coobybook Chapter 203 Reunite the old relationship
Chapter 203 Reunite the old relationship
Even after four years, when Wei Chaoyan recalls Qi Ye's calm and emotionless narration, an indescribable, unresolved, and inescapable resentment and frustration still boils over in her heart!
Yes! Zezang abandoned his young child and died in a desolate wilderness unknown to anyone. No one recovered his body, no one erected a tombstone or built a grave. The direct culprits behind this tragedy were indeed not the couple!
However, tracing back to the source, the trigger for the incident was the discord between Yu Ziyuan and Jiang Fengmian. The person who directly took action was a collateral branch of the Meishan Yu family who took action to curry favor with Yu Ziyuan because of this rift. All the forces and personnel mobilized were subordinate to the Yu family. This was a large-scale personnel movement. I wonder if the people in power within the Yu family were unaware of it or simply turned a blind eye?
That's a matter of opinion!
As for the tragedy, Jiang Fengmian, who had been in frequent contact with Wei Changze, received news of their deaths immediately. Whether out of consideration for his long-standing relationship with Wei Changze or for some other reason, Jiang Fengmian immediately ordered his subordinates, who knew the exact location of their night hunt, to investigate the situation.
Because Jiang Fengmian usually communicated with Wei Changze through this subordinate's letters, he was aware of most of their elusive whereabouts, if not completely. Therefore, as soon as Jiang Fengmian issued the investigation order, he was able to arrive at the scene of the crime before all the Xuanmen cultivators who rushed to the scene, and investigate all the clues before a large number of people arrived.
Finally, he meticulously investigated and traced the clues to a collateral branch of the Yu family in Meishan, uncovering the whole story!
It turns out that this person was originally an unfavored illegitimate son of the Yu family of Meishan. Although he was not very skilled in cultivation, he was quite cunning. In order to get rid of the strict control of his stepmother who disliked him, he decided to use external forces to break through this difficult situation.
After careful consideration, he turned to Yu Ziyuan, who held a prominent position in both the Jiang and Yu families at the time, for help. Just as he was struggling with how to please his superiors, he happened to run into Zezang and his wife, who were passing by on a night hunt, in Badong County.
When he first saw the two travel-worn people, his mind was instantly filled with rumors about the frequent arguments and strained relationship between Yu Ziyuan and Jiang Fengmian, who were supposedly married because of Cangse Sanren. Having suffered greatly at the hands of his stepmother, he knew all too well how terrifying and unreasonable a woman's jealousy could be.
Therefore, he immediately decided to secretly plot against Zezang and his wife as a heavyweight pledge to win over Yu Ziyuan!
Those who made the decision acted swiftly, managing to select an excellent ambush location before Zezang and his companion successfully killed their night-hunting target and left Badong County—a remote mountain village near Badong County that was currently plagued by a troublesome and vicious evil spirit.
He subtly lured the village chief and his group, who had come out to seek the exorcism of the evil spirit, to stop Zezang and his companion from leaving after successfully exorcising the evil spirit, and asked for their help. At the same time, he subtly instigated the village chief and his companion to conceal the specific details of the evil spirit, making Zezang and his companion believe that it was just a weak evil spirit that was not very dangerous, but was good at hiding its tracks and was very time-consuming and troublesome to find. Therefore, the small immortal sect stationed in the area was unwilling to send anyone to accept the request for help.
When the village chief and his companions came to them for help, and believing they knew the inside story, the chivalrous Zezang and his companion had no choice but to stop their return journey and accept this unexpected task of exorcising evil spirits.
During this time, the meticulous Wei Changze also quietly left the crowd and quickly investigated relevant information in the surrounding area, in case the mortal village chiefs were unaware of the spirit and their descriptions of it were inaccurate, exaggerated, or omitted.
Wei Changze was unaware that the area around Badong County had already been meticulously harassed and pressured by the illegitimate son of the Yu family through a calculated scheme of coercion and enticement. Everyone he had contacted unanimously provided a crucial, albeit concealed, piece of information—
That is, the evil spirit itself is not dangerous, but perhaps because it has been infected by resentment over the years, it has mutated and awakened a dangerous ability to summon the most ferocious evil spirits around it to take revenge on the murderer before it dies!
This detail wasn't particularly well hidden; it was simply concealed by the village chief and his group of passersby.
Thus, due to the information asymmetry, Zezang and his companion, after successfully killing the evil spirit, were caught off guard and unexpectedly encountered a spider-like evil spirit that had been summoned!
This spider-like evil spirit is an exceptionally powerful mutated evil spirit with swift attacks and considerable intelligence, making it very difficult to deal with. In addition, Zezang and his companion were already slightly injured and had already fought several battles with evil spirits, so their condition was not good.
Therefore, even if the two joined forces to fight the enemy, they were unable to kill the suddenly appearing evil spirit in one fell swoop!
At the same time, knowing the cruel, vicious, and vengeful nature of such evil spirits, the two could neither escape and leave the enraged and dangerous evil spirit to the villagers of the dozen or so villages near Badong County, nor could they fear that the evil spirit would hold a grudge and follow their scent all the way, harming the people along the way and their own children.
With no other choice, Zezang and his companion had to stay and fight the evil spirit to the death!