Chapter 514: Speculation
Tang Mo is the deputy sect leader, and his cultivation level is comparable to his. Naturally, he has no means to know his whereabouts, let alone his life and death.
However, the jade slips used by many of Tang Mo's cronies for transmitting messages contained imprints left by Tang Mo to facilitate the transmission of instructions.
The person who took refuge in him discovered that Tang Mo's mark on the sound transmission jade slip had dissipated, concluded that Tang Mo was dead, and was the first to take refuge in him.
Pan Quan was overjoyed to learn about the death of deputy sect leader Tang Mo, and immediately used thunderous means to rectify Tang Mo's men.
Tang Mo originally had three confidants, two of whom were his concubines, and the other one was Liu Yuanji.
His two beloved concubines were now missing, so Liu Yuanji naturally became his first target.
But who would have expected that Liu Yuanji was so alert that he secretly escaped from Wudingmen before he took action and disappeared without a trace.
Of course he didn't want to let Liu Yuanji go easily.
But he still had to deal with Tang Mo's old troops and suppress the situation within the sect. He really couldn't spare the manpower to hunt down Liu Yuanji, so he could only entrust the matter to Shendao Sect first.
After some rectification by him, most of Tang Mo's troops had surrendered to him, leaving only a small number of stubborn people who were still resisting.
Due to this, and the fact that he still didn't quite trust Tang Mo's old men who had just surrendered, he was afraid that someone would escape secretly and damage the vitality of Wu Dingmen.
So he ordered that no one could leave Wudingmen without his permission.
This move is actually to use force to suppress Wudingmen and prevent civil strife.
Seeing that more and more people were surrendering and the chaos was about to end, Pan Quan was in a good mood, so he decided to hold a banquet and announce the death of Tang Mo in front of everyone in the Wuding Sect, thus settling the matter in one fell swoop.
By then, the entire Wu Ding goalkeeper will be under his control alone.
For this reason, he also specifically asked Xu Shan, the steward, to purchase Zuixian brew for the banquet.
Unexpectedly, Xu Shan failed to do things well and didn't say things were done well. Now he also brought Duan Qing, a member of the Shinto sect.
Duan Qing heard Pan Quan say that only deputy sect leader Tang Mo had the whereabouts of Liu Yuanji, and subconsciously asked: "May I ask where deputy sect leader Tang is?"
"Dead!" Pan Quan said bluntly.
There was no need for him to hide this kind of thing.
The distance between Duan Qing's brows became even tighter. It would be too strange for a deputy sect leader to die just because he wanted to!
It's just that this is an internal matter within Wuding Sect, and he can't ask any more questions than an outsider.
Since the masters of the Wuding Sect said that Tang Mo was dead, it must be that Tang Mo was indeed dead.
Wu Ding Sect entrusted the Shinto Sect to kill Liu Yuanji. If Pan Quan really knew Liu Yuanji's whereabouts, there was no reason to hide it from him.
The clues on Wudingmen’s side are finally broken!
Thinking of this, Duan Qing couldn't help but feel a headache.
If even Wudingmen had no means to determine the whereabouts of Liu Yuanji, then how could he find Liu Yuanji in the vast Santai County!
This task will probably take some time!
Or if it doesn't work, just give up. There is no need to waste time.
Some sect tasks have a time limit for completion, and some do not. The time limit for him to take on this task is one month. If he does not kill Liu Yuanji after one month, he will be judged to have failed.
One month is not a long time, not a short time. It is really labor-intensive and time-consuming, but it is not impossible to find Liu Yuanji.
However, he obviously didn't want to waste a month on this task.
Even if you fail, you will face punishment from the sect.
As a penalty for failure, 10% of the sect's contribution from the task reward will generally be deducted.
If he accepts this task, the sect contribution reward is 300, which means that if he fails, 30 sect contributions will be deducted from him.
Thinking that he has not made any contribution to the sect now, if he really fails, will he owe it to the sect?
Glancing at the Wudingmen group in front of him, Duan Qing felt helpless.
That's all, no matter what, let's try our luck at Wu Dongcheng as Pan Quan mentioned!
If it really doesn't work out, it's never too late to give up.
"Since there is no specific whereabouts of Liu Yuanji in your sect, Duan will leave first!" Duan Qing said to Pan Quan and others.
"Goodbye, little friend, I won't send you off!" Pan Quan said tepidly.
Duan Qing said nothing, turned around and left.
After taking two steps, Duan Qing suddenly realized something and suddenly turned his head to look at Pan Quan and others.
"Little friend, is there anything else going on?" Pan Quan asked confused when he saw this.
"It's okay, sorry for bothering you!" Duan Qing waved his hand expressionlessly.
After saying that, he immediately used his sword control skills and flew towards the direction of the Shinto Sect, leaving Pan Quan and others confused on the ground.
At this time, Shi Qing was a little excited.
He had previously been bent on obtaining Liu Yuanji's whereabouts from Wu Dingmen, but he had neglected other details.
What he ignored was the cultivation of Wuding Sect Master Pan Quan and others.
Xu Shan summoned four people, including Pan Quan, among whom Pan Quan was in the late stage of the Linghai realm, and the other three were all in the late stage of the Wenxin realm. Duan Qing had already secretly observed this with his Qi-gazing technique.
This is a normal thing and there is nothing wrong with it.
Wuding Sect was originally a small and unpopular sect, and it was not surprising that the sect leader only had cultivation in the late Linghai realm.
He didn't realize there was anything wrong at first.
But just now, he suddenly realized something was wrong.
Pan Quan, the master of Wuding Sect, is in the late stage of Linghai Realm, and the members of Wuding Sect who appear with him are only in the late stage of Wen Xing Realm.
This all shows that the Wuding Sect is very weak, and they probably don’t even have many spiritual sea realm monks.
In addition, since the sect leader Pan Quan was in the late stage of the spiritual sea realm, the deceased deputy sect leader Tang Mo was probably also in the spiritual sea realm.
It is impossible for the deputy sect leader to have a higher cultivation level than the sect leader, and it is also impossible for him to be much lower than the main sect leader, otherwise it would be difficult to convince the public.
Coincidentally, the He Qinghuan sisters and the old silver corpse ghost he met in the Ten Thousand Corpses Cave were also from the Wuding Sect.
Because the old ghost mentioned by the He Qinghuan sisters had died and turned into a Yin corpse, he did not know how much cultivation he had in his lifetime.
However, judging from the fact that he had just turned into a Yin corpse and could become a silver corpse with strength comparable to that of a cultivator in the Spiritual Sea Realm, the old ghost was likely a cultivator in the Spiritual Sea Realm in his lifetime.
Wuding Sect identity, Spiritual Sea Realm cultivation level, and died not long ago.
Combining the above doubts and speculations, the answer is about to come out.
The old ghost is likely to be the deputy sect leader of the Wuding Sect, Tang Mo!
Of course, this is just his personal speculation, and whether the truth is really as he thought remains to be confirmed.
He remembered that Pan Quan said that Liu Yuanji was Tang Mo's confidant, and only Tang Mo had the means to know Liu Yuanji's whereabouts.
And coincidentally, when he searched the old ghost's storage bracelet, he found several life charms, two of which had lost their marks, and he guessed that they belonged to He Qinghuan and her sister.
In addition, there was another intact life charm.
At that time, because he was not very interested in that thing, he just took a casual look at it and put it back into the old ghost's storage bracelet along with the life charms of He Qinghuan and her sister.