Chapter 456: Senior brother, unexpected
To the ears of the people gathered around the elixir stall, the noisy conversations on the street seemed to disappear after Ye Anping said something like a joke.
The air was almost stagnant.
Elder Cao couldn’t help but grasp the fly whisk in her left arm, her eyes were like sharp swords, and she looked at the two people in front of her, but she noticed that there were many pedestrians around, soo she felt uncomfortable.
Among the two people, the older one seemed to be relatively calm, but the younger cultivator next to him turned pale and shook his feet uncontrollably.
Calm down!
The demonic cultivator uncle immediately turned to look at his follower, intimidating with his eyes, and then started fighting with Ye Anping: Haha:
“Senior, please don’t talk nonsense. This junior and my junior nephew came from the Snow Gate Immortal City in the Northern Domain. They traveled to the Southern Domain to sell some elixirs in exchange for spiritual stones. How could they be demonic cultivators…”
Being able to sneak into the Southern Domain silently, and being able to lie so calmly in front of a Nascent Soul elder of the Taibai Sect, this person was not a shabby demonic cultivator.
Ye Anping thought for a while, then looked at the slightly flustered young demon cultivator beside him, raised his hand, and a golden aura flew out of his storage bag.
He took out a copper coin that was circulated among mortals and did not have any special spiritual energy. He held it in the palm of his hand, stretched out his hand towards the young demonic cultivator, and said with narrowed eyes:
“This is the ‘Peeping Spirit Yuanbao’. It is a magic weapon given to me by Elder Lei of the Xuanxing Sect. Demonic cultivators below the level of gods will escape in front of this object no matter how they use any magic weapon or magical power to hide themselves. Come out of your true shape.”
“Peeping Spirit Yuanbao…”
The demon cultivator uncle heard that it was given to him by a cultivator in the transformation stage, and his heart suddenly thumped. But when he turned around to look, he found that the copper coin in Ye Anping’s hand did not have any spiritual power…
Now, the Taibai Sect’s Nascent Soul stage elder was already using her spiritual consciousness to spy on them.
The method they used to hide their auras was also the Hidden Qi Insect of their own elders. As long as they didn’t use their spiritual energy, it won’t be a big problem to hide it. However, one of them only had core formation and the other only had foundation building. They were being probed by the spiritual consciousness of the Nascent Soul stage cultivators, which puts great pressure on them.
The demonic cultivator uncle’s brows trembled slightly, he stared at the copper coin for a few seconds, and immediately realized that this was a “fraud”.
However, just when he was about to remind his nephew, Ye Anping suddenly said:
“Come on! You can tell whether it’s an immortal or a devil by just touching it.”
The young demon cultivator trembled, and immediately threw a demonic insect toward Elder Cao’s face, then turned around and prepared to run away.
“Uhhhhhhh-!”
“Damn! This idiot!!”
Upon seeing this, the old Daoist demonic cultivator quickly cast a spell, preparing to take the pedestrians on the street as hostages. After all, they were facing the Nascent Soul Elder of the Taibai Sect.
Pei Lianxue narrowed her eyes slightly and was about to draw her sword to stop him, but before that, Elder Cao waved the whisk in her hand and tied the two people into two white fur balls before they could use the insect technique.
Seeing that the two of them could not hurt pedestrians on the road, Elder Cao breathed a sigh of relief and asked:
“How did Young Master Ye figure it out?”
Ye Anping smiled lightly:
“I didn’t expect it to be true. It seems like I was right?”
Guess? This kid…
Elder Cao raised her eyebrows slightly and did not intend to continue asking. After all, what happened in Qinshui River was already “Confusing” enough.
She could see Ye Anping’s secretiveness, but it wasn’t a bad thing since they were both immortal cultivators.
Elder Cao was quite lucky now that she came with Zu Lingzhi. Zu Lingzhi was also considered a genius in the Taibai Sect. Both her qualifications and her cultivation speed were far ahead of the cultivators of the same period, but she had no opportunity to practice before.
She glanced at Zu Lingzhi beside her and found that Zu Lingzhi also seemed to have noticed that Ye Anping was pretending to be a pig, and her face was not very good-looking.
Along the way before, Zu Lingzhi didn’t think highly of Ye Anping, thinking that he was just a freeloader…
“How did you figure it out? Elder Cao didn’t even figure out that these two people were demonic cultivators.”
“…”
“Hey, isn’t this lady asking you a question?!”
“Huh? Daoist Sister Zu is calling me? My surname is Ye, my name is Anping, and I am the young master of the Hundred Lotus Sect.”
Zu Lingzhi’s face was a little ugly, but she understood what he meant. She took a deep breath, raised his hands, and asked:
“Master Ye, can you tell me how you found out their identities?”
“Heaven told me.”
“Ha?”
