Pushing the Three Thousand Worlds

Chapter 146 Cao Shao Disappears
"My teacher wasn't there yesterday, didn't anything happen in the martial arts hall?" Chen Mao asked casually.

"Go back to Master, no."

Tao Zian replied with a smile.

Chen Mao looked at Tao Zian and Li Qiu, frowned slightly, and asked.

"Why don't you see your third junior brother?"

"Master, Fourth Junior Brother and I didn't see Junior Brother Cao in the morning, so we might have gone out on something."

Chen Mao shook his head and didn't ask any more questions.

Tao Zian smiled lightly.

"Master, you must be tired just after you came back, so my junior brother and I won't disturb your rest."

"Disciple retires." "Disciple retires."

The two exited the lobby, and Tao Zian looked at Li Qiu who had exited, his gaze moved slightly.

Judging by Li Qiu's appearance, Cao Shao must have listened to his words and did not provoke trouble to embarrass Li Qiu.

The next day, the sky was bright and the air was clear, in the backyard of the Aoki Dojo.

clang clang!

There was a sound of sword clashing.

Chen Mao wore a long robe, held a long knife in his hand, and performed the Qingshuang Saber Technique with a fierce aura, as if frost came to the world, bringing endless chills. Li Qiu, who also performed the Qingshuang Saber Technique, was fighting each other.

The terrifying and fierce saber gesture violently impacted Li Qiu's mind, allowing him to have a deeper understanding of Qingshuang's saber technique.

The two used the Qingshuang Saber Technique, after dozens of moves, Chen Mao stopped to withdraw the saber, looked at Li Qiu with a smile on his face, stroked the beard on his chin, and nodded in satisfaction.

"In just a few days, you have already mastered the Aoki Saber Technique, especially the sharpness of the saber. It is very comforting to have you as an apprentice with extraordinary comprehension!"

Chen Mao felt that the heavens were really kind to him, so he first sent him a descendant of a martial sage, and after he was dissatisfied with his character, he sent another descendant of a martial sage with a gentle character and even more aptitude.

He is a martial artist at the bone-building stage, but he can receive two descendants of martial sages as apprentices. He has no regrets in this life!
Hearing Chen Mao's praise, Li Qiu withdrew his sword and bowed his hands, silent.

There was a sound of hurried footsteps.

With a solemn expression, Tao Zian walked into the back garden, saluted Chen Mao and said.

"Master, the third junior brother seems to be missing!"

Chen Mao frowned, his face changed slightly: "What's going on?"

"From yesterday morning until now, people in the martial arts hall have said that they have never seen Third Junior Brother. The last time they saw him was the night before yesterday."

"How did Cao Shao disappear?"

Li Qiu listened on the sidelines, his face changed slightly, and a hint of doubt flashed in his eyes.

Fleeing in fear of crime?
Even though Cao Shao was indeed involved in the assassination of him sent by the Spirit Snake Martial Art Museum, he didn't reveal any flaws, so why abscond in fear of crime.

Could it be that the Spirit Snake Martial Arts Academy sent people to assassinate Cao Shao at the same time last night?

Cao Shao went out to meet the people from the Spirit Snake Martial Arts Academy in the middle of the night, but he was suddenly killed by the people from the Spirit Snake Martial Arts Academy?

Or is it that Cao Shao did not collude with the Spirit Snake Martial Art Museum, and something else happened.

Li Qiu was suddenly a little confused by the news of Cao Shao's disappearance, and made all kinds of guesses for a while.

"Send all the people in the martial arts hall, and we must find your third junior brother."

Chen Mao looked solemn, thought for a moment, and ordered.

"Yes." Tao Zian answered with cupped hands.

Chen Mao's eyes moved slightly. Although he gradually began to dislike Cao Shao as his apprentice after Li Qiu appeared, Cao Shao was also his apprentice after all. He, as a master, couldn't sit idly by when something happened to his apprentice.

"Take a look at the room of your third junior brother with me."

Chen Mao said solemnly.

Tao Zian and Li Qiu followed behind Chen Mao and hurried towards Cao Shao's residence.

Pushing open the door, there is no one in the room, the tables, chairs and cups are all in the place where they should be placed, and nothing has fallen or broken.

After Chen Mao took a closer look in the room, he frowned slightly.

"There is no trace of fighting in the room."

"Either... someone was in this room the night before yesterday and quietly kidnapped your third junior brother, or he went out in the middle of the night the day before yesterday, and something happened outside."

Hearing Chen Mao's speculation, Li Qiu and Tao Zian subconsciously ignored the former.

Silently abducting a martial artist in the flesh training stage, even a martial artist in the bone strengthening stage cannot do it.

Unless there are visceral raising period warriors, and there are rare visceral raising period warriors in Gongzhou, how could they sneak into the martial arts hall in the middle of the night and take Cao Shao away.

"Send someone out to look for it, no matter what." Chen Mao waved his hand solemnly.

"Yes Yes."

Tao Zian and Li Qiu clapped their hands together.

"For such an important matter, call your elder brother and ask him to help find it together." Chen Maoxiang suddenly remembered something, and added.

In the Aoki martial arts school, on the flat school field.

Tao Zi'an just finished talking about Cao Shao's disappearance with hundreds of martial arts disciples, and told them to disperse and search around the city.

Wang Zhiping hurried over, still the same appearance as Li Qiu saw him at the teacher apprenticeship ceremony, his eyes were bloodshot and sunken, but there was no tired look on his face anymore.

"Junior brother Cao is missing?"

"Yes." Tao Zian replied with a serious expression.

"Although Junior Brother Cao is usually arrogant and arrogant, people don't like it, but we are also senior brothers. I hope we can find him."

Wang Zhiping looked complicated, shook his head and sighed.

"The martial arts disciples have gone to the city to look for them separately, let's go too." Tao Zian whispered.

Li Qiu's eyes flickered. He really didn't want to delay his practice because of Cao Shao, but there was nothing he could do. At least he had to do some superficial work.

The three of them and the martial arts disciples searched for Cao Shao in Shangjiang City.

After searching all day until late at night, they still found nothing, so they had to go home, rest for one night and look again tomorrow.

……

In a dark and rough secret room, the faint flames on the candles flickered, emitting a dim yellow light.

Cao Shao, who was wearing brocade clothes, was hung upside down. He slowly woke up and opened his eyes. His nose was filled with a strong smell of blood, making people sick like being in a slaughterhouse.

His face was pale, his expression was anxious and his eyes were terrified. He tried hard to break free from the shackles on his body, but found that he could not break free even a thin iron chain, and he didn't even have the voice to open his mouth to shout. Weary.

"Eldest brother, why did you sneak up on me!"

In front of Cao Shao, on a chair, sat a tall figure, hidden in the shadows.

The figure gradually leaned forward, revealing a face that Cao Shao was very familiar with, with bloodshot eyes and sunken eye sockets.

Under the erratic candlelight and the shadows intertwined with that face, it looked very eerie.

It was Wang Zhiping who had been looking for Cao Shao in the city with the rest of the Wuguan during the day.

Cao Shao was hung upside down, looking at the senior brother who was both familiar and unfamiliar in front of him, his eyes were terrified, and his face was full of puzzlement.

The night before yesterday, the elder brother who had always stayed in his own courtyard to practice kung fu and seldom went out suddenly visited.

Cao Shao invited the other party into the house, closed the door, and was about to turn around to ask him what was the matter of the late-night visit, but he was suddenly attacked from behind...

(End of this chapter)