readytorunbook Chapter 621 Gathering at the Bridge of Inquiry
Chapter 621 Gathering at the Bridge of Inquiry
Mu Shu and Mu Qi were well-known. After leaving the giant stone maze formation and showing their faces outside, they soon attracted the attention of many powerful people. The two were heading towards the Heart-Searching Bridge, and they encountered troubles along the way. The current situation in the Great Heaven Realm was subtly showing a tendency to target the disciples of the Mu Mansion.
In order to gain a clearer understanding of the situation, Mu Shu and Mu Qi stopped temporarily, looking for a quiet and secluded place to sort out their thoughts before continuing.
Mu Qi was broad-minded and clear about gratitude and resentment. The favor of helping Dao seemed to be just Li Changxiao gently swinging his sword to help him cut off the fruit stem. Maybe to Li Changxiao, it was just a piece of cake, but to him, it was more important than heaven. He was determined not to fail to repay, and he would not allow Mu Shu not to repay.
Mu Shu's thoughts are like a demon, often irrelevant, not following etiquette, and saying shocking things. Although Mu Qi is also smart, he is just like the "chess" in his name. The chessboard has many rules and regulations, and although there are thousands of changes, when encountering certain things, he is still rigid and what should be is what should be, just like now, a favor must be repaid.
In fact, Li Changxiao helped the two of them, but he never asked for any benefits. He just felt that those who sought the truth in the world often had a hard time, so he would help if he could. If he could resolve the hatred in the process, that would be even better.
He had a kind heart in letting the two of them leave in advance. He thought that since the grudges had been resolved, Shu and Qi had gone through a difficult journey to find the truth. It would be a pity if they died in vain just after they had found the truth. So he planned to go on his own.
Mu Shu called Mu Qi a "chess idiot", but Mu Qi thought it was a compliment. The two hid in the cave, thinking about countermeasures and sorting out the current situation. Now in Datian, countless strong people are looking for Mu family disciples, and Qin, Qi, Shu, and Hua are the most famous among their peers, so they are naturally the first to be targeted.
If he disguised himself, he would be recognized at a glance. Mu Shu always felt that these powerful outsiders were troublesome and uncertain factors that were difficult to control. So he wanted to calculate other intersection points with Mu Qi, and then spread the news, so that those powerful outsiders would go out on their own. When the outside world was quiet, he would go to the Heart-to-Heart Bridge to look for his senior sister.
However, after thinking about it carefully, he felt that it was not appropriate. Once the intersection was leaked, there would be an exit and an entry. By then, not only would there be no fewer people, but it would even be more chaotic. Moreover, Mu Shu and Mu Qi would also need to leave from the intersection. If the intersection was discovered, even they themselves would be trapped and die in the Great Heaven Realm.
After thinking it over, he was in a dilemma and could only move more stealthily, trying to avoid the crowd and approach the Bridge of Inquiry little by little. When Shu and Qi joined forces, they were really powerful. Mu Shu's wisdom and Mu Qi's calculations often made others fool around even though they were hundreds of miles apart.
Even if they encounter danger, they can resolve it completely before the situation escalates, so although there are some surprises along the way, there is no danger. Mu Shu has a demon-like temperament, and she is feeling depressed for no reason. She led two bloody battles, causing two groups of people to fight to the death, but she clapped and cheered on the side, enjoying the show.
Mu Qi had no feelings. He was well versed in chess and had a bottom line, but he was not a good person. Besides, the strong outsiders all wanted to catch him. Since they were mortal enemies, they would not show mercy to him.
As they walked along, when they reached the Heart-Questioning Bridge, their pupils trembled. Mu Shu frowned immediately, while Mu Qi took out the black and white pieces and played with them in his palms. This was a subconscious action when he was thinking.
Following the direction of their gaze, hundreds of strong men gathered at one end of the Heart-Searching Bridge. They were guarding the edge of the Heart-Searching Bridge tightly, almost blocking the entrance.
It turns out that these hundreds of strong men have been trying their best to explore the secret of immortality since they entered the Great Heaven Realm: the white jade immortality fruit, and the long-unresolved secret of the Great Heaven Realm.
