The moonlight was hazy, casting shadows of the low houses and fences in the village onto the ground.
As soon as Li Yuan dismounted, he directly led people towards a farr’s house where an incident occurred.
Upon arriving at the entrance, Li Yuan glanced at the guide who was "equipped, with combat strength only at the Eighth Grade".
The guide was still pretending to be a peasant woman, weeping while wiping her tears with her sleeve, saying, "Sir, my husband was fine in the morning, but suddenly went mad and tried to kill with a knife..."
She cried while keeping her gaze locked on the door handle, inwardly feeling smug.
As long as the sir stepped inside, she could close the door, and her assassination mission would be complete.
See, it’s that simple for the guide to kill.
Li Yuan’s expression turned slightly serious as he glanced around, and the gang mbers behind him all kept their heads down, not daring to step forward.
Li Yuan didn’t insist, knowing that the three families had hired Sixth Grade Honored Guests precisely for these matters...
So, he strode forward and directly kicked the door.
Bam!!
With a loud bang, the door flew off and exploded in mid-air.
Li Yuan rushed in, shouting, "Who’s gone mad?!"
The guide waiting to close the door silently looked up at the missing door, her eyes wide open in prolonged silence...
Inside the house, Li Yuan lifted the man on the bed who was laughing and crying and examined him, saying, "He’s been poisoned!"
"Soone!"
"Arrest this woman and take her to prison for questioning! Clearly poisoned, yet claiming madness; this is treacherous!"
The guide looked at Li Yuan in disbelief.
She had imagined various scenarios, but not this one.
She hurriedly kneeled and cried pitifully, "Sir, I... I didn’t poison him... I really didn’t poison him..."
The gang mbers blankly watched the scene, but none dared confront a Sixth Grade, even if his actions seed baffling.
Thus, imdiately two mbers stepped out to apprehend the woman.
The woman quickly kneeled and cried, "Sir, sir, I... I really didn’t..."
Li Yuan said, "Whether you did or didn’t, we’ll find out after questioning."
Then he ignored the guide and went to check the other households with mad individuals and arrested a few others for interrogation to cover up his actions.
Unlike those of Spring Breeze Square before, these mad individuals were definitely poisoned.
A disciple proficient in poisons confird Li Yuan’s words after a brief investigation.
That disciple wrote several prescriptions and then departed with Li Yuan.
Li Yuan’s group arrived swiftly and left just as quickly.
The assassin guide was thrown into the East Spring County prison, awaiting interrogation.
This made the guide nervous.
There were no narrow doors in the prison, so she couldn’t enter Ghost Street in any way.
But because she was cursed, she couldn’t stay outside for long...
That night, the guide cried for help loudly.
But no one paid her any attention.
Li Yuan promptly returned to his mountain pavilion.
His neighbor nad "Chang Tianli" hadn’t returned yet.
He wandered around then tied [Thousand-Mile in a Line] onto a nearby Seventh Grade neighbor, and returned to Baihua Manor.
...
The next morning.
Li Yuan returned to his mountain pavilion.
He erged from the forest, yawning, and suddenly saw his neighbor nad "Chang Tianli".
The neighbor, with one arm missing, had bloodshot eyes full of hidden pain as he gazed into the distance.
Upon seeing Li Yuan, his eyes widened in shock, hoarsely asking, "You’re alright?"
Li Yuan shook his head.
Chang Tianli said, "I’m quitting this tributorship..."
Li Yuan asked, "Brother Chang, what happened?"
Chang Tianli did not answer but said, "Brother Mu, since we’ve been neighbors, let’s form a good bond.
I advise you... it’s better not to continue this tributorship.
If you keep doing it, sooner or later... sooner or later you’ll lose your life! I’m already pretty fortunate."
"Thank you for the warning, Brother Chang." Li Yuan politely saluted.
That afternoon, Chang Tianli left, and a disciple delivered "twenty taels of Blood Gold," the pay for the outing.
Li Yuan weighed the Blood Gold, muttering, "Money is hard to earn..."
Soon, it was ti for the second outing.
Li Yuan skillfully sent the Color-changing Demon Sparrow for reconnaissance, then spotted the guide instantly, staged a play... and received another twenty taels of Blood Gold.
Ti passed day by day...
In the blink of an eye, a month went by.
During this month, Li Yuan went on thirteen outings, earning a total of two hundred sixty taels of Blood Gold.
With this amount, he requested the supply diagrams from the three families as a tributor, then spent one hundred fifty taels of Blood Gold to purchase "materials for making a Sixth Grade Puppet."
The rchandise from the three families apparently connected to so great rchants, offering a wide and rich variety of goods.
As for a Sixth Grade Demon Beast heart for puppet power, there was no need to purchase one because... Tang Nian had a Demon Heart.
The Demon Heart could fully drive a Sixth Grade Puppet.
Moreover, the Demon Heart was different from a Sixth Grade Demon Beast heart.
If a Sixth Grade Demon Beast heart was put into the puppet, it had to succeed at once; otherwise, if taken out, it beca useless.
But the Demon Heart could be tried repeatedly.
Li Yuan planned to let Tang Nian practice first, and when skilled, then buy her a Sixth Grade Demon Beast heart.
...
That night, Li Yuan went to the Martial House and knocked on his adopted daughter’s door.
Seeing his adopted daughter in a white dress, with short hair, no longer charming, Li Yuan smiled and said, "Ti to co ho."
Tang Nian gave her foster father a sidelong glance and said, "In the middle of the night, you ca just to tell this?"
"To surprise you." Li Yuan smiled.
Then he pulled Tang Nian into the carriage, heading back to Baihua Manor.
Tang Nian returned to her familiar room, pushed open the door from her mory, and saw the tal materials piled inside.
She imdiately rushed over, caressing the materials with her hands, then turned around sweetly and said, "Thank you, foster father."
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