Transmigration?

The night was black as ink. Aside from a few chirps of insects, a mountain forest outside Lanjiang City lay utterly silent.

Suddenly, two figures flashed beneath a cluster of bushes, followed by a faint exchange of voices.

"He's dead, right?"

"Yeah, no breath left. He's definitely dead!"

"Good. As long as he's dead. Don't waste time, let's go!"

"What about... burying the body?"

"Burying what? There are plenty of savage beasts in these mountains. Before half an hour passes, jackals and fierce tigers will come. By then, what body will be left?"

"Oh, if that's the case, let's hurry and leave. It'd be bad if the Qin Family finds out!"

"Mm! Let's go—!"

After several rustling sounds, two furtive figures crawled out from a patch of thick grass.

After looking around, the two furtive figures saw that there was truly no one nearby. With several flashes, they vanished into the vast night.

Where the two had left stood a person clad in an embroidered cotton robe, lying quietly on the ground. His pale face and lifeless complexion showed that he had been dead for quite some time.

What a pity. Judging by his appearance, he was only fourteen or fifteen years old, still a young boy, yet he had died just like that. It was truly a shame.

But at that moment, a tiny spatial rift abruptly appeared above the young boy's corpse. Immediately afterward, a faint glow shot from the rift, landing directly on the boy's body before finally merging into it.

Then the spatial rift vanished, and something strange happened.

The young boy, whose life had already been extinguished, suddenly jerked violently, his entire body beginning to tremble unconsciously.

"Quick, Young Master is here!"

A startled cry suddenly came from the distance, followed by several black shadows speeding over.

Lanjiang City, Qin Family.

At this moment, a young boy of fourteen or fifteen lay on a large bed in a luxurious room of the Qin Family. From the looks of it, he had fallen completely unconscious.

Several physicians from Lanjiang City stood nearby, along with an elderly man in his sixties, all watching the unconscious youth with anxious expressions.

"How is he?"

After the physicians finished examining Qin Shaofeng, the elderly man asked urgently.

Yet at his question, the physicians' expressions grew hesitant.

Seeing this, the elderly man's face sank slightly, and a bad feeling rose within him.

"Speak!"

This time, the physicians did not remain silent. One elderly physician spoke up.

"Elder Qin, the young master's life is no longer in danger, but..." After hesitating, the old physician finally let out a soft sigh. "But the young master's cultivation has been crippled. Even his dantian has suffered severe damage. I'm afraid there is no possibility of recovery!"

Clang!

Upon hearing the old physician's words, the elderly man lost his footing and nearly fell to the ground. His face turned deathly pale, and his once-bright eyes dimmed in an instant, becoming clouded.

For a long while, he said nothing.

After the physicians left, the old man stared at the young boy on the bed for quite some time, his face filled with grief and heartache.

But that grief and heartache quickly vanished without a trace.

"Have you found out the truth?"

The moment he stepped out of the room, the elderly man's face turned icy. A killing intent carrying a chilling gleam flickered in his eyes, while an indescribable majesty erupted from his aged body.

There was no one beside the elderly man as he spoke, as though he were talking to the air.

Yet the moment he finished speaking, the darkness beside him rippled gently, and a figure appeared there in an eerie fashion.

"We've found out. That Eldest Young Master Zhang from the Zhang Family was behind it. He bribed those two villains, the Wu Brothers!"

A voice utterly devoid of human emotion came from the black shadow.

The elderly man's eyes narrowed slightly, and the chill radiating from him became even more terrifying.

"The Zhang Family? What a Zhang Family!" the elderly man said coldly. "What about the ones who carried it out?"

"The Wu Brothers have been captured and locked in the dungeon. But without your orders, Old Master, we did not touch that Eldest Young Master Zhang!"

"Very good!" A flash of killing intent passed through his eyes, but then the elderly man seemed to recall something. After a brief pause, he continued, "Once the interrogation is over, leave them for Feng'er to deal with. As for the Zhang Family... hmph!"

Though the elderly man said nothing more in the end, the killing intent around him became even more obvious.