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As far as the eye can see, this is a sizable cave.

In the center of the open space is a man-made platform, and on the platform is a small pavilion.

Zhang Chulan and the others were facing off below the platform.

Zhang Chulan and Feng Baobao were on one team, while Baron, Xia Liuqing, and Wang Zhenqiu were on the other, and Chen Duo stood aside.

Upon seeing Zhou Fengliu approach, Wang Zhenqiu asked first, "Commander Zhou, have you captured Liu Mingyuan?"

"Liu Mingyuan? That fat bastard, he's already dead."

"Dead?" Wang Zhenqiu frowned slightly upon hearing this.

"Yes, he died of his own accord."

Hearing Zhou Fengliu's answer, Wang Zhenqiu stroked his chin, then thought it made some sense.

Unable to escape and unwilling to be taken back to the company, Liu Mingyuan had no choice but to commit suicide.

"What a pity, I thought I could get information about Ma Xianhong's whereabouts from him."

"It's truly a pity..."

Zhou Fengliu responded with a sound of agreement, then glanced at the crowd:

"What? What are you all standing here for? Aren't you going up and take a look?"

Upon hearing this, Wang Zhenqiu finally realized what had happened and began to tearfully recount to Zhou Fengliu what Zhang Chulan had just done:

"You have no idea... Zhang Bilian is incredibly fast. We clearly told him to stay behind and guard, but he was the first to rush in, and even made Bao'er stop us. How despicable!"

"After we finally got in, good heavens... there was no treasure at all."

As Wang Zhenqiu continued to fan the flames, Zhang Chulan, following the script he had planned, knelt down in front of Jin Feng and began to apologize.

His actions stunned everyone present, including Wang Zhenqiu, who was still trying to stir up trouble.

"Grandma, I'm sorry. I know it was a shameful thing for me to sneak here alone, but I had no other choice. I had to make sure I knew one thing before everyone else got here."

Chapter 220 Wang Zhenqiu: Slander! He's slandering me! (First Update)

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"Confirm what?" Jin Feng asked.

"The Source Flow of Qi!"

Zhang Chulan delivered his prepared speech.

He cleverly exploited the fact that he was a successor of the Qi Source Stream but did not actually master the Qi Source Stream.

Using his silver tongue, he began to reinforce to Jin Feng and the others present his idea that he must find the Qi Source Flow that rightfully belonged to the Zhang family before anyone else.

According to Zhang Chulan, the Qi Source Flow only appeared after his grandfather Zhang Huaiyi became sworn brothers with Wugensheng. This naturally led him to believe that to find the Qi Source Flow, he could start with Wugensheng.

He happened to be in Biyou Village when he learned that Jin Feng had a close relationship with Wu Gensheng, which is why he found Jin Feng.

After some investigation, he learned about Wu Gengsheng's collection from Jin Feng. He speculated that Wu Gengsheng's collection might contain secrets about the sworn brotherhood of the Thirty-Six Thieves, or clues to the Eight Extraordinary Techniques...

That's why I arrived at the location of Wugensheng's collection before everyone else.

Zhang Chulan's explanation was reasonable and perfectly concealed his purpose of entering the place first behind the Qi Source Flow, making it seem flawless at first glance.

...

"Zhang Bilian, if that's the case...why don't you just tell us directly?"

Wang Zhenqiu, a fellow cunning schemer, remained skeptical of Zhang Chulan's explanation.

Hearing Wang Zhenqiu's words, Zhang Chulan's face showed a very angry expression. He pointed at Wang Zhenqiu and said indignantly, "Isn't it all because of you!"

"Me?" Wang Zhenqiu was a little confused when Zhang Chulan pointed at him like that.

"What's wrong with me?"

"If it weren't for you, you troublemaker, suddenly interfering, I wouldn't be stuck here beating around the bush with Granny Jin Feng..."

"He's disliked me ever since Biyou Village... He noticed my interest in the collection, and he's been making things difficult for me at every turn..."

"I had no choice but to ask Brother Liu to come over and try to keep him in check... But I didn't expect that he would make things difficult for me in front of Brother Liu and deliberately put me in the back. I had no choice but to sneak in."

Faced with Zhang Chulan's accusations, Wang Zhenqiu felt like he was swallowing a bitter pill—he had no way to explain himself.

He admitted that he had made things difficult for Zhang Chulan a little... but he definitely didn't do anything as evil as Zhang Chulan claimed!

How come he seems to have become the bad guy after Zhang Chulan said that?

"Zhang Bilian, Zhang Bilian... I have never seen such a shameless person as you!" Wang Zhenqiu said, on the verge of tears.

As he spoke, he looked around at the crowd, wanting people to prove that he was a good person.

He looked at Xia Liuqing, his half-master.

