camouflage salted fish

Chapter 29 Fang Shaojun

When Shen Budu woke up, he didn't know the past few days and nights.

He had a severe headache, and he didn't know whether it was from drinking or being angry.He frowned on the bed for a while before he realized that someone was knocking on the door.

That's right, he didn't know how many days he slept, the shopkeeper probably thought he died of drunkenness in the room.

Shen Budu stayed on the bed, tidied up his clothes: "Come in."

The door was pushed open immediately, but it was not the waiter who came in, but a tall man with a hood and whose face could not be seen clearly.The other party froze after entering, and stood there without saying a word, staring straight at Shen Budu.

Shen Budu took a look at this person, his suspicion gradually rose.

Could it be that the surname Xie came back?

He slowly frowned, vigilant, and before he could ask, he saw the man on the opposite side suddenly lifted his hood, and shouted out loudly: "Master!!"

Looking at that young and excited face, Shen Budu was also stunned, and said unexpectedly: "... Shaojun?"

Fang Shaojun still had tears in his eyes just now, when Shen Budu called his name, the hot tears rolled down uncontrollably, he strode forward with a choked throat, and hugged Shen Budu.

Fang Shaojun is nineteen years old this year, and he will be crowned soon. He is tall and strong, with long hands and feet, almost covering Shen Budu's frail body.

In fact, he is easily shy, although he respected Shen Budu in the past, he was always too embarrassed to get too close to his master, now seeing that Shen Budu is still alive with his own eyes, under the excitement and ecstasy, he can't care about any etiquette.

"I knew you wouldn't die..." Fang Shaojun trembled, "I knew you must still be alive!"

Seeing an old friend again after a long absence, Shen Budu was also filled with emotions, he stretched out his hand to pat the generous shoulder of the second apprentice, and then patted his head: "Master made you worry."

The soreness in Fang Shaojun's eyes became more severe. After trying to restrain himself for a long time, he finally let go of Shen Budu, and then fixedly looked at him for a long time: "Master, why did you become like this? But you used the Disguise Technique?"

Shen Budu closed the door, motioned him to come and sit at the table, poured a glass of water for him to stabilize his emotions: "No, this is my current body. I seem to have resurrected my soul from a dead body."

"Borrowing the corpse to return the soul?" Fang Shaojun was taken aback.No matter how powerful a monk is, it is impossible to transcend the cycle of life and death. For hundreds of years, I have never heard of any fallen power who can come back to life with a new body. "Is it a secret technique?"

Shen Budu shook his head: "I'm also very confused about this matter. It's already on this body after waking up."

Although there has always been a legend in the world of comprehension that there is a secret method that can indeed bring people back to life, but Shen Budu has never found relevant records in any ancient books, so he has always believed that this is an unrealistic fantasy of people.

Even if there is such a secret technique, it must pay an unimaginable price.

"Let's not talk about that for now." Shen Budu changed the subject and asked, "How do you know I'm here?"

"Oh," Fang Shaojun replied, "It was the elder brother who told me."

Shen Budu's hand holding the teapot was unsteady, and poured the water outside: "Thank you, Jianhuan?"

"En." Fang Shaojun didn't hear the strange tone in his tone, grabbed the pot from Shen Budu's hand and poured tea for Master, "I was in Jingping Realm, not far from here, and I received a letter from Senior Brother saying that you are in Bei Huang, came right away."

He followed the address mentioned in Xie Jianhuan's letter to find this inn. Although the first thing he saw when he opened the door was a completely unfamiliar young man, he quickly identified the other party's identity.

It was the mentor who had taught him for four years, and he would not fail to recognize it.

As he spoke, he looked around and asked, "Is senior brother not there?"

It turned out that he didn't know about Xie Jianhuan.Shen Budu thought.

"Yeah." He said lightly, "I haven't seen him."

Fang Shaojun was quite puzzled: "It shouldn't be, the elder brother is so worried about you, Master, and didn't come to find you in person? At the beginning... After you..., he disappeared together, and I only received a letter from him a few days ago. Scared I thought..."

He thought that after the death of the master, the elder brother couldn't bear it, so he went with the master...

After all, everyone can see that among Tianya Canghaimen, the person who cares most about Master is Xie Jianhuan.

An inexplicable anxiety rose in Shen Budu's heart, and he asked, "What happened to the sect after I died? Tell me in detail."

