"Yes!"

Li Gujian and Chen Bugou agreed and each entered different rooms to search, with Xiao Mu following Li Gujian.

"Brother Li!"

Xiao Mu suddenly transmitted a message to Li Gujian, "If you have a treasure that can detect Concealment Arrays, you might want to take it out and check around."

"A treasure that detects Concealment Arrays? Brother Mu suspects that the murderer was after the treasure Jiang Su had?"

Li Gujian quickly deduced based on Xiao Mu's words.

Smart!

Xiao Mu smiled encouragingly at Li Gujian.

Li Gujian continued to speculate, "If the murderer has already taken the treasure, there's no need to search. But if the treasure is still here, it means that Jiang Su hid it very well, inside a Concealment Array."

Li Gujian grew more excited as he spoke, "Fortunately, I have with me a Spirit Amulet for detecting treasures made by Brother Zhao. Today, it finally comes into play."

After speaking, Li Gujian bowed to Xiao Mu and started searching around the courtyard.

Meanwhile, Xiao Mu released his Divine Sense, covering the entire courtyard and gradually reaching beyond, hoping to find useful clues.

"Captain Lan, Xiao Chen, Brother Yan, come quick, I've found something!"

The excited shout of Li Gujian suddenly came from downstairs.

"What?"

Lan Yan's expression changed slightly as he leapt up, his Earth Escape Technique turning into Golden Light as he rushed out of the room.

Seeing this, Xiao Mu immediately followed.

Chen Bugou was the slowest, but it only took him two or three seconds to arrive at the scene.

When everyone arrived, they saw Li Gujian standing next to the toilet, holding a cyan jade pendant the size of a little finger in his left hand, and a small hole had been dug in the ground beside the left wall of the toilet, about twenty to thirty centimeters wide but half a meter deep.

In Li Gujian's right hand, covered in mud, he held an object that looked exactly like a divining bamboo slip.

Xiao Mu glanced at the bamboo slip, which was gray-white in color, simple in appearance, but with a faint white light flickering inside.

This white light was astonishing; while it didn't radiate outward, it imposed immense pressure on Xiao Mu.

It was a kind of deep soul pressure, indicating that the white light was incredibly powerful, causing Xiao Mu's guardian spirit to tremble involuntarily at the first sight of it.

Buzz!

The Seal of the Heavenly Emperor within Xiao Mu resonated, and Emperor's Might suddenly activated, threatening to release from inside Xiao Mu.

Xiao Mu was startled and quickly suppressed the Emperor's Might inside him, controlling the Seal of the Heavenly Emperor to prevent any disturbances. At the same time, a huge surge rose in his heart.

The power that could automatically activate the Emperor's Might was rare; previously, he had only encountered Chaos Power and Hongmeng Power as the supreme powers.

Now, the bamboo slip, the white light within it, once again automatically triggered the Emperor's Might—could it also be one of the Supreme Powers?

What power was it?

Creation Power? Primal Beginning Power? Or some other top-level power that even he himself didn't know?

"Good! Very good! Li Gujian, I didn't expect you to achieve merit on your first task. You did very well, hand that object over to me!"

Lan Yan praised loudly and excitedly extended his right hand to Li Gujian.

"Yes, Captain Lan!"

Li Gujian passed the bamboo slip to Lan Yan.

Without even looking, Lan Yan stored the bamboo slip in his storage item.

Xiao Mu was taken aback by this; he had thought that Lan Yan would examine the bamboo slip carefully after receiving it, and he could take the opportunity to figure out the origins of the bamboo slip.

Instead, Lan Yan, without even looking at it, stored the bamboo slip away, showing no curiosity about the origins or powers of the bamboo slip.

Now was not safe, and the murderer might return at any moment; indeed, fitting for a captain, he was cautious enough to not even take an extra glance while holding a treasure.

Soon, Xiao Mu figured out why Lan Yan behaved this way, silently admiring in his heart.

However, this meant he could only investigate the origins of the bamboo slip indirectly through commands at the Great Tang Ruins or inquire through Li Gujian and Zhu Ping.

"Xiao Li, how did you find this object?"

After putting away the bamboo slip, Lan Yan questioned Li Gujian.

