Jiang Caiyan went downstairs to check on Black Robe.
Lin Heng followed Murong Ziyan to the town's morgue.
Wei Ping and Wei Guan's bodies lay separately on wooden beds. Examination showed that both had been killed by a single slash across the throat.
Moreover, traces of dissolved flesh and blood had been found along the road.
Since it had all become bloody tissue and could not be collected... it was ultimately determined to be what remained after a Divine Infant had been shattered during its escape.
Murong Ziyan's expression was grave as she said, "Several of my men used the transmission array inside the Wei Residence and tracked them all the way to Red Mountain Temple, twenty li away. They found a great many carriage and horse tracks in front of the temple. Presumably, they were left behind when the Wei Residence moved its people."
"In other words, the Wei Residence we are seeing now is not their true headquarters."
"Lin Heng, have you been listening to me?" Murong Ziyan saw that he had been turning over and examining the corpses without any reaction, and could not help feeling displeased.
"I'm listening, Lady Ziyan. Where were these two bodies found?"
"At Red Mountain Temple as well."
"What kind of place is that?" Lin Heng asked doubtfully.
"Mm... just an ordinary temple. You know monks, right? A bunch of bald old fools with nothing better to do after eating their fill, always chanting Amitabha or going on about virtue."
People of the Buddhist Path? Fuck... they didn't seem too different from the Buddhists on Blue Star. Many of the Immortal Realm's traditions had been brought in by outsiders; the Buddhist Path was probably the same.
Lin Heng pondered silently, unable to hide his surprise.
Whether he had traveled from the Western