All of them pulled out their weapons to attack. Without the order of Gu Canmo, they had formed into an array to fight with the enemy. Everyone was ready to battle!
Di Fuyi stopped mid-way in the sky. He held his arms and looked at their array.
These days, everyone in Tianju Hall had been very vigilant. They never stopped practicing new skills and tactics. At this moment, they actually formed the array very efficiently. It took less than a minute for them to complete the array and the ambiance under the tree was murderous!
Once the array was formed, it could withstand 1,000 armies. It was the same array Tianju Hall used the last time when they defeated the attacks from various clans.
Gu Canmo slightly narrowed his eyes and looked at Di Fuyi in the sky. His eyes were full of anger and hatred.
Celestial Master was indeed very strong and powerful. However, if he were attacked by all the people from Tianju Hall, he would never be able to escape! Especially since he was alone.
Was he coming to get killed? Or did he bring other people but they were hiding somewhere? He quickly glanced around, but there was nothing to hide behind.
Damn it! He did not want to think too much anymore. It was rare to have him being alone so it was the best opportunity to catch him!
Gu Canmo waved to signal the array. Immediately, the eight elders flew up together with him and surrounded Di Fuyi from all directions. Once again, they formed a killing array and complemented the array the students formed below.
After they finished forming the array, Gu Canmo felt more confident to fight!
"Di Fuyi, you have a good life somewhere else but you chose to come to your personal hell. This time, it's your own choice to come here to get killed. I will help the world to punish you!" The sword on Gu Canmo's hand almost touched Di Fuyi's nose.
Di Fuyi was not panicked at all. He stared at Gu Canmo and the eight elders. "It has been eight years since our last meet, but your spiritual power has not improved much."
Eight years ago, Gu Canmo and the rest were at level nine of spiritual power, and now they were still at level nine. Their spiritual power only improved by a little - probably from level 9.3 to level 9.5.
Gu Canmo grunted. "What do you mean by eight years? We just met each other one year ago. You asked me to conquer the world with you"
Di Fuyi raised his eyebrows. "Old man, you have known me for so many years. Can't you differentiate which one is real or fake? Are you blind now?"
Gu Canmo was stunned. "What?!"
Di Fuyi leisurely said, "I have not shown up in this continent for eight years. The one who created the trouble out there is an imposter!"
The crowd was stunned!
"Nonsense!" Gu Canmo was startled for a few seconds then he angrily said, "Di Fuyi, don't try to fool me with all these rhetorics. Do you think I am an idiot? Are you trying to gain back your reputation this way?"
Di Fuyi played with his finger. "Are you not going to believe me regardless of what I say?"
"Of course! No one will believe you! Di Fuyi, regardless what you say we will never believe a single word from you!"
Di Fuyi lowered his face slightly and sighed. "I never knew that there would be a day that everyone hates me. Do you all always curse me?"
Gu Canmo did not want to hide his hatred anymore. "Of course! Everyone in the continent has cursed you and your ancestors of eighteen generations. As for me, it is normal for me to curse you eight times a day!"
"You all have wronged him! He has been with me these eight years. The one who created so many troubles to the world is indeed an imposter!" A clear voice could be heard from the entrance of the village. In a second, a girl emerged and stood beside Di Fuyi.
Gu Canmo and the others suddenly opened their eyes widely. Although it had been eight years, Gu Xijiu did not change too much either. She looked like she was 18 or 19 years old now so everyone could recognize her easily.
"Xijiu!"
"Xijiu!"
"Gu Xijiu"
Many people in the crowd called out her name.
Gu Xijiu walked forward and bowed to Gu Canmo. "How are you doing, Headmaster Gu?"
Gu Canmo's eyes were brighter than a light bulb at this moment!
There were also people who came out of the jungle. They were Yan Chen and the rest
...
Half an hour later, everyone from Tianju Hall gathered in a circle and surrounded Di Fuyi and Gu Xijiu. Everyone was angry, but this time they were not mad at Di Fuyi. They were mad because they finally got to know the truth.
The fake Celestial Master could actually bring so many troubles to this continent and fooled everyone for so long! The truth was too cruel, and it was too unbelievable. If Gu Xijiu did not come together with Di Fuyi, no one would ever believe him!
