After days of preparation, the Li clan finally decided to send a more powerful search party to the forest.
They are determined to get the spiritual tree.
At first, they sent the mortal hunters just to check if there are any spiritual tree near the outskirts of the forest.
But after they found the team dead with blade wounds, they believed it was a silencing move from other people. Now, they are sure that there is a spiritual tree in the outskirt forest.
At a courtyard of a beautiful manor, in the city, a man that exudes a heavy pressure to his surrounding was standing. An old man in simple clothing was also standing behind him, with a respectful posture towards the fearsome man. The old man is the close confidant of Li Chongba.
That man, which exudes the heavy aura is the Li clan's patriarch, Li Chongba. He is currently at the 5 layer of Mortal Foundation Realm. And he is also one of the most respected people in the south side of outer city, Night Light City.
The city is named the Night Light City because even in night, the city never put out the light. That is due to the fear of beast attacks.
Li Chongba took a deep breath and said without looking back. "Are the preparations all done?"
The old man bowed and responded in a respectful tone. "Yes my lord, everything is ready. They will leave as soon as tomorrow comes."
Li Chongba nodded just a little. Then he asked. "Then what about the investigation?"
"For now, we have nothing that is much useful." The old man simply said.
"What do you mean nothing? Are those people too useless?" Li Chongba said in a cold voice with his fearsome aura emitting from his body.
Seeing the reaction, the old man simply closed his eyes. But he did not move even an inch. He was used to Li Chongba's temper.
After that, both of them went silent. No one talks of anything.
At that time, a servant came to deliver some reports. He announced his arrival. "REPORT.!"
Li Chongba did not even turned to look at the servant. Instead his confidant waved at the servant to deliver the news to him.
The servant approached the old man without making a noise. Then he whispered something into his ear. And then he left quietly.
The old man looked at Li Chongba and said. "We just got a news that the attack at those hunters might have been done by Chen clan people."
"Ohh... how do they know that?" Li Chongba chuckled.
"After investigation, they found that the wound on those bodies are similar to those made by Chen clan people. And on that day, the second young master of Chen clan came out of the forest with his thugs and they carried back two huge back. Mostly likely those bags might have the two people stewardSi sent." The old man responded.
The funny thing about their report is that the hunters were actually killed by their own people. And they did not even know it.
Coincidentally, the Chen clan people happened to leave the forest that day.
So boom...
The blame fall onto them.
Li Chongba fell silent for a moment. Then he instructed the old man. "Send the search party quietly. Make sure to keep a close eyes on the Chen clan. Nobody leaves their clan manor without a report and nobody enters their manor without a report, all to me."
"Yes." The old man bowed his head and left the courtyard.
In the courtyard, Li Chongba murmured to himself gritting his teeth. "My goal of getting into the inner city is inevitable. If anyone stand in my way, they will face my wrath....."
To become a clan of inner city, a clan must have a power house above 5 layer of Mortal Foundation Realm.
And the reason why many clans are trying to enter the inner city is because of connections. Being an outer city clan is good. But if one can enter the inner city, they will get more ways to get resources.
And Li Chongba's goal is also this.
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On the other side, Ji Yen and Ji Wen continued to patrol their territory, including the former wolves territory.
Surprisingly, after their confrontation with the wolves, the demon monkey never showed in their territory again.
Ji Yen did not think much of it. Instead he continued his daily routine with Ji Wen.
Today, Ji Yen came to the place where he killed those two hunters.
When he got there, he saw the place was empty with no leftover body or bones. At first he thought, may be the animals might have eaten them.
But he checked further, he realized that there was no other animals' aura except for him.
So, how did the bodies disappeared?
Thinking of that Ji Yen checked a little more deeply.
5 minutes later, he found some clues.
He found some more humans aura remain there. Due to the rain washing their auras, Ji Yen almost could not find them.
Lucky for him, his sense of Qi was improved after the enlightenment. So he could find them.
"So, after I killed them, some more humans came here. And they collected the bodies...?" Ji Yen showed a thoughtful look. "That means, more of them will be coming soon."
Thinking of that, Ji Yen in a dilemma as well as annoyed.
"Should I just let them search for the tree?" He thought. "What if they find it and put up traps to not let others get near it?"
"No.no. I can not let them do that. It will be troublesome for me." He walked around and kept shaking his head.
Then he suddenly got an idea. "What if I let them find the tree. But instead of them putting up traps, I lay the traps early and lure them there?"
"Haha,... Perfect.!" Ji Yen let out a sharp sound, which sounded like a bird laughing. Well he was laughing though.