Zu Liming was surrounded and attacked, leaving him completely stunned!
He had originally planned to sneak in, grab someone, and interrogate them properly. But he had never expected things to turn out like this, which left him rather miserable.
Since he had been discovered, he could only retreat for now and wait for another opportunity.
However, with merely the strength of the Seventh Layer of Qi Refining, facing the swarm of Houtian Martial Artists—including one at Houtian Layer Eight—he was immediately thrown into a flurry.
Fortunately, because he cultivated a second body, his own strength, defense, and everything else had improved far beyond what they had been before.
That allowed him to withdraw in time amid the siege.
Of course, since he had been discovered this time, Zu Liming still held something back. He had not used his second body—the body that transformed into a Three-Headed Serpent.
He felt that if he transformed into the Three-Headed Serpent, he might not be able to leave at all and could even be forcibly detained.
After that experience, Zu Liming began making a point of learning some common knowledge about the Martial Arts World, Martial Artists, Aristocratic Families, and the like.
Although he had to avoid exposing himself, and thus could not learn much about the Martial Arts World or Martial Artists, he did meet a schoolteacher and learned some cultural knowledge from him.
He also disguised himself as an ordinary person, sold illicit salt, traveled through the mountains and villages, and observed the behavior of ordinary people. In particular, while working with mountain gangs, he learned quite a bit of common knowledge.
It was through that knowledge that he came to understand just how foolish and ignorant it had been to sneak into a martial arts aristocratic family at night.
Even wealthy