I Can See Through Everything - Chapter 549

Chapter 549: The Supreme Master of Desire and the Patriarch Gongshu, Suspicion and Fear

Pink auspicious clouds appeared over Canglan City.

Hongluan gazed at the devastated city below with a look of surprise.

“This is the city where the Hongyun sisters are staying! Isn’t it a bit shabby?”

“A great battle at the level of the Soul Realm took place here,” said Supreme Master Miaoyu calmly.

However, sensing the lingering Soul Realm power within the city, he was somewhat surprised.

He had come here to bring Mo Hongyun back and, at the same time, to confront the coward who dared to touch his woman.

But what he saw made him feel that this matter was not as simple as he had expected.

Even more anxious was that he had not sensed Mo Hongyun’s presence in the city.

Could it be that he was too late?

“A great battle at the Soul Realm?” Hongluan was slightly startled. “There aren’t many Soul Realm masters left in the Lesser Cang Realm. Why would they fight?”

“Who knows? Just find someone to ask.”

Supreme Master Miaoyu casually grasped, and the next moment, an old man, his face shrouded in fear, was bound by an invisible force, breaking through the roof and soaring into the sky.

Upon reaching high above, the sight of Supreme Master Miaoyu and Hongluan was met with immense shock.

“Senior, spare my life!”

the old man, utterly terrified, begged.

He was, after all, a mid-Jindan realm expert, yet he had been captured and brought to the skies without any resistance.

The two before him must have been supremely powerful beings beyond his imagination, beings he absolutely could not provoke.

However, Supreme Master Miaoyu didn’t even bother to speak to him.

Two strange pink glints suddenly flashed in his eyes, grazing upon the Jindan realm elder.

The Jindan elder’s body stiffened, his eyes glassy, and a look of deep pain settled upon his face.

“Soul-searching technique! It seems my husband is truly furious, even resorting to such a forbidden technique!”

Hongluan’s heart trembled.

Soul-searching techniques inflict immense damage to the subject’s spirit.

At best, the spirit is severely damaged, and at worst, the soul can be shattered.

Therefore, generally speaking, righteous cultivators are wary of such treacherous techniques and will not employ them lightly.

Seeing others using it, they would stop them, determined to slay the demons.

As the Jindan-level elder’s face twisted, Miaoyu Shangzun also learned the information he sought from his soul.

He withdrew his own spiritual energy and ceased the soul search.

But by then, the Jindan-level elder’s face had taken on a dazed look, with saliva faintly oozing from the corners of his mouth.

Clearly, his Jindan-level soul could not withstand the soul search of a powerful Yuanshen-level being.

Severely damaged, his soul had become a fool.

Looking at the drooling Jindan-level elder in his hand, Miaoyu Shangzun’s face showed a hint of disgust.

With a casual flick of his hand, he flung him to the ground, unconcerned about whether he would die.

“Husband, have you found out what happened here? And where are the Hongyun sisters?” Hongluan asked.

“There was a conflict between the Nangong family and the Gongshu family, and a direct descendant of the Gongshu family died here,”

Miaoyu Shangzun explained briefly.

“The Nangong and Gongshu families?”

Hongluan was surprised again.

These two were no ordinary aristocratic families.

Even among the Thirty-Six Supreme Clans, they were considered powerful families of mid-to-high strength.

Even a powerful sect like their own, the Hehuan Sect, had to be cautious.

How could these two families clash? Moreover, her husband had also mentioned that a direct descendant of the Gongshu family had died here?

For a moment, Hongluan’s heart was shaken.

She keenly sensed that the sister named Mo Hongyun seemed to be caught up in something serious.

“The mayor of this city is a member of the Nangong family, a Soul Realm cultivator, and Mo Hongyun’s uncle.

Mo Hongyun caused some trouble in this city, which eventually led to a fierce battle between several Soul Realm cultivators of the Nangong and Gongshu families.

The direct descendant of the Gongshu family died in this conflict,”

said Miaoyu Supreme Venerable slowly, his brow furrowed.

This was indeed beyond his expectations.

First of all, Mo Hongyun was actually related to the Nangong family, something he had not previously known.

But given Mo Hongyun’s background, why didn’t she seek help from the Nangong family?

If he had known this earlier, perhaps he would have given the Nangong family a break and given up on this woman.

Could there be another hidden secret?

Now, however, he had some understanding of why Mo Hongyun’s [Joyful Heart-Erosion Curse] had suddenly been broken.

Even his own clone’s consciousness had been silently obliterated, unable to transmit even a trace of information.

Even his magical tools couldn’t deduce anything.

If a master from the Nangong family was behind this, then everything made sense.

However, this made Supreme Master Miaoyu hesitate.

