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Eighth Peak.
Inside a side hall pavilion somewhere.
Hu Xiaonan, the female, treated Ma Qiucheng, the male, for his injuries.
Yang Che sat opposite them, leisurely sipping tea.
“Senior Brother Yang, thank you for saving our lives.”
Hu Xiaonan bowed gracefully to Yang Che.
Yang Che did not waste words and directly asked, “Junior Sister Hu, Junior Brother Ma, how much do you know about Jiang Wu?”
Hu Xiaonan was stunned, wondering why Senior Brother Yang suddenly asked about Jiang Wu.
Ma Qiucheng immediately said, “Jiang Wu used to be one of the Eighth Peak’s provisional Disciples. He was arrogant and looked down on others. As for Jian Li, who almost killed us just now, it is said she knows some unknown, wonderfully mysterious bedroom arts. Jiang Wu was the one who became completely infatuated with Jian Li after tasting her charms.”
Yang Che’s face showed no expression upon hearing this.
He continued to ask, “Where exactly did Jiang Wu enter our Qing Jian Sect from, do either of you know?”
Hu Xiaonan and Ma Qiucheng exchanged glances, their confusion growing deeper.
However, Ma Qiucheng quickly said, “It is said he came from a Cultivation Family in the southern part of our Jiang Country. If my guess is not wrong, it should be the famous Jiang Family of ‘Jiang Huo City’.”
“Oh? Junior Brother Ma, what makes you so sure?”
Yang Che remained calm, taking a sip of his tea.
Ma Qiucheng said, “I have a good friend who has a good relationship with Jiang Wu. They once went out for an experience together, and Jiang Wu inadvertently revealed it.”
Yang Che nodded, a thoughtful look flashing in his eyes.
Seeing Yang Che remain silent, Ma Qiucheng and Hu Xiaonan also did not dare to speak casually.
After a while, Yang Che suddenly asked again, “Why did Jian Li want to kill you? It’s unlikely she would harbor murderous intent just for a few bad words, isn’t it? And her timing of appearance was also a bit suspicious.”
Upon hearing this, a hint of hatred immediately appeared on Hu Xiaonan’s face, and she quickly said, “Senior Brother Yang, you do not know. This Jian Li, ever since she went out for a long period of time and returned to the Sect, had already successfully established Foundation Establishment.
Since then, her temperament became even more unpredictable than before. I learned that she still had a Foundation Establishment Pill in her possession, so I thought of exchanging for it and then taking it to try and break through to Foundation Establishment. I did not expect that besides demanding a lot of Spirit Stones, she also wanted the ‘Face-Setting Pill’ I had.
I did not agree to her, and she might have been thinking about it all along, secretly following us.”
“So that’s how it is.”
Yang Che stood up, as if he had thought of something, and then said, “Why do you two not report her attempt to kill you to the Sect?”
Hu Xiaonan said bitterly, “It’s useless. She has already become an official Disciple of the Eighth Peak. And our status as provisional Disciples is far inferior. With any random excuse she gives, the Sect will not punish her.”
After speaking, Hu Xiaonan remembered that this Senior Brother Yang in front of her was also an official Disciple of the main peak, and immediately stopped speaking, not daring to continue.
Yang Che was now implicitly certain that Jiang Wu, whom he had killed, was indeed a member of the Jiang Family of Jiang Huo City.
But how exactly did the Jiang Family know about this matter?
Yang Che fell into deep thought.
Even if a Nascent Soul Stage powerful Cultivator had planted a secret technique imprint within Jiang Wu’s body, given such a long distance, not to mention the effectiveness of this secret technique.
Based on his investigation, the bounty the Jiang Family placed on him was less than two years old.
If such a secret technique truly existed, the Jiang Family would have long since come to Qing Jian Sect to investigate the truth, or even demand an explanation.
And there would be no need to wait two years later to place a bounty on him.
So there must be some ‘truth’ in this that he did not know.
“Nearly two years ago, did I expose something?” Yang Che thought to himself.
He had a habit.
After obtaining another Cultivator’s Storage Pouch, he would not open it immediately, but deliberately wait for a period of time before opening it.
And coincidentally, Yang Che had completely forgotten about Jiang Wu’s Storage Pouch, and had not opened it until now.
