Vol 9 Chapter 12 (1/2)
Book 9, Ji Ning of Serpentwing Lake, Chapter 12 – Father and Son
“The culprit is Ji Ning?” North about? What ‘culprit’? What are you saying?”
“Can’t you guess?” Norther looked at his son This was the son who he had entrusted all his hopes to, the one whom he had always strove to train If he hadn’t placed all of his hopes on Baiwei, he would’ve left Baiwei to his own devices and let hinorant, wastrel descendant However, Blacktiger had instead always been very strict and exacting with him
“Father, are you saying…” Baias no fool Frowning he said, “Brother Ji Ning didn’t want for the Heavenly Treasures Mountain to knoas hi he couldn’t let others know about! He went to kill an ene, Shui Yi…of the three of the Seven! Can it be that he killed Dong Seven? But Dong Seven has ahi like this”
Blacktiger nodded “It isn’t Dong Seven He killed Yu Dong” Baiwen shook his head “Yu Dong? He’s just a ure”
“But Yudong’s master, Adept Mooncrescent, was present at the ti, he was caught up in the fray and killed by Ji Ning as well” Blacktiger stared at his son “And Adept Mooncrescent was a retired Ied to one of the armies under the control of our Northmont clan of Stillwater, the Shadow Army”
“What?!” Baiwei’s face instantly changed Naturally, he knew that his own clan, the Northmont clan, had sole Marquis had some armies of their own
The Grand Xia Dynasty knew this as well However, the exact number of secret armies, how many individuals were in each army, and hoerful the members of the armies were…those were the true secrets
“A retired cultivator of the Shadow Aran to ht for many, many years…he must have many old friends and brothers-in-arures for these Immortal armies”
“Right Just so!” Blacktiger growled, “They battle for the sake of our Northmont clan, and countless numbers of them have perished Very, very few are able to survive and retire If the retired cultivators are killed…the cultivators of the entire ared! They absolutely will not permit this sort of event to occur, and if it were to occur, they will find out who the killer was, then take revenge for their old brother!”
“This is a sensitive, sore spot for Immortal cultivator arer’s eyes were filled with solemnity as well This was one of the unspoken rules of the armies; they wouldn’t permit their old, retired brethren to suffer! Absolutely not!
“Ji Ning’s group acted very cleanly and professionally,” Blacktiger said “The intelligence division of the Shadow Arations, they have already searched the memories of many of the ordinary mortals who lived on Mount Mooncrescent They’ve even found the blood-robe which Adept Mooncrescent once wore; it had been cast deep into the netic depths of the world”
“However, because a total of three people had died, being Mooncrescent, his disciple Yu Dong, and his daughter Yue Wei, the Shadow Arate Yu Dong and Yue Wei as well Soon, they found that someone has recently asked the Heavenly Treasures Mountain for a copy of the report on Yu Dong”
Blacktiger stared at his son “Following this clue, the Shadow Arations led theer Estate! That is how I learned of this”
“What should we do, then?” Baiorried now “The Shadow Arer said, “But if Shui Yi and Dong Seven both die as well, then the Shadow Arrow convinced that the culprit had purchased intelligence reports on these three figures at the Heavenly Treasures Mountain”
Baiwei said, frantic, “Then I’ll i and have hi Seven?”
Blacktiger shook his head “No use They’ll soon be able to rule out the other leads, at which point in ti this matter”
“Then what should I do?” Baiwei said, worried “There are two options,” Blacktiger said Baiwei looked towards his father
“The first option is to give up Ji Ning,” Blacktiger said “That e’ll avoid all trouble”
“Impossible” Baiwei shook his head
Blacktiger, seeing this, actually began to laugh “Hahaha, that’s ood friends and brothers! If you can so easily sacrifice them…then you’ll never be able to make any true friends and brothers! If you wish for others to be willing to risk their lives for you, you have to treat them with sincerity, understood?”
Baias startled
“Then, only the second option reer said “Just admit that you were the one who did this deed” Baias astonished “Me?!”
“Right Admit to the Shadow Army that it was you who did it; it was you who sent people to investigate Yu Dong, and then who led people to kill Yu Dong! However, because Adept Mooncrescent tried to stop you…you ended up killing hier continued, “You had no idea that Adept Mooncrescent was a retired soldier, and thus you cannot be faulted for what you did There’s no way for the Shadow Ar you…as a e of our Northht become a future Marquis of Stillwater, for you to have accidentally killed Adept Mooncrescent is just a small matter”
“If you accept responsibility for this matter, it will just be a small matter, because in the end, the Shadow Army is the army of our Northmont clan It won’t be easy for the cultivators of our Shadow Are descendant of the Northmont clan, just due to an accident”
“However, if anyone else were to accept responsibility, they would aler looked at his son “Still…as a result of this, I iine that there will be some old fellows of the Shadow Army ill hate you”