"Yes." Fang Shaojun frowned, pondered for a while and said slowly, "That day was the Lantern Festival, and my third junior brother and I went on a mission two days ago and were not in the sect. When we hear the news and come back..."

After he and Lu Danxu heard the news, they refused to believe it was true.After rushing back to the sect day and night, he didn't even see the master's body.

"Where is the man!? He was fine when I left, but you told me in just two days that Master went mad and jumped off a cliff by himself!?" Lu Danxu was furious, grabbing Li Hongjun's collar and yelling, "Did you put the I am a fool!!"

Li Hongjun's face was so ugly that he didn't look like a living person, he gritted his teeth and shook off his hand: "everything I said is true. When I climbed Guying Peak, my brother had already jumped off the cliff, and I only saw Xie Jianhuan jumping down after him."

He paused for a moment, and said stiffly: "Or, it may be that Xie Jianhuan hurt him, and then he felt guilty and committed suicide."

"Bullshit!!" Lu Danxu rushed forward and punched him in the face, "I think Master was actually killed by you! Didn't you!!"

Li Hongjun's eyes were also red, and he slapped him backhand: "Lu Danxu, don't you want to spit blood!"

Although Fang Shaojun was devastated, at least he still had some reason. He rushed forward to pull the two of them apart, restrained his junior, and asked Li Hongjun, "Eldest son, since you only saw the back of master jumping off the cliff, why are you so sure that he is the master?" Are you crazy?"

"I'm not sure, I'm just guessing!" Li Hongjun said with a livid face, "I know you doubt me, but do I have the ability to kill Shen Budu? You think highly of me too! It's not just me, who in the world can Unknowingly killed him?"

Fang Shaojun and Lu Danxu gritted their teeth and said nothing, but they knew in their hearts that Li Hongjun was telling the truth.

"Even if you have reached the top of the list, you all know that senior brother has been seeking a breakthrough." Li Hongjun wiped the corner of his bleeding mouth and said darkly, "Only when his practice goes awry and he goes mad, can he be seriously injured. Delirious, I fell off the cliff. Apart from this, I really can't think of any other reason."

Fang Shaojun: "Then why did Master's body disappear?"

"I don't know either!" Li Hongjun said irritably, "After the incident, Xin Ning and I immediately took our disciples to hang down the cliff through the hanging rope to find traces of the senior brother and Xie Jianhuan, but we searched all the bottom of the cliff, but a I didn’t find any hair either! If you don’t believe me, you can search again yourself!”

Lu Danxu gave him a hard look, and rushed to Guying Peak without saying a word.

It took Fang Shaojun and Lu Danxu two days to turn Guying Peak upside down, and even searched for any depression on the peak wall that could hide people, but found nothing.

What is even more desperate is that Shen Budu's fate card has been shattered.

A well-established family of cultivation will enshrine a life card for each disciple. The life card has a soul connection with the monk. Once the life card is broken, it means that the soul has left the body, and it will soon dissipate between the heaven and the earth, and there will be no survivors. possible.

But neither Fang Shaojun nor Lu Danxu wanted to believe that Shen Budu was really dead.

He couldn't get any valuable clues from Li Hongjun's repeated inquiries, and Li Xinning's whole body was out of order, almost insane, and he couldn't hear anyone's words.They left Tianya Canghai Gate helplessly, trying to find traces of Shen Budu in other places.

There are clearly many doubts about this matter, even if Shen Budu really died of madness, how could the body disappear?

Not to mention Xie Jianhuan following closely, both Fang Lu and Fang Lu firmly believe that as long as there is a glimmer of life, the elder brother will never give up on the master.

So they won't give up either.

"Fortunately, our persistence is right." Fang Shaojun sighed, and smiled with red eyes, "No, I finally saw you."

Shen Budu patted his hand: "Where's Dan Xu?"

"He acted separately from me in the Jingping world, but presumably the elder brother also sent him a letter, and I sent him a copy immediately after receiving the message." Fang Shaojun said, "It is estimated that he will catch up soon." coming."

Shen Budu hummed, thoughtfully.

So after Xie Jianhuan was driven away by himself, he immediately sent a letter to Fang Shaojun and Lu Danxu, did he ask them to come to protect him?

What is this man hiding from him?

A sense of powerlessness welled up in his heart, and Shen Budu rubbed the center of his brows irritably.

Fang Shaojun looked at him, hesitated for a moment, and then asked: "Master, what happened on the Lantern Festival? Are you really crazy?"

