Chapter 545: To Return Home, Zhang Long Descends!

When these words fell, none of the people around paid them much heed.

After all, no one would have imagined that this notorious Blood Demon was actually a man of the Cangwu Jiang Clan!

The male Emissary drew a deep breath and said in a low voice, "What of it now? Hmph! Such towering renown that the prefectures for several li around are all in abject dread!"

"And according to the news brought back by our scouts, not long ago, the Prefect of Yanling Prefecture, Gu Zheng, paid a visit to Mount Cangwu!"

Hearing this, Jiang Han's heart instinctively gave a start.

He had been out wandering for several months now.

From the mouths of others he had learned many deeds concerning the Prefects of the Thirty-Six Prefectures of Great Qin.

Especially the few among them whose strength was the most formidable — he understood them very well.

Take this Gu Zheng, for instance: he was a fearsome cultivator at the ninth layer of the Sun Wheel Realm, and his fame rang out across all Thirty-Six Prefectures.

There was even a Myriad Manifestation True Lord who once said that, given Gu Zheng's talent and aptitude, in less than a hundred years Great Qin could once again give birth to a Myriad Manifestation True Lord!

Should he obtain some opportunity and fortune, he could do so even faster!

Yet such a top-tier powerhouse had, not long ago, descended upon Mount Cangwu.

Jiang Han could not imagine exactly what had transpired on that day, but it must surely have been the very picture of "peril"!

Just as Jiang Han's expression was tightening—

The male Emissary's voice suddenly came through, and his expression abruptly eased.

"But then, in less than half a day, that illustrious Prefect Gu was drenched in blood from head to toe, at death's door, carried in the jaws of a white spirit-tiger to the foot of Mount Cangwu."

"Had he not been taken away by the Xuan Water Guards within Cangwu City, in the state he was in then, he likely could not have made it out of Cangwu City, let alone out of Tiandou Prefecture…"

Hearing this, Jiang Han could not help but sigh within.

He had not expected that even Gu Zheng, who possessed a cultivation base at the ninth layer of the Sun Wheel Realm, had merely made one trip to his own home and ended up in such a wretched state.

How long had it been since he himself had left?

In the time he had been away, just what earth-shaking upheaval had befallen the clan?

After his astonishment subsided—

Jiang Han looked again at the male Emissary: "Then what is it you need me to do?"

Though he already had some guesses in his heart, he still needed to ask face to face.

The male Emissary glanced at Yang Fu beside him, who had been silent all the while.

Then he shifted his gaze to Jiang Han: "Go to Cangwu City, make contact with those members of the Cangwu Jiang Clan who have come down the mountain, and investigate from them the details concerning the Cangwu Jiang Clan!"

"Judging by your means of escaping with your life, so long as you do not go deep into Mount Cangwu, even if you are discovered by those people of the Cangwu Jiang Clan, it is nothing to fear — you can rely on your methods to get away."

"As for the main direction of the investigation: just where did this Cangwu Jiang Clan come from, several hundred years ago?"

The male Emissary spoke on at length.

After learning that even the Prefect of Yanling Prefecture, Gu Zheng, had suffered a crushing defeat at Mount Cangwu—

They had already come to know that this Cangwu Jiang Clan must surely have a Myriad Manifestation True Lord presiding over it!

Such a force made them dare not rashly provoke it, lest they bring disaster upon themselves.

Especially after learning of the overbearing conduct of the Jiang Clan Patriarch Jiang Daoxuan, and of his fearsome killer instinct that was in no way inferior to their own, they had grown even more cautious.

They dared not rashly dispatch the sect's powerhouses to Cangwu City to gather intelligence, lest they expose their identities and bring the two great forces into open hostility.

But if they substituted the newly-joined Blood Demon, they would have no such worry.

If the plan failed, they could simply cut ties and treat him as a discarded pawn!

After all, out there no one knew that the Blood Demon had any connection to their Earth Demon Sect.