CHAPTER 336: CHAPTER 290

Lan Tian squinted her eyes; if Ji Feng asked to spare Mei Lan... Lan Tian thought about it, she would agree to any request from Ji Feng.

Ji Feng remained silent, Lan Tian tilted her head and glanced sideways at the gu insect in her hand, manipulating the Chaotic Fire to leave a gap, allowing someone to feel the aura of the gu insect.

Ji Feng suddenly walked over to the phone, dialed a number, and after a few rings, someone on the other side picked up, "The person is no longer in the house, go in and see if there’s anything useful left behind." After speaking, he hung up.

The person who answered the phone was shocked, he lifted the curtain to look outside, holding the phone unable to regain his composure, how could it be possible? The Jiao Family’s residence was closely monitored, not even a fly could escape their notice, no one had reported to him so far, which meant the person was still inside, under their surveillance.

But the Crown Prince said, the person was already gone... The Crown Prince wouldn’t joke about such matters, if the Crown Prince dared to say so, it meant that the woman really was gone.

After hanging up the phone, someone went to sneak into the Jiao Family’s residence to check if the person was there or not.

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At night in Beijing, the orange lights illuminating the night sky, the calm city suddenly became noisy. Not all places were illuminated, where there was light, there was also darkness, a dark figure shuttled through the quiet alleys, vanishing in a flash, moving too fast to be captured, the night concealing her tracks well.

Occasionally, the shadow would stop to finely sense her surroundings for a moment, then hurry off in a certain direction.

...

Hmm?

Lan Tian raised an eyebrow, she sensed that Mei Lan’s marked movements were pausing and starting, but the approximate direction was toward this side.

"She really is heading this way," Lan Tian murmured softly, putting away the spiritual poison in her hand and looking towards Ji Feng, "What are your thoughts about Mei Lan’s situation?"

After all, Ji Feng treated her differently, how to deal with Mei Lan still depended on Ji Feng’s mood, Lan Tian did not want to make her own decision, to avoid him having regrets later.

Ji Feng understood Lan Tian’s words, came over and hugged her, burying his head in her shoulder to hide the coldness in his eyes, their affection as husband and wife dissipated the moment he knew Mei Lan was the one who poisioned.

Lan Tian was startled; they had known each other across two lifetimes, Ji Feng rarely hugged her like this, less than five times.

Her body stiffened for a moment, then relaxed, she had always treated Ji Feng like a son, never seeing him so vulnerable before, surprised by the depth of their entanglement, Ji Feng said nothing, and Lan Tian did not ask, just gently patted his back to comfort him.

"Don’t worry about me, what should be done will be done, since she dared to reach out to us, she should bear the consequences." No matter what her hardships, they should not justify harming him and the old master, Ji Feng left the latter unsaid.

"I’m going out for a while, tonight you sleep with the old master," Lan Tian said after Ji Feng calmed down, "It’s not very safe outside, for safety’s sake, do not leave this room."

"Okay, be careful."

Lan Tian touched his head, smiling and nodding, "I will."

She applied an Invisibility Talisman on herself, unnoticed, left the house, taking Sword Flight down to Hidden Dragon Mountain, the place Lan Tian had already picked out, the abandoned brick factory during the day, a perfect place for killing and hiding a body.

The sensation of flying in the air was very nice, almost a heavenly feeling which Lan Tian truly liked. With the fast speed of the flying sword, she arrived at the abandoned brick factory in half an hour, picked a spot to hide at random, flipped her hand, and the Bloodthirsty Spirit Worm from her Sleeve Universe appeared in her palm.

Indeed, without the aura of the gu insects, Mei Lan was like a headless fly, scrambling around aimlessly, looking as if she didn’t know where the gu insect was.

Really strange!

Lan Tian touched his chin in thought — as the master of the Bloodthirsty Worm, he should have been keenly aware of its whereabouts and who it had infected. Why was Mei Lan not aware?

Unable to find an answer, Lan Tian decided to stop pondering and directly questioned Mei Lan.

