Chapter 158: Chapter 157: Sword Heart’s Legacy (Part 4)_1
So soon?
And judging by Jia Yi’s tone, the scene must have been grueso.
The news brought by Jia Yi clearly took Lanaia by surprise.
After exchanging a glance with Fu Qian, both tacitly chose not to ntion the content of their previous conversation.
“Has there been any news from the Academy?”
Unfortunately, Jia Yi hadn’t forgotten and directly stared at the two, asking.
“Not for the ti being.”
Lanaia shook her head slightly, adding no further details.
They couldn’t entirely rule it out yet, but it was now even less possible to disclose the speculations about Li Weixuan to the Yuan Clan.
“Take us to the scene.”
She didn’t look at Jia Yi and spoke in an indisputable tone.
One could tell that the Academy had an imposing reputation, and Jia Yi was clearly dissatisfied, but after hesitating, he didn’t say anything more.
…
“It’s the handiwork of the sa person.”
In the cluttered warehouse, Lanaia whispered to Fu Qian.
She was clearly quite professional, having quickly scanned the scene and imdiately drawn this conclusion.
No wonder she was the head of the Academy Disciplinary Departnt!
Fu Qian had so understanding from before and knew that based on different focuses, the Academy’s instructors could be roughly divided into two categories – research and combat.
Research-oriented ones primarily focused on the study of transcendent powers and the training of students, while combat-oriented ones emphasized refining themselves and handling more fieldwork.
Without a doubt, Lanaia was among the outstanding ones.
“Indeed.”
Fu Qian agreed with her assessnt.
The second warehouse at hand mirrored the scene he had encountered previously almost exactly.
The perpetrator had obviously just left, as the bodies hadn’t yet been collected.
Under the crisscrossed wounds, the blood was still fresh and hadn’t solidified.
From the number of bodies, it was clear that the Yuan Clan had indeed added more people, but it was to no avail.
“At least Fifth Phase strength, the Sword Intent extrely fierce,” Lanaia sighed softly.
“It’s almost as if the killer was slaughtering animals.”
“Even within the Academy, there aren’t many with such strength, how could this…”
“From receiving the alarm to losing contact, it was only a matter of minutes.”
Jia Yi, standing by, wore an extrely grim expression, finding it quite difficult to explain the consecutive incidents.
“The items are gone again?”
Fu Qian looked inside and noticed the emptiness.
“Yes, just like the last warehouse, most of it was transcendent materials.”
“The Academy wouldn’t lack cultivation resources…”
Lanaia looked at Fu Qian, implying that if it were soone from the Academy, there should be no motive to kill for loot.
Especially Li Weixuan!
By now, almost everyone agreed that if he could ascend to a demigod, he would surely beco the next Director of the Academy.
Would he kill for loot for the lack of cultivation materials? The very suggestion was laughable.
But such terrifying strength… inevitably made people think of him.
Jia Yi’s subordinates had already retrieved the surveillance footage by this ti.
However, the useful content this ti was even shorter, having been destroyed almost imdiately.
The skill of the perpetrator was evidently becoming more refined, leaving behind no traceable clues.
“With such tragedies occurring in succession, the situation is worse than anticipated.”
Having completed a full survey, Lanaia’s expression suddenly turned serious as she said to Fu Qian,
“You go back and find Director Li to report the situation here.”
Before Fu Qian could say anything, she patted his shoulder again.
“Don’t worry, I’ll keep tracking this all the way. You just hurry back as soon as you can,” she added.
“Understood!”
Fu Qian nodded, without saying much.
Obviously, there weren’t any valuable clues here; it made no sense for both of them to stay.
Lanaia purposely ntioned going to report to Li Weixuan, clearly intending to have him confirm Li’s whereabouts.
If they could verify that Li Weixuan had been at the Academy all this ti, then once everyone else had been cleared of suspicion, the rest would be easy to deal with, or they could even throw in the towel directly.
And if, by chance, Li was involved, at least the Academy would be forewarned.
Seeing Fu Qian leave promptly and decisively, Jia Yi hesitated, worried that the Academy might be withholding so information.
Unfortunately, Lanaia’s statent was watertight, and he really couldn’t raise any objections.
…
He made his way back to the Academy along the sa route.
Instead of heading straight to his target, Fu Qian, using the information on his identity card, first located the Heaven’s Comncent Institute.
The reason was simple: he had no concept of the Academy’s layout.
Even if he wanted to disturb Li Weixuan, at the very least he needed to know where Li was in seclusion.
The core area of the Heaven’s Comncent Institute was an exceptionally grand three-story building.
And almost the mont he entered, Fu Qian detected sothing abnormal.
This sll!
Fu Qian sniffed the thick, pungent odor in the air, sowhat surprised.
For so reason, it even felt familiar.
As he walked briskly, Fu Qian searched his mories.
A few seconds later, he finally rembered where he had encountered the sll before—the underground storage area of the Shangjing Night Watchn Base, that special corpse.
Because the Thorn Blood had been removed, the corpse had mutated, stinking up the entire storage area and forcing Yuan Shan to personally supervise down there.
The Night Watchman hadn’t disposed of it, but had the Heaven’s Comncent Institute taken it for scientific research?
Those people really had no taboos; no wonder their reputation was poor.
Fu Qian recalled the earnest admonitions from Lanaia he had heard on the way.
Though officially a unified institution, the Academy was actually a collective of several organizations with not so tight connections, each with its own philosophy and characteristics.
Unlike the Swordsmanship Departnt, which advocated Sword Dao cultivation, the Heaven’s Comncent Institute, as the na suggests, was almost entirely composed of individuals who had directly awakened their powers, much like Wen Li.
As a result, the people of Heaven’s Comncent had little reverence for Transcendent powers, rather viewing the human body as a fascinating construct.
They were not only keen on researching the origins of special abilities but even attempted to decode and replicate them.
This philosophy was completely different from that of the Swordsmanship Departnt, which places great emphasis on spiritual and physical cultivation, hence the usual discord between them.
Under such circumstances, was it not asking for trouble to mingle with the people of the Sword Pavilion?
They regarded cultivation as akin to the heavenly path; would they tolerate you treating them like experintal subjects?
Rembering Lanaia’s words, Fu Qian quickly located his office and went through the necessary docunts.
These included, but were not limited to, the layout of the Swordsmanship Departnt, the Sword Pavilion’s open schedule, and so on.
It must be said, the task Lanaia had given him was sowhat troubleso.
After all, the Academy’s investigation had officially concluded that Li Weixuan was “in secluded cultivation and had not responded.”
Approaching him now, claiming to clear his na required a look inside, was likely to be futile.
However, both Lanaia’s request and his own mission warranted verification.
Moreover, the sooner the better.
Fortunately, on his way, Fu Qian had already co up with an idea.
After confirming that the Sword Pavilion was still open, he made so quick preparations and set out.
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