No hope for eternal life

Chapter 138 Shatongmo Takes Action

The middle-aged Taoist said unkindly: "We are open for business. You want to take the boat without paying the spirit stones? If this continues, how can we continue to do business? You will get off the boat at the next stop. Don't blame me for not warning you. If you meet a bad-tempered boat owner, he will just throw you off the boat."

The old woman clasped her hands together and begged bitterly: "Please don't kick me off the boat..."

The middle-aged Taoist was annoyed by the request, so he waved his hand and said, "Instead of begging me, you might as well go and ask the passengers on the boat to see if anyone is willing to pay for your boat fare."

Before the middle-aged Taoist finished speaking, a voice came: "I will pay for her boat fare."

Mu Changsheng and others walked over together. The voice just now came from Mu Changsheng.

The middle-aged Taoist was delighted when he heard this and looked at the old woman: "You are lucky. Someone is paying for your boat fare. Tell me where you want to go and I will calculate the fare for you."

"I'm going to Qingliu Town, Qihua County, Nansha County." The old woman replied.

"Well, that means we need to get off the boat at Niujiao Ferry, which requires one thousand low-grade spirit stones." The middle-aged Taoist was still calculating the accounts, but when he turned around, he saw the stunned expressions of Mu Changsheng and the other two.

Mu Changsheng and Mu Xun looked at each other and confirmed that neither of them knew the old woman, so Mu Changsheng asked the old woman: "Grandma, are you also from Qingliu Town?"

The old woman shook her head and said, "No, I'm going to Qingliu Town to look for someone."

Mu Changsheng suddenly realized that it was no wonder that he and Mu Xun didn't know each other.

Then, Mu Changsheng said: "The two of us are also going to Qingliu Town, so why don't you come with us?"

As he spoke, Mu Changsheng had already paid a thousand low-grade spirit stones for the old woman.

The middle-aged Taoist took the spirit stone, turned around and left, too lazy to care about anything else. The old woman thanked Mu Changsheng profusely.

At the same time, Song Zhi frowned slightly. She always felt that the appearance of this old woman was too abrupt and too coincidental. How could she be going to Qingliu Town as well?

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The next day, in the afternoon, Mu Changsheng and his party finally got off the boat at Niujiao Ferry, which is the ferry near the county seat of Qihua County and also the closest ferry to Qingliu Town.

Mu Changsheng originally thought that he was going to say goodbye to Song Zhi, but Song Zhi took the initiative to say, "I have long admired Senior Yang Wuque, and would like to take this opportunity to pay him a visit. I hope Master Mu can introduce him to something."

"It's a small matter." Mu Changsheng agreed immediately: "However, considering Mr. Yang's temperament, he may not be too enthusiastic. Miss Song, please be mentally prepared."

"It's okay." Song Zhi said with a smile.

Afterwards, everyone hurried towards the setting sun, heading towards Qingliu Town, but unbeknownst to them, there was a figure following them from behind.

Half an hour later, a guard in golden armor suddenly changed his expression and said in a deep voice: "Not good, there is an ambush."

Another guard in golden armor also noticed something was wrong: "We have been traveling for half an hour, but we are just going around in circles and haven't gotten very far."

Mu Changsheng's face changed when he heard this. He didn't know how he could suddenly encounter such a situation. He then asked the two golden armored guards: "What should we do now?"

The two golden-armored guards are both Nascent Soul-level warriors and are definitely more experienced than them.

The two golden-armored guards looked at each other, took out a token each and crushed it. After the token was crushed, their faces changed color again.

"Not good, this is a trap, the distress signal can't be transmitted." A golden-armored guard said. The tokens they carried with them were special products. If they crushed the token here, the palace would be able to sense it. It was a way to seek support, but both of them could sense that the signal just now did not get out.

"Is there any other way?" Mu Changsheng asked again.

The golden armored guard replied: "The only way is to break the formation, but this formation can intercept distress signals, and I'm afraid it's of a high rank. With the strength of the two of us, we may not be able to handle it."