The Chaotic Fire, sharing a mutual understanding with Lan Tian, began to burn from within and emit a scent of gu insects without Lan Tian’s prompt. With a new sense of direction like a headless fly, Mei Lan headed towards the abandoned brick factory.

"Good job, little fire," Lan Tian extended his thumb appreciatively, his compliment causing the timid Chaotic Fire to burst into higher flames jubilantly.

"The one who needed to come has arrived, the Bloodthirsty Mother Worm is no longer useful. Little fire, burn it."

As the words fell, the Chaotic Fire flickered and the Bloodthirsty Mother Worm only managed to let out a sharp scream before a wisp of blood smoke drifted away, dissipating into nothing.

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"Pluh"

Rushing forward, Mei Lan suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood, feeling an agonizing pain in her chest and dizziness before her eyes. Her legs weakened, nearly causing her to fall from the roof.

"Why is this happening?" Mei Lan clasped her chest, looking uneasily towards the direction of Hidden Dragon Mountain as her blood qi surged restlessly and her Spiritual Energy became unstable. She took out an elixir from her Storage Bag, swallowed it, and hurried on after catching her breath.

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Standing on her flying sword, Mei Lan overlooked the abandoned brick factory, circling it from above before descending.

Being a cultivator herself, it’s possible there were other cultivators in Beijing. As a Third Level Qi Refining cultivator, she couldn’t control the Bloodthirsty Spirit Worm unless a higher level cultivator assisted her. A cultivator capable of taming the Bloodthirsty Spirit Worm must have a Cultivation at least at the Foundation Establishment Stage, possibly higher.

Lan Tian couldn’t take the risk whether Mei Lan came alone or with companions. If she indeed had more powerful companions with her, Lan Tian alone couldn’t fight them off.

Just to be safe, it was better to set up an Array. He raised his hand and the Array Formation materials previously prepared in his Sleeve Universe fell to the ground. He set up the Spirit Trapping Array and defensive arrays with the road in front of the grassy patch as the Array Core, then retreated back into the abandoned brick factory to wait.

It didn’t take long for Lan Tian to sense a dark figure gradually approaching the mountainside, soon reaching the road in front of the factory. The cautious figure hesitated at the entrance.

Lan Tian refrained from recklessly using his Divine Sense. Cultivators were sensitive to others’ Divine Sense and startling the newcomer would be counterproductive. After Foundation Establishment, his senses had heightened; despite being meters away, he could clearly see under the moonlight that the approaching figure was indeed Mei Lan.

Mei Lan looked towards the factory from the entrance, sensing the child poison inside but unable to pinpoint its exact location. The contractive sensory connection between them was intermittent; at times responsive, at times not. The mother poison was completely unresponsive as if their contract had severed.

The dark and ominous brick factory resembled a gigantic ferocious beast. Mei Lan didn’t dare to enter lightly, feeling as if stepping inside would leave nowhere to hide. Utilizing the contract, she tried sensing the child poison to gather some useful information.

The unintelligent child poison, only capable of simple emotions, sensed its master’s arrival and transmitted emotions of irritation, violence, and ferociousness.

Lan Tian waited a while and seeing that Mei Lan still hesitated to enter, he tore off the Invisibility Talisman he wore and stepped out from his hiding place, a swirling flame in his hand charring the child poison.

Upon seeing a dark figure stepping out from the factory, Mei Lan prepared to attack defensively while clutching a Fiery Flame Talisman, ready to release it if the situation turned dire.

"Is it you?" As the dark figure approached and she recognized the person, Mei Lan exclaimed in surprise, "Why is it you? What are you doing here?"

"Why couldn’t it be me? I couldn’t sleep, so I came out for a walk," Lan Tian’s cool gaze met Mei Lan’s across, briefly scanning the surroundings, "I didn’t expect to wander off this far. It’s a good thing we’re not too far from Hidden Dragon Mountain. Miss Mei Lan, why are you here? Could it be that, like me, you couldn’t sleep and decided to take a walk?"