Since Gu Xijiu was here with Di Fuyi, after Yan Chen and the rest revealed the story about the incident they met today, everyone finally understood and felt guilty!
They had scolded the wrong person for so long and had now been caught on the spot!
Gu Canmo's faceblushed. He did not even dare to face Di Fuyi. Di Fuyi sat on a chair and used his hand to support his chin. He looked at Gu Canmo. "You cursed me eight times a day"
Gu Canmo forced a smile. "In fact, I was cursing the fake one Actually, I did not curse that many times"
Di Fuyi raised his eyebrows. "Even though you were scolding the fake one, you called out my name. I don't feel happy about it"
Gu Canmo knew Di Fuyi well enough to know that he was a difficult person to deal with. Once he caught the opportunity, he would give you a headache. He could only humbly apologize to Di Fuyi. He even ordered people to brew the best tea and personally handed the teacup for him. The rest of the students from Tianju Hall also kneeled to beg for forgiveness.
Nonetheless, Di Fuyi just ignored them. He looked indifferent,but the aura around him was extremely strong. Gu Canmo also understood that he had offended him. He turned to Gu Xijiu and sought for help.
After all, Gu Xijiu was a student of Tianju Hall. At critical times, she would still speak for them. She looked at Di Fuyi. "Fuyi, they did not know the truth. We can't blame them"
Di Fuyi finally sat straight and glanced through the crowd. "Since Xijiu has spoken for you all, I will forgive you all this time."
After he finished his sentence, everyone took a deep breath and felt relieved.
Gu Canmo was well aware of Di Fuyi's temper. Usually, he would not easily let go of people who offended him. He did not expect that this time Di Fuyi actually forgave them so fast.
It was all credited to Gu Xijiu Hence, everyone looked at Gu Xijiu gratefully.
At this moment, everyone was thrilled. All the negative emotions were gone, and everyone was ready to fight until the end!
The day that the real Celestial Master Zuo showed up, and the fake one was exposed was just around the corner.
Gu Canmo smiled happily like a blooming flower. He asked Di Fuyi about the next step.
Di Fuyi glanced through the crowd and smiled. "Be patient. I have a plan. However, before I tell you about my plan, I must figure out one thing."
Everyone was confused.
Gu Canmo looked curious but forced a smile. "What is that?"
Di Fuyi put his hand into his sleeve and took something out which he placed on his palm. It was a carved jade shaped like a Qilin. He asked, "Whose is this?"
Everyone looked at each other. Gu Canmo frowned. "Everyone in Tianju Hall has one of it. It is a girdle ornament that represents our identity. Is there anything wrong with it?"
Di Fuyi glanced through the crowd again. "Everyone has it?"
Gu Canmo nodded. "It was made two years ago. It is the new identity of our Tianju Hall's student. At first, everyone wore it on their bodies every day. This time after we came out of Tianju Hall, we don't wear it to avoid our identity being disclosed. However, we still keep in with us in our clothes"
He took out a girdle ornament and it was exactly the same as the one on Di Fuyi's palm.
Di Fuyi compared them side by side and asked Gu Canmo, "Are the girdle ornaments you all wear made of Tianxiang Jade?"
Gu Canmo nodded. "Yes, the Tianxiang Jade has a very unique fragrance and it can help to purify any impurities. Therefore, I requested everyone to wear it with them."
Di Fuyi threw the jade on his hand to Gu Canmo. "Take a look at this carefully. Is this jade also made of Tianxiang Jade?"
Gu Canmo was very knowledgeable. He took that ornament and checked it under the sunlight. He was shocked. "This is Tianmo Jade!"
The Tianmo Jade was the opposite of Tianxiang Jade. Although they looked exactly the same, their functions were greatly contrary!
Tianmo Jade was an extremely rare material. It was said that it had a very powerful energy. It could destroy the soul of the wearer by deteriorating his/her spiritual power unknowingly. It could even impair the memories of the bearer, which could eventually lead to dementia.
The energy of this jade was very strong. It could affect the people within the radius of a few kilometers. (Based on modern day knowledge, it was kind of similar to nuclear activity with extremely strong radiation). No one ever expected to see it from Di Fuyi.
