52: The death of Helian Ba, gambling on stones

"Beauty, I'm coming."

Helian Ba rubbed his hands together, a lecherous look on his face, and was about to push the door open when it suddenly opened, revealing the Woman in Red staring at Helian Ba with icy eyes.

Helian Ba was instantly captivated by the Woman in Red's stunning beauty.

So beautiful.

Compared to the little beauty from yesterday, this Woman in Red was far superior.

"What do you want to do?"

The Woman in Red's tone was extremely cold, and her eyes held a hint of Killing Intent.

Helian Ba, blinded by her beauty, couldn't sense the Killing Intent in her eyes. "I am Helian Ba, the second Young Lord of the Helian Family. I'd like to invite you for a drink, miss."

"You want to invite me for a drink? Alright! Come in!"

Helian Ba quickly ordered someone to fetch wine. He entered the room and closed the door, while another person stood guard outside.

Unexpectedly, as soon as he turned around, a flash of Sword Qi appeared. He froze on the spot, and his head immediately fell from his neck. The Woman in Red looked indifferent. She broke through the Restriction of the inn with a single sword strike and escaped through the window.

Helian Ba had trifled with countless women, and in the end, he died at the hands of a woman. This was Karma.

His subordinates arrived outside the room with the wine, which had been drugged—a common tactic of Helian Ba.

"Young Lord, the wine is here."

After waiting for a moment, Helian Ba didn't come out to take the wine.

"Oh no, the Young Lord is in danger."

The two immediately broke down the door and entered.

Upon entering the room, they saw the Young Lord's corpse, and the Woman in Red was nowhere to be found.

"Quick, report to the Family Head."

"Are you trying to die? We failed to protect the Young Lord. The Family Head, in his fury, will surely kill us. Let's get out of here quickly."

The two immediately left the inn.

Helian Family.

One person rushed to Helian Xiong, "Family Head, something terrible has happened."

"Why are you so flustered?"

"The Young Lord's soul jade stone has shattered."

Upon hearing that his son was dead, Helian Xiong's Killing Intent surged. Who dared to kill his son in Helian City?

He released his Divine Sense, covering the entire Helian City, and found Helian Ba's corpse in the inn. His Divine Sense materialized and appeared in the inn.

"Who killed my son?"

The innkeeper trembled with fear. "Reporting to the City Lord, it was a Woman in Red who killed him. She has already fled."

He used his true essence to project the Woman in Red's appearance. "It was her."

Helian Xiong's Divine Sense returned to his body, and he personally left Helian City to pursue and kill the Woman in Red.

[Today's Intelligence (White): Helian Ba was killed by the red-clothed female assassin, who has fled without a trace.]

Jiang Yunfan, riding the Purple Lightning Vulture, smiled upon receiving the System intelligence.

Dare to send an assassin to kill me? This is the price.

Not long after.

Jiang Yunfan passed through Wangchuan City.

[Today's Intelligence (Green): In the Stone Workshop of Wangchuan City, there is a source stone containing a holy medicine seed, which will be obtained by a person named Bu Wentian in half a year.]

[Today's Intelligence (red): In the Stone Workshop of Wangchuan City, there is a source stone containing a thousand-year profound iron, which will be obtained by a person named Shi Zhenxiang in several months.]

..."Stop, stop, stop."

Jiang Yunfan quickly shouted for it to stop, but the System ignored him.

The System released several pieces of intelligence consecutively.

"Today's free intelligence has been used up."

Damn it!

You dog System, trying to trick me into using my Lifespan again.

Once the free intelligence is used up, I have to exchange Lifespan for intelligence.

All this intelligence points to one place: the Stone Workshop.

There are so many stones in the Stone Workshop, who knows which one it is?

"Go down."

The Purple Lightning Vulture flew outside the city. Jiang Yunfan dismounted from its back, and the Purple Lightning Vulture's body shrunk to the size of a sparrow, landing on Jiang Yunfan's shoulder.

Wangchuan City does not belong to any private entity, so no Spirit Stones are needed to enter the city.

Jiang Yunfan found the Stone Workshop.

The Stone Workshop was crowded with people.

"It's empty again! What terrible luck!"

Someone left in a huff.

Jiang Yunfan stepped forward and glanced around. Inside the Stone Workshop, various strangely shaped stones were displayed. He released his Spiritual Sense to probe, but his Spiritual Sense was blocked and could not penetrate the stones.

