Chapter 332 169: Array Net

"He just died. The killer must be nearby."

Scholar Jingtan's eyes glinted as he suddenly looked toward the top of a nearby wall.

He was instantly taken aback.

"What is that?"

The crowd followed his gaze and saw a figure, faintly glowing with firelight, standing on the wall.

It was wearing Feng Wu's clothes, but above the neck, there was nothing.

"A headless ghost!?"

Tang Huayi's scalp went numb. 'That Jiang Ran... I could just kill him!'

The reason she was cursing Jiang Ran was, of course, because she had just gone to Ruan Yuqing's room, but she hadn't found either of them.

'To think he'd abandon his own sister-in-law here, terrified, while he runs off for a tryst with another girl! If he doesn't deserve a cursing, who does?'

Yet, as "Li Tianxin," she couldn't show too much fear.

For a moment, she was an absolute wreck.

Just then, a cry of alarm rang out.

"Feng Wu!?"

Turning to look, they saw that Dao Wuming and his group had also come out of the posthouse.

The one who had shouted was Ning Jiuyuan.

As she yelled, she leaped into the air, about to rush over.

But a hand shot out from the side and stopped her.

"Miss, wait!"

"What are you doing?"

Ning Jiuyuan reached out to shove the person aside. "Get out of my way!"

They exchanged a brief move and both retreated. Then the person spoke.

"That's not Feng Wu!"

"What?"

Ning Jiuyuan looked at the person opposite her.

Tang Huayi looked at him too.

"Celestial Feather, what are you saying?"

The one who had stopped Ning Jiuyuan was none other than Li Tianyu.

His brows were tightly furrowed.

"Can't you see? That's just a human skin...

"Besides, there's a fire source inside. If you rush over, what if there's some kind of trap..."

Li Tianyu had barely finished speaking when the "Feng Wu" figure began to float upward.

It was certainly not something a person could do.

Instead, it was more like a sky lantern...

"A sky lantern."

The expressions on everyone's faces were a bit strange.

Could it be that Feng Wu had been skinned alive and made into a sky lantern?

Ning Jiuyuan's face was also deathly pale.

Whether that thing was Feng Wu or not, the clothes it was wearing were definitely his.

At this thought, she was about to charge forward again.

But the sky lantern had already floated into mid-air. As it drifted unsteadily, it suddenly exploded with a deafening BOOM!

It blew apart in the night sky.

The force of the blast was nearly as powerful as a clap of thunder.

"This..."

Ning Jiuyuan's eyes were vacant.

"Junior Brother, Junior Brother... How could this happen? When I go back, how am I supposed to explain this to Master and his wife?"

Dao Wuming gazed at the scene before him and was silent for a moment.

"Miss Ning, please don't be anxious. We have yet to see the body of Young Master Feng, so we cannot be certain of his fate.

"For now, please listen to me and try to remain calm.

"There is something strange about this posthouse... It would be best if we don't separate. Let's go find that old man together. Perhaps he can give us an answer."

Hearing this, Ning Jiuyuan's spirits lifted slightly.

"Elder Dao is right. This posthouse has been abandoned for years, and that old man's origins are strange. He must be connected to this matter.

"We..."

Before she could finish, more footsteps were heard coming from the posthouse.

This time, it was Cheng Tianyang and his men.

They had heard the scream earlier, but as professional escorts, remaining calm in the face of crisis was their top priority.

So, they hadn't come out to check immediately, instead securing the goods they were escorting.

After taking a headcount, securing the goods, and finally hearing the explosion of the sky lantern, Cheng Tianyang left some men behind to guard the cargo and came out to investigate.

As he now joined the crowd, Tang Huayi looked at him with a rather strange expression.

"Chief Cheng is truly extraordinary. One of your own men is dead, yet you arrive even later than we did."

She spoke with the perfect tone of "Li Tianxin."

But after she said this, Cheng Tianyang looked startled.

"Young Hero Li, what do you mean? When I came out of the posthouse just now, I did a headcount. All of my men are accounted for, not a single one is missing. How could..."

As he spoke, he too saw the headless corpse.

At the same time, he noticed the clothes it was wearing.

His expression changed in an instant.

"What is going on here?"

The escorts under his command were also stunned.

"That's impossible."

"The Chief just did a headcount. Everyone was there."

"Then who is this? Why is he wearing the uniform of our Celestial Yang Escort Agency?"

"Maybe he stole it? Was he trying to sneak into the posthouse to steal our cargo, only to be killed by the headless ghost?"

In just a few sentences, the group had come up with a plausible theory.

Even Tang Huayi felt that the possibility was quite high.

At least, under these circumstances, the Celestial Yang Escort Agency, with its large numbers, was indeed the best point of entry for an infiltrator.

If someone really wanted to cause trouble, disguising themselves as one of their men would make them difficult for outsiders to identify.

Thinking of this, Tang Huayi's mind returned to the sky lantern that had exploded earlier, and she suddenly asked Dao Wuming:

"Speaking of which, where did you hear that nickname of Jiang Ran's?"

The Grand Master had only given him that title a little over ten days ago.

Only the people from Thunderbolt Hall should know about it, and they claimed to be busy with their own affairs. Logically, they shouldn't have had the time to go around spreading such news.

Dao Wuming gave Tang Huayi a slightly surprised look upon hearing her question.

He shook his head gently.

"We previously encountered Chi Lin of Thunderbolt Hall.

"He told us about what happened in Death Town... That's how we learned that Brother Jiang's Nine Shocking God Sabers had improved once again."

"..."

Tang Huayi let out a soft breath and suddenly said:

"Besides the [Thunderous Heaven-Shocking Palm] and their secret inner art, the [Thunderbolt Skill], what is Thunderbolt Hall most famous for?"