519: Chapter 512 Night Exploration 519: Chapter 512 Night Exploration When it came to serious matters, Fang Qingshan couldn’t help but frown.
After a moment of silence, he sighed heavily and replied, “Hong Qingtian, that bastard, died at the worst possible moment.”
“We just arrived here and are completely unfamiliar with Jinshan City.”
“Without his cooperation, even with our people, when it comes time to take action, finding Sun Qingfeng and Zhao Junyi will depend on luck.”
“How can I take over his forces?”
“Inside this stronghold, only some house servants remain, and although they belong to our Bloodthirsty Sect, they are at the lowest level.”
“Many of these people are clueless about a lot of things.”
“I’ve been busy all day, and I’ve managed to take over less than a third of the people Hong Qingtian had placed everywhere.”
“The most important few pieces were all personally controlled by him; those house servants don’t know shit!”
With a helpless expression, he shrugged his shoulders and sighed deeply.
He really had no solution for the current situation.
After all, they had only arrived in Jinshan City last night.
“With the situation on your end, it will be very difficult for us to succeed in taking over Jinshan City.”
“This operation is a joint effort by the Bloodthirsty and Seven Killings Sects; success or not, we still have to proceed.”
“We can only do our best and leave the rest to fate.
We’ll take action tomorrow at dusk and storm into the City Lord Mansion.”
“As long as we succeed in killing both Sun Qingfeng and Zhao Junyi, even if the situation inside the city becomes chaotic, our action can still be considered half a success.”
“We need to keep Deng Qian alive.”
“In case of an accident, when the Sect seeks someone to blame, we can just throw him out there to take the fall…”
As he glanced over at Deng Qian, who was occasionally groaning while hanging upside down from the beam, Zheng Donglai hadn’t the slightest intent of evading him as he spoke openly.
“That’s how it should be!” Fang Qingshan nodded and agreed.
He had come to the dungeon primarily to remind Zheng Donglai to take it easy and not kill Deng Qian.
He hadn’t even mentioned this before Zheng Donglai had already brought it up.
It seemed both were on the same page about keeping Deng Qian to take the blame.
Chen Residence, within the garden pavilion.
After returning from the Qianjie Gang headquarters and wandering around his own mansion, Chen Hai finally found Ye Qingqing here.
“After going out, did you confirm with the person you were looking for whether I really can cultivate the Bloodthirsty Sect’s cultivation technique?”
He had just sat down on the stone bench opposite her when Ye Qingqing, unable to hide her excitement, blurted out her question.
For her, the allure of cultivation was incomparable.
After all, she had the living example of Chen Hai right before her eyes.
She did not hope for immortality; merely to regain her youth and spend more years with Chen Hai was enough for her.
“Qingqing, when it comes to cultivation, haste does not bring success.”
“Regarding the drawing, after seeing it and sensing the scene of a mass of filthy blood sweeping across heaven and earth, in my experience, you shouldn’t have any problem cultivating the Bloodthirsty Sect’s cultivation technique.”
“Initially, I planned to find someone to confirm this and see if there was a method for you to enter the Bloodthirsty Sect for cultivation.”
“Unfortunately, that person encountered some problems and was taken away, and I don’t know his whereabouts.”
Chen Hai explained with a bitter smile.
While these words might disappoint Ye Qingqing, honesty was imperative between spouses.
Such a matter didn’t necessitate any secrecy.
“What are we to do if we can’t find the person?” Ye Qingqing, slightly stunned, sighed and asked.
“Across from our mansion, the hunchbacked elder who lived there was also from the Bloodthirsty Sect.”
“Regrettably, I had to kill him, and the items from last night were obtained from him.”
“When I came back just now, I saw quite a few strangers inside his residence.”
“These people should have some connection with the Bloodthirsty Sect.”
“After dark, I’ll go there and see if there’s anything to gain,”
Chen Hai hesitated for a moment before speaking.
His Nether Shadow Step, when used during the day, couldn’t conceal his form.
He would force his way into Qianjie Gang’s location simply because he knew that the place was filled with ordinary people who posed no threat to him.
But the unfamiliar faces at the Hong Mansion across from them, their actual strength remained unknown.
If he were to forcefully enter now, there would surely be a major confrontation.
Chen Hai was not afraid, but he felt that creating too much tension with them would adversely affect Ye Qingqing’s initiation into the Bloodthirsty Sect and cause some negative impact.
After pondering for a long while, he still felt it was more appropriate to go there after dark.
“Is that hunched old man across from us also from the Bloodthirsty Sect?”
“The one you said harbored ill intentions and whom you killed?”
I felt something was off in their mansion today.”
Ye Qingqing, utterly astonished, examined Chen Hai, her expression complex as she sighed.
“Mhm!” Chen Hai nodded.
“So, you needn’t worry about your cultivation.”
“As long as we can find someone from the Bloodthirsty Sect, there will surely be a way for you to join their sect.”
Hearing this, Qingqing breathed a sigh of relief.
Being just an ordinary person beside Chen Hai, she always felt like a burden.
While it remained to be seen whether she could help Chen Hai by stepping onto the path of cultivation,
at the very least, she felt she wouldn’t hold him back anymore.
During their casual conversation, time flew swiftly.
The sun set, and in the blink of an eye, it was night.
The night sky had held a crescent moon.
Tonight, the sky was covered with dark clouds that completely obscured the moonlight, as if the heavens and earth were veiled in black gauze.
The more obscure the night, the more Chen Hai’s Nether Shadow Step seemed like a fish in water.
Leaving his home, he came over to Hong Mansion, having already lurked around for a while.
It was just after nine at night.
At this hour, not a single person in Hong Mansion was asleep.
The original house servants were still patrolling outside, and the newly arrived strangers gathered in the mansion’s living room.
I didn’t know what they were discussing, but even at night, their discussions were fervent.
Not wanting a direct confrontation, seeing so many people gathered together, Chen Hai did not join the commotion.
His original plan in sneaking into Hong Mansion was to quietly capture a Bloodthirsty Sect member and inquire how they tested for talent!
“Laoliu, do you think our Lord Hong really died at the hands of Deng Qian?”
If Deng Qian had the capability, he wouldn’t have been captured without resistance by Elder Zheng and his men.”
Right after the elders left, I went down to the dungeon to see Deng Qian, and he looked really miserable.” Orıginal content can be found at 𝙣𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙡~𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚~𝙣𝙚𝙩
“Better him than us, right?”
In one corner, two house servants were whispering in secret.
At first, talking about Deng Qian’s current plight, they felt a bit of sympathy.
But as they continued, they started feeling fortunate and schadenfreude began to surface.
After all, during Lord Hong’s incident, these servants had been patrolling nearby.
If it weren’t for Deng Qian, who came forward to take the blame, people like Zheng Donglai and Fang Qingshan might have taken their anger out on them.
Just six or seven meters from where these two were talking, Chen Hai, looking for a suitable target to make his move, had just reached this spot.
With his Nether Shadow Step concealing his presence, these two house servants, lacking the skill, were completely unaware of Chen Hai.
“Deng Qian was brought here and locked up in the dungeon?”
Hearing their conversation, Chen Hai was suddenly stunned.