"That's right. All we've seen are people who benefited from drinking Lucky Tea; we haven't seen any harm."
After Ruan Qing finished speaking, everyone nodded.
Indeed, although this Lucky Tea was strange, they believed that Liu Yunqing could see it, which meant that there was indeed something wrong with the tea, but they also did not see any harm in the Lucky Tea.
Zhuo Ying thought for a moment and then said:
"We haven't seen any harm, could it be that there really isn't any harm?"
Zhuo Ying's words were loaded with meaning. Seeing everyone looking over, she continued with her speculation:
"We haven't seen any harm, and no one has even come back to cause trouble. Is it possible that this sacrificial contract is just for controlling these people who have drunk the lucky tea at a specific time?"
Upon hearing this, Feng Piaopiao's eyes lit up, and she slapped her thigh, saying:
"That's right! How could I not have thought of that! It must be! I need to send a message to the sect right away!"
Liu Yunqing shook her head, raised her hand to stop Feng Piaopiao's movements, and said with some helplessness:
"These are all just our guesses, without any actual evidence. What if the truth is different?"
"Putting that aside for now, we just can't explain the sacrificial contract in this Lucky Tea."
"There are so many people coming and going from Biyue City, surely there are at least a few high-level cultivators passing through? Others didn't notice anything wrong, so how come we noticed it so easily?"
Feng Piaopiao didn't take it to heart and replied very naturally:
"We can't tell either. You're the one who noticed, so isn't that normal?"
Liu Yunqing remained silent.
He said after a while:
"Let's find some evidence first, at least some clues about who's behind this."
"Master Wuchen, what do you think?"
Wuchen, whose name was called, pointed in Liu Yunqing's direction with his rosary beads in his hand and said:
“I agree with Zhenru’s approach; let’s report it once we have a lead.”
Zhuo Ying and Ruan Qing nodded in agreement, and Feng Piaopiao naturally had no objections, immediately standing up and saying:
"So, should we act together now, or split up?"
Liu Yunqing looked at the group and thought for a moment before saying:
"Let's split up; five people together will make us too conspicuous."
"Master Wuchen has the highest cultivation level, so he is in a group by himself. The remaining four people are Zhuo Ying and Feng Piaopiao in one group, and Ruan Qing and I in another group."
After dividing into groups, everyone prepared to leave, but they were stopped by the manager as soon as they arrived at the lobby.
“In our Biyue City, no one is allowed to walk on the streets at night. The curfew is approaching soon, so if you have something to do, please wait until tomorrow.”
There was no urgent matter, so everyone had no choice but to retreat.
Then I sneaked out.
It must be said that although the five people have different personalities, their ideas on solving problems are sometimes surprisingly consistent.
The results were very different.
The five of them sneaked out of the inn at the same time, but three of them were discovered in the next instant—Wuchen, Feng Piaopiao, and Zhuoying.
"Seniors, it is really not advisable to go out at night. Please return."
When the shopkeeper said this, he remained very polite, but his aura began to rise gradually, making him seem less like a minor Qi Refining cultivator.
At the same time, a patrol team in armor quickly arrived at the entrance of the inn, glancing into the inn intermittently.
The three looked surprised, but after receiving Liu Yunqing's telepathic message, they retreated back into the inn.
The shopkeeper assumed the three were surprised that they had been discovered sneaking out, and said with a touch of pride:
"Although our Biyue City is remote, our city lord has his own unique management skills. The three of you should abide by the rules."
The three exchanged glances, gave a resentful snort, and then returned to their respective rooms.
The shopkeeper waited in the lobby for a long time, and only when he saw that no one was causing any trouble did he feel relieved and return to his residence humming a little tune.
Little did they know that the other two fish that had slipped through the net had already swaggered out of the inn.
It was normal for Liu Yunqing to be able to avoid detection; otherwise, she wouldn't have been chosen as the team leader by the ancestors.
The other one was Ruan Qing. Not only were the three who couldn't come out surprised, but even Liu Yunqing was astonished for a moment.
Seeing Liu Yunqing's surprised look, Ruan Qing felt somewhat uncomfortable and awkwardly turned away, saying:
"It's just concealing your presence, what's so surprising? Don't think you're the only one who's good at it..."
Liu Yunqing was already used to Ruan Qing's awkwardness when facing her, so she didn't explain, but instead smiled and said:
"Thank you for the compliment, but I'm not that good."
Liu Yunqing's face was already rather cold, and with that half-metal mask, it looked even colder.
Hearing her speak like that, Ruan Qing was surprised and incredulous, and blurted out:
"Who praised you?!"
"Sh-!"
Liu Yunqing gestured for Ruan Qing to be quiet. Seeing that no one had noticed, his expression returned to its usual seriousness. He pointed to the patrol team in the distance and said:
"We'll just follow behind them and not get spotted."
When the conversation turned to business, Ruan Qing's awkwardness disappeared, and she said with a knowing look:
"Understood."
The patrol teams definitely have their own routes. By following one of the teams, as long as you are not discovered, you will not be detected by the other patrol teams.
Anyway, the two of them weren't planning to do anything, they just came out to see what was so strange about this Biyue City that it didn't allow people to go out at night.
While other cities also close their gates at night, there is no such thing as a curfew inside the city.
The two of them stayed at a distance, following behind the patrol team, walking through the streets one by one.
After patrolling one area, the two would switch to another small team.
It must be said that the two men's operation went very smoothly; they managed to patrol the entire city of Biyue without being discovered.
Similarly, nothing was found.
"There can't be no oddity!"
After failing to follow them, the two stopped in a blind spot, and Ruan Qing said rather unwillingly.
Liu Yunqing nodded in agreement, thinking as she spoke:
"It's impossible that there's nothing strange about it. If there really wasn't something strange, there wouldn't be such a strict curfew."
Liu Yunqing looked up at the sky, watching the lights rising everywhere, and felt a little troubled.
So where exactly did the problem go wrong?
"Huh? What's that?"
Having gained nothing, a dejected Ruan Qing was fiddling with the ribbons on her clothes when she heard Liu Yunqing's voice and immediately looked up to ask:
"Where? What?"
Following the direction Liu Yunqing pointed, Ruan Qing opened her mouth slightly in surprise and whispered:
"How beautiful! What is this?"
The two had been following the patrol team and hadn't dared to make any big movements, so they hadn't noticed the commotion in Tianshan.
Now that this anomaly has been discovered, it can be seen as soon as you look up outside, no wonder cultivators are not allowed to leave their homes.
Upon closer inspection, Liu Yunqing discovered that faint streaks of light of varying thickness, color, and intensity appeared intermittently in the sky above Biyue City, and then all drifted in one direction.
The source of these light bands was the inns where people lived.
"We've found the strange thing, but what does it mean? And what does it have to do with 'Lucky Tea'?"
Ruan Qing was happy for a short while, but then she realized she couldn't understand the purpose of these light bands, so she frowned and asked Liu Yunqing.
Liu Yunqing, fearing to alert the enemy, did not intercept the light bands. Instead, he focused on the direction in which they were all drifting and said to Ruan Qing:
"It's almost dawn, and the light bands are thinning out. Let's head back."
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