The casino was ablaze, bathed in red light from numerous lamps . Avaricious gamblers were respectively rolling dice, playing Pai Gow and mahjong . Some of them were excited, some depressed, and some were miserable as before .
Witnessing this scene, Meng Qi felt he had had a dream in which there was an assassination . However, upon awakening there was no sign of it . He was still in the casino .
This assassin hid his breath and concealed his intent to kill better than anyone Meng Qi had met . Before he took action, he acted as a completely ordinary person .
"Qiu Fei must have discovered me . That's why he lured me into that overcrowded casino, to find an opportunity to kill me . "
"But his strength is at the level of Half-step Exterior Scenery . It would be easier for him to kill me in a deserted place outside of town . "
"Or someone that he is meeting especially dispatched him to terminate followers . "
An idea popped in Meng Qi's head . He held a sword in his right hand and walked through the crowd right up to the extrance of the VIP room .
Supernatural Power of Shaking Heaven and Hitting Earth Here, there were a series of courtyards with their own features . It was also less boisterous, so many gentlemen preferred to come here for fun . Meng Qi lost track of Qiu Fei . He could not spy on every VIP room as that would irritate some influential figures . He could only hide himself at the entrance . When a dealer or a hostess passed by, he would ask them by using the Transformation Strategy mixed with a little "Supernatural Power of Shaking Heaven and Hitting Earth" .
"I've never met him . . . "
"He's not in my VIP room . . . "
"There are no new customers here . . . "
Meng Qi was confused by their answers . He had clearly seen Qiu Fei walk into a VIP room . "Where the hell is he?"
After poking around for a while, Meng Qi was sure he had lost him . Now he realized that the assassin was surely out to prevent or eliminate those tracking Qiu Fei .
"Why did he entrust such a strong assassin with such a simple task?" Meng Qi wondered . Then, he left Skyfirst No . 1 Casino and returned to his place of dwelling .
Bearing the assassination in mind, he opened the door cautiously to prevent his own murder .
As soon as the door was opened, his pupils contracted violently .
In the middle of the yard stood something that was not there before .
It was a coffin!
It was a jet black coffin to be exact!
The coffin, covered by the pale moonlight, was extremely gloomy, just horrid . .
"Who sent me the coffin?" Meng Qi was both startled and infuriated . He pulled out Heaven Inflicted Pain and moved slowly towards the coffin .
He forced himself to calm down . The coffin and its surroundings were lifeless . There was no sense of flbeingat all . "Plerhaps there' is no ambush afterall . "
Meng Qi slashed the Heaven Inflicted Pain . The lid fell to the ground . There was nothing in it except for a small wood carving .
It was the size of a palm carved into the figure of a man with a tormented expression . Its upper lip was attached with a slip of paper covering its body .
There were four words on it .
"Killing Blade Su Meng . "
"What a despicable man!" Meng Qi was not frightened . He contemplated with a snort . "Is this a challenge of war? Or it is supposed to shake me up?"
He didn't believe Qing Yu would do it, no matter how mean he was . The Xuan Tian Sect would be shamed if people knew that Qing Yu had played such a detestable trick . The Denomination of Heaven Sovereign was by no means shameless .
"So, am I being targeted or what?"
"Who is it? And whose forces are they?"
"What do they want?"
Meng Qi was not that easy to bully, nor was he an amiable yes-man . After he had searched the yard carefully and found nothing valuable, he put away the carving and the note . Then he knocked on his neighbor's door .
After a while, his neighbor walked to the door in a coat . The man was sleepy, yawning with his eyes half closed . He stuck his head out of the cracked door and looked outside defensively in case it was a robber .
"Sorry to bother you . I have to ask you something . " Meng Qi said directly . He had already removed the changes caused by Eight Nine Mysteries and washed his face .
The old man was startled at first, then he opened the door . Anxious he curiously asked, "Master Su, are you asking about the coffin in your yard?"
"Yes . " Meng Qi nodded calmly .
"Yes . " Meng Qi nodded calmly .
