The night before dawn.
In a guest room of Rongguo Mansion, a lamp burned with a bean-sized flame.
The letter lay spread across the desk.
Scholar Twin Whips and the others wore expressions of gratitude.
With enemies on every side and no aid in sight, even the commander of the Embroidered Uniform Guard had kicked them while they were down. Pacification Commissioner Xu had done them an enormous favor!
They had been framed, yet knew nothing of the mastermind. Their stifling frustration had reached unbearable heights!
Now that they had a lead, they had a chance to tear the culprit into ten thousand pieces!!
"That night, three Inner Court guards were at the Duke's Maternal Uncle's Estate. The strongest was at the seventh layer of the Profound Insight Realm, and he was killed with a single palm strike. By my estimation, the killer's cultivation was at least at the eighth layer of the Profound Insight Realm."
"A palm print remained on the corpse's chest and abdomen. The acupoint at his navel was scorched, the flesh charred black. The killer possessed extraordinary palm power and was likely left-handed. There were no footprints anywhere in the Duke's Maternal Uncle's Estate. The killer's lightness skill had reached the pinnacle of perfection."
After scanning the letter, Jia Huan hurried out.
Returning to the upper chambers, he entered a small, elegant room.
"Young master." An Xuan'er slipped on a snow-white sleeping robe, worry filling her exquisitely beautiful face.
At dusk the next day, a multicolored carrier pigeon circled Mount Taibai.
The entire mountain range was steeped in the rich fragrance of medicinal herbs. It was also a sacred destination that physicians everywhere yearned for.
Medicine King Valley abounded in unusual rocks and countless varieties of flowers and herbs, a magnificent sight.
Inside a walled