Lu Fan stood on the mountainside of the back mountain, watching the two figures by the river walk towards the depths of the great mountains, his brows furrowing slightly.
Swish... Suddenly, a light flashed in the distance outside the village, and then the light disappeared. However, Lu Fan could still see clearly that a black car was slowly driving towards the village entrance under the moonlight.
Not long after, the black car stopped not far from the village entrance, and a person in night-blooming clothes got out. After getting out of the car, he quickly ran towards the village. When he reached the village entrance, he suddenly noticed the RV not far from the river and seemed very surprised. However, after a moment of hesitation, he cautiously bypassed the RV and ran in the direction of Yan Menghan and Elder Chang.
Lu Fan frowned even deeper. Could it be because of his two jade stones? Yan Menghan was here for the jade stones on the mountain, so who was the figure behind him, and why was he here?
Yan Menghan and Elder Chang crossed a mountain and collected some stones in the mountains, marking them separately before putting them away.
"Young Master! Someone's here!" Suddenly, Elder Chang pulled Yan Menghan behind a large tree and said in a low voice.
"Hmm!? Could it be Lu Fan?" Yan Menghan said indifferently.
"The figure doesn't look like it!" Elder Chang shook his head, a sharp dagger already appearing in his hand.
Swish swish swish... A dark figure rushed over quickly, dressed in night-blooming clothes, with a black cloth half-covering his face. Being in the mountains and forests, it was truly difficult to see who it was. However, judging by his physique, it was indeed not Lu Fan.
The man in black walked and stopped, holding a palm-sized turtle shell in his hand. Three copper coins were tied to the turtle shell with a red string. As he walked, he kept turning the direction of the turtle shell, seemingly searching for something!
"Young Master, this person is from the Divine Calculation Sect!" Elder Chang's eyes suddenly lit up. He recognized from the turtle shell-like object in the man's hand that he was from the Divine Calculation Sect, as it was what the Divine Calculation Sect used for divination.
"Someone from the Divine Calculation Sect? Hmph!" Yan Menghan's lips curled up suddenly, and he flashed out from behind the large tree where he was hidden.
"Who?" The man in black was startled by Yan Menghan's sudden appearance and blurted out involuntarily.
"Hmph! They say people from the Divine Calculation Sect can foresee five hundred years before and five hundred years after with a simple calculation of their fingers. Do you know if you have calculated that you will die here today?" Yan Menghan said with a cold smile.
"You... You talk too much! Do you think you can keep me?" The man in black glanced at Yan Menghan and felt that this person was not a strong cultivator, so he sneered and said.
"If he says you can't leave, then you can't leave!" At this moment, Elder Chang also walked out from behind the large tree.
"Hmph! I can come and go as I please! But the two of you might not return alive." The man in black sneered coldly, and with a swish... he drew a delicate handgun from his chest.
"Hmph! A martial artist who doesn't abide by the rules of the martial world. You will die a terrible death!" A fierce glint flashed in Elder Chang's eyes, and the dagger in his hand flew out instantly.
Puff... Ah...
The man in black let out a scream, grabbed his injured wrist with one hand, and his handgun fell to the ground.
"Die!" As Elder Chang's voice fell, he instantly pounced on the man in black, smashing a punch towards him.
The man in black hastily dodged, and then began to fight with Elder Chang. However, a fortune teller was indeed no match for a professional fighter. Within three to five exchanges, he was knocked down several times by Elder Chang.
Swish... The man in black used a somersault to get up, turned, and ran.
Swish... A stone suddenly flew from Elder Chang's hand and hit the man in black's ankle with a crack. With a thud... the man in black fell to the ground. Elder Chang leaped forward and stomped him under his foot.
Puff... The man in black spat out a mouthful of blood and immediately became unable to move.
"Speak! What is someone from the Divine Calculation Sect doing here?" Elder Chang asked.
At this moment, Yan Menghan also walked over and reached out to pull down the black-clothed man's veil. The person was a middle-aged man in his thirties.
"None of your business! Remember this, if you kill me, the Divine Calculation Sect will not let you go!" The man in black said stubbornly.
"Hmph! You can't even calculate your own fate, and you expect others to avenge you?" Yan Menghan snorted coldly and said, "You're just a errand boy who sells his life, you won't know anything even if I ask. Let's just kill him!"
"Alright!" Elder Chang immediately responded and slightly exerted force under his foot.
"Don't... Don't kill me! Don't kill me! I'll... I'll say anything." The man in black was instantly terrified and shouted immediately.
"Then speak!" Yan Menghan sneered and crouched down.
"I... I'm looking for someone. Someone from our Divine Calculation Sect went missing here." The man in black said hurriedly.
"What's the name of the person you're looking for? Why would he come here?" Yan Menghan asked again.
"I don't know anything else. I'm only responsible for finding people!" The man in black said quickly.
"As expected, just a small fry! Let's go!" Yan Menghan said, then stood up and left.
Bang... Elder Chang kicked the man in black more than ten meters away, then followed Yan Menghan.
Bang... The man in black was kicked and his chest bones were shattered. He spat out a mouthful of blood and fell to the ground, motionless.
Swish... A figure suddenly appeared in front of the man in black, and with a series of rapid pats... he quickly struck several major acupoints on the man in black. Then he stuffed a small pill into the man in black's mouth. The person who arrived was Lu Fan.
Ugh... The man in black let out a soft groan and slowly woke up.
"Your internal organs are shattered, I can only let you live for another five minutes. I guess you have something to tell me first," Lu Fan said to the man in black.
"I... I was looking for traces left by Master Ma Jiu! There are none on this mountain, it should be... it should be in North Mountain..." Before the man in black could finish speaking, he died.
"Ma Jiu? Could the sealing of the Luoyan Sect entrance be related to Ma Jiu?" Lu Fan suddenly thought of the inexplicably sealed entrance of the Luoyan Sect. It was the day he killed Lin Quan and Ma Jiu disappeared. Ma Jiu might have followed him to Twelve Gou Village, and then followed him into the back mountain.
The Yan family was looking for jade stones, but what was the Divine Calculation Sect looking for? What secrets were hidden in these deep mountains? Could it be the inheritance of the Luoyan Sect?