Chapter 17: Conspiracy 2 (1/2)

Chapter 17: Conspiracy (2)

Northface City, Southern district.

The Lin Clan’s main courtyard.

The courtyard was several hectares wide and held many hundreds of houses, particularly in the middle of the courtyard. There were also ten or so landscape gardens. The entire courtyard was very richly ornamented and quite dazzling to behold.

The ancestor of the Lin Clan was a hunter by origin. On one of his hunts, he inadvertently stumbled upon the cub of a rare Demonic Beast. From that moment on, his rise was meteoric, and he established his own household.

In reality, the other three clans were very similar in this regard.

Su Changche was originally a merchant selling red dates, but because he gave some red dates1 to an old man who was about to starve to death, he obtained the Raging Flame Heart Technique. The He Clan’s ancestor had mistakenly ingested a red fruit and fortunately didn’t perish. Rather, he successfully reached the Qi Drawing stage and established his own household. Only the Li Clan’s ancestor had forged his abilities on the battlefield, having originally been a soldier.

Regardless of the fortune they had received, they were all similar in that they held strength and power.

Perhaps there had been others in this world who had obtained other good fortune before, but without powerful martial strength their accomplishments were fated to be limited.

The current head of the Lin Clan was Lin Yuanshan. He had three sons and two daughters.

Like the majority of clans, the Lin Clan also owned many different businesses. However, their most important businesses was still the Beast Garden. Members of the Lin Clan were experts in training and breeding wild beasts and even Vicious Beasts for their own use.

If one was to survey the entire human race, there were not many who had the ability to do this.

Vicious Beasts, as their name implied, were innately fierce and uncontrollable. They were prone to bouts of violence and irascibility, and were extremely difficult to tame. However, the members of the Lin Clan relied on the abandoned Demonic Beast that they had obtained to tame a portion of Vicious Beasts and then sold them to various major aristocrats. Thus, they were able to establish a footing for themselves.

The beast garden was located in the back of the Lin Clan’s large courtyard. Coincidentally, this was also the direction in which Su Chen was heading.

Naturally, he was not coveting the Vicious Beasts of the Lin Clan. Rather, Gu Qingluo lived in a small building next to a small lake located near the beast garden.

It was a very scenic lake. Large swathes of white reeds grew near the lake, and occasionally it would be possible to see black swans playing there. When Su Chen was young and just wanted to have fun, he had once gone there. In the end he had been caught by members of the Lin Clan and sent back to the Su Clan, where what awaited for him was a beating from his parents. At that time, holding onto the wounds on his butt, Su Chen vowed never to return to this place. Who could have expected that he would once again charge over to the small building by the lake?

However, Su Chen was not worried about the consequences this time.

He was a blind man. Even if he were to be discovered, he could just say that he had taken a wrong turn.

It was precisely because he could rely on this excuse that Su Chen could forge ahead without worry.

By following the road in the quiet and secluded forest, Su Chen very quickly walked out of the forest.

A blurry waterfront appeared in front of his eyes.

He had arrived at the small lake.

Although Su Chen was no longer able to see the small lake’s beauty as he could in the past, he followed the path in his memory, walking towards the small house step by step with careful steps. This area was thick with Lin Clan patrols. Luckily, his hearing was exceptional, and he was on a small trail in the forest. Vision was heavily restricted, and the two patrol squads were easily detected and evaded.

Just as he was about to arrive at the small building near the lake, Su Chen suddenly heard the sounds of footsteps on fallen leaves in front of him.

Although the sound was not loud, it was still loud to Su Chen’s sensitive ears, and he hurriedly hid behind a large tree.

The distant footsteps slowly drew near. From the sounds of the footsteps, it seemed like two people were walking.

Unfortunately, these two people seemed to be headed in Su Chen’s direction, and they seemed to be moving quickly. Su Chen hesitated for a second and lost the opportunity to leave. Even if he wanted to leave, he could no longer do so. He could only continue to hide behind the tree, motionless.

Thankfully, those two people finally stopped somewhere not far from the tree.

A low and hoarse voice began to speak, “Okay, there’s nobody else here. You can speak here.”