Chapter 77: The Hidden Danger Lurking in the Shadows

  Wu San Tong turned his head and looked at his third senior brother in surprise. "Oh my, what wind blew you here, Third Senior Brother?"

  In the morning, among the disciples under Shangguan's leadership, Gu Chen ranked third and was also Wu Santong's third senior brother. Looking at Wu Santong's appearance, Gu Chen was indeed very angry. He didn't believe that Wu Santong hadn't noticed his arrival. As for this rascal junior brother, Gu Chen had always been extremely disgusted with him.

  This time, Xu Mo, the nominal disciple, died at the hands of Wu Santong's apprentice. If Xu Mo had died at someone else's hands, Gu Chen wouldn't have cared; after all, he was just a nominal disciple. But now that it involved Wu Santong, Gu Chen naturally came to "uphold justice" for Xu Mo.

  "Hmph, stop pretending, junior brother!" Gu Chen sneered coldly. "My disciple Xu Mo is now dead at the hands of your own disciple. What do you plan to do about it? Since ancient times, debts must be repaid and lives taken in revenge. You should understand that, shouldn't you?"

  I thought Wu San Tong would say something to refute, but unexpectedly Wu San Tong nodded in agreement. "I also think that Third Brother is right, killing people must be avenged. Time is not suitable for delay, Third Brother please hurry up and avenge your disciple?"

  Gu Chen looked at Wu San Tong strangely. This junior brother had always been unpredictable, and this time was no exception. Had that disciple displeased Wu San Tong so much that he wanted to get rid of him through Gu Chen's hands?

  "Junior brother, are you really asking me to go and kill your disciple? If I truly wanted to kill him, I could have just sent any of my disciples to take care of him!" Gu Chen said coldly.

  "No way, no way, Third Brother Wu, you're kidding me?" Wu San Tong shook his head, looking at Gu Chen with a "you must be crazy" expression.

  Looking at Wu San Tong's expression, Gu Chen found that he was already almost unable to hold back his anger. "Didn't you, my junior brother, also agree with the saying 'a life for a life'? Your disciple killed my disciple, now I'm going to kill your disciple, what's wrong with that?"

  "An eye for an eye is not wrong, but your disciple was not killed by my disciple. It's not that I look down on Third Master, but you want to avenge your disciple, and even if you cultivate for another 10,000 years, you still won't be able to avenge him!" Wu San said resolutely.

  "Disciple, what do you mean? It wasn't your junior who killed him, was it you who did it? Do we need to fight once and for all to see if I can avenge him?" Gu Chen's voice grew even colder.

  Looking at the furious Gu Chen, Wu San Tong's heart secretly laughed, but his expression didn't change. "Don't be like that, Shizong said that among fellow disciples, harmony is most precious! Third Brother, considering our many years as fellow disciples, I'll tell you the truth."

  "Alright, you speak!" Gu Chen's eyebrows furrowed, the development of things seemingly beyond his expectation.

  "It wasn't my disciple who killed your brother, your brother was a martial artist at the Hou Ji border. My disciple was only at the Tian Bing border at that time, do you think he could have killed your brother? Virtual Dou Tai Shixiong, you also understand, it's just suppressing the martial arts boundary, do you still think my disciple could kill your brother? You're confused!" Wu San Tong stomped his foot in hatred, looking like he was fed up with being misunderstood.

  "Brother, if you want to tell the truth, then hurry up and tell the truth, don't waste any more words!" Gu Chen's fist clenched and then relaxed again.

  "Good, but younger brother, I really think that someone is trying to stir up trouble between me and Third Brother's good relationship. Don't know which bastard did this!"

  Wu Santong was still shouting, but seeing Gu Chen's increasingly gloomy face, he also knew that the joke couldn't go on. "Your disciple was killed by Tian Dao, it wasn't my disciple who killed him." Wu Santong said slowly.

  "Nonsense! My disciple is just a martial artist at the peak of the Hou Ji realm, he can't possibly provoke the Heavenly Way!" Gu Chen didn't believe Wu San Tong's words one bit.

  "I knew you wouldn't believe me, Third Brother! Luckily I was prepared!" Wu San took out a memory stone, and a series of images flickered to life on its surface.

  Gu Chen received the memory yuan stone and saw Xu Mo being struck by lightning in the scene. "How is this possible? How could this kid be struck by lightning?"

  "It's like this, that little brat had previously sworn that if he couldn't kill my disciple, he would be struck by five thunderbolts! In the end, he beat my disciple to a pulp, luckily my disciple has a strong life force, otherwise he would have died at your disciple's hands long ago!" Wu San Tong said with hatred, as if it was Ou Yang Fei who should be feeling wronged.

  He opened his mouth in the morning, but since the memory of Yuanshi was here, he couldn't refute anything. "Since that's the case, I'll leave first. If I find out you're not telling the truth, then don't blame me!"

  Taking over the memory stone thrown by Gu Chen, Wu San Tong watched as Gu Chen left. "Disciple, Master can only help you this much. Hehe, a bit of danger is good, otherwise it's not good to be too comfortable. I'll temper you two, hoping to see your progress when you return."

  On a small mountain peak inside Zhenwu Gate.