If this involved the Nangong family, he would have to proceed with caution.

“Sure enough, the Hongyun sisters are involved. Could this be why my husband rushed here so quickly?”

Hongluan, upon hearing Supreme Master Miaoyu’s words, suddenly understood.

“My husband, what should we do now? Where are the Hongyun sisters?”

Just as Supreme Master Miaoyu was about to respond.

Suddenly, his heart trembled,

and he abruptly raised his head, gazing forward. Hongluan, sensing something, also turned.

Then, the two of them watched as a flying boat emerged from the distant sky, instantly reaching them.

A top-grade flying boat spiritual weapon!

Sensing the power emanating from the flying boat, Supreme Master Miaoyu’s expression grew solemn. This

flying boat-shaped spiritual weapon, combining both offense and defense, and possessing extreme speed, was far more valuable than his Xiangyun spiritual weapon.

Anyone capable of wielding such a magical weapon must be no ordinary expert.

“Is it Supreme Master Miaoyu of the Hehuan Sect?”

Just as Supreme Master Miaoyu was wary, a voice rang out from within the flying boat.

Immediately afterwards, five or six figures emerged from the boat.

Several of them eyed him and Hongluan warily.

Upon seeing the middle-aged man in the dark robes leading the group, Supreme Master Miaoyu’s gaze narrowed slightly.

He then regained his composure and said, “I was wondering which expert this was. It turns out to be the Fourth Patriarch of the Gongshu Clan. It seems you’ve come here because your Daozi of the Gongshu Clan died here?”

The expressions of the people across from him were shocked at these words.

The middle-aged man in the dark robe also stared intently. “From what you’ve said, Your Excellency, the death of our Daozi of the Gongshu Clan has nothing to do with you?”

“Your Excellency, do you think I was the one who killed your direct descendant Daozi?”

The Miaoyu Clan immediately understood why the people across from him had looked at him and his companions with hostility the moment they appeared.

Naturally, he didn’t want to take the blame.

He immediately explained, “You’ve misunderstood. I just arrived in Canglan City.

Seeing the city’s devastation, I learned what happened after asking the residents.

Your son’s death had nothing to do with me.”

“Oh? Your Excellency, a dignified Grand Elder of the Hehuan Sect and a Four Tribulations Primordial Spirit Master.

How could it be so coincidental that you appeared in this small Lower Realm city of Canglan?

If I remember correctly, the Hehuan Sect doesn’t seem to have set up a teleportation array in the Lesser Cang Realm?”

The middle-aged man in the ink-colored robe narrowed his eyes, but he didn’t readily believe the words of the Excellency Miaoyu.

The timing of his appearance was far too clever.

The sudden appearance of a powerful Fourth Tribulation Spirit in a small place like the Small Cang Realm

was inherently unusual.

Furthermore, the other party had clearly shown a look of surprise upon seeing them.

All of this fueled the suspicions of the Supreme Master Miao Yu.

“Your Excellency need not worry about why I came here. If you still have doubts, why not go to the city and question them yourself?

See if I was the one who murdered your direct descendant of the Mo Clan?”

The Supreme Master Miao Yu did not disclose his purpose for descending to the mortal realm.

While he feared the Gongshu Clan, he was not so timid as to be submissive.

The Fourth Gongshu’s realm was, at best, comparable to his own.

In a real fight, he wouldn’t necessarily be at a disadvantage.

Seeing the Supreme Master Miao Yu’s composure, the middle-aged man in the black robe hesitated.

He thought for a moment, then instructed the people behind him, “Go down to the Tianjifang in the city and ask them what’s going on.”

“Yes, Ancestor!”

Immediately, two of them flew downward.

Canglan City’s protective formation had been broken earlier by Gongshu Yu.

The Canglan City Lord, who oversaw the formation, had already left.

Furthermore, the guards in the City Lord’s Mansion were recuperating from their injuries.

Therefore, the two men landed in the city unimpeded.

Not long after, they returned with someone.

“Ancestor, this person claims to be the manager of Tianjifang and knows what happened yesterday.”

The person they brought back was none other than the stunning woman, one of the Tianjifang Lord’s trusted confidants.

“Luo Yan greets Ancestor.”

The stunning woman sensed the presence of the people around her, each one terrifying enough to tremble in fear.

She instantly realized that each of these individuals’ cultivation far surpassed her own, and none of them was someone she could afford to provoke.

“Are you from the Tianjifang in Canglan City? I remember Gongshu Qian was in charge there, wasn’t he?”

The middle-aged man in the dark robe frowned slightly.

Before coming down, he had visited his clan to learn about the situation in Canglan City, this small Cang Realm.

