Shushan Undercover

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The spy wailed.

"He should have returned to Shushan. Find him!" Liu Qiushui said coldly.

The spy nodded repeatedly, "Hall Master, I understand. I will find Murong Mo. Do I need to eliminate him?"

"No, just lure him out of Shushan."

"Yes!"

After hanging up the communication, the spy got up from the ground again.

"Murong Mo..."

"Didn't he die long ago? The Murong family even held a funeral for him. I even attended the banquet and gave 5,000 spirit stones. How could this be fake?

This is purely a scam for a free meal, my 5,000 spirit stones!!"

The spy felt a little heartache for his spirit stones.

The spy was Song Qize, a disciple of Little Qiong Peak.

Song Qize's experience of becoming a spy for the Asura Hall was quite convoluted.

Many years ago, when he went down the mountain to travel, he met Liu Qiushui, who was also traveling.

At that time, Liu Qiushui was recovering from an injury and had disguised herself as a rogue cultivator living in a small town.

Song Qize was instantly captivated by Liu Qiushui's beauty, naively believing that love had found him.

Upon learning Liu Qiushui's identity, Song Qize couldn't help but roar to the heavens.

"Why! Why! Heaven plays tricks on people. Are we destined not to be together?"

Liu Qiushui originally didn't want to bother with Song Qize, as she didn't want to offend Shushan.

However, she quickly realized that the other party could be used for her own purposes.

Then, Song Qize was deceived by Liu Qiushui into the Asura Hall. Through threats and inducements, he thus became a spy for the Asura Hall.

Song Qize clutched his aching chest, muttering:

"Qiu Shui... she seems to have become even more beautiful.

She told me to find Murong Mo? Could it be that she actually wants to see me? Does she miss me?"

Song Qize left Little Qiong Peak and greeted Ling Xuanxiao, a disciple of Silver Sword Peak who happened to be passing by, before heading in the direction of the Murong family.

Ling Xuanxiao turned his head and looked at Song Qize strangely.

Did he just hear the name Murong Mo??

Suddenly, alarm bells rang in Ling Xuanxiao's mind.

"..."

Ling Xuanxiao's tribulation descent this time took nearly half a year.

Upon returning, he exchanged his Shushan token.

Explaining the reason, he had failed his tribulation and returned to Shushan after recuperating from his injuries outside.

As soon as he returned to Silver Sword Peak, he saw his Junior Sister Zhao Lu.

She was strolling around leisurely.

With a dog in her left hand and another in her right.

"Senior Brother, you're finally back."

Zhao Lu leaped for joy.

She opened her arms to hug Ling Xuanxiao.

Ling Xuanxiao deftly dodged and gently tapped her forehead with his finger.

"Have you been cultivating properly?"

"Yes, yes."

Zhao Lu nodded vigorously, her large, bright eyes looking at her Senior Brother.

"Senior Brother, did your tribulation succeed?"

"No."

Ling Xuanxiao wasn't worried about his cultivation being exposed at all.

He wore a Spirit Concealing Cloak and a Spirit Concealing Undergarment.

The Spirit Concealing Cloak was left to him by the old man.

He also practiced the Spirit Concealing Art, which allowed him to control the spiritual energy around his body to achieve the effect of concealing his cultivation.

Of course, for existences like Di Nüfeng and Liu Qiushui, any concealment was meaningless.

Zhao Lu nodded and mumbled softly, "It didn't succeed. Given Senior Brother's personality, that means it did succeed. Senior Brother claims to be at the peak of Qi Refining externally, but he's actually at Foundation Establishment. With this breakthrough, he should be at Golden Core now."

Ling Xuanxiao: "...

Junior Sister, you are courting death!!"

"Any recent news from the sect?"

Ling Xuanxiao asked.

Zhao Lu skillfully took out her little notebook and recounted all the recent sect gossip to Li Xuanxiao.

Li Xuanxiao was a bit absent-minded, his thoughts occupied by the Shushan disciple he had encountered upon returning to the sect.

Song Qize.

The Shushan sect had over ten thousand disciples, and with the addition of the Servant Peak disciples, the total number was even greater.

Therefore, it was unlikely that any disciple would know everyone on Shushan.

Except, of course, for Li Xuanxiao, who even knew the old man who swept the floors on Servant Peak.

In his contingency plans.

He even fantasized that the old man sweeping the floors on Servant Peak was actually a hidden master.

Because the cafeteria aunt was looked down upon by Shushan disciples and bullied to death.

Then the old man would unleash his power and wipe out the entire Shushan sect...

Because of this, Li Xuanxiao would often go to Servant Peak to get close to the cafeteria aunt.

He had even stopped a conflict once.

The reason was that a disciple, while eating fish, was slapped three times by the spirit fish that wasn't quite dead yet.

The disciple was so angry that he went to argue with the aunt.

Seeing the two getting more and more agitated, Li Xuanxiao happened to pass by. He quickly acted as a peacemaker, even compensating the disciple with some spirit stones.

It was just that, for some reason, the aunt's gaze towards him was a bit strange.

When the sweeping old man learned about this, his gaze towards Li Xuanxiao became even stranger, with a hint of seeing an enemy.

Li Xuanxiao checked his junior sister's homework and then greeted several senior brothers and sisters.

Upon learning that Li Xuanxiao had failed his breakthrough, they all offered words of comfort.

"Little junior brother, you are still young, you will have plenty of opportunities in the future..." and so on.

Afterward, Li Xuanxiao began investigating the relationship between Song Qize and Murong Mo.

The two had gone on missions together, and not just once.

When the Murong family held the funeral for Murong Mo, Song Qize had even attended and given a gift of five thousand spirit stones.

Could they have been sworn friends?

Was he trying to uncover the truth behind Murong Mo's death?

Although Li Xuanxiao was certain that his act of killing Murong Mo was flawless.

But unfortunately, there was Su Wan, a bug-level existence.

She had managed to deduce that he had killed Murong Mo out of his love for her...

Her wild imagination shocked Li Xuanxiao immensely.

Indeed, an effort-driven individual like Li Xuanxiao was far from being a match for an abstract existence like Su Wan.

With just a little effort from her, she had already reached a limit beyond Li Xuanxiao's imagination.

Li Xuanxiao inquired about Song Qize's itinerary and found out he had gone to the Murong family!

Could it be that Song Qize had learned something heaven-defying from Su Wan, and then actually believed it?

And told the Murong family about it?

Li Xuanxiao paced back and forth in his room, hands behind his back.

"..."

A few days later, Song Qize returned to Shushan.

He had already visited the Murong family.

Murong Mo's body had not been found when he died, so his family had only erected a cenotaph for him.

Song Qize then went to find the others who had been on the mission with Murong Mo.

However, Senior Sister Su Wan was in seclusion.

Junior Sister Jiang Luoshui didn't care at all about Murong Mo's life or death. When Song Qize mentioned Murong Mo, she was stunned for a moment, as if trying to recall who Murong Mo was.

Then she pulled Song Qize aside and chattered about Su Wan for quite a while.

Song Qize was speechless.

However, he did receive an important piece of information.

Li Xuanxiao had also gone missing at the same time as Murong Mo.

So, he went to Silver Sword Peak to find Li Xuanxiao.

It was just that, for some reason, Li Xuanxiao's gaze towards him felt a bit off.

It's probably just my imagination.

Song Qize thought to himself.

Song Qize: