Why the Liu Family of Jingzhou?
There were many reasons.
First, someone from the Liu Family had just died in Shuzhou, after a conflict with the Xiao Family.
Second, Liu Jing had collaborated with Black Tooth before.
—Once when the Phantom Sound Sect and Liu Lang looted the Xiao Family's medicinal herbs, and once when they struck at Hundred Herbs Hall.
Though both ventures had ended in failure, Black Tooth had indeed made quite a bit of silver from the Liu Family.
And it was precisely because of those earlier failures that Chen Yi's trip would be more advantageous.
With these thoughts in mind,
Chen Yi made his preparations, took the silver notes hidden in the side room, and silently slipped out of Chunhe Garden. He traveled through streets and alleys toward that residence in West Market.
It was already deep into the night.
There were few pedestrians on the roads, and even fewer in the narrow alleys.
The occasional passersby were mostly drunks or gamblers.
Yet none of them noticed Chen Yi passing by.
It was all thanks to his increasingly refined body movement technique.
Since his cultivation base had entered the Sixth Rank Realm, his True Essence had become ever more responsive to his will, and all his techniques had improved by leaps and bounds as well.
Especially after a "Divine Seat" had formed in the Qi Sea at his Yintang point, his fist techniques, body movement techniques, and spear techniques had all received the blessing of spiritual essence.
For instance, the Meteor Butterfly Steps, enhanced by wood spiritual essence, had gained the power of surging currents.
When he used this body movement technique, it not only reduced his True Essence consumption but also allowed him to slightly replenish the True Essence in his three Qi Seas.
Then