117 Searching The Outer Cour (1/2)

Upstairs in a large empty room, Xiao Fang sat in the lotus position as he tried to fully integrate the [ True Immortal Lightning Tribulation ] spirit attribute into his body. The time it took him to cultivate the spirit attribute was already much longer than Li Lian's and Xun Wei's combined, but he didn't break his concentration, even when he was beginning to feel weak.

As the days passed, the outer court gradually descended into madness. Li Lian, Xun Wei, and Xiao Hei didn't know about it because they had been at home for the last few days.

Since they killed people, they thought it would be wise to stay at home and keep a low profile.

However, one day there was a knock on the door. Li Lian got up to answer it, but not without getting Xun Wei's attention first.

Xun Wei and Xiao Hei suddenly stopped what they were doing as Li Lian went to answer the door. When she opened it she saw two women standing at her doorsteps, but she froze when she saw the colours of the two women's robes.

One was white, meaning that she was from the core court, and the other was black, meaning that she was from the inner court.

”Hello, we're both a member of the disciplinary department. Respectively from the inner and core court,” the black robed woman said as she pointed at herself then at the white robed disciple standing behind her.

Li Lian didn't know what to say. She still couldn't believe a core court disciple would come knocking at her door. The admiration in her eyes slowly turned into worry when she started to suspect that the came to investigate Song Du's murder.

The outer court disciplinary department always did their own investigation, and they were usually really good at it. However, their punishment would only go as far as making them pay a large fee of merit points.

The day Li Lian returned from the Divine Sword sect with Xiao Fang, she was apprehended and forced to pay 25,000 merit points. If she didn't have the money they would have forced her into doing manual labour for the sect till she could pay it off. Luckily for her, Xiao Fang had boat loads of merit points that he didn't know what to do with, so paying the fee was no big deal. Xiao Fang was upset that they were accusing her instead of him, but they just accused him of simping.

Although there was a general rule against killing other disciples, no one really cared enough to do anything about it, especially if the victim was a man. Perhaps because Song Du came from a more noble family they were taking the case a little more seriously, but it didn't make sense that they would go so far as to bring people from the inner and core court to do the investigating.

Li Lian dismissed any thoughts that they were in any trouble, so instead of worry she became curious. However, before she could ask why they came, the inner court disciple suddenly spoke.

”May we come in?”

Li Lian idolized the Core Court disciples of the Black Paradise sect since she was young, so inviting one into her home was like a dream come true.

Seeing that people were being invited into their house, Xiao Hei went into [ Stealth ], then quickly ran upstairs into Xiao Fang's room. Seeing that Xiao Fang was still meditating, she tried to be quiet even though she knew that he couldn't hear, see, or feel anything in that state.

Back downstairs Xun Wei had confronted the visitors after wiping the sweat off her skin with a piece of cloth.

”What is this about?” Xun Wei asked.

”We are doing a quick inspection of the outer court,” the Inner Court disciple said.

She then took something out from her spatial pouch and handed them to Li Lian and Xun Wei.

”Pour your spirit qi into them.”

Li Lian did as she said. Xun Wei hesitated for a moment then eventually did the same.

Shortly after their qi entered the crystals, they slowly began to glow.

”The crystals are glowing. What does that mean?” Li Lian asked.

The inner court disciple seemed extremely shocked by this, but the expression on the core court disciple's face didn't change in the slightest.