Chapter 29: Dreadful Chase of Light, Who Is the Ox Demon?

Lei Chunlan...... died?

Si Mubai froze, and even the emerald green tea in the cup splashed out a bit.

He fixed his gaze on this capable assistant: "Lei Chunlan...... wasn't she staying in the Golden Splendor Pavilion? How could she die?"

"'Moreover, didn't the family send a guard who had achieved Opening Meridians Perfection to protect her? Even if danger arose, couldn't he at least hold off for a moment?'"

Si Mubai's face sank.

Lei Chunlan was representing the Soul Infant Sect to discuss matters with him, but now, Lei Chunlan...... actually died!

She died right after finishing their discussion......

Between the pavilions, the atmosphere instantly turned cold and desolate, with a hint of sternness; the raging airflow and drifting snow became extremely sharp.

Xu Beihu had originally intended to bid farewell and leave, but at this moment he didn't want to go, his eyes flickering uncertainly, and he also felt somewhat doubtful.

Even a strange notion began to sprout in his mind.

Li Che had just seen Lei Chunlan......

Lei Chunlan turned her head and was killed by someone?

A coincidence?!

How could there be such a coincidental thing?!

Si Mubai rose, set down the cup, and said, "Old Guo, lead the way, let's go take a look."

Hearing this, the Blood Exchange Warrior Guo Zhan clasped his fist, turned around, and led the way ahead.

Before the incident, Li Che left the Golden Splendor Pavilion, then wandered several loops along the traffic lanes of Nei Cheng, confirming no one was tailing him, and only then returned to the alley where he had previously left his clothes.

He took off the black clothes, retracted his qi and blood, restored his body to its original state, and put on his own garments.

He crushed the wooden carving mask into pieces, and Li Che let out a long breath.

Upon Lei Chunlan's death, Li Che actually felt a sense of relief as if a heavy stone had landed; of course, it was only momentary, this feeling was soon drowned out. Li Che raised his hand, his mind stirred, and in his jade‑white palm, one strand after another of airflow, like tiny snakes, swiftly coiled.

"Divinity......"

"The divinity of the Soul Infant Dharma Master?"

"The divinity of absorption and devouring is stored within the Thousand Dissection Hand...... but I don't know what use it has."

The situation was urgent, and Li Che didn't spend time studying it.

After leaving the alley, he bought a box of osmanthus cake at a shop, then went to the restaurant to pack the pre‑ordered fine wine and dishes, and found the old cart driver who had parked his carriage by the roadside and was smoking dry tobacco.

"Old Sir, I've bought it; please trouble you to take me back to the wood carving shop......"

Li Che said with a smile and casually handed over a small jar of the yellow wine packed from the restaurant.

Seeing this, the cart driver hurriedly tried to refuse in panic, but unable to do so, he accepted it with a beaming smile and then drove off skillfully.

Accompanied by the sound of horse hooves rising and falling on the blue stone slabs.

Shattering the bitterly cold drifting snow.

Slowly heading toward Wai Cheng.

In the small courtyard.

The white snow was dyed red by blood, the guard's body cut in half lay amidst the drifting snow, appearing extremely bleak.

The rich scent of blood permeated the air, extremely pungent.

A rustling sound arose as Si Mubai and Xu Beihu stepped on the deep snow and entered the courtyard.

Si Mubai, wearing a crane cloak, looked at the guard's gruesome death; his handsome face was full of gloom: "Struck down by a crushing blow, he had no power to retaliate......"

"The murderer's strength is immense; even someone who has achieved Opening Meridians Perfection is no match, unable even to send a message—far beyond initial Bone Tempering, possibly even Bone Tempering Perfection."

Si Mubai's eyesight was extraordinarily keen; in an instant he judged how powerful the enemy the guard faced was.

"The wound looks like it was made by a sharp weapon, yet it is not like the cut left by a sword or blade......"

The experienced Blood Exchange Warrior Guo Zhan squatted to examine the corpse and then said in a low voice.

Xu Beihu, wearing a fur cloak, looked at the incredibly smooth and even cut on the guard's corpse, and his heart twitched slightly......

This wound...... seems somewhat familiar.

He couldn't help but think of the death method of the wood carver Sun Changbiao in his family's wood carving shop in Wai Cheng......

Could it be...... that the killer is the same person?

Si Mubai stepped over the guard's corpse and entered the house; the heat brought by the burning coal permeated the room, making the bloody smell even stronger and nauseating.

And Lei Chunlan's corpse was nailed to the wooden floor, her death state...... extremely gruesome.

A wanted poster, one gruesome corpse.

Like a netherworld death god walking the mortal realm, seizing lives and passing judgment!

