A few days later, Qi Ren discovered that Du Lengning's account at his Draft Bank was short a full hundred million High-Grade Immortal Jade—nearly half of Du Lengning's assets! Qi Ren grew suspicious. He hadn't heard Luo Qian mention any major business venture lately that would require so much money. He wondered whether Du Lengning had done something behind Luo Qian's back, but this was their private affair, and he could hardly pry.
Luo Qian knew nothing about it. For the past few days, his thoughts had been on one thing: the Thousand-Ghost Demon Beast. He didn't know how it had been created, but he knew of a technology that could produce something similar: cloning. Before he left the Mortal Realm, human ears and noses could already be "grown" on mice for people who needed organ transplants.
Luo Qian didn't understand the technical details, but this seemed like a technology he could "smuggle." Even if Zhao Xihe couldn't grasp its more advanced aspects, his knowledge of beasts should let him clone a monster resembling the Thousand-Ghost Demon Beast. The Semifinal Round of the beauty pageant was still more than ten days away, and everyone was busy catching Demon Beasts. With nothing pressing to hold him, Luo Qian decided to descend to the Mortal Realm.
To some extent, that decision was an escape. Luo Qian didn't want to kill someone to silence him, even if that person might implicate Xie Tang. He wasn't so crazed with love that he would do anything in its name, however monstrous. But he also worried that Zheng Daoguang would pressure him. That hundred million High-Grade Immortal Jade could not be as simple as it looked, and Luo Qian didn't want to know what lay behind it. Cloning technology was classified in every country. Getting his