Although everyone wore the same girdle ornament, in order to differentiate the owner easily, they carved their own sign on the jade. Some of them carved their middle names on it while others carved their family emblem or some pattern that they could recognize.
It was not easy to engrave words on this kind of jade. It had to be carved by someone with at least a level eight spiritual power, and required at least a level nine spiritual power if they wanted to draw freely on the jade.
The one on Di Fuyi's hand had a cloud pattern carved at the back of the Qilin. The pattern was quite complicated so apparently, it was carved by a level nine spiritual master.
"Celestial Master Zuo, where did you find it from? Could it be that someone imitated the girdle ornament of Tianju Hall and wanted to do an unfavorable thing to us?" Gu Canmo looked very serious.
Di Fuyi played with the jade on his hand. "I found it under a tile at the practice field in Tianju Hall. If I guess correctly, it was the culprit that caused the nightmares for everyone!"
The crowd was stunned. Was this the culprit that caused them to leave their school and hostel? Gu Canmo's facial expression changed. He immediately asked a few elders who had reached level nine if any of them had carved the cloud pattern on this jade.
The elders shook their heads. No one had done it before. However, it was apparently brought in by a student of Tianju Hall, because no one else entered into Tianju Hall in the recent six months! Without the need to ask, it was either a student of Tianju Hall who had been manipulated by someone, or there was a traitor inside Tianju Hall!
Gu Canmo looked at the crowd and asked, "Who owns this girdle ornament?"
Everyone looked at each other, but no one answered.
Gu Canmo looked very angry. "If this was mistakenly brought in by any one of you, you need to tell who is the sender. If you don't admit it, then we would assume that you were doing it deliberately and you are a traitor to enter into Tianju Hall! Once you arecaught, the consequences will be I believe you all should know it very well! Let me ask again, who owns this girdle ornament which has clouds on it?!"
The 200 over people under the big tree were all silent. It was very quiet that one could even hear if a pin dropped on the ground. However, there was still no one who stood out to admit it.
Gu Canmo's eyes looked passed their faces one by one. Every one of them looked shocked.
The elders from discipline departments had very sharp eyes because they had been handling this kind of cases very frequently. Once anyone acted unnaturally, they would be able to identify them quickly. However, despite focused observations, they could notidentify anyone, and no one could recognize this pattern.
It seemed like it was not the student being manipulated by someone to bring in the jade, but indeed there was a traitor in Tianju Hall. This traitor made the Tianmo Jade outside of Tianju Hall and wore it to enter into Tianju Hall. Then, he or she secretly hid the jade under a tile in the practice field. Everything was done undercover.
Even if the jade were found out by the cleaner, it would not cause any alarm to the students as it looked the same as the one everyone wore. Who was the traitor? Everyone started having nightmares two months ago, so this Tianmo Jade was probably brought in two months ago too.
Gu Canmo immediately commanded the student who was in charge of the gate of Tianju Hall to take out the gate activity records over the recent two months.
After the investigation, Gu Canmo was not happy with the result.
There were a lot of students who went in and out during that period. It was about one-third of the students who had entered in and out of Tianju Hall; there were even some students who went out once every three to five days.
After they sorted out the result, there were 80 people on the name list.
If the traitor went out, he or she would not go out with a partner. Even if he or she went out with a partner, he or she would need solitary time to do such a thing secretly.
Thus, the discipline elder immediately commanded the students to filter out those who went out alone orwere alone during midway of the trip if they went out in a group.
An hour later, the result was out. During that time of period, there were a total of 22 students who either went out alone or were alone when they went out in a group. This also included those female and male students who went out together but stayed in a separate room overnight.
Among these 22 persons, there were four elders, three teachers and the rests were all students like Qian Lingyu and the gang.
In other words, these 22 persons were the biggest suspects, and one of them was the traitor.
However, it was not an easy task to find out the traitor from a list of 22 people. With the ability of the discipline elders, if they could inquire them one by one they would be able to figure out who the traitor was, but it would take at least five to six days to complete the investigation.
Since the news about the return of Di Fuyi and Gu Xijiu was not made known to the public yet, the fake Celestial Master Zuo was still not aware of it. Now when Di Fuyi showed up in this village, the traitor would seize the opportunity to report to his or her accomplices.
