While rushing along, Xie An pieced together and analyzed all the information he had obtained, reviewing the whole situation:
First: this masked burly man should be the Plum Blossom Monster. That meant his previous analysis of the Plum Blossom Monster's murder pattern had been wrong.
The Plum Blossom Monster had come here for the Immortal Treasure.
Earlier, the Bearded Hunter and Fatty Medicine Seller had secretly been selling antique objects from the same batch as Night Pot Lad's at their stalls. Those objects should all have come from Chen Family Manor, unearthed from the ancestral grave of the Corpse Refining Hall that the Chen family had dug up.
Second: the bandits from Great Yin Mountain who had descended to raid Chen Family Manor in Shuideng Town earlier had probably also been using robbery as a cover. Their real target had been the Immortal Treasure.
Third: Wei Dian had been sent by Tiger Wolf Gate to Chen Family Manor to help fight the bandits, only to be gravely wounded by the Plum Blossom Monster. Wei Dian and the higher-ups of White Feather Hall had probably learned that Chen Manor possessed an Immortal Treasure as well. Otherwise, someone as cautious as Wei Dian would never have risked being injured for a little gift money.
Following that line of reasoning, the higher-ups of Tiger Wolf Gate were also investigating the Immortal Treasure and wanted to get their hands on it.
Hiss!
The more Xie An thought about it, the more terrifying it became, and his scalp prickled.
He had lived in Wuqiao Town near Great Yin Mountain for thirty years. No one knew better than he did how formidable the bandits of Great Yin Mountain were.
Whenever autumn and winter arrived and food became scarce, the bandits of Great Yin Mountain would descend