The night was deep.
Outside the manor gates, Liu Yi and his companion were stopped, just as expected.
Without betraying anything, Liu Yi stepped forward.
"Brothers, night duty is hard... do us a favor."
Two heavy silver ingots dropped into the gatekeepers' hands.
"Since they're Instructor Liu's close friends, hurry along. Otherwise, we'll have a hard time explaining ourselves."
A full five taels of silver. The two gatekeepers exchanged a glance, then smiled and nodded.
Having passed through smoothly, Liu Yi sighed in relief, and the two hurried onward.
"Who goes there?"
Before long, two more patrolling servants came over to question them, scrutinizing Chen Chong beneath the cloth wrapping.
Recently, because the Meteor Thief had yet to be caught, Hidden Sword Manor had greatly strengthened its night patrols.
Liu Yi sighed softly. He knew this time would not be so easy.
Moments later, the two servants collapsed unconscious.
Liu Yi put away the sleeping powder.
"Why didn't you kill them?" Chen Chong sounded displeased. His eyes were bloodshot as he stroked the wooden Buddha statue in his robes, aching to smash them to death.
"Don't create extra trouble. Move."
Liu Yi had no wish to slaughter innocents. He felt his close friend had become increasingly wrong, so he could only urge him to finish this quickly. Afterward, they would go their separate ways.
After eating the Black Mountain Wolf King's meat, Hui Zhen's entire body had grown feverish. His constitution was average, and unless he reached the brink of the second threshold, he did not dare consume the Crimson Blood Ginseng.
To ease the heat in his body, he practiced his swordsmanship on the spot. He had already begun cultivating the Water-Questioning Sword Manual.
"Why didn't you kill them?"
"Don't create extra trouble. Move."
Suddenly hearing a disturbance,