The faint candlelight flickered, and a series of red lights illuminated the slightly dark room completely.

The sound, like rolling dice, echoed in the room, as if wind had entered.

The rhythmic sound finally ceased.

An elderly silhouette, drenched in sweat, silently walked out of the room.

Du Bo quickly stepped forward, supporting the elder before him, and asked in a low voice.

"Uncle Niu, how was it? Did you manage to find that brat's location?"

The elderly silhouette wore a slight frown and spoke softly.

"The person you're looking for has entered the city."

"What!?"

Du Bo was shocked, having never expected Xu Guang to choose this time to enter the city.

"He..."

"I can only ascertain that he is currently in the city. The city is only so big, the rest is up to you to find him."

The elderly silhouette finished speaking and looked at Du Bo meaningfully.

"The debt I owe your Du family is cleared from now on."

Du Bo was taken aback, but in the end could only nod vigorously.

The man, named Niu Guanghai, was the Sacrificial Officer of the Great Zhou two hundred years ago. He had participated in the Crown Prince Rongze's failed coup alongside Dragon Gate, and faked his death, hiding with the help of the Du family.

This debt had been benefiting the Du family for two hundred years.

Niu Guanghai was somewhat tired. He specialized in the rare art of Six Divination in Feng Shui, known for its accuracy, but over the years, working for the Du family, he had expended nearly a century of his lifespan.

He was merely a Single Divine Technique Alien Body of the Fourth Grade, with a slim chance of breaking into the Third Grade Celestial Sea, and with only a hundred good years left, he wanted to sever ties with the Du family.

Du Bo was somewhat annoyed with Niu Guanghai's actions but in the end said nothing.

The Du family's influence in Dragon Gate was strong, but that was many years ago. Now, besides him, there was only one Dual Divine Techniques Alien Body ancestor left, barely surviving.

What a pity...

Peng'er was originally expected to break through to the Fourth Grade, much was expected of him. From a young age, he was favored by many Dragon Veins in Dragon Gate; even the ancestor remarked he had the Dragon aspect.

But this hope for the Du family's future was crushed by Xu Guang's hand.

He cannot forgive; he's willing to give up everything to slay Xu Guang.

This is not just a personal vendetta, he hasn't reached Fourth Grade yet and can still have children. The real goal is to show the Du family's strength.

He must do so; otherwise, the Du family would be unable to hold their head high in Dragon Gate.

Even his position as the head of the second Tribulation Institute was unstable, he needed to do something.

No force is without internal discord; if he cannot avenge the gifted children of the Du family, once the ancestor perishes, he will be unable to sustain the Du family in Dragon Gate, and their years of struggle will dissipate into nothingness.

Today's issue with Niu Guanghai was an illustration of this.

Sects, like these powers, crumble due to internal smaller families, and Dragon Gate's rot is the same.

How many parasites have such an eight-hundred-year sect nurtured within? Who knows?

"Xu Guang, could it be you're here for the Thirty-Six Great Bandits' auction?"

A grim smile flashed across Du Bo's face.

"Don't let me find you! I swear, you'll... suffer a miserable death!"

...

Within the Lanshan gathering place, there was an undercurrent of activity recently.

Rumor had it the Thirty-Six Great Bandits were collaborating with the Jiang Family to auction off treasures collected over the years at the city's Bell Tower, including pill formulas and secret treasuries...

What shocked everyone was.

The final auction item was a specific method for condensing the Desert Smoke Body, a Three Divine Abilities Body worthy of being called a Divine Body.

Once such an Alien Body is condensed, it almost means one foot into the Third Grade Celestial Sea Realm.

The auction news naturally attracted Xu Guang.

Besides being interested in the Secret Technique for condensing the Alien Body, he was more interested in one of the pill formulas.

It was labeled as the Daoist Golden Core Fragment!

Though his cultivation had broken through, the speed of his Gold Attribute condensation was already fast, but in the True Realm, one never has too much of the Gold Attribute, exploring Alien Bodies is a long and arduous process.

He had already planned to leave Zouchuan Dao and hide elsewhere, where elixirs would naturally be scarce. If he could obtain that fragment, coupled with his current profession as a Qi Refiner, he might truly deduce the complete Pill Formula for the Golden Core.

...

"Slut! You bitch, do you know who resides inside? Do you think an Outer Sect identity can protect you?"

A sharp voice erupted from the Bell Tower's second floor.

A sharp-featured woman was seen grabbing Chun Yuniang by the arm, quietly berating her by the railing outside.

Chun Yuniang seemed resigned, merely listening silently, biting her lips, and saying nothing.

She never voluntarily mentioned her identity, but ever since those who brought her to Yongzhou sent her to Guanghan Hall, it seemed everyone in the Outer Sect knew who she was.

All these years, for her sister's sake, she had been enduring.

The two sisters never had a surname, relying on each other to survive, and three years ago, she had the fortune to return to Changsong Prefecture, but her sister had already died.

Hence, she changed her surname to Chun.

"Enough!"

A cold voice came, accompanied by the sound of a cane tapping the ground.

A silver-haired woman approached, "Zhu Biyun, I'm not dead yet!"

The woman spotted the elderly woman and quickly bowed, "Greetings, Elder An."

"What's going on?"

Zhu Biyun glared at Chun Yuniang, her eyes full of contempt.

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