Chapter 118 Mountain River Endures

The four words "Mountain River Endures" struck heavily in Zhang Yuanqing's heart. His face changed drastically as he turned to look at Elder Hongying, blurting out, "You..."

"Are you sure?" Fu Qingyang was one step ahead of him, seemingly to prevent Yuanshi Tianzun from speaking.

Compared to her abruptly changing subordinate, Madam Qian remained calm and composed, like an unapproachable ice queen.

Zhang Yuanqing immediately shut his mouth, thoughts swirling in his mind like a stormy sea.

"Who is Shanhe Yongcun (Mountain River Endures)?" Fu Qingxuan frowned.

She naturally couldn't have heard of someone who returned to the Lingjing (Spirit Realm) over twenty years ago. When Shanhe Yongcun was working in Taiyi Sect, Fu Qingxuan was still a kindergarten student with pigtails and a little red schoolbag.

"It's Shanhe Yongcun (Mountain River Endures)," Fu Qingyang corrected.

Elder Gaofeng also looked at Hongying; he had become a Lingjing Xingzhe within the last decade.

Elder Hongying's gaze was still fixed on the old face in the distance, her face frozen with shock, bewilderment, and disbelief. After several seconds, she took a deep breath and said, "He is an elder of Taiyi Sect, with a very long history. He was a Lingjing Xingzhe during the late Republic of China period, but he already returned to the Lingjing over twenty years ago."

The Great Protector of Dark Night Rose was actually a former Taiyi Sect elder? Yin Ji and the others wore strange expressions.

For them, this information was simply too difficult to digest.

"Returned to the Lingjing..." Fu Qingyang said coldly, "A Taiyi Sect elder who returned to the Lingjing became the Great Protector of Dark Night Rose? Is he really returning to the Lingjing, or did he betray Taiyi Sect?"

Hearing this, everyone present looked at Elder Hongying.

The still charming woman gave a wry smile. "This is precisely what shocks me."

Fu Qingyang nodded, not saying anything more.

As a scout, he could tell whether Elder Hongying was telling the truth or lying, especially with a demi-god level scout by his side.

No one could lie in front of the Marshal.

"Do you recognize the other two? Are they also from the official side?" Fu Qingxuan looked at her younger brother.

She didn't seem to know what the official elders looked like. This was of course the case; the Marshal was busy reading manga and eating chocolate beans every day, so how could she have time to learn about the rabble of official elders?

Fu Qingyang didn't respond. He walked to the bodies of the middle-aged man and woman, examined them for a moment, and after confirming that there were no disguise tools, shook his head and said, "They are not official Sovereigns, but after confirming their appearances, it won't be difficult to check their identities."

As he spoke, the pavilions, shops, and streets of the Ghost City began to become transparent, like a mirage fading away.

"The Ghost City is about to leave for a night tour," Fu Qingxuan said. "Prepare to return to reality."

This item was about to leave; its owner was summoning it.

"Cousin, is there no way to stop it?" Zhang Yuanqing asked quickly.

Cousin? The ice queen, Madam Qian, revealed a look of astonishment.

The others were also stunned.

What made them even more unbelievable was that the Marshal didn't correct Yuanshi Tianzun's address, and slightly shook her head. "Scouts don't have that ability."

Fu Qingyang stared coldly at his trusted subordinate, wondering how many times he had prostrated himself.

Fu Qingxuan was not a woman with a good temper. The "fading" of the Ghost City was accelerating, and the outline of the real world began to appear, as if two paintings were overlapping.

After a few more seconds, the noise of people and the slight noise of motor vehicles driving on the road entered their ears. The Ghost City completely disappeared, and they appeared in the middle of the road.

….The corpses of the three Protectors of the Dark Night Rose also left with the Ghost City.

A white car was driving towards the crowd. The driver suddenly saw a group of people in front of him, caught off guard, and instinctively swerved wildly.

But in the blink of an eye, the group of people disappeared as if they had never appeared.

The driver hurriedly corrected the steering wheel again, and the car shifted a few meters to the left, quickly returning to the right track and driving safely away. Under the blessing of Elder Hongying's Star Illusion technique, everyone watched the white car drive away. Fu Qingxuan said:

"Let's disperse. I'm going back to Jing City. Fu Qingyang, you investigate this matter and tell me when you're done."

Fu Qingyang grabbed his sister's arm. "Give me back the cloak."