Therefore, they had to identify and expose the traitor quickly. It would be best if they could find him or her in one to two days. The faster they found out who the traitor was the lower the risk to them.
If they did not want the news to be leaked out, the only thing they could do now was to quarantine the 22 persons at one place and only release them once the traitor was found.
However, everyone here was an elite of Tianju Hall, and so it was unreasonable to quarantine them for a few days. Besides, no house was big enough to detain 22 people. The discipline elders looked at each other for a moment and found it difficult to deal with such a situation.
Gu Canmo made up his mind and said, "Let's quarantine them in three groups and ask them to oversee each other. We will let them go as soon as we find the traitor."
The face of the 22 suspects changed as soon as they heard what Gu Canmo had said.
Some of them retorted. "Headmaster Gu, it is unfair to ask us to be quarantined together with the traitor. Are you planning to quarantine us forever if you are unable to find the traitor?"
Gu Canmo coldly said, "No, the longest that I will quarantine you is only until Celestial Master Zuo is dead. However, we will have to quarantine all of you until that time comes."
The people were getting increasingly dissatisfied. Everyone claimed that they were innocent. The situation was getting a bit out of control because everyone was getting very angry.
Gu Canmo also understood that most of the people here were innocent. However, it was a severe issue so he could not take the risk.
Gu Xijiu suddenly spoke just as he was about to order to bring these people away. "Headmaster Gu, their argument is reasonable. We should not quarantine everyone just because of one traitor. I have an idea to find the traitor in one day. Furthermore, we won't have to quarantine everyone."
The crowd opened their eyes and looked at her skeptically after she finished speaking.
Gu Xijiu patted her storage bag, and soon enough, a small little head showed up from the container. It was Lu Wu, and it looked somewhat blur. "Master, do you need anything?"
Gu Xijiu touched its head. "Come out and listen to me."
Lu Wu suddenly awoke and immediately jumped out onto Gu Xijiu's shoulder, its nine tails swayed along. "Yes, master!" It felt excited to be summoned.
"Master, what about me?" The mussel also popped up from within the gang and busily sought for attention.
Recently, Gu Xijiu had been bringing them around. Occasionally, she would let them out to take a breather. However, they felt bored most of the time. Now, they became very excited when they suddenly heard that they had a mission.
Gu Xijiu also took the mussel out. "I will assign a task to you later. Hold on."
"Okay!" The mussel immediately transformed to his original size and went to one corner and kept watch of everyone.
Gu Canmo was slightly shocked. He seemed to have thought of something. "Xijiu, are you planning to ask the mussel to use his illusion skill on everyone so that they would speak the truth?"
Gu Xijiu laughed. "Something like that. As you know, the mussel possesses a skill that can force people to reveal their secrets."
Everyone almost stepped back at the same time as she revealed this fact.
It was common for people to have their secrets. For example, a person might secretly be admiring someone else; a person may hate someone and curse them deep down in their heart. Furthermore, some of the guys currently do not have a partner, and so they may be forced to use their hands when their sexual desires get the better of them.
All of these were untellable secrets. They would feel extremely embarrassed if their secrets were disclosed to the public.
Lan Waihu, Qian Lingyu, Lan Yue, Zhang Chuchu were among the 22 people being suspected.
Lan Waihu tried opposing. "No, Xijiu. You should know that I am innocent. I don't want to be tested!" She had a big secret in her heart and did not want it to be disclosed to the public. She did not want to let Yan Chen know about it too.
Qian Lingyu was also nervous. "I disagree too!" He was always fond of Gu Xijiu to the extent that he could not control himself from liking her. Sometimes, he would have imaginations of her being his sexual partner at night.
However, he knew that there was no way that he was going to be with her and so he was forced to suppress his feelings all this while. He only hoped to be her best buddy and that he could be there for her whenever she needed him.
If he revealed this secret in front of the public, he not only could not be friends with her anymore but probably would be killed by Di Fuyi.
The others were also actively opposing to run this test. Someone even expressed that they would prefer to be quarantined for several days than to be tested in front of the public.