Elder Cao looked at them, shook her head slightly, raised her whisk, and interrupted:
“Okay, let’s find a hotel to stay in first. I will take these two people with me later…”
The words came to an abrupt end. Elder Cao frowned slightly, and immediately waved the whisk to spread out the whisks surrounding the two demon cultivators.
The smell of blood hit her face instantly, and she saw that the two of them had turned into a ball of rotten flesh, with countless maggots climbing and twisting inside…
Zu Lingzhi unconsciously covered her mouth and turned away her eyes. Even Ye Anping and Pei Lianxue could not help but frown, but Elder Cao quickly took out a bottle of perfume and poured it up to eliminate the disgusting feeling. The smell of blood was overshadowed by the scent of flowers.
“Young Master Ye, let’s go to the City Lord’s Mansion. There are three Nascent Soul cultivators in the City Lord’s Mansion of Nanke Immortal City…”
“I am a guest, so I will naturally follow the arrangements of my seniors.”
Elder Cao glanced around seriously, then raised his hand to signal.
Ye Anping nodded in agreement, and then followed Elder Cao toward the twelve-story attic in the center of the city.
A group of four people walked along the center of the street, paying attention to the pedestrians on both sides. After walking through three streets, they also arrived in front of the city lord’s palace in Nanke Immortal City.
Because Elder Cao was there, after the guards at the gate of the city lord’s mansion came in to report, the city lord of Nanke Immortal City “Zhou Nanke” immediately came to greet him with two other Nascent Soul cultivators in the city.
After hearing what Elder Cao told about the sword-wielding incident on the street, he immediately led everyone to the attic of the city lord’s mansion, came to an exquisite immortal city sand table, and told everyone about the demonic cultivators in the city.
“Actually, the city guard has discovered many traces of demonic insects in the city before, but Nanke is the hinterland of the Immortal family. I am afraid of causing panic among the casual cultivators, so I dare not make it too public. The demonic cultivators are quite cunning, and they use the canals and rivers in the city to get around. The spreading demonic insect hides its aura, and I, Daoist Xu, and Senior Qin have been searching for it for at least ten days, but still no trace of it has been found.”
Elder Cao couldn’t help but show a little embarrassment when she heard this and said:
“The Cunning Rabbit’s Three Cave is easier to handle if you are a demonic cultivator or a sword cultivator. Insect cultivators are good at hiding aura, and they also have many ways to transform voodoo. If they really want to hide it, then we won’t be able to find them unless you dig the ground three feet.”
“Yes, it would be easy to climb three feet in the mountains and forests, but this is within the immortal city. There are hundreds of thousands of casual cultivators and tourists in the city, so it’s not easy for us to make any big moves.”
“Come again, how could the Nascent Soul Demonic Cultivator penetrate so deeply into the Southern Domain? What are the guards at Jianmen Pass doing?”
“There is more than one way from the Eastern Domain to the Southern Domain. Let’s discuss the matter first. First find a way to force the insect cultivators out of the city and then discuss where they come from…”
…
On the other side, Elder Cao was discussing with three Nascent Soul cultivators in the city, while on the other side of the room, Ye Anping and Pei Lianxue were sitting in the corner of the room, drinking tea and eating cakes.
Zu Lingzhi also introduced the origin of each pastry to Pei Lianxue:
“Sister Pei, this is sweet-scented osmanthus cake. The red color in the middle is the fairy jujube. Try it…”
“Oh…”
Ye Anping didn’t pay attention to the two of them, drinking tea with a calm expression, but in fact he was listening carefully to the conversation of Elder Cao and others over there, thinking about whether there was a more clever way to lure out the insect cultivator.
He was now thinking that the feasible way was to use himself as a bait to lure the demon cultivator into action, and then Elder Cao and the other three Nascent Soul cultivators would work together to besiege him.
However, he did not know the specific identity of that insect cultivator. It was indeed quite dangerous to rashly expose himself as a bait to a Nascent Soul insect cultivator.
Elder Cao had also sent a message to Taibai Sect before. It would be better to wait for the Taibai Sect’s great elder to arrive in a few days before dealing with it.
It just so happened that Ye Anping had to wait for the “East Wind”, so more days and less days in Taibai Sect would have no effect on him.
Ye Anping raised his teacup and turned to look in the direction of the window. After entering the City Lord’s Mansion, he asked Xiao Tian to contact Feng Yudie and asked them to come to the City Lord’s Mansion to meet him as soon as possible.
However, when he asked Xiao Tian to find the two of them, the sun had just connected with the distant horizon. Now the sun had completely sunk below the horizon, and Xiao Tian had not returned yet.
“Um…”
After thinking for a while, Ye Anping was worried that the two people would get into some trouble, so he simply took out the bandaged Snow Spirit Sword from the storage bag:
“Junior sister.”
“Um.”
“Take the sword and go to the street to find the hornet’s nest you just found.”
?