Fu Qingxuan pretended not to hear and looked at Zhang Yuanqing. "When the Ten Elders interrogate you later, contact me. You are from the White Tiger Army, so you don't need that vulgar Fire Master to take action."

"Okay, Cousin," Zhang Yuanqing replied.

Fu Qingxuan glanced at him. "You seem to know a lot."

She didn't say much, took out her phone from her riding pants pocket, and opened the navigation. Suddenly remembering something, she said lightly:

"Yuanshi Tianzun, send me the photos you took."

Including Fu Qingyang, everyone's expression changed, and they cast threatening glances at Yuanshi Tianzun.

Zhang Yuanqing opened the software without looking sideways, added the white-haired avatar as a friend, and sent the photo of them sleeping together on the kang.

Fu Qingxuan nodded in satisfaction, then opened the navigation. In the gentle voice of the electronic female voice, she rushed into the blue sky.

"Preparing to depart, the entire journey is 1,268 kilometers, and it will take about... You have exceeded the speed limit, please slow down, you have ex..."

Northwest Gobi Desert, headquarters of the Soldiers of God Sect.

In the bungalow where the Mother Goddess's womb was stored, King of Terror suddenly stood up, looked at the flesh cabin, and sighed, "He's resurrected... It seems Fu Qingyang wasn't killed."

King of Silver Moon turned his head to look and saw the outline of a hand propping up the flesh membrane on the surface of the flesh cabin. Then, a figure tore through the "placenta" and climbed out of the flesh cabin.

His hair was gray, covered in wrinkles, but his body was muscular and full of vigor.

After the old man climbed out, the flesh cabin quickly "healed" and the flesh membrane was repaired.

But soon, a second hand propped up the flesh membrane. This time, it was a middle-aged man.

After the middle-aged man, it was an ordinary-looking middle-aged woman.

King of Terror snapped his fingers, and three sets of formal attire appeared on the lid of the flesh cabin. He smiled and said, "The clothes are ready. The three of you, it's not very elegant to talk naked."

The Great Protector grabbed the clothes and put them on slowly, his voice hoarse. "My identity has been exposed. The operation failed."

King of Silver Moon said angrily, "Before the operation, you said your leader had deduced it many times and this time it would definitely succeed."

King of Terror touched the silver nail on his earlobe. "Although it involves the calculations of a demi-god, failure is common. But we need to discuss where the failure occurred."

"Was the Devil's Eye rescued?" the Third Protector asked.

"He will soon return to the Soldiers of God Sect," King of Terror nodded.

The three Protectors of Dark Night Rose frowned. The Great Protector said in a hoarse voice, "You delayed the Marshal long enough. There's no problem with your part. The Devil's Eye was also rescued... It seems the failure was how Fu Qingxuan located the Ghost City.

…."The Ghost City has the leader's secret protection. She couldn't have found it."

"If we don't know..." King of Terror shrugged. "It seems the Sect Master took action. Just blame all unknown doubts on him."

That peerless chess player, that person who majored in stars, his arrangements and moves were always subtle.

You can't even feel when he made a move, or whether he made a move at all.

He was like a god standing in a higher dimension, overlooking the development and evolution of everything in the world, occasionally moving a chess piece, and you wouldn't feel anything unusual.

An arrangement that could cause the leader of Dark Night Rose to miscalculate? Then don't think about it. It must be that person playing tricks in the dark.

"But one thing is certain: Dark Night Rose and the official side will have to play openly in the future," the Great Protector sighed.

Online conference room.

The Great Elder of the headquarters, Di Hong, personally attended the meeting. Participants included Elder Hongying and Elder Zhao of Taiyi Sect, Fu Qingyang and Elder Gou of the Songhai branch, and Elder Gaofeng of the Hangzhou branch.

The theme of this meeting was the series of events that took place in Songhai last night, centered on rescuing the Devil's Eye.

"At 11:05 p.m. that night, Elder Huangsha Baizhan of the Songhai branch sent a call for help to the Pingchuan City branch. At 11:14 p.m., the Marshal went to Pingchuan City No. 3 Prison. At 11:17 p.m., I received a mysterious call from someone claiming to be an old friend..."

Elder Gou reported the events of last night in a low voice, summarizing all the details to restore the truth.

"What's the situation with your old friend?" Great Elder Di Hong asked in a deep voice.

