What was the Shu Road?
The Shu Road was harder to travel than climbing to the blue heavens.
From what Lian Youming had seen along the way, apart from the plank roads built with timber on stone cut into the riverbanks, and the waterways below the mountains, there was scarcely any trace of people among these rolling, towering peaks, especially in this bitterly cold season.
If there was activity, it most likely did not come from ordinary people.
Besides, since the Emei Sect already knew the cave's location, they would certainly hurry over without stopping. There were probably quite a few experts from the sect among them.
He concealed his breathing, leaping and darting along, his footfalls as light as a fox's, silently closing in from the other side.
After traveling through the dense mountain forest for a while, he spotted a freshly buried campfire beneath a gnarled old tree.
After examining the footprints on the ground, Lian Youming hurried onward again.
He had not pursued them far before he saw three figures making their way briskly through the bleak, desolate mountain woods.
Leading them was a middle-aged man in his forties, with short hair and thick eyebrows. He wore a blue-black Daoist robe, yet a string of prayer beads hung around his neck, making him look neither one thing nor the other-not quite monk, not quite Daoist. A young man and woman followed behind him, both carrying concealed weapons at their waists. Needless to say, these three were certainly with the two from last night, all members of the Emei Sect.
But this only brought a cold gleam to Lian Youming's eyes.
Those two women had gone to kill and silence witnesses. These three were probably no better.
Had they killed someone?
He followed at an unhurried pace.
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