"What? You're saying a Late-Stage Foundation Establishment Great Cultivator died in our Great River Market?"
Early in the morning, Luo Chen had barely stepped outside when the discussion in the courtyard shocked him.
Qin Liangchen and his wife, Gu Cai Yi, and even Bai Mei Ling and Feng Xia had gathered together.
What they were discussing with great fervor was, astonishingly, the death of a Late-Stage Foundation Establishment cultivator.
Bai Mei Ling chirped, "The body was discovered the day before yesterday. A Golden Core Cultivator from Ailao Mountain used a soul plaque and a tracking Magic Treasure to salvage it from the bottom of the Lancang River near Great River Market."
"It wasn't suicide. It was murder!"
Nonsense. What cultivator in their right mind would suddenly decide to kill themselves?
Luo Chen could not help asking, "Since he was murdered, why didn't the enemy dispose of the body? Sinking it in a river is far too crude. Wouldn't it have been better to use high-grade Truefire and burn the corpse to erase all traces?"
"Perhaps the enemy wanted to, but couldn't!"
Tilting her little head, Bai Mei Ling said just that.
"They killed the man, but couldn't destroy the body?"
"That Foundation Establishment Cultivator had a defensive Magic Treasure. It was said that his wife had specifically begged a Golden Core elder of her family for it."
A defensive Magic Treasure!
Luo Chen's eyelids twitched.
Then, he realized something was off about the atmosphere.
Why were Bai Mei Ling and Qin Liangchen talking while Gu Cai Yi did not join the discussion?
Seeing Luo Chen look over, Gu Cai Yi's expression became somewhat complicated.
"Fei Bai Wen really did possess an unusual defensive Magic Treasure. Its function was especially strange. It was called Cage. Once deployed, it turned into a