The Elixir is for You, The Poison is for Me

#757 - The Seventh Person That Does Not Exist

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"Reverend Qingchen."

Xie Lili greeted the Taoist after seeing him.

"Miss Lili."

Qingchen returned the greeting, then walked to the opposite side of the stone table, sat down, smoothing his Taoist robe.

Next, he reached out and messed up the chessboard in front of him, separating the white and black pieces.

Xie Lili helped Qingchen put the chess pieces back into the chess container, then pretended to ask casually, "Who were you playing with just now, Reverend?"

"Myself,"

Qingchen said.

"Can you play chess with yourself?"

"Who says you can't?"

Qingchen smiled, "Isn't life mostly about playing against yourself?"

"But when did your chess skills become so advanced?"

Xie Lili didn't believe him.

"A scholar who has been away for three days must be looked at with new eyes, not to mention it's been a month since you last came to me to play chess,"

Qingchen said, finishing, he looked at Lu Jing, "Is this friend a new helper you've found?

At this time, Du Wu also brought over the two bowls of plain water.

Lu Jing and Xie Lili each took a bowl, Xie Lili took a small sip, while Lu Jing had just had a fight in the Golden Hook Casino and was a little thirsty.

After taking the bowl, he drank it straight down.

At this time, Qingchen also cleaned up the chessboard, reached out a hand, and made a fist.

"Guess."

"Odd,"

Xie Lili said without hesitation.

Qingchen opened his palm, holding a chess piece inside, "You win, the black piece is yours."

However, Xie Lili wasn't in a hurry to make a move, but turned to Lu Jing again and said, "Let me go first this round."

"What, didn't you say you were going to team up?"

Qingchen raised his eyebrows.

"I said two against one, but I didn't say we'd go together,"

Xie Lili said, "I'll play with you first, and if I lose, my friend will go."

"A gauntlet match,"

Qingchen said, "That's fine… but when we're playing, won't your friend feel bored?

Should I have Du Wu take him to the reception hall to rest first, or does he want to take a walk around the Qixia Temple?"

Lu Jing and Xie Lili looked at each other, and both saw a hint of surprise in each other's eyes.

Their original plan was for Xie Lili to hold back Qingchen, the abbot, while Lu Jing found an excuse to secretly search the Qixia Temple.

But they didn't expect that Xie Lili had just pulled Qingchen to the chessboard when the latter had already found an excuse for Lu Jing to leave.

Should he be considered innocent and frank, or confident and unafraid?

"Then I'll wander around first,"

Lu Jing said smoothly.

"Okay,"

Qingchen nodded, finishing, he refocused his gaze on the chessboard, seemingly not worried at all that Lu Jing would discover anything.

Seeing this, Lu Jing didn't stand on ceremony and left the small courtyard where the two were playing chess, walking around the Taoist temple.

Qixia Temple was very small, less than sixty zhang from the mountain gate to the backyard, and it wouldn't even take half an incense stick to walk around.

Lu Jing quickly searched the temple up and down, and as a result, except for the monks' rooms, he didn't see any other figures.

So Lu Jing focused his attention on those few monks' rooms.

Xie Lili said that there were six Taoists in Qixia Temple, of which Lu Jing had already met Du Wu and Qingchen, and there were four Taoists left, corresponding to the four monks' rooms.

Lu Jing cast a Light Body Technique on himself, then jumped onto the roof, gently lifted the tiles, and looked through each room, but he didn't see any other suspicious people in their rooms.

Have they already run?

Lu Jing frowned, it had taken him and Xie Lili some time from knocking on the door to entering the Taoist temple, and if there was a strange object hidden in Qixia Temple, it was indeed possible to use this time to escape.

This could also explain why Qingchen was lying through his teeth, yet he wasn't flustered at all.

But Lu Jing always felt that the other party shouldn't be so sensitive.

It had nothing to do with vigilance, Qixia Temple itself was a Taoist temple, and there would definitely be many people coming and going on weekdays, if someone came to visit, and that person ran away, it would be more likely to bring danger, because next door was the official office of the Sitianjian.

Lu Jing was still more inclined to believe that the person was hiding somewhere.

That place must be hidden enough to be unexpected, and even the other five Taoists in the temple didn't know.

In this way, when the two of them knocked on the door earlier, Du Wu would say that his master was in the room, the little Taoist obviously didn't know that Qingchen was playing chess with someone in the backyard.

Looking at it this way, Qingchen's own room was indeed more suspicious.

Thinking of this, Lu Jing jumped down from the roof again and walked to the outside of Qingchen's room.

He just pushed lightly, and the door opened.

It was empty inside.

Lu Jing looked around, the furnishings in the room were very simple, only a bed, a square table, two chairs, and a box.

Lu Jing first flipped through the books on the table, and found that they were all Taoist scriptures or chess scores, then he turned his attention to the box, judging by its size, the wooden box was big enough to fit an adult.

Lu Jing drew out his flying sword, held it in his hand, took two steps forward, and carefully pried open the lid of the box.

As a result, there were only some magical instruments that would be used in rituals inside.

And they all looked quite new, they should have been made not long ago.

Lu Jing carefully looked at the other places in the room, and still couldn't find any trace of a second person living there.

He could only close the wooden box and exit Qingchen's room.

In this way, he had searched the entire Qixia Temple up and down.

But apart from the chessboard before, Lu Jing hadn't found even a trace of a clue related to the seventh person, even the chopsticks in the kitchen were only six pairs.

So Lu Jing could only return to the backyard and plan to call Xie Lili to leave.

Since he couldn't find any clues here, continuing to delay would only be wasting the time that Kui Wei had won for them, so Lu Jing planned to deal with the strange objects elsewhere first.

"You're leaving? But we've only just started,"

Qingchen pointed to the chessboard and said.

"I just remembered something important, how about we fight again another day?"

Lu Jing said.

"That's fine too,"

Although Qingchen was a little regretful, he didn't force the two of them, putting down the chess piece in his hand and said, "I'll see you out."

However, as soon as Xie Lili stood up, she didn't know if it was because she had been sitting for too long and her blood was not flowing smoothly, her body swayed, and then she felt her head shaking as well, and everything she saw was spinning.

She gritted her teeth and squeezed out half a sentence, "Water, there's something wrong with the water."

However, before she could finish speaking, she fell to the ground.

And as soon as she fell, Lu Jing also fell to the ground, and soon closed his eyes.

Seeing this, Qingchen not only didn't show any joy on his face, but instead revealed a hint of anger.

"You… what do you mean by this?"

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