Bang!
The gunshot rang out, sparks spraying in all directions!
Zhao Wei had been seething with uncontrollable fury. Spurred and taunted by Qin Xuan, he actually pulled the trigger!
The bullet whizzed through the air like a speeding shuttle, reaching its target in the blink of an eye.
"Never thought you'd court death. Well, since you brought it upon yourself, don't blame me!"
With that, he flung up his right hand in front of him. The bullet, gleaming with a coppery sheen, ricocheted off his fingertips.
Clink, clink...
The crisp sound left Zhao Wei dumbfounded.
Just then, the door of the interrogation room was flung open, and two figures strode in. They happened to witness Zhao Wei shooting himself to death.
Mo Qinglian sucked in a sharp breath, horror-stricken. She knew full well that Zhao Wei was now a lifeless corpse.
For a moment, a shudder of fear coursed through Mo Qinglian. Fixing her beautiful eyes on Qin Xuan's figure, she hastened forward and said deferentially, "Mr. Qin, Qinglian has recounted the whole affair clearly. We're free to go now!"
A bead of sweat the size of a pea trickled down her forehead. Mo Qinglian was on tenterhooks.
Inside the police station, everyone regarded Qin Xuan with altered glances.
Tang Qingqing was even more intrigued. This man had single-handedly decimated the entire Han Feng Dojo, and now here were people scurrying about on his behalf. Who the devil was he?
Qin Xuan, of course, paid no heed to these stares.
He sauntered out of the police station and leisurely seated himself in Mo Qinglian's Audi TT.
"You came looking for me? What's up?" Qin Xuan glanced up and inquired.
He hadn't tipped anyone off. How on earth did Mo Qinglian get wind of his arrest?
Mo Qinglian shot Qin Xuan a look tinged with lingering trepidation and murmured, "I'd initially intended to share something with Mr. Qin. I dropped by the school to find you and stumbled upon this mess."
A flicker of anger flared in her heart. Jing Shui City was the stomping ground overseen by the Mo family. As Qin Xuan was an esteemed guest of the Mo family, yet she'd received not a whisper when he was carted off.
However, seeing Qin Xuan's nonchalant air, she gathered that Mr. Qin bore no grudge against the Mo family, and she couldn't help but heave a sigh of relief.
"This time I sought you out, Mr. Qin, chiefly on account of Li Wentao's business!" Mo Qinglian steered the car, a rueful smile tugging at her lips. "After the last kerfuffle, just as you predicted, Mr. Qin, Li Wentao's body was discovered out in the wild the next day. Zhou Qingguo was doubtless the culprit."
"What's that got to do with me?" Qin Xuan arched an eyebrow.
"The crux of the matter lies with Li Wentao's master, Chen Fuyun, a feng shui virtuoso in Linhai!" Mo Qinglian sighed wearily. "It's common knowledge that Zhou Qingguo offed Li Wentao, but Chen Fuyun somehow got wind that it was you, Mr. Qin, who unmasked his disciple's sorcery. Instead of going after Zhou Qingguo, he's proclaimed that he'll engage you in a duel of Taoism and sorcery."
"Duel of Taoism and sorcery?"
Qin Xuan couldn't suppress a chuckle upon hearing this. A run-of-the-mill secular Taoist cultivator wanted to square off against him in a duel of Taoism and sorcery.
Was he even in the same league?
Mo Qinglian caught a glimpse of Qin Xuan's scornful smirk from the corner of her eye and whispered, "Mr. Qin, this Chen Fuyun is leagues apart from Li Wentao. He's a bona fide feng shui master. He once vanquished a grandmaster with consummate internal strength using feng shui killing techniques. His prowess is unfathomable!"
"Even my grandfather opined that this Chen Fuyun stands a great chance of breaking into the Tao Realm and rubbing shoulders with internal force martial artists."
Qin Xuan's countenance remained impassive, but his mind was whirring.
Defeating a grandmaster with consummate internal strength via feng shui killing arrays was no mean feat. The feng shui techniques Li Wentao had employed previously bore a certain resemblance to the incantations in the Cultivation Realm. Moreover, according to Mo Qinglian, Chen Fuyun was expert at laying down arrays.
Given that, the materials for array-setting couldn't be commonplace. Ordinary stuff simply wouldn't cut it for forming an array.
Qin Xuan had long been hankering to erect a spirit-gathering array in the Jing Shui Pearl Villa. Alas, he was bereft of the requisite materials. Perhaps this Chen Fuyun might be in possession of some.
With that in mind, Qin Xuan didn't demur and queried casually, "When's the showdown?"
At this, Mo Qinglian replied sotto voce, "Ten days hence, aboard the Jing Hao cruise ship."
"A duel of Taoism and sorcery on a cruise ship?" Qin Xuan was taken aback.
Mo Qinglian elucidated, "The Jing Hao cruise ship is one of Chen Fuyun's assets. What's more, there are numerous underground boxing bouts and casinos on board this time. It's a renowned den of dissipation in Linhai!"
"Chen Fuyun has chosen to host it on the Jing Hao cruise ship this time. There'll be a slew of noble families in attendance. He aims to use you, Mr. Qin, as a springboard to flaunt his stature as a feng shui master to the noble families in Linhai."
"Use me as a springboard!"
Qin Xuan grinned, and that grin sent a shiver down Mo Qinglian's spine.
Once upon a time, hordes of prodigious talents and peerless paragons had yearned to trample on his bones to ascend, yet in the end, it was he who scaled the heights to become the Green Emperor and attain eternal immortality.
Now, someone dared to tread on him to aggrandize themselves?
Time would ultimately inculcate the world with a truth, just as the myriad races in the starry sky and the remnant clans in the Immortal Realm had grasped in the past.
He, the Green Emperor, Qin Changqing!
Must not be trifled with!