With Qin Hao's words and the token representing the Qin Family, Lei Mu's heart finally settled—for now.
In the martial world, no one was master of their own fate.
They were already aboard Qin Hao's ship, so naturally, they couldn't simply disembark.
The moment they tried, Qin Hao would be the first to deal with them. He wouldn't even need anyone else to act.
"Third Young Master, I'll personally go to Golden Wind Fine Rain Tower tomorrow morning and speak with Ling Tianhe!"
Lei Mu once again made his position clear.
"Good. Arrange a secret chamber for me. I need to recover from my injuries!"
Although Qin Hao had swallowed some blood, it had only stabilized his condition a little.
"Third Young Master, please follow me!"
Lei Mo spoke from the side, then stepped forward to help Qin Hao toward the rear courtyard.
After Qin Hao left,
Lei Mu's expression turned grave.
"Hall Master, who do you think badly injured Third Young Master Qin? And do you know how strong Elder Xue was?"
Lei Gu asked in a low voice.
"Elder Xue was no weaker than Mo Beiming. Whoever could kill him is beyond our strength. We'd be wise not to get involved."
"Also, we need to make contingency plans. I don't know why, but I can't shake the feeling that something bad is coming."
Lei Mu spoke gravely.
Qin Hao had lost an arm and been seriously injured. That alone showed how formidable the person who attacked him was.
Lei Hall simply couldn't stop them.
"Hall Master, I'll go to Third Young Master's residence now and look around!"
Lei Gu said.
"Lei Yao, Muyan, go with Lei Gu, in case anything happens."
Lei Mu said.
"Yes!" The three quickly left the Lei Family.
Before long,
the three of them arrived at Qin Hao's residence.
The place was eerily quiet.
Qin Hao was only staying in Qingcheng City temporarily, and the guards here were all temporary hires. Elder Xue was his only trusted aide.
In a situation like this, anyone who didn't run would be a fool.
After entering the courtyard, Lei Gu, Lei Yao, and Lei Muyan headed straight for the secret chamber behind the artificial hill.
On the corridor floor outside the chamber, dried blood remained.
Judging from the traces, the person who had been killed must have lost a great deal of blood.
They couldn't tell the exact nature of the injuries from the blood alone, so the three entered the secret chamber.
The floor inside was pitted and uneven, littered with stones crushed underfoot. It was impossible to make out much.
The stone walls were also marked with impact after impact.
The traces showed just how savage the fight had been.
"From the marks here, the other person had tremendous physical strength. And Young Master Qin said they practiced a cultivation method with a cold attribute. They might be connected to the people who killed Lei Ao."
Lei Gu studied the scene, then considered what Qin Hao had told them at the Lei Family.
That was the conclusion Lei Gu reached.
From the traces left by the person who killed Lei Ao, their saber technique was clearly extraordinary, and their Blade Qi was fierce. Ordinarily, someone like that wouldn't have cultivated their body to any great degree.
But they practiced a cold-attribute cultivation method, which meant they might have come from the same place.
"I found out that Zheng Yuan, one of Ling Tianhe's men, was killed when someone practicing a cold-attribute cultivation method froze and shattered his heart meridians. In other words, just as we suspected, the person who killed Lei Ao wasn't one of Ling Tianhe's men. So who was it?"
Lei Muyan spoke from beside him.
"They're probably connected to Su Mengbai—or to Golden Wind Fine Rain Tower."
"We may not know anything, but Ling Tianhe probably does. We can work with him on this."
Lei Gu said.
As he spoke, he had the faint sense that a hidden current was swirling behind all this.
And at its center was still Golden Wind Fine Rain Tower.
The three continued their investigation, but found nothing else of value, so they left.
The next day,
inside Golden Wind Fine Rain Tower,
Ling Tianhe studied the clues in his hands, privately guessing that their master had acted the previous night.
He just didn't know why their master had let Qin Hao go.
Perhaps it has something to do with why Qin Hao came here. We've found the location, and the people who infiltrated it should soon learn what's inside.
A map lay on Ling Tianhe's desk.
He had marked one spot on it.
Fifteen li outside Qingcheng City, in a gorge on Qin Cui Mountain.
Meanwhile,
Su Chen got out of bed.
After a night of cultivation, his Vajra Primordial Force had stabilized at the fifth layer.
He still hadn't finished cultivating the first layer of the Vajra Demon Splitter Body, but he estimated he'd reach it within two days.
That was only because he already had a foundation in Vajra Primordial Force; otherwise, he couldn't have progressed so quickly.
The Vajra Demon Splitter Body's combat power was extraordinary, and its unleashed might surpassed that of Vajra Primordial Force.
But the two could complement each other and increase his overall strength.
"My innate qi cultivation is still a little slow. I need to speed up my cultivation of Mountain River Sect's Mountain River Skill."
Su Chen thought to himself.
Now that he had reached the Innate Mid Stage, the innate qi in his body had multiplied several times over. Perhaps that would let him cultivate the Mountain River Skill faster.
Then he checked the three White Draw Cards he had obtained the previous night.
The previous White Draw Cards had all yielded good things, so he immediately used all three.
[Congratulations! You have obtained 3 Avoidance Pills, 3 Water Repelling Pills, and a hidden weapon: 30 Blood Piercing Nails.]
Su Chen took a quick look at the Avoidance Pills, Water Repelling Pills, and Blood Piercing Nails.
The Avoidance Pills could block certain poisonous gases and mists.
After swallowing a Water Repelling Pill, one could stay hidden underwater for thirty minutes while breathing normally. With one's own inner energy, the duration could be extended. It was a pretty useful pill.
The Blood Piercing Nails, on the other hand, were rather vicious.
Once unleashed, they could pierce through ordinary innate qi and enter an opponent's body.
Once inside, they would swiftly burrow into the flesh, devour the blood, then explode. They were terrifying.
Of course, someone with a powerful body could keep the Blood Piercing Nails from getting through.
"Not bad. These can be another trump card for me!"
Su Chen put everything into his Space Ring.
Then he saw the Blood Devouring Flood Dragon Diagram he had obtained from Qin Hao the previous night and took it out of his Space Ring.
As soon as he unfolded it, a thick wave of blood energy spread through the air.
"What dense blood energy!"
Su Chen stared at the Blood Devouring Flood Dragon Diagram. Suddenly, his eyes changed. A blood-red flood dragon appeared before him, its body covered in countless points of light.
As those points appeared, the innate qi within Su Chen seemed to be stirred. It began to move in time with the flood dragon's motions.
A bloodthirsty urge welled up in his mind.
Just then, a cool sensation spread across his arm, suppressing that bloodthirsty urge.
"How powerful. It seems this Flood Dragon Diagram is meant to work in tandem with the cultivation method Qin Hao practices!"
Su Chen thought to himself.
Then he put the Flood Dragon Diagram away and calmed the qi that had just begun to stir inside him.
He got out of bed,
and left the room.
Bai Tianyu was in the courtyard.
This wasn't Su Mansion, so Bai Tianyu could appear openly instead of hiding in the shadows.
"Greetings, Master!"
Bai Tianyu bowed to Su Chen.
"Let's grab something to eat, then head back to Golden Wind Fine Rain Tower."
After a night of investigating, Ling Tianhe's side should have uncovered some clues.
Besides, he needed to return to Golden Wind Fine Rain Tower and investigate the Blood Demon Flower.
The previous night, he had heard that it was the Blood Demon Flower, not the Fifth-grade Lotus Platform. He needed to find out what the Blood Demon Flower actually was.
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