Legend of Fei Episode 23 Recap
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The tokens of the vast sea and sky were divided into several parts: Li Jinrong had one, Wu Fei had one, and Yin Wenlan had one. Koudan speculated that after the Yin family was wiped out by Zheng Luosheng, they must have obtained the vast sea and sky token from Yin Wenlan. It was already widely known that Zhou Fei had killed Zheng Luosheng.
Koudan directly pointed out that Li Jinrong deliberately used the excuse of escorting Wu Chuchu, but in reality, secretly sent Zhou Fei to seize the vast sea and sky from Zheng Luosheng, thus establishing authority and seizing treasure simultaneously. After Wu Fei's death, his family was taken in by Forty-eight Strongholds. Koudan had even more reason to believe that the vast sea and sky from Wu Fei had fallen into the hands of Forty-eight Strongholds.
From the surface, this seemed like an undeniable fact, but luckily, no one present believed her provocative words. At this time, Li Sheng and Deng Zhen led the disciples of the stronghold, eliminating the lurking Di Sha and Mingfeng Tower traitors one by one in the outer areas. The next step was to capture the outer mountain gate.
Li Sheng was worried about the situation of Zhou Fei and others and intentionally sent someone to report the news, intending to announce that the outer areas had been brought back under the control of Forty-eight Strongholds and that the mountain gate had been retaken.
Just as Zhou Fei and the others were about to engage in a chaotic battle with Gu Tianxian, the person who came to report the news interrupted the tense atmosphere, causing Gu Tianxian and Koudan's expressions to change dramatically. With the situation now out of their control, the two also thought of retreating. Furthermore, although the Qianji Array was temporarily shut down, it would automatically restart after one hour, which also accelerated their decision to retreat.
The restart of the Qianji Array was Yu Lao's preventive measure. Zhou Fei and the others naturally knew this. Zhang Bolin originally wanted to beat the retreating enemy, but Zhou Fei's words exposed Li Sheng's plan, causing him to give up the pursuit. Although Li Jinrong was not presiding over the stronghold at the moment, Zhou Fei's performance convinced the two elders, and they no longer treated her as a child.
Li Sheng and Deng Zhen, spurred on, led their disciples to attack the outer mountain gate. Amidst flashes of blades and shadows of swords, and dozens of crossbow arrows flying simultaneously, just as everyone successfully took down the outer mountain gate, reinforcements from the Di Sha arrived. Li Sheng led his disciples and used their shields to defend the mountain gate to the death, successfully closing the gate and temporarily avoiding their onslaught.
Having failed in this attack on Forty-eight Strongholds, Shen Tianshu and Yu Wenzhi subtly blamed each other in their words, but for now, to achieve their goals, they had no choice but to continue cooperating. With the failed operation, Shen Tianshu borrowed Yu Wenzhi's private army, and under the guise of annihilate bandits, he detained the residents of Chunhui Town and swept away all the food in the town.
Chunhui Town was the only source of grain and provisions for Forty-eight Strongholds. Shen Tianshu used this to prevent the stronghold from receiving supplies, causing the stronghold to consume its internal resources, after which they could strike when it was weakened. If Forty-eight Strongholds sent troops to rescue the people, their internal defenses would be empty.
If they abandoned the people of Chunhui Town, their reputation would be damaged, and they would surely become a laughingstock in the martial arts world. At this moment, Zhou Fei and Xie Yun came to the Washed Ink River. Yu Lao was sitting in his small hut. If not for his purplish-black lips, he would have looked as if he were asleep.
Zhou Fei felt as if she could still see Yu Lao's disapproving look, but upon looking closely again, Yu Lao's corpse had not moved at all, which finally made Zhou Fei unable to hold back her sorrow. Zhou Fei touched Yu Lao's body and found that there was still residual warmth. She immediately wanted to call for a doctor to rescue him, but Xie Yun mercilessly stopped her.
According to Xie Yun, someone poisoned by Translucent Bone Blue, even if saved by the Guiyang Pill, would lack water in their body and need to live in a constantly humid and damp place. This was also the reason why their body temperature remained longer than ordinary people after death. The fact that Yu Lao had no heartbeat or pulse proved that Xie Yun's words were not false, and it completely shattered Zhou Fei's last hope.
However, there wasn't much time for her to grieve. Although the Qianji Array could barely resume operation, to truly protect Forty-eight Strongholds without worries, the Qianji Array needed to be genuinely restarted. Zhou Fei stared at the Qianji Array mechanism wall before her, recalling Yu Lao's every movement back then. She actually succeeded in restarting the Qianji Array. It was only then that Zhou Fei suddenly realized how much Yu Lao had taught her without her knowing.
Zhou Fei fell into sorrow again, but the intelligence from down the mountain about Chunhui Town being suppressed made her pull herself together once more. The two elders again argued fiercely over Chunhui Town. Zhou Fei appeared in time and proposed that she would go to Chunhui Town alone to capture Yu Wenzhi, using him to threaten the Di Sha and others to retreat.
The three forces, Di Sha, Yu Wenzhi, and Mingfeng Tower, were cooperating for their own selfish interests, but they would surely be suspicious of each other and guard against one another. This was the opportunity Zhou Fei could exploit.
