Master of Strange Dao

"Remember, there won't be a next time!"

Lei Li transformed into Thunder Light and shot towards the sky.

At this moment, those hiding far away in the Faceless Man's lair dared to rush over to see if their boss had been beaten to death.

A burly man with a swollen body, whose face was still intact, staggered out of the ruins, spitting out a mouthful of blood mixed with debris.

"Come, come, tell me which fool decided to tail Lei Yu?

Don't you idiots know that Lei Yu gets beaten by Lei Li every day?

Aren't you just giving him the excuse to cause trouble for no reason?

Hurry up and come forward, don't waste time waiting for me to investigate."

As he spoke, he spat out another mouthful of blood, his face filled with malice, his eyes brimming with a murderous aura.

Sitting at home and being inexplicably beaten by Lei Li, how could he possibly be in a good mood?

But he believed Lei Li's words firmly, thinking that without solid evidence against him, Lei Li wouldn't have just barged into the Faceless Man's base to beat him up in public.

Even if Emperor Zhen found out about this, he'd likely just send some treasures to the Lei Clan to appease them.

After a moment, a subordinate approached, looking somewhat awkward.

"Boss, it might really be a misunderstanding. I just checked, and we had a Faceless Man in the vicinity, but he wasn't there to tail the Lei Clan, he was on other business. It might be a misunderstanding."

There was more to say, but he didn't dare say it.

Could it be that Lei Li finally found an excuse to come and beat him?

The burly man was slightly taken aback, and with a bit of thought, he immediately thought of recent court affairs.

He spat another mouthful of bloody phlegm.

"Damn it."

This beating was for nothing.

And he took it for someone else. If he couldn't cause trouble for Lei Li, couldn't he cause trouble for others?

"Go, investigate the guy jumping around lately, what's his name, anyway, look into those who have been active on the court recently. I can't get beaten for nothing, someone has to take the blame for me."

If Emperor Zhen knew about this incident, he'd have to give the Lei Clan some feedback, so he'd help find a couple of scapegoats to appease the Lei Clan.

...

More than a month passed in a flash, and Yu Ziqing received information from Lei Yu again.

Yu Ziqing was a bit surprised; he returned so quickly from Sorrow Cave Heaven.

And Su Li hadn't found any movement here, the Shadow Department seemed to have no reaction to Lei Yu's exploration of Sorrow Cave Heaven.

This was beyond Yu Ziqing's expectations.

Arriving again at Lei Yu's base, the guy seemed full of spirit, not looking like someone who'd been beaten, and even Lei Yu's trusted aides didn't seem seriously injured.

"Your exploration speed is quite fast, back in a month, tell me, how was it?"

"It was alright, this Grotto Heaven was indeed quite dangerous, it might have been the mausoleum of an ancient strongman.

But over time, only the entrance's protection remained intact.

Many of the internal arrangements were eroded by the years, aside from the troublesome alien power pervading the Grotto Heaven, there wasn't much else."

Lei Yu spoke in a rather relaxed tone.

This made Yu Ziqing even more curious.

"Didn't you encounter any trouble? Like devils or such?"

"No, that Grotto Heaven was already a dead place, filled with extreme Death Qi, no living beings, not even a single Dead Spirit."

Lei Yu, in a good mood, waved his hand, and a series of tables appeared in front of them.

On each table were various items of different sizes, each slightly tainted with Death Qi.

This corroborated Lei Yu's statement.

But this was completely different from what No. 4 had said.

If it weren't for the fact that there was only this one Grotto Heaven in Sorrow Mountain and its vicinity, Yu Ziqing would have thought it was a mistake.

"Brother Qing, all the harvest is here, you can choose first."

Lei Yu, worried Yu Ziqing wouldn't know how to choose, picked up something resembling a tile.

"This should be something from Ancient Times, called Broken Tile, actually a kind of Escape Skill magical treasure.

You've heard of Daqian's Void Escape Scroll, right?

This Broken Tile is a similar thing, according to Ancient legends, breaking the tile can set up a bridge between heaven and earth to escape into the Void.

Nowadays, the funeral customs among mortals, like breaking a tile pot, initially originated from this piece of tile."

Yu Ziqing took the green tile in his hand for a closer look, sensing a peculiar power circulating within.

After so many years, it remained intact, and one could faintly feel that the tile could absorb the surrounding power to replenish itself, keeping it in optimum condition.

In Yu Ziqing's impression, using a tile to bridge, indeed, it existed, but the bridge was one of life and death, a very important tool in funeral customs.

Something that could save a life, better take it first.

Besides this, the other things on this table either lost their power or were damaged, at most they had research value, but were unusable.

Moving on to the next table, Yu Ziqing took a liking to a miniature volcano-shaped magical treasure, which was a seed, an embryo of a large magical treasure.

He had heard from Yang before, that Sects mainly engaged in artifact refining and alchemy generally had this kind of magical treasure.

Once planted underground, it could connect with the Earthfire Branch and gather controllable Earth Fire for disciples to use.

Though the grade of Earth Fire was not high, high-tier pills generally didn't use this type of Earth Fire, but it was constant and convenient.