What kind of stones are these? They can even resist Spiritual Sense.

He didn't plan to expend Lifespan for intelligence. It wouldn't be too late to come back tomorrow... Fang Qingxue hadn't encountered any demonic cultivators along the way, which made her suspicious of Jiang Yunfan, suspecting he had tricked her.

Despite her suspicions, she continued towards the Myriad Poison Forest. She didn't want millions of Spirit Stones to go to waste.

If she went to the Myriad Poison Forest and still couldn't find the star net grass, she would definitely return to Helian City and smash the Tianji Pavilion, letting everyone know that Heavenly Secret Master was a liar.

If nothing unexpected happens, something unexpected will happen soon.

Not long after.

A handsome Man in White Robes, extraordinary in appearance, passed by and saw Fang Qingxue. He flew forward and blocked her path.

"Little beauty, where are you going?"

The Man in White Robes smiled wickedly, his eyes revealing a lecherous glint.

He had predicted it correctly.

Fang Qingxue guessed that the person in front of her was a demonic cultivator from the Joyful Union Sect. "What do you intend to do?"

"I want to Dual Cultivate with the beauty."

The Man in White Robes reached out to grab Fang Qingxue.

Fang Qingxue was prepared and quickly threw out a Blazing Talisman. The Blazing Talisman transformed into flames and scorched towards the Man in White Robes, who moved to block the flames.

Fang Qingxue swung her sword, and a Sword Qi wounded the Man in White Robes.

"Damn it."

The Man in White Robes glared fiercely at Fang Qingxue. He didn't make another move and decisively left.

"That was close."

Fang Qingxue breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, she was prepared, otherwise, it wouldn't have been easy to escape.

Heavenly Secret Master's Divine Calculation and Wonderful Prediction was truly amazing. In the future, if she couldn't find any Spirit Medicine, she would go to Heavenly Secret Master for a divination.

She flew away... [Today's Intelligence (Orange): In two hours, a person named Zhuo Bufan will unearth a Low Grade Spiritual Artifact, a soul-snatching bell, from a source stone in the Stone Workshop.]

Jiang Yunfan left the inn and arrived at the Stone Workshop.

There weren't many people in the Stone Workshop yet.

"System, give me the intelligence on the location of the source stones containing the holy medicine seed and the Low Grade Spiritual Artifact."

[Today's Intelligence (Green): The source stone containing the holy medicine seed is in the pile of medium-grade source stones, in the third row, fifth from the left.]

[Today's Intelligence (Orange): The source stone containing the Spiritual Artifact, soul-snatching bell, is in the pile of Low Grade source stones, in the seventh row, second from the right.]

"System, what kind of intelligence is this? Why did you give me two pieces of intelligence!"

"These are two pieces of intelligence, so of course, they are given as two pieces."

Jiang Yunfan had tried to be clever, but he didn't expect this dog System to be so shrewd.

He entered the Stone Workshop, pretended to look around, and finally took the two source stones.

"I'll buy these two source stones. How many Spirit Stones?"

"Three hundred seventy-four thousand Low-Grade Spirit Stones."

Jiang Yunfan paid the Spirit Stones and left with the source stones, but he was called back by the Workshop Master. "Young Master, why are you leaving without unearthing the stones?"

Jiang Yunfan said, "I bought these. Can't I take them with me?"

The Workshop Master guessed that this person was gambling on stones for the first time, so he explained, "Of course you can take them, but I must kindly remind you that the source stone and the treasure sealed within are one. If you use brute force, you will damage the treasure inside the source stone. We have stone unearthing Masters here who can unearth them. It costs ten thousand Spirit Stones to unearth one source stone."

This stone gambling had even formed an industry chain.

Jiang Yunfan knew that the treasures in these two source stones were extremely precious. Once unearthed, they would definitely attract envious eyes and cause trouble.

But if he unsealed them himself, he would damage the holy medicine seed inside the source stone.

"Help me unearth them!"

Jiang Yunfan handed the source stones to the Workshop Master and took out twenty thousand Low-Grade Spirit Stones.

The Workshop Master took the source stones to find a stone unearthing Master to unearth them.

Many people came to watch.

[Today's Intelligence (Orange): The Host unearthing the soul-snatching bell will attract several powerful cultivators to snatch it, with a danger level of SS-rank.]