Chapter 513: Inside Story
Xu Shan's tricks naturally could not be hidden from Duan Qing, but he did not stop them.
Not long after, several figures flew out of the valley one after another and landed in front of Xu Shan.
Xu Shan saw one of the thin middle-aged men in black robes, and quickly approached him with a flattering face, and said respectfully: "Master!"
The middle-aged man in black robe did not even look at Xu Shan, but just stared coldly at Duan Qing in front of him, and said in a deep voice: "Are you an accomplice of the traitor Liu Yuanji?"
Duan Qing shrugged helplessly. "Duan has never said so."
The middle-aged man in black robe looked at Xu Shan beside him and said coldly: "What's the matter?"
Xu Shan looked angry, pointed at Duan Qing and cursed: "Boy, stop pretending, if you are not an accomplice of Liu Yuanji, why did you mention the traitor? And you forced Xu to bring you to my Wuding Sect, which is clearly not a good intention!"
Hearing Xu Shan's words, the four people headed by the middle-aged man in black robe looked at Duan Qing with obviously unfriendly eyes.
Seeing this, Duan Qing was too lazy to explain and directly took out the jade talisman of the Shinto sect and shook it in his hand.
Seeing the jade talisman in Duan Qing's hand, Xu Shan felt a little puzzled. He was about to scold Duan Qing for pretending to be a god, but suddenly noticed that the sect master's eyes looked at Duan Qing, and it seemed to have changed.
So he was very smart and swallowed back the words that were about to come to his mouth and waited and watched.
When the leader of Wuding Sect, the middle-aged man in black robe Pan Quan, saw Duan Qing take out the jade talisman of the Shinto sect, he vaguely guessed what was going on and couldn't help scolding Xu Shan in his heart.
"It turned out to be a friend from the Shinto sect! I am Pan Quan, the leader of Wuding Sect." Pan Quan said with a relaxed expression.
Hearing Pan Quan's words, Xu Shan was shocked beyond words!
This kid was actually... a Shinto sect member!
The Shinto sect is the leader of the seven super sects in the Central Plains and the absolute overlord of Shenzhou.
His small Wuding Sect is like an ant in front of the Shinto Sect, even worse than an ant!
Thinking of the fact that he had previously waved the banner of the Shinto Sect in front of Duan Qing, Xu Shan's expression could not help but become extremely wonderful.
Duan Qing glanced at Xu Shan, and there was no ripple in his heart.
Although Xu Shan was not a very good person, and even showed off his right and wrong just now, fortunately, he made a mistake and directly called out the leader of the Wuding Sect, saving him a lot of trouble.
Duan Qing put away the identity jade talisman and said to the leader of the Wuding Sect, Pan Quan: "Master Pan entrusted my Shinto Sect to kill the traitor Liu Yuanji. I wonder if there is any whereabouts of Liu Yuanji?"
When Pan Quan saw Duan Qing's identity as a member of the Shinto Sect, he guessed that Duan Qing came for this matter. Duan Qing's words undoubtedly confirmed his guess.
But in his opinion, Duan Qing's cultivation was too low.
Although he is a disciple of the Shinto Sect, and his resources are not comparable to those of the small Wuding Sect, he is a little arrogant to want to kill the traitor Liu Yuanji, who is in the late stage of the Questioning Heart Realm, with his cultivation in the early stage of the Questioning Heart Realm.
However, he can only think about this kind of thing in his heart, how dare he say it out loud.
Even as the leader of the Wuding Sect, he needs to be cautious when facing Duan Qing, a Shinto disciple.
He just saw clearly that Duan Qing's identity jade talisman is the identity jade talisman of the inner sect disciple.
He knows very well what the status of the inner sect disciple is in the Shinto Sect.
After all, the Wuding Sect is not far from Qingxu Mountain, only about 20,000 miles.
At this distance, his Wuding Sect is equivalent to being at the side of the Shinto Sect, and naturally knows a lot about the Shinto Sect.
"Since Liu Yuanji betrayed my Wuding Sect, he has been wandering in Santai County. According to our intelligence, he appeared near Wudong City three days ago, and then disappeared!" Pan Quan explained to Duan Qing.
Duan Qing frowned upon hearing this.
Wudong City is not far from here, only a few thousand miles away, but he appeared in Wudong City three days ago, and he might have left by now.
To be honest, he was quite surprised that Wuding Sect only had such vague information.
"Liu Yuanji is a disciple of Wuding Sect, so senior has no means to determine his location?" Duan Qing asked in confusion.
As far as he knows, the sects in the Central Plains have many means to know the location of their disciples.
For example, some sects will set up soul lamps for each person when they enter the sect. According to the soul lamps, they can know the life and death of the disciples, and can also sense their location through the soul lamps.
What's more, they will directly plant the life talisman, which can not only know the location of the person with the life talisman, but also directly control his life and death.
The Shinto Sect also has a similar means, which is the Shinto Order.
When he dripped blood on the Shinto Order that day, he felt that the Shinto Sect could track his location through the Shinto Order.
However, compared with the vicious means of life and death that restricts life and death, the methods of the Shinto Sect are obviously much gentler.
It is not a bad thing to let the sect know the location.
For example, sometimes when you are in danger, the sect can use this to rescue you.
Therefore, Duan Qing did not resist this point.
He had found the life talismans of He Qinghuan and her sister in the bracelet of the old ghost of Wuding Sect before, so he guessed that Wuding Sect had similar means for its disciples.
This is why he came to Wuding Sect first.
Hearing this, Pan Quan's face flashed with embarrassment, and he shook his head gently and said: "Liu Yuanji is the confidant of Tang Mo, the former deputy sect master of my Wuding Sect. The means to know his whereabouts are only in the hands of Tang Mo."
Duan Qing was right. His Wuding Sect did have soul lamps for most of the disciples.
But Liu Yuanji was different. He was Tang Mo's confidant, and only Tang Mo had the means to know his location.
The Wuding Sect was very weak, and even he, the sect leader, was only in the late Linghai realm.
But sometimes the more insignificant a place is, the more contradictions there are.
This is the case with Wuding Sect.
In addition to him as the sect leader, Wuding originally had a deputy sect leader in the late Linghai realm, named Tang Mo.
Tang Mo was quite powerful in Wuding Sect, and he and the sect leader had a separation of powers.
As the sect leader, he was naturally very unhappy about this situation.
However, due to Tang Mo's cultivation being comparable to his, and many people in the sect being loyal to Tang Mo, he had to hold his nose and endure, acquiescing in the existence of this situation.
But God has eyes, and this situation was finally broken recently.
About half a month ago, the two favorite concubines of the deputy sect leader Tang Mo suddenly left Wuding Sect without permission and disappeared.
You should know that Tang Mo regarded the two favorite concubines as forbidden delicacies. When the concubines escaped, he was furious and went to pursue them alone.
However, not long after, he found that Tang Mo's people in the sect became somewhat panic-stricken.
He was very curious about this and conducted many investigations.
But because Tang Mo's old subordinates were united, he could not find any news.
Later, after about ten days, Tang Mo did not return for a long time, and one of his close confidants finally could not bear it anymore and took the initiative to surrender to him.
Only then did he know what had happened.
Tang Mo was dead!