Everlasting Sword Sect.
The return of Mo Xiu and Ming Huang did not cause a sensation, except for a lot of people who took the initiative to greet Mo Xiu, everything went as usual.
After returning to Wonder Sword Peak, the people who stayed behind at Wonder Sword Peak also hurried out to greet him.
But what puzzled Mo Xiu was that he only saw Chen Yutong and Zhao Lingshang, but did not see Gongsun Zhi.
"Where is Gongsun Zhi?" He asked.
"Master, the senior sister went back with the Gongsun Family," Chen Yutong replied.
Although Gongsun Zhi's age was the youngest among the four apprentices of Mo Xiu, she was the first apprentice Mo Xiu received, and also the one with the highest cultivation base and the most mature temperament.
Therefore, Chen Yutong called her "senior sister", which was normal.
"A few days ago, people from Gongsun Family came and said that senior sister's birth mother was critically ill, and told senior sister to return to Gongsun Manor quickly. Therefore, the senior sister went back before Master came," Zhao Lingshang seemed to see Mo Xiu's doubts, so she explained a bit.
"Her mother is critically ill?" Mo Xiu muttered secretly.
He knew that the relationship between Gongsun Zhi and the Gongsun Family was not very good.
Gongsun Zhi's biological father was the head of the Gongsun Family, and Gongsun Zhi was the third young lady of the Gongsun Family.
After the fall of the Gongsun Family, they always wanted to rely on Gongsun Zhi to rise again, but they couldn't train Gongsun Zhi, so they sent Gongsun Zhi to the Everlasting Sword Sect.
Originally, the Gongsun Family hoped that Gongsun Zhi would approve of Lei Zhen as her teacher as they had made an agreement with Lei Zhen, but Mo Xiu stepped in and accepted Gongsun Zhi as his apprentice.
This made the Gongsun Family very dissatisfied.
At the previous time, the Gongsun Family sent someone to Wonder Sword Peak to ask Gongsun Zhi to apologize to Lei Zhen and instead worship Lei Zhen as her teacher.
After Gongsun Zhi refused, that person provoked Mo Xiu fearlessly and was slapped to death by Mo Xiu.
Since then, there had been no movement from the Gongsun Family.
Originally, Mo Xiu thought that the Gongsun Family had given up that idea, or simply entrusted the matter to Lei Zhen.
But now, it seemed that the Gongsun Family might not give up, and it was likely that some conspiracy and tricks had been brewing during this time.
Of course, it was not necessarily a conspiracy. No one knew if Gongsun Zhi's biological mother was really dying. If she was really dying, Gongsun Zhi should go back and have a look.
However, since the matter this time was done behind his back, then Mo Xiu could only look at this matter with malicious intent.
Ultimately, Gongsun Zhi was now his eldest disciple, or a genius with a Phaseless Divine Vein, so he, as her master, could not ignore this matter no matter what.
After thinking for a while, he said, "You continue to stay at Wonder Sword Peak, I will go to Gongsun Manor to have a look."
The Everlasting Sword Sect was in Azure Leaf Continent, and the Gongsun Family was also in Azure Leaf Continent. The distance should not be very far.
Mo Xiu didn't know exactly which direction and which city he was in as he had never been to Gongsun Manor.
However, many people in the Everlasting Sword Sect knew the location of the Gongsun Family, and it was easy to find out, so there was no need to worry about that.
In fact, the Everlasting Sword Sect was not far from Gongsun Manor. Mo Xiu flew with all his strength, and in only half a day, he came to Asking Star City and found Gongsun Manor.
"Who?!"
The person guarding the gate screamed and stopped Mo Xiu.
Mo Xiu didn't report his name immediately but extend his Divine Consciousness to investigate every move of Gongsun Manor.
He didn't know who Gongsun Zhi's biological mother was, but there didn't seem to be an ill person in Gongsun Manor, let alone critically ill.
Gongsun Zhi wasn't there either, he didn't know if she was already on her way back to the Everlasting Sword Sect.
The routes might not be the same, so when Mo Xiu came, it was not strange that he did not meet Gongsun Zhi who had returned to the Everlasting Sword Sect.
However, Mo Xiu felt that things shouldn't be that simple. The possibility that this incident was a plot made by the Gongsun Family was very high.
He restrained his breath and said, "I'm looking for Gongsun Zhi."
If Gongsun Zhi had already embarked on the road back to the Everlasting Sword Sect, there should be nothing to say about this kind of thing, but the gatekeeper did not tell Gongsun Zhi whereabouts, but said, "The Third Young Miss is not here."
"Where did she go?" Mo Xiu asked.
"I do not know."
The gatekeeper seemed to be a little impatient, and waved his hand, "Go away, you won't find her at the Gongsun Manor."
Mo Xiu was not angry, and continued to ask, "What do you mean by that? Should I find her at the Everlasting Sword Sect?"
"The Everlasting Sword Sect?" The gatekeeper chuckled. "The Everlasting Sword Sect is a rubbish, but the Third Young Miss is a peerless genius. It's fine if they didn't let Elder Lei accept the Third Young Miss as his disciple, but they even let a rubbish elder be the master of the Third Young Miss."
"..."
