Zhu Muchen was somewhat surprised as well. He could not help turning to Elder Lu. "Elder Lu, someone died in the manor?"
Elder Lu hurriedly smiled. "Young Master Chen, don't listen to this... your senior martial brother's jokes. This is a respectable manor—how could anyone have died here?"
Zhu Muchen glanced at Elder Lu, then at Mo Hua.
Elder Lu should not be lying to him, but his senior martial brother could not possibly be mistaken.
Back at Void Gate, whatever his senior martial brother said or arranged, no matter how absurd it sounded, had never once been wrong.
Zhu Muchen said, "Elder Lu, could it be... that some accident happened, and you simply don't know about it yet?"
Elder Lu sighed. "Young Master Chen, please do not overthink it. Cloud Ease Manor is only so large—if something had happened, how could there be anything I didn't know..."
Seeing that Elder Lu did not seem to be lying, Zhu Muchen was uncertain. He could not help turning back to study his senior martial brother's expression.
Yet Mo Hua said with certainty, "Someone definitely died."
Otherwise, the underworld constables would not have appeared at Cloud Ease Manor.
"And..." Mo Hua narrowed his eyes slightly. "Quite a few people may have died."
One or two wandering ghosts could not possibly warrant the dispatch of four underworld constables.
Moreover, these four underworld constables carried heavy Yin Qi, and one of them even had bull horns. Clearly, they possessed some cultivation.
They might be unable to do anything to him, but against ordinary cultivators—even Golden Core cultivators—they could easily hook away their souls.
For four underworld constables to move out together, there had to have been many deaths nearby. Most likely, they had died violent deaths rather than meeting a natural end.
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