A short while later, Ren Ye came up to the surface and saw the bodies of Niu Xi's two personal guards. Their heads had likewise been shattered, each killed with a single blow.
Looking at the gruesome corpses, Ren Ye said speechlessly, "Why did you have to hit their heads? This is so hard to clean up. We'll even have to scrape the dirt off the ground..."
"I paid," Big Fat Dragon stressed.
"...Fine." Ren Ye nodded patiently and carried the two bodies into the small house.
Then Big Fat Dragon used Spirit-Questioning Remembrance again, but the information he obtained was extremely fragmentary and useless.
After a moment's silence, he said, "These two were just Niu Xi's personal guards. They were usually quiet, discreet, and reserved. Apart from their regular shifts, they came to Huang Mansion at set intervals to collect poison. Niu Xi rarely spoke to them, either. This is probably a restriction imposed by the Heavenly Dao of the Small Secret Realm, deliberately keeping more information from us."
Ren Ye thought briefly. "There are all sorts of medicinal ingredients here. Let's follow the secret art and prepare the Disguise Pills here, then leave once they're done."
"Agreed." Big Fat Dragon nodded.
Once they finished talking, the two got to work.
They followed the Same-Life Secret Art strictly to refine the Disguise Pills, mixing in the two personal guards' blood and hair in the prescribed proportions.
About two hours later, the two special Disguise Pills were ready.
With everything settled, Ren Ye checked the courtyard of Huang Mansion once more. Only after confirming that they had left no clues did he shatter an earthen wall in the cellar, hastily burying the twenty-nine bodies.
The two left Huang Mansion without a sound and headed for Immortality Mountain.
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