Chapter 737 - 684: Wuwei Mountain Man?

Chapter 737: Chapter 684: Wuwei Mountain Man?

Little Green suddenly leaped up, shocking passers-by, as Jiang Yuebai waved her sleeve, stirring up a fierce gale. Instantly, winds and sands filled the skies, blinding people’s eyes.

When the sands scattered, Jiang Yuebai was nowhere to be seen by the side of the road.

The dart masters in the tea pavilion were dumbfounded, an elder on the road pulled the children to kneel in place, and a scholar rushing for an exam was so startled that he couldn’t help composing a poem.

Jiang Yuebai chased Little Green for over ten miles, discovering in a small grove that Little Green was running around like a headless fly, unable to find the trace of that fast horse and the missing woman.

Jiang Yuebai also spread her Divine Sense completely, scanning the surrounding three hundred miles, yet she found nothing.

That woman seemed to have vanished into thin air.

Jiang Yuebai returned to the official road, looking at the horse hoof prints on the ground, which indeed ended abruptly, indicating that the woman was definitely no ordinary mortal.

Seeing Little Green’s anxious look, Jiang Yuebai suddenly had a feeling, could that woman be Wuwei Mountain Man, Lin Jingyue?

Besides her, no one else could make Little Green so anxious.

Although Little Green has an independent consciousness, instead of being Ye Shiming, Little Green is special entirely because of Ye Shiming’s thousand-year-old obsession, serving as the core of Little Green and providing energy.

If they really encountered Wuwei Mountain Man Lin Jingyue, Ye Shiming’s obsession would surely wake.

Jiang Yuebai looked up, her gaze wandering along the official road leading to Yong’an City in Qingzhou, where the Lin family, a branch of Lin Jingyue’s clan, resides.

Lin Xiangtian and Lin Suwan both emerged from the Lin Family.

However, the Lin family branch is no good, a nest of snakes and mice, far worse than the orthodox Lin family in the Capital City.

Years ago, after she saved Shen Jinghao, her mentor from the Lin Family of Yong’an City, she discovered someone in the Lin Family intended to practice an evil technique, harming innocent children and women around. The Steward of the Heavenly Interence Sect, responsible for the Daoist Temple in the Qingzhou Realm, once mentioned that they would find a way to settle this matter.

One wonders whether the Lin family still exists in Yong’an City now?

And how high is the possibility of encountering Wuwei Mountain Man Lin Jingyue here?

Jiang Yuebai, over the years in the Upper Realm, also sought traces of Wuwei Mountain Man, but none of the Star Alliances could provide leads; perhaps Lin Jingyue returned to the Earth Spiritual Realm?

Is this why she suddenly felt an intuitive sense before?

Little Green reverted to its original size, dashing right in front of Jiang Yuebai, with different writings appearing on both sides of the lantern.

[Find her]

[Lock him down]

The lantern shook violently, blue and red phosphorous fires flaring on both sides, as if two consciousnesses inside were battling each other, nearly tearing Little Green apart.

Seeing this, Jiang Yuebai could only use her Divine Sense to forcibly suppress Ye Shiming’s resurging obsession inside, but due to the earlier stimulation, Ye Shiming’s obsession kept emerging incessantly.

"If she’s really nearby, I’ll help you find her. Calm down first; if anything happens to Little Green, I won’t spare you!"

The lantern continued to shake, as Ye Shiming completely ignored her.

In desperation, Jiang Yuebai had to throw Little Green back into the Lotus Platform Small World, locking it on a secluded island.

She also wished to find Lin Jingyue to fulfill her promise to Ye Shiming and conclude this karmic entanglement.

Jiang Yuebai activated the Michen Seal, instantly appearing deep within the woods outside Yong’an City.

She set up a Great Array to block any detection, releasing Yann Hongyu and the Long-Haired Water Ghost, and opened her Yin Si Ghost Gate to release numerous little ghosts.

"Hongyu, take these little ghosts, center around Yong’an City, and find this woman for me, and also record all suspicious persons."

Jiang Yuebai spread out two paintings; one was painted according to Ye Shiming’s memories of Wuwei Mountain Man Lin Jingyue, the other was the back view of the woman on horseback moments ago.