Pei Lianxue was stunned for a moment, and immediately twisted her eyebrows, as if she had just realized what the hornet’s nest was at this time, and asked:
“Is it Yunluo?”
Ye Anping just saw that she hadn’t mentioned it and thought she knew it just now. But when he saw this reaction, he was at a loss for words. He sighed and nodded:
“Yes.”
At this time, Zu Lingzhi, who was drinking tea and eating cakes, looked at the sword in Ye Anping’s hand and couldn’t help but ask:
“Why is this sword wrapped in a bandage? What else is there like? What did you and Sister Pei just say?”
“Nothing.”
“…Mysterious.” Zu Lingzhi rolled her eyes at him and asked, “Young Master Ye, tell me how you just found out that those two people were demonic cultivators.”
“Guess.”
“Really?”
“Yes.” Ye Anping shrugged, “Junior sister, go ahead.”
Pei Lianxue nodded, took the hilt of the sword, stood up and headed toward the door.
However, before she walked to the wooden door of the attic, there was suddenly a rush of footsteps from the stairs outside the house.
Tap tap tap——
“Report!!!”
The voice of the city guard came from outside the door. Elder Cao and others at the end of the room heard the sound and hurriedly turned towards the door.
“Come in!”
After receiving the city lord’s response, the man outside the door quickly opened the door and entered.
However, the city guard was not the only one who came in.
Also coming in were two girls who used blood as rouge, and their skirts were stained with blood and disgusting mucus.
Pei Lianxue, who was standing next to the door, didn’t recognize her for a moment, but after looking at the hornet’s nest wrapped around one of the people’s heads, she still called out tentatively:
“Yunluo?”
Xiao Yunluo looked resentful and nodded:
“…Well, it’s me.”
Because when the two of them entered the door before, Ye Anping saw Xiao Tian holding his nose and floating above their heads, so he immediately recognized their identities.
However, seeing Feng Yudie’s current black hair and the blood stains on both of their bodies, he felt a little unsure for a moment and did not speak.
Feng Yudie turned her head to look at Pei Lianxue, then raised her chest and looked up at Ye Anping, like a dog wanting to be praised, with a proud face:
“Hmph~~”
Ye Anping didn’t know what they did to end up like this.
At this time, the four Nascent Soul cultivators who were in front of the sand table also came over.
Elder Cao looked at the two of them and asked:
“You two, what are you doing?”
“Hmm~ Hehe.”
Feng Yudie raised her hand with a smile, threw a scorpion-shaped storage bag directly from her sleeve in front of them, wiped her nose with her right thumb, and replied:
“We just killed a middle-stage Nascent Soul insect cultivator hiding in the city.”
“””…”””
The four Nascent Soul cultivators were all stunned when they heard this. They could see that both Feng Yudie and Xiao Yunluo were in the late stage of core formation, and they couldn’t believe it for a moment.
Nanke City Lord quickly threw the storage bag that Feng Yudie had thrown to the ground, held it up with his spiritual power, and used his spiritual consciousness to explore the inside.
This was a top-grade storage bag, and the embroidery was also the totem of the Gu Demon Sect, but it was empty, with only a seal and a jade plaque engraved with identity.
He took out the jade sign and looked up:
——Grand Master of Gudu Sect, “Insect Leader”.
Ye Anping glanced at the jade token that fell into the hands of the city lord and couldn’t help but raise his brows slightly.
To be honest, he did not expect this, but it was obvious that he was just thinking about what to do about this matter, so the two of them immediately found the insect cultivator and buried it for him.
City Lord Nanke twisted his eyebrows and asked:
“Where’s the other stuff in there?”
“It’s in my storage bag.” Feng Yudie nodded and replied, “We killed the person, so the things must belong to me! Right, Young Master Ye, do you think this is true?”
After Feng Yudie said this, everyone turned their attention to Ye Anping’s face, who was drinking tea from a teacup.
Ye Anping felt a little helpless. After thinking for a moment, he put down his teacup and stood up. He introduced his hands to Elder Cao and others:
“Four seniors, these two are my fellow Daoists, Feng Yunluo and Xiao Yudie… I guess they were worried about my safety, so they chased me from Xuanxing Sect.”
Elder Cao raised her eyebrows and looked at Pei Lianxue beside him, but before they asked, Ye Anping quickly added:
“Miss Pei is also a Daoist companion, and there are quite a few Daoist companions here.”
“””…”””
Seeing Ye Anping say these words so calmly, Elder Cao and the three Nascent Soul cultivators all had mixed emotions, and Zu Lingzhi on the side couldn’t help but twitching slightly at the corner of her eyes and couldn’t help but hit her tongue:
Tsk——
Ye Anping glanced at it and didn’t care. He sat down very calmly, picked up the teacup again, and continued to drink tea as if it had nothing to do with him…
“Zi Liu…”
But then, Ye Anping couldn’t help but raise the corners of his mouth a little.
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