Chapter 142

Yan Shaozhe glanced at him but said nothing.

After the questioning, he had Du Weilun take people outside the city to bring back the six corpses and hand them over to the academy's Investigators for a thorough examination.

The result was that they found nothing.

The six men had nothing on them that could prove their identities. No badges, no waist tokens; even their clothes were made from the most common fabric on the market, without a single mark. Their faces were intact, but no one recognized them. No matter how they investigated, they found no clues.

The investigation report lay on Yan Shaozhe's desk, beside another file—the Injury Report for Xue Lingyun. He had specifically ordered someone to examine Xue Lingyun's physical condition. He had thought that after being besieged by a Spirit Emperor and five Spirit Kings, even if he won, he should at least have suffered some injuries. Yet the examination report stated: a shallow claw wound on the left arm, already scabbed over, no infection, no impact on mobility. No other external injuries. Soul Power consumption within normal limits. Mental state stable.

To put it bluntly, he was completely fine.

Yan Shaozhe stared at the report, his brows furrowed for quite some time. A rank forty-nine Soul Ancestor had been besieged by a six-ring Spirit Emperor and five five-ring Spirit Kings, yet he had won and suffered only such minor injuries. Either those six were utter trash, or this child was hiding far more than he had imagined.

He set the report down and leaned against the backrest, lightly tapping his fingers on the armrest. He could tell that Xue Lingyun did not want to make a big deal out of this. The transcript said, "The situation was too urgent, so no survivors could be left