The mussel looked at everyone in disdain. It seemed that human beings always have many secrets. In contrast, it had nothing to hide and was only loyal to its master. Its only problem is that it would occasionally scold Celestial Master Zuo secretly in its heart.
Gu Xijiu raised her hand to stop the crowd from making noise. "I understand your concerns, and so I would like to inform all of you that this is not the only way to solve this problem."
Next, she grabbed a hand of shiny stones from the storage bag and took out 22 stones. She put the stones on her palm and said, "This is a soul stone."
Everyone looked at her with a confused face. This was the first time that they heard about it.
Even Di Fuyi raised his eyebrow and looked at her. He recognized these stones. The mussels collected them from a cave in the enchanted boundary. The mussel always had a liking for shiny stuff, so it brought a hundred stones back from the cave as part of its collection.
The mussel also gave Gu Xijiu several dozen stones and asked her to be safe keep the stones for it. Di Fuyi studied these stones for a while and discovered that they had no other function except for the fact that they were shiny and colorful. Therefore, he did not pay too much attention to them anymore.
He never expected that Gu Xijiu would take them out at this moment and refer to them as soul stones.
The mussel also widely opened its round eyes. It was also its first time hearing the name of the stones.
The stones on her hand were shimmering and looked very beautiful. Gu Xijiu made sure that she had gotten everyone's attention before she slowly explained, "The soul stone has a special feature. If someone holds the stone for an hour, it will remember the unique smell of the holder's soul and will not lose their scent anymore. Since the Tianmo Jade had been worn by the traitor and was brought into Tianju Hall, therefore, the smell of the wearer's soul should still be on the Tianmo Jade. Once the two smells combine, coupled with the strong senses of Lu Wu and the mussel, the color of the soul stone will change to the same color as Tianmo Jade after six hours. By that time, we will be able to identify the traitor."
While Gu Xijiu was talking, she distributed the soul stones to the 22 suspects. "Come on. You have to hold it in your palm. Let me demonstrate to you the way to hold it. Everyone must follow my exact movements. Anyone who fails to do so would be deemed as the traitor!"
They took the stones from her and placed it on their hands. Gu Xijiu also took one and held it on her hand so that everyone could follow her.
It was an effortless way to hold it, so everyone could easily follow her movements. They stood in a row and were observed by the rest of the group.
It was a very novelty way. No one from the Tianju Association had heard of this way before. Not even Di Fuyi. He folded his arms and stood there to watch them.
Many other people from the Tianju Hall had started gathering at the scene, and so there were nearly 200 people now staring at the 22 suspects. The crowd would quickly catch the slightest hint of suspicion.
Gu Xijiu also observed their facial expressions from time to time.
Some of them looked steady; some of them looked curious; some of them looked skeptical; some of them looked indifferent; some of them looked like they were absent-minded.
After observing them for some time, she could not help but think that the subjective quality of the traitor was prominent. This person would not reveal the slightest hint of suspicion throughout this session.
A minute later, after they were done holding the stones, Gu Xijiu asked every one of them to engrave their name onto the stone.
This soul stone was soft, and so it was not hard to engrave on it.
After they finished engraving their name onto the stones, they were collected by sequence and were carefully inspected.
To avoid the contamination of the smell of the collector's soul, Gu Xijiu also distributed a pair of gloves to the collectors to avoid contaminating the stones with the smell of the collector's soul.
There was now a bunch of shining small stones on Gu Xijiu's hand. Gu Xijiu brought the stones to the mussel and Lu Wu and asked them to breathe on them.
The two of them followed her instructions and breathed on it. Strangely enough, though the original stones sparkled and looked translucent, they began to turn milky white once the two of them had breathed onto it. The whole process was quite magical.
Gu Xijiu took a deep breath. She smiled and said, "I am done! Headmaster Gu, please place these 22 stones in a cave ten miles away from here together with the Tianmo Jade. Also, please assign two students who possess the dragon attribute to guard the stones. I will bring everyone to witness the result after six hours."
Gu Canmo was worried. "Xijiu, would it be too little to assign only two guards? What if there is any mishap?"
Gu Xijiu shook her head. "No, to obtain the best result, we should not allow too many people near the stones. I think that it is already too much to assign two people as guards. Don't worry. There will not be any mishap."
