Within a moment, Xu Juren came to Elder Zhao in the front hall.
Elder Zhao looked at him without trace and asked, "Where did you go just now? I sent people to look for you for a long time and there was no trace of you."
Xu Juren faced Elder Zhao's almost staring gaze and calmly said what he just said again.
"Drink too much?" Elder Zhao repeated with unclear meaning, obviously not believing his reasons.
Everyone in the Sword Sect knew that Xu Juren had some friendship with the traitor Gu Yuqi. After Gu Yuqi killed his master and betrayed the sect, he still interceded for him. Such a person who favors the traitor cannot guarantee whether he has any contact with the traitor in private.
, help him conceal his whereabouts, and even inform him.
Now Xu Juren's every move seems suspicious to him.
Xu Juren could more or less guess what Elder Zhao was thinking, but he just pretended to know nothing and said in a relaxed tone: "I made Elder Zhao laugh. Usually in the sect, Senior Sister Sanqing doesn't allow me to drink too much, but now I'm away from her."
The supervisor lost some sense of proportion and got greedy, causing the elders and juniors to go out of their way to look for me. It’s the disciple’s fault.”
When talking to a person like Xu Juren who was accustomed to showing off, Elder Zhao could not get any useful information out of him. Talking to him for a long time was a waste of time. Elder Zhao gave him a serious snort and warned him.
"I hope you will remember your identity and don't do anything like that to deceive your master and betray your ancestors and damage the reputation of our Sword Sect!"
The sudden warning made Xu Juren's heart skip a beat, and he secretly wondered if there was any loophole in him that made Elder Zhao warn him like this.
But at this time, his face showed that he was listening to the instructions.
The conversation fell into a tense situation. Fortunately, a disciple of the Sword Sect came over and eased the atmosphere.
Unexpectedly, his words made the two of them look shocked.
"Elder Zhao, Senior Brother Chen Ran is missing. A quarter of an hour ago he said that he had discovered the traces of Master Gu... Devil Gu, and then he chased him alone. He has not come back yet, and we can't contact him."
"Stupid!" When he found out that Gu Yuqi's whereabouts were not reported immediately and that he went to die alone, Elder Zhao was really angry with such a stupid disciple. He thought that Gu Yuqi was easy to get along with after becoming a demon.
In the sect, no one of the disciples at the same level could be Gu Yuqi's opponent. Could it be that if he became a demon and his cultivation greatly increased, he would be able to do it?
"Quickly gather the others and set out to arrest people immediately!"
"Yes!" The disciple who informed him hurriedly ran away, and Xu Juren, who had calmed down his expression, said doubtfully: "Elder Zhao, Gu Yuqi knew that we would come to attend the birthday banquet, why did he dare to show up here? Is there anything wrong with this?
Fraud."
"How can we know the devil's thoughts?" Elder Zhao suddenly stared at Xu Juren for a moment, "You have been away from the banquet for a long time, so you are not in contact with that person."
The sudden questioning made Xu Juren's expression change, and then he realized that Elder Zhao was deceiving him.
If Elder Zhao really knew that he had just met someone, he should have directly taken down the hiding place where he interrogated Gu Yuqi instead of questioning him here without any evidence.
Xu Juren adjusted his expression and said angrily and unyieldingly, "Elder Zhao, please don't lie. Gu Yuqi is a possessed man who rebelled against the master. He is no longer my junior brother. How could I associate with him!"
The other disciples had already been summoned, and Elder Zhao was too lazy to waste time talking nonsense with Xu Juren. He rolled up his sleeves and said no more words, and turned to bid farewell to the head of the Yi family.
Seeing that Elder Zhao was gone, Xu Juren breathed a sigh of relief. Just now, he almost got into trouble just because he wanted to say a word for Gu Yuqi.
But at the same time, I was also confused. With Gu Yuqi's acting style, since he dared to come to Yi Mansion, was his identity really exposed so easily?
After seeing the people from Jian Zong leaving in a hurry, Tong Yan said curiously: "What big thing happened? The people from Jian Zong are so anxious to go back that they have to travel all night."
Ji Xing said from the side: "It may not be back to the sect, maybe there are other things."