Judging from a gatekeeper's attitude towards the Everlasting Sword Sect, the Everlasting Sword Sect should be very bad in the eyes of the Gongsun Family, so it was fine for Gongsun Zhi not to come back. Once back to the Gongsun Family, the patriarch of the Gongsun Family probably wouldn't her return to the Everlasting Sword Sect.
But some things had to be reconfirmed.
Mo Xiu's eyes flickered and finally asked, "I heard that Gongsun Zhi's birth mother is critically ill?"
As soon as these words came out, the face of the gatekeeper changed, and he asked coldly, "Who are you on earth?"
If Gongsun Zhi's biological mother was really critically ill, or had been in a critical condition, it shouldn't be a secret in this Asking Star City. The question regarding that woman shouldn't be a big deal.
However, this actually aroused such a big reaction from the gatekeeper.
With such a big reaction, he asked who Mo Xiu was, then the fact that Gongsun Zhi's mother was critically ill was likely to be false.
If this matter was false, then Gongsun Zhi was deceived back.
Mo Xiu didn't think that the patriarch of the Gongsun Family would let Gongsun Zhi return to the Everlasting Sword Sect without doing anything after deceiving Gongsun Zhi back.
Thinking of this, Mo Xiu simply stopped hiding, letting go of the aura that had been restrained, and did not forget to say, "I am the rubbish elder of the rubbish Everlasting Sword Sect in your mouth!"
"…"
The gatekeeper was immediately dumbfounded. He never thought that Mo Xiu would be the elder of the Everlasting Sword Sect at his young age, and never thought that Mo Xiu would be Gongsun Zhi's master.
Just now, in front of Mo Xiu, he scolded the Everlasting Sword Sect as trash, saying that Mo Xiu was the trash elder of the Trash Everlasting Sword Sect.
Now that Mo Xiu showed his identity, wasn't he going to die?
Compared with the gatekeeper, Mo Xiu was more concerned about Gongsun Zhi's location and her safety.
He didn't even glance at the gatekeeper, nor did he let the gatekeeper inside to report, but walked straight in.
"Slow down!"
The gatekeeper seemed to be frightened by Mo Xiu's identity, and his words became stammered, but he still remembered that he was a gatekeeper, so no matter how scared he was, he still mustered the courage to stop Mo Xiu.
Without turning his head back, Mo Xiu slapped him back, and with a "bang", the gatekeeper burst into a bloody mist on the spot.
There was not much movement here, but it still alarmed the guards in Gongsun Manor.
As soon as Mo Xiu entered the front yard, many people rushed out.
"Who is trespassing into Gongsun Manor?!" A man who looked like the leader of the guard shouted loudly.
Although it had long since fallen, the Gongsun Family was also a famous cultivation family.
Now, the weakest guard in the manor was in the Sea Core Realm.
As for the guard leader, his cultivation base had reached the Great Perfection-stage of the Soul Opening Realm. His cultivation base alone was not inferior to Mo Xiu.
Mo Xiu did not report his name, but said, "Let your patriarch get out and give me an explanation. Otherwise, don't blame me for killing you!"
"With just you alone?" The guard leader sneered.
Although cultivators often couldn't be judged based on appearance, Mo Xiu still looked too young. At least on the surface, he did not have the slightest feeling of going through a lot.
Such a person, even if he couldn't see the specific cultivation base, he would not care about it.
He even felt that Mo Xiu deliberately concealed his cultivation base because he just wanted to look mysterious.
If he really had advanced cultivation base, he could go unscrupulously everywhere, why did he still need to deliberately conceal his cultivation base?
With Mo Xiu's current strength, he could indeed be unscrupulous anywhere in the Profound Sky Continent, but it had nothing to do with whether he concealed his cultivation.
He didn't intend to talk nonsense. He raised his hand and grabbed the void. The Abyss Demon Sword appeared in his hand, and while swinging it, several sword energies burst out.
"Puff, puff, puff…"
The guards of Gongsun Manor didn't have any resistance at all. Under the sword energy, let alone dodge, they didn't even have the chance to scream. They were instantly torn to pieces.
The head of the guard could sneer just now, but now he couldn't even react timely. The expression on his face became rigid, and he scolded, "Damn! Where did this bastard come from?"
Then, without much thought, he rushed towards Mo Xiu as he drew out the knife from his waist and slammed at Mo Xiu.
The light of the knife flickered, and several sword lights burst out.
Dragon Tiger Suspended Slash!
There was a faint sound of dragons and tigers roaring in the courtyard!
This should be his strongest blow, but it was not enough to even scratch Mo Xiu. With a thrust of the Abyss Demon Sword in his hand, he stabbed back at the guard leader.
The head of the guard was overjoyed and felt that Mo Xiu would be dead. But soon, he discovered that Mo Xiu had passed evaded his knife somehow and struck his sword into his body instead.
He wanted to resist Mo Xiu's attack with the knife in his hand, but Mo Xiu's speed was too fast, before he could react, Mo Xiu had already slashed the sword in his sword upward as his body was split into two halves.
"Puff…"
Blood splashed, the knife in the hand of the guard leader slipped to the ground, and his two "bodies" slowly fell to the ground.