Pei Qiang returned to the pill shop and exchanged ten thousand taels' worth of banknotes for two Jade Dew Pills and one Essence-Gathering Pill, carefully tucking them into his clothes.
After leaving, he swung onto his horse and hurried toward the city outskirts.
He completely failed to notice that three figures were trailing him from afar behind him.
Liu Meng followed him all the way. Once outside the city, he obtained three horses from the guards at the gate.
After taking the mountain path, they maintained a distance that would keep them from being discovered.
After all, he was at Qi Refining, Seventh Layer. His eyesight far surpassed Pei Qiang's.
And Pei Qiang was frantic with worry, never once thinking to look behind him.
Two hours later, the black horse ahead slowed down.
Liu Meng reined in his horse and gestured to the two men behind him.
The three dismounted, tied their reins to trees, and crouched low as they crept into the woods.
After passing through a patch of shrubs, they could vaguely make out a mountain hollow ahead, where several dozen mud-brick houses stood scattered sparsely.
Pei Family Village.
Liu Meng narrowed his eyes and was about to turn around to give some instructions...
No one was behind him.
He whipped around.
His two subordinates had vanished.
In their place stood a young man in white, who had somehow appeared several paces behind him and was watching him.
Liu Meng's pupils shrank sharply.
That face...
He saw the wanted portrait hanging at the city gate every day when he entered and left the city.
It was exactly the same.
So he really was the major criminal from Blackstone City whom they had been ordered to assist in tracking down!
A surge of delight rose in his heart, only