Light Fortress
Chapter 428 - 89: Mountain Dwellers, Valley Dwellers (Long - , Requesting Monthly Votes!)_3

Chapter 428: Chapter 89: Mountain Dwellers, Valley Dwellers (Long Chapter, Requesting Monthly Votes!)_3

Bai Xiu merely looked calmly at the other person.

Compared to that surging anger.

His anger was even calmer.

The scenes of that day’s assassination attempt emerged in his mind—

One step crossed over.

The ice surface shattered.

Ice shards erupted with the blade light, condensing within one-tenth of a second into a fully formed, complete domain of murderous intent... If it hadn’t been for the appearance of a Sacrificial, his fate would have been very bleak.

Yu Shu had blocked a fatal injury for him.

Then struck the assassin!

"This case, the Elder Council is investigating rigorously!"

"As everyone knows, Qu Long injured that assassin..." Bai Buzheng rolled up his sleeve and then tore open his shirt at the chest, angrily saying, "You all can see, do I have even a single wound on my body!"

Bai Xiu merely glanced briefly, then averted his gaze.

Indeed, a body well nurtured.

Not a single wound to be found.

He shook his head, "Don’t misunderstand, I am not saying you are the assassin."

"Being able to wait desperately in the Frozen Prairie for ten days, just to deliver the decisive strike."

"The person I am looking for is cunning enough, deceitful, and vicious enough to endure the severe cold, hunger, and fatigue..."

"Such an assassin, how could it be someone lazy and incompetent like you?"

If the previous comments were "slinging mud."

Then these words were simply an insult!

Bai Buzheng was furious, eyes bulging, just about to say something.

Suddenly, Bai Xiu spoke up: "The day I was assassinated, where were you?"

"That day, I indeed left the Snow Forbidden City and went to Jiangbei, but it wasn’t yet the day for ancestral shrine worship... What does it matter if I made a trip out?" Bai Buzheng coldly said.

"Be more specific."

Bai Xiu expressionlessly poured a cup of hot tea.

"I went to the Tundra, the Bai Family had a deal involving elemental energy... The warehouse is at Yinta in the Tundra District!" Bai Buzheng gritted his teeth, "My travel records can be checked in Wind Eye... only, this elemental energy deal needed to be kept confidential, so upon reaching the Tundra, I used the Elder Council’s authority to turn off the location tracker! All these can be verified!"

After listening.

He noticed everyone staring at him with a strange expression.

"Why... are you looking at me like that?"

Bai Buzheng recalled the words he had just said... Where had he gone wrong?

Did he say something incorrect?

No...

No!

"I have not lied... I am willing to undergo hypnosis!"

"No need."

Bai Xiu calmly said, "I believe you... didn’t lie. Your reply was perfect; you must have thought it over many times, right? Unfortunately, I never disclosed to anyone the time of my assassination, so how did you know the ’that day’ I mentioned... exactly which day it was?"

Bai Buzheng stood there struck.

His mind exploded as if struck by a bolt from the blue, leaving it blank.

He looked instinctively to the Second Elder for help.

Bai Zesheng’s expression was stern, almost frighteningly indifferent.

"No..."

Bai Buzheng dashed wildly towards the wooden doors of the ancestral hall.

With a "swoosh!"

Bai Xiu flicked a droplet of water from the rim of the porcelain cup with a fingertip. He flicked it out swiftly, the droplet shooting out like a bullet with the roar of thunder, crackling through the air, producing a horrifying thunderous sound as it flew!

"Bang!"

It pierced through flesh like a bullet.

As if hit by a sniper rifle at close range!

Bai Buzheng, trying to flee through the door, had one leg torn apart in an instant, his flesh mangled. He lost his balance and fell forward fiercely, ending up face down in the mud.

The elders of Bai’s Ancestral Hall had mixed emotions.

Those near the door inevitably got some fresh blood on their faces... Bai Buzheng’s blood.

The wooden plaque bearing "Bai Buzheng’s" name was also splattered with blood.

In the dead silence, thunder rumbled ominously.

"If he truly hasn’t lied... then going to the Tundra might have been to meet with the assassin."

Bai Xiu lowered his eyes, finished the remaining tea in his cup, and said calmly, "The assassin was injured, couldn’t have gone far... even if not at Yinta, he definitely couldn’t have escaped the Tundra District."

The Second Elder took a deep breath and looked at Bai Xiu, promising earnestly, "After a ’Spirit Cleansing,’ a scouring of the memory, I will personally make a trip to the Tundra."

Bai Xiu hummed softly.

"Tomorrow, I need to make a trip to Huaiyin."

He repeated the words he had said upon entering the ancestral hall, but this time he looked towards the man struggling in the bloody mud; his voice contained no sympathy, "So... let’s finish him off tonight."

This comment was somewhat chilling.

So that was his purpose when he came to the ancestral hall... He had come to kill.

Bai Xiu quietly stood up, the Second Elder stood with him, and they walked past the courtyard.

Bai Zesheng glanced at Bai Buzheng, who was moaning in pain on the ground.

One leg, the flesh obliterated... At the moment the water droplet flew out, the extreme fury of Thunder Power instantly erupted, the extreme heat vaporizing the droplet, while the burst of Thunder Power formed a bullet.

This bullet shattered an entire leg of Bai Buzheng’s.

The flesh on the backside was burned open by a huge bloody hole... the veins and bones were scorched to ashes by the lightning.

Bai Zesheng saw Bai Xiu to the entrance of the ancestral hall.

"This matter... the ancestral hall will investigate it seriously," he sighed lightly and said, "In these special times, I hope that you..."

"Not to spread word of it, right?" Bai Xiu said softly, "I promise you."

Leaving the ancestral hall and turning into the alley, a slim figure that had been waiting for a long time followed close behind.