The old man's lips twitched . "Master Su, after you left, some people sent the coffin . You weren't home, so they especially turned to Senior Ye for help . They said you had bought the coffin for yourself . Senior Ye thought you were challenging a master, so he believed them and let them in . "
Senior Ye was Meng Qi's landlord .
"Do you know who they are?" Meng Qi asked with a frown .
The neighbor shook his head . "They are strangers . They were dressed like workers in a coffin shop . I'm sure it's not one nearby . "
"Coffin shop . . . They must have been instructed by someone else . " Meng Qi was confident of himself . As long as he found the shop, he would be able to figure out the appearance of the buyer by asking the shopkeeper and staff .
"Do you remember anything distinct about their appearance?" Meng Qi continued to ask .
The old man concentrated for a moment . Then, he suddenly opened his mouth . "Ah! One worker has a black mole at the corner of his mouth . It was quite discernible . "
After several other questions, Meng Qi sincerely expressed his gratitude . As he left, he was trying to come up with a plan .
"There's no curfew in Maoling . Many alcoholics, gamblers and bellmen come and go afterhours . There should have been a lot of people that saw them carrying the coffin . " Meng Qi was determined to investigate as soon as possible .
Taking time into consideration, Meng Qi decided to find the bellman who might have seen the workers first .
He easily found him by asking other bellmen .
"I remember the coffin clearly . Who wouldn't be afraid seeing a coffin at midnight?" The bellman trembled a bit when recalling the scene . Although he was far away from it, he was impressed . He had thought it was cadaverization .
Meng Qi was glad that there was a clue .
"Do you know where they are from? Or do you know which shop they work for?" Meng Qi asked with restrained joy .
Another bellman thought for a while and said uncertainly, "They were from the North Street . There is a coffin shop there . "
Meng Qi got excited . After figuring out the specific location, he rushed there .
There were few pedestrians on the way . The coffin shop closed in the dark of night .
Meng Qi did not waste any time . He climbed over the wall and jumped into the yard . He had planned to interrogate them one by one by toture .
Meng Qi did not waste any time . He climbed over the wall and jumped into the yard . He had planned to interrogate them one by one by toture .
Suddenly, the smell of blood entered his nose . Though nervous, he followed the smell to the back door of the shop .
The door was half closed . Meng Qi pushed it slightly, and it fell against the wall .
He stepped into the yard discreetly, only to see many rows of black coffins . It was weird and gruesome .
Meng Qi took a deep breath . He tried to distinguish where the smell was coming from .
He approached a coffin . With Heaven Inflicted Pain poised as well as the Meridian, he uncovered the coffin .
The lid fell to the ground . The scene inside the coffin was a sight to see .
In the coffin was a dead man whose eyes were wide with panic .
A black mole was at the corner of his mouth .
Cause of death? Penetrated by a sword mid-brow .
"He was killed . . . " Meng Qi frowned . The whole thing was bewildering .
Following the smell of blood, Meng Qi found another two coffins where there were two dead men . One looked like a worker, while the other looked like the shopkeeper . Both of them were penetrated in the middle of her eyebrows by a sword .
"The wound is narrow but deep . According to the swift and fierce swordmanship, he must be a highly skilled swordsman . . . " Meng Qi judged the characteristics of the murderer's Kung Fu based on the wounds . However, there weren't any besides the between the eyebrows .
He turned the counter, only to find the account book had been burned to ashes . No purchase record was left .
"Did I just lose the clue?" Meng Qi gritted his teeth and crouched down to check the bodies . He was making a final effort .
"Huh?" Meng Qi found something abnormal . The two workers' mouths were both half open, while the shopkeeper's mouth was firmly shut, his face filled with panic .
Meng Qi pried the shopkeeper's mouth slightly open and found a paper ball in it .
The paper ball was soaked in saliva . Meng Qi barely unfolded the paper . It turned out to be a page of the burnt account book . It seemed that the shopkeeper had made a mistake while recording the taels . He was too indolent to correct it, so he just tore it off and kneaded it into a ball . Somehow, he swallowed it later .
Meng Qi roughly imagined what took place . One worker was killed, the other was trying to escape and ask for help . The murderer was so strong that the shopkeeper realized he could not get away . He was frightened and his legs went limp, causing him to fall to the ground next to a dustpan . He was ready to perish together . Seeing the paper ball, he stuffed it into his mouth and closed it tightly .