Gu Canmo could only follow her instruction since Gu Xijiu had assured him.
He thought for a moment and asked, "Do we still need to quarantine the 22 people?"
Gu Xijiu shook her head. "No, though they are all suspicious, there is only one traitor among them. It will not look good to quarantine everyone just because of one traitor. The method I am going to use is good enough, and there will not be any mistake. Let's observe the results after 12 hours."
Gu Canmo nodded and did as he was told.
...
Somewhere inside a swarthy cave.
This cave was originally a residence of some beasts. The beasts had been driven away by the people from Tianju Hall. Di Fuyi personally used a cleaning spell to purify the cave several times so that there was no smell inside the cave anymore.
There was a long stone inside the cave.
A bunch of engraved stones and the Tianmo Jade sat on top of the long stone.
The two students were assigned to keep an eye outside the cave to avoid anyone from entering the cave.
This cave was located in a dense jungle. It was summer now and also the most tumultuous period for mosquitoes.
It had been three hours since the test, and it was now late at night. The mosquitoes were even more rampant. The mosquitoes constantly bit them as they stood outside the cave. It was somewhat painful.
They did not stop slapping the mosquitoes that got near to them and continuously cursed the traitor from time to time.
The two students were not good at martial arts. They did not even possess a spiritual power of level six, so they were unable to protect their bodies from the mosquitoes with a spell. They could only slap the mosquitoes using their bare hands.
The mosquitoes in the mountain were huge. Large rashes would form on their skin soon after they were bitten. After some time, many big rashes had formed on their bodies, and they did not feel good at all!
One of the students proposed to use smoke to drive the mosquitoes away which was indeed a good idea. The other student immediately went and collected the wormwood that was explicitly used to smoke the mosquitoes. The mosquitoes were immediately driven away by the smoke that was produced from the burning wood. The two students decided that it was best to stand near the burning wormwood. Finally, they were able to continue their guard duties without any disturbance.
They did not realize that, not far from them, a shadow that almost blended into the nightfall stood behind a tree. He had been observing for a long while and was now blowing a wisp of smoke toward the two students.
After a moment, the two students started rubbing their eyes. One of the students groaned. "Xiaohao, where did you find the wormwood? It has gotten so smoky that my eyes can't seem to stay open!"
"The wormwood may have been too wet, which was the reason why it produced so much smoke." The other student rubbed his eyes and speculated.
The two of them were being smoked to the extent that they were unable to open their eyes and tears started trickling down their face.
When they were rubbing their eyes, the shadow that was hiding in the dark flashed pass them like lightning and entered the cave.
It had done so without alerting the two students.
The person was wearing a black mask, and only his pair of eyes could be seen. Once the person had entered the cave, he immediately headed towards the place where the soul stones were placed. He stared at the soul stones.
Three hours had passed since the test began and all the soul stones had changed in color. Each one of them had changed into a different color, and they were still changing.
'The stones could change color!'
'Gu Xijiu was not lying! It seemed that the color which represented him would change into the same color of the Tianmo Jade after some time.
He quickly found the stone that represented him. He looked at the name on it and his finger emitted a ray of light to wipe off the name on the stone.
Next, he started writing down another name. He was imitating someone else's writing. After he finished writing, he looked at the name and smiled.
"You seem quite happy." A voice sounded from not far away. It was a clear voice with a tinge of laughter. "I am happy too." The voice belonged to Gu Xijiu.
The person was stunned for two seconds. However, he quickly regained his composure and instantly reacted. He quickly ran towards the exit without looking at Gu Xijiu. Just as he was about to reach the exit, he bumped into another person.
"Do you think you can escape while I am here?" The person sounded cold but elegant. It was Di Fuyi.
Next, he waved his sleeve on the black-clothed person's face. The mask on his face fell off, and his original appearance was exposed.
Somewhere deep in the dark, Gu Canmo's angry voice was heard. "Hong Tianxin, it's you!"
The black-clothed man looked pale. He stared at the three people who had appeared from out from nowhere. "You You all" He tried to quibble, "I was just curious and decided to take a look. I am not the traitor."
