Chapter 561: A Gamble
Chapter 561: A Gamble
Lin Xuan Qi’s eyebrows furrowed deep when he saw what was going on.
The Qing Feng Sect was most likely using this as an excuse to get rid of the Sima Family as the supplier of Artifact Armor to the Royal Army.
And even if it wasn’t so, it had to do with weakening the Sima Family further.
They had the patience to wait for months, for the war in the north to turn in their favor.
He had underestimated how a few months was nothing to a cultivator that had the lifespan of a few hundred years and they were willing to wait for the right opportunity.
Lin Xuan Qi thought that he had to do something.
There were many people crowding around and it was the best time for him to do so without being suspected.
The Qing Feng Sect disciples raised their hands and shouted, "Don’t worry, we will try and seek out justice for you if it is true."
"We knew it had to be the Qing Feng Sect disciples."
"Yeah, we wouldn’t trust anyone else with it."
"Please go and help these men with such grievances."
The crowd erupted in cheers and they shouted in support for those men with injuries all over their bodies.
Amidst the cheers, the Qing Feng Sect disciples went into the Magistrate’s Office.
Their months of keeping the law and order had cemented their image as trustworthy and righteous.
But Lin Xuan Qi knew what was going on.
When the last of the Qing Feng Sect disciples disappeared into the Magistrate’s Office, he made his move.
He chanted some words and he unleashed his Spiritual Attack spell at the bandaged man, Jiao Shi, whom he had followed all the way to the Magistrate’s Office.
Jiao Shi who was shouting out his grievances stopped when the shouting from the crowd faded and went silent.
Then, his vision blanked.
And in his mind, bodies strewn all over the ground appeared.
He glanced around and his eyes and mouth opened wide with his heart thumping hard.
Arrows that stood out in the bodies and the broken swords on the ground were a familiar scene to him.
"It can’t be." Jiao Shi exclaimed with fear.
One moment he was outside the Magistrate’s Office and the next moment, he was back at the battlefield.
He didn’t know what was going on.
However, it was not all.
A man dressed in broken armor with blood smeared all over his face and armor slowly approached him.
"Who... who are you?" Jiao Shi pointed his trembling finger at him.
"You know what you did to us!" Lin Xuan Qi, who had manifested wearing the broken armor, pointed at Jiao Shi and shouted.
"No, I didn’t do anything..." Jiao Shi took a few steps back when he saw Lin Xuan Qi approaching.
Lin Xuan Qi saw his response and he was glad that his gamble worked.
He suspected that Jiao Shi must have done something to the Artifact Armor making them fail or had something to do with it.
And he was most probably right judging from the response of Jiao Shi.
"You think you could do that and enjoy your riches afterwards?
"Do you think that nothing will happen to you?
"Let me tell you this, the Sima Family will be after you and the Qing Feng Sect will be wishing for something to happen to you.
"Anyone would know that it was the Sima Family if you die the next day.
"In fact, the Qing Feng Sect might even do it themselves to frame the Sima Family.
"Have you not thought about why all the Qing Feng Sect disciples went into the Magistrate’s Office, leaving you out here all alone to be attacked by anyone.
"I’ll be waiting for the day that you die, and when that happens, we shall be happy for you to join us in hell."
The bodies that were piled up and strewn all over started to growl and move, which made Jiao Shi take another few steps away from them.
Thud.
He tripped onto something and the shouts from the crowd could be heard again.
Jiao Shi glanced around frantically but the others weren’t aware of what had happened.
All of them were shouting at the top of their lungs asking for justice to be served.
And most importantly, Jiao Shi felt chills down his spine when he realized that it was indeed true that there weren’t any Qing Feng Sect disciples around.
If anyone like the Sima Family wanted to kill him right there, it would be so easy to do so.
He was only at Qi Concentration Level Initial Stage and was relatively helpless.
Lin Xuan Qi saw the response of Jiao Shi and he hoped his injection of the idea that Jiao Shi wasn’t safe even from the Qing Feng Sect would help later.
With so much of his businesses and properties in Hong Feng City now, he couldn’t afford to let the Qing Feng Sect get its way.
He had witnessed what they were willing to do in Spirit Valley and he was wary of it.
"Here they come!"
"How is it? What did the Magistrate say?"
"Can we help them?"
The crowd asked when they saw the Qing Feng Sect disciples appear out from the Magistrate’s Office.
One of the Qing Feng Sect disciples raised his hands and shouted, "Calm down. We have talked to the Magistrate and the Magistrate promised to get to the bottom of it."
Then, he glanced at Jiao Shi.
Jiao Shi froze for a moment before he said his line.
"Thank you, Qing Feng Sect! What would we do without you!"
Lin Xuan Qi saw enough and he decided to leave.
"Let’s get to the Sima Family mansion." He said and Lee He Song nodded his head.
They left the crowd and headed straight towards the Sima Family mansion.
He had to let them know of what had happened and also about the Formation Array that he had seen the Qing Feng Sect disciples create.
Along the way, he could hear how the news had spread and everyone was talking about what had happened at the Magistrate’s Office.
The opinion towards the Sima Family turned and they weren’t being looked upon favorably anymore.
"I’m here to look for Master Sima Ye."