The notes in the paper had grown faint . Meng Qi could hardly recognize a few words .
Meng Qi roughly imagined what took place . One worker was killed, the other was trying to escape and ask for help . The murderer was so strong that the shopkeeper realized he could not get away . He was frightened and his legs went limp, causing him to fall to the ground next to a dustpan . He was ready to perish together . Seeing the paper ball, he stuffed it into his mouth and closed it tightly .
The notes in the paper had grown faint . Meng Qi could hardly recognize a few words .
" . . . Flower-viewing Garden . . . Jiang Tabo . . . ordered a nanmu coffin . . . sent to . . . "
"Flower-viewing Garden . . . Jiang Tabo . . . " Meng Qi repeated . He took back the paper ball and cleaned up the tracks he had left . Then he left the shop and headed for Flower-viewing Garden . It was a relatively well-known inn in Maoling .
Not long after, Meng Qi managed to sneak into Flower-viewing Garden . He tortured a worker and was informed that Jiang Tabo lived alone in the Gentle Breeze Villa, and that many people from the Martial Artists Community visited him every now and then .
Meng Qi was bold because of his superb skills . He eased into Gentle Breeze Villa .
He sensed an absence of breath in the wing room .
"Did Jiang Tabo already escape?"
Meng Qi opened the window softly and jumped into the room . Before he reached the ground, he had seen the scene inside .
A young man lay against the side of the bed on the floor . His eyes wide with fear and a long wound going down his chest and abdomen .
He had the signature hypertropia and broom-like eyebrows . He looked exactly like Jiang Tabo .
"Even he was killed?" Meng Qi felt something abnormal .
The wound was scorched, as if it had been struck by lightning . Hence the smell of blood being wiped away . That was why Meng Qi did not smell it .
"From the looks of it, the wound seems to have been left by me . "
Meng Qi tensed up . He rushed out of the window, planning to leave first .
At that moment, a stone flew in from the outside and hit the stage . Bang! Although it was not lound, it echoed far into the serenity of night .
Meng Qi reached the maximum of his Energy, Qi and Spirit . He attempted to brandish his sword towards the caster .
A figure came in . As soon as he saw Meng Qi, he blocked his way .
He was a young man with dark skin and thick eyebrows in ordinary clothes . He looked like a farmer . His actions suited the surroundings well .
The young man's eyesight was sharp . As soon as he saw the dead body beside the bed through the window, his scowl deepened and uncontrollable anger and hatred flared up within him .
The casino was ablaze, bathed in red light from numerous lamps . Avaricious gamblers were respectively rolling dice, playing Pai Gow and mahjong . Some of them were excited, some depressed, and some were miserable as before . Witnessing this scene, Meng Qi felt he had had a dream in which there was an assassination . However, upon awakening there was no sign of it . He was still in the casino . This assassin hid his breath and concealed his intent to kill better than anyone Meng Qi had met . Before he took action, he acted as a completely ordinary person . Qiu Fei must have discovered me . Thats why he lured me into that overcrowded casino, to find an opportunity to kill me . But his strength is at the level of Half-step Exterior Scenery . It would be easier for him to kill me in a deserted place outside of town . Or someone that he is meeting especially dispatched him to terminate followers . An idea popped in Meng Qis head . He held a sword in his right hand and walked through the crowd right up to the extrance of the VIP room . Supernatural Power of Shaking Heaven and Hitting Earth Here, there were a series of courtyards with their own features . It was also less boisterous, so many gentlemen preferred to come here for fun . Meng Qi lost track of Qiu Fei . He could not spy on every VIP room as that would irritate some influential figures . He could only hide himself at the entrance . When a dealer or a hostess passed by, he would ask them by using the Transformation Strategy mixed with a little Supernatural Power of Shaking Heaven and Hitting Earth . Ive never met him . Hes not in my VIP room . There are no new customers here . Meng Qi was confused by their answers . He had clearly seen Qiu Fei walk into a VIP room . Where the hell is he? After poking around for a while, Meng Qi was sure he had lost him . Now he realized that the assassin was surely out to prevent or eliminate those tracking Qiu Fei . Why did he entrust such a strong assassin with such a simple task? Meng Qi wondered . Then, he left Skyfirst No . 