Fantasy: Starting with a bowl, you can exchange it for endless cultivation.

Jiang Ruyan's death.

It didn't cause much of a stir in Jiuwan City.

No one even knew that she had ever been to Jiuwan City.

Because she came here concealing her identity.

Only her husband, Mei Jingfeng, and her son, Mei Jingfei, knew about it.

At Haoran Academy.

Her husband, Mei Jingfeng, saw that she had gone to the desolate state and had not returned for seven days.

No news came at all.

Suspicious, he set off for the desolate state to search for it.

His cultivation reached the upper third rank, and he was born with divine soul power.

I have a certain premonition about some bad things.

He's been feeling restless these past few days.

This feeling made him very uncomfortable.

He wasn't sure if something had gone wrong on Jiang Ruyan's side.

Jiang Ruyan came to Huangzhou for seven consecutive days but received no news.

If all goes well, she should have returned to Haoran Academy.

Even if things don't go smoothly, she will receive a notification, unlike here where there is no news at all.

He had a bad feeling that something might have happened to his wife.

Half a day.

Mei Jingfeng then arrived at Jiuwan City in the desolate state.

His wife came here to ask Gu Chen to reveal who was behind the secret report against his son.

If anything happens, Jiuwan City will be in trouble.

There will definitely be news.

But he was disappointed.

They secretly investigated Jiuwan City for half a day.

There was not a single clue.

It was as if his wife, Jiang Ruyan, had never been to Jiuwan City seven days ago.

"How could this be!" Mei Jingfeng couldn't understand it.

He considered asking Gu Chen directly.

But after thinking it over, I still felt it wasn't right.

If his wife's disappearance is related to Gu Chen.

If you go directly to ask Gu Chen, he definitely won't tell the truth. If it's unrelated, asking him will be a waste of time.

It's impossible to tell Gu Chen that his wife tried to cause him trouble some time ago and then disappeared, or to ask Gu Chen if he knows her whereabouts.

He went straight back to Haoran Academy.

He sought out a friend who was skilled in divination to have his wife's whereabouts divined.

Let's see what his wife went to do, or if she has already perished.

If they hadn't perished or been taken into custody, it would have been impossible for them to remain silent for seven consecutive days.

Zhuge Qing of Haoran Academy is the only teacher among all the teachers who is skilled in divination.

And she has a good relationship with him.

He returned to Haoran Academy and sought out Zhuge Qing.

Mei Jingfeng cut to the chase, saying, "Brother Zhuge, I might need to trouble you with something this time."

"Oh, I wonder what has brought Brother Mei here in person?" Zhuge Qing asked.

"My wife went to Huangzhou on some business and we haven't heard from her for seven days. I went there to look for her, but I couldn't find her. I'm worried about her safety, so I'd like to ask Brother Zhuge to cast a divination for me to see if she is in good or bad luck," Mei Jingfeng said.

As he spoke, he handed Zhuge Qing a beautiful little box.

Inside the box lay a Grade 3 spiritual herb, the Spirit-Gathering Flower.

This elixir can be used in medicine or taken directly. It can nourish the spirit and essence, and refine impurities in the essence.

Extremely rare.

"Oh, is that so?" Zhuge Qing said with some surprise.

He did not immediately accept the elixir offered by Mei Jingfeng.

Has Jiang Ruyan gone missing in the desolate state?

The desolate state has been quite turbulent lately. Not long ago, a group of disciples from their academy suffered a setback in the desolate state.

Now, Mei Jingfeng's wife has disappeared again after a trip to the desolate state.

"Yes, there has been no news for seven days. If everything she was doing in the desolate state went smoothly, she should have returned three days ago, instead of not returning until now. I'm afraid something might have happened to her, so I would like to ask Brother Zhuge to do some divination to see what the situation is on her end." Mei Jingfeng pushed the box to Zhuge Qing: "It's just a small token of my appreciation."

"Brother Mei, please don't be impatient. Let me cast a divination to see what's going on." Zhuge Qing nodded and took the box from him.

Divination comes at a price and carries certain karmic consequences. Even though the two people have a good relationship, they still have to give something in return.

Furthermore, divination is not a panacea.

It can only provide some ambiguous information, such as whether it is auspicious or inauspicious, and some general range.

It is impossible to pinpoint the information precisely.

"Then I'll have to trouble you, Brother Zhuge." Mei Jingfeng nodded.

