"The moment I finished the transmission, I noticed that the Qi in Master's body had already dissipated, and even his life force was almost gone. I suddenly realized that Master's condition was far from being as good as it seemed.
After the Celestial Master Degree was completed, Master seemed to be much more relaxed. I understood that it was the relaxation after he handed over the burden on his shoulders. It was also at this time that Master told me about what happened when he went down the mountain to save Old Tian.
It turned out that the reason why we were able to obtain Old Terry's whereabouts was entirely because the other party had intentionally leaked it. Their goal was to attract me, who was close to Old Terry, to appear. They wanted to force out the whereabouts of Huaiyi. To be precise, their goal was also the Eight Mysterious Skills of Jia and Shen!
At that time, my strength was not considered strong, and I was about the same as Old Terry. If they could deal with Old Terry, they could naturally easily deal with me. However, they did not expect that the person who received the news was Master, and the person who went to rescue Old Terry was also him.
Master's strength was naturally not something that we could compare to at that time. Those people were naturally not his match. Seeing that Master was about to save Old Terry, those people hiding in the dark finally could not sit still and came out to block Master's path.”
Hearing this, Zhang Xuanqing immediately understood. These so-called people in the dark should be the people he met in Dongxiang Village. As expected, Zhang Zhiwei's words later verified his guess.
"You should have already guessed that these guys hiding in the dark should be the same group of people as the ones you met in Dongxiang Village, because your description of them is no different from Master's. According to Master, these people probably practiced a kind of evil technique, so they could control that strange Qi.
There were a total of three people who were hiding behind the scenes and manipulating everything. Two of them were slightly weaker. They seemed to be the subordinates of the leader. In the process of fighting with them, his master was surprised to find that although the cultivation of those two people was not as good as his, they could rely on their powerful combat strength to fight him to a draw!
As a cultivator, you should be clear that the difference in cultivation realm is definitely not something that can be made up for by the difference in numbers. However, those two people did it. Under the circumstances where their leader did not make a move, they successfully delayed their master!”
Zhang Xuanqing didn't know whether it was because Zhang Zhiwei's narrative was too brilliant or because what had happened in the past was too shocking. Zhang Xuanqing realized that he was indeed immersed in this secret past. Although he already knew the outcome, he still couldn't help but feel a little worried for this master he had never met.
"Then, how did Master successfully bring Senior Brother Tian back?”
" At that time, Master used a secret method that only the masters of the Master's Mansion could use. He burned his life force to kill the two masters who were holding him back. Even their leader was seriously injured because he didn't know the power of this secret method. However, the price was Master..."
Zhang Zhiwei didn't finish his sentence, but Zhang Xuanqing could already guess what happened next. Although he didn't know the exact details of this secret technique, the more powerful it was, the greater the price he would have to pay. According to the time he knew, this former Heavenly Master probably wouldn't live long after returning to Mount Longhu.
"After Master finished describing the situation when he left the mountain, he fell asleep because he was injured and too tired. When I sent Master back to his room, I took the opportunity to check his pulse. I found that although Master's tendons and meridians were all broken, there was still a stream of qi flowing in his body.
This discovery made me ecstatic. I thought that Master had a chance to recover, but when I carefully examined it, I found that the Qi was the same as the Qi that Master had mentioned. It was filled with ruthlessness, hatred, and killing intent. It swam in Master's body and constantly devoured what little life force Master had.
I tried to use my Qi to expel that Qi from Master's body, but I didn't expect that even I, who inherited the Celestial Master's Law, couldn't do anything to that Qi. That Qi seemed to have its own thoughts. Once it felt a fatal threat, it would rush to Master's heart without caring about anything else. After passing on the Celestial Master's Law, Master was no different from an ordinary person. How could he resist this kind of impact?!
In the end, Master left. Three days after returning to Mount Longhu, Master passed away in his room. Before he passed away, Master strictly ordered me not to seek revenge unless those people came to find him.
I know that Master was trying to protect us. In his opinion, the strength of Mount Longhu at that time was not enough to deal with those people. This is the only one of Master's three last words that you don't know about.”
"But if I'm not wrong, this time, you didn't listen to Master's last words, right?”
Zhang Zhiwei glanced at Zhang Xuanqing in surprise. He didn't understand how Zhang Xuanqing had guessed this. However, although he was curious, Zhang Zhiwei didn't ask. Instead, he nodded and acknowledged Zhang Xuanqing's judgment.
"You're right. This is the first time I've disobeyed my master's orders, and it's also the only time. After sending Master off, I began to use the forces of Mount Longhu to investigate those people from that day. The forces of Mount Longhu at the foot of the mountain may not be as powerful as Old Shi, but they are not far from him. However, no matter how we investigated, those people seemed to have completely disappeared. We couldn't even find any traces of their existence!
After all the investigations were fruitless, I asked Liang Youyi, the third brother who was in charge of the intelligence at the foot of the mountain, to join forces with the previous generation's Jianghu inn to investigate. In the end, we found out the identities of the people who kidnapped Old Terry on the surface-Quan Xing!
"With this clue, we finally caught that group of all-rounded people. In the end, we interrogated them and obtained some information about the person behind this. However, there wasn't much useful information.
People of the whole world only knew that they came from an organization in the inner martial arts world called the 'Dark Pavilion'. The organization had eight leaders, each representing one of the eight trigrams, and the mastermind behind that incident was the Li Palace Lord, Ying Wulei!
Although they were in a 'cooperative' relationship with Quan Xing in name, in the end, Quan Xing's people were just dogs for them. With their strength, Quan Xing, who had lost his leader, was no match for them.”
The appearance of these two unfamiliar terms made Zhang Xuanqing fall into deep thought. Let alone the original work, even he, who had lived in this world for so long, had never heard of them before today.
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