Yann Hongyu received the two paintings, lamenting, "True Monarch, the back view doesn’t reveal the face, how do we find her?"

Jiang Yuebai handed over a Heavenly Interence Sect Token she had as a backup to Yann Hongyu, "If it was easy to find, why would I need you? Hold the token. If any local Daoist Temple’s Steward tries to stop you, just say I have instructed you to seek people with hundreds of ghosts."

Yann Hongyu awkwardly accepted the token, leading the group of little ghosts to transform into a gust of gloomy wind, blowing in all directions.

Jiang Yuebai transformed herself into the appearance of a traveler in red clothing and entered the city for a casual tour.

Yong’an City seemed unchanged for decades. High mountains, far from the Emperor’s reach, ten years ago, the old Emperor passed, the new Emperor ascended the throne, yet it had no influence here.

However, the Lin Family no longer existed, reportedly due to charges of deceiving the sovereign, the entire family was exiled, with the Capital’s Lin family not intervening, a classic example of karmic retribution.

Finding nothing in the city, Jiang Yuebai secured lodging at an inn, awaiting news from Yann Hongyu.

Yann Hongyu lacked other strengths but excelled in gathering intelligence, saving Jiang Yuebai considerable time and effort.

With nothing better to do, Jiang Yuebai entered seclusion in meditation, continued absorbing the surplus Yin Yang Double Thunder from the Lotus Platform Small World, and her Cultivation steadily advanced.

Five days later, Yann Hongyu returned bedraggled, with a bruised and swollen face, and disheveled hair, having actually encountered the Steward of the Heavenly Interence Sect recognized in the Qingzhou area and received a beating.

"...I can’t believe this. The Steward’s Cultivation doesn’t surpass Qi Refinement Ninth Layer, yet as an Early-Stage Foundation Establishment ghost with numerous little ghosts, you got beaten like this?"

Yann Hongyu grumbled pitifully, "It’s just that the old fellow in the Daoist Temple disregarded fair play, upon seeing I was a ghost, immediately attacked, only to be beaten by me, but then sought help from a Late-Stage Foundation Establishment cultivator from Heavenly Interence Sect, and that’s when..."

Jiang Yuebai glared at her irritably, "Did you show off at first, purposely not showing the token to bully him, only to reveal it for self-defense when you hit a wall?"

Yann Hongyu lowered her head, twisting her clothes, not daring to speak.

Jiang Yuebai shook her head, "Go on, what did you find?"

Yann Hongyu promptly straightened her demeanor, pulling out a piece of Yellow Paper from her sleeve, placing it before Jiang Yuebai.

"Five suspicious individuals were spotted: the widow Li in Yang Township to the east, a nearly forty-year-old half-aged woman who still has skin as tender as a teenage girl. In Qingjiu Village to the south, there’s Chun Niang in her thirties, unmarried, able to lift a large water jar single-handedly, and further west..."

"Just tell me who you think is most likely?"

Yann Hongyu pointed to the last line on the Yellow Paper, "Shopkeeper Liuu Fuyun at the ’Zen Forest Iron Shop’ to the north of Yong’an City, a woman in her early twenties running a blacksmith shop alone, which itself defies logic. Moreover, this blacksmith shop became renowned throughout Qingzhou in just two and a half years."

"Rumor has it that someone bought a Wood Cutting Blade from her which broke a famed sword in the martial world, leading many to seek her for weapon forging, yet she manages to avoid them twenty out of thirty days a month to wander outside."

"True Monarch, tell me, how could her shop earn any substantial profit? How did she sustain her business for two and a half years amidst encounters with these wanderers? Unless she is a cultivator!"

Jiang Yuebai had to admit, Yann Hongyu indeed had a knack for picking up on such detailed discrepancies.

"Where is she now?"

"Fearing any issues, I didn’t dare directly investigate in the north of the city, merely inquired from surrounding folks. She recently returned, the shop’s doors are closed, and occasional clanging of metal can be heard. She should be home."

Jiang Yuebai stood, taking out a piece of Blood Jade Meat Mushroom, placing it in Yann Hongyu’s hand, "Stay behind and cultivate well, don’t return bruised next time. I’ll go meet Liuu Fuyun."