1 Casino and returned to his place of dwelling . Bearing the assassination in mind, he opened the door cautiously to prevent his own murder . As soon as the door was opened, his pupils contracted violently . In the middle of the yard stood something that was not there before . It was a coffin! It was a jet black coffin to be exact! The coffin, covered by the pale moonlight, was extremely gloomy, just horrid Who sent me the coffin? Meng Qi was both startled and infuriated . He pulled out Heaven Inflicted Pain and moved slowly towards the coffin . He forced himself to calm down . The coffin and its surroundings were lifeless . There was no sense of flbeingat all . Plerhaps there is no ambush afterall . Meng Qi slashed the Heaven Inflicted Pain . The lid fell to the ground . There was nothing in it except for a small wood carving . It was the size of a palm carved into the figure of a man with a tormented expression . Its upper lip was attached with a slip of paper covering its body . There were four words on it . Killing Blade Su Meng . What a despicable man! Meng Qi was not frightened . He contemplated with a snort . Is this a challenge of war? Or it is supposed to shake me up? He didnt believe Qing Yu would do it, no matter how mean he was . The Xuan Tian Sect would be shamed if people knew that Qing Yu had played such a detestable trick . The Denomination of Heaven Sovereign was by no means shameless . So, am I being targeted or what? Who is it? And whose forces are they? What do they want? Meng Qi was not that easy to bully, nor was he an amiable yes-man . After he had searched the yard carefully and found nothing valuable, he put away the carving and the note . Then he knocked on his neighbors door . After a while, his neighbor walked to the door in a coat . The man was sleepy, yawning with his eyes half closed . He stuck his head out of the cracked door and looked outside defensively in case it was a robber . Sorry to bother you . I have to ask you something . Meng Qi said directly . He had already removed the changes caused by Eight Nine Mysteries and washed his face . The old man was startled at first, then he opened the door . Anxious he curiously asked, Master Su, are you asking about the coffin in your yard? Yes . Meng Qi nodded calmly . The old mans lips twitched . Master Su, after you left, some people sent the coffin . You werent home, so they especially turned to Senior Ye for help . They said you had bought the coffin for yourself . Senior Ye thought you were challenging a master, so he believed them and let them in . Senior Ye was Meng Qis landlord . Do you know who they are? Meng Qi asked with a frown . The neighbor shook his head . They are strangers . They were dressed like workers in a coffin shop . Im sure its not one nearby . Coffin shop . They must have been instructed by someone else . Meng Qi was confident of himself . As long as he found the shop, he would be able to figure out the appearance of the buyer by asking the shopkeeper and staff . Do you remember anything distinct about their appearance? Meng Qi continued to ask . The old man concentrated for a moment . Then, he suddenly opened his mouth . Ah! One worker has a black mole at the corner of his mouth . It was quite discernible . After several other questions, Meng Qi sincerely expressed his gratitude . As he left, he was trying to come up with a plan . Theres no curfew in Maoling . Many alcoholics, gamblers and bellmen come and go afterhours . There should have been a lot of people that saw them carrying the coffin . Meng Qi was determined to investigate as soon as possible . Taking time into consideration, Meng Qi decided to find the bellman who might have seen the workers first . He easily found him by asking other bellmen . I remember the coffin clearly . Who wouldnt be afraid seeing a coffin at midnight? The bellman trembled a bit when recalling the scene . Although he was far away from it, he was impressed . He had thought it was cadaverization . Meng Qi was glad that there was a clue . Do you know where they are from? Or do you know which shop they work for? Meng Qi asked with restrained joy . Another bellman thought for a while and said uncertainly, They were from the North Street . There is a coffin shop there . Meng Qi got excited . After figuring out the specific location, he rushed there . There were few pedestrians on the way . The coffin shop closed in the dark of night . Meng Qi did not waste any time . He climbed over the wall and jumped into the yard . He had planned to interrogate them one by one by toture . Suddenly, the smell of blood entered