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By the time Su Xin stepped out of the inn, every last one of the onlookers outside had fled.
There were different kinds of spectacles to watch. This one, however, could cost them their lives if they watched too long.
They had already understood what had happened: that woman from the He Family had swindled Di Yunfei out of his Heavenly Dao Stone. But after Su Xin killed He Shuying, he had taken Di Yunfei's Heavenly Dao Stone as well.
Just now, some of them had recognized Su Xin. It was actually simple enough—Su Xin's displayed strength was practically secure within the top twenty of the Human Ranking. Even by eliminating candidates one by one, they could guess who he was.
Could Su Xin kill them to silence them after taking the Heavenly Dao Stone? No one could guarantee otherwise.
But they were overthinking it. Su Xin had indeed seized the Heavenly Dao Stone, but there was no need to silence witnesses. How could the Zheng Sword Alliance, one of the Seven Great Gangs, fail to uncover something so trivial?
Though Su Xin had taken the Heavenly Dao Stone, it was not for his own use.
The Heavenly Dao Stone was useful only to martial artists who cultivated lightning-attribute techniques and had chosen lightning as their Spirit-Manifesting Vessel.
Su Xin had no intention of making lightning the path he would walk in the future, so the Heavenly Dao Stone was useless to him as well.
Still, even if it was temporarily useless, he could take it to the Underworld and trade it with others. Perhaps he could exchange it for something useful at his current stage.
In any case, once something entered Su Xin's mouth, whether it