After that figure left the backyard, it moved towards the Qiaochu Wing. It entered a room and with the reflection of the torch, the face that appeared was Ye Lingyue's.
What was Ye Lingyue doing at the courtyard in the middle of the night?
Ye Lingyue carefully took out the thing she found earlier.
It was a dagger about the width of two fingers and the length of three inches. Its two edges were as thin as paper, and with a soft knock, it buzzed like a nest of bees.
"What a good thing. The Song family is generous. This is a dark iron dagger with 60% purity." The thing that Ye Lingyue went to search for in the courtyard in the middle of the night was the 'gift' that almost killed Ye Gu during the day.
Ye Gu was still angry while the other Ye family members couldn't tell the specialness of this 'gift.' Ye Lingyue was the only one who noticed that it wasn't a normal dagger.
First, it was a dark iron dagger with 60% purity.
Extracting a dark iron ore of 60% purity was something that the current Ye family couldn't do, not to mention making it into a dagger.
Everyone that came in contact with dark iron knew that extracting a pure dark iron was difficult. It was even harder to make weapons out of it! From what the workers from the quarry said, no one in Autumn Maple town had such strong skills. Only those people in the county city could make a dark iron into a weapon.
However, this was not what Ye Lingyue was most concerned about. Instead, she was most concerned about the last bit of psyche lingering on the dagger.
If Ye Lingyue didn't use her psyche earlier on that day to make the dagger turn a different angle in the last second, Ye Gu would have died on-the-spot.
"What a cunning Song family to dare to plot against our Ye family. You will pay for it one day," Ye Lingyue said in a hushed voice.
But on the flip side, the dagger opened a completely new door of cultivation to Ye Lingyue.
The time Ye Lingyue got in touch with her psyche had been short and there wasn't much written about psyche cultivation in the Hongmeng Guide either.
She had only used her psyche on moving things between Hongmeng Sanctuary and the outside world. Moreover, she had only used her psyche once to sneak attack a person using a flying stone.
However, after seeing the dagger, she finally knew that psyche could be used for assassination as well.
Ye Lingyue was playing with the dagger in her hands, and just as she planned to control it, the dagger emitted a repulsive force from within.
It seemed like a trace of the original owner's psyche remained in the dagger.
"I must find a way to make this dagger mine." A thought appeared in Ye Lingyue's mind as the cauldron energy from the Qian cauldron in her right hand became active.
The cauldron breath entered the dagger, and as it did, the dagger seemed to feel the cauldron's invasive energy. It trembled nonstop as the cauldron breath instantly swallowed the remaining psyche that it contained.
Ye Lingyue put a bit of her psyche into the flying dagger.
"Squeak?" Seeing that Ye Lingyue was still awake, Squeaky, who had woken up from the sound, gloomily glanced at the flying dagger.
"Go!" All it heard was a soft cry as the flying dagger flew straight towards Squeaky like lightning.
'Squeak!'
Squeaky was so scared that all of its furs stood up and completely lost its drowsiness. Rolling and crawling at the same time, it rolled down the bed and fell on its back.
The dagger stopped moving when it was an inch away from Squeaky. Seeing how Squeaky looked, Ye Lingyue was laughing so badly that tears were rolling down her cheeks.
Seeing that its Master was making fun of it, Squeaky was so angry that it angrily turned around with its butt facing Ye Lingyue. It was completely ignoring her.
On the same night, other people couldn't fall asleep as well, and that included Song Wanshi and his men.
Since everyone in Autumn Maple Town was asleep at that hour, most sounds were already hushed. However, in the study of the Song family head, Song Wanshi, the lights were still bright.
Song Wanshi furrowed his eyebrows in worry. He looked depressed as if he had swallowed a fly.
When he went to wish Ye Gu a happy birthday earlier on that day, he had made the best preparation and had his men hide outside of the Ye family manor.
All he needed was to kill Ye Gu for him to be able to attack the Ye family. Who knew that they were so unlucky that even Master Lian's careful plan failed?
"Master Lian, what is this? How would the dagger miss? Or did you get some benefits from the Ye family and cheated on me?" After failing twice in a row, Song Wanshi had some suspicions.
"Song Wanshi, what are you talking about? Are you questioning my ability or the Alchemist Association's ability?" Master Lian lashed out angrily. With a loud bang, he slammed a wooden badge onto the table.
That badge had a cauldron-shaped emblem on it.
Seeing that badge, Song Wanshi didn't dare to act out anymore, no matter how angry he was. Pulling a respectable look, he apologized nonstop.
"Master Lian, I was just agitated at that moment. I wouldn't dare suspect Master Lian, the new alchemist, even if I have a hundred sets of courage."
The Ye family would be extremely shocked if they saw this wooden badge as well.
Anyone who walked in the Great Xia nation, especially those who earned a living in the county cities, would know the meaning this badge held.
That badge represented the Great Xia's Alchemist Association. It was well known in the Great Xia nation, and even in the great land with nine states.
"Hmpf. I'm glad that you know. Since I took 50,000 gold taels from you, I will help you eliminate the entire Ye family. The Ye family just got lucky twice in a row." At the thought of what happened in the morning, Master Lian felt furious as well.
If it wasn't because he needed a lot of money to become an alchemist, he wouldn't have come to such a torn place like Autumn Maple town.
That morning, he had sacrificed his psyche flying dagger to kill Ye Gu. That dagger was his life-savior.
As someone who was working his way to becoming an alchemist, Master Lian's elementary force cultivation was merely at the seventh level of body tempering. However, with that flying dagger, he would be able to attack and kill a postnatal master with one simple move.
It was weird now that he thought about it. He had used that dagger to handle many enemies before, but it had never missed as it did earlier on.
Did the Ye family have a psyche master with them as well?
In Master Lian's mind, this thought flashed in his mind, but he firmly rejected it in the next second.
If it turned out that the Ye family had a psyche master, it would be enough for the Ye family to call the shots in the entire Autumn Maple town, even if that said psyche master was just an alchemist in training.
Besides, there weren't many alchemists in the entire Great Xia, not to mention in Autumn Maple town. Everything that happened earlier must have been an accident.
"This time, I'll consider myself to have missed. But don't worry, things wouldn't happen for the third time. There won't be any mistakes the next time." Master Lian laughed coldly.
After the roosters crowed for the third time in the Ye family manor, Ye Lingyue finally kept the flying dagger.
After a night of practice, Ye Lingyue was already very familiar with using the flying dagger.
"I'm already at the sixth level of body tempering. With the help of this psyche flying dagger, I will be able to cross levels and kill someone who is at the eighth level of body tempering. However, where did the Song family get this dagger from? Or is it possible that the Song family has a psyche-cultivating master hidden in their household?" Ye Lingyue then kept the dagger away and then took a short nap before she prepared to go to the quarry as per usual.