Gu Canmo slapped him and scolded angrily. "Don't try to quibble! I saw you change the name on your stone! If we hadn't shouted at you, you would have discovered the scapegoat's stone and changed it to your name!"
Hong Tianxin remained silent.
Gu Canmo held the two engraved stones in his hands. He looked at them and felt even angrier. "The unfortunate person is, in fact, your best friend, Le Feng Yan!"
Hong Tianxin had nothing else to say since he had been caught red-handed.
He looked very pale and moved several steps backward. It was impossible for him to escape with the three of them here.
He made up his mind, closed his eyes and clenched his jaws together!
Unexpectedly, things did not turn out as he wished and instead of biting onto the pill he had hidden in his mouth, he felt himself biting on a jade that had appeared from out of nowhere. It felt hard and cold to the extent that his two front teeth almost broke!
He opened his eyes and saw the strict and calm face of his discipline elder. "Do you think that we were going to allow you to commit suicide? No way!"
The discipline elder used his two fingers and shoved at the two back teeth of Hong Tianxin. A white bean which was the shape of a pill rolled out from his mouth and fell onto the palm of discipline elder.
The discipline elder also pressed several of his acupuncture points to ensure that he would not cause any more trouble before he handed the pill to Di Fuyi.
Di Fuyi used a cleaning skill on the pill before taking a look at it. The pill was a capsule that he had never seen before.
Gu Xijiu came and took a look at the pill. "A capsule!"
It was very similar to the modern day tablets which were used to contain sugar confection. It was something that could not be made in this era.
After all, it required a lot of modern equipment to make this kind of capsule. There was no one else who could have made this kind of capsule in this world other than Long Fan!
It seemed that this bastard's hand had extended to every corner of the continent. This bastard existed everywhere!
Hong Tianxin's body was now trembling as he had failed to commit suicide. Gu Canmo was also angry to the extent that his body was shaking.
Hong Tianxin was introduced by Long Siye two years ago. Furthermore, the other heaven's gift disciples had vouched for him to enter into the Tianju Association. He was a rare talent as he already possessed a spiritual power of level seven when he joined the association. He was very calm and competent, so Gu Canmo liked him very much. He never expected him to be a traitor sent by Long Fan to harm the Tianju Association!
"Bastard, were you sent by Long Fan?"
Hong Tianxin did not care anymore and shouted at Gu Xijiu. "This was all your plan! Is the function of the soul stone fake? Were you doing it just so that you could lure me?"
Gu Xijiu leisurely answered. "You are right!"
Hong Tianxin clenched his fist. He had suspected it. However, Gu Xijiu's explanation was so real that he had no choice but to believe her.
He also secretly observed before and saw that Di Fuyi, Gu Xijiu, and Gu Canmo had gathered to discuss something. He had checked all the possible ways that he could have been ambushed. However, he did not find any abnormalities which were the reason why he decided to take action. He never expected that this was all a trap!
Gu Canmo was impatient, and so he was relieved when the traitor was finally revealed. He immediately interrogated as he wanted to find out the real mastermind who was commanding Hong Tianxin and their intentions. However, Hong Tianxin did not speak up regardless of how he was interrogated.
Gu Xijiu summoned the big mussel and ordered it to use the illusion skill to make Hong Tianxin reveal the truth.
The big mussel was happy to do so as it was an expert in using this skill. After a few minutes, Hong Tianxin started revealing the entire story.
It was not the same as what Gu Xijiu had speculated. Hong Tianxin's superior was not Long Fan but instead a mysterious man. This mysterious man had been contacting him using a directed audio spell. However, it was a one-way communication spell. All the while, the mysterious man would contact him, but he was never able to contact the mysterious man.
So far, the mysterious man had only contacted him three times. The first time was to tell him about the existence of the Tianxiang Jade and to ask him to report to Gu Canmo. The Tianxiang Jade was a spiritual jade which possessed a great function. Gu Canmo immediately fell in love with the jade as soon as he found it and requested everyone to wear the jade as a girdle ornament to enhance their power.
The second time was to ask him out so that the mysterious man could see his girdle ornament in person.
The third time was to hand him the Tianmo Jade and to ask him to hide it under the floor of the practice field.
