"I don't know." Wei Sheng shook his head.
"Think carefully. What have you done over the past few days?" Black Tiger continued asking.
"Oh, I remember. A few days ago, someone covered in yellow pustules caused trouble at a gambling house on East Prosperity Street, then died at home. I was afraid it might spread, so I had Ding Ying burn his corpse."
"Covered in yellow pustules?"
Black Tiger and Jiang Liuchuan exchanged a glance, their expressions grave. "Did he have any fleshy growths on him?"
"Yes! On his arm!"
"No wonder!"
Realization dawned on Black Tiger.
"That was a Flesh-and-Blood Gu planted by the White Lotus Cult. You destroyed their Gu. No wonder he wanted to kill you so badly!"
Beside him, Jiang Liuchuan frowned slightly. He had seen how the man in white treated Wei Sheng and kept feeling there was more to it than Wei Sheng had said.
But apart from that, he could not think of anything about Wei Sheng that would warrant such targeting.
"So that's what happened..."
Wei Sheng put on an expression of lingering fear.
He did not mention the Red Lotus Jade Token. As things stood, he could not even handle a single White Lotus Envoy. If a Red Lotus Envoy came too, would he have any chance of surviving?
Of course, it was not that he distrusted Black Tiger and Jiang Liuchuan...
It was just that any information would leak once it was told to a second person.
"Sheng, have you perfected the Tiger-Howling Saber Technique?
"I was asleep earlier, but a tiger's roar woke me up. That roar absolutely came from perfection. There's no mistaking it!"
After speaking, Black Tiger stared intently at Wei Sheng.
The latter nodded somewhat bashfully.
"I gained some insight yesterday and broke through. But I