(Asking for Monthly Tickets in the final half-day.)
When Ding Songyan posed those two questions, Huo Ran felt their surroundings darken slightly. The flow of Qi between heaven and earth seemed confined within a radius of a few yards, unable to "communicate" with the outside.
The same went for sound.
He instinctively looked toward Bai Qilin, the successor of the Heavenly Fool Sect.
Bai Qilin nodded lightly.
"It would be best not to let the household guards and servants learn of these matters."
A manifestation of "concealment"? The Martial Arts in the Heavenly Fool Scripture probably have a side suited to surprise killings as well. He just happened to encounter a Hidden Weapons expert like Xie Fengchao, who gave him no chance to close in. Otherwise, Bai Qilin might not have lost that sparring match... No wonder Jiang Lanting didn't care whether the singing girls, guards, and servants overheard us whispering... Ding Songyan returned his attention to the Ghost-Wyrm Path assassin.
The assassin's Yin Soul answered with terror on his face.
"Black Sanlang sent me to assassinate Young Master Mingxi.
"After I slipped into the Flame Capital, He Jianyun, the proprietor of the Secluded Perfume Shop, arranged a hiding place for me and provided information about Young Master Mingxi."
Black Sanlang, the Ghost-Wyrm Path's "shopkeeper" in New Talisman City? His standing within the Ghost-Wyrm Path seems quite high... Ding Songyan turned his head toward Jiang Lanting, asking wordlessly whether he had any questions.
"He Jianyun..." Jiang Lanting repeated the name quietly, then looked toward the corpse. "Did you practice the Ancestor Yu Scripture, or the Dark Passage Book and the Seven Sand-Spitting Methods?"
The Ancestor Yu Scripture corresponded to Ancestor Yu's inheritance and possessed four traits. The Dark Passage Book and the Seven Sand-Spitting Methods came from ordinary yu, described