Though the mysterious man had summoned him twice, Hong Tianxin only heard his voice. However, he never saw his face before. When he wanted to pass the Tianmo Jade to Hong Tianxin, he placed it under the tree and instructed Hong Tianxin to collect it from there.
Hong Tianxin did not have a clue about the function of the Tianmo Jade. The way the mysterious man controlled him was extraordinary. His instructions would appear directly in Hong Tianxin's mind, and if he did not follow accordingly, he would feel extremely dizzy.
There was a very high likelihood that Long Fan was the mastermind behind the scene. However, no one could figure out the reason for him to do so.
The Tianmo Jade was capable of destroying the human soul. Over some time, people exposed to the material would have dementia. Fortunately, after suffering from constant nightmares, the people living at the Tianju Association moved out. The Tianmo Jade would not affect them anymore once they were a certain distance from it.
What was his intention to deliberately hide the Tianmo Jade in the Tianju Association? Was there something else that he wanted in the Tianju Association? Was he attempting to drive the people out of there deliberately?
There was a robust enchanted barrier surrounding the exterior of the Tianju Association. Even if the people in the association had left the place, an outsider would still be blocked from entering the barrier. Or, was he planning to flush all of the people out from the Tianju Association and kill them?
Nonetheless, they had yet to be attacked ever since they shifted out from the Tianju Association. Though they had quite a difficult life living in this village, they did not encounter any danger. Hence, the intention of the mastermind was probably not to kill them.
Hong Tianxin was brought away. What awaited him was severe punishment by the Tianju Association. Since Gu Canmo had caught the culprit that was causing the nightmares, he did not want his students to stay at this place any longer. Everyone was eager to go home, and so they directly headed back to the Tianju Association on the very same night.
Everyone was happy and excited that they were going home together. When they arrived at the Tianju Association, they began to get busy by unpacking their belongings and cleaning the area.
Since Gu Xijiu had not disclosed her relationship with Di Fuyi as her husband, the old-fashioned Gu Canmo immediately arranged for Gu Xijiu to go back to her house. Meanwhile, Di Fuyi was arranged to stay in the courtyard that used to be his home and thus the couple was separated.
Gu Xijiu chuckled to herself. Di Fuyi was the one who said that he did not want to disclose their relationship, so she just followed his instruction. She would be able to get a good sleep tonight and would not be lured by someone into doing naughty things.
Gu Xijiu started feeling emotional as soon as she got back to her house and saw the familiar scenes. It was a homely feeling.
Her house was immaculate, and so she only needed to use several cleaning spells to restore everything.
While she was unpacking her stuff, Lan Waihu came and knocked on the door. Gu Xijiu opened the door and saw a little girl holding a pillow. She stood outside and looked at her with her innocent eyes. "Xijiu, can I sleep with you tonight?"
Gu Xijiu did not reject her request and nodded her head.
The little girl cheered joyfully and jumped directly onto the bed with her pillow. She placed her pillow on the bed and made herself comfortable under the quilt as though she was ready to sleep.
"Xijiu, can we sleep side by side? I have so many things to talk to you about."
Gu Xijiu missed her very much too. She had brought Lan Waihu a lot of gifts, and so she took this opportunity to give it to her personally.
The gifts that Gu Xijiu had brought her were rare. Lan Waihu held her gifts and smiled happily. She looked very excited and joyful.
Gu Xijiu asked, "I have brought gifts for many people. Do you want to follow me to distribute the gifts?"
"Okay!" The little girl did not reject and immediately jumped down from a bed.
Gu Xijiu took her along to distribute the gifts to her schoolmates.
There were quite a few people that Gu Xijiu needed to distribute the gifts to since she had a lot of friends. An hour had passed by the time they finished distributing all the gifts.
Coincidentally, they had wandered to Yan Chen's home. The place used to be occupied by Yan Chen. However, the place had been assigned to other students ever since he graduated.
The hostel admin initially wanted to assign Yan Chen to stay in the guest room during his trip back this time. However, he requested to stay in his old house. Therefore, the hostel admin had to discuss with the student who was currently living there, and the student agreed to it. After a while, the student moved out of the house willingly and allowed Yan Chen to reoccupy the place.