After hearing the conversation between the two, Shang Xun paused slightly while holding the cup, lowered his eyelids, and covered his eyes in deep thought.
It was originally a casual question, but when Tong Yan didn't get a reply, he didn't take it to heart, and then started talking about other topics.
After chatting for a while, Meng Guan suddenly came over. There were many people in the front hall and it was noisy, so Ji Xing led the two of them to a nearby place to talk alone.
The three of them were talking and talking, and somehow they came up with the matter of the disciples of the Sword Sect. Meng Guan suddenly solved the question that Tong Yan had not been able to answer just now.
Meng Gu'an looked at Tong Yan unconsciously and said, "They left in a hurry because they suddenly found traces of Gu Yuqi and were busy chasing him."
Tong Yan was shocked, "He is in Weicheng?!"
She thought that he had left the boundary of Yunzhen Temple long ago. You must know that Buddhist cultivators have absolute restraint on demonic cultivators. He came to Weicheng. He undoubtedly went to Hushan Mountain knowing that there were tigers in the mountains. He was just playing with his heartbeat.
Seeing that her reaction was a bit loud, Meng Gu'an thought about the things that one of them wanted to see and the other had to hide during the day, so he deliberately asked: "My little Taoist friend is worried about him?"
Tong Yan smoothed his ears and hair in a concealed manner and glanced at him with an incomprehensible expression, "He saved me in Penglai."
Meng Guan's movement of shaking the fan suddenly stopped, and his expression became a little stiff. He was so focused on the gossip that he temporarily forgot that he was also present at the Penglai Secret Land, and he also forcibly dragged Ji Xing away who was trying to save people.
Already...
What should I do if I suddenly feel that the stool under my butt is a little hot?
The silence beside the two of them was also tight, and the scene took on a somewhat eerie silence for a moment.
Two people who refused to save her were sitting here leisurely, discussing with her that the person who saved her was now being hunted?
No matter how you look at it, it’s embarrassing.
Despite the awkward atmosphere, Meng Gu'an tried to explain to Ji Xing, "That time was..."
Tong Yan interrupted him, "Don't talk about the past anymore..." He wanted to say something like she didn't mind, but found that he couldn't say it, so he stood up and said, "I'm going back to rest first."
And left.
The two people left behind looked at each other in silence, and the atmosphere fell into a deeper silence. Even the sound of fish swimming in the lake nearby could be heard.
"Ji Xing." Meng Gu'an looked at Ji Xing's expression and considered his words, "I forced you to stop that time. If you feel sorry for it, just have a fight with me and explain to her clearly."
What Meng Gu'an cared about was Ji Xing's thoughts and attitude. Although he felt a little guilty towards Tong Yan, it was so little that he couldn't think of this person at ordinary times.
"You don't have to take all your faults on yourself." Ji Xing held the prayer beads under the table, his fingertips turned white with force, and he said coldly.
"What I did that day..." He looked at the lake and felt that the water in front of him seemed to be overflowing, submerging him step by step, putting him in a desperate situation.
"No one compels you."
Ji Xing also left, leaving Meng Gu'an alone with a heavy sigh.
Tong Yan, who said he should go back to his room to rest, did not go back as he did. He turned on his toes halfway and hurried towards the gate of Yi Mansion, during which time he quickly sent a message.
It was almost the beginning of the night, and the guests who had come to celebrate his birthday were leaving one after another. Tong Yan followed him out of the door inconspicuously among the crowd.
Suddenly she felt a dull pain in her heart for no apparent reason. She reached out and pressed it, and the subtle pain disappeared again. Tong Yan guessed that it was because of the fragments of the divine sword that she didn't take this discomfort to heart.
There are not a few people from Jian Zong coming to Weicheng this time. What if Gu Yuqi really faces them? It is true that his cultivation level has reached Nascent Soul, but if there are other people ambushing outside, or Jian Zong's team and others are chasing him.
The monks joined forces.
He was afraid that he would be attacked from both sides.
Thinking about it from another direction, if Gu Yuqi is fine, the casualties must be from the Sword Sect. He has repeatedly killed his former fellow disciples. Isn't it true that he became a demon and rebelled against the sect and harmed his fellow disciples? Isn't it true that he can never be washed away?