The Centurion stood at the foot of the horse, holding a bundle containing the Tang Sect's Hidden Weapon Mechanism for Ou Haofeng to inspect.

Ou Haofeng's eyes lit up when he saw it, and he immediately leaned slightly over the saddle, first taking the Tight Back and Low Head Crossbow in hand for a closer examination.

"Is this crossbow the same one that mysterious man sold at the Ghost Market in Qingfeng Town?" Ou Haofeng asked.

Although he hadn't seen the Tang Sect's Tight Back and Low Head Crossbow himself, people present that day had already spread the word about its design.

"According to their description, it should be," the Centurion nodded.

Ou Haofeng's eyes sparkled with interest. He put down the Tight Back and Low Head Crossbow and picked up the Mechanical Iron Arm for careful inspection.

Originally, the Ou Family and the Thunderbolt Army didn't know that the hidden weapons Su Que sold that day were from the Tang Sect.

It wasn't until Ou Haquan obtained the Tang Sect Crossbow and its Forging Diagram from Chasing Shadow that they found out.

"What a delicate mechanism!"

Ou Haofeng admired the Mechanical Iron Arm as he looked at it in detail.

Trying to infuse True Qi into the iron arm, he immediately sensed the mechanism inside.

He manipulated the mechanism by circulating his True Qi.

Instantly, two darts shot out rapidly from the dark holes of the arm!

With two "thunk" sounds, they embedded into two trees, bursting two clouds of wood chips.

And the force was not spent; they pierced through the trunks and lodged into two more trees behind.

"What powerful strength!"

Ou Haofeng marveled aloud, realizing there were other hidden weapon mechanisms in the arm. However, now was not the time to try them all.

He glanced at the mechanism's back in the bundle, resisted the urge to test it, and asked the Centurion:

"Have you seen anyone?"

The Centurion replied, "The soldiers are checking, but the war dogs only retrieved the bundle, without any other anomalies."

As he spoke, the sound of low barking was heard.

It was another pair of war dogs, carrying a bundle as they trotted over.

The Centurion went over and took the bundle from their mouths.

He opened it in front of Ou Haofeng to reveal some clothing and hidden weapons.

Ou Haofeng frowned upon seeing the clothes:

"Scholar's robes... could it be that this mysterious man sometimes poses as a scholar?"

"And this person is quite tall..."

He told the Centurion and the soldiers present to memorize the style and size of these clothes.

This would help in searching for the person upon returning to the city.

Then, he turned his gaze to the hidden weapons, his eyes gleaming brighter with rising excitement:

"This must be the hideout of that mysterious person. Check if there are any Forging Diagrams of these hidden weapons in the hideout!"

Saying so, he was about to pull the reins and head in the direction where the war dogs had come from.

But just then, the sound of hooves echoed, as a scouting soldier suddenly rode up, dismounted, and bowed under Ou Haofeng's horse:

"Centurion, I saw a fire in the woods about ten miles away..."

"That area is where Centurion Zhong's team is searching. I don't know what has happened..."

Ou Haofeng tightened the reins again, squeezing his legs against the horse's flanks.

The horse that was about to move forward suddenly stopped.

They had come here originally to search for Lu Sheng, the Zaiyang Sect believer.

Finding the mysterious person's hideout was just an unexpected gain.

After pondering for a moment, he had made his decision, and instructed:

"Gao Shan, Liu Ye, Wu Bai, first retrieve everything from the hideout."

"Then return and temporarily hide near the hideout, waiting."

"If the mysterious man returns, follow him."

"All of you take signal cannons; if discovered by the mysterious man, immediately fire the signal cannon."

Ordered by Ou Haofeng.

Gao Shan, Liu Ye, and Wu Bai were the three Centurions under his command, all Five Blood Martial Artists who had trained in the Combined Attack Technique.

From the information spread in Jiannan, he knew that the mysterious man was a Meridian Opening Realm Martial Artist.

However, since he had no Meridian Opening Realm Martial Artists under him, he could only temporarily leave three Centurions here.

After instructing the three Centurions, he continued:

"Zhou Long, Zhao Hu!"

"Yes!"

Two slightly lean men stepped forward to receive orders.

"You two, hurry back to Jiannan Prefecture City and report this matter to the General."

Commanded Ou Haofeng.

He thought, once he reported this to General Li Tunshan.

Li Tunshan would definitely arrange for a search for the mysterious man in the city and send Meridian Opening Realm experts to the hideout to ambush, replacing his three Centurions.

Zhou Long and Zhao Hu were elite scouts among Ou Haofeng's thousand-man elite unit.

After receiving the order, they immediately moved rapidly towards Jiannan Prefecture City's direction.

The two of them sped away for a while, as Ou Haofeng and his troops watched their figures quickly turn into small black dots, then gradually disappear.

One of them was Third Blood, the other Fourth Blood, but because they specialized in lightweight skills, their mastery in that was higher than most Five Blood Martial Artists.

So Ou Haofeng sent them to deliver the message.

Their speed was extremely fast, their figures blurring as they moved.

Suddenly.

With a sudden "bang," a sound rang out.

Their heads exploded like watermelons stuffed with firecrackers.

Headless bodies, due to inertia, continued to lunge forward.

But after a while of forward movement, they finally lost momentum and fell to the ground one after another.

Su Que, whose form was nearly vanishing due to high-speed movement, solidified beside them.

He flicked his right hand, flinging blood and brain matter off the True Qi onto the ground.

Then, he squatted down, swiftly searching over the two bodies, finding over twenty taels of broken silver.

"These two are really poor!"

Su Que murmured, then continued to move towards Ou Haofeng's troops.

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