Chapter 29: Senior Fellow Apprentice
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Zhang Shouyi looked at him, something strange in his eyes.
"You tell him for me."
Shen Moyan was stunned.
"Why me?"
"Because you're the one I've been waiting for." Zhang Shouyi said. "I've waited thirty years for someone to deliver this message for me. Now you're here. Time to deliver it."
He turned and walked toward the door.
At the threshold, he stopped, didn't turn around:
"That thing at the bottom of the well—it's my senior fellow apprentice."
Shen Moyan stood in the shop, watching Zhang Shouyi's back disappear into the crowd, his mind blank.
That thing at the bottom of the well—it was Zhang Shouyi's senior fellow apprentice?
That thing that had eaten forty-seven people—it was Lu Jiuyuan's master?
"Impossible." Zhu Quan said. "A Taoist at the Master level, after death, their soul disperses. Can't turn into something like that."
"Unless he didn't die." Hu Sanniang's voice sounded. "He went down alive."
Shen Moyan's heart tightened.
Went down alive, was eaten by that thing, and merged with it?
Or...
He remembered Sun Yunniang's words: "The others in this well—he didn't kill them."
Not killed by the fox demon. Killed by who?
By that "thing"?
Or...
He didn't dare think further.
But he knew he had to go down. Not to repay debts—to find the truth.
The fourth stroke was complete. He looked at his hands. The black had reached the fourth knuckle.
Five strokes left.
But time might be running out.
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