"What the hell?"

"What is going on?!"

"Did he just kill the guard?"

The crowd outside the gates went into panic mode.

They scrambled and tried to scurry away from the murder scene.

Drip.

Amidst the commotion from the crowd, Eunuch Xin licked his lips and pulled out his long thin fingers from the guard's neck.

His fingers were now covered in warm blood trickling down onto the ground, sending shivers down the spines of the other guards that had encircled him.

"Hehe, what are you waiting for?" Eunuch Xin glanced around at the guards and flicked his hands, sending the blood flying all around.

Specks of blood came onto the faces of the guards.

The warm and sticky feeling gave them a sense of disgust.

"Huh!" Eunuch Xin gave out a roar and a Qi wave emitted from his body.

The Qi wave hurled the guards into the air.

Whoosh.

Eunuch Xin leapt and grabbed onto one of the guards.

Immediately, the sound of blood splattering could be heard.

The guard's head was severed in an instant by Eunuch Xin.

And before the other guards landed on the ground, Eunuch Xin lunged at another guard.

Thud.

This time, however, his attack was stopped by someone, and their clash gave out a loud muted thud.

"Hehe. What took you so long?" Eunuch Xin grinned and licked his lips again.

Sing!

Hong Hai stared at him and drew out his sword.

The other disciples that were with him also did the same thing.

"Qing Feng Sword Formation!" Hong Hai shouted and the other disciples leapt away from him.

Eunuch Xin knew how powerful the Qing Feng Sword Formation was, and he narrowed his eyes.

Without any hesitation, Eunuch Xin threw out something onto the ground, and a dark glow engulfed his body.

"He is trying to get away!" One of the disciples from Qing Feng Sect shouted and thrust his sword at Eunuch Xin.

A twirling wind shot out from the tip of the sword at Eunuch Xin.

Whoosh.

But he was a moment too late.

The twirling wind got close to Eunuch Xin just before his body dissipated into the ether.

"Let me see where he is." Hong Hai stretched out his palm, and a yellow glow appeared from it.

"Over there!"

He shouted and pointed in the direction of the mountains when he sensed the presence of Eunuch Xin through the Qing Feng Tracking Mark.

The other disciples nodded and started to leap towards the mountains as fast as they could.

Meanwhile, while this was going on, a woman dressed in black with long flowing hair gave out a smirk and walked into the city.

It was Yuan Kai but in a woman's form.

Beside her was Lee Yi Hong but he parted ways with her immediately once they entered the city.

Yuan Kai walked calmly into the city as if the fate of Eunuch Xin was none of her concern.

"It's still early." Yuan Kai glanced at the busy streets, still basking in a celebratory mood for Lee Zhen Ren's birthday celebrations.

The morning was still early, and it had not yet begun.

She had some time to spare, and she decided to pay a visit to someone interesting.

From the imageries she saw from using her Questioning Technique on Eunuch Xin and Lee Yi Hong, she saw Lin Xuan Qi.

Lin Xuan Qi was very suspicious.

The low tiered turtle shell artifact couldn't have been able to break through its barrier due to the Qi from Heng and Liu Shao.

From his research on Hong Feng City, it couldn't have been Sima Long.

Sima Long wasn't favored because he wasn't a cultivator, which left only one possible suspect, Lin Xuan Qi.

He knew all the clans and families in Hong Feng City and the only possible place that Lin Xuan Qi was residing in he could think of was the abandoned mansion.

Yuan Kai brushed her flowing long black hair and walked towards the mansion.

...

Lee Yi Hong with his folding fan walked with one hand behind his back.

The decorations and joyous mood all around him inspired him to make a poem out of it.

But he stopped himself when he turned into a street.

There weren't many pedestrians around in this street; everyone that was walking along this street looked gloomy.

"Sir, please would you spare some coins for me?" A kid in ragged clothes came up to him.

Not far away from the kid, there were several others dressed the same, looking at him like predators sizing up a prey.

Surprisingly, Lee Yi Hong gave the kid a smile, squatted down and patted the kid on his forehead.

"Poor thing." He reached into his sleeve pocket and took out some copper coins.

When the other kids saw it, they swarmed at him immediately.

"Dear sir, I need help too."

Lee Yi Hong shook his head and took out more copper coins.

When he saw the kids being happy at their spoils for the day, he thought to himself, when the Dark Lord achieves his objective, you shall be out of this misery.

And with such a thought, he stood up and turned towards the prison.

"Stop there!" The guards outside the prison stopped Lee Yi Hong when he got near.

"I'm here to pay a visit to my brother, Liao from Hun Tun Village."

Lee Yi Hong gave the guard a smile and took out a tael of silver.

The guards' eyes opened wide and stared at the tael of silver.

"Liao from Hun Tun Village? Let me check." The guard took out a booklet and flipped the pages.

After he found the name for Liao in the booklet, he took the tael of silver from Lee Yi Hong and shouted to the back, "Lead this gentleman to the cell for Liao."

A constable came out from the back and waved at Lee Yi Hong, gesturing for him to follow.

Lee Yi Hong cupped his hand at the guards and followed the constable.

Down in the prison cells, Liu Ju Zheng could hear rustling sounds inside the cells, and he quickly scurried to a corner of his cell.

After the visit from Lee He Song, he had the lead that something was about to happen.

And this was it.

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