Within five seconds.

A dozen people lay on the ground, screaming in pain.

"You little brat, if you've got the guts, say your name!"

The bald man clutched his aching chest and said.

"Qin Feng."

Qin Feng said, "Qin from Emperor Qin and Emperor Han, Feng from the surging wind."

As he spoke, he walked toward the bald man.

The bald man was so scared that he fell down again and immediately started to run away, shouting as he ran: "Remember this!"

The other underlings, seeing this.

They too scrambled and rolled away from there.

The yard quieted down.

Li Qianqian then went back to the body in black, crying and hacking at it with her sword, while Qin Feng sighed and said, "Stop it! This guy isn't the one who killed your grandfather."

"No, it is him, I'd recognize him even if he turned to ashes!"

Li Qianqian said.

Qin Feng simply squatted down and tore off a piece of a human-skin mask from the corpse's face.

Obviously.

This was a scapegoat.

"What?!"

Li Qianqian's eyes widened in disbelief, "How can this be?! How did you know?"

Qin Feng had seen through it early on.

Anyone capable of killing Master Li Beifeng must be extremely powerful, with at least the cultivation of a Third Grade Grandmaster.

Such a person.

How could they possibly be killed by those few worthless thugs?

"Then, who is the real murderer who killed my grandfather?"

Li Qianqian began to cry again.

Qin Feng's brows slowly furrowed as he said, "If I'm not mistaken, it should be Golden Sword Manor."

"Why?" Li Qianqian asked.

"I guess, only you have seen that man in black, those bald men have not, right?" Qin Feng asked.

"Right."

"If that's the case, how would they know what the black-clothed killer looked like, even making a detailed human-skin mask?" Qin Feng said, "The only explanation is that they are in it together!"

"Yes!!"

Li Qianqian suddenly realized.

So Golden Sword Manor was the real killer of her grandfather!

"Let me speculate further."

Qin Feng continued, "After killing your grandfather, the man in black still didn't get the Outer Heaven Stone, but he wasn't sure whether you had it or not, so he spared your life to observe you in secret, while having those bald men repeatedly test you. This time they even used the pretense of avenging you to test, and once they confirmed you didn't have it, they decided to make their fatal move."

"Right! Why didn't I think of that!"

Li Qianqian's eyes widened as she said, "With this reasoning, everything makes sense!"

"So, the first thing to do now is to find the camera."

Qin Feng said while looking up.

Sure enough.

He saw a camera under the eaves.

Li Qianqian said, "I installed that myself; it's always been there, to prevent theft."

"What about that one in the bird's nest?"

Qin Feng looked up, pointing to a bird's nest in a big locust tree in the courtyard.

A red dot could be vaguely seen in the nest.

Qin Feng leaped up and took down the tiny pinhole camera, saying, "I don't think this one's yours, right?"

"They've been monitoring me all along!"

Li Qianqian looked at the camera, her brows knitted tight!

Now everything could be explained.

The other party spared her life to monitor whether she had the "Outer Heaven Stone." Those bald men were just to harass her, perhaps to pressure her into taking out the "Outer Heaven Stone" and going into hiding; then they would see it through the surveillance!

"Golden Sword Manor, so insidious!"

Li Qianqian was furiously indignant.

...

Bustling city.

In front of a hotel's floor-to-ceiling windows, a young man in white sat quietly, savoring a pot of aged Pu'er tea.

This small bowl of tea was worth a Mercedes car.

But for him,

It was just a cup of tea. After taking a sip, he carelessly poured the rest of it away.

"Mr. Bai."

At this moment, an assistant dressed in a tailcoat approached him, respectfully bent down, and handed over a USB drive, saying, "There's been an incident."

The young man in white opened the USB drive on his laptop.

The USB contained surveillance footage from Li Qianqian's yard. For character sheets and glossaries, visit *.

He saw Qin Feng appear.

And after realizing the existence of the camera, and guessing that Golden Sword Manor was behind it all, he couldn't help but be surprised and said, "I thought too highly of him yesterday, but to be able to deduce the situation in such a short time, did I underestimate him? By the way, what's he going there for? Is he also looking for the 'Outer Heaven Stone'..."

"Lord Bai, could the 'Outer Heaven Stone' end up in his hands? Should we arrange to force it out of him?"

The assistant asked.

"No need," Bai shook his head and said, "The 'Outer Heaven Stone' is so important, if she truly has it, she would not give it to him no matter what."

"But we have tried all possible methods, how should we search for the 'Outer Heaven Stone'?"

The assistant said.

The young man in white took a sip of the freshly brewed Pu-erh and said, "It seems I need to take matters into my own hands now…"

"Wait!"

At this moment, Li Qianqian suddenly thought of something and widened her eyes at Qin Feng, saying, "You, what did you say your name was just now?!"

"Qin Feng. Why?" Qin Feng didn't understand why she looked so astonished.

"You're from Dragon and Tiger Village?!"

Li Qianqian asked again.

"How did you know?"

Qin Feng asked.

"The 'Feng' in your name, was it changed later on? Wasn't it a different name before?"

Li Qianqian continued to inquire.

"Yes!"

Now it was Qin Feng's turn to be surprised.

He was named "Emperor Qin" when he was little. It was after an incident that the Beidou Old Divine Doctor, before his disappearance, asked him to use the name "Qin Feng."

How did she know?

"That's right!"

Li Qianqian grabbed Qin Feng's hand and quickly pulled him into the room.

Then,

She took out a package from the earth stove.

Inside the package was a box.

When opened,

There lay a stone the size of a chicken egg.

The stone was odd.

It was dotted with luminescent specks of an indeterminate nature, containing power that was very strange.

It wasn't Spiritual Energy, nor was it Immortal Energy.

"This is the 'Outer Heaven Stone'," said Li Qianqian. "My grandfather told me a long time ago that someday, I should hand this to someone named 'Qin Feng', that must be you."

Qin Feng was completely bewildered.

What was going on here?

He didn't recognize this stone at all!

"When I was very young, my grandfather came here and stopped crafting any other weapons. He worked on this stone every day and finally completed its refinement just a few days ago. He was about to find you when that assassin in black found this place, and then all that followed happened,"

Li Qianqian explained.

Qin Feng remained perplexed.

But he seemed to remember that when he visited with the Beidou Old Divine Doctor as a child, the Beidou Old Divine Doctor handed a box over to Master Li Beifeng, seemingly entrusting him with a task.

Could it be related to the entrusted task of refining this "Outer Heaven Stone"?

But what does that have to do with him?

Doubtfully, Qin Feng picked up the stone and started to examine it closely.

"This stone is used to create a Divine Weapon," said Li Qianqian. "Do you have any weapon that needs to be crafted?"

"Uh..."

Qin Feng was about to mention his often-used Life and Death Blade.

But the Life and Death Blade was currently intact and did not need any upgrade or crafting.

After contemplating for a bit, his eyes lit up, and he said, "Perfect, it can be used to craft my Demon-Subduing Pestle!"