his nose . Though nervous, he followed the smell to the back door of the shop . The door was half closed . Meng Qi pushed it slightly, and it fell against the wall . He stepped into the yard discreetly, only to see many rows of black coffins . It was weird and gruesome . Meng Qi took a deep breath . He tried to distinguish where the smell was coming from . He approached a coffin . With Heaven Inflicted Pain poised as well as the Meridian, he uncovered the coffin . The lid fell to the ground . The scene inside the coffin was a sight to see . In the coffin was a dead man whose eyes were wide with panic . A black mole was at the corner of his mouth . Cause of death? Penetrated by a sword mid-brow . He was killed . Meng Qi frowned . The whole thing was bewildering . Following the smell of blood, Meng Qi found another two coffins where there were two dead men . One looked like a worker, while the other looked like the shopkeeper . Both of them were penetrated in the middle of her eyebrows by a sword . The wound is narrow but deep . According to the swift and fierce swordmanship, he must be a highly skilled swordsman . Meng Qi judged the characteristics of the murderers Kung Fu based on the wounds . However, there werent any besides the between the eyebrows . He turned the counter, only to find the account book had been burned to ashes . No purchase record was left . Did I just lose the clue? Meng Qi gritted his teeth and crouched down to check the bodies . He was making a final effort . Huh? Meng Qi found something abnormal . The two workers mouths were both half open, while the shopkeepers mouth was firmly shut, his face filled with panic . Meng Qi pried the shopkeepers mouth slightly open and found a paper ball in it . The paper ball was soaked in saliva . Meng Qi barely unfolded the paper . It turned out to be a page of the burnt account book . It seemed that the shopkeeper had made a mistake while recording the taels . He was too indolent to correct it, so he just tore it off and kneaded it into a ball . Somehow, he swallowed it later . Meng Qi roughly imagined what took place . One worker was killed, the other was trying to escape and ask for help . The murderer was so strong that the shopkeeper realized he could not get away . He was frightened and his legs went limp, causing him to fall to the ground next to a dustpan . He was ready to perish together . Seeing the paper ball, he stuffed it into his mouth and closed it tightly . The notes in the paper had grown faint . Meng Qi could hardly recognize a few words . . Flower-viewing Garden . Jiang Tabo . ordered a nanmu coffin . sent to . Flower-viewing Garden . Jiang Tabo . Meng Qi repeated . He took back the paper ball and cleaned up the tracks he had left . Then he left the shop and headed for Flower-viewing Garden . It was a relatively well-known inn in Maoling . Not long after, Meng Qi managed to sneak into Flower-viewing Garden . He tortured a worker and was informed that Jiang Tabo lived alone in the Gentle Breeze Villa, and that many people from the Martial Artists Community visited him every now and then . Meng Qi was bold because of his superb skills . He eased into Gentle Breeze Villa . He sensed an absence of breath in the wing room . Did Jiang Tabo already escape? Meng Qi opened the window softly and jumped into the room . Before he reached the ground, he had seen the scene inside . A young man lay against the side of the bed on the floor . His eyes wide with fear and a long wound going down his chest and abdomen . He had the signature hypertropia and broom-like eyebrows . He looked exactly like Jiang Tabo . Even he was killed? Meng Qi felt something abnormal . The wound was scorched, as if it had been struck by lightning . Hence the smell of blood being wiped away . That was why Meng Qi did not smell it . From the looks of it, the wound seems to have been left by me . Meng Qi tensed up . He rushed out of the window, planning to leave first . At that moment, a stone flew in from the outside and hit the stage . Bang! Although it was not lound, it echoed far into the serenity of night . Meng Qi reached the maximum of his Energy, Qi and Spirit . He attempted to brandish his sword towards the caster . A figure came in . As soon as he saw Meng Qi, he blocked his way . He was a young man with dark skin and thick eyebrows in ordinary clothes . He looked like a farmer . His actions suited the surroundings well . The young mans eyesight was sharp . As soon as he saw the dead body beside the bed through the window, his scowl deepened and uncontrollable anger and hatred flared up within him .
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