adbindia Chapter 553 - 178: Fools Enamored by Life’s Betrayals, Divine Wood Conceals Dragons and Tigers
Chapter 553 - 178: Fools Enamored by Life’s Betrayals, Divine Wood Conceals Dragons and Tigers
If we talk further, they say that "the Hall Master is in seclusion," "the challenge letter was suppressed by the Outer Disciple," "how could a mere mountain man challenge the Hall Master," and so on.
White Spirit Water also didn’t change anything.
Qing Hancheng was merely a person from the Lotus Sect.
But the big guy was her person.
What’s wrong with having the big guy and Qing Hancheng have a fight?
Qing Hancheng is so strong, could he really be killed by the big guy?
Having this layer of relationship, she could stop it at a crucial moment, after all... Qing Hancheng is one of her own.
Considering the connections, it’s unlikely they’d kill the big guy.
...
On the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, the moon shone over Feiyan Platform.
Li Yuan sat cross-legged, waiting the entire night on this platform.
Beside him were many powerful individuals watching the battle, also waiting all night.
But when dawn broke the next day, Qing Hancheng still hadn’t appeared.
Upon inquiry...
It was learned that he was in seclusion.
Further inquiries...
Revealed that the challenge letter had been delayed by subordinates.
White Spirit Water didn’t expect Qing Hancheng to not accept the challenge.
Li Yuan suddenly felt something was amiss.
He must go and see, as he had many relatives in the city.
So, when White Spirit Water rushed in, anxiously explaining that "she really didn’t expect Qing Hancheng to not accept the challenge, she really tried her best to arrange it,"
Li Yuan, knowing she spoke the truth, still rose in rage, flipping the table with a crash, slapping the window, shouting "You lied to me, you lied to me," and then, like a meteor, shot outward, disappearing in a blink.
White Spirit Water rushed to the window, her beautiful eyes reddened, anxiously shouting, "Brother Dian! Brother Dian!!"
However, her words couldn’t bring Li Yuan back.
This Saintess of the White Lotus Sect stood there in a daze, her fists lightly clenched, then slowly relaxed, and swiftly left.
She knew the rage in the big guy’s heart.
However, the big guy’s whereabouts should still be traceable.
She quickly mobilized people to investigate.
Afterwards, she would go to the big guy’s side to apologize and coax him.
...
Days passed.
White Spirit Water was dumbfounded.
She recalled each piece of intel, but the big guy remained missing.
Subordinates speculated that the big guy might have accidentally entered some Ghost Realm or mistakenly wandered into some deep mountain.
How could one find such places?
White Spirit Water felt a strong sense of defeat, at once losing her motivation to do the Saintess’s work properly.
...
Meanwhile, Li Yuan, having left that place, hid in a remote mountain, repeatedly changing locations.
After ensuring no one was tracking him, he took out the "White Wooden Box," deliberated briefly, and placed White Spirit Water’s hair inside.
The box, upon receiving the hair, seemed to react oddly.
The box became extremely sturdy and difficult to open, its color mixed with the appearance of a coffin’s surface lined with bones.
Li Yuan sighed, thought for a moment, and began to ask, "What do you know about Qing Hancheng? Tell me everything you know."
However, the box gave no response.
Li Yuan paused, changed his question, "Why did Qing Hancheng not accept the challenge?"
The box responded with White Spirit Water’s voice, "I don’t know."
Li Yuan realized he needed to ask a specific question rather than a broad one.
At this moment, listening to the voice from the box gave him a chill... fortunately, it was from his own family’s production.
He continued to ask, "What is your identity in the Lotus Sect?"
"White Lotus Sect, Saintess."
"What is a Saintess?"
"Elder, a White Lotus Sect Elder is called Saintess or Princess."
Li Yuan worried about the limited number of questions he could ask, thought for a moment, and boldly asked, "Apart from being the Divine Wood Hall Master, what other identity does Qing Hancheng have?"
"Inside Support, he is the Inside Support for the Lotus Sect."
Li Yuan was startled, his pupils contracted, eyes full of surprise, this answer was too unexpected.
Quickly, he calmed down and asked, "Why did Qing Hancheng, as the Divine Wood Hall Master, agree to be the Inside Support for the Lotus Sect?"
"I don’t know."
Li Yuan asked one question after another.
But perhaps because he had obtained a lot of hair, the box answered his questions for a long time, until he could think of nothing more to ask, and started asking about White Spirit Water’s identity, her past, and so on.
As he asked, he discovered a point...
This White Lotus Sect Saintess hadn’t lied to him before.
She indeed had been sold by her family when she was young...
As for the brother showing up with ashes and such, it was true.
But that brother was not the mentioned White Qi, but someone else, and had died long ago.
And at that moment, the White Wooden Box seemed to reach its end, suddenly shattering, turning the hair inside into ash, disappearing into the air with the wind.
Li Yuan stood up, murmuring, "The Divine Wood Hall can’t stay anymore, I need to bring Ping’an back. As for subsequent cultivation, I’ll figure it out."
After speaking, the blood and flesh around his body began to move.
Slowly, he transformed into an ordinary "passerby."
Afterwards, he contacted the Cyan Robe Tower Master, Wang Hiran.
Cyan Robe Building often handled affairs outside, and had a fixed time to go out each day.
The process for Li Yuan to get in touch was not complicated.
Immediately, Wang Hiran arranged an identity for Li Yuan, bringing his master into the First Gate of the Divine Wood Hall under the guise of a "Tower Member."
Since the time Li Yuan wrote to Yaojue, she would visit the First Gate intermittently, claiming to drink tea, but actually hoping for news from Li Yuan.