A Mortal’s Journey to Immortality: Wang Yu’s Rebirth as the Reincarnation Dao Ancestor - Chapter 18

Chapter 18 The Cicada Sheds Its Shell

“I didn’t let him know, he’s completely unaware.”

“So, you’re not planning to tell him?”

“Yes, I can’t tell him.”

“Heh, you’ve been hiding your martial arts skills from him, and you’re hiding this from him too. Are you two still fellow disciples?” You’re clearly very close, why are you acting like you’re guarding against a thief?

“I don’t want to put him in a difficult position.”

“Fine, I don’t understand you two.” Li Feiyu shook his head, then his expression became serious: “So, when do you plan to leave?”

“The sooner the better, preferably in the next few days.”

“So urgent?”

Li Feiyu narrowed his eyes.

Han Li took a deep breath and pursed his lips: “If I don’t leave now, I’m afraid I won’t be able to leave.”

“Because of Doctor Mo?”

Li Feiyu frowned slightly.

Han Li didn’t answer: “…”

“How do you need my cooperation? Do you have a plan?”

“Of course I do, I’ll use the head chef in the main kitchen to escape…”

…

A few days later.

As night fell.

Manager Qian of the Seven Mysteries Sect’s main kitchen found a letter in the corner of his room.

“Huh? Who’s sending me a letter at this hour?”

Looking around to make sure no one was watching, he quickly pocketed the letter, pushed open the door, and closed it behind him. After lighting the candles, he found a seat and opened the envelope to take out the letter.

Holding the letter, Manager Qian, with his mustache, twitched and his beard trembled slightly at first glance:

“This is… a letter from Xu Feng?”

The letter bore their agreed-upon unique mark, and he immediately recognized the writer.

“Why would that guy contact me at this hour?”

He lit the letter over the candle.

Once the letter was completely burned to ashes, the somewhat shrewd Manager Qian immediately blew out the candle and left his room, heading towards Chishui Peak. Before leaving, he glanced casually at a corner of the room.

That was where he kept the rest of his intelligence correspondence.

“I need to find an opportunity to deliver the intelligence I’ve collected over the years to Chief Jia,”

Manager Qian thought to himself.

Then he thought of Xu Feng and the meeting:

“Making me meet at Chishui Peak so late at night, aren’t you afraid of encountering ghosts after walking on the dark for too long?”

“Hmph, Xu, I’ll give you a good scolding later…”

Manager Qian was one of the spies that Jia Tianlong, the leader of the Wild Wolf Gang, had planted in the Seven Mysteries Sect a long time ago.

Xu Feng, on the other hand, was a disciple of the Seven Mysteries

Sect who had been turned against them with real money. The Wild Wolf Gang, a bandit gang with tens of thousands of bandits at its peak, had been fighting with the Seven Mysteries Sect in the northwest of Jingzhou for more than ten years, and the two sides were like oil and water. It was common practice for them to send spies to infiltrate each other or to turn people in each other’s forces against each other.

However,

it seemed that

the Wild Wolf Gang had done a better job in infiltration and turning.

Manager Qian did not delay after reading the letter and went straight along the mountain path to the secluded cliff platform agreed upon in the letter.

In the distance, his eyes could see through the low bushes in front of him and, with the help of the moonlight overhead, he could see the two figures standing at the agreed place.

“Huh? There are two people?”

Realizing something was wrong, Manager Qian immediately stopped.

Because they were twenty or thirty feet apart, and it was nighttime, he couldn’t clearly see the faces of the two people on the platform. He could only tell from their build that one was burly and resembled Xu Feng. The other was smaller, looking like a boy who hadn’t fully grown up.

Just as he was hesitating, wondering whether to continue forward, a sudden change occurred on the platform: a scream rang out, and the boy was struck down the cliff edge by the burly man.

This scene startled Manager Qian:

“What is Xu Feng doing?”

Before he could go out through the bushes to find out, the man who resembled Xu Feng used his lightness skill to flee in another direction, disappearing into the nearby woods like a nimble monkey in the blink of an eye.

Upon seeing this, Manager Qian immediately frowned: “Gone?”

