181: Chapter 181 Acquisition of Three Special Elixirs

The auction was still ongoing.

The price of the Thousand-Year Earth Heart Milk had already soared to 5.5 million taels.

But the four major families of the Inner City were unwilling to give up and were still competing with each other.

As for Xia Zhong, he only left two people behind to monitor the situation at the auction house.

Meanwhile, he took the others to search the vicinity for traces of "Su Quanzhong".

Chen Hu activated his invisibility function.

Even though he was hiding right under their noses, these people failed to discover him.

Another two minutes passed.

The Thousand-Year Earth Heart Milk was won by the Wang Family for the high price of 6.2 million taels.

Now, Wang Zhantian was being invited into the transaction room to complete the handover.

Soon, both parties completed the handover.

Then, Wang Zhantian and Hu Feilong both departed with their respective guards.

"My Lord, do we need to snatch the Spirit Medicines from their hands?"

A man appeared beside Xia Zhong and said in a low voice as he watched the departing Hu Feilong and Wang Zhantian.

Although all three special Spirit Medicines in today's auction fetched prices far exceeding their actual value, such special Spirit Medicines were often in high demand but short supply, virtually impossible to buy normally.

If they had caught the culprit who harmed the Young Marquis, it would have been fine.

The Spirit Medicines would have been sold, and the Marquis wouldn't have cared.

But as it turned out, the culprit had not been caught, and the Spirit Medicines were gone as well.

He could imagine what kind of wrath he would face from Marquis Weiwu.

Thus, hearing his subordinate's question, a cold glint flashed in Xia Zhong's eyes.

"Go, snatch back both the earth soul grass and the Thousand-Year Earth Heart Milk. Remember, do not expose your identity!"

"Yes!"

The man took his orders and left.

Inside the carriage, Hu Feilong was admiring the earth soul grass.

Suddenly, the carriage came to a sudden halt.

The voice of the guard driving the carriage came from outside: "Patriarch, someone is blocking the way ahead!"

"Just beat them and drive them away!"

Hu Feilong said impatiently.

Immediately, a guard leaped off his horse and kicked toward the chest of the masked man blocking the road.

*Bang!*

A look of contempt flashed in the eyes of the masked man. Moving second but striking first, he kicked the chest of the Hu Family's Tendon Refining guard.

The guard was kicked flying for over ten meters, falling to the ground and immediately slipping into a coma.

"Go together!"

Seeing this, the other guards rode their horses to charge at the masked man blocking the road, unsheathing their broadswords or longswords along the way.

At that moment, a figure flashed.

All the guards who charged at the masked man were thrown off their horses, crashing dozens of meters away and passing out in unison.

"Hu Feilong, hand over the earth soul grass and you shall live. Refuse, and you die!"

The masked man's figure appeared on the back of the carriage horse, staring coldly at the carriage cabin.

Hu Feilong stepped out of the carriage.

Looking at the masked man, he presented the box containing the earth soul grass with both hands: "Your Excellency, here is the earth soul grass you want."

This was because he had already sensed the aura emanating from the masked man.

The opponent was a Marrow Refining expert.

As a mere Bone Refining Realm cultivator, even if he fought to the death, he wouldn't be able to protect the earth soul grass.

Therefore, he decisively backed down.

"Smart of you!"

The masked man said with satisfaction, reaching out with his hand. The box containing the earth soul grass flew toward him.

But right at that moment.

A strand of Sword Qi materialized out of thin air. With a squelch, the masked man's head severed from his body and fell.

And the box that was about to land in his hands vanished as well.

"This... this?"

Seeing this scene, Hu Feilong was almost scared out of his wits: "Quick, leave this place!"

A living Marrow Refining expert had actually died right in front of him.

Out of instinct, he wanted to leave this place of trouble.

On the other side.

Another subordinate of Xia Zhong had already snatched the Thousand-Year Earth Heart Milk back from Wang Zhantian.

He was just about to take it back to report to Xia Zhong.

Suddenly, a hand appeared on his back, and a powerful surge of True Qi flooded into his body, shattering his heart.

In the next instant, this person vanished into thin air, along with the glass bottle containing the Thousand-Year Earth Heart Milk in his hand.

"Time to go!"

The invisible Chen Hu directly dived into the ground, quickly heading toward the Fierce Tiger Gang's General Hall.

