Li Weiping was originally just a rural youth from Huiming City, but his elder sister, Li Chun, was a Sorcerer.

Li Chun was discovered by the Shi Family as a "promising talent" and was taken as a disciple by an elder named Shi Zhiliao, who taught her techniques. She later married a Shi Family member named Shi Haotu.

The dowry sponsored by the Shi Family was quite substantial.

Due to his sister's connection, Li Weiping was also fortunate enough to become a Guest of Fate and had the chance to study techniques, but has yet to enter the entry level of cultivation. His brother-in-law, Shi Haotu, is in a similar situation and might be even worse off.

Shi Haotu had the opportunity to be exposed to the Micro-Entry Skill from a young age, yet after so many years, he hasn't mastered it. Thus, his status in the family isn't high.

Shi Haotu's greatest contribution to the Shi Family might be the marriage alliance; after marrying a Sorcerer, his situation in the family improved somewhat, though fortunately the couple seems to have a good relationship.

Shi Haotu had also advised his brother-in-law several times to avoid mingling with certain Sorcerers of the Shi Family, especially to stay away from Shi Haowu's group... but Li Weiping wouldn't listen.

In Li Weiping's eyes, his brother-in-law is just a waste. If he had received the same guidance and resources for cultivation from a young age as his brother-in-law, he believes he would have already become a formal Sorcerer!

Since he leaned on the big tree that is the Shi Family, Li Weiping naturally knew whose support was the strongest, so he became a lackey who ran errands for Young Master Wu.

Li Weiping never dreamed that he would receive such "great use" from Young Master Wu today. He had always wanted Young Master Wu to regard him highly, yet at this moment, he felt very uneasy.

Originally, he was only responsible for keeping a lookout at the airport and was supposed to notify as soon as Yang Lingxi arrived, without any other tasks. However, things took an unexpected turn, and he was the first to discover the most important situation.

Then he was sent by Young Master Wu to Zhu Pan Garden District to join other Shi family experts, and was then assigned a task alone.

Young Master Wu told him not to ride in the car with everyone else, but to leave by subway alone, taking the closest subway route all the way to the terminal station. After exiting, he was to ride a bike to a designated location in the outskirts...

He didn't know what this was about and questioned Young Master Wu, but Wu only told him to follow orders.

He rode his bike to the outskirts, and following the path designated by Young Master Wu, he ventured into increasingly desolate areas. Eventually, there were no streetlights, and it was pitch black all around, like being surrounded by ghostly shadows, only the starlight above illuminating the wild path.

This was a hilly mountainous area in the northern suburb of Nanhua City. Historically, it was the local villagers' woodlands and burial grounds. In recent decades, with urban expansion, several residential areas had been built along a few newly constructed roads nearby.

This hilly wilderness has been converted into a green space, named a forest park.

There was originally no forest in the mountains. Decades ago, almost all the trees here were cut down, leaving only some scrubland and wild grass. It looked from afar like the hills were covered in patches of nettle rash. It wasn't until two or three decades ago that reforestation began anew.

A lot of flowers and plants have been planted here, and due to the favorable climate and rainfall conditions, some trees have grown quite tall. Alongside the artificial trails, resting landscape structures have been constructed for people.

However, this is not considered a scenic spot, so there are no walls or chargeable entrances. The nearby residents occasionally come for a walk when the weather is good, but after nightfall, almost no one can be seen, and there is no lighting.

Li Weiping abandoned his bicycle and walked, in such an environment where a normal person would inexplicably feel scared, and he was inevitably on edge, vaguely feeling as though he had become bait in a fishing trap...

Just then, he received Young Master Wu's latest instructions, to his surprise — it was to take off his pants!

Li Weiping's mode of travel was not difficult for He Kao to track, given that he initially took the subway, a public mode of transportation, and his speed on the bike wouldn't be too fast after dark. Upon entering the forest park, he was on foot.

Little Pingtou's destination was remote enough and hidden enough. At night, ducking into the forest, it's really not easy to find from afar. If someone were secretly observing from a vantage point nearby, later followers would easily be exposed.

But He Kao didn't need to follow closely because he had placed a tracking transmitter on Li Weiping, which stopped at a corner of the forest park.

Surrounded by mountains on all sides, there was a trail passing through, with a pavilion by the roadside — likely Little Pingtou's rendezvous point with his associates. Why choose such a place? It must be due to its isolation and the lack of surveillance.

On careful observation of the terrain in this area, one would find there are three vantage points, each a small hill covered in trees, roughly distributed in an equilateral triangle, encapsulating this valley.

Northeast of the pavilion, in a ravine between two small hills, about two hundred meters from the pavilion, Shi Haowu waited quietly, holding a black, triangular banner.

He wore dark clothing, restrained his presence while concealed among the rocks within the bushes — nearly impossible to spot from the trail, yet he could clearly observe the movements around the trail and pavilion.

Li Weiping lingered for a while in the pavilion and then walked away sporting only his underpants. The three Shi family experts lurking in the surrounding hills, as well as the nearby Shi Haowu, all failed to spot a tracker.

It seems the other party is very clever, not adopting a tailing approach, as this terrain would easily expose oneself if ambushed. Hidden Moth might have circled around the wilderness and was observing in the shadows.

However, once someone enters this territory, no matter how concealed, they would be revealed once the Spirit Lock Array is activated.

Time passed very slowly; Shi Haowu waited for nearly an hour, feeling as if a whole night had gone by.

The wilderness under the night sky was actually not quiet; besides the sporadic sound of wind blowing through the vegetation, there were countless insect chirps. In the warm climate of the south, even winter sees quite a few insects, and more so in the wilderness.

