Chapter 24: A Hundred Thousand Bounty!

Luo Zhongyun died at the hands of a Innate martial artist, and the Guo family has more than one Innate.

When the Falling Cloud Martial Hall was wiped out, the commotion was also very small.

It shows the gap between the two sides was enormous.

If the Guo family made the move, then it all makes sense — the Guo family absolutely has the strength to do it!

It's just that…

"Why would the Guo family wipe out the Falling Cloud Martial Hall?"

Chen Mu pondered as he walked.

"Did Luo Zhongyun or Luo Zhaoyu offend some member of the Guo family? Or did the Falling Cloud Martial Hall have something the Guo family took a fancy to, and when intimidation failed, they chose to wipe them out and seize it?"

Of course, Chen Mu also knew that wiping out a household could keep the secret.

Only the dead don't leak secrets.

Unless someone, like him, possessed the ability to pick up cards and had a certain chance of obtaining a memory card.

Whatever the reason, the Falling Cloud Martial Hall being wiped out is absolutely connected to the Guo family!

Luo Zhaoyu assassinating Guo Jinlun in the street — that's tearing off all pretense.

He reached into his pocket and checked the three newly acquired cards.

Internal Force card! Internal Force card! Equipment card!

The two Internal Force cards contained two months and one month of cultivation respectively.

The Equipment card was a bottle of Peiyuan Pills!

"Does Guo Jinlun eat Peiyuan Pills like candy?"

Chen Mu's mouth twitched.

One could only say, worthy of a scion from a great clan — even a discarded playboy had pills to pop at will.

Peiyuan Pills, great pills that boost Internal Force cultivation — even at the lowest grade, targeting only Postnatal martial artists, they were still great pills.

A single Peiyuan Pill was worth sixty or seventy taels of silver.

The key was ordinary martial artists couldn't even get access to the things, with no channel to buy them!

The black market had them, but goods bought on the black market were hard to verify as genuine.

Chen Mu still had over two thousand taels on hand, yet couldn't buy them either.

This time the Equipment card was nice — he picked up a whole bottle directly.

He returned home.

Chen Mu opened the bottle cap, counted them, and there were nine Peiyuan Pills left.

In terms of value, at least five hundred taels of silver!

He sniffed the scent, then Chen Mu capped the bottle again.

"I have Internal Force cards, I don't need the Peiyuan Pills."

Pills weren't something where taking them meant full absorption.

Absorption speed, absorption efficiency, conversion efficiency…

All varied from person to person.

Those geniuses cultivated fast precisely because, with a single pill, while others absorbed thirty percent, they could absorb ninety, even a hundred percent!

Bone root, bone root — that's what it referred to.

Taking pills also required time to digest.

How could it compare to Internal Force cards, which completed absorption within seconds upon use?

And at a hundred percent efficiency!

So these nine Peiyuan Pills were better given to Huang Feiyang to take!

The Internal Force cards involved absolute secrecy and couldn't be given.

The Peiyuan Pills, on the other hand, had no impact.

Huang Feiyang's martial arts talent was decent — he just lacked cultivation resources.

Before, there was no money; now there wasn't much either, and using it to buy decoctions that nourished qi and blood was very limited.

These nine Peiyuan Pills might just let Huang Feiyang break through and become an official martial artist!

And so.

When night fell and Huang Feiyang returned, Chen Mu called out to him.

"Brother, take these pills and use them."

Chen Mu said, handing the porcelain bottle holding the Peiyuan Pills over entirely to Huang Feiyang.

"Oh, oh." Huang Feiyang took it instinctively. Once the bottle was in hand, he came to his senses and said in astonishment, "What did you say? Pills? In this bottle is…"

"Nine Peiyuan Pills."

Chen Mu replied, "I already have mine, these are the leftovers. Take them and cultivate without worry."

"Pei… Peiyuan Pills?"

Huang Feiyang's eyes went wide, his grip tightening on the bottle. "Huzi, where did you…"

Halfway through, he recalled something. "Your master gave them again?"

"…Yes." Chen Mu nodded.

This fabricated "master" was a universal excuse.