However, nothing has been found so far, and they are trapped in a secret place, not knowing how to get in or out. Finally, they searched everywhere, and their eyes were fixed on the long bridge of inquiry. They thought that if there was really a secret of immortality, it must be on the other side of the bridge of inquiry.
However, just because the Heart-Searching Bridge is difficult for Mu Mansion disciples to step on, it does not mean that others can step on it. There was once a strong man who volunteered to walk the Heart-Searching Bridge by force, but his cultivation was exhausted, his realm fell, and he died on the Heart-Searching Bridge.
That scene was extremely horrifying. After that, no one dared to step onto the Bridge of Integrity. More and more people gathered on the side of the bridge, and gradually it grew to its current size.
Hundreds of strong men stood at the edge of the long bridge, but no one had a plan to deal with it, but they were unwilling to leave. So the current situation was formed. Mu Shu looked at it from a distance, and her heart was very tense. Even for her, the current situation was a mess and difficult to understand.
She thought to herself, "Not good, really not good. Even if I recover my Taoism, it is still difficult for me and Mu Qi to fight against these strong men. I can only lie dormant for the time being and look for an opportunity to act."
So, Mu Shu and Mu Qi hid in the distance, secretly paying attention to the situation of the Heart-to-Heart Bridge. Because the Heart-to-Heart Bridge was too long and the bridge was shrouded in mist, obscuring their vision, the two did not see Mu Qin.
However, they made another discovery. They found out that the reason why the foreign masters from the Great Heaven Realm were looking for the disciples of the Mu Mansion was because of the Bridge of Inquiry.
Their idea was simple: since they themselves could not pass the Bridge of Inquiry, then the disciples of the Mu Mansion should be able to do so, right? So they spontaneously searched for and captured the disciples of the Mu Mansion, forcing them to step onto the Bridge of Inquiry.
If the spiritual energy enveloped his eyes and he looked farther, he would find that on the Inquiry Bridge, wrapped in thick fog, there were more than a dozen corpses of Mu Mansion's disciples.
They were all captured and forced to step onto the Heart-Searching Bridge, their Dao hearts were shattered, their realms dropped, their spiritual energy was depleted, and their heart meridians were shattered and they died. Mu Shu's face was cold, she didn't really have much affection for the disciples of the Mu Mansion. But seeing others humiliating someone who had a similar fate to her, she couldn't help but feel sad and annoyed.
Another Mu Mansion disciple was captured by more than ten people, taken to the Heart-Searching Bridge, and led deeper and deeper. Ninety-nine percent of the Mu Mansion disciples did not know that their Dao hearts were broken and it was difficult for them to cross the Heart-Searching Bridge, so they did not resist fiercely.
However, when he was halfway across the Bridge of Inquiry and was immersed in the deep fog, he realized something was wrong and wanted to turn back, but it was too late.
Mu Shuzheng and Mu Qi climbed from a mountain top. Mu Qi arranged the Feng Shui to make this place extremely hidden and difficult for outsiders to detect. As long as the two did not emit spiritual energy and did not make a big noise, they would be relatively safe and would not be discovered by hundreds of strong men and besieged.
In front of the mountain where the two climbed, there were two more high mountains on the left and right sides. Mu Qi deployed his hands and feet on the two mountains, at the top and foot of the two mountains, respectively, to manipulate the Feng Shui pattern. This made the two high mountains connected, and at the same time had many functions such as "lighting" and "far vision", like a natural magnifying glass.
The two of them did not need to use spiritual energy to enhance their eyesight. They only needed to look through the gap between the two mountains to see every move of everyone at the Bridge of Inquiry from a very far distance.
In terms of knowledge and wisdom, Muqi is not as good as Mushu, but in terms of the magical effects of Feng Shui, Mushu is far inferior to Muqi. Even Li Changxiao, who is in charge of fortune and disaster and determines truth and falsehood, is not as good as Muqi because he is not proficient in these arts.
The two men climbed to the top of the mountain and observed for several days.
At dawn one day, Mu Shu suddenly felt something. He rubbed his temples lightly and thought to himself, "Something is wrong."
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On the other side, Li Changxiao, alone, had gone deeper into the cave.