"Good grief!!"
"Just because he's ugly and fat, he fucking wants to destroy me?"
Hidden nearby, Li Yun heard Zhuang Haitian's words and stared in disbelief. The human heart really was the filthiest thing of all. Twisted people were everywhere. Unbelievable.
But after thinking it over, he decided not to teach Zhuang Haitian a lesson just yet.
As before, the time wasn't right.
He slipped past Zhuang Haitian and the others and began wandering around Crossblade Manor.
By observing the manor and listening to its servants' private conversations, he soon picked up an important piece of information.
The most important place in all of Crossblade Manor was Crossblade Pavilion.
Crossblade Pavilion had three floors.
It was a standalone building enclosed by walls on all sides and guarded year-round by dozens of sentries. It housed Crossblade Manor's weapons, Martial Arts manuals, and important resources.
It was, in effect, Crossblade Manor's Forbidden Land.
Apart from the manor lord and a handful of family elders, even the direct-line young masters needed an order personally signed by the manor lord to enter.
Without that order, no one was permitted to approach at will.
Anyone who did would be deemed to be attempting to steal Crossblade Manor's treasures and, under the lineage's rules, would face severe punishment from the Punishment Hall.
For that reason, Crossblade Pavilion was also the quietest place in Crossblade Manor.
Within a five-hundred-meter radius, not a soul could be seen apart from the guards outside.
When Li Yun quietly approached Crossblade Pavilion, he had no choice but to raise his guard to its highest level.
For one simple reason.
Besides the visible guards, Li Yun sensed the presence of an array Seal around Crossblade Pavilion.
Worse still, faint traces of overwhelmingly fierce Blade Intent and Fire Intent emanated from within. Every