Chapter 391 Misunderstanding

Yuan Ming immediately stood up and found a pen and paper from the wing room. According to his memory, he quickly wrote down the names of the peaks that had exploded at the last moment in the last attempt.

Changqing Peak, Tianxia Peak, Wudao Peak, Qinglan Peak.

Including Shen Lingyun's Lingxing Peak, at least five of the 21 peaks of Chaotian Sect have betrayed.

Yuan Ming stared at the words on the paper, frowning, and couldn't understand why there were so many traitors in the prosperous Chaotian Sect?

Especially the Tianxia and Wudao Peaks. According to the introduction left by Master Shura, the masters of these two peaks are both in the late stage of Jindan cultivation. Their status in the sect is below two people and above ten thousand people. The cultivation resources in the sect are also inclined to these two peaks. There is no reason to betray the sect.

What's more, the purpose of their rebellion is not even to seize power, but to destroy the sect. For them, betrayal is a thankless task and will only leave a bad reputation in the world.

While Yuan Ming was puzzled, Shen Peng's voice sounded again outside the house.

Yuan Ming sighed, pushed open the door helplessly, exchanged a few polite words with him, asked about the arrival time of the Wu Lei Sect's viewing team, and then excused himself from feeling unwell and returned to the room.

After sorting out his mood, he took another piece of rice paper and began to deduce a way out.

According to what he heard and saw during his last attempt, there were three fundamental reasons for the demise of Chaotian Sect: traitors, foreign aid, and Yuanying.

The solutions to the second and third points are the same. Yuan Ming must race against time and try to solve the traitor problem before the Wu Lei Sect and Beiming Sanmeng arrive, and force the gray-clothed old man to show up. At that time, the Yuanying ancestor of Chaotian Sect will kill him two to one, and all problems will be solved.

Shen Peng just told Yuan Ming that the Wu Lei Sect's viewing team will arrive in four days, but considering that they may have ambushed people in secret, this time may be advanced by one day.

Since Wulei Sect and Chaotian Sect belong to the same sect of Zhao State, there are often frictions between the two sects. Therefore, although Wulei Sect is close, the spectator team always arrives one day before the founding ceremony to avoid losing the dignity of their own sect.

Now, the number of traitors that Yuan Ming has to deal with has increased from one Jindan to five Jindan, and there may be more foundation building and Qi refining disciples among them. It is impossible to expect Changchun Temple to help him. The only way is to gain the trust of the sect.

Thinking of this, Yuan Ming smiled bitterly.

Before, Shen Lingyun alone forced him to take risks to expose the identity of the traitor, but now there are four more powerful Jindan peak masters.

With his current status in the sect, even if he produces more evidence, he will probably be easily suppressed by them.

Yuan Ming recalled his plan for Shen Lingyun, and suddenly a flash of inspiration came to him, and he found that he had been in a misunderstanding all along, and recalled a clue that he had overlooked.

Soon, Yuan Ming in the cave on the top of the mountain visited his traitorous master again, but this time, he did not mention the nightmare.

"Master, the grand ceremony is coming, but our Lingxing Peak has not prepared the special entertainment. The Stewards' Hall has sent people to urge the disciples several times. Look at this..." Yuan Ming asked cautiously.

Although Shen Lingyun is a soul cultivator, he does not often use his soul cultivation ability in order not to be exposed. Moreover, Yuan Ming's soul strength is not inferior to his. Although he cannot use his skills, he can still detect in advance if he is not being investigated.

Therefore, he is not worried that his lies will be discovered by Shen Lingyun using soul cultivation methods.

As expected, Shen Lingyun did not notice anything wrong after hearing Yuan Ming's suggestion. He just said casually: "Just tell them that this peak was founded not long ago and is short of manpower. We will not participate in this ceremony for the time being. Let's talk about it next time."

"That's what I told them, but they still asked me to ask your opinion. Do you think you can give me some evidence to prove to them that this is what you mean?" Yuan Ming said.

Shen Lingyun pondered for a moment, nodded, raised his right hand, and a token flew into Yuan Ming's hand.

"Take this. In addition, before the ceremony begins, I need to retreat for a while. Unless other peak masters look for me, you can handle all the miscellaneous matters as me." Shen Lingyun urged.

Yuan Ming took the token, bowed respectfully, and then slowly withdrew from the cave.

Then, he rushed to the deacon hall without stopping and found the disciple who was transferred to guard the warehouse.

"Brother, do you still remember the appearance of the disciple who entered the intelligence warehouse with this token last time?" Yuan Ming took out the token and shook it.

"This... I remember his eyes were very narrow..."

The warehouse guard recalled the details of the man's appearance. While listening, Yuan Ming took out a jade slip and sketched the man's portrait with his mind.

"Do you think it's him?" Yuan Ming handed the jade slip with the portrait to the guard.

"Yes, it's this person. Wow, brother, your painting skills are really exquisite! Just listening to what I said, you can draw them exactly the same." The guard saw the portrait and praised it immediately.

Yuan Ming smiled, put away the jade slip, and contacted Shen Peng without stopping.

"Brother Shen, I want you to help me find someone..."

