"Hey, hey, did you hear? Someone wiped out the Mu Family yesterday."
"Wiped out? The entire Mu Manor was razed to the ground! All those corpses were bundled into one huge ball. You didn't see it, did you? Tsk, tsk... it was absolutely horrifying."
"Wasn't the Mu Family a Dou Wang family? How could their whole clan have been exterminated?"
"Tch, the Mu Family had a Dou Wang, sure, but above Dou Wang, there's still Dou Emperor!"
"Hey, then tell me-who do you think attacked the Mu Family?"
As Ling Feng walked down the street, the passersby were all discussing what had happened at Mu Manor. Yet the culprit himself strolled past calmly, as though none of it had anything to do with him.
But when he approached a particularly imposing mansion, Ling Feng stopped. Quite a crowd had gathered at its entrance.
Moreover, they were all wearing Alchemist robes. The gleaming silver ripples on their chests proudly proclaimed their identities and ranks.
On the bustling street, every passerby who caught sight of those Alchemists could not help lowering their head slightly, casting looks of envy and reverence their way.
In their eyes, being an Alchemist was a profession as exalted as nobility itself.
"The Nalan Mansion?"
Ling Feng raised an eyebrow as his gaze settled on the mansion's entrance. "So this is where the Nalan Family lives?"
What were all these Alchemists doing at the Nalan Mansion?
Curious, Ling Feng stepped closer to eavesdrop. Only then did he learn that it concerned Nalan Jie.
"I'd forgotten about that."
Ling Feng smiled in realization. Since he had beaten Xiao Yan to Qing Lin, Xiao Yan had naturally never gone on to fight the Eight-Winged Black Serpent Emperor and fuse the Buddha's Fury Fire Lotus.
In other words, Yao Chen