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Chapter 0

“Elder Wanjun, have you explored the ruins of House Yan?” asked Jiang Chen .



“I have, but didn’t find any clues or hints of note . ” Yan Wanjun sighed dejectedly .

“Let’s go investigate a bit more,” Jiang Chen said to Huang’er . “We might make new discoveries . ”

“Alright!” Huang’er naturally wouldn’t be opposed to the idea .

“I’ll come as well,” Yan Qingsang volunteered .

“And I . ” Yan Wanjun had gone several times himself without much gain, but he believed that Jiang Chen might be able to find something . After all, this youth was a regular maker of miracles .

Jiang Chen and company departed the sacred land . They arrived at House Yan’s ruins in no time at all .

From a distance, the site looked rather desolate . Weeds had already begun to grow in between the broken stones . Clearly, it had been completely abandoned by the passage of time .

Gazing at it from a distance, Jiang Chen felt a mixture of emotions well up within him . House Yan had been a first-rate faction in Eternal Divine Nation once upon a time . Its estate had been as luxurious as any top-rank sect .

All of that opulence was no more, cast aside into the wind .

Sadness filled Yan Wanjun’s heart once more upon revisiting the old family site . Elder Shun followed closely behind him . Though the elder was pleased to be reunited with his old disciple, this happiness was dampened by the bleak sights all about them .

Chu Xinghan didn’t feel much for House Yan . In his memory, its only role was the culprit responsible for taking his master Elder Shun away from him . Because of this, he had seen it as his foremost enemy . Still, his emotions were affected by the solemnity around him .

Everyone remained silent as they trudged along in the ruins .

Though Huang’er remained impassive at first, the skeletal remains everywhere grieved her . These people had been alive only a year or two ago .

Yes, House Yan had strong-armed her into many things, but there had also been some kind and sympathetic individuals within the family .

Yan Qingsang gnashed his teeth, cursing all the while . He was incalculably furious . Despite his frustrations with his house, he was nevertheless despondent after its destruction . Suddenly, his footsteps stopped in front of one of the skeletons . He bent down and retrieved a pendant .

“This was Brother Zhenhuai’s . So him, too…” his voice was extremely mournful . Yan Zhenhuai had been the only one among House Yan’s younger generation whom he’d respected .  



They had been on reasonably decent relations, a stark contrast to Yan Jinnan and his cronies, who harassed him at any opportunity . Thus, he respected and appreciated the deceased as an honorable rarity among his kinsmen .  

The pendant had been hanging off of the skeleton’s neck, which meant that the young genius hadn’t escaped the massacre either . Yan Qingsang was greatly saddened by this .

Jiang Chen had had a reasonably good impression of the youth too . He became mildly melancholic when demise was confirmed .


Circling the ruins again and again, he furrowed his brow more and more as time went on . After his thoughts came to a head, he returned to the outskirts of the estate and carefully inspected a few specific details .

“Elder Wanjun,” he looked toward Yan Wanjun seriously . “Have you noticed?”

“What should I have noticed?” the old man asked in a low voice .

“The entire estate was once sealed off by a powerful restriction . There are traces of it still . It’s possible that only a few were responsible for this bloodbath . ”

“Oh?” Yan Wanjun had far less expertise in formations . “How many were there, do you think?” 



“Four or five, no more than that . Only four got their hands dirty, the fifth seems to have been their superior . He barely did any of the work . ” Jiang Chen noted his finds .

“How did you manage to see all that?” Elder Shun was rather incredulous . To be able to glean so much information from so little was nothing short of miraculous – but then again, the young man before him was a regular with miracles .

Honestly, they’d scrutinized these parts themselves as well, but too much time had passed  for them to pick up on anything useful . Yet here Jiang Chen was, firmly insisting that there had been no more than five perpetrators .

Both old men were astonished at this .

“The method of murder and the skeletal evidence shows four killers for the most part . There was another one who was probably giving orders, that would explain how rarely he acted himself . ”

Though only bones were strewn about, Jiang Chen could nevertheless tell a great deal .

“Are there any other things you recognize? Their origins or identities, perhaps?”

Jiang Chen shook his head, laughing helplessly to himself inside . Expecting those things to remain after such a long time was absolutely impossible . Sure, using residual auras to trace the butchers would’ve been doable immediately after the fact, but it had been far too long since then . Any clues had long disappeared . Unless those responsible had left any especially glaring flaws, it was largely an impossible task .

Huang’er couldn’t bear to see the dead strewn about . “Grandpa,” she said quietly, “shall we bury these bodies so they can rest in peace?”

At the end of the day, they’d once been her kinsman . She was kind enough to treat those who had passed with dignity, even those who’d once been responsible for persecuting her and her parents . She didn’t want their remains to lay strewn out beneath the sun like this .

“Indeed, they should have been allowed to rest long ago,” Yan Wanjun declared woodenly . “I’ve only refrained from returning them to the earth because I wanted Jiang Chen to investigate the scene for himself . ”

Jiang Chen thought about it for a second . He’d seen pretty much all there was to see .

“Let’s get to it, then,” he nodded .

“Should we pick a different place?” Yan Qingsang asked .

“No . Now that House Yan is no more, allow these ghosts to melt into the site of their former home . Even the hall of ancestors has been destroyed . Let them rest with the souls of our forebears . ” Yan Wanjun sounded incredibly sorrowful .

For the sake of efficiency, the group moved to work right away .

Something suddenly flickered in Jiang Chen’s consciousness . He pointed a keen eye into a patch of empty space . “Who’s there? Show yourself!”

He placed Huang’er behind himself as he did so, his gaze wary .





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