"Xinxiang prefect?" Chen Shi said with a stern expression, suddenly recalling rumors he had heard while visiting the market a few days prior.
The rumors said that Xinxiang Prefect Li Xiaozheng had headed to Ganyang Mountain to explore the stone boat, resulting in everyone in his entourage, including Li Xiaozheng himself, being buried on the stone boat without a single survivor!
If the news was true, then who was this Xinxiang Prefect Li Xiaozheng right before his eyes?
Golden Cicada Sheds Its Shell!
Chen Shi came to a realization. Li Xiaozheng was likely still Li Xiaozheng; his exploring the stone boat and perishing there was probably a false rumor he had deliberately spread himself!
His goal is to lure others into exploring the stone boat while he sits back and reaps the fisherman's spoils!
The Evil Bodhisattva incident at the pottery kiln had enshrouded a radius of a hundred miles, turning it into a demon domain and forcing Grandpa to step in and slay the Evil Bodhisattva. Grandpa's Dao heart had been polluted, leaving him with no choice but to enter the Underworld to hide.
The perils of the stone boat eclipsed those of the pottery kiln by far.
Chen Shi felt nervous inside. Li Xiaozheng's feigned death was definitely a deeply hidden secret that outsiders could not possibly know about, and he might have even kept it from his wife and children. So why would he appear here and tell him that he was Xinxiang Prefect Li Xiaozheng?
Could he have come in person to exact revenge on me? In Xinxiang County, I killed his son Li Tianxiu and even sent Mr. Zeng's corpse to the Li estate in the provincial capital. Harboring a grudge, he has come looking for me to take revenge in person!
Thoughts flashed through