Chapter 79 The assassination

If he encountered such an assassination attempt under normal circumstances, with Mo Juren's military strength, he would not be afraid of any desperate assassin.

However, after being poisoned by the withered bone butterfly, his true energy could only be raised to 50% or 60%.

The assassin's martial arts were close to perfection. After just a few moves, the assassin succeeded and pierced Mo Juren's Dantian acupoint with one sword.

Mo Juren only had time to slap him with one palm, knocking him away.

But it no longer mattered whether the palm hit him or not. After the old man delivered the fatal blow, he was only breathing out but not breathing in.

It is obvious that he is a suicidal assassin who has extremely high martial arts skills, is at the end of his life, usually stays in seclusion, and can only make one last attack!
It would cost a huge price to persuade such an old man to be an assassin willingly. Mo Juren had no idea about this, wondering which enemy had spent so much money!
First, he used poisonous flowers to attract the bone butterflies, then used butterfly scale powder to suppress his true energy, and finally, he killed them with a fatal assassination!

Such strict arrangements and timing choices would be impossible to accomplish without the cooperation of close people!
After the sword hit his dantian, Mo Juren's internal energy rapidly lost. In addition, the poison of the withered bone butterfly spread all over the scene, penetrating every hole, and had already entered his body in large quantities with his breathing.

At that time, Mo Juren could only use his medical skills to find ways to slow down the dissipation of true energy.

But after the assassin succeeds, the next step for the forces behind him might be to deal with the Jingjiao Society.

So he had to endure the severe pain and act out the scene half-truthfully.

He first announced to the public that he had been assassinated, but he had already killed the assassin and only suffered minor injuries. He pretended to be relaxed and asked someone to deal with the assassin's body.

Then he immediately summoned various high-level personnel of Jingjiao Society, but under the witness of the public, Mo Juren seemed to be seriously injured and seemed to be holding on forcibly.

In fact, he had secretly used the family heirloom Nuan Yang Jade to protect his Dantian, and then forcefully swallowed a "Blood Burning Pill" that stimulated his potential and increased his true Qi.

Sure enough, the killers arranged people to come and test again, and found that Mo Juren seemed not to be injured at all, and defeated the assassination attempt again with 100% of his strength.

The enemy thought that Mo Juren was trying to take advantage of the situation and lure the enemy out, so they quickly stopped their next move.

But at this time, due to the forceful use of his true Qi, as well as the aftereffects of the Bone-Deepening Butterfly poison and the Blood-Burning Pill, the injuries on Mo Juren's body could no longer be healed in a short period of time.

Fortunately, this play bought Mo Juren some time.

He took this opportunity to secretly recall the secret helmsmen densely distributed outside Jiayuan City and handed them over to his most trusted Fifth Lady.

This move protected the safety of Jiayuan City and Mo Mansion at the most critical moment.

Mo Juren knew that his true situation would be exposed sooner or later, so he had no choice but to go all out and hand over all the power of the Jingjiao Society to his fourth wife Yan Liu, and ordered his second and third wives to assist him.

Then he disappeared from the scene and wandered around alone, trying to find a way to cure the poison of the Withered Bone Butterfly and restore a large amount of true energy at the same time, so as to completely heal his injuries.

Otherwise, his martial arts energy would continue to dissipate from the wound, and his martial arts skills would never be restored.

From then on, Mo Juren embarked on a journey of wandering in Yue State, until he returned ten years later by taking over another body...

On the night of the assassination, Mo Juren thought about it: who was the one close to him who betrayed him?

There were only three people who were most likely to know the details of Mo Juren's work with poisonous weeds. One was his sworn brother Ma Kongtian, who went with him to buy the corpse worm pills.

One of them was Jin Lianfei, the brother-in-law of the Jin family, from whose house he had just returned to get medicine.

The other one was the third lady Liu Ya, who provided the information about the person who sold the Gu and also came to the medicine garden that night!
This is why Mo Juren decided to return to Jiayuan City as Zhang Tie first, in order to conduct an investigation in secret to avoid alerting the enemy and allowing them to be on guard.

Mo Juren was walking and reminiscing about the past, and he unexpectedly came to the outside of Ma Kongtian's former residence.

It is inevitable for everyone to distinguish between close and distant relatives. Although Ma Kongtian is Mo Juren's sworn brother, compared with his third wife and brother-in-law, he becomes the person he suspects first.

Madam Wu said that Ma Kongtian had been executed three years ago for betraying his gang, and his house had been raided. So if he came to investigate again, he could only try his luck and did not hold much hope.

He saw that the main door of the former Ma Mansion was now wide open, and it had become a warehouse-like place. Mo Juren stopped and watched for a while, and discovered that quite a few ordinary disciples of the Jingjiao Society were coming in and out of here.

Although Mo Juren had become famous at the Heroes Conference under the name "Zhang Tie", the minions at the scene obviously didn't know him yet and only thought he was a curious passerby.

So Mo Juren stopped an older member and asked,
"Excuse me, wasn't this originally the residence of Ma Kong Tianma, the guardian? Why has it become a storage place now?"

The man glanced up and down at Mo Juren, and then said vigilantly,

"What about the Dharma Protector Ma? That traitor was killed by the Mo family three years ago. You are here to find the Ma family now. Could you be his accomplice?"

Mo Juren didn't expect that his sworn brother, who had started from scratch with him and built up the Jing Jiao Society step by step, would be treated like this by the gang members. He couldn't help but feel sad.
"Nothing, it's just that when I came here before, I saw that the Ma Mansion was quite magnificent, but I didn't expect that things have changed now."

"I'm glad you're alright. Right now our Jing Jiao Society is in a turbulent time, so don't wander around the city unless you have something to do."

After saying this, seeing that Mo Juren was dressed like a human, he thought of teasing him and said casually,

"Do you really want to hear gossip about the Ma family? Look, did you see that ugly woman who runs the tea stall over there? Even though she's crazy, she claims to be Madam Ma's daughter. Maybe you can find out something from her."

Mo Juren saw that this gang member was just perfunctorily treating him, but his words and actions showed that he was loyal to Jingjiao Society, so he couldn't blame him. So he clasped his hands, thanked him, and let him leave.

When I left, I took a casual look at the tea stall and found that it was a crude little stall selling tea and snacks, probably for the coolies working nearby.

The stall owner was indeed an ugly middle-aged woman with a crooked nose, slanted face and dark complexion.

But when Mo Juren saw the look in her eyes, he couldn't take his eyes off her.

Although her eyes were dull and she often looked dazed, the occasional clarity in her gaze was inconsistent with her deliberate appearance.

Mo Juren used his extraordinary eyesight to observe carefully and immediately found something unusual.

Oh my god, it turns out she was wearing a mask on her face.

Such a mask is so exquisitely made that it is difficult for ordinary people to distinguish it. It is obvious that it must be of great value.

(End of this chapter)