Xu Beihu narrowed his eyes; on his rugged face flashed a hint of delicate realization, and he was certain......

The murderer who killed Lei Chunlan......

Is none other than the murderer who killed Sun Changbiao!

The killing method is the same, the modus operandi is the same—this signature wooden arrow, and the wound like a fine silk cut...... basically identified the perpetrator's identity.

"The criminal, the Ox Demon......"

Xu Beihu exhaled a breath.

Just who exactly is he?!

In Wai Cheng, one could commit murder even inside the heavily guarded wood carving shop of one's own home......

And yet inside the inner city, one could still kill people inside the Golden Splendor Pavilion, jointly operated by the various families and with even tighter defenses!

Arrogant……and mysterious!

Who exactly is it?

Whose person is this!

"Who is the Bull Demon?"

It seemed to have heard Xu Beihu's mutter, and Si Mu Bai looked over with cold eyes.

Xu Beihu then briefly explained the situation.

"What a Bull Demon, daring to commit violence inside the Golden Splendor Pavilion—truly……recklessly bold, not taking our Flugle City clans in the slightest!"

Si Mu Bai's fist in his sleeve clenched tightly, and he uttered a sentence icy cold and full of killing intent.

In his pupils, the undulations of divinity seemed to spread like ripples, with wailing ghostly cries entangling endlessly, surging without cease.

Xu Beihu glanced at Si Mu Bai's appearance, and his heart slightly shuddered.

This Si Mu Bai is probably close to achieving the Divine Foundation, and even his divinity is somewhat hard to control.

Accompanied by footsteps, vigorous qi and blood intertwined in the air; several figures walked from outside the courtyard, the leader wearing a black-red robe, a knife at his waist, and sharp eyes.

"Young Master Xu, Young Master Si are both here."

The newcomer clasped his fists, his voice resonant and powerful.

"So it's Divine Constable Zhang—trouble having you make a trip." Si Mu Bai's expression recovered, his anger internalized, and a look of resentful tears welled up again.

Both Xu Beihu and Si Mu Bai were quite courteous toward the newcomer.

After all, this person is Zhang Xiangyang, one of the three Divine Constables of Flugle City's government office, dispatched by the imperial court; not only is his martial strength extremely strong, but his cultivation of divinity is also not weak.

Divine Constables earn that title because they have cultivated divinity, granting them strength far surpassing that of ordinary martial artists.

Zhang Xiangyang rested his hand on the hilt of his sheathed knife, walked slowly over, entered the room, and saw Lei Chunlan's corpse, as well as that wanted poster.

"Heh, the victim turned out to be a wanted criminal……tsk, after killing someone, issuing a wanted poster, the killer considers himself righteous, yet he violates the law with martial force." Zhang Xiangyang said lightly.

"First, let's confirm the culprit……"

Zhang Xiangyang said a sentence, and in the next moment he stepped forward.

Boom!!

His beard and hair bristled, his pupils seeming to have a grayish flow—that was the divinity he cultivated……

Instantly, the air filled with faint traces of fear; these fears were what Lei Chunlan had exuded before death, now fully captured by Zhang Xiangyang and reflected in his pupils as images.

"His stature is burly, over nine feet tall, wearing a bamboo hat, clad in black, with vigorous qi and blood, wearing……a Bull Demon mask……"

The grayish flow in Zhang Xiangyang's pupils faded, focus returned, and he said lightly: "The heinous criminal wanted in the outer city is exactly of this appearance—it is the Bull Demon."

"Committing crimes in the outer city is bad enough, but daring to come to the inner city to commit illicit acts—this Bull Demon……has quite a background."

Zhang Xiangyang sneered: "Without background, how could one dare to act violently so lightly in the inner city?"

Those great clans and aristocratic families, as well as the government's black office, are certainly not to be trifled with.

"Divine Constable Zhang's 'Fear-Intimidating Light-Tracing' divinity……is growing ever stronger; soon he will lead the three Divine Constables of Flugle City, and that day is near!"

Si Mu Bai, half-laughing half-crying, clapped his hands and said.

Zhang Xiangyang glanced at Si Mu Bai's appearance, whose divinity was hard to restrain, and laughed: "Young Master Si is the one whose divinity is about to break through, the Divine Foundation about to be completed—congratulations."

After his words fell, Zhang Xiangyang turned his head to look at the several constables behind him.

"Return to the government office, re-draft the wanted order for the Bull Demon, raising the bounty on this criminal to three hundred……"

Zhang Xiangyang thought of the oppressive image of the Bull Demon he had seen through Lei Chunlan's fear……

"Forget it, better to make the bounty five hundred taels!"

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