Wang Chen had just slipped back into his inn room, still wearing his night-black clothes, when his heart suddenly jolted.
He turned to look out the window and saw flames and thick smoke rising from the Ling Family Ancestral Hall!
The inn where Wang Chen was staying was not far from the Ling Family estate. He had booked a superior room on the third floor, with the broadest view, so he could see everything especially clearly.
"Fire!"
At that moment, someone struck a warning gong and shouted loudly for people to put out the blaze.
Watching the ancestral hall burn fiercely, Wang Chen's heart sank without end.
He had not been gone long at all. It was impossible for a fire to have broken out for no reason. The only explanation was that Third Uncle-Grandfather guarding the Ancestral Hall had lit the fire himself.
As for why the old man of the clan had done so...
Wang Chen wanted to say, "Old sir, you truly didn't need to do this!"
Although he had told Third Uncle-Grandfather his current identity, Wang Chen had never intended to conceal it in the first place—Blood-Clad Guard would never recruit someone of unknown origins.
It was only a matter of time before the Ling Family learned the truth.
Even if Third Uncle-Grandfather told them, it would not have mattered.
Yet the old man had still chosen to die alongside the ancestral hall he had guarded for half his life!
Could it be that he feared someone would force the secret of the whereabouts of the final two layers of the Mysterious Heaven Seven Fiend Wheels out of him?
After all, Third Uncle-Grandfather had not even told Ling Hongyun that secret.
Or perhaps Third Uncle-Grandfather had also known about the secret chamber beneath the ancestral hall?