"He is from the Free and Unfettered organization, one of the Twin Suns, his Lingjing ID is Zhang Tianshi, the former owner of the zoo. I reported it to headquarters back then," Elder Gou said frankly.

"Wasn't he dead?" Great Elder Di Hong said.

"That's why I was lured away," Elder Gou sighed.

Great Elder Di Hong didn't ask any more questions, and instead said, "Elder Zhao, Elder Hongying, what's the matter with Shanhe Yongcun? The information in Taiyi Sect says that this person entered a dungeon in 1999 and disappeared ever since. Taiyi Sect judged that he had returned to the Lingjing. But why did he suddenly appear and become the Great Protector of Dark Night Rose?"

The microphone icon on Elder Zhao's avatar lit up. "Shanhe Yongcun did return to the Lingjing. As recorded in the database, he entered a dungeon in the winter of 1999 and there was no news after that. In such cases, we usually assume that they have returned to the Lingjing."

This was the dungeon he had reported to the Scarlet Sun Enforcer when he entered the dungeon.

A file was uploaded in the dialogue box.

As the elders were about to open it, they heard Fu Qingyang coldly interrupt:

"Elder Zhao, Taiyi Sect's preparations are not bad."

These words made the elders in the conference room stir. Fu Qingyang seemed to know something.

Elder Zhao said in a deep voice, "What do you mean, Elder Fu?"

The microphone on Fu Qingyang's avatar flickered. "A week ago, the information about Shanhe Yongcun in Taiyi Sect's database was 'no such person.' But this afternoon, after Elder Hongying reported this matter, the information about Shanhe Yongcun was restored. Shouldn't Elder Zhao explain this?"

As soon as these words came out, Great Elder Di Hong said seriously, "Fu Qingyang, is this true?"

Fu Qingyang gave a faint "yes." "There is another person who returned to the Lingjing in the same year and whose information was erased."

…."Who?"

Several questions were asked simultaneously in the conference room.

Fu Qingyang said in a deep voice, "The seventeenth son of the Taiyi Sect Master, one of the Twin Shadows of the Free and Unfettered organization, Ling Tuo!"

There was dead silence in the conference room.

......

"Is the leader of Dark Night Rose my seventeenth brother, Ling Tuo?"

Under the pagoda tree in Jing City, Ling Jun stared intently at Elder Sun on the rocking chair, gritting his teeth and saying, "Today the female Marshal beheaded the Great Protector of Dark Night Rose in Jin City. It turns out he was Taiyi Sect's Shanhe Yongcun. Then is the leader of Dark Night Rose Ling Tuo?"

He learned of this from Fu Qingyang and Yuanshi Tianzun.

Yuanshi Tianzun and Fu Qingyang's guess was that Ling Tuo was the leader of Dark Night Rose. Ling Tuo and Shanhe Yongcun returned to the Lingjing in the same year, and their information was also erased. Considering the leader of Dark Night Rose's position,

His Seventeenth Brother was the most suspicious.

"No wonder the members of Dark Night Rose are all over the official side and the Lingjing aristocratic families. This organization was originally split from within us. Why? Why would Seventeenth Brother do this?"

"Elder Sun, you can't hide it anymore. Tell me."

Victoria leaned lazily against the tree trunk, a cigarette between her fingers, watching her man throw a tantrum at Old Sun.

Upon hearing the "bad news," Ling Jun sat in the room for a long time, which startled Victoria. She pressed him to her chest and said softly, "Baby, what's wrong? Tell me if something's wrong."

But the baby didn't say anything. Instead, he led her directly to Elder Sun's residence.

Elder Sun closed his eyes, swaying with the rocking chair.

After a long time, he opened his eyes, looked at the blue sky, and said slowly, "You're right. The leader of Dark Night Rose is Ling Tuo, and Shanhe Yongcun is his follower. Shanhe Yongcun and I are close friends, and our beliefs are the same."

"There is a reason why Taiyi Sect removed my power. They were worried that I would become a secret member of Dark Night Rose."

Ling Jun clenched his fists, his face twitching violently.

The things that Dark Night Rose did were no better than evil organizations, but in his impression, Seventeenth Brother was a gentle and just brother.

He was the object of his childhood admiration.

"Why did he become like this?" Victoria frowned. "Although Ling Tuo doesn't seem like a stable and reliable man, how could someone who is determined to save the world be a bad person?"

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