When Lin Lang arrived at Number One Manor, he found that there was still not a soul in sight, as though everyone had vanished into thin air.
He walked straight to the dry well in the courtyard. "Stop hiding. If you don't come out, I'll blow this dry well up with gunpowder."
"No, I could also use poisonous smoke. Perhaps you have other exits, but how many of you could escape?"
"You'll be wanted throughout the land afterward, never able to show your faces openly again. Even your families will be implicated."
"I'll wait for you in the front courtyard. Hurry up."
With his hands clasped behind his back, Lin Lang returned to the front courtyard. Before long, Shangguan Haitang appeared before him.
Shangguan Haitang frowned at Lin Lang. "You've already killed the Iron-Gallant Divine Marquis. What else do you want?"
Lin Lang crossed one leg over the other. "Don't go making things up. The Iron-Gallant Divine Marquis and Cao Zhengchun killed each other. All I did was deal with that traitor, Iron Claw Flying Eagle."
"I just wanted to ask how you've thought over what we discussed last time."
"You should have discovered by now that Zhu Wushi was already plotting rebellion. All his talk of loyalty to the sovereign and love for the people was a lie."
"Now that this hypocrite is dead, the court has established the Western Depot in addition to the Eastern Depot."
"The Western Depot has just been established, so it will certainly want to earn a great merit. What greater merit could there be than wiping out Dragon Guard Manor completely?"
Shangguan Haitang also knew that without Dragon Guard Manor or Wan Sanqian's financial support, Number One Manor could not keep running.
Not only she, but the other martial artists who had sought