Chapter 1576: Fellow Daoist, Are You in the Wrong Place?

Chapter 1576: Chapter 455: Fellow Daoist, Are You in the Wrong Place?

Hearing this retort, Xiao Tiance knew he had guessed wrong, and snorted coldly: “I only heard that the Yan Family and Liu Family have issued a bounty over there, but whether anyone has accepted it is unknown.”

Zhou Qing pondered for a moment and continued to ask, “Based on the clues you currently have, do you know who else in the Shen Family is still alive?”

Upon hearing this, Xiao Tiance’s face showed a mocking expression: “Your Excellency, this is the core secret of a noble family.”

“Just touching your upper and lower lips together and you want to extract the Xiao Family’s years of investigative results? You don’t seem to take me seriously at all.”

“Indeed, it’s somewhat rude.” Zhou Qing’s tone was calm, “But if you truthfully tell me, I can consider sparing your life.”

“Sparing my life?” Xiao Tiance laughed uproariously as if he had heard the greatest joke.

The laughter hadn’t even fallen when his face changed abruptly, and he showed a murderous intent in his eyes: “Fellow Daoist… are you a remnant of the Shen Family?”

“Oh? How can you tell?” Zhou Qing’s eyebrows beneath the mask slightly raised.

Xiao Tiance sneered: “Just now when you asked about the Shen Family survivors, there was a hint of concern in your tone. Such sentiments, I have seen many times over the years during interrogations of Shen Family remnants.”

“Are those people in the dungeon behind the Xiao Family’s mountain?” Zhou Qing’s voice suddenly turned cold.

Xiao Tiance’s pupils abruptly contracted: “It seems you have already searched the souls of my Xiao Family’s direct lineage.”

“Indeed, I’ve searched a few.” Zhou Qing stepped forward slowly, with each step lowering the temperature in the hall.

“I also saw that although the Shen Family’s tree has fallen, there are still many direct descendants and those who have been favored scattered far and wide, who refuse to yield even at the point of death.”

He stopped walking, his voice as cold as ice: “Thanks to your Xiao Family, over the years, tens of thousands have been sent as ‘pledges’ to the Liu Family and Yan Family, all without exception, dying tragically.”

Zhou Qing slowly raised his hand, with his fingertip gathering a spot of Purple Gold Thunder Arc: “And now, you still have hundreds of Shen Family members imprisoned in your dungeon, don’t you?”

Hearing this, Xiao Tiance’s face showed a hint of mockery: “You’re quite informed. Yes, for my Xiao Family to establish a foothold in Nanhuang State, some things are indeed unavoidable.”

He shifted the topic, with a sudden flash of cold light in his eyes, “But I’m very curious, how does someone at the Late-stage Spirit Severing Realm have the audacity to threaten the head of a noble family on its own territory?”

As soon as the words fell, the grand hall’s door swung open with a bang.

The two Spirit Severing Realm elders who had just left returned, each holding a weapon with murderous intent, immediately surrounding Zhou Qing.

Zhou Qing glanced around, unperturbed: “I heard that the Xiao Family ancestor is only at Early-stage Ultimate Venerable Realm, currently out searching for the Shen Family ancestor’s whereabouts.”

“And now standing guard at the Xiao Family is merely a Family Head at Great Perfection of Spirit Slash Realm, and two late-stage elders…”

“Why?” Xiao Tiance interrupted with a sneer, “So many of us here, can’t we handle you, Fellow Daoist?”

Zhou Qing shook his head, raised his hand and waved it, spiritual power condensing into Shen Yunzhou’s portrait in the air: “I came here to confirm if there’s any trace of him these past years.”

Upon seeing the portrait, Xiao Tiance’s eyes flashed with surprise: “The most detestable Shen Yunzhou of the Shen Family? I do have information on him, almost caught him.”

At these words, Zhou Qing’s eyes lit up brilliantly.

Although reason told him Shen Yunzhou couldn’t have escaped from Celestial Phoenix Palace’s Vice Palace Master Bai Fengyin, a Late-stage Ultimate Venerable Realm, the return to old grounds still bore a trace of hope.

After all, years ago, he hadn’t personally seen the body.

“Where is he?” Zhou Qing’s voice trembled slightly.