This Xu Feng specifically invited him out for a meeting, yet he brought along a young man from the sect, and then inexplicably knocked him off the cliff.

That cliff was over two hundred feet high; anyone who fell from it would surely die.

The boy who fell was sure to be smashed to pieces.

Manager Qian couldn’t understand why his contact had become so reckless, and a wave of doubt washed over him. Just as he was about to chase after Xu Feng out of the woods to find out what was going on, another fight suddenly broke out in the nearby forest, followed by a shrill scream.

“It’s Xu Feng’s voice!”

Manager Qian was terrified.

The next moment,

he heard an angry shout:

“Who’s in those bushes over there?”

“Come out!”

The one who shouted was Li Feiyu, carrying a broadsword.

He was looking in the direction Manager Qian was hiding.

At first, Manager Qian thought it was a trap, so he didn’t show himself from the bushes. But when he saw Li Feiyu charging straight at him with his sword through the gaps in the trees, his mustache trembled, and he knew he was in trouble.

He tried to escape, but it was too late.

“Misunderstanding…”

“There must be some misunderstanding here!”

“I just happened to be passing by…”

To this,

Li Feiyu grinned without saying a word and swung his sword.

“Just passing by? Bah, I don’t believe it. You’re definitely a spy, just like that Xu Feng!”

The young man declared: The person who wronged you knows better than you how wronged you are.

Where did Manager Qian bring any weapons on this trip? Besides, his status in the Seven Mysteries Sect was merely that of a head kitchen manager; how could he possibly possess superior martial arts skills? Therefore, he was utterly powerless against Li Feiyu, the most outstanding young talent.

“What a pity.”

Xu Feng misled me.

Even now, Manager Qian hadn’t considered that this was a trap.

A trap to help someone fake their death and escape.

…

On Li Feiyu’s side, after breaking Manager Qian’s legs and arms, he delayed for a while before returning to the woods where he had appeared earlier.

From the woods, he dragged out a burly man who had recently died.

It was the traitor Xu Feng.

However, this Xu Feng seemed to have had his mouth gagged.

His pressure points had also been sealed, rendering him completely immobile.

Now, lying in a pool of blood, he was already dead.

Soon…

Manager Qian was taken back to the Seven Absolutes Hall and interrogated by the hall’s experts. The people there subjected him to brutal torture, and Manager Qian, this shrewd kitchen manager, was no match for them.

He immediately confessed everything he had seen and heard, including his identity and purpose as a spy for the Wild Wolf Gang.

Combining the various clues,

the conclusion was that

Xu Feng, a traitor to the Seven Mysteries Sect, had arranged to meet Manager Qian, the Wild Wolf Gang spy, to betray important information about the sect. However, before the two met, Han Li, having finished his cultivation at the Red Water Peak waterfall, passed by as usual and encountered Xu Feng.

To prevent Han Li from interfering and to prevent his own activities from being exposed, Xu Feng killed him to silence him.

This scene was also witnessed by Li Feiyu.

However, due to the dim light of night, Li Feiyu did not know who Xu Feng had knocked off the cliff. Li Feiyu wanted to stop Xu Feng to get to the bottom of things, but Xu Feng, fearing exposure, once again considered killing him to silence him. However, he was no match for Li Feiyu and was killed in retaliation.

Manager Qian was an innocent bystander caught in the crossfire.

This is the general outline of events and the cause of events that the Seven Mysteries Sect members came to after combining the accounts of Li Feiyu and Manager Qian.

It can be considered quite reasonable.

As for the truth of the matter?

…

A few days ago, the two discussed a plan.

“Han Li, you want me to impersonate Xu Feng? And then knock you off the cliff with one palm?” Li Feiyu was quite surprised by this.

“Yes. You and Xu Feng are similar in build. Use your shrinking technique to make slight adjustments, then change into his clothes. Under the cover of night, it will be convincing enough. After we’re done acting, you go back to Forest Number 1, wake up the previously drugged Xu Feng, and kill him. At that time, you should make a little noise like a fight, and let Manager Qian hear Xu Feng’s dying screams. After we capture Manager Qian, we can hand him over to the Seven Absolutes Hall for interrogation. He will help us complete this feigned death escape plan.”

(End of Chapter)