  "Senior brother, Upper Official Yu and Qin Shou have already left the True Martial Gate!" A seventeen or eighteen year old youth respectfully said to the young man standing in front of him.

  These two brothers were surprisingly the same two people who discovered Shangguan's corpse last time, and unexpectedly they were also disciples of Zhenwu Gate.

  "Hmm, I see. Younger brother, what do you think of me, your older brother, usually?" The young man said.

  "My senior martial brother is naturally good to me, no need to mention. If it weren't for my senior martial brother, I'm afraid I would still be bullied by other fellow disciples now!" The young man didn't know what his senior meant, but he hurriedly said so.

  "Hmm, that's good. I have something for you to do here, brother. I don't know if you're willing or not?" The young man spoke again.

  "Big brother's orders are absolute, even if it means I'll be torn to pieces, I'm willing!" The young man said with a solemn oath.

  "Brother, how could I want your life? Come closer and listen, I'll tell you what to do!" The young man beckoned him over and began speaking in the boy's ear.

  The young man's expression became increasingly strange, and he almost exclaimed in shock. "Senior brother, are we not being too excessive with this?"

  "Huh?" The young man's expression turned cold, "Didn't you just say that even if it meant being torn to pieces, you'd be fine? How can this little thing be difficult for you?"

  "No need, no need, brother don't get angry, I'll go and do it right away!" The young man was about to get angry when the youth hastily spoke up.

  "Go on!" The young man waved his hand, and the boy also knew to leave. As he watched the departing boy, a fierce killing intent flashed in the young man's eyes.

  Another peak in the Zhenwu Mountains is roughly the same size as the one where Wu San Tong is located.

  "Hum, this is really outrageous!" Gu Chen roared in the grand hall, stretching out his hand to shatter everything into dust. Looking at the empty and desolate grand hall, Gu Chen still felt his anger burning fiercely.

  "Come in!" Gu Chen called out towards the outside.

  A timid and fearful disciple walked in cautiously from outside the grand hall. He directly kneeled down in front of Gu Chen, "I don't know what orders the master has?" It can be clearly felt that this disciple is trembling.

  "Useless thing, go and call your master and all the uncles and aunts over!" Gu Chen said coldly, suppressing the urge to slap this disciple to death.

  "Yes! Master! I'm going right away!"

  Upon hearing Gu Chen's order, this disciple was overjoyed. He rolled and crawled out of the grand hall as if there was something terrifying inside.

  Before long, the grand hall of Gu Chen had returned to its previous state, and there were eight more people inside. These eight people were all Gu Chen's disciples, as for other disciples who might still be traveling outside, Gu Chen naturally wouldn't pursue the matter.

  "Your junior fellow apprentice, Wu San Tong, has taken in a disciple named Shang Guan Yu. At the time of the sect's grand assembly, I'm sure you all saw him, and he was only at the Tian Bing boundary. I wanted to settle this little guy myself, but I didn't want to take action personally, so I'll have you all handle it!" Gu Chen said, sitting in his seat, addressing the eight disciples standing before him.

  "Yes, Master!"

  Eight people responded in unison, as Gu Chen's apprentices, they naturally knew Gu Chen's temperament. As for Gu Chen's orders, they just needed to obey. As for the reason, that was not something they needed to consider.

  Among the eight small mountain peaks, they all did the same thing.

  Eight people came out of the Grand Temple in the early morning and returned to their respective mountain peaks. They also summoned their apprentices, and as for Shangguan Yu, they naturally didn't bother to take action personally. They just needed to order their disciples to take action, and of course, all this was kept confidential.

  Although Zhenwu Men does not strictly prohibit disputes between disciples, such completely unbalanced disputes are definitely not allowed. Moreover, Shangguan Yu is still a disciple of Wu Santong, and if Wu Santong goes crazy, Gu Chen estimates that he can't bear it either.

  Outside the Zhenwu Gate.

  "I'll take a look at this map, I don't know how far our destination is this time." Shangguan Yu took out the rolled-up sleeve and unfolded it to examine it carefully.

  The map marked many, many places, and the only place that Shangguan Yu had been to was Zhenwu City. The only place on the map with a red circle mark - the Transverse Mountain Range. This was where Wuhengzi often appeared, and Shangguan Yu didn't know why Wuhengzi

  Why stay in so many cities, instead of running to a mountain range to stay?

  "Qin Shou, let's set off! This time we must complete this task well. I heard that the contribution points of Menpai can not only be exchanged for weapons, but also for martial skills." said Shangguan Yu.

  "Hmm, I've also heard that. We set out so much earlier than others, we should be able to succeed!" Qin Shou said with full confidence.

  "Don't be too confident, this time it's not just our Zhen Wu Men people, but also others from different sects! The most important thing is that the two of us are still at a low level in terms of martial arts, those Wang Ji realm warriors can kill us with ease!"

  Qin Shou nodded slightly. This time's trial was indeed full of challenges. However, neither Shangguan Yu nor Qin Shou were afraid; instead, they looked forward to it.

  "Are you people going out of Zhen Wu Gate? Take out your tokens to verify your identities!" A middle-aged man in front of Shangguan Yu said expressionlessly.