Volume 6: Demons Rise from the East Sea Chapter 390: The Ultimate Mystery of the Iron Coffin (Part 1)
"What?" Xu Zun was shocked. "Nothing?"
Ku Niang nodded slightly: "The iron coffin has two layers. How can I not know if there is something on top? The national teacher you mentioned was not placed in the iron coffin at all!"
"It's empty?" Xu Zun repeated, but he felt his heart was in turmoil, as if he sensed something extremely unusual.
"Then..." Xu Zun asked again, "Have you seen Qiu Dingtian? Is he in Xiazhou? Is he dead or alive?"
"I don't know," Ku Niang answered straightforwardly, "Master didn't tell me anything, and I never heard of Qiu Dingtian when I was in Xiazhou."
"No way?" Xu Zun grinned, "So, you entered the iron coffin purely to be punished? And... and to practice your Wanshang Wuqing Dafa? "
Xu Zun said this, but in his mind he thought of three words - sleight of hand.
Could it be that Ku Niang was placed in the iron coffin to conceal the truth, while the real Qiu Dingtian was secretly sent back to the Holy City through other channels?
"Then..." Xu Zun asked another important question, "Who kidnapped you from the iron coffin?"
"Shen Tiande." Ku Niang answered without hesitation.
"Is it really him?" Xu Zun asked, "He's alone?"
"There were many more, eleven in total," Ku Niang said, "and there were also spies in the escort team. But in the end, the only one who interrogated me was Shen Tiande."
"So..." Xu Zun looked at Ku Niang's face, "Your face is still burned..."
Ku Niang nodded slightly: "It was the man named Xiao Qi. He was the one who interrogated and delivered the food. Shen Tiande rarely showed up."
Gurgle...
Xu Zun had no idea how many times he had swallowed his saliva. Although he had guessed about this matter a long time ago, after hearing it confirmed by his mother Ku herself, he still felt very uncomfortable.
There is no doubt that Shen Tiande interrogated Ku Niang because he wanted to know the whereabouts of Qiu Dingtian's body, but Ku Niang not only had no idea, but came here to practice martial arts.
Wan Shang is so ruthless, my goodness! Even though Ku Niang’s face was cut and her head was burned, she still felt nothing. Isn’t this kind of martial arts a bit too evil?
etc……
Suddenly, Xu Zun thought of another thing. Ku Niang said that there was an accomplice among the people escorting the iron coffin.
According to Cai Kun, those people were internal guards, and the internal guards... were bribed?
Shen Tiande is a royalist, which means that the people who attacked the iron coffin and snatched away Ku Niang were royalists?
"Mother," Xu Zun asked hurriedly, "besides Shen Tiande and Xiao Qi, has anyone else interrogated you?"
"I knew it..." Ku Niang looked at Xu Zun calmly and said, "You will keep asking questions. This is exactly why I want to pretend to have lost my memory."
"Amnesia?" Xu Zun then remembered the lingering night and asked hurriedly, "By the way, why did you pretend to have amnesia that day?"
"Because of Luomeng and Wang Dian," Ku Niang seemed to want to express her meaning accurately with as few words as possible, "I didn't lie to you. Wanshang Wuqing is to abandon desire, and Luomeng poison just happens to catalyze people's desires.
"The two are inherently in conflict, and my battle with Wang Dian has left me with a disordered breath and a burning desire, so I can only have sex with you."
ah?
Xu Zun smacked his lips secretly, feeling a little disappointed at the same time. It turned out that Ku Niang came to him voluntarily, not because of his overwhelming charm!
"After intercourse, Wan Shang Wu Qing also succeeded, and I didn't have to continue practicing. But..." Ku Niang said, "I didn't want you to know too much about me, so I pretended to have lost my memory."
That means you find me annoying!
Xu Zun thought to himself, but he couldn't help asking questions: "Then why did tell me that you would protect me for three months? Do you have anything else to do? And... go back to Xiazhou?"
"No," Ku Niang answered very straightforwardly, "My master put me in the iron coffin, and from now on I will leave it to fate! I have been a killing machine for them for so many years, and we don't owe each other anything.
"Ruan Changkong is old after all. In the past," Ku Niang added, "he would have made me reach the peak of the Great Xuanwu Realm!"
The peak of the Great Xuanwu Realm?
In other words, what are those ten great masters of Daxuan that Zhao Yu and the others were talking about?
"Lanshan!" Xu Zun asked with a sigh, "Do you think you have seen Lanshan now?"
Ku Niang smiled coldly, but no answer could be seen in her smile.
"Since you are practicing Wanshang Wuqing," Xu Zun said, "and you don't have any other missions, then why did you protect me for three months? Is it to repay me for rescuing you from the cellar?"
"No," Ku Niang answered, still straightforwardly, "It's because you make me curious!"
"Curious?" Xu Zun was puzzled.
"I was almost disfigured and looked like a ghost without a soul," Ku Niang said, "but you took good care of me. This made me very curious."
oh……
Xu Zun recalled that when he first met Ku Niang, he saw that Ku Niang obeyed his every word and he even had some obscene thoughts about it.
Now imagine that I am lucky that I am upright and sunny enough, otherwise...
"My dear mother," Xu Zun asked, "I have another question. If I hadn't rescued you from the cellar, could you have broken free of the chains by your own strength ?"
As a result, Xu Zun's question was met with Ku Niang's lips curling up again, without making any comment.
"Okay," Xu Zun said tactfully, "I also think I'm annoying enough, but I wonder if I can ask one last question? When you were imprisoned, did you see Shen Qian? Are she and Shen Tiande in the same group?"
Ku Niang shook her head: "Never seen it before!"
"Do you know who Shen Qian is?"
"What do you think?"
Okay, okay…
Xu Zun recalled with embarrassment how many times he had lied on Ku Niang's lap and told her his secrets. How could Ku Niang not know who Shen Qian was?
Ku Niang had never met Shen Qian, so he still could not prove that Shen Qian was also involved in the first iron coffin case, and he could not know why she wanted to murder Shen Tiande.
"Kuniang," Xu Zun collected his chaotic thoughts, held Kuniang's hand again, and asked, "So, you don't have any plans for the future, right?"
Ku Niang glanced at Xu Zun, as if she didn't understand what Xu Zun meant.
"I mean..." Xu Zun said, "Since you have nothing else to do, why don't you follow me and protect me for another thirty to fifty years?
"Besides, don't you like listening to songs? There is no one in the world who sings better than me.
"Also, and..." Xu Zun said shamelessly, "Once the lemon toxins invade your body, you never know when it will break out again. By then, you'll still need me to help you reconcile it, right?
"Hey? Ku Niang...I think I saw you smile..."
Xu Zun's self-aggrandizement made even Ku Niang, who had practiced ruthlessness for thousands of times, feel at a loss whether to laugh or cry. She suddenly felt uncomfortable and in the blink of an eye she broke free from Xu Zun's dirty hands and disappeared without a trace.
Seeing Ku Niang leaving, Xu Zun first recalled the wonderful feeling of spending that night with Ku Niang, with a wicked smile on his face.
Then, he began to think about what Ku Niang had just said to her, and his smile gradually faded.
A moment later, Xu Zun suddenly realized something, as if he was struck by lightning. His body shivered involuntarily, and then his face changed suddenly.
My mother is a bear...
He said silently in his heart:
Could it be... there is a possibility that the scandal between Qiu Dingtian and the Queen Mother was deliberately fabricated by the Queen Mother herself?
Wow……
As this thought became clearer, Xu Zun felt his entire body creeping up on him again, shuddering with fear...