"…Alright!"

Huang Feiyang took a deep breath, steadied his emotions, and nodded firmly. "Then I'll accept them. Give my thanks to your master for me. If the old gentleman ever comes by someday, Huzi, you must give me advance notice so I can host him properly."

"No problem." Chen Mu said readily.

Marry into the family?

Don't even think about it in this lifetime.

……

The Peiyuan Pill goes to Huang Feiyang.

Chen Mu used the two Internal Force Cards one after another, driving the Circulating Cloud Art to circulate and increase his own cultivation.

The next day.

Early in the morning, Chen Mu went out and wandered all over the streets.

Luo Zhaoyu killed Guo Jinlun in broad daylight — the Guo family would absolutely seek revenge.

Sure enough.

At the notice board beside every market gate in the city, Chen Mu saw Luo Zhaoyu's wanted poster!

In just one night, Luo Zhaoyu had made it onto the government office's wanted list.

The bounty: one hundred thousand taels of silver!

"Tsk, now that's generous."

"Cut the crap. Don't you know what kind of power the Guo family is? A great clan with over a hundred years of inheritance — what's a hundred thousand taels of silver to them?"

"Right. This hundred thousand taels is, no surprise, just the appetizer."

"Uh, you guys think the Falling Cloud Martial Hall might've been wiped out by the Guo family? Otherwise, why would Luo Zhaoyu kill Guo Jinlun?"

"Shh! If you want to die, don't drag me down with you!"

"……"

In front of the notice board, the gathered crowd murmured among themselves.

Chen Mu stood off to one side, watching only, saying nothing.

In his heart, though, he was turning it over.

'Luo Zhaoyu assassinating Guo Jinlun in the street — surely that was deliberate?'

The goal was to let everyone know it was the Guo family that destroyed Falling Cloud Martial Hall?

To smear the Guo family's name!

Luo Zhaoyu knew very well that with his strength, he couldn't touch the Guo family.

Sneak-attacking and assassinating one or two of the Guo family's younger generation was no problem, but once the Guo family had a free hand, there was no way he could escape.

So, smearing the Guo family was also a form of revenge.

The more Chen Mu thought about it, the more likely it seemed.

As for the hundred-thousand-tael bounty…

It was useful!

Most wandering rogue cultivators had limited funds.

These people wouldn't mind earning some extra coin.

……

However.

Three whole days passed, and no one found Luo Zhaoyu!

The bounty on the notice board climbed from a hundred thousand to two hundred thousand.

But no matter what, he simply couldn't be found.

Wulong Fucheng was that big, with several hundred thousand residents.

Over the past few decades, the people who were grateful to Falling Cloud Martial Hall numbered, if not a hundred, then eighty at least.

With their help, if Luo Zhaoyu was determined to hide, he really couldn't be found.

……

What shocked everyone was—

On the fourth day, the Zhenwu Division moved out!

Crimson Fire uniforms! Blazing Tiger blades!

A squad of ten Zhenwu Division guards, led by a Bronze Guard, led a half-man-tall black giant hound as they made their way through the streets and alleys.

The black giant hound sniffed as it walked, its unusually broad ears spreading open and twitching every so often.

"The Guo family actually got the Zhenwu Division to send people to search for Luo Zhaoyu."

On the street, Chen Mu watched this group from afar, silently mourning Luo Zhaoyu in his heart.

The giant hounds raised by the Zhenwu Division were clearly no simple matter — they were a kind of exotic beast.

Luo Zhaoyu couldn't hide anymore!

……

Swish~

Chen Mu tapped his toe and followed behind the Zhenwu Division's squad.

If Luo Zhaoyu died, he might be able to pick up the Surging Cloud Sword — this martial art was quite good.

Chen Mu followed from afar.

Surprisingly, quite a few other people were also tagging along behind.

No need to mention the Guo family — they naturally came along.

And so, the Zhenwu Division people walked at the very front, with over a hundred people trailing behind, a mighty procession cutting through streets and alleys.

Until they stopped at the door of a small courtyard in an alley off the main street.

"Woof!"