712 People search for traces in the sea, and survive in the whirlpool
(712 people in the sea to find traces, in the whirlwind to survive to the death)
About an hour ago, Gou Xuan was walking alone in a narrow street in the Golden Jade City, his gaze constantly sweeping over the bustling crowd on the street. It's not that he has to act alone, it's that the scope of the search is so large that everyone goes their separate ways.
The monks' senses and divine senses were much sharper than ordinary people, so Miao Zhong, Murong Qing, Mu Yuan, Zhao Chong, and many monks under King Yun were all sent out separately to find Du Li's whereabouts. Only the Cloud King was still sitting in the palace, anxiously waiting for news.
In Du Neng's confession, the monk who came into contact with him was dressed in a black cloak, which even covered his face, and he only saw half of his chin. He was just a mortal and couldn't sense the other party's breath, so he didn't know who that person was.
But Gou Zhu knew that since this monk concealed his identity, he would definitely not look for a gambler named Du Neng in the streets and alleys with great fanfare. There must be a group of middlemen in this matter.
After another beating, Du Neng confessed that it was a gang called the Ebony Gang in Oak Street who found him and brought him to a hall in their gang where he met the cloaked monk and signed a blood pact.
By the time King Yun's men arrived, the hall was empty. It is likely that when Du Neng was arrested, they felt that something was wrong. The gangsters are not comparable to the gamblers of Du Neng. They were all over the street like rats, but at the slightest movement they disappeared.
Gou Zhu found that this street was really a bit like the bluestone street he had been wandering in since he was a child. It is also an ancient blue slate paved with edges and corners worn out and puddles of water, and grass grows in the crevices of the slate. It is also a crowd of people, mixed with fish and dragons.
The only difference is that this oak street is next to a small river with a wharf that eventually leads to the harbour east of the Golden Jade City. Many years ago, oak trees cut down from the surrounding mountains were transported here and then shipped out to sea.
After King Yun came to power, he no longer exported oak, but continued to import timber from overseas. As a result, the dock, which could only be used for export, was deserted. There was no timber around, but it was full of casinos that had been opened in the dark.
On the second floor of the restaurant opposite, there was an old man with a thin appearance and gray hair who had a plate of wine and a pot of wine in front of him. He slowly sipped his wine as he peered across the gap in the hidden window.
But then he suddenly felt his stomach shrink violently, as if someone had poured a red-hot charcoal fire on his stomach, making him feel a sharp pain, and almost vomited all the wine and meat that had eaten this morning.
"Stinky boy, you're looking for death!"
It was a thin young man in a gray short-coat who looked like a dock helper, and he punched him in the stomach for some reason. The punch was so powerful that he bowed backwards.
This made him furious. After scolding, he touched it back, and he took out a sharp knife that shook brightly, and stabbed the young man in the abdomen unceremoniously. But he had barely stabbed half the distance, and his hand was firmly clamped by something like an iron tong, and he couldn't move at all.
He looked up and saw that it was the young man who had grabbed him by the wrist. The man's five fingers were simply five extremely cold daggers, and the grip on his hand was extremely tough, not to mention, the cold air came from those five fingers, almost freezing his entire hand to the point of breaking off.
The man gently pulled his hand back, and he involuntarily turned around, and the sound of bones breaking came from his arm, but the pain was suppressed by the terrible cold. Before he could say anything more, a black dagger was pressed against his neck, directly embedded in his flesh.
"You're from the Ebony Gang, and you're keeping an eye on you?"
"Your Excellency...... Are you laughing......" He immediately changed his smiling expression, "The people of the Ebony Gang are all villains, how can I ......"
Before he finished speaking, he felt the dagger on his neck go a little deeper. He hurriedly stretched his neck and shouted, "I said, I said, I'm just showing Boss Wu the field......"
The man asked in a deep voice, "If you dare to talk nonsense again, I'll dig your throat out." Did you hire a car yesterday?"
Dooley's men were ambushed in the casinos in this area, and the scene was extremely clean, leaving no clues.
What Gou Zhu thought of was that it was simple for them to ambush Du Li and let the people around them not notice, as long as they laid out the formation. But if you want to quietly get people out to coerce Mu Jia, it's not that simple.
It is impossible for them to carry a person out without being seen by the bustling people on the road. If the large and small teleportation charms are used, then the fluctuations of the Void Escape Spirit Machine along the spatial channel during the teleportation cannot be completely hidden at all. It was like fireworks from the sky, and the whole city could feel it.
The best way to do this is to prepare a car. After the person took it, he was sent directly to the carriage, and then all the way out of the city so as not to attract the attention of others.
