Chapter 84: Island in the River

Mo Juren remained silent in response to Jin Can's words about fate. He wanted to ask something else, but he couldn't open his mouth for a while.

But Jin Can seemed to understand his intention and said,
"The plot to assassinate you was set up by a cultivator himself. Our Jin family participated in it. Since the plot failed, there is nothing to deny. Over the past ten years, this man has come to Jiayuan City many times. I already know his name. If you want to know, agree to my last request!"

Mo Juren raised his head and looked towards him.

Jin Can said word by word,

"I, Jin Can, have completely confessed to you. I also want you to admit it yourself. Tell me! Was my daughter Jin Honglan killed by you?"

!!!

Mo Juren closed his eyes and took a breath, countless memories flashed through his mind, and then he suddenly opened his eyes, but only replied coldly,

"I do bear some responsibility for Honglan's death, but why do you insist that I killed her?"

Jin Can laughed several times, threw the tinder, and the pile of clothes beside him that were soaked with lamp oil quickly caught fire. He was still laughing,

“Hahahaha, I never thought that the dignified Ghost Hand Mo Juren, facing a dying man, would not dare to admit what he had done. With such forbearance and such a state of mind, it was indeed not unfair that our Brotherhood was defeated by your Jing Jiao Society.”

"Honglan, your mistake is that you trust him too much. Don't you know what a man can give up for power? You overestimate your position in his heart..."

Mo Juren's eyes turned cold as he saw that Jin Can and his son were about to be burned to death, and the thing he wanted to know had not been found yet. He was thinking about whether he should rush into the fire and rescue Jin Lianfei first.

At this time, in the firelight, Jin Can seemed to see through Mo Juren's plan and said the last sentence,

"That immortal cultivator's name is Diao Yuanzheng, and he practices Taoism in Huifeng Valley in Quling City. Go ahead, fight him head-on and make him bleed, and then come down to accompany us. We in the Jin family are all waiting for you underground, haha, hahahahaha..."

That night, a fire destroyed a wooden building in the backyard of the Jin family, killing the father and son. Since the Jin family had no descendants, the Jin Mansion was taken over by the Jing Jiao Society, which regained control of the entire city.

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Outside Jiayuan City, there is a small island in the middle of the Grand Canal that is rarely visited by people. Normally, ships passing by will avoid this place, and it looks quite desolate at night.

The moonlight was hazy at this moment. Next to a big rock on the island, there were two men and one woman, standing or sitting, waiting for something.

After a while, a lotus-shaped floating platform as big as a wooden basin floated over from upstream. On it stood a woman with gorgeous clothes and a dignified figure. She exuded an extraordinary temperament, but her face was quite ordinary.

The woman controlled the lotus to approach the core island, then leaped into the air. The lotus under her feet actually shrank and left the water. The woman took it into her sleeve, and then she landed gracefully in front of the rocks on the island.

The three people who had been waiting for a long time came forward to greet her with courtesy as equals. It was obvious that these people were immortal cultivators just like her!
One of the men, who was thin, had only nine fingers on each hand and looked a bit wretched, said,

"Red Lotus Sanren's lotus magic weapon is becoming more and more handy to use. I guess his cultivation has improved recently, right?"

"No, no, Yunmenjian Wu Jiuzhi is well-known. How can my humble skills be worthy of your praise?"

Then he said to the other two,
"Fellow Daoist Hu, Fellow Daoist Xiong, I'm sorry to have kept you waiting for so long. I spent some time drawing a few talismans before I left the house, which delayed me quite a bit. I shouldn't have missed the opportunity, right?" The two walked together, advancing and retreating together, obviously a couple. One was a sturdy man with a big beard and a big sword on his back, and the other was a mature young woman with a springy look in her eyes, smiling before she spoke.

I only heard the young woman surnamed Hu reply,
"Sister Honglian, you are worrying too much. The three of us have only been here for a short time. Fellow Daoist Wu, you are the one who convened this meeting. Tell us, what are your plans?"

Wu Jiuzhi laughed and said,

"I'm sure everyone has heard that a plant of Yellow Gold appeared in Jiayuan City today. What do you think?"

The young woman surnamed Hu was slightly surprised when she heard this.

"What? That's a precious elixir worth three hundred spirit stones. How can these mortals have such an opportunity?"

Honglian Sanren frowned and said,
"But according to my spies in the city, wasn't the iron yellow essence made into pills by those gang members in public and distributed to those martial artists?"

Wu Jiuzhi said with a hint of pride,

"Sister Honglian only knows one side of the story. According to my informants, the one who took out the Iron Yellow Essence was the former overlord of Jiayuan City, the Jingjiao Society. The leader of the gang fled due to injuries ten years ago and had been away from Jiayuan City for ten years. Now he has not returned, but only sent a disciple to bring back the Iron Yellow Essence to make pills. Don't you think about it in depth? Why is this gang leader so generous?"

The young lady surnamed Hu seemed to understand a little.
"You mean, the gang leader might have another opportunity, and he has more than just this plant of Iron Yellow Essence?"

"Sister Hu is right. His disciple is very likely to be in the Mo Mansion in the south of the city tonight. Let's go to the Mo Mansion tonight..."

Before he could finish his words, he was interrupted. The man surnamed Xiong suddenly stood up, his eyes looking towards the river in the distance. The young woman surnamed Hu followed her husband's gaze and suddenly opened her eyes wide and said,
"Oh no, someone is flying over here!"

The four of them quickly stopped talking, stood side by side, and waited for someone to come.

Suddenly, the river water surged, and a winged yellow and white striped tiger, accompanied by a human figure, quickly approached the island in the middle of the river.

The huge pair of wings stirred up waves and then stayed in the air. The man standing on the tiger's back looked at the four people below with an indifferent expression.

Honglian Sanren and the others recognized the newcomer and quickly greeted him.
"Little Xiu Honglian/Hu Pinggu/Wu Jiuzhi, greets Inspector/Senior Hong."

This person was none other than the cultivator from Lingshou Mountain who had talked with the young master of the Five Colors Sect at the Xiang Family Restaurant during the day. It turned out that he was the sect's inspector here, named Hong Jin, and had already reached the Foundation Establishment stage.

He looked down at the four people on the island and said bluntly,
"Jiayuan City has been in turmoil for ten years, which has greatly affected our sect's income here. Now, among the mortals, it is very likely that a ruling force will reappear and restore order in the mortal world. In order to avoid interfering with the mortals' rest and recuperation, no immortal cultivators are allowed to set foot in Jiayuan City within three years. Do you four understand?

Upon hearing this, the four of them looked at each other in bewilderment. It seemed that tonight's plan was doomed to fail.

But in the face of absolute strength, they could only swallow their little thoughts and responded obediently.

"We will obey your orders, senior."

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