Hu Hanyi walked into the Pudu Sect's research institute, weighed down with worry.
Just before the City Heroes' Battle began, he had walked into this place brimming with confidence and anticipation for the coming competition.
Yet although little time had passed since then, he seemed to have aged several years.
First, all of the Pudu Sect's Medicine Dragons had been eliminated, completely disrupting the plan to promote the Spiritual Energy Tanks. They would have to wait another four years for another opportunity this good.
Then, two days ago, he had learned to his shock that Mai Yaode, a deacon of the Pudu Sect, had actually died!
The investigation had continued until now without any results. After investigating, the Supernatural Affairs Bureau said they suspected Demonic Cultivators.
Ha.
How ridiculous.
It wasn't as though the Pudu Sect had never worked with Demonic Cultivator factions. Why would Demonic Cultivators kill him for no reason?
He had also sent people to investigate the matter, but they still had no leads.
With the man who had always maintained contact with the Hu Family gone, and the investigation getting nowhere, Hu Hanyi was deeply worried that the Pudu Sect would withdraw from Jiangcheng City and cease its operations here.
It hardly mattered if a sect that sold medicine left; the Hu Family could do without that business partner. What frightened him was that if the Pudu Sect left, the protection he might have secured from the Taiji Eight Desolations Sect would fall through as well. After all, the Pudu Sect had handled all the contact with them, and nothing had been fully settled yet.
This concerned the very survival of the Hu Family!
Of all the times Mai Yaode could have died, he had to die now. As Hu Hanyi's thoughts turned bitter, he wanted