The latter chuckled and then said to Jin Feng, "I can vouch for you, Jin Feng, this little bastard is exactly that kind of person!"

"..."

Hearing Xia Liuqing's words, Wang Zhenqiu could only point at Xia Liuqing and say, "Slander! This is slander! Old man Xia!"

After he finished speaking, he turned his gaze to Zhou Fengliu.

“Commander Zhou, you know me. In Biyou Village, I follow the orders of the organization. You have to help me clear my name.”

“Uh…” Upon hearing this, Zhou Fengliu scratched his face.

He didn't like Wang Zhenqiu's scheming way of speaking when he was in Biyou Village... so naturally he couldn't say anything for Wang Zhenqiu now.

"Qiu'er, your contributions to Biyou Village are evident to all, but this is only the second time I've met you personally."

"How about you pay me three thousand? I can find someone for you, hire some online trolls on the Yiren Forum to clear your name?"

"Then you can use your online trolls to wash away your reputation as a scourge of Southwest China, and then further tarnish your shamelessness..."

Hearing Zhou Fengliu's words, Wang Zhenqiu became even more silent.

While Zhou Fengliu's suggestion was indeed a solution,... what use was it now? Besides, his reputation as a scourge of the Southwest was notoriously tarnished...

Wang Zhenqiu was very sad, but he couldn't say it. He could only turn his attention to his two colleagues, Feng Baobao and Chen Duo.

However, the clever Feng Baobao and Zhang Chulan were wearing the same pair of pants.

Chen Duo was completely unfamiliar with Wang Zhenqiu, and it was impossible for her to say anything nice about him.

Upon seeing this, Wang Zhenqiu revealed a pained smile.

"I finally got serious this once, and you guys made me lose so completely..."

"Boiled!"

...

"Forget it, Zhang Chulan, get up. This matter has little to do with you... and you weren't the one who stole the sect leader's collection..."

Just as Wang Zhenqiu was preparing to "seal his heart and stop loving," Jin Feng, who had been silent for a long time, slowly spoke up and told Zhang Chulan to get up.

"Grandma Jin Feng... Now that things have come to this, please tell me what exactly the sect leader's collection is?" Zhang Chulan asked Jin Feng after standing up.

"Um..."

Upon hearing this question, everyone present looked at Jin Feng with great curiosity.

"Clay Figure Zhang...camera, kite, pocket watch..."

Under the watchful eyes of everyone, Jin Feng recited Wu Gengsheng's collection one by one. After hearing these so-called collections, everyone remained silent for a long time, unsure of what to say.

"Perhaps there are a few valuable items among those collections, but most of them were just picked up by the sect leader... They're not rare items, so they don't attract ordinary people, let alone people with supernatural abilities."

Jin Feng said this.

“Valuable things? Who says they aren’t attractive?” Zhou Fengliu said, indicating that he was interested in valuable things.

"I came here for the valuables..."

"..." Jin Feng silently looked at the small pavilion on the high platform in the distance, then sighed and said:

But they're all gone now...

“Indeed, let alone 30%, there’s not even a trace left.” Zhou Fengliu said this while glancing at Zhang Chulan.

Upon hearing this, Zhang Chulan knew that Zhou Fengliu was mocking him, and he could only give Zhou Fengliu a bitter smile.

"But this makes things quite interesting," Wang Zhenqiu said at this moment.

"If these collections really don't have much value to people with supernatural abilities, and the people who kidnapped Granny Jin Feng had already taken the collections beforehand, then why did they bring these people here?"

Wang Zhenqiu's words surprised everyone slightly, as they found them to make a lot of sense.

"They calculated that Grandma would also come... Judging from the hidden information Liu Mingyuan gave these people, the person behind it all wants us to fight each other..."

What are they trying to do?

Wang Zhenqiu stroked his chin, pondered for a moment, and then answered his own question:

"Could the person behind this be targeting these changes?"

Wang Zhenqiu pointed to the several ordinary corpses on the ground that had been transformed by Tongtian Valley...

"It's such a pity that all these people are dead. It would be nice to have someone alive to compare them with."

Chapter 221 Since we're already here, there's nothing wrong with taking a photo, right? (Second Update)

"Live?"

Upon hearing this, Barron stepped forward.

"Yes, that unlucky guy should still be alive... I'll go bring him over."

Barron went to bring over the unfortunate fellow they had initially used to gather information, and the rest of the group waited there for a while.

At this moment, Zhou Fengliu took out his far superior mobile phone and took a few photos inside the cave.

"Brother Liu, what are you doing?" Zhang Chulan asked, puzzled by Zhou Fengliu's actions.

"Taking photos... If I can't get anything valuable, can't I at least take a few pictures as a souvenir?"