With Chen Hu's departure.

Inside the private box, Shangguan Jingyu suddenly stood up in excitement: "Senior Sister, I found that spellcaster!"

"Where?"

Shangguan Lingnan asked.

"I don't know!"

Shangguan Jingyu shook her head.

Seeing that Shangguan Lingnan couldn't understand, she hastily explained: "I was just using my Spiritual Sense to check the situation outside, and I happened to see Uncle Xia's man robbing that Bone Refining Realm cultivator of the Wang Family of the Thousand-Year Earth Heart Milk."

"But after he got the Thousand-Year Earth Heart Milk, he was ambushed by an invisible person. That invisible person not only took the Thousand-Year Earth Heart Milk but also took away the corpse of Uncle Xia's subordinate!"

"Then did you find out where that invisible person went?" Shangguan Lingnan quickly asked.

Shangguan Jingyu shook her head: "His invisibility technique is very profound; even my Spiritual Sense couldn't see through it. Perhaps he is still nearby, or perhaps he has already left!"

"No, I have to go and tell Xia Zhong!"

"Senior Sister, I'll go with you!"

Soon, the Shangguan sisters found Xia Zhong.

"Why are the two Young Miss Shangguans here?"

"Lord Xia Zhong, my Junior Sister just discovered that the subordinate you sent to snatch the Thousand-Year Earth Heart Milk was ambushed by an invisible person, and they even took his corpse!" Shangguan Lingnan said directly.

"What?"

Xia Zhong was furious.

Then he looked at Shangguan Jingyu: "Miss Shangguan, where was my subordinate attacked?"

"I'll take you there!"

Soon, Shangguan Jingyu brought Xia Zhong to the crime scene.

After some inspection, they found absolutely nothing.

Suddenly, he realized that besides the subordinate who was killed, there was another subordinate who had not returned.

He immediately sent people to look for him.

Soon, the people he sent out returned.

"My Lord, Old Du has been killed. According to the statements of bystanders, a strand of Sword Qi appeared out of thin air and sliced off his head!"

"It must have been done by the invisible person as well!"

Shangguan Jingyu said without hesitation.

For a moment, Xia Zhong's face turned extremely grim.

After a moment, he forced himself to calm down, then turned to look at Shangguan Jingyu: "Miss Shangguan, you are also a spellcaster. Can you find that invisible person? Once it is done, our Weiwu Marquis Mansion will surely reward you handsomely!"

"Uncle Xia, it's not that I don't want to help you, but I simply can't!" Shangguan Jingyu shook her head. "Actually, when that invisible person was killing, I wanted to lock onto him with my Spiritual Sense, but I failed. So, I have no way of finding him either!"

"Thank you, Miss Shangguan!"

Xia Zhong did not push further. After all, the Shangguan sisters' identities were not simple; they were the State Grandmaster's people.

Therefore, he said to his subordinates, "Go and bring that spellcaster master and disciple here!"

Soon, the spellcaster master and disciple arrived.

"Greetings, Lord Xia!"

The two of them cupped their fists in salute.

Xia Zhong explained the matter of the invisible person, then stared at the elderly spellcaster and said, "Do you have any way to find the invisible person?"

"Lord Xia, you are highly overestimating this old man!" The elderly spellcaster smiled bitterly. "A technique capable of invisibility must be at least of the Medium Grade, or even High Grade. How could the methods of such a powerful spellcaster be cracked by a low-grade, Soul Condensation Realm spellcaster like me!"

"Useless trash!"

Xia Zhong finally couldn't suppress the anger in his heart and cursed in a low voice.

"This old man is sorry to have disappointed Lord Xia!"

The old spellcaster wasn't angry at all at Xia Zhong's insults, but the young spellcaster was somewhat indignant. Just as he wanted to say something, he was stopped by the old spellcaster.

On the other side.

Lady Feng had searched the entire Su Residence and also found the unconscious Su Quanzhong.

After waking Su Quanzhong up and interrogating him, she found out that the Su Quanzhong at the auction earlier was someone else in disguise.

She had a premonition.

The person who disguised himself as Su Quanzhong was the very spellcaster who assassinated the Young Marquis.

Thinking about how the culprit had brushed past her, Lady Feng almost regretted it so much that her intestines turned blue.