Questioning Heaven, Desiring the Way

rest.
A frosty and chilling look spread across his handsome face.
“Perhaps we’re doing more than just working with one another.”

“Let me leave them with a little surprise.
I hope they don’t disappoint me!” Gu Suihan’s voice slowly faded.
The fire illuminated Gu Suihan’s almost ghostly face before he disappeared in the wind.

Nobody thought about what would happen if they had guessed wrongly.
Or what would happen if the theft was real.

They didn’t want to think about those possibilities and they weren’t going to take such a gamble, because their lives were at stake.
They couldn’t afford to take this gamble.

Before long, the clear night sky was covered with dark clouds.
The rolling of thunder from time to time and the howling of the strong winds were foreboding, a sign of bad things to come.

…

Within the sect, two rare guests had appeared at one of Miss Mo’s luxurious buildings.

One was Lord Fang of the Nobles Clan, Fang Suyu.

One was the leader of the Four Directions Court, Wang Aolin.

The last person at the table was the owner of the building and the leader of the Way Seekers Alliance, Mo Yuluo.

All three of them were sitting quietly on cushy chairs, drinking tea in silence as they fell into deep thought.
Nobody made any sound at all.

Just then, the jade slip on Mo Yuluo’s table started trembling slightly.
The sound was very soft, but it was enough to make the two men turn their heads to look at it.

“They’ve arrived?” asked Fang Suyu expressionlessly as he removed the foam layer from his tea.

Mo Yuluo scanned the jade slip with her Spiritual Sense and nodded.

Wang Aolin rapped his knuckles on the table decisively and said, “Let’s begin.”

“Do you think they’d guess what we’re trying to do?” said Mo Yuluo in an enchanting voice as she looked admiringly at Fang Suyu with her mesmerizing eyes.

But Fang Suyu merely glanced back at Mo Yuluo and was completely unaffected by her gaze.
He snorted and said, “I can’t believe you have the guts to use your Charm Technique on me.
You’ve really overestimated yourself.”

Mo Yuluo pouted unhappily, then stopped exuding her charm as if nothing had happened at all.
Her expression reverted to normal and she went back to looking like an unapproachable deity, elegant and pure.

However, her sudden and drastic change didn’t surprise the two men at all.

They were used to her antics.
She was ever-changing and it was impossible to predict her mood.

“That’s not quite possible,” Wang Aolin disagreed.
“Gu Suihan and Li Rong are on fairly close terms, but the rest don’t know each other at all.
Why would they suspect anything?”

“Just the reasons given for this mission are enough for that Gu Suihan to hazard a guess,” said Mo Yuluo as she chuckled.
Her cat-like eyes were curved lazily, like a kitten that had just woken up.

Fang Suyu fell into deep thought, then sounded a little guilty as he said, “It’s my fault.
Things happened too quickly for me to come up with a more detailed plan.
Who would have known that the Sect Leader would just double the number of vacancies for internal disciples? I don’t know what he’s thinking about at all.”

“The Sect Leader has his own reasons, I’m sure.
Besides, don’t you think that the world of cultivators has been a little too boring for too long?” said Wang Aolin in a mysterious voice.

“It seems like it’s almost time for that thing to appear,” said Mo Yuluo as she laughed quietly.
She looked at the dark skies outside and said pointedly, “Is this the calm before the storm?”

Wang Aolin looked at the lightning that tore through the skies and said, “Perhaps the calm part is already over.”

Dark clouds covered the land and the continuous rumbling of thunder sounded as though a terrifying dragon with the ability to break anything in its way had appeared, letting out ear-deafening roar after roar.

…

Meanwhile, on Peak Four, at the edge of a cliff.

A table, a cup of tea, and a person remained there.

“Hoho, all of you are getting rather bold now.” Xiexin Zhenren looked out at the billowing clouds in the distance expressionlessly as he murmured, “But that’s not a bad thing idea.
You could even consider it the dessert before the meal.”

Lightning lit up the sky, as well as the faint smile on Xiexin Zhenren’s lips.
It was both sinister and fear-inducing.

…

“There’s some light in front.
It must be them.” Several young men were exchanging comments as they quietly walked through the forest.

They used their Spiritual Sense to scan the area to check if there were any traps.

“Let’s go, there doesn’t seem to be any traps.
Let’s just attack them straight up,” said one of them with a fierce look on his face before charging at the fire in the distance.

“Tianyu, be careful!” someone called out after him before motioning to the rest to catch up.

“How boring.” The two right at the back looked annoyed as they followed behind Tianyu.
They seemed to move slowly, but they always made sure they were no more than six meters away from him.

After Tianyu got closer to the fire, his expression fell.

There was nobody around the fire at all.
But the mess that was left behind showed that the five of them hadn’t left too long ago.

“They’ve left no longer than an hour ago.
There are no signs of an altercation.” A small-sized man among them looked at the scene before them with a grim expression as he carefully analyzed the situation.
“They didn’t leave together.
They went separate ways as if they knew that we were coming.
They left in quite a hurry, eating just a bit of that pig before running off in different directions.”

Everyone looked at the almost untouched pig roasting over the fire and the messy footprints around them and agreed with the analysis.

The small-sized man was a little smug, but he quickly added in a serious tone, “However, it might not be them.
It could have been some other disciples.”

The Clacker’s Dodgy Chinese Takeout

Today’s snack recommendation: Cantonese Roast Pork Belly.
WHY ARE THEY STILL TALKING ABOUT PIG.
Umami: ********

Jiangshi.
Chinese vampire/zombie: Jiangshi.
They’re usually in one good piece and they…hop.↩