As they spoke, the two golden-armored guards took action. Each of them prepared an attack and sent it straight into the sky above their heads.

With the two golden-armored guards' cultivation at the Nascent Soul stage, the power and might of their attacks were naturally extremely great. However, after their attacks reached a certain height, they came to an abrupt halt and disappeared.

"It is true." The golden-armored guard who had spoken many times said again. This was also something he expected.

Another guard in golden armor became extremely nervous, muttering in a mysterious voice: "A trap, and the distress signal can't be transmitted. They are trying to kill us."

Even Song Zhi frowned slightly, because this matter had nothing to do with her.

"Everything is still unknown." Mu Changsheng said in a deep voice, taking out a silver talisman in his hand, which was the Shenxiao Talisman given by Yang Wuque. He had just learned from the guards that this was a trap array, so it would depend on whether the Shenxiao Talisman in his hand could break the trap array.

Mu Changsheng pointed the Shenxiao Talisman towards the sky and sent a trace of spiritual power into it. The Shenxiao Talisman instantly shone brightly, and then, a lightning pillar as thick as a bucket shot out from the talisman and struck the sky fiercely.

What happened next made Mu Changsheng's heart uneasy. He saw that the lightning column, like the attack of the two golden-armored guards, flew to a certain height in the air and then disappeared in an instant. It seemed that it could not even cause a ripple in the clouds.

Mu Changsheng did not give up and continued to activate the Shenxiao Talisman in his hand. The Shenxiao Talisman could attack nine times in total. He had used it five times before and could use it four times more. Mu Changsheng used it three times in a row out of the four attacks.

Three rounds of Shenxiao Talisman attacks were sent in all directions, but all missed, and no response was heard.

Seeing that it had no effect, Mu Changsheng did not waste his last attack with the Shenxiao Talisman.

Seeing this, the relatively calm golden armored guard shouted: "I don't know which senior master made the move while passing by here. We are under the command of the Lord of the Kamikaze Nation. Can you please show some mercy?"

But the only response to the golden-armored guards was total silence.

Among the crowd, Song Zhi was the calmest one. She kept thinking about the cause of this incident, and her eyes were sweeping towards the old woman secretly. She always felt that this person's appearance was too coincidental. However, the old woman also seemed extremely panicked at this moment, and it didn't seem like she was faking it.

"Who is doing the attack? And why?" Mu Changsheng was also pondering in his mind. Even the Shenxiao Talisman was useless, which showed that the person who did the attack had extraordinary means.

"I wonder if you could come forward and explain the situation clearly. If we have offended you in any way, we will apologize in person." The golden-armored guard continued to shout loudly.

"There's no need to apologize." A voice came from a distance, and everyone finally got a response.

I saw a figure falling from the sky. After seeing the face of the person clearly, Mu Changsheng was suddenly shocked.

It turned out that the person who trapped them was the governor of Nansha County, Shatongmo!

The golden armored guard who shouted was shocked and angry. He obviously recognized the other party's identity. He asked, "Sir Sha, this is the person that His Majesty the King has designated to be protected. Why are you blocking our way?"

Sha Tongmo said with a smile: "You all misunderstood. I stopped you because I just wanted to talk to Mu Changsheng. Now, please hand Mu Changsheng over to me, and then please swear a great oath to your demon heart, and pretend that this incident never happened, okay?"

"You actually came to find me." Mu Changsheng's heart sank. Sha Tongmo's tone was kind, but the threat in it was obvious. If he killed everyone, things might get out of hand, so he threatened everyone to swear a great oath to their inner demons, so that they would not be able to speak out about what happened today.

At the same time, another terrified golden-armored guard nodded repeatedly and said, "No problem, no problem, Mu Changsheng, you can take him away. I will swear a great oath to my demon heart that I will not tell anyone what happened today."

In order to save his own life, the guard in golden armor had already made a great oath.