Rumble, rumble...
A carriage quietly entered Pine Crane Bay. The guards patrolling near the estate merely asked a few questions before letting it through and continuing their rounds.
Inside the cramped carriage, Xie Jinhuan lay stuffed in a black sack. Without a lamp or flame, he could see nothing, but he had been listening and calculating all along, and could confirm that they had reached Pine Crane Bay.
Of the two lackeys who had captured him, one sat by the carriage window watching outside, while the other drove.
Some people were still moving about outside. Judging by their positions, they should have been guards, all carrying weapons.
When he handed the Zhenglun Sword to Big Ice Lump, A Piao had already possessed him and was now helping scout their surroundings.
Big Ice Lump might have been rather far away, leaving her whereabouts unclear, but she was certainly following behind.
Xie Jinhuan slowed his breathing as though completely unconscious. As they gradually approached the bandits' den, a little smug satisfaction even welled up inside him: That's it? I thought they'd be hard to find...
But he soon realized something was wrong!
"Whoa..."
The carriage entered a building and stopped.
Then the figure sitting beside the window first checked his condition through the sack before hoisting it onto his shoulder.
Xie Jinhuan jolted and swayed. Before long, he reached the depths of the building and heard two people nearby. The surrounding qi was converging toward their voices; they should have been cultivating. Judging by its range, their strength could not have been low.
And sure enough, his Ghost Wife's warning reached his ears:
"This is bad. One's an early First Grade ghost cultivator. The other is the Crown Prince's Junior Guardian, He Man. I can't gauge his strength. You seem to have