These monks have been erasing clues all the way, naturally not wanting to reveal their identities. Of course, they don't use their own carts and horses, and they don't hire their own cars. It's good to let the gangsters do this kind of chores.
The Ebony Gang retreated in a hurry, and they would definitely leave someone behind to watch the scene. Gou Zhu looked at the eyes of everyone who was walking around the neighborhood, and finally came to the second floor of this wine shop with a good view, and caught the thin old man.
"Yes...... Did hire a car...... Also ......"
"What else?"
"There's also a boat ......"
Sure enough, he guessed correctly. The monks took Dourie and got into the carriage. They took her to the dock and then got on a boat.
It's far easier to find the shipowner than it is to find the Ebony Gang. After another torture, Gou Zhu finally knew where Du Li was sent. They did not go down the river to the harbor, but went up the river to the fairy lake in the canyon outside the Golden Jade City.
Gou Zhu didn't wait for the others to converge. At this time, the earlier he arrives, the more likely Mu Jia and Du Li are to survive. Even if he couldn't defeat those Purple Mansion monks, as long as he could disrupt the other party's plan, it would be good.
He transmitted the news to King Yun and Miao Zhong, and flew high into the sky himself, summoning the phoenix blood kite. The big bird let out a long cry and flew like a fiery meteor towards the fairy lake outside the city.
Although Jinzhou is coastal and low-lying, the surface of the land has been eroded by flowing water for hundreds of millions of years, and there are many deep ravines and canyons.
Fairy Lake is more than 20 miles outside the city at the foot of Qiongtai Mountain, is a mountain stream convergence, and is formed by the huge rock filling the exit, embedded in the canyon of a large green lake. The terrain here is long and narrow, more than ten miles long, but only a few miles at the widest point.
The surface of the lake, which used to be a blue mirror, is now like a loophole, and the water surface is huge and has a clear whirlpool. It's as if there is a hole in the bottom of the lake, and all the water is swirling towards the big hole at the bottom of the lake. It's just that the water in the lake has not decreased. A huge rumble of water was heard.
It's a different story underwater. Countless gold-drenched filaments swirled wildly, forming a golden cone made of silk. Above the cone, there is another huge inverted white cone, which is the huge funnel formed by the whirlpool of the lake. Mu Jia and Du Li were struggling to support themselves under this golden cone.
This is exactly a perfect mechanism for Mu Jia. Even if no one on the other side exists, it will start perfectly.
After Wu Qingyu had to take down Du Li by himself, he deliberately made such a design in order to try his best to clear up the relationship between the Wu family and this matter.
He was in ambush at the bottom of the lake with monks who had been paid for money. Even if all these people died, they would not be able to find out the slightest relationship with the martial arts. Then he found a formation master to lay a formation at the bottom of the lake, and asked everyone in the martial arts family to withdraw without leaving any clues.
Although this formation has been running, only Mu Jia's blood can truly activate it. Once it is activated, it is like tearing down the embankment, and the huge potential energy of the lake will be triggered, setting off a terrifying whirlpool. The myriad of gold-splitting filaments that had already been laid out underwater were driven by the whirlpool, twisting any creature into a pulp.
It takes a lot of time from the time it is activated all the way to full activation. But the formation master who set up the formation had already calculated that if he wanted to untie the immortal rope on Du Li's body, the time it would take was much longer than the time to fully activate the formation. So as long as Mu Jia insists on not retreating, then these two people will definitely die!
Despite this, Mu Jia and Du Li both used their whole body strength to infuse both mana and true qi into the Sansheng Grass. These aquatic plants grow everywhere, and they are pervasively entangled, getting thicker and thicker, and partly hindering the strangulation of these gold filaments.
But with the strength of the two of them, it is almost impossible to fight against the momentum of the whole lake swirling down. The whirlpool will only be a few hours before the lake is exhausted. But they couldn't make it that far.
Du Li was already injured, and at this time, the true qi of her whole body was running to the extreme, her true qi was surging too much, hurting the meridians, and blood flowed out of her mouth, nose and eyes. But she sat cross-legged, surrounded by Aoki Maki. The cyan aura traveled around his body like a swimming dragon. She couldn't speak, but a thought kept churning in her mind, and she couldn't stop asking:
"Master, you know that you are going to die, why do you have to die together?"
"Hmph!" Mu Jia, who also ran his mana to the extreme, suddenly stood up in the torrent, flicked his sleeves, and said angrily, "I practice Aoki Immortal Gong, when immortality and sanctification of the flesh, I never know how the word death is written!"