Zhuge Qing took out a few copper coins, muttered some incantations, then turned the coins upside down into a small bowl, opened the bowl, and flipped it over a few times with his hands.

After interpreting the hexagram.

Zhuge Qing used his fingers to deduce the hexagram.

After a while.

His expression changed drastically!

"Dead!" Zhuge Qing exclaimed in surprise.

Jiang Ruyan is dead!

Moreover, the information he obtained through divination was very strange.

He could only divine that Jiang Ruyan was dead.

As for the approximate location of his death, and some information about his killer.

They could not get any results from divination.

It was as if this thread of cause and effect had been completely erased.

"What!" Upon hearing this, Mei Jingfeng hurriedly asked Zhuge Qing, "Brother Zhuge, what did you say? My wife is dead?!"

"That's right!" Zhuge Qing said with a solemn expression, "Brother Mei, please accept my condolences. According to the feedback I received from my divination, your wife has indeed passed away. However, the clues I received from the divination were very strange."

"It seems someone has obscured the secrets of heaven, preventing me from divining when your wife was killed, where she died, and who the murderer was. I have no information about any of these, and can only conclude that she is no longer alive," Zhuge Qing explained with a puzzled look.

Upon hearing this...

Mei Jingfeng's aura was disordered, and a surge of anger emanated from his body.

"My wife is dead! She was murdered!" His voice was icy. "And the person who killed her concealed the secrets of heaven, so you couldn't deduce any information about him."

"This person is no ordinary individual. Someone who can conceal the secrets of heaven must be quite powerful, and in divination, his abilities even surpass mine," Zhuge Qing said. "Brother Mei, have you and your wife offended someone recently?"

Jiang Ruyan is a powerful expert at the mid-stage of the fifth-grade Transformation Sea Realm.

To kill her, the opponent would need to be at least a late-stage Fifth Grade Transformation Sea Realm expert.

Considering that the other party could conceal the secrets of heaven, he estimated that the other party might be a powerful expert of the upper third rank.

Mei Jingfeng and his wife have recently become enemies with a high-ranking official.

"No." Mei Jingfeng shook his head, his eyes blazing with murderous intent. He said, "Brother Zhuge, thank you. I'll be leaving now. I need to go to the desolate state again to investigate and see who killed my wife."

"Brother Mei, would you like me to go with you?" Zhuge Qing asked.

If the opponent is a high-ranking third-grade expert, I wonder if Mei Jingfeng alone can handle him.

"No need, I'll go by myself first. If I need help, I'll come back to find Brother Zhuge," Mei Jingfeng refused.

This matter involves his son's reputation, as well as the disciples of the Earthly Venerable Realm experts from the Night Watch.

The fewer people who know, the better.

His heart was burning with murderous intent.

The other party has concealed the secrets of heaven.

This prevents people from obtaining his information through divination.

But his wife went to Jiuwan City in the desolate state to find Gu Chen.

If she hadn't revealed her intentions.

It's impossible for him to have been killed.

He now suspects that his wife was killed by a powerful figure from Gu Chen's sect.

Apart from his son's situation, he and his wife had not offended any enemies with whom they had a life-or-death feud.

Moreover, his wife went to the desolate state in secret this time.

Even if they had some kind of enemy, they couldn't possibly know that his wife had gone to the desolate state.

Then, with pinpoint accuracy, he secretly killed her in the desolate state, concealing the truth from heaven.

They also had no enemies capable of concealing the secrets of heaven.

He now suspects that his wife was killed by one of Gu Chen's senior brothers.

Although Gu Chen did not have the ability to kill his wife.

However, his fourth senior brother Luo Tianxing and second senior brother Gongsun Yuan possess this ability.

It's possible that his wife went to Jiuwan City in the desolate state to interrogate Gu Chen about who was behind the betrayal of their son.

Gu Chen refused, so his wife used some oppressive methods to make Gu Chen feel humiliated.

He then conspired with one of his senior brothers to secretly murder his wife.

Finally, someone concealed the truth from heaven, and even when he had someone perform divination, they couldn't trace it back to them.

I want to know the truth.

Very simple.

He could simply go over and subdue Gu Chen, then interrogate him.

If this matter is truly related to Gu Chen, he will risk offending Shangguan Wuqing, a Earth Venerable Realm expert, to kill Gu Chen.