If a sorcerer unleashed their perception, this environment could be quite noisy.

Could it be that Hidden Moth hasn't tracked us? Just as Shi Haowu was thinking this, Shi Haosheng suddenly sent a message: "It seems there is some commotion in the sky!"

The sky? Could Hidden Moth fly?

It's not far-fetched that a sorcerer could fly, the Shi Family has an ancestral flying treasure.

Shi Tianjing, of course, had a mentor back in the day, but that has nothing to do with the current Shi Family. His mentor gave him this treasure, which was handed down through generations from ancient ancestors and eventually ended up with the Shi Family.

Unfortunately, that treasure requires at least Tier Six cultivation to use. Shi Tianjing could fly with it back then, but the subsequent sorcerers of the Shi Family don't have such a skill.

Nowadays, Elder Kang does have Tier Six cultivation, but it's a pity his mentor Shi Gaoyu left this item with the Shi Family and passed it down to the next Patriarch Shi Zhizhai, becoming a family heirloom.

Shi Zhizhai is quite generous to his brother. Elder Kang borrows it whenever he needs to use it, but it's just a loan.

So, it's almost impossible for Hidden Moth to fly nowadays. Could Shi Haosheng have misunderstood? While Shi Haowu was puzzled, he suddenly heard a faint sound, like a wasp flapping its wings.

How could there be wasps flying around outside at this time of night? Shi Haowu soon discovered what it was; a drone was descending from the sky!

It was a black multi-rotor ultra-silent drone, with what seemed to be a grappling hook hanging underneath. The noise it made as it flew was minimal, only sounding a bit like a wasp when it got close.

He Kao isn't a traditional sorcerer; if it weren't for occasionally acquiring Hidden Moth's legacy, he'd be a major tech company's programmer, a seasoned tech aficionado, adept with both software and hardware, and skilled in the seventh-generation inherited woodwork.

Therefore, he's unaware of how disciples of magic sects have worked since ancient times. He does things completely differently from a traditional sorcerer's style. Clearly, there is a positioning transmitter, why bother tracking someone in the hills by foot when you can deploy a drone?

Just as Little Pingtou was far from Nanhua City District, and this area isn't a no-fly zone, a properly performing drone can fly quite high... Although He Kao's flying height posed no threat to airways, it did exceed regulations.

He turned off the indicator lights, and blind-controlled it outside of visual range based on terrain feedback from the camera, which is a basic skill He Kao had mastered.

Even in this situation, not even high-tier cultivators can detect it, because the flying altitude exceeds the distance of divine sense extension, and their attention couldn't possibly be skyward.

As for where the drone came from? Just make a trip to the secret base to fetch it, and it costs no time on the road!

When the drone descended to a certain altitude, high-tier cultivators with extremely sharp divine sense and perception immediately noticed it. The first to discover it was Shi Haosheng, code-named Two Mace.

Despite being a tier four artisan, Shi Haosheng was far more skilled than Shi Haowu, although he was further away, he discovered the drone before Shi Haowu who was closer.

Then the four people ambushed around were a bit dumbfounded; it turned out to be a drone. What should they do—act or not? They watched as the drone approached the pavilion, adjusted its angle, and shot out a quick illumination light.

Through this light, He Kao clearly saw on the screen that there was a stone table inside the pavilion, on the table were a pair of trousers and an envelope.

Those were the trousers Little Pingtou wore at the airport; it seemed that some master had already discovered the locator and deliberately led him here, leaving a letter.

At this moment, He Kao was not in the wild, but in a residential district near a forest park, sitting in the living room of a household. On the coffee table were a laptop and a phone, with the screen synced on a high-definition TV.

The houses in this district were nearly all sold, but few people lived here on weekdays. He Kao had picked this household because no one was home, seemingly someone only occasionally returned on weekends.

He Kao simultaneously launched two drones, multitasking was quite busy, each drone actually had two cameras, thus barely counting as four-thread operations.

In the dark, with limited visibility, He Kao even added infrared lenses, not expecting clear imaging, as long as he could discern rough pixel outlines.

Why did He Kao wait an hour before maneuvering the drone to descend to the pavilion? Because this drone had been hovering at high altitude observing, and it had just returned to swap a battery.

As for the other drone, it continued to track Little Pingtou. He Kao discovered that after Little Pingtou exited the forest park, he met with accomplices and took a car to a downtown hotel.

The hotel was surprisingly not far from the Zhu Pan Garden District, right by the river. When He Kao was heading from the airport to Yang Yuhua's house, he even passed by there—isn't this quite coincidental!

That area theoretically also doesn't allow unauthorized drone flights, so to be safe, He Kao didn't approach too closely for observation.

In the infrared lens, Little Pingtou moving on the ground was always quite conspicuous, but initially, He Kao didn't spot the four high-tier sorcerers ambushed around the pavilion.

On the one hand, it was due to the obstruction of trees, they chose very concealed positions; on the other hand, the abilities of sorcerers cannot be measured by common sense, if masters deliberately suppress their divine qi, even infrared signals are faint.

He Kao had experimented on himself, even in stealth mode, while there was still an infrared signal, it was markedly weaker than usual.

As the drone descended in altitude just now, someone might have been startled, or perhaps because they had been lurking too long, they relaxed a bit and finally revealed a flaw.

He Kao first spotted Shi Haowu hiding nearby, then discovered Three Pots on a distant hilltop. He couldn't see clearly, nor could he know the identity of the other party, but he could infer someone should be hiding there.

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