"Qian Yuan was most likely caught before the blockade was lifted, imprisoned, tortured, and only recently killed and hung up. Otherwise, this fellow would have fled to Lüojia Mountain long ago."
Wearing a human skin mask and a bamboo hat, Chen Dengming came low-profile to a woods a few hundred feet outside the gathering place to observe.
From afar, he saw a crowd gathered over there, all pointing fingers, shaking their heads, and sighing around the corpse of Qian Yuan, which was hung on a wooden stake. It looked quite bustling.
Qian Yuan was a genuine Qi Cultivation Seventh Level cultivator and the former leader of Hutong Street. He had quite a few middle-grade magic tools in his hands, and might even have possessed a high-grade magic tool.
Chen Dengming had once heard Lüo Bing mention that the lethality of the Golden Silkworm Gu was equivalent to a high-grade magic tool, and ordinary middle-grade defense magic tools could hardly withstand its attacks more than five times.
Admittedly, this kind of lethality could not be considered top-tier among high-grade magic tools, but its advantage lay in not consuming a single shred of one's own spiritual Qi, which was why Lüo Bing also coveted the Golden Silkworm Gu.
If Qian Yuan grasped a high-grade magic tool in his hand, ordinary rogue cultivators without such tools, even late-stage cultivators above the Qi Cultivation Seventh Level, might not necessarily be his match.
Coupled with the fact that the Lüo and Zhu families had temporarily ceased fighting half a month ago and the blockade checkpoints set up by the Zhu family had also been withdrawn, theoretically, Qian Yuan should have fled into Lüoshan City long ago.
As a result, Qian Yuan was now dead, and his corpse was hung outside the gathering place to catch