No hope for eternal life

Chapter 302 Behind the Assassination

After sorting out his thoughts, Mu Changsheng returned to Lingshan Sect at full speed. He wanted to report this suspected assassination by the demon clan to Elder Gao Chong to prevent more of his fellow disciples from falling prey to the evil.

Mu Changsheng was lucky enough to be randomly teleported by the black bead to a place closer to Lingshan Sect, so it only took him two hours to return to Lingshan Sect.

As soon as Mu Changsheng entered Lingshan Sect, Taoist Master appeared and asked in surprise: "Didn't you go to Shenlie City? How come you came back so soon?"

"Take me to see Elder Gao first, I have something important to report." Mu Changsheng said in a deep voice.

Taoist Master was slightly startled, and hurriedly helped Mu Changsheng to hurry on his way as fast as possible, while asking: "What happened?"

Mu Changsheng briefly recounted the events of his assassination attempt. After he finished, he also met the law enforcement elder Gao Chong.

Mu Changsheng immediately told Gao Chong the details again and expressed his guess: "This should be a murder deliberately arranged by the demon clan."

"You make sense." Gao Chong agreed with Mu Changsheng's guess, and said: "Wait here for a while, I will send my clone to investigate."

After saying that, a figure walked out from Gao Chong's body. It was Gao Chong's clone.

Gao Chong's clone rushed to Shenlie City at a high speed. The city lord of Shenlie City was waiting there anxiously. He knew that Lingshan Sect would definitely send strong men to investigate, so he did not dare to leave, otherwise he would be considered to have fled for fear of crime.

In the space of a cup of tea, Gao Chong's clone had completed the investigation, and the result was no results.

"That man became a retainer of Shenlie City not long ago. He has no roots and is very professional. It is impossible that he acted on impulse. He definitely intended to lure you to your death." Gao Chong said to Mu Changsheng.

Mu Changsheng nodded slightly, this was very consistent with his guess.

“Please ask the elder to inform the sect and remind other fellow disciples.” Mu Changsheng suggested.

Gao Chong stroked his beard and said, "I will. You are so thoughtful."

After a slight hesitation, Mu Changsheng asked Gao Chong: "Does the sect sell any items that can protect against ninth-level cultivators?"

This assassination attempt failed, and Mu Changsheng was worried that there would be follow-up. His black beads were enough for him to escape from the eighth-level cultivator, but what if the next attacker was a ninth-level cultivator, although the probability of that was very small.

Gao Chong naturally understood what Mu Changsheng meant, and consoled him by saying, “The sect does have that kind of stuff, but the threshold for using and purchasing those things is also very high. What you, a peak Nascent Soul cultivator, can use is at most to defend against a few attacks from a Ninth Realm cultivator, which is completely useless. Your black bead is already the best life-saving artifact, and you don’t have to worry about a Ninth Realm cultivator from the demon race attacking you. Assassination is already too much. If a Ninth Realm cultivator from the demon race personally attacks a junior like you, it would be equivalent to completely breaking off relations. The demon race absolutely cannot afford that kind of price, because our Ninth Realm cultivators from the human race can also attack juniors from the demon race.”

After Gao Chong's consolation, Mu Changsheng felt a little more at ease. There was nothing he could do about it. Since he had no means to resist the Ninth Realm cultivators, he could only pray that he would not provoke the Ninth Realm cultivators to take action.

"Disciple, goodbye." Mu Changsheng said goodbye. He still had to go to Lingzang Peak again to exchange some top-grade spirit stones to buy the five elements magical objects. For now, his only plan was to improve his strength as quickly as possible.

Mu Changsheng left, but Dao Shi'an did not leave with him. She stayed behind to ask Gao Chong some questions: "Old Gao, do you really think this is the work of the demon clan?"

Although Taoist Master Xian seems a bit careless on the surface, she is as old as the sect and her mind is much quicker than Mu Changsheng. She had already noticed that something was wrong. No matter how talented Mu Changsheng seemed, he was only a Nascent Soul cultivator after all. Ruan Xiong, who was at the peak of the Spiritualization stage, had not been assassinated, so how come Mu Changsheng fell victim to it?

