Chapter 72: Going Straight to Their Door!

That's not right!

Gao Zhengyang hasn't fully joined yet; he's only passed the first trial.

To become an official member of the Longevity Sect, the first trial is to eat human flesh, the second is to slaughter one's whole family!

The Longevity Sect's creed is: one person is the family, one person is eternal.

If you're already immortal, what do you need descendants for?

The Gao family members aren't dead yet, which means Gao Zhengyang's trial isn't over.

The memory card Chen Mu picked up didn't come from Gao Zhengyang, but from one of the two expressionless men and women who died at his hands.

Both of them were Annihilation Cultists of the Longevity Sect, the equivalent of death warriors.

But they were even more perverted than ordinary death warriors.

The Longevity Sect had excised their pain nerves, extinguished their emotions; they knew no fear, knew no fatigue, were pure killing machines that only followed orders!

The memory card only held memories from within the last three years of life.

Yet, within those three years of memory, apart from numbly eating, there was only killing.

The food they ate wasn't fish, meat, rice, or noodles, but a kind of pill, a concentrated type—one pill could last a whole day.

The reason there were memory scenes of Gao Zhengyang eating people raw was that half a year ago they had come to Wulong Fucheng, just happening to carry out orders while Gao Zhengyang underwent the first trial.

Undergoing the trial together with Gao Zhengyang were an elder of Three Absolute Valley, Tang Wuyang, and the sect master of Iron Spear Gate, Xie Chenglin!

The three of them joined forces and ate a woman's flesh and blood into their stomachs!

"They're all beasts…"

Chen Mu, restraining his anger, quickly read through all the memories—there were no locations of Longevity Sect strongholds, nor any other related information.

When Annihilation Cultists weren't on a mission, they stood in corners like corpses, taking a breath only once every quarter of an hour.

That was the reason Chen Mu hadn't spotted them when he followed Gao Zhengyang into the alley.

Like corpses, standing face to face at night—as long as they didn't make a move, no one would notice.

"Three Absolute Valley, Iron Spear Gate…"

Chen Mu muttered, subconsciously clenching both fists.

This was big!

Three Absolute Valley and Iron Spear Gate were both major powers in Wulong Fucheng.

Tang Wuyang was only an elder of Three Absolute Valley, but Xie Chenglin was the sect master of Iron Spear Gate—God knows how many people in Iron Spear Gate had been pulled in by Xie Chenglin to join the Longevity Sect?

Back at He Family Fort, Xie Chenglin had also attended the birthday banquet.

From the outside, Xie Chenglin looked upright and magnanimous, a hearty and open fellow—who could have imagined he had secretly joined the Longevity Sect and was eating people alive?

"This matter must be reported to Zhao Fuzhou immediately…"

With Three Absolute Valley and Iron Spear Gate involved, this was no longer something Chen Mu could handle.

Immediately.

Chen Mu took out an Energy Card, used it to empower himself, then employed his lightness skill and hurried back to Wulong Fucheng.

After entering the city, he headed straight for the headquarters of the Town Martial Division in the inner city, held up his wooden token, passed through the main gate, and went directly to the office Zhao Fuzhou had mentioned.

"You are…"

"Brother Zhao!" Chen Mu, still wearing the human-skin mask on his face and not removing it, said directly, "I've found several high-ranking members of major Wulong Fucheng powers who have defected to the Longevity Sect. They are Tang Wuyang, Gao Zhengyang, Xie Chenglin…"

Without pausing, Chen Mu quickly recounted the process of following Gao Zhengyang, discovering Tang Wuyang, and then tricking out Xie Chenglin.

Half of it was true, half was false.

For instance, the reason he followed Gao Zhengyang was that he had been ordered by the Great Saber Gang's gang leader "Guan Tong"—because the search for boys born at noon on the Summer Solstice had felt strange, he had decided to investigate.

Who could have expected to discover the secret of Gao Zhengyang joining the Longevity Sect.

