Lu Mian used Ghost Eye's soul-capturing ability to swiftly erase this stretch of Wan Quan's memories, then left his residence and quietly followed the direction Yuan Cheng had taken.
Over the past few days, Lu Mian's true body had used the noodle shop in Shanan Alley to locate all the Void Cult's bases within the city.
Judging by the direction Yuan Cheng had gone, he certainly wasn't returning to the General's Mansion. He was probably heading to a base in the east of the city.
That base was the closest one to the Sunflame Daoist Grounds.
Clearly, Yuan Cheng intended to have the people there strike at the Sunflame Daoist Grounds.
As Lu Mian pursued him, he began plotting how to attack.
With his true body's current strength, crushing Yuan Cheng was a foregone conclusion.
But this ambush had to be flawless.
He had to kill him in an instant, without making a sound.
That meant combining his various uncanny supernatural abilities.
Soon, Lu Mian had a rough plan in mind.
A short while later.
Lu Mian appeared in a dark alley.
This alley was on the route to the Void Cult's base in the east of the city.
As long as his deduction was correct, Yuan Cheng would have to pass through here.
He leaped up, quietly landing on the roof of a house beside the alley.
The moon was bright tonight, casting his shadow into the alley.
Lu Mian looked at his shadow and willed it to move.
The black shadow immediately began writhing, transforming into strands of black rope.
Some of the shadow ropes wrapped around Lu Mian.
This was a special trick Lu Mian had recently discovered while studying Hanging Life.
The house he had chosen was low to begin with, screened by the neighboring houses.