Loyal Heart Roaming the Skies
Chapter 83: Dream Returning

The official road connecting the Hu's mine and Qingyang Town is simple and dilapidated.

Due to the impending closure of the mine, Qingyang Town naturally does not want to invest too much in it.

Xi Zichu strolled with a disguised maid, laughing softly and contentedly.

At the end of the official road, a person stood alone in the middle.

Xi Zichu seemed unsurprised: "Hu Shaomeng, even though you are not at the mine, you still know everything about it."

"Stop the nonsense." Hu Shaomeng, who had been waiting here for a long time, said impatiently, "What is your purpose?"

"I actually wanted to ask you, what is your purpose?" Xi Zichu asked in return, "Hiring someone to assassinate the envoy of the Zhongxuan family, can you really put the blame on the Xi family? Would the Zhongxuan family believe it?"

"You can eat whatever you want, but you can't say whatever you want. Hiring a killer to assassinate the envoy of the Zhongxuan family is something that the five families did together, right?"

"Oh, I see." Xi Zichu shook his head and smiled, "That's true."

Hu Shaomeng suppressed his impatience and asked again, "So what do you want to do?"

No one knew the truth better than him.

Hiring someone to assassinate Jiang Wang was indeed his doing.

After the contact, Jiang Wang refused the suggestion to immediately close the mine, and his resolute attitude made him uneasy. Later, he even dared to humiliate the Zhongxuan family members brought by Hu You.

Because of this, Hu Shaomeng realized that no matter what he said, it would only backfire. Jiang Wang might have sensed something and insisted on not leaving the Hu's mine.

If one plan fails, another is born.

Old Li is a person he can absolutely trust. He was one of the undercover agents targeting the Xi family in Jiacheng. It is the perfect time to use him now.

Tianxia Tower, a killer organization that is not as good as its name suggests, was carefully selected by him. The fact that its headquarters is far away in Cangfeng City alone is enough to catch his attention.

Whether Tianxia Tower can kill Jiang Wang is not important.

If they can kill him, that's great. The Zhongxuan family is far away in the Qi Kingdom, and it will take some time for them to send someone to investigate.

What he needs is time, the period of blankness in the mine after Jiang Wang's death.

If they can't kill Jiang Wang, it's the same if they can make him leave.

Old Li, who hired the killer, has already been sent abroad by him.

After being assassinated, no matter which line Jiang Wang investigates, the result will not change.

If Jiang Wang goes to Cangfeng City to confront Tianxia Tower, regardless of the outcome, the time spent on the round trip will achieve Hu Shaomeng's goal.

And if he investigates Old Li, it will be even more interesting.

Old Li will do everything possible to escape, increasing the difficulty of his pursuit. When he finally captures Old Li, he will "discover" that Old Li is a member of the Xi family, working for the Xi family!

This plan is perfect, and as the planner, Hu Shaomeng is very satisfied with himself.

But the one thing he didn't expect was that Jiang Wang captured the assassin on the spot, interrogated him for information, but stayed in the mine and didn't move.

No matter which direction Jiang Wang goes, he will be led by the nose. But now that Jiang Wang has stopped moving, the thread that led him has become useless.

At this time, Xi Zichu stepped forward to suppress the matter and let the people in those small families take the blame. This was something he didn't expect.

And it made him particularly uneasy.

"What do you want to do?" Hu Shaomeng repeated.

Xi Zichu no longer played dumb with him and said calmly, "I want to do whatever you want to do."

Although Hu Shaomeng had a premonition when Xi Zichu suddenly returned to Jiacheng, he couldn't help but turn pale: "You already know?"

No matter whether it was killing the miner or the transcendent cultivator guarding the mine, it was all to cover up the secret. He thought he had done it without leaving any traces, but he didn't expect to leak out.

"Jiacheng belongs to the Xi family." Xi Zichu looked at him calmly, "Here, there is nothing that can be hidden from me."

"But Qingyang Town is surnamed Hu."

"It doesn't matter what Qingyang Town is surnamed. Let's discuss it after the people from the Zhongxuan family leave." Xi Zichu asked, "Isn't it better to have a conflict between two sides than three?"

Hu Shaomeng, as a person of influence, quickly understood the pros and cons. Since the situation couldn't be salvaged, he could only minimize the damage.

He directly asked, "It's impossible for Jiang Wang to just believe whatever you say. He will definitely interrogate again. Are you sure those people can be trusted?"

"The lives of their entire families are in my hands. They know very well what to say. And deep down in their hearts, this is the truth. So no matter how they are interrogated, there won't be any problems."

Hu Shaomeng's face changed.

He knew exactly what this meant.

Memory manipulation!

This is not something that a Soaring Dragon Realm cultivator can do.

If it was only facing Xi Zichu himself, he still had some confidence in competing with his trump cards. But if the other party could use this level of power, then everything he had done would be useless.

Driving away the Zhongxuan family would also be meaningless.

"You don't need to be nervous." Xi Zichu explained to avoid further trouble, "I used Dream Returning Incense. My master only gave me half a stick, and it has already burned out."

He took out a burnt-out incense stick with only a faint residue left, which could no longer have any effect. "You can take it back and check."

Hu Shaomeng took the remaining incense stick. The mysterious aura had not dissipated, confirming that it was indeed Dream Returning Incense. He relaxed slightly, but he couldn't completely let his guard down.

Xi Zichu continued, "You also know how precious this thing is. In order to cover up the hole you poked, I had to use it. Since I paid such a price, the reward must satisfy me."

Hu Shaomeng sneered, "The Hu family could have operated for another thirty years with this vein. I didn't pay any less than you did."

"It's precisely because I saw you making such a heavy bet that I was willing to gamble with you, Young Master Hu."

Xi Zichu smiled, embraced the maid disguised as a man, and walked away leisurely.

There was one thing he didn't say. That is, sending those people from the small families to their deaths was not just to cover up Hu Shaomeng's hole. There are other ways to cover it up. There is no need to use treasures like Dream Returning Incense.

The Xi family has controlled Jia City for many years, and they could suppress these minor clans with a flip of their hand. The reason they haven't done so in the past is to keep the Yang Kingdom's court at ease. They didn't want to be known for causing division, and they lacked a solid reason to do so.

However, if these people were killed by the Zhongxuan family, it would be a different story. These clans were seeking their own demise, and the blame couldn't be pinned on the Xi family.

He wasn't worried about Hu Shaomeng causing any more trouble. As long as he was given a glimmer of hope, a gambler who had already invested so much wouldn't cut his losses and leave.

The more one invests, the harder it is to let go.

Both he and Hu Shaomeng understood that their common goal was to make the Zhongxuan family leave.

If a behemoth like the Zhongxuan family squeezed into a place where only two people could be fed, everyone would go hungry.

Le Wen

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