Therefore, Yang Che could be certain that it was absolutely not an issue with the items inside Jiang Wu’s Storage Pouch.
Although a Storage Pouch was only the lowest-grade spatial Magical Artifact, it was still a self-contained space. Unless one was a powerful Cultivator, it was impossible to remotely probe the internal space of another’s Storage Pouch.
Yang Che was someone who disliked trouble.
After thinking until his head hurt, he simply decided that the truth in between did not matter.
Anyway, he already had a death feud with the Jiang Family of Jiang Huo City, and the presence or absence of this intermediate truth would not change Yang Che’s revenge plan.
Thinking of this, Yang Che stood up.
Hu Xiaonan, however, handed Yang Che a brocade box and softly said, “I am ashamed, there is nothing presentable, so I will give this ‘Face-Setting Pill’ to Senior Brother as a small token of gratitude for saving my life.”
Yang Che did not stand on ceremony and directly accepted it.
At this moment, a hint of hesitation flashed in Ma Qiucheng’s eyes, but soon, as if he had made up his mind, he suddenly said,
“Senior Brother Yang, I, Ma Qiucheng, also have nothing presentable. However, I have a piece of information, which was originally my secret. Now that I tell Senior Brother Yang, as Junior Sister Hu said, consider it as a token of gratitude for Senior Brother’s life-saving grace.”
Saying this, Ma Qiucheng immediately used a sound transmission technique to tell Yang Che this ‘secret’.
After hearing it, Yang Che was somewhat surprised in his heart, but his face remained calm.
“Junior Brother Ma, recover well. I will take my leave.”
Yang Che was about to leave when Ma Qiucheng suddenly said again, “Oh, Senior Brother Yang, I heard from my friend that Jiang Wu seemed to have given Jian Li some kind of Jiang Family sensing jade slip before. Jian Li might have been lying earlier; she very likely knows where Jiang Wu is.”
Yang Che’s heart immediately trembled upon hearing this.
“Junior Brother Ma, can you confirm this information is true?”
Yang Che asked with a stern expression.
Ma Qiucheng immediately cupped his hands and said, “My friend indeed told me this. As for whether Jian Li actually has a Jiang Family sensing jade slip, I cannot be certain.”
Yang Che’s Divine Sense carefully swept over Ma Qiucheng.
Ma Qiucheng was inwardly horrified, but his facial expression was very calm.
After all, he was grateful to Yang Che for saving his and Hu Xiaonan’s lives, and not only was the ‘secret’ he had revealed earlier true, but this information about the Jiang Family jade slip was also truthfully conveyed, without any concealment.
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Yang Che left quickly.
After much thought, he quickly arrived at the Sword Gate Hall and checked almost all the Sect Disciple departure records from the past two years.
Indeed, he found that two years ago, on the day he publicly accepted the challenge, Jian Li had a record of leaving Qing Jian Sect.
Yang Che pondered and deliberated for a full half an hour, then he made up his mind, and a chilling murderous intent suddenly flashed in his eyes.
Walking out of the Sword Gate Hall.
The dawn had already appeared in the sky.
Yang Che’s thoughts intertwined.
Although his first inclination was to secretly kill Jian Li, he felt a stifled anger in his chest that he could not suppress!
Ultimately, he decided to just kill his way to the Eighth Peak.
Now that the Old Ancestors of the various peaks were all absent, Yang Che also took the opportunity to see what kind of status and position a chief Disciple of a peak held within the Sect.
Even provisional Disciples from other peaks dared to scheme!
If things truly became unfeasible, he would just use his trump card and take the opportunity to leave the Sect.
Although he also knew there might be some oversights in his considerations, if he did not vent this anger in his chest, his heart would not be clear.
Having made up his mind, Yang Che, stepping on his Dunjxing Shuo, arrived at the Eighth Peak with an incredibly gloomy expression.
“Jian Li, get out here.”
A cold roar, falling upon the Eighth Peak, made everyone on the Eighth Peak feel Yang Che’s soaring rage.
“Who dares to run wild on my Eighth Peak?”
A young man riding a Flying Sword quickly flew out from a certain hall on the Eighth Peak.
“Tell Jian Li to get out.”
Yang Che was expressionless, and the cold murderous intent he released immediately made the young man controlling the sword shiver involuntarily.