“The owner of the workshop has been captured by the City Lord and taken to the City Lord’s Mansion. Two Supreme Soul Masters have also been taken to the City Lord’s Mansion,”

the beautiful woman replied cautiously.

“They’re not dead?” The middle-aged man in the dark robe’s expression shifted. “Tell me, what’s going on?”

“Here’s what happened, Ancestor…”

Luo Yan quickly recounted the events of the past few days in the city. It began

with the sudden arrival of a mysterious talisman maker from the Treasure House, who was dominating the city’s talisman market with a large number of cheap talismans.

He then recounted yesterday’s battle at the Soul Realm, where Young Master He Yu was severely injured by the mysterious talisman maker and subsequently killed by the City Lord himself.

Finally, he talked about how the owner of the Tianjifang and others had been detained by the City Lord and taken to the City Lord’s Mansion.

She didn’t dare to exaggerate in her words.

They all recounted the entire story in the simplest terms.

The beautiful woman knew that the people before her were incredibly powerful, far more powerful than she could imagine.

Every wisp of her soul’s vibrations could be sensed by them.

If she spoke carelessly, she might end up making things worse, and she would likely be the one to suffer.

After listening to the beautiful woman’s account, everyone fell silent for a moment.

No one had expected the events in tiny Canglan City to unfold so turbulently.

Minor matters like seizing the talisman market were minor matters, unnoticed by them.

But the subsequent battle between the Yuan Shen realms made everyone’s heart skip a beat.

“Are you saying that Gongshu Cai and his men were ultimately defeated because Nangong Yuanwu accidentally self-destructed his spiritual weapon,

while Gongshu Yu was defeated head-on by a mysterious young Jin Dan?”

Even the middle-aged man in the dark robe was surprised.

He had assumed that Gongshu Yu, with two Yuan Shen realms accompanying him and the protective jade talisman,

would be no match for him.

Therefore, his death must have been linked to a powerful individual.

Unexpectedly, the most direct cause was Nangong Yuanwu’s detonation of his spiritual weapon.

“Yes, Ancestor,” the beautiful woman said respectfully.

“What was the origin of the young Jindan who defeated Gongshu Yu?”

A red-haired young man from the Gongshu clan asked anxiously.

“I don’t know the origins of that young Jindan, but I know he’s the mysterious talisman maker invited by the Treasure House.

It’s said he’s a cultivator who recently arrived in Canglan City from the outside world.

But I can’t find out where he came from or what his background is.”

“How is this possible…”

The red-haired young man was shocked.

He hadn’t expected Gongshu Yu, one of his rivals, to be defeated by another young Jindan.

After all, although he usually looked down on Gongshu Yu,

believing his cultivation of the Emperor’s Heart Art to be superficial,

he actually had a strong respect for his abilities.

If the two of them really fought, even if he was confident, he would only have a 60% chance of winning at most.

But now, he heard that Gongshu Yu had been defeated head-on by a young Jindan cultivator, completely crushed, with no chance of resistance.

This truly staggered him.

Even if the attacker had reached the Perfect Jindan realm, Gongshu Yu wouldn’t have been so completely defeated.

Thinking of this, he couldn’t help but ask, “Are you sure he’s at the Jindan realm?”

“Well…” The beautiful woman hesitated.

Naturally, she wasn’t sure, but intuitively, she felt that the mysterious talisman maker didn’t possess the unique aura of a powerful Yuanshen master.

“Alright, aren’t you humiliated enough?”

At this point, the middle-aged man in the black robe said calmly, “Whether he’s at the Jindan realm or not, we’ll know once we capture him.

That’s the City Lord’s Mansion over there, right? I want to see where this Nangong Yuanwu gets the guts to kill my Gongshu family’s Daozi.”

With that, the middle-aged man in the black robe folded up his flying boat and flew towards the City Lord’s Mansion in the center of Canglan City.

The red-haired youths and others quickly followed.

“Husband, what should we do?”

Hongluan asked through telepathic communication.

“Of course I followed them. It’s rare for the Gongshu family and the Nangong family to fight. How can I miss such an exciting event?”

Miaoyu Shangzun had never expected that so many things had happened in Canglan City.

In addition, he had just heard that Mo Hongyun seemed to have gone to the City Lord’s Mansion. Of course, he couldn’t just leave.

He was a little hesitant before. Since Mo Hongyun was related to the Nangong family, should he give up?

But now, seeing that the Gongshu family was about to clash with the Nangong family,

he felt that perhaps he could take advantage of this opportunity to fish in troubled waters.

If he could take Mo Hongyun away, then there would still be hope for his path.

…

Just as Miaoyu Shangzun was making his own calculations.

On the other side, in a valley in the Tianyuan World, Lu Qing was observing the surrounding situation.

(End of this chapter)