Chapter 28

“What? You couldn’t find him?” Su Chongshan asked in the main hall of a palace . He stood up from his wooden armchair and had a long expression on his face . He looked scary .

“Don’t you have any clues? All the exits are sealed . He can’t escape . He must be hiding somewhere . Go from door to door, every house, without exception . You can’t let him escape . Even if you offend them, tell them I’ll come and apologize to them,” Su Chongshan said like a strong wind and swift rain .

“Taoist priest, it’s late . I can ask someone to take you to a room where you can rest . I will immediately inform you once we capture him,” Su Chongshan said to Mu Yi . He was embarrassed . After all, Su Chongshan had told Mu Yi that Xugui wouldn’t be able to escape even if he was given wings . Time had passed, and they still hadn’t found him .

He was even more scared of such a dangerous enemy . He had been shot by an arrow and had still completely disappeared . Finding him wouldn’t be easy .

Su Chongshan had the feeling that he hadn’t dealt with the situation properly . He should have dispatched more people . Now, he could only pray that the enemy had yet to escape . If he was still here, they could still find him .

He was convinced about that .

“No need . If you’re not tired, I want to tell you some things,” Mu Yi said . He was disappointed, but he couldn’t offend Su Chongshan because of that . Xugui was a skilled man, and he practiced the Dao . Despite his injuries, Xugui wasn’t a normal person, so capturing him wouldn’t be easy .

“I’m not tired,” Su Chongshan said . He knew that Mu Yi wanted to talk to him . “Please tell me . ”

“Mister Su, what do you know about the man with whom your daughter escaped?” Mu Yi asked .

When Su Chongshan heard that question, he looked embarrassed, but he still talked . “I’ve seen him only once . I don’t know much about him . He was tall and slim and looked like a poor and pedantic scholar . I don’t know why my daughter fell in love with him . ”

Mu Yi remained expressionless . He had never seen him either, but since Nian Nuer’s mother had escaped with him, he probably had some good things to offer .

Su Yingying would have never engaged with a poor man in the first place, especially since she was always with Su Chongshan and under his influence .

“Anything else? Anything particular or noteworthy?” Mu Yi asked . He wanted to learn as much as possible about Nian Nuer’s father . According to Nian Nuer, he had offered the bamboo tree to her mother .

If the man had been an ordinary man, how could he have afforded such a precious treasure? He was wondering if Nian Nuer’s sickness had anything to do with her father . If he had been there, her mother wouldn’t have come back alone with her .

Of course, maybe he was just an unfaithful lover and had just dumped her after making her pregnant .

“Anything noteworthy?” Su Chongshan repeated as he tried to remember . After all, eighteen years had passed . Many things had happened . His memories were blurry, and he needed time to think .

Mu Yi wasn’t in a rush . He didn’t put pressure on him . He took out the small flag from his bag and looked at it .

The flag was quite resistant even though it was broken due to the five thunders charm . Regardless, Mu Yi was curious of the material used to create the flag . Surprisingly, it could change its size in a similar manner to Sun Wukong’s golden cudgel in mythology .

This was why Mu Yi didn’t throw it away even though it was broken . Unfortunately, he didn’t understand the item, and the old Taoist Priest had never told him anything about it .

He touched it for half a day and still failed to understand its composition . Mu Yi tried to inspect it with his mind very carefully . Before, Xugui had made his ghost enter the flag . However, where was she now?

Because he didn’t understand the item, he wasn’t in a rush . He didn’t rush to heal the old woman either . Waiting for a few more days wasn’t a problem .

Mu Yi’s mind touched the flag, and it made him shake violently . He sensed a coldness invade his spinal cord and he immediately cut the connection .

After taking a few breaths, Mu Yi managed to calm down . He realized that the flag was a complex item through and through .

He had tried connecting himself to the flag a few more times before Mu Yi finally started getting used to the coldness and ended up in a secret world . He couldn’t see anything, but he didn’t find anything either . After that, he recalled his mind .

However, he came to the conclusion that the female ghost had been killed by the five thunders charm .

“Taoist priest, I just remembered something . Maybe you will find it useful,” Su Chongshan said . He suddenly remembered something .

“What is it?” Mu Yi raised his head and looked at Su Chongshan . He placed the flag back into his bag .

“I remember that he was holding a disk,” Su Chongshan said .

“Disk? What kind of disk?” Mu Yi asked . What was a disk?

“Back then, I noticed that he was holding a disk in my daughter’s courtyard . I didn’t know what it was . When I saw it, he became furious . I didn’t see the disk clearly though . From that moment, I forbade my daughter from going out,” Su Chongshan said . Remorse invaded his face and eyes . Maybe if he had handled that issue better, things wouldn’t have turned out this way .

“A disk? And he was in the courtyard?” Mu Yi thought of the bamboo tree . It was a precious treasure . Now, Mu Yi could guess a few things about that man’s social status . Even if he was wrong, he was definitely involved .

Even though Mu Yi had guessed some things, he didn’t tell Su Chongshan anything .

“Did you understand anything?” Su Chongshan asked when he saw Mu Yi’s facial expression .

“Maybe . I’m not sure,” Mu Yi said as he then changed the topic . “Regarding your daughter and your granddaughter, there are some things I want to say, but I’m not sure . ”