Gao Chong knew that he could not fool Taoist Shi Nan, so he sighed and said, "You didn't say it because you were afraid of affecting Mu Changsheng's mood. I could only go along with him. And we can't completely rule out the possibility that the demons were involved. Maybe the demons are using Mu Changsheng's special identity to deliberately sow discord between the demons and the ghosts to confuse people."

Gao Chong also noticed that something was wrong with this assassination, but he had no evidence. Even if he had many guesses in his mind, it would be better not to say anything.

Taoist Shi'an suddenly looked at Gao Chong with some suspicion and asked, "It was you who suggested that Mu Changsheng find someone to buy the Five Elements Divine Items first, so Mu Changsheng went to find that Li Xiao first. Could it be that you are also involved in this matter?"

As the sect's guardian spirit, Taoist Shi'an also had the power of surveillance. Without blocking her perception, she knew all the big and small things that happened in the sect, including the conversation between Mu Changsheng and Gao Chong. Therefore, Taoist Shi'an actually suspected Gao Chong.

Gao Chong was so shocked that he didn't know whether to laugh or cry. He said helplessly, "It's meaningless for you to keep guessing. If you can find evidence, I won't complain if you kill me."

"I don't think you're that stupid." Taoist Master snorted.

Gao Chong looked into the distance. Even though he was the only law enforcement elder of Lingshan Sect, he felt helpless. He continued to sigh, "A tree that stands out in the forest will be destroyed by the wind. Some of the trees will be blown down by the wind, but the remaining ones will become stronger. We can only pray for him. Fortunately, Mu Changsheng is also a person with great fortune. Didn't the assassination fail this time?"

Taoist Master said expressionlessly: "I don't care about the mess of the ghost tribe and the demon tribe. If Mu Changsheng died at the hands of the demon tribe, I would have nothing to say, but if he died at the hands of one of our own, I will never forgive that guy."

Afterwards, Taoist Master turned and left. She still needed to discuss the matter with Xiao Niansheng.

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On the other side, Mu Changsheng rushed to Lingzang Peak. In addition to exchanging the 6,000 top-grade spirit stones he lost, he also wanted to buy some kind of artifact: "Senior sister, do you have a magic weapon that can change the appearance and aura of a cultivator?"

Mu Changsheng's sudden idea was inspired by Huan Yiyu's previous experience. He decided to change his identity when traveling outside, hoping to avoid similar assassinations and some possible troubles.

Although Xia Rong had been in charge of Lingzang Peak, he was also an old hand. He understood Mu Changsheng's intention as soon as he heard it, and immediately said, "You have found the right person. I would not give this to ordinary people."

As he spoke, Xia Rong took out a ball of mud-like stuff and introduced it: "This is the mask mud I made myself. You can apply it on your face and make any facial expression you want. It can also cover up your original aura. Others can only detect the unique aura of the mask mud."

Mu Changsheng found the words quite interesting, so he took it and, according to Xia Rong's instructions, pinched a chubby face for himself. From the appearance, there was indeed nothing wrong with it.

"Okay, I want it. How many contribution points does it cost?" Mu Changsheng asked.

"Just give me a cost price of 500 contribution points." Xia Rong said with a smile, and then reminded: "In addition, this mask mud can only deceive the seventh and eighth realms at most. The spiritual sense of the ninth realm cultivator is too strong and can be detected with a single sweep. There is nothing we can do about it. Currently, there are almost no camouflage methods on the market that can deceive the ninth realm cultivators. Even if there are, you can't afford it."

"I understand." Mu Changsheng nodded slightly. He bought this thing just to comfort himself and never thought that he could deceive the cultivators of the Ninth Realm.

Afterwards, Mu Changsheng paid 6,500 contribution points, but the 20,000 contribution points rewarded by the sect had been almost used up. Most of these 6,500 contribution points came from Yi Qianhuan's 100,000 contribution points.

In this regard, Mu Changsheng had no choice but to tell the truth. He had also let it go. It didn't matter even if others thought he was a demon cultivator. It was enough for him to know that he was not one.

Xia Rong couldn't help but frown when she heard that most of the 6,500 contribution points came from Yi Qianhuan, and said with concern: "Junior Brother Mu, I know you were born in Qingliu Town, and you are inevitably close to that Elder Yi, but you can't easily accept favors from others, these are all cause and effect."