Killing God - Chapter 280

Chapter 280 Wind Rise
On the viewing platform, beneath the Hongjun pillar.

Disciples from Lingxiao Sect who passed by from afar would occasionally glance at him with strange gazes. Shen Shi Sun You and Zhong Qingzhu were both silent. After a long while, perhaps they felt uncomfortable with the oppressive atmosphere. Sun You was the first to speak. He laughed dryly and said, “Shi Shi, we all believe you. Furthermore, I think your relationship with Zhong Qinglu is not bad. How could you be so stubborn as the rumors say?” “But the rumors are true. Do you know who arranged you behind the scenes?”

When she heard that Shen Shi and Zhong Qinglu were on good terms, Zhong Qinglu’s gaze flickered for a moment, but her expression did not change. In the end, when she asked Shen Shi where this rumor originated, she revealed a listening expression.

After pondering for a moment, Shen Shi said indifferently, “There were only four people present yesterday. Apart from me, Qing Lu has no reason to say such words. In that case, the source of this rumor is probably only the Zhong Clan and Senior Brother Ji Anfu Ji of the Spiritual Medicine Hall.”

“Ji Anfu?”

Sun You and Zhong Qingzhu spoke at the same time. The difference was that Sun You had some doubts. It seemed that he did not recognize this person. Zhong Qingzhu’s expression was somewhat surprised. He looked at Shen Shi and said, “Why did he go to the Zhong Clan?”

Shen Shi slowly shook his head and said, “I don’t know. Anyway, it was these people who were present at that time.” After pausing for a moment, he suddenly frowned and said thoughtfully, “Speaking of which, I’ve seen Senior Brother Ji a few times in the past. It seems that his attitude towards me is not very friendly.”

Zhong Qingzhu was stunned and said, “Why is this?”

Shen Shi thought for a moment. He wanted to say something, but he hesitated after looking at Zhong Qingzhu. Then, he shook his head and smiled faintly. “Who knows, maybe I offended him somewhere. Let’s just get down to business. Rumors are still rumors. It’s only for the wise. As long as I don’t pay attention to them, I’ll calm down after a while.”

Young friend Sun and Zhong Qingzhu were also silent. There was no better way to deal with the unproven ones at the moment. They could only deal with them like this. They could be considered to have suffered a loss. Young friend Sun sighed and said angrily,

“Then Zhong Qinglu really is. If you come out and explain it casually, then everything will be clear. Why don’t you say something?”

Shen Shi had originally turned around. Hearing this, he paused for a moment, but a bitter smile flashed across the corner of his mouth. Zhong Qingzhu had been staring at him. After a moment of hesitation, he walked to Shen Shi’s side and said, “Perhaps Sister Qinglu has encountered something urgent these past two days. She might not have any other intentions.”

Shen Shi smiled and smiled at Zhong Qingzhu. His gaze fell on her face, but he looked at her a few more times.

Zhong Qingzhu suddenly felt a little nervous when he stared at her. Her cheeks reddened for no reason, and then she whispered, “Why are you looking at me like this?”

Shen Shi smiled and said, “In the past few days when I returned to the mountain, I saw that you were much more confident and reserved than when we first met in Qingyu Island. I originally thought that you had changed a lot. But now, it seems that your heart is still the same as the girl I knew before. You are very considerate of others, especially Qing Lu.”

Zhong Qingzhu bit her red lips and smiled sweetly. She was beautiful but did not say anything else.

④

In the following days, Shen Shi had been living on Golden Rainbow Mountain. Apart from the daily routine of cultivation and talisman homework, he would also spend an hour or two to flip through the ancient books and scrolls in the library. Apart from that, he had also been worrying about the strange and disappearing spiritual herbs on Little Black’s body. He had thought of a few ways to deceive Little Black.

At the thought that Xiao Hei might have more than a dozen mountains and countless spiritual herbs hidden on his body, and there might even be precious and rare spiritual herbs of the highest grade up to the fifth grade. Shen Shi, who had grown up in a shop since childhood, was really itchy. He hugged Xiao Hei for a while.

It was just that he didn’t know if he had received a dragon bloodline gift. Little Black seemed to be much smarter than before. In the past, he could easily settle a matter with one or two spirit crystals, but now, this pig didn’t show any signs of falling for it anymore. No matter how hard Shen Shi tried, Xiao Hei was still unyielding. Every day, he either slept soundly or played in the forest of the valley. He didn’t want to live a comfortable and happy life.

Fortunately, Shen Shi had a lot of money recently. With the Kuiwen Demon Pill, it could be said that this period of time was the time when Shen Shi had the most Spirit Crystals in his body since he started cultivating. He wasn’t too depressed. At most, he could just laugh at Little Hei. Forget it.

As for Shu Tang’s side of reading, after reading for a while, Shen Shi could be considered to have roughly understood the situation in Shu Tang’s side, but the situation was not very good. It wasn’t that there was any obstruction from the Book Hall, but that there were more than ten times as many ancient scrolls in the sea of books as he had originally expected.

In Shen Shi’s life, he had never seen such a large amount of scrolls being placed in the same place at the same time. At first glance, they were boundless, truly boundless like an ocean. In addition to collecting so many scrolls, the Hall of Books also had the task of storing and protecting Lingxiao Sect’s many secret manuals, and these things were clearly much more important than those broken books that no one had read ten thousand years ago. Therefore, the vast majority of the people under the Hall of Books were used to take care of the important scrolls of the sect. As for the other scrolls, especially the ancient books of the Heavenly Yao Royal Court, most of them were directly piled on the bookshelves, and no one would care about them if they were placed neatly.