"Captain, it's..."

Li Gujian instinctively looked at Xiao Mu.

Xiao Mu subtly averted his gaze, signaling Li Gujian not to expose him.

Understanding the hint, Li Gujian immediately changed his statement, "Captain, I suddenly thought that a murderer kills for a reason, either a secret is discovered, or a treasure is sought."

"As for the former, no need to say, but if it's the latter, if the treasure hasn't been taken, it means Jiang Su hid the treasure well."

"So, I assumed the treasure wasn't taken and deliberately searched the Jiang Family's courtyard, and indeed finally found a Concealment Array in the restroom. After I broke the Array Method, I discovered this object beneath it."

"Very good, you did very well, very clever, before this, no one had ever thought of that."

In admiration, Lan Yan gave Li Gujian a smile and casually ordered, "The enemy might return at any time, now that the treasure has been found, we shouldn't stay here any longer, let's immediately go back to report."

The atmosphere immediately became heavy; Li Gujian and Chen Bugou wore serious expressions and replied in a low voice, "Yes, Captain!"

The four left the Jiang Family and returned the way they had come. Under the oppressive atmosphere, no one spoke again, as it seemed, apart from Xiao Mu, the other three were worried about the murderer returning.

Only Xiao Mu feigned tension, actually hoping in his heart that the murderer would return and try to seize the treasure. In such a case, he could take the opportunity to defeat his adversary and uncover the secret of the Mutated Beings left by the Life and Death Sect in Twilight Forest Village.

Woo woo woo! Boom!

Suddenly, a strange noise arose, and the terrifying black cloud left by Qing Jie Thunder God above pressed down towards the ground.

"What's happening?" Lan Yan's face changed drastically as he stared at the sky and shouted in shock.

Chen Bugou's expression changed the most dramatically, his voice trembling, "It's the Qing Jie... Qing Jie Thunder God, he has returned!"

"Qing... Qing Jie Thunder God?"

Li Gujian's face turned pale.

Countless thunderclaps suddenly sounded from Heaven and Earth. In the distance, in the sky above, a gigantic object appeared, resembling an immensely enlarged fly swatter, aimed directly at them and abruptly slammed down.

Boom! Crack!

Space fractured, and the sound of Heaven and Earth collapsing could be heard; the connection between the place where Xiao Mu and the others were and the outside world was suddenly severed.

Oppressive, oppressive, suffocating air permeated the atmosphere, making it feel as if they were trapped in an extremely small cage.

The sky turned completely black; the sun disappeared, the earth vanished, the moon was gone, and the stars had also disappeared, everything was gone.

The location of Xiao Mu and the others was completely isolated from Heaven and Earth as if they were in a desolate world.

"What... what happened?"

"Who did this?"

"Is someone attacking us?"

"Is... is it really Qing Jie Thunder God? What... what should we do?"

Li Gujian's face was ashen, evidently scared, while Lan Yan and Chen Bugou shivered, not knowing what to say.

Only Xiao Mu remained silent, looking up at the sky.

Just now, that gigantic gray-white object, resembling an immensely enlarged fly swatter, gave him a sense of Supreme Power the moment it appeared.

And that power was identical to the power inside the bamboo slip that Li Gujian found.

Although Li Gujian and the others didn't clearly see what had happened, Xiao Mu noticed.

Just then, that huge gray-white treasure, resembling a fly swatter, severed this part of Heaven and Earth as soon as it appeared, completely isolating Xiao Mu and his group from the outside space.

As for the thunder that appeared in the sky, the Divine Power of Qing Jie Thunder God, it was indirectly caused by that gray-white treasure and not truly Qing Jie Thunder God appearing.

Under that isolation of Supreme Power, regardless of what happened inside, the outside world could not know.

"There's a powerful enemy making a move, everyone follow me closely, don't separate from each other to avoid being ambushed!"

Lan Yan's voice suddenly sounded, emitting a white light from his body with the Power of Sharp Gold through True Force, providing light for everyone in this pitch-black environment.

Xiao Mu, being the least affected, heard this and along with Li Gujian and Chen Bugou moved closer to Lan Yan.

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