Chapter 49

Chapter 49: Remnants of the Demon Sect?

Poison in the wine?

Everyone was so shocked that their souls nearly left their bodies, spitting out the wine they had just drunk. Some who had swallowed it were terrified, clawing at their throats, desperately trying to vomit it back up.

In an instant, the second-floor lounge of the inn turned into chaos.

“Boom!”

Law Enforcement Elder Lei Lie suddenly stood up, smashing the table with his palm, sending a spread of food and wine crashing to the floor.

“How outrageous!”

Lei Lie’s angry roar reverberated like thunder, shaking the whole inn.

Everyone felt the fire of rage erupting from within him.

Xiao Zhenshan and his wife turned pale with fear.

Everyone was trembling in terror.

Only Xiao Yang calmly sat at the table, picking up his chopsticks and eating, as if none of this concerned him.

Fortunately, he wasn’t sitting at the same table as the Law Enforcement Elder, otherwise there would be nothing left for him to eat.

“…”

Everyone was dumbfounded to see Xiao Yang still daring to eat the food on the table. Was he not afraid the dishes were poisoned too?

Besides Xiao Yang, Lin Wangchuan was also munching on meat and drinking from a big bowl.

Their guts were really impressive!

“Who served the wine just now!”

At that moment, the Law Enforcement Elder’s eyes widened in anger, scanning the room with killing intent.

He clenched his fists, bolts of electricity flickering across his body.

Everyone was on edge.

Xiao Zhenshan and his wife hurriedly stepped back.

No wonder the Law Enforcement Elder was furious.

They had just come down the mountain.

They hadn’t even left the Qingyang Sword Sect’s territory when someone dared to poison its disciples right under his nose?

And the target was the Holy Son of the Qingyang Sword Sect?

This was intolerable!

Before long, everyone realized no one was poisoned except for Xiao Yang’s cup of wine; everyone else’s drink was safe.

This meant the poisoner’s target was Xiao Yang, not all the disciples of the Qingyang Sword Sect present.

“Elder, this has nothing to do with me!”

Pang Hu, already frightened out of his wits, knelt at Lei Lie’s feet, trembling all over in sheer terror.

He was just the manager of South Stone Town for the Qingyang Sword Sect.

He could never have imagined that someone would attempt to poison the Holy Son under his watch.

Pang Hu felt like the sky was falling down on him.

“Who served wine to the Holy Son? Step forward!”

Pang Hu scanned his subordinates.

Just then, a figure suddenly dashed towards the window in a desperate bid to escape.

“You think you can run before me?”

Law Enforcement Elder Lei Lie’s eyes snapped open, tiny bolts of electricity dancing in them.

A terrifying aura of destruction erupted from him.

At that moment, he resembled a thunder god descended upon the earth.

Everyone felt it hard to breathe, the pressure emanating from the Elder was simply overwhelming.

With a swift move of his right hand, he reached out and grabbed the escaping figure, bolts of lightning shooting from his hand, transforming into a massive electric hand that slammed the person to the ground.

The individual was dressed in the outer disciple garb of the Qingyang Sword Sect, a small sword embroidered on the collar.

He was actually an outer disciple of the Qingyang Sword Sect?

“Speak! Who ordered you to poison him?”

Lei Lie glared at the person with fury.

“Hmph!”

The person looked up and smirked disdainfully at the Law Enforcement Elder, but the next moment, blood oozed from the corner of his mouth, his eyes rolled back, and he collapsed to the ground, twitching a few times before falling still.

“This…”

The Law Enforcement Elder was both surprised and furious.

Everyone was stunned by this scene.

Only Xiao Yang and Lin Wangchuan continued to eat and drink.

“Big Brother Holy Son, that guy is dead.”

Lin Wangchuan bit into a piece of roast meat, glancing at the body on the floor, he mumbled.

“Oh!”

Xiao Yang casually responded, not even glancing at the body.

“Brother, this guy tried to poison you! Why aren’t you the least bit concerned?”

Xiao Yue looked at Xiao Yang in disbelief.

Everyone else stared at Xiao Yang in shock.

The poison was so potent that even the floor had corroded instantly. Even if Xiao Yang was a swordplay master of the Heavenly Martial Realm, drinking that poisoned wine would surely lead to his demise!

He didn’t care at all who tried to harm him?

“How despicable! Who used such underhanded means to target my son?”

“Yang’er, are you okay?!”

At that moment, Father Xiao finally snapped out of his shock, angrily cursing the poisoner for being vile and shameless.

Mother Chen Ruolan rushed over to check on Xiao Yang.

Xiao Yang remained silent, continuing to eat and drink.

Of course, the wine he drank was from a small bottle of spirit liquor he had brought from the sect.

Seeing Xiao Yang ignore them, both Chen Ruolan and Xiao Yue felt a bit awkward.

“Does anyone recognize this person?”

The Law Enforcement Elder glanced at the collapsed Pang Hu and his subordinates.

“Reporting to the Elder, this guy is named Niu Yong. He became an outer disciple of our Qingyang Sword Sect three years ago. My subordinates have no idea why he would attempt to poison the Holy Son.”

Pang Hu hurriedly revealed the person’s background.

“What?!”

The Law Enforcement Elder clenched his fists in disbelief. This guy had been an outer disciple for three years?

“Does this person have any relatives or friends?”

The Law Enforcement Elder was truly infuriated.

“This… this person is an orphan!”

Pang Hu said cautiously, sweating profusely, clearly terrified.

Hearing this, the Law Enforcement Elder nearly lost his temper and slapped the waste in front of him to death.

The guy named Niu Yong must be a spy sent by another faction.

He had infiltrated the outer sect for three years, and none of these guys managed to uncover his true identity. They were all a bunch of blind fools.

Xiao Yang, watching the enraged Law Enforcement Elder, had already guessed who was behind this incident.

In his previous life, similar events had occurred.

When they had just come down from the mountain, someone had also tried to poison him.

However, it hadn’t happened in South Stone Town, as the person leading in his past life had been the Transmission Elder. They hadn’t needed to take a detour, going straight east instead.

Someone had tried to poison him in a small town to the east.

Even though this time Qin Fei had not managed to achieve fame by stepping on him during the sect’s great competition like in the last life, Qin Fei had lost his qualification to participate.

But as long as Qin Fei was alive, he would try to deal with the Holy Son.

Because that Holy Son was standing in Qin Fei’s way.

Though the time, place, and characters had changed, what happened in the previous life was still occurring.

Xiao Yang was feeling uncertain as well; he just thought of the poisoning incident from his past life that nearly cost him his life, which was why he had poured out the cup of wine.

Who would have thought that cup had actually been poisoned?

Xiao Yang couldn’t help but admire Qin Fei’s ruthless intent.

“Shouldn’t we check this person and see if there are any clues on him?”

The Law Enforcement Elder glared at the limp Pang Hu, growling.

“Y-yes, yes, yes…”

Pang Hu quickly sprang up, pulling on a pair of gloves before cautiously examining the body on the ground.

He checked meticulously, leaving no part of the corpse unexplored.

There didn’t seem to be anything unusual about the body. The only items in the pockets were some low-grade spirit stones and nothing else.

However, when Pang Hu removed the shoes and socks from the corpse’s right foot, everyone gasped in shock.

On the sole of the right foot, there was a tattoo of a black lotus.

“Stepping on the black lotus, remnants of the Demon Sect?”

The Law Enforcement Elder stared at the black lotus on the corpse’s foot, his expression one of disbelief.