As for tricking out that Xie Chenglin had also thrown in with the Longevity Sect through the conversation between Gao Zhengyang and Tang Wuyang—that was a story he'd cooked up on the way here.

He couldn't exactly say he'd "seen" it through a memory card, could he?

Of all the content, most was true, a small part was false.

After finishing, Chen Mu added, "All of this is what I discovered through investigation; there's no proof!"

Without proof, the Town Martial Division would need to gather evidence.

Whether Zhao Fuzhou believed it, and if he did, whether he'd be willing to dispatch people to investigate, were both questions.

However.

After Zhao Fuzhou finished listening, his expression never changed. He set down the scroll he'd been holding in his hand, and as he rose, said, "It doesn't matter. Not having proof isn't important; what's important is whether it's true or false. This matter is simple—just go ask the parties involved and it'll be clear."

……What?

Chen Mu was stunned, and said in surprise, "Go straight to the parties involved and ask them face to face?"

"Yes."

Zhao Fuzhou gave a light laugh, strode toward the door, and said, "If you have nothing else, you can come along."

After speaking, he walked out the door, and his clear, bright voice rang out in every corner of the Town Martial Division.

"Qingyuan, Old Peng, take a squad and go to Three Absolute Valley to investigate Tang Wuyang. We've received reliable intelligence that Tang Wuyang has joined the Longevity Sect."

"……Yes, my lord!"

"Understood!"

Two steady voices rang out from the right rear.

The next moment, the footsteps of the squad assembling rang out as well, heading toward the main gate.

"Siyou, take a squad and come with me to Iron Spear Gate."

Zhao Fuzhou said again as he walked.

"Yes!"

A response came from the front-left.

Chen Mu followed behind Zhao Fuzhou and, upon reaching the small square beside the main gate, saw a twenty-four-person squad already waiting.

The leader was a man in his thirties, dark-skinned, with a resolute face, short in stature but powerfully built.

"My lord!"

The man faced Zhao Fuzhou and bowed respectfully.

The others followed behind him and did the same.

"Let's go."

Zhao Fuzhou raised a hand and walked ahead.

The man and the others followed behind.

Chen Mu mingled among them and took a few glances at this man called "Xu Siyou."

The other's aura was fused into a single whole, giving him a faint sense of pressure.

Innate!

This one called Xu Siyou was, shockingly, an Innate expert.

'The number of Innate Realm people in the Zhenwu Division isn't ordinary at all…'

Chen Mu clicked his tongue inwardly.

……

The two squads left the city at the same time.

One was led by Yan Qingyuan and a burly man called Peng Wu, heading to Three Streets Valley, everyone on horseback.

The second squad was led personally by Zhao Fuzhou, exiting through the Xicheng Gate, hurrying toward Iron Spear Gate.

Iron Spear Gate was located on a mountaintop less than twenty li northwest of Wulong Fucheng.

They sped along the road.

It was only evening when they reached the foot of the mountain.

Zhao Fuzhou walked ahead, leading the squad straight up the mountain.

Without the slightest concealment.

When the squad was nearly at the halfway point of the mountainside, at Iron Spear Gate's outpost, Chen Mu suddenly realized why Zhao Fuzhou had come straight to their door.

'This is absolute confidence in his own strength!'

As long as one's power was strong enough, no matter how Xie Chenglin schemed, there was nothing to worry about.

Only absolute confidence could allow one to respond with ease and composure in action.

Of course.

Zhao Fuzhou's trust in Chen Mu's words was also key.

Without evidence, Zhao Fuzhou had still dispatched men to go straight to their door and question them.

Honestly, Chen Mu felt a bit moved in his heart.

What he didn't know, however—

The Zhenwu Division suppressed the entire jianghu; when dealing with various sect factions, having evidence was naturally best.

If there was no evidence but word had been received, most of the time they would simply go straight to the door and intimidate!