Yu Shui City. Tian Peng went out to investigate the tomb raiders, Ye Hongyi stayed in the city to cultivate in seclusion, and Zhang San was still immersed in handling the city's affairs.
It's just that he has a bit of a headache now.
“Uncle Quan, the taxes paid by the four major families have been decreasing recently.” Zhang San looked at the roster in front of him, which recorded the taxes paid by the four major families in Yu Shui City in the last six months.
The four major families of Yu Shui City, before Lu Chengfeng killed Zhang Wutian, had already been rooted in Yu Shui City, namely the Yuwen family, the Nangong family, the Yan family, and the Ming family.
During Lu Chengfeng's management of Yu Shui City, the four major families also achieved considerable development. The four patriarchs of the four major families are now all Great Saint cultivators, and they are all well-known figures in the entire Tianchi Ancient Star.
Zhao Quan is responsible for managing the finances of the City Lord's Mansion. He said with a wry smile: “Since that incident half a year ago, they have become more and more presumptuous and don't take our City Lord's Mansion seriously.”
Zhang San's eyes narrowed. The incident half a year ago was the assassination of Uncle Quan and Lei Heng. Because he didn't know the origin of those people, he didn't know who to take revenge on. In the eyes of the four major families, it was obvious that their City Lord's Mansion was cowardly and retreated.
“I think they won't be able to endure it for long.” Zhang San chuckled. With his strength, controlling the Black God Puppet, he could directly crush the four major families, but he didn't do so. Instead, he became more and more tolerant of the four major families.
His master was highly respected in Yu Shui City and deeply loved by the people. If he indiscriminately attacked the four major families, it would definitely damage his master's reputation.
Only when the four major families can't help but take the initiative to attack him, his counterattack can be the best outcome.
“How has Lei Heng been recently?” Zhang San asked again.
“Since returning half a year ago, he has always been acting strangely. I don't know if he was stimulated by something.” Speaking of Lei Heng, a trace of melancholy flashed across Zhao Quan's face.
He was the one who was seriously injured and almost died. It should be him who became strange, not Lei Heng.
“Senior Tian Peng has left, and Master is in seclusion. Otherwise, we could ask them to see what's wrong with Lei Heng.”
Zhang San scratched his head.
On the other side, Lei Heng's residence.
At this time, Lei Heng was closing his eyes and resting in the underground cultivation room, but if someone was watching next to him, they would find that he was emitting a faint light of thunder, but the light of thunder was not too strong, and it was fleeting. Perhaps even Lei Heng himself did not notice this situation.
“Rumble!”
Above Yu Shui City, dark clouds were gathering, and thunder was rumbling. Before long, it started pouring rain.
The rain came suddenly, and the pedestrians on the street cursed and rushed to take shelter from the rain. People who were drying things also rushed out of the yard to put things away.
In short, it was a very abrupt rain. For this heavy rain, the monks with high cultivation in the city were all puzzled, and they always felt a strange feeling.
In the City Lord's Mansion, Ye Hongyi, who was in seclusion to comprehend the Great Dao, suddenly opened her eyes. Her eyes saw the outside through the thick stone wall.
“Anomalies…”
Others may not have a deep understanding of anomalies, but as someone who has awakened anomalies, she has a unique understanding of anomalies.
This seemingly abrupt natural heavy rain is actually an anomaly caused by cultivation.
However, thunderstorms are a natural phenomenon, so under normal circumstances, people would not consider it an anomaly.
Ye Hongyi turned her eyes and looked in the direction of Lei Heng, a trace of surprise flashed in her eyes.
“Heavenly Thunder Battle Body!”
A trace of nostalgia flashed in Ye Hongyi's eyes. When she was still weak, in the Human Dao Academy, there was a person named Zhao Tie. He came from a small, unknown sect and was determined to build his sect into a new immortal force. It's a pity that fate tricked people, and he fell on the Ancient Starry Road.
