about the past of this world. This is also closely related to the teachings he received since childhood. In Shen Mo's school, his master only told him one thing: in the world, the most important thing is not fame, wealth and prestige, but living. Only the living person is the final winner. As for other things, compared with life and death, they are just trivial matters.
So now Shen Siling's goal in life is very clear. He wants to fulfill the rest of his promise and find someone who betrayed his master. As for the rest, Shen Mo is not a person who likes to plan too many distant goals for himself. He only values the present. Whatever he is determined to do, no matter how difficult it is, he will move forward to complete it. This kind of character is just like his Seven Killing Sword, sharp and upright. Solving anything is like drawing a sword, just horizontally and vertically.
Although he has had experiences that others cannot imagine, his understanding of this world and life is not thorough enough, because there are other things in this world that cannot be solved simply horizontally and vertically.
Regarding this, what he didn't know was that the person he was looking for from all over the world had seen through the darkness and depth of this world earlier than he had.
And now, in addition to finding that person, Shen Sheng's goal in life now also has another thing, which is the entanglement with Chong Yuan.
Being an enemy of Chongyuan is tantamount to being an enemy of the Demonic Cult. Silence Shen is very clear about this. Although he didn't like challenges as much as the person he was looking for, he was not afraid of challenges, even if the person facing the challenge was the Holy Legend of the Demon Cult who had made countless people in the world fearful.
So the problem before Shen Mo now is to immediately rush to Fufeng Villa to spread the news that the Demon Cult has infiltrated outside the country, so that the entire world will know about this matter and draw great attention to it. Then for the rest of the follow-up, before fully understanding the situation of the Demon Sect, we can only proceed step by step and be cautious.
As the saying goes, when soldiers come, they will block it, and when water comes, the soil will cover it.
Shen Mo took some time to check the entire Yan family, and finally found dozens of corpses in a secluded utility room. Most of the corpses had no heads, and the remaining corpses were all headless. Older people. Shen Mo didn't know Yan Shouyang, so he didn't know which body was his. But he was certain that Yan Shouyang's body must be among them.
It seems that this is the place where Shi Huang used to hide the corpses of the Yan family. Perhaps the time was too short, so there was no time to bury them.
Shen Mo frowned and covered his nose and carefully searched around, and then found a lot of human heads in a large wooden barrel used to hold water. Silence's heart trembled, and her spirit was greatly impacted.
He carefully observed the broken necks of the headless corpses and found that the fractures were flat and the incisions were delicate. Shen Mo couldn't help but be secretly surprised. These people had obviously had their necks cut off with a very thin and sharp weapon, and the attacks were very fast and precise. This shows that that person must be a master who is very good at killing people.
Silence used a knife, but he was not sure whether the weapon that caused these people's deaths was actually a knife. Because Shen Mo has never seen such a thin knife.
In the end, silence confirmed that there was indeed no one alive in the Yan family. Silence was secretly frightened and angry. The Demon Cult's method was really too cruel. This impact made Mo Shen even more determined to kill Chong Yuan. Then Shen Mo returned to the Yan family hall, piled the bodies of the twenty demon sect white-clothed men and Qi Cheng in a remote corner, and found a few straw mats to briefly cover them.
Time is running out and there is no room for silence to linger here. These corpses can only be disposed of after they are found in Fufeng Villa. Fortunately, the weather is cold now, so there is no need to worry about the body rotting in a short time.
What Shen Mo was thinking was that the five outside powers had a close relationship with Sunset Racecourse. So now, the follow-up matters of Sunset Racecourse could only be informed to Tian Wangye, the owner of Fufeng Villa. As for how to deal with it, he couldn't control that much.
After hastily dealing with it, Shen Mo walked out of Yan's house.
Outside Yan's house is a large pasture. The heavy snow has stopped at this moment, and cattle, sheep and horses can be vaguely seen wandering in the pasture.
The owner of Sunset Racecourse is Yan Shouyang, and the person in control also belongs to the Yan family. But the ranch is too large, and it cannot be fully managed by just a few dozen members of the Yan family. Therefore, most of the pasture is handed over to local residents for breeding, and the Yan family only cares about the final harvest. However, Yan Shouyang was fair and upright in his work and was very popular in the local area. This was also the main reason why Sunset Racecourse became famous.
I just don’t know what the fate of this huge sunset racecourse will be after today. Silent didn't know, he could only sigh secretly.
The Sunset Racecourse was destroyed, which affected not only the Yan family, but also countless ordinary people who relied on the Sunset Racecourse to survive.
But those people still didn't know that the Yan family had been completely destroyed.
Shen Shen looked at the sky and guessed that it was almost Unit time and it was already late. In order to rush to Fufeng Villa as soon as possible, Shen Shen had to find a tall black horse in the Yan family horse pen and galloped towards the east.
The sound of hooves trampled, splashing snowflakes, Silent's figure rose and fell with the horse's back, and his thoughts gradually became deeper.
He suddenly remembered that Chong Yuan suddenly retreated but did not appear at Sunset Racecourse, and he couldn't help but feel a faint uneasiness in his heart.
Where did the leader of the demon sect, who possessed heretical and taboo cultivation, go after defeating Macan?
Chong Yuan is definitely not a timid person. There is only one explanation for why he did not appear at Sunset Racecourse, that is, he has other goals.
The Demon Cult has made a comeback, and their plans are huge, and their strength and methods are even more unpredictable.
The more Silent thought about it, the more uneasy he felt. He always felt that he would encounter some unknown things that he could not predict.
Some mysteries can only be answered by seeking verification in person.
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