Heavenly Dao Engine
Chapter 1428 - 1428 0808 The Tiger Has a Harmful Heart_2

Chapter 1428: Chapter 0808: The Tiger Has a Harmful Heart_2 Chapter 1428: Chapter 0808: The Tiger Has a Harmful Heart_2 Gao Jinmei initially thought these people captured her because they didn’t want her to leave the assassin organization and wanted her to continue being an assassin. However, she later discovered that wasn’t the case at all. It was because someone in the assassin organization had put a bounty on her and Qi Tian.

Because Gao Jinmei wasn’t with Qi Tian, the assassins didn’t kill her immediately. Instead, they locked her in a dungeon and tortured her severely to extract Qi Tian’s whereabouts from her.

Gao Jinmei naturally refused to confess, and then she suffered a series of brutal beatings, which left her in her current condition.

Qi Tian hadn’t expected that Gao Jinmei’s capture was directly related to him. He asked Gao Jinmei if she knew why the assassins wanted to capture them. Gao Limei shook her head; this was also what puzzled her the most. If she or Qi Tian were pursued by the assassins individually, it wouldn’t be surprising. However, the fact that someone wanted to capture them both together was quite peculiar.

A cold smile appeared at the corner of Qi Tian’s mouth. He hadn’t intended to get involved, but now that these matters had found their way to him, he naturally had no reason to dodge them.

Qi Tian returned to the tavern. He wanted to capture the waiter or someone else to let them taste the torture for themselves. However, to Qi Tian’s surprise, the tavern was empty. More precisely, the cultivators in the Gold Core Realm who had been injured by the ghost faces had all died, leaving no survivors in the tavern.

This scene made Qi Tian frown. He had been too focused on rescuing Gao Jinmei to pay attention to the noises from the tavern. He hadn’t expected that such a big issue would arise in such a short time, and he couldn’t find anyone to question. However, this didn’t stop Qi Tian. He immediately turned on the Heavenly Dao Engine’s sensing function for Spirit Qi and began to search the surrounding area. He believed that the person who had killed the waiter and the others probably hadn’t escaped far and was still nearby.

Other people might not be able to find them, but Qi Tian could. With the sensing function of the Heavenly Dao Engine, Qi Tian quickly identified several suspicious individuals. They were all within the sensing range of the Heavenly Dao Engine, exhibiting Spirit Force fluctuations that were unusual for cultivators.

Qi Tian directly assigned each suspicious individual to a ghost face to capture, and after distributing the tasks, he sat with Gao Jinmei in the tavern, waiting for the ghost faces to complete their mission.

The ghost faces worked quickly, and soon after, according to Qi Tian’s orders, they had captured all the suspicious individuals assigned to them and brought them back to the tavern.

After seeing these suspicious individuals, Qi Tian quickly determined who was the murderer of the assassins in the tavern. He carried many magical instruments that didn’t belong to him. The Spirit Force fluctuations on these instruments matched those of several assassins killed in the tavern.

Qi Tian immediately singled out this person as the primary breakthrough point. As for the other suspicious individuals, they were temporarily detained. Whether they were innocent still needed to be investigated.

Qi Tian handed over the most suspicious individual to Gao Jinmei for her to judge.

Having just escaped death, Gao Jinmei, who deeply despised these assassins, applied the most cruel tortures she could think of to the suspicious individual.

At first, the suspicious individual endured, but after a while, he started to find it unbearable. However, he continued to grit his teeth. He was well aware of what would await him if he leaked the organization’s core secrets. It wouldn’t just be death; it would be a pain so severe that even death would be a relief.

Gao Jinmei had exhausted all her means, and yet she had still failed to pry open this person’s mouth, which deeply frustrated her, but she had no alternative.

Qi Tian shook his head, having anticipated this outcome to some extent. He approached the suspect, who clenched his teeth and refused to confess. Qi Tian then took out an item and showed it directly to him.

It was a transparent cup with a lid, containing half a cup of yellow yet incredibly murky liquid.

For some reason, upon seeing this liquid, the suspect felt a chill, shivering, as if the cup didn’t contain liquid but limitless wronged souls instead.

Qi Tian, smiling, said, “This contains Millennium Corpse Water. I don’t need to explain what Millennium Corpse Water is, right? I know you must have something to tell me. If you want a quick death, just spill everything honestly. If you continue to resist, I really wouldn’t mind letting you taste what Millennium Corpse Water is like. I only need to pour a single drop on top of your head. Do you believe that it could drill a hole right through you from top to bottom?”

The suspect involuntarily shuddered. He had, of course, heard of the infamous Millennium Corpse Water. He had even complained in the past how useful a drop of it would be. With it, he could easily kill any troublesome opponent, complete the task, and claim his reward—a life of ease. Now, Millennium Corpse Water was before him, not as a tool for murder but as someone else’s tool to kill him.

Listening to Qi Tian’s description, the suspect no longer dared to talk back. He dared not even attempt to taste the Millennium Corpse Water. Its touch meant certain death, but before death, the agony was something no one would want to experience.

The suspect became much more cooperative. Whatever Qi Tian and Gao Jinmei asked, he answered.

The death of the inn’s waiter and the others was his doing, along with two others. The reason for the assassination was naturally to silence them permanently and eliminate potential threats.

Currently, inside the assassination guild, there indeed was a bounty on Qi Tian and Gao Jinmei, not separately but together.

This bounty had only been issued a few days ago, and the person offering the reward had some connections with both Qi Tian and Gao Jinmei—not someone from the National Master Manor but the leader of the patrol team they had encountered before heading to Tribulation City.

After leading Qi Tian and Gao Jinmei away, that patrol team still felt uneasy. They reported their encounter to their clan. The small clan feared that Qi Tian and Gao Jinmei were after the secret realm they had discovered. To prevent any leaks, they put a bounty on both, aiming to kill them. The substantial reward offered led even those assassins who were on good terms with Gao Jinmei to betray her, tempted by the bounty to plot against her.

When Qi Tian learned the reason, he didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. Their encounter with that patrol team was a mere coincidence. He had never intended to target the newly discovered secret realm of that small clan. But as the saying goes, harm comes without intending it; he had no such intentions, yet others were convinced he did, thus, an unwarranted disaster unwittingly rolled toward them.

It was only because Qi Tian still had some tricks up his sleeve; had he been just an ordinary Gold Core Realm cultivator, their encounter with these assassins would have undoubtedly led to their deaths.

A cold smile appeared on the corner of Qi Tian’s mouth. Since that small clan had already made their move against him, he could not be blamed anymore. He took some time to make a plan and had Gao Jinmei lead a team, including two ghost-faced assistants, to begin sweeping operations against this assassination organization.