...

Half a day later, Xiujie Peak.

After a busy day's work, the secular disciple Tao Wenlong did not take the main road when he returned to his residence, but chose a beautiful mountain path and slowly enjoyed the beautiful scenery on both sides.

Xiujie Peak ranks last among the twenty-one peaks of Chaotian Sect. When the task was assigned, Tao Wenlong still complained a little in his heart, thinking that he was not bad in ability, but was assigned to such a ghost place, and he could not make any great achievements.

But after living here for a long time, he became a little nostalgic for the scenery here.

Not long ago, his superiors contacted him to send him to clean up the key intelligence that Chaotian Sect accidentally obtained. He thought it was a big task, but Chaotian Sect did not know the criticality of the intelligence, but just stored it casually as general intelligence. He relied on the token prepared by his superiors to complete the task easily and added a credit.

At that time, he realized that when being an undercover, you have to choose some inconspicuous places. If you lurk in those top-ranked peaks, although you have the opportunity to make great achievements, you may have to worry about whether you will be exposed every day, and it is impossible to receive such an easy task.

Tao Wenlong looked at the scenery around him and the towering ancient trees, and suddenly felt a little emotional.

This beautiful scenery that has been deposited for thousands of years will soon be burned by the flames of war. I wonder how many ancient trees and flowers will be left here after the war, and how many will remain standing?

Tao Wenlong shook his head and sighed for a while, then slowly walked out of the path and came to the front of his residence. Just as he opened the door, he suddenly heard a sharp shout from behind him.

"Tao Wenlong, you are in trouble, come with us!"

Tao Wenlong's body stiffened, cold sweat dripped from his forehead, and his thoughts turned rapidly. After a moment, he forced himself to suppress his shock and fear. While turning around, he squeezed out a smile and said with a bow:

"Misunderstanding, misunderstanding, did you find the wrong person? I am usually law-abiding and have not done anything bad?"

Behind him, several foundation-building monks stood side by side, led by a handsome young man. Because of the token given by the superior, Tao Wenlong recognized him and knew that he was Zhen Luo, the only disciple of Lingxing Peak, and he felt bad in his heart.

On the other side, Yuan Ming looked at the jade slip in his hand and confirmed that he was the person described by the warehouse guard, and then smiled coldly: "Hehe, it must be you we are looking for. As for what you did, I think you should know it in your heart, right? Tell me, who instructed you to do this, and which faction are you from? Five Thunder Sect, or Beiming Sanmeng?"

Hearing this, the people around Yuan Ming seemed a little confused, but when he heard Yuan Ming spit out the four words "Beiming Sanmeng", Tao Wenlong immediately shuddered slightly, and beads of sweat oozed out of his forehead, and he didn't notice the strangeness of those people at all.

"Hehe, Senior Brother Zhen, what are you talking about? Why don't I understand it?"

Tao Wenlong said, and took two steps back slightly, then suddenly raised his hand, and a talisman was instantly shot out, bursting out in front of everyone with a very dazzling white light.

However, Yuan Ming was well prepared. Almost at the same time when Tao Wenlong cast the talisman, he flipped his right hand and a square array plate fell into his palm. As he pinched the magic formula, eight blue light ropes instantly emerged from the ground at the same time as the white light lit up.

The white light quickly dissipated. When the other foundation-building cultivators opened their eyes again and saw the surrounding scene clearly, they found that Tao Wenlong was entangled by eight light ropes in the air and was roaring unwillingly.

"What are you doing? I am innocent, you framed me!"

"No wonder you, Junior Brother Zhen, specially asked us to wait here. It turned out that you prepared the array in advance?" On the right hand side of Yuan Ming, a tall foundation-building cultivator wearing dark blue armor said in surprise.

"Haha, I'm just used to being prepared. I didn't expect to use it. Now it seems that the secret hidden by Tao Wenlong is deeper than I thought. I'm afraid that the crime he committed is more than just forging the peak master's token." Yuan Ming smiled and said.

After finding out Tao Wenlong's identity, Yuan Ming immediately found the people of the Punishment Hall, showed them Shen Lingyun's token, said that he was acting on the orders of his master, and explained Tao Wenlong's crimes, and then brought several foundation-building deacons of the Punishment Hall.

The person who just spoke to him was the Punishment Hall deacon named "Gu Zhiping".

"Yes, but Junior Brother Zhen, why did you ask him if he was from the Five Thunder Sect or the North Ming Sanmeng? Why do you feel like you knew it in advance?" Shen Peng asked curiously on Yuan Ming's left.

"I just think that the things he committed are not what our disciples would do, so I tricked him to see if he was an undercover sent by other forces. I didn't expect to actually catch him." Yuan Ming immediately said the reasons that he had prepared several times.

These words were naturally not only said to Shen Peng, but also to Gu Zhiping and other Punishment Hall disciples. Otherwise, his behavior would be a bit abrupt, and if he waited until he was suspected and then said the reasons, it would naturally not be as effective as it is now.

Shen Peng nodded repeatedly, and there was a hint of admiration in his eyes when he looked at Yuan Ming, but he naturally did not continue to ask questions.