Report a Piece of Good News to Lord Priest: The Killer
It was none other than Guhongzi, the Li Family's Red-robed Guest Official.
As for why a dignified top Great Cultivator at Innately Great Perfection had used stealth and ambush tactics to kill two Early-stage Innates?
Shameless? Integrity?
What the hell were those?
Rogue Cultivators cared least about pride and integrity.
Those who cared about pride and integrity had died long ago.
If they could ambush, they would never face an opponent head-on.
Even if that opponent was a weakling far inferior to them.
This was one of the Rogue Cultivators' rules for survival.
A quarter of an hour later.
Guhongzi repeated the same method.
He killed the other two Innates in Stone City.
Including the Late-stage Innate city lord.
Throughout it all.
He did not alert a single person.
He held four heavy, gruesome heads in his hand.
Terror and disbelief still lingered on those faces.
Guhongzi chuckled. "Forty-six thousand contribution points—got them."
He tied the heads around his waist.
Then his figure vanished into the night.
Half an hour later.
At the city lord's Stone Fort in the center of Stone City.
A thick stench of blood drifted out through the cracks of the stone gates.
A tattoo-covered confidant of the city lord sensed that something was wrong.
This city lord's confidant was called Jin Muzhen, and his cultivation was at Qi and Blood Great Perfection.
After receiving no response despite calling out several times, Jin Muzhen gathered his courage and pushed open the Stone Fort's gates.
The sight that met his eyes.
Scared him witless.
His legs gave out.
He collapsed to his knees.
Inside the Stone Fort, a headless corpse lay in a pool of blood.
It was Stone City's city lord!
A mighty Late-stage Innate