The Return of Stars to the Jianghu

"This place faces the direction of the Southern Han, and is some distance from the Later Tang and Nanzhao. The Qi Kingdom naturally has no need to waste its troops here. The Southern Han only defends its own territory and never takes the initiative to attack." Qiao Zhi was not impatient, but patiently answered Luo Yifei's question, as if he wanted to tell this Westerner everything about the Guandong continent.

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While Luo Yifei was chasing after Qiao Zhi by Wanfeng Lake, bombarding him with questions, the black-clad archer Shi Hao was being escorted by soldiers to Black Tiger City, the capital of the Qi Kingdom.

The State of Qi used the black tiger as its totem, so its capital was named Black Tiger City.

The convoy escorting Shi Hao was traveling at top speed towards Black Tiger City. Meanwhile, another group of people from Black Tiger City were also galloping towards Mount Emei. That person was none other than Luo Feng, a Grand Scholar of Qi. He needed to see Shi Hao as quickly as possible; his spies had discovered frequent troop movements recently, and he needed to obtain some useful intelligence from Shi Hao.

Shi Hao was imprisoned in a prison cart, his hands and feet bound. He was severely injured, and the long journey had left him pale. The soldiers knew that a high-ranking official in the capital was going to interrogate him, but they wouldn't let him die on the road, so they provided him with ample food. Unfortunately, he had been pierced through the body by a sword from a member of the Red-Clothed Cult. If it weren't for his internal energy protecting him, he would have died like an ordinary person. Although this world has things like internal energy and magic that modern technology cannot yet explain, it still conforms to the basic physical laws of the universe. If a person is injured and doesn't receive timely medical treatment, they will eventually succumb.

Although the leading officer was afraid that the man would die on the way, he had no time to find a doctor to treat him. He could only silently pray that the assassin could make it to the capital, otherwise his career would be hopeless.

As night fell, the caravan, which had been traveling day and night, had to stop and rest. The horses were changed at each post station, but the escorts remained the same.

Qi State Grand Scholar Luo Feng was galloping day and night, changing horses countless times along the way. He had received a secret report that Shi Hao must have been assassinated. He knew too much; those people would never let him return to Black Tiger City alive.

As dawn approached, Luo Feng spotted the prison wagon on the road. The soldiers lying around it were all dead, killed with a single sword strike. Inside the wagon, Shi Hao lay dead in a pool of blood, likely from blood loss. Presumably, before his death, the murderer had tried to extract information from him, but it's unclear whether they succeeded.

Luo Feng went to the nearest county government office and asked the magistrate to arrange for the soldiers and Shi Hao to collect their bodies. Afterwards, he quickly rode back to Black Tiger City.

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In the mountains of Emei, the leader of the Red-Clothed Sect received a secret report early in the morning via carrier pigeon. Someone had dispatched an eighth-rank expert to kill Shi Hao to silence him. The leader of the Red-Clothed Sect sighed inwardly, regretting that he had failed to save Shi Hao's life. However, he was not worried, since Shi Hao had not died within the Red-Clothed Sect, and the emperor would not easily implicate the Red-Clothed Sect.

"Reporting to the Master, we have the results. Of the arrows shot into the sky, one disappeared in mid-air."

Upon hearing his subordinate's report, the leader of the Red-Clothed Cult was overjoyed. "Where is she? Take me there quickly."

The leader of the Red-Clothed Cult was quickly taken by his subordinates to a certain place in the forest at the foot of Mount Emei. This was the very place where Luo Yifei had fallen from the sky when he arrived from Earth.

"Try another arrow," Lin Quan, the leader of the Red-Clothed Cult, said to his subordinates. More than a decade had passed, and he needed to see it with his own eyes to believe it.

The arrow that had been shot into the air indeed disappeared in mid-air.

When Luo Yifei left Mount Emei, he had his daughter Lin Lei personally lead a team to shoot arrows into the air along the tracks Luo Yifei had left behind.

The moment Lin Quan saw Luo Yifei and the gun, he knew that what he had been searching for had been delivered right to his doorstep. But he couldn't let those old foxes know, so he didn't report it to the court. Instead, he discussed it with Qi Yuan and Qiao Zhi, asking them to find a way to get close to Luo Yifei and guide him to pretend to be a Westerner to survive in this world.

When Lin Quan accidentally entered this world, if it weren't for the old sect leader taking him as a disciple and teaching him martial arts, he probably wouldn't know where he would be making a living now.

The world has changed drastically. After the upheavals of ten years ago, some hidden forces on the Floating Life Continent have learned of the existence of another world. However, most people believe it to be the Immortal Realm, and that finding the gate to the Immortal Realm will grant immortality and the attainment of immortality.

The arrow shot into the sky and disappeared without a trace. He knew that the arrow had traveled through a tunnel to the other side of the universe, to his beloved homeland.

The arrow suddenly appeared in the underground river on Earth, but due to the resistance of the water, it failed to shoot out of the water and slowly sank back into the water.

"Father, have you found the tunnel back to our hometown?" Lin Lei asked, looking at her father's excited expression.

"Yes," Lin Quan, the leader of the Red-Clothed Cult, gradually calmed down and slowly said, "We want to build a residence and a pagoda here."

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Sunlight shines on the surface of Wanfeng Lake, making the only small boat on the lake stand out.

Luo Yifei followed Qi Yuan and his group safely across the lake and arrived in the territory of Nan Han.