Refuse to trample on the pride of heaven

Chapter 243 Talk

"call--"

After leaving the execution platform, Duan Jiashu felt relaxed, even his body felt comfortable. However, the scene he had just seen kept popping up in his mind, and his heart sank.

He knew from the time he came here as an undercover agent that if he was discovered, his fate would be even worse. Looking at the demon cultivator kneeling on the stage, he subconsciously imagined himself kneeling on it. The faces below the stage were those of the disciples of the Discipline Hall...

The raised whip will also hit him, and he will be beaten to pieces and lie in a pool of blood. Will he be the next one? Will his former fellow disciples look at him with disgust? Will they think he is a heinous criminal?

To him, all of this was ultimately just a dream.

Duan Jiashu couldn't even think of any words to explain.

Once the charges are established, any explanation seems unnecessary.

On a cold and dry winter day, the sun looked pale and dazzling. The branches of the trees were silent. Occasionally a bird flew by, making quite a noise, causing the snow crystals on the branches to fall down, as if trembling on his heart.

Duan Jiashu took a quick look and then walked forward with his head down. When he saw the person coming from the corner of his eye, his body stiffened slightly.

The other person was wearing light-colored clothes and had a tall and slender figure. I don't know if it was because the background was mostly white, but his facial features seemed a little illusory. They became clearer when I got closer. He had delicate eyebrows and eyes, and looked somewhat harmless. When I saw him smiling, there was no emotion in his eyes.

"Brother Shi..."

Duan Jiashu hurriedly bowed his head and greeted him, but the other party did not dodge or evade, but walked straight towards him, forcing Duan Jiashu to move aside.

Shi Yubai nodded, and as he walked past him, his lazy voice also entered Duan Jiashu's ears.

"If you betray Xuanyin Sect, you will only lose your cultivation, but at least you can keep your life. But if you are spineless and want to reveal my affairs, it will not be so simple. Since you are here to be a spy, many things are beyond your control."

Duan Jiashu's eyelashes trembled, but he didn't say a word. He waited until Shi Yubai walked away, then he looked up in the direction the other person left. It was still white everywhere, with only a few traces left on the ground.

He stood there for a while before walking back.

It was the beginning of spring at the end of winter, and the colors were so pale that he couldn't see clearly...

"elder brother!"

Duan Jiashu returned to his disciple's residence and was surprised to see Wu Feipeng tidying up things in the room.

Wu Feipeng, who had originally shared a "school district house" with Lu Wensheng, moved back because he was worried about Duan Jiashu. Duan Jiashu became very nervous when he saw him here, and after a while, he asked him why he moved back.

"Oh, it's not very convenient - you know, isn't Senior Brother Liu and Senior Brother Lu together? I'm a nuisance there. Sometimes I feel like Senior Brother Liu's eyes can see through me."

Wu Feipeng spoke in a relaxed and natural tone, and even winked at Duan Jiashu, as if it was just because of this.

"Brother, you won't dislike me, right?"

Duan Jiashu breathed a sigh of relief: "No."

"But didn't brother leave early? Why did you come back just now?"

"I spoke to someone on the way."

"Who is it?" Wu Feipeng asked casually. In the past, he might have stopped asking after hearing the previous sentence, but Duan Jiashu's situation was special, so he couldn't help but confirm something.

Duan Jiashu paused and said, "He is a fellow disciple of the Discipline Hall."

Why is it so vague? It's just a meeting with Senior Brother Shi... Wu Feipeng's eyes flashed with thought - Duan Jiashu's ambiguity made him think more.

At night, there were two beds in the room, separated by a beaded curtain. Looking at each other from afar, one could only see each other's vague outlines. Frost had formed outside, and one could see the distant Milky Way and hear the night wind blowing through the treetops, with the sound of bamboo dewdrops.

Wu Feipeng turned his head and looked in the direction of Duan Jiashu, listening to his breathing. He knew that he was not practicing or resting, but he still stared at the blurry shadow for a while.

"elder brother."

"Ok?"

There were sporadic sounds coming from the other side, and it seemed that he turned over.

"Speaking of which, there are two direct disciples in the Discipline Hall, right? Senior Brother Shi Yubai is one of them, but I don't have much impression of him. I heard that he entered the sect not too long after Senior Brother Lu, and was brought back by Senior Brother Liu..."

Duan Jiashu was shocked, wondering why Wu Feipeng suddenly mentioned Shi Yubai.

"Why do you say that?"

"It was when Senior Brother Lu and Senior Brother Ji were both here a while ago and Senior Brother Lu was slandered. Senior Brother Shi seemed to be speaking for Senior Brother Lu, but I always felt that he was pushing for something..."

"...It's not such a coincidence, right?" Duan Jiashu felt like his heart was about to jump out of his throat, and his voice was a little hoarse.

"Hahaha, maybe - but Brother Duan, why do you think Senior Brother Lu's attitude towards him is so strange? He is very close to us, but he is different to Senior Brother Shi. It's as if he is supervising him. Apart from urging him to do his homework, they don't even interact with each other much. Logically, Senior Brother Lu should be closer to Senior Brother Shi than us.

Moreover, Senior Brother Liu would not mention him. It was Senior Brother Liu who brought him back, but Senior Brother Shi was indifferent when he approached him before—"

"Why do you think so? Perhaps Senior Brother Shi is the direct disciple, so Senior Brother Lu is more strict? Aren't all Senior Brother Liu like this except Senior Brother Lu? You are overthinking it. If there really was a problem, Senior Brother Lu would have taken action long ago."

"Maybe I'm overthinking it. Ever since I heard about the phantom demon killing people in Piaomiao Valley, I always felt that there was something wrong with the people around me..."

Duan Jiashu felt that all the sounds around him were amplified, the clear heartbeat, the clear breathing, and the clear - meaningful sound.

"Was it really a coincidence that I met Senior Brother Shi who had been missing for a long time in Puppet City? Did Senior Brother Jiang, who testified, tell the truth? What exactly happened to Jiang Jinfeng in the sealed place? Why are the sect leader and elders so secretive and insist that Jiang Jinfeng has fallen?

If it wasn't a coincidence, Senior Brother Jiang lied when testifying as a senior brother... Could it be that Senior Brother Jiang's accident in the seal was also related to this? What made Senior Brother Jiang lie? What do you think, Brother Duan?"

Wu Feipeng felt that his thoughts became much more careful when he thought about things at night.

"This is not something we should worry about..." Duan Jiashu wanted to cover Wu Feipeng's mouth. The other party relied on suspicion and guessing, but his accuracy was terrifyingly high.

Finally, Wu Feipeng curled the corners of his mouth and didn't ask any more questions - he felt that many things seemed to be connected, and there must be something hidden in them.

So what roles do Shi Yubai and Jiang Jinfeng play in this? And what role does Duan Jiashu play in this?

Did Senior Brother Lu know something, but couldn't do anything for some reason? By analogy, did Senior Brother Liu also know something?

As time went by, there seemed to be something wrong.