Chapter 153: Innate True Seed

Rain, pouring down in sheets; night, pitch-black and silent.

Inside the city, lights were sparse, with only a few spots twinkling.

Among them, at the original site of the Earth Temple in the West City, in just half a day's time, a temple more magnificent and grand than the previous one stood tall in the rainy night, brightly lit.

"With such heavy rain, yet no thunder—it seems there is trouble."

Three Wang Family Second Heaven experts stood within, observing the torrential rain. Wang Xuan, one of them, suddenly spoke, his expression full of worry; when things happen contrary to the norm, there must be a demon at play!

"Why must Big Brother worry? As Second Heaven experts, even if danger truly strikes, we can calmly escape. The ones who will be in trouble are merely these mud-legged commoners."

The second, Wang Yuan, waved his hand, unimpressed.

Wang Xuan did not commit to an answer, turning instead to speak.

"Have those little ones been arranged properly?"

"Rest assured, Big Brother. I have already given them protective measures; there is no need to worry about their safety. If a massive change occurs and the city walls fall, they can rely on those means to leave on their own."

The third, Wang Jue, replied with a smile.

"However, I heard from those little ones."

"The main reason Wang Xuanji was defeated and forced to flee after his battle with Ma Suxuan was that the temple he had established in the city was destroyed by a mysterious person, cutting off the Incense Wish Power, which led to his defeat."

"We must guard against this," Wang Jue said cautiously.

"Rest assured, the three of us will each establish a temple, set up the Heaven, Earth, and Human Triad Formation, and each sit in charge of our own, guarding one side. Even if that mysterious person is powerful, they will be able to do nothing."

"I strongly suspect that the mysterious person might be related to the death of Wang Xuanji. Once the three temples are built, we should still use the Divine Dao Power to sweep through this city first."

Wang Xuan smiled faintly.

"Although our main purpose for coming here is to investigate the death of Wang Xuanji, what truly worries me is the anomaly occurring in this Bei'an County, as well as the matter of the great female demon within the seal."

"Speaking of which, it is truly laughable. If not for Wang Xuanji being overconfident and running off to fight that great female demon, how could he have been severely injured and then killed by someone else?"

Wang Xuan shook his head, his words filled with disdain.

"Big Brother is right. If Wang Xuanji hadn't been injured, even if the Incense Wish Power had been cut off, he wouldn't have been defeated by Ma Suxuan. But Big Brother, what about Ma Suxuan? She is from the main branch of the Ma Family; it is difficult for us to take action against her."

"Yet she has become entangled with that mysterious person..."

Wang Yuan frowned.

"No rush for this matter. We will challenge her tomorrow and force her to reveal the whereabouts of that mysterious person. Although her status is higher than ours, don't forget, their Ma Family is far from here—the mountains are high and the Emperor is far away!"

As he spoke, a cold sneer appeared on Wang Xuan's face, and the other two deeply agreed.

After chatting for a few moments, the three continued to cast their gazes toward the God Statue inside the temple, which had not yet finished construction, imprinting their marks into it and beginning to refine it to stimulate its spirituality.

In the rainy night, Li Heng suddenly stopped his steps, his gaze shifting slightly; he had already locked onto three auras similar to that of Wang Xuanji, right in the West City, and at the site of that former Earth Temple.

He pondered slightly, his Qi breaking through the rainy night as he stepped forward.

Soon, in the West City, he saw the brightly lit temple.

Li Heng was slightly surprised; this speed of building a temple was too fast. Could it be that the Wang Family were all professional temple builders, carrying temple blueprints with them that could automatically generate upon injecting Qi?

He couldn't help but think of the settings in the game.

Thinking chaotically in his heart, he suppressed his stray thoughts again. He used the Formless Heavenly Demon Essence to disguise his form, turning into an unremarkable ordinary person, and walked straight toward the temple.

What is the use of being fast?

There hadn't been time to collect Incense Wish Power.

Inside the temple, the three Wang Family Second Heaven experts frowned slightly, clearly having sensed the ordinary person Li Heng had transformed into, and stopped their refining.

"Big Brother, this is an ordinary person, a mud-legged commoner?"

Wang Yuan was slightly startled.

"Heh, in the middle of the night, in such a rainy night, can an ordinary person still be called an ordinary person?" Wang Xuan smiled faintly.

"Then how about I kill him," Wang Jue said coldly.

"No rush, let me see."

Wang Xuan always felt this was related to the death of Wang Xuanji. But his reason told him this was unlikely; there were three of them here—would the murderer who killed Wang Xuanji dare to show his face in front of the three of them?

That would simply be courting death!

"Oh my, it's raining so hard in the middle of the night, I finally found a place to hide from the rain. Hmm, there are people inside? Are you the Temple Keepers inside the temple? Sorry to disturb the three of you so late at night."

Li Heng walked under the eaves, peered inside, and seeing these three Wang Family Second Heaven experts appear, he squinted and said with a smile.

The three Wang Family Second Heaven experts already knew this person must be up to no good. But upon seeing that Li Heng didn't have a single drop of rain on him and was completely dry, the corners of their mouths couldn't help but twitch.

Good fellow, with you like this, you still need to hide from the rain?

You don't even want to pretend, do you?

"The three of us are indeed the Temple Keepers of this temple, having just arrived," Wang Xuan said, smiling as he blocked the other two from making a move.

"However, this believer doesn't seem to need to hide from the rain, does he?"

"How could I not? My movement technique is just a bit better. Look, aren't I wet now?" Li Heng smiled slightly, reached out to touch a few drops of rainwater, and showed it to the three of them.

The corners of the three men's mouths twitched again.

Not only did he not take them seriously, he was also insulting their intelligence?

