Questioning Heaven, Desiring the Way

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“I’m not blaming you for doing something you shouldn’t have.” Miss Mo sat up and said emotionlessly, “Such a person should not exist in the first place.”

Hope slowly filled Nan Xingyuan’s face.

Miss Mo scoffed.
“What makes me angry is the fact that you don’t understand who you’re up against, yet you went ahead to do something that raised the alarm, thinking you were very clever.
So, you thought you had a perfect plan? Did you know that Steel-backed Demon Monkeys are actually magical beasts that only move in groups? Did you know that these beasts naturally stay in the depths of the forest and hardly come so far out? Did you know that even though someone might be dead, there are countless ways to gather the pieces of his soul together and search it for things that happened during his lifetime?”

Her tone and expression were very harsh by the time she got to the last sentence.
There were many times she wished she could just slice Gu Suihan to pieces.
That fearless and complacent look in his eyes, his willingness to kill without hesitation and the brazen way he extorted those things from her back in the East Compound made her gnash her teeth in anger.

She was already at the Mid-phase Foundation Establishment, owned plenty of magic weapons and the like, and she had mastered a few dozen spells and techniques too.

But what was the use of all that? She was merely an internal disciple of the Seven Kill Sect.
She didn’t dare to go against the sect rules at all.

“Rules 21, 31 and 37 of the Seven Kill Sect state that internal disciples cannot protect external disciples, cannot interfere in a fight between external disciples and cannot use their status to pressurize external disciples.” Miss Mo let out a long sigh and said quietly, “That’s why I didn’t dare to do anything the last time.”

“Then…Miss Mo, what should we do?” asked Nan Xingyuan after she had wiped her tears away and calmed back down again.

Miss Mo gave Nan Xingyuan an approving look and said, “Now that this has happened, there is no way we can come to a truce with Gu Suihan.
I’ve already sent compensation to Li Xianlong for the failure of your plan, and he has also agreed to challenge Gu Suihan next month and kill the boy.”

“What if he fails?”

“What if he fails?” Miss Mo raised an eyebrow.
“He won’t fail.
You only live once.
Do you think he’ll still be alive if he fails?”

“Besides, even if he fails, we will have many chances to try.” Miss Mo smiled faintly.

In short, Li Xianlong was merely going to serve as a yardstick to measure Gu Suihan’s abilities.
It would be best if he succeeded in killing Gu Suihan, but it didn’t matter if he failed either.

“Go back and continue cultivating, all of you don’t have much time.
It’s almost time for that thing…” She looked rather tired after saying so much and waved a hand to dismiss Nan Xingyuan.

But Nan Xingyuan was still thinking about Gu Suihan and hadn’t noticed exactly what Miss Mo was saying at the end.

After Nan Xingyuan left, the maid next to Miss Mo asked, “Miss, why do you pay Nan Xingyuan so much attention?”

“Nan Xingyuan?” Miss Mo smiled faintly.
“I’m not concerned about her.
I’m concerned with what Gu Suihan is holding onto.”

“Gu Suihan?” The maid was confused and didn’t understand how this was somehow connected to Gu Suihan again.

“Xiaomei, think about it.
The fleet that was robbed back then had a total of eight ships, but only two were actually robbed.
Why just those two? And the craziest part was that nobody else on the other boats noticed anything.” Miss Mo closed her eyes and enjoyed letting her maid massage her back.
“More importantly, how did the things on those two boats get shipped away? And why did the old fellow in the royal palace get so angry when he heard that the ships had been robbed?”

“Because cultivators were involved.
That’s how the things got shipped away.
As long as they set up a formation, nobody else on the other boats would detect anything, right? As for why that old fellow would get angry…I’m sure it’s because he feels that the robbery of a tax ship is an embarrassment to the monarchy.”

“Hoho.” Miss Mo made a few pleased noises, then said with a laugh, “High level martial artists must have been protecting those tax ships, so it’s not possible for anybody to have set up a formation without anybody noticing at all.
So, it’s impossible that a cultivator was involved, since martial artists can sense Qi movement as well and would have smelled something fishy.”

“As for why I’m very certain that this thing is with Gu Suihan, it’s because my cultivation technique surprisingly has zero effect on him, so I’m sure something is protecting him.
He was merely an ordinary person before joining the sect, so how could he be able to deflect my Mara Charm Spell completely?”

The maid didn’t know what to say after hearing Miss Mo’s analysis.
She stuttered as she said, “But…but isn’t that a bit of a reach? Maybe he got lucky and managed to buy some magic weapon from the black market?”

“The Mara Charm Spell is silent and almost impossible to detect.
To hold up against it, you must either have one of those magic weapons that only an Origin Core cultivator is able to use or a rare spiritual item that is meant to defend oneself from this particular type of spell.
Otherwise, you could also be born with some technique, or you have incredible willpower, or…you have Vow Power from the masses.”

Miss Mo continued to analyze the situation carefully, “Even if that boy has very good luck, the chances that he finds a magic weapon of sorts is almost zero.
He’s only at the Perfect Physical Realm, so he wouldn’t have any techniques that would help him.
Willpower is something that works only on someone at the same cultivation level as yourself.
In that case…it’s got to be the last one.”

“Miss, you still haven’t told me how Gu Suihan managed to rob the tax ships,” said Xiaomei mischievously.

“You naughty little girl! How dare you laugh at me!” Miss Mo looked a little upset as she pressed her maid against the floor, and they continued to tease one another.