Chapter 12 Dark Storms Ahead (2)

He concluded that he would have to make his move through Ni Shang. This woman had put on a well-behaved act the entire journey but had been hiding her true motives the entire time.

Xu Linghe strode out of the guest room and closely observed his surroundings. He found purple bloodstains on a patch of grass and dabbed at the blood with his fingers. He could still smell its faint scent and deduced that the fox spirit must have come by tonight. Had the Wolf King been on their tail the entire time?

Xu Linghe followed the scent of blood and walked along a narrow alley to find himself in a dilapidated hut filled with cobwebs. This was an abandoned house and it was very dark with the exception of a stream of moonlight that had entered through a crack in the collapsing roof. The dust was so thick that it covered the tip of his shoe and when he flicked his finger, dust swirled all around.

This house was in an extremely bad state and would have collapsed a long time ago if