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When Qinchuan rushed to the room where Mo Ying was located, the scene before his eyes made Qinchuan's brow furrow.

"I've been careless! I should've thought of this earlier," Qinchuan muttered to himself.

He looked at the already stiff corpse with a darkened face—Mo Ying had long poisoned himself to death. Judging from the body, his death was about two hours past, which meant he probably had taken the poison at the moment he was captured by Red Luan.

As an assassin, the rule of thumb was to kill in one strike. If the first strike failed, immediate escape was the next step.

If captured, to prevent torture and forced confessions, assassins most often chose to take their own lives with poison.

Just now, when he captured Leng Yi, because he crippled the opponent with a single move and then sealed the opponent's acupoints and body with True Qi, the opponent had no chance to commit suicide.

Although Red Luan had lived long enough, he had rarely experienced the vicissitudes of the human world and did not understand the tricks involved, hence he was fooled into letting the old fellow take poison.

At the time, anger had clouded Qinchuan's mind, and he had also forgotten about this possibility.

Now that Mo Ying was dead, Qinchuan did not waste any more time on the body. He walked over and searched Mo Ying, taking a storage ring from him.

Qinchuan's Divine Sense probed into Mo Ying's storage ring, finding that Mysterious Crystals and Purple Mysterious Crystals took up most of the space.

Mysterious Crystals are important resources for cultivation and Qi training for both Cultivators and Martial Artists. Whether it's cultivation, Formation Setting, or purchasing items, one cannot do without Mysterious Crystals. An assassin with the cultivation level of a Great Saint would naturally possess a considerable number of Mysterious Crystals.

Qinchuan glanced at them and saw about five thousand Purple Mysterious Crystals and ten million Mysterious Crystals—a sum far exceeding that of ordinary Great Saints. This left Qinchuan clicking his tongue in amazement at the wealth-collecting skills of the assassin profession.

Beyond that, there were several manuals of advanced assassin techniques and Divine Skills, as well as a high-rank movement technique.

The movement technique was graceful yet stable, and within its stability was an agility that happened to suit Li Zhi, so Qinchuan directly tossed it to him.

Although Qinchuan disdained the technique, it was after all a movement technique found on a Great Saint and was comparable to a Heaven Rank Divine Skill, which made Li Zhi quite happy.

Besides a few mental methods, Mo Ying's storage ring contained a large number of Heavenly Treasures Materials. Qinchuan took a brief look and, although most of the Spiritual Medicines were quite valuable, none were ones that he needed.

He kept them anyway; even though he had no use for them at the moment, they might come in handy for Alchemy in the future.

Finally, Qinchuan's Divine Sense scanned over a Spirit Stone.

The stone seemed ordinary at first glance, but from the moment he saw it, he felt a sudden stirring in his heart as if something inside was drawing him.

An indescribable feeling!

The next moment, the Spirit Stone appeared in Qinchuan's palm, and as his Divine Sense delved into it, his brow furrowed.

Inside the Spirit Stone was only one sentence: "Qinchuan, beware of a Divine Level Fierce Beast protecting the way, be extremely cautious."

This sentence was clearly a warning meant for the two assassins, informing them in advance of the threats near Qinchuan. Judging by the traces of decay in the Dao patterns inscribed on the Spirit Stone, this sentence had been engraved a month ago.

No wonder Mo Ying had used an Illusion Transformation avatar earlier to draw Red Luan's attention. It turned out the opponent had already been aware of Red Luan's existence.

However, Qinchuan was now beset with a nagging doubt in his mind.

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The headquarters of the Shadow Hall was located in Flying Swallow City, the capital of the Great Yan Ancient Kingdom, but how did they come to know about the existence of the Red Luan a month ago?

The Red Luan had only followed Qinchuan after his visit to the Fen Tian Sect. Since then, he had never left the Burning Heaven Sect. Originally, those who knew about the existence of the Red Luan all had prohibitions implanted by Qinchuan, making it absolutely impossible for them to leak this information.

It was only after Qinchuan arrived in Tianqing City that he didn't conceal the presence of the Red Luan, but those people had only become aware of the Red Luan's existence in the past few days, definitely not a month ago to inform the people of the Shadow Hall.

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Qinchuan furrowed his brows and muttered to himself, "Could it be that there was one who slipped through the net in the Burning Heaven Sect and escaped?"

However, he immediately shook his head, "Impossible, the Minor Zhoutian Starry Sky Formation covered more than half of Fusang Mountain, leaving no one overlooked."

He had absolute confidence in his own strength and the power of the Great Formation.

Qinchuan also found a flaw in these words, they only mentioned that Qinchuan had a divine-level fierce beast guarding him but didn't expressly state it was the Red Luan.

Divine-level fierce beasts are divided into nine ranks, and the strength of divine beasts of different levels greatly varies. A first-rank divine beast's strength is between an early-stage Saint and an intermediate-stage Saint of the human race, a second-rank divine beast is equivalent to between a mid-stage Saint and a late-stage Saint, a third-rank is comparable to a peak-stage Saint, and so on, with the strongest ninth-rank divine beast being comparable to a Supreme Saint at its peak level within the human race.

Although Mo Ying had been warned early, he certainly only considered it a low-rank divine beast guarding Qinchuan.

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the two set up this stratagem for the sake of caution, not revealing their true forms right away but instead using an avatar to draw Qinchuan's divine beast, following which Leng Yi would seize the opportunity to deliver a fatal blow to Qinchuan.

What the two never anticipated was that the spirit stone referred to not a low-rank divine beast, but the Red Luan that exceeded the ninth-rank divine beasts, nor did they foresee that Qinchuan, with his Spirit Martial fifth-rank realm, would shatter Leng Yi, at the peak of Spirit Martial Nine Layers, with a single punch, causing both to perish.

"Perhaps I must personally go to the Shadow Hall in search of this answer."

Just as he withdrew his Divine Sense, the next moment, the spirit stone suddenly underwent a strange change.

The inscribed phrase within the spirit stone, "Qinchuan, has a divine-level fierce beast guarding him, be extremely careful," gradually transformed as if rippling like water, reshuffling.

The words broke down before Qinchuan's eyes, becoming disorganized and akin to short, rough sticks.

But soon after, those sticks began to change again, forming new characters.

Before long, that line of text astonishingly transformed into a completely new phrase.

"Qinchuan, congratulations!"

"Congratulations? What for?" Qinchuan looked at the phrase within the spirit stone, puzzled by its baseless proclamation.

However, Qinchuan was more astonished and dubious of their methods—the spirit stone was a special type of crystal stone, compatible with the human race's Divine Sense because of the principles it contained, therefore one could use Divine Sense to leave traces and inscriptions within it.

However, the process of leaving these inscriptions was irreversible, meaning that once characters were etched into the spirit stone, they could not be erased and re-engraved.

The recent reformation of the text within the spirit stone clearly surpassed Qinchuan's understanding.

The spirit stone seemed to hear Qinchuan's words, and in the next moment, the text transformed again, arranging into a new sentence.

When Qinchuan made out the new phrase, his pupils suddenly contracted, his body hair stood on end in an instant, and an intense sense of danger welled up from the depths of his heart.

For the text in the spirit stone read: "Congratulations on awakening the Innate Essence!"