"This is it."
Jun Xie let out a sigh as he finished one more street.
'Northern side of the city doesn't have as many arrays as the Southern side.'
When Jun Xie had started marking the arrays tonight, he and Kai Yang encountered many arrays.
At first, there were going to be many more arrays than the southern side, which they had traced on the map the previous night. However, as it turned out, after Kai Yang suddenly left the group, things changed, and surprisingly, Jun Xie only encountered two arrays in the last seven streets.
'If this goes on, I will be able to trace all of the arrays by morning easily."
Jun Xie took a deep breath and moved out.
Suddenly, someone jumped right in front of him.
"What the hell!"
Jun Xie almost jumped from the sudden scare.
"It's me."
"Kai Yang?" Jun Xie frowned, "What the hell, dude, no need to jump like that!"
"You couldn't sense me?" Ye Tian Yun, who was this time under Yang Kai, aka Kai Yang's disguise, smiled while asking.
"I was concentrating on the array here." Jun Xie pointed at the wall, "Next time, be careful. I forgot what I was thinking, sigh."
"Ah, my bad." Ye Tian Yun replied, clearly not sorry about his actions.
Jun Xie slightly frowned and began concentrating on the array while asking, "Where have you been?"
"Went to meet an old friend." Ye Tian Yun gave a nonchalant reply.
Jun Xie paused for a moment and then nodded his head.
"How many more streets left?" Ye Tian Yun asked.
"We have covered one-third of the Southern region, and I think we will be done before sunrise."
"Alright."
Just then -
*boom!*
"What was that?" Jun Xie turned his head and frowned in the Southern Direction.
"Another explosion…" Ye Tian Yun also acted ignorantly.
Jun Xie frowned, "Did something happen there?"
"How am I supposed to know?" Ye Tian Yun shrugged.
"Didn't you just come from that direction?"
"I did, but that doesn't mean I know everything that's happening there."
"Should we check it out?" Jun Xie suggested.
Ye Tian Yun shrugged, "I don't know, up to you. Though if you really want to know, I would suggest we finish marking the arrays first. We will know what happened there once we get back to our tavern."
"Hmm, alright, let's finish this." Jun Xie nodded and marked the array on the map, "Let's get to the next street; we still have a lot to do."
Ye Tian Yun nodded and followed him behind.
…
Jia Lei CLan.
"Elder! Elder!" Jia Lei Shan suddenly came running to one of the guest courtyards.
"I know! Slow down now." the Elder replied from inside, "I am coming out."
Jia Lei Shan took a deep breath and waited for the Elder.
When the Elder came out, he couldn't help but be confused by Jia Lei Shan's act, especially with the traces of panic he saw in the latter's face.
"What happened?" the Elder frowned.
Jia Lei Shan gulped and said, "Elder, you didn't hear the explosion?"
"Explosion? Yeah, I did. Wait… don't tell me this one is related to us too." The Elder had a bad feeling about this.
Jia Lei Shan nodded his head, "I am afraid it's true, Elder. The explosion occurred in the Southern part of the city, and the worst part is - we have found two bodies."
"Two bodies? Why two? And who are they?" the Elder frowned.
"I couldn't confirm the identity of the second one. However, one of them is confirmed to be Senior Brother Yin Shan!"
"What!" The Elder was shocked to hear this, "How is that possible!? Did someone else interfere? What happened to Shu Xian? Was he able to kidnap Kai Yang?"
There were many questions; however, no one to answer them.
"Let's head to the place of incident, Elder." Jia Lei Shan suggested, "We will be able to understand more about the situation once we get there."
"Yes, let's go!" The Elder nodded and followed Jia Lei Shan.
After a few minutes, the duo reached the place of the explosion.
A huge crater had formed at the center of the road.
"Was there a huge fight? Any witnesses?" The Elder asked.
Jia Lei Shan pursed his lips, "Not that we know of, but I have already instructed the guards to begin the search operation. I will thoroughly investigate everything."
"Where are the corpses?" the Elder asked.
Jia Lei Shan glanced at a building and said, "This way, Elder."
Soon, both of them reached a building that was actually a spice shop.
The shopkeeper was standing at the gate, and in the shop were two charred corpses lying on the surface.
"This…" The Elder frowned at the burned corpses, "How did you confirm one of them is Yin Shan? His spatial ring?"
"Indeed, Elder. Senior Brother's spatial ring was in one of the corpse's fingers."
"What about the other corpse? Were there no spatial rings?" The Elder's frown deepened as he crouched down to observe the corpses.
"Yes, Elder. There was one. But I couldn't identify it." Jia Lei Shan sighed.
The Elder nodded his head and said, "Bring it here. I will see."
Jia Lei Shan nodded and glanced at the Shopkeeper; he said, "You heard the Elder. Why are you still here? Get the ring!"
"Yes, Master."
Within a few minutes, the shopkeeper returned from one of the rooms and handed over a spatial ring to the Elder.
"This…" Elder observed it for a second and shook his head, "This is useless. Due to the heat, the spatial array on it is destroyed, now we can't access the items inside. Even the ring is charred black - it's impossible to identify if it belongs to Shu Xian or not."
"Elder, there could be two possibilities here - either this is Yang Kai, and Shu Xian had run away with the Token Of Fate, or this is Shu Xian and both him and Senior Brother Yin Shan, were killed by Yang Kai!"
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A/n(6-aug): Only two chapters for today because I need to go out so i couldn't write more. Will resume 4ch/d from tomorrow. Please vote ps!