And his physique was also the Heavenly Thunder Battle Body.
“It's just… others awaken their special physique at birth or when they first start cultivating. This Lei Heng is already a Saint cultivator, and he only awakened his special physique now. According to Junior Brother's words, this is the lowest return!”
Ye Hongyi muttered to herself. Naturally, the earlier a special physique is awakened, the better, because the special physique can provide great assistance in the early stage of cultivation, not only in combat power but also in cultivation speed.
The later the special physique is awakened, the less help it can provide. Of course, this is relative to the rapid improvement in the early stage.
However, Lei Heng's awakening of the Heavenly Thunder Battle Body now is at most just icing on the cake for him.
Ye Hongyi retracted her gaze and stopped paying attention to Lei Heng. She got up and left the cultivation room, and a golden light entered the courtyard and turned into Tian Peng.
Tian Peng, who had been out investigating the tomb raiders for several months, had returned.
Ye Hongyi came to the pavilion and skillfully brewed tea, adding a cup of hot tea for Tian Peng. Tian Peng took it and said thank you, Miss.
Ye Hongyi asked: “How is the investigation going?”
Tian Peng drank the tea in one gulp, regardless of whether it was a waste of resources or not. He put down the teacup and said: “The mastermind is very careful. I caught some tomb raiders and wanted to get information about the mastermind from their mouths, but no matter how I forced them, they wouldn't say anything. In the end, when I wanted to search their souls, their souls were shattered by a mysterious force.”
“Just like the people we encountered half a year ago.”
Ye Hongyi nodded and said: “It seems that the people who robbed the resources and assassinated Zhao Quan and the others half a year ago are indeed in the same gang as those tomb raiders. But… why would they do such things as killing people for their goods?”
Tomb raiders and robbers who kill people for their goods both do immoral things, but tomb raiders generally wish to perfectly hide themselves and not let outsiders know their existence, while robbers can never hide.
So Ye Hongyi couldn't understand why they wanted to assassinate Zhao Quan and Lei Heng.
“By the way, Miss, I discovered a common point among the owners of the tombs they raided.” Tian Peng continued.
“Oh?” Ye Hongyi's eyes lit up. She vaguely felt that this common point could help her solve the doubts in her heart.
Tian Peng didn't beat around the bush and said directly: “The owners of those raided tombs were all famous powerhouses in their lifetime, and they all had special physiques.”
Special physique!
When Ye Hongyi heard these four words, the doubts in her heart were immediately dispelled.
“No wonder they wanted to assassinate Zhao Quan and Lei Heng. It turns out it was for Lei Heng's Heavenly Thunder Battle Body.” Ye Hongyi said.
“Lei Heng has the Heavenly Thunder Battle Body?” Tian Peng was stunned. How didn't he know?
“He just awakened it. Look at this heavy rain and the thunder in the sky. It's the anomaly caused by the awakening of the Heavenly Thunder Battle Body.” Ye Hongyi said.
“Uh… then he's really unlucky.”
The corners of Tian Peng's mouth twitched slightly. He obviously knew how big the gap was between Lei Heng awakening the Heavenly Thunder Battle Body now and awakening it at the beginning of cultivation.
“It's just, what's the use of those tomb raiders wanting these dead special physiques?” Tian Peng asked in confusion.
“It's not that they don't want living ones, it's just that they don't have the strength.” Ye Hongyi's eyes flashed with strange divine light. Although she is not good at deduction, she can more or less master it without being taught because of her high cultivation. However, she can't calculate it after all.
But she has a feeling that this mastermind will come to her one day.
This premonition has appeared more than once. Since she was possessed by the mysterious Chaos Spirit, her premonition has never been wrong.
Perhaps, after being possessed by the Chaos Spirit, it produced some kind of change with her innate Dao body.
In recent years, she has always felt that she is only interested in the Great Dao, and other things have gradually become bland.
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