Now Wang Xuan was in no mood to pretend; the person before him simply didn't play by the rules. "Speak, who exactly are you? Why did you come to find us? Is the death of Wang Xuanji related to you?"

Hearing this, Li Heng pondered for a moment, then spoke.

"You say Wang Xuanji is dead? That's a coincidence; people from our Ye Family have also died, and they were all bright, promising seedlings. I was sent by the Ye Family to investigate this matter."

The three from the Wang Family were slightly startled and looked at each other.

"What proof do you have that you are from the Ye Family?"

Wang Xuan said in a deep voice.

"Then I must also ask you: you are investigating the death of Wang Xuanji, so you must be from the Wang Family, but how can you prove it?"

Li Heng smiled slightly.

"Hmph, do you not trust the three of us? Just look at our Wang Family bloodline!" Wang Xuanji let out a cold snort, and the three of them simultaneously released their Divine Dao Power to prove their Wang Family Divine Path Bloodline.

Li Heng nodded, and in an instant, yin energy enveloped his entire body. A mass of yin energy hovered above his hand, which he molded into various delicate objects. "This is our Ye Family bloodline, how about it?"

"It seems you really are a member of the Ye Family."

The three of them furrowed their brows, scrutinized him carefully, and finally spoke thus. Being able to wield yin energy with the body of a healthy, living person and perform such delicate control, it was undoubtedly the Ye Family bloodline.

"Since both sides have revealed their identities, I will speak plainly." As Li Heng spoke, his expression shifted from a smile to extreme seriousness. "Does the death of our Ye Family members have anything to do with the Wang Family!"

"Hmph, that is naturally not the case."

The three of them denied it outright. They did not care what Wang Xuanji had actually done; in any case, they just had to deny it when facing such matters, as they did not want to incite conflict between the noble families.

"Compared to that, I am actually somewhat suspicious of your Ye Family."

Wang Jue said coldly.

"Are you sure you want to think that way?"

Li Heng smiled slightly, and the mass of yin energy on his palm transformed into the shape of a snake, flicking its tongue as if it were about to choose someone to devour.

"Ahem, Third Brother!"

"This remark was merely an unintentional comment by my younger brother; please do not take it to heart."

The eldest, Wang Xuan, scolded him and performed a double act with Wang Jue.

"However, this is also strange. In this tiny Beian County, our Wang Family has had people die, and your Ye Family has also had people die. What exactly is hidden within this? Could the murderer be the same person?"

Wang Xuan returned to the main topic and speculated thus.

"Why don't your Ye Family and our Wang Family join forces to first suppress Ma Suxuan of the Ma Family, force information out of her, and then search the entire city one by one? How about that?"

Wang Xuan said with a burning gaze.

The reason they did not make a move on Ma Suxuan during the day was that they felt the three of them were newcomers and unprepared, and they might not be able to keep Ma Suxuan down in a single strike.

But with one more helper, it would be a sure thing.

Li Heng revealed a look of surprise.

"Your Wang Family wants to make a move on the Ma Family?"

"How can you say it like that? We just feel that this Bei'an City is full of danger, and as allies among noble families, we should protect Miss Ma well and send her back to the Ma Family safely, shouldn't we?"

Wang Xuan smiled slightly.

"Interesting, aren't you afraid that once she returns to the Ma Family, she will tell her elders about what she encountered?" Li Heng asked, surprised.

"You can rest easy on that. I do know a thing or two about this Ma Suxuan; she is on very bad terms with the Ma Family and hasn't returned to the family in over ten years. At most, her status is just a bit special."

Wang Xuan waved his hand and continued.

"How about it, shall the two families unite to find the murderer?"

He once again proposed the request for cooperation.

"Then how far have you investigated?" Li Heng said indifferently.

"This? We already mentioned it just now. Ma Suxuan might know the whereabouts of a mysterious person, and this mysterious person is highly likely to be the culprit who caused Wang Xuanji to be defeated, flee, and die."

Upon hearing this, Li Heng nodded, lost in thought.

As expected, the noble families are truly overbearing to the extreme; just because there is a shred of suspicion, they want to suppress and forcibly interrogate someone, not even caring about Ma Suxuan's noble family background?

Of course, it was also because Ma Suxuan was all alone.

"Cooperation is possible, but can I trust your strength? Don't forget, the mysterious person was not only able to kill the young talent of our Ye Family, but also killed Wang Xuanji, who was a Second Heaven of your Wang Family."

Li Heng said calmly.

"There is no need to worry about that. We are four people; surely we can deal with one mysterious person? Besides, Wang Xuanji's death also had to do with the fact that he was already injured."

"If he had been at his peak, the outcome would not have been certain!"

Although Wang Xuan thought Wang Xuanji was a piece of trash, when facing other noble families, he would brag as much as possible; he could not let outsiders look down on his own family.

"So what exactly is the level of your cultivation?"

Li Heng continued to press.

"What, are you afraid we are hiding our cultivation? Rest assured, our interests are aligned. The three of us are all at Small Xian Tian Peak, about to condense a True Seed and break through to Strong Innate."

"As for your cultivation... what is it?"

"Don't let it be that you get killed by that mysterious person, and then the Ye Family blames your death on us."

The three of them revealed scrutinizing gazes.

"You are at Small Xian Tian Peak? I don't believe it. What kind of joke is this? Small Xian Tian Peak is not as weak as you are."

Li Heng shook his head and said dismissively.

The three of them raised their brows, somewhat surprised, then exchanged glances, communicated secretly with their minds, and finally reached a unified opinion.

"So how do you want us to prove it?"

The three of them said in a deep voice.

"Let's go outside the city and have a fight." Li Heng smiled slightly.