"No." Shen Budu paused, not hiding it from him, "I was pushed down by Li Hongjun."

Fang Shaojun's complexion changed suddenly, and the veins in his arms immediately stretched out!

"It turned out...it really is him!" Even though he was always praised as a righteous gentleman, Fang Shaojun couldn't restrain the hatred and anger in his eyes at this moment, "How dare he treat you like this...he really is a wolf-hearted dog, not as good as a beast!!"

Shen Budu was noncommittal: "Under the Guying Peak, there was a Tiangang Soul Seizing Formation, I was not prepared, and let him take advantage of the loophole."

Fang Shaojun immediately realized something was wrong, and the horror in his eyes was even worse: "Li Hongjun doesn't understand the formation, so the Tiangang Soul Seizing Formation is..."

Seeing that Shen Budu didn't deny it, Fang Shaojun was outraged, and said incredulously, "Are the Li brothers crazy!? Why did they do such a thing of revenge!?"

What Fang Shaojun said is true.Although it was a great kindness for Li Yong to adopt Shen Budu, but after Li Yong's death, if Shen Budu hadn't supported the entire Tianya Canghaimen with his own strength, there was almost no possibility for this sect to survive under the circumstances of wolves and tigers at that time. It has long been swallowed up by the various forces in the upper spirit world.

Saying that Shen Budu is kind to Li Shi, no one can refute this fact.

"Perhaps the brotherhood of more than ten years is still not worth the position of head." Shen Budu said softly.

The relationship between Li Hongjun and him cannot be said to be bad.They are four years apart, like brothers and like friends, they practiced together every day when they were young, and they also went out together to mischief, and they were punished by Li Yong to stand together when they came back.

Li Hongjun trusts him, relies on him, worships him, but also envies him.

Shen Budu has always been aware of this.

He was jealous of his high talent. He was obviously just an adopted son of Li Yong, but his fame and strength far surpassed him, an upright and upright young man with a vast family in the world.

When mentioning the leader of the younger generation in the cultivation world, Shen Budu is the first name everyone thinks of, but Li Hongjun is rarely mentioned.

When I was young, I didn't pay much attention to it, but as I got older, there were more and more voices from the outside world, and those visions became more and more biased.Many people sighed in front of Li Hongjun, Li's eldest son is actually not bad, but he couldn't see it together with Shen Budu.

Why is Shen Budu not Li Yong's own son? It is most appropriate for Tianya Canghaimen to be handed over to Shen Budu.

The more he listened, the way Li Hongjun looked at him gradually changed.Shen Budu intentionally did not let him listen to these messy rumors, but the sound was more terrifying than the smallest mosquito, they penetrated every hole and corroded to the bone.

Shen Budu couldn't stop those voices, let alone stop the ever-changing people's hearts.

The hidden conflict between him and Li Hongjun, when Li Yong passed away and handed over the headship to Shen Budu, completely piled up to a peak, and then inevitably broke out.

Therefore, it was understandable for Shen Budu to give Li Hongjun the slap after accumulating resentment against him.

What he couldn't figure out was why Li Xinning wanted to kill him too.

Li Xinning was five years younger than him, and because of his poor health since he was a child, Li Yong did not force him to practice.Li Xinning's character is also very quiet, like a girl, she never follows him and Li Hongjun up the tree or down the river, but always sits on the side, holding a book in her hand, and quietly following him.

Shen Budu never ignores this little junior, every time he finds something interesting, he always gives Li Xinning a share first, and was accused by Li Hongjun of being biased.

At that time, Li Xinning would smile softly, carefully hold the gadget he handed over, stare at him intently, and say, "Thank you, brother, I like it so much."

Although Li Xinning is frail, he is extremely intelligent. He is very skilled in alchemy formations. In addition, he has a handsome appearance, is as elegant as a bamboo, and treats people with gentleness and courtesy. He has a good reputation outside.But when he faced Shen Budu, he always acted like a child who didn't grow up, loved to be coquettish, and timid, and would always ask Shen Budu to come to Tranquility Hall to sleep with him when it was thundering or raining.

Shen Budu also dotes on him very much, responds to almost everything he asks, and truly loves him as his own younger brother.

So he couldn't figure out why that person who always held his arm and called his senior brother with a smile and bent eyes would personally set up the Tiangang Soul Seizing Formation to give him the final fatal blow on that snowy night.