The City Lord of Yue City did not learn that the head of the guards, Li Yang, had died until the next day.
He, along with two senior Transcendent constables, had been pursuing an ordinary person and yet, was unsuccessful for quite a long time.
Under great fury, the City Lord dispatched people to inquire and it was near the border of the city's domain that they discovered three Transcendent cultivator bodies.
The death of three Transcendent subordinates wasn't much of an issue; even their dying while trying to capture an ordinary person could be understood—it was nothing more than a political rival making a covert move, using Qin Nianmin as a pawn to strike at him, and the power behind him.
Such incidents were not unusual.
But what truly filled the City Lord with fear was the fact that these three Transcendent cultivators pursuing Qin Nianmin died as if they were infected by the plague.
Their outward symptoms almost completely matched those who died from the disease.
