Chapter 1839 - 674: Reunion

Su Mo held the teacup and quietly savored it.

However, what he savored was not the tea in the cup, but Guiniang’s words.

The events of the past, Guiniang’s recounting was not too detailed.

But the general outline had already emerged.

Dongmen Yong said he harbored deep hatred against the Jinglong Association.

This... whether true or false, Su Mo found it difficult to ascertain now.

However, when Guiniang mentioned that for decades, Dongmen Yong had sent a letter every two or three years.

This made Su Mo somewhat intrigued.

During those decades, Dongmen Yong confined himself under the Wangliang Courtyard of Donghuang.

Surviving off human flesh, he created the Qiankun True Understanding.

Then how could he send Guiniang a letter every two or three years?

Either it was arranged beforehand.

Or... perhaps the letter was sent by the Jinglong Association.

If it was the former, that’s fair enough.

But the latter is the most feared.

Because if it is indeed the latter, it means that Dongmen Yong’s various schemes were known by the Jinglong Association all along and they were fully involved.

Previous thoughts must be completely overturned.

This matter was not schemed solely by Dongmen Yong.

Calculating the Sixth Surprise and staging the scene on Imperial Court Mountain now are both part of the Jinglong Association’s own machinations.

However... If this is truly the case, then Su Mo would indeed be utterly confused.

What do they aim for?

Why cut off their own limbs?

The Jinglong Association worked hard for years to develop thirteen Jing Emperors.

Each one discarded like a pawn.

Isn’t this absurd?

Or perhaps... the person delivering the letter stealthily every two or three years is actually a placement by the Imperial Dao in Xizhou?

But if so, then why did the Old Man at Bai Mi Peak earlier send word for Dongmen Yong.

And why remind me to be wary of the Imperial Dao?

Or is it indeed a case of truth being falsified, falsity being true?

Making it impossible to discern the thread?

The blooming flowers obscure one’s sight, rendering vision unclear, plunging them into confusion.

This is precisely Su Mo; up to now, still able to remain calm.

Anyone else would have likely ended up baffled.

Guiniang continued speaking.

After ’Su Tianyang’ found her, he didn’t disclose much.

Only told her that the scheme from years ago has now reached a crucial phase.

Her identity needed to be borrowed.

To invite the ’Miscellaneous Characters’ Old Beggar among the Three Wonders and Five Elders, and Bo Yan to Imperial Court Mountain.

After this battle, Zhuge Yingxiong must die.

Thus marking the first step of Guiniang’s revenge.

With this, Guiniang naturally found no reason to refuse.

However, the matters on Imperial Court Mountain exceeded Guiniang’s expectations.

After the battle in front of Weiyang Palace, Su Mo listed the Longmen Jing Emperors he knew from the Jinglong Association, and Dongmen Yong was surprisingly among them.

Guiniang was immediately dumbfounded.

Later, as she sought traces of ’Su Tianyang’, how could she locate them?

Su Mo used Zhuge Qianqiu and Zhuge Yutang as bait, deploying tactics, luring her into the trap.

She was not entirely unaware.

After all, it was peculiar that Lord Ban Shu and Guo Zhaochen hadn’t left Imperial Court Mountain.

Since they have no interest in the Jianghu Alliance, staying here solely concerns themselves, apart from the others.

This also implicitly indicated that Su Mo might want to deal with her.

Only, this realization dawned clearly after she discovered Zhuge Qianqiu and Zhuge Yutang were not in this place.

Previously an indistinct shadow.

Secondly... upon realizing this, Guiniang suddenly understood that the help she truly needed was not Dongmen Yong.

But the Su Mo before her.

In the present Jianghu, apart from Su Mo, no one could shake the Jinglong Association.

Her obsession with defeating the Jinglong Association had become deeply rooted in her heart.

She gave up everything, patient despite her hair turning white, wasting her youth, all to avenge a great past vendetta.

Whether Zhuge Qianqiu or Zhuge Yutang, they all must die.

The Jinglong Association certainly cannot remain in this world.

Thus, dealing with Zhuge Qianqiu and Zhuge Yutang’s disposal as a condition, she served under Su Mo’s command, a strategy with dual benefits.

After detailing the full story completely.

The doubts in Su Mo’s mind did not decrease but instead increased.

If Guiniang’s words are true, then these decades were lived in vain.

And Dongmen Yong’s arrangements from decades ago, the hidden line he laid, had not produced much effect.

Just borrowing her name to invite the Old Beggar and Bo Yan.

What use could that serve?

Or is there a deeper purpose to this matter?

Yet to be realized by me?

June fifteenth is imminent, with the plot deep in the clouds, how should I handle it?

Su Mo pondered, hearing Guiniang speak again:

"Whatever the Alliance Hierarch wishes to know, whether speakable or unspeakable, I have confessed truthfully now.

"I wonder, is the Hierarch willing to agree to my request?"

Su Mo glanced at Guiniang, gently nodded:

"Since the senior has such earnest intentions, it’s only right for the junior to oblige.

"However, concerning these two individuals, there is still some use for them for the time being... Honestly speaking, the Jianghu Alliance’s formation still lacks a ’sacrificial flag,’ resulting in inevitable instability.

"A baptism of blood is required to clarify the purpose.