As for what was said about distinguishing between categories, There’s no need to think about it, Not to mention anything else, There were at least 300,000 volumes of ancient books from the Heavenly Yao Royal Court alone, Even if cultivators were better than mortals, it would still take a lot of time and effort to carefully classify these scrolls. Furthermore, everyone was a cultivator. Who had the leisure to waste countless energy and time to do this useless work?

Therefore, after Shen Shi went to the sea of books two or three times, he basically despaired of the possibility of finding out the truth about Huang Ming ten thousand years ago through this path. Now, he was just a dead horse. He came over every day to take a casual look, which could be considered an explanation to Gu Lingyun in the future.

Originally, these days were considered calm, looking like they were cultivating calmly without contending with the world. However, Shen Shi had stayed on Golden Rainbow Mountain for more than half a month, yet he discovered that his situation had actually become somewhat uncomfortable.

The reason for that was because the rumor that they had thought would soon subside had actually not been silent these past few days. Instead, it had become increasingly arrogant, spreading more and more intensely, and even more unimaginable versions had appeared.

Not to mention anything else, from the rumors Shen Shi had heard, there were actually rumors that a disciple surnamed Shen from Jinhong Mountain was evil and cunning that day in Floating Cloud City. He coveted the beauty of the Zhong Clan’s young miss and was actually trying to force her to rape. However, he failed to force Maid Zhong to return home. This lecher actually chased after that clan, which was why there were all sorts of things to reprimand drive her away.

The rumors had spread to such an extent that it was already somewhat unimaginable. Even if it was Sun You who personally told Shen Shi, he would still treat it as a joke and laugh at Shen Shi. However, Shen Shi, as the person involved, was depressed and could not laugh at all. Moreover, there was another thing in the middle. After such a long time, Zhong Qinglu still hadn’t shown up. Some said that she was refining pills, some said that she was in seclusion, and some even said that the Zhong family’s eldest young miss didn’t dare to see anyone because of her mental injuries. However, all of this had increased the momentum of the rumors from the other side.

In the end, even Young Friend Sun became a little worried and secretly said to Shen Shi, “Why don’t you go down the mountain and stay for a while before coming back? As long as you’re not around, this rumor will probably disappear without anyone to point at.”

After thinking for a while, Shen Shi also agreed with what Young Master Sun said. However, there was really no need to mention this gloominess in his heart. He complained in front of Young Master Sun for a while, especially towards Senior Brother Ji Anfuji.

‘”Didn’t you suspect both the Zhong Clan and Ji Anfu a few days ago? Why is he the only one left?” Sun You asked curiously.

Shen Shi said indifferently, “If you were Zhong Liancheng, would the shameful matter of your biological daughter being forced to rape really be publicized everywhere so that everyone in the city would know about it?”

Suddenly, Sun You nodded and said yes.

④

After recording a black account for Ji Anfu in his heart, Shen Shi packed his luggage, took Little Hei, and went straight down the mountain.

After leaving Jinhong Mountain, he felt that his ears were much cleaner. Counting the days, it seemed that it was almost the month he had agreed with Gu Lingyun on that day. Shen Shi was still somewhat interested in the auction that the Divine Immortal Society had privately organized, so he took Little Hei directly to Liuyun City.

At the same time, Gu Lingyun was sitting on the comfortable and spacious chair in the study room on the fourth floor of the Flowing Cloud City Divine Immortal Gathering, holding a scroll paper in her hand. She was looking at it with rapt attention. Apart from her, Master Wu was sitting beside her. He was holding a cup of tea in his hand, gently tasting it.

Gu Lingyun’s eyebrows narrowed as he looked at the text of the file. After reading it carefully, he closed his eyes and pondered for a moment. He looked at Master Wu and said,

“The high-grade spirit materials from the Moon General Hall are pretty good. They are roughly the same as before, but the number of demon cores is a little less.”

Master Wu put down the teacup in his hand and said, “There’s nothing we can do about it. Currently, there are fewer and fewer high-level Core Formation demonic beasts in the Primordial Chaos Master Realm. Only those desolate and dangerous Wilderness Jedi can survive, or even more so in the remote and inaccessible alien realms. Naturally, their output is rare.”

Gu Lingyun nodded and glanced at the file in her hand. Her gaze swept across the lines of words and numbers. Suddenly, she seemed to have discovered something. Her gaze suddenly paused, but she saw one of the entries. Then, her voice carried a hint of surprise. She said,

“Eh? This month, the Main Hall has unexpectedly set aside ten Illusory Rainbow Flowers, twice as many as before.” She frowned slightly. After thinking about it carefully, she turned to Master Wu and said, “I remember that this Illusory Rainbow Flower is a fourth-grade spirit herb. Its effects are all very good, but it has always been rare. It seems to have restrictions on its origin, so it has never been much. Why is there so much in the main hall this month?”

Master Wu shook his head, expressing that he didn’t know either.

Gu Lingyun pondered for a moment before suddenly raising his head and asking, “Mr. Wu, do you know where this Illusory Rainbow Flower is produced?”

Master Wu nodded frankly this time and said, “I know. It’s the Blood Moon Realm.”