Lin Xiao Tian’s voice reached the ears of every Xu family member.
At the same time, a pressure entirely different from that of ordinary people spread out around them.
Under this powerful pressure, everyone in the Xu family felt a strong sense of suffocation.
“So it’s Young Master Lin. Do you still remember me? I am Xu Jia Hui. We met at a banquet once.”
“Of course, I remember. That He Huan San was your masterpiece.”
Hearing this, Xu Jia Hui instantly broke out in a cold sweat. “Young Master Lin, please believe me. This is not what you think. Someone forced me to do it.”
Lin Xiao Tian didn’t know if Xu Jia Hui was telling the truth, but at this moment, he wasn’t interested in knowing.
“Everyone stop. I have a few questions to ask.”
“Young Master Lin, we can stop. Could you please withdraw your assassins first?”
Upon hearing Xu Jia Hui’s words, Lin Xiao Tian let out a cold laugh.
“Are you negotiating with me?”
“I wouldn’t dare. But we are willing to cooperate with you.”
“I have an even more secure option.”
The next moment, an even more powerful pressure technique was unleashed.
Under this pressure, some with lower cultivation levels immediately lost their combat ability.
In the entire Xu family, even the strongest at the third level of Qi Refining could only move a few times with great difficulty.
The assassins subdued them with ease. Lin Xiao Tian left the rest to the professionals; he only wanted the answers he sought.
About an hour later, Xiao Ming sent a message.
“Young Master, there’s a result. They did indeed kidnap the person, but the specific location is only a general area.”
“Where?”
“Jiang City!”
Lin Xiao Tian frowned.
Jiang City was so vast, finding two people would be difficult. He would have to use his divine sense to scan.
“Continue interrogating on your end. I’ll go to Jiang City for a trip.”
…
Lin Xiao Tian rushed all the way and finally arrived in Jiang City.
Divine sense could ignore any obstacles, allowing Lin Xiao Tian to easily scan anything around him.
However, Lin Xiao Tian searched for a long time in Jiang City, going to almost every place he could think of, and his divine sense covered all areas, but he still couldn’t find Xue Zi Yan’s whereabouts.
Lin Xiao Tian called Xiao Ming again, but Xiao Ming had no new results. However, they had uncovered the cause and effect of this kidnapping case.
“What?”
“This operation was funded by the Xu family themselves??”
Lin Xiao Tian was astonished.
From a video recording, Lin Xiao Tian learned about this matter.
But Lin Xiao Tian was puzzled as to why the Xu family would do such a thing.
What benefit would offending a hidden family bring them?
The people in the video continued to confess, but as he spoke, Lin Xiao Tian felt more and more that something was wrong.
“Actually, we are…”
*Splatter!*
The person speaking suddenly disintegrated.
One moment a living person, the next a mist of blood.
Lin Xiao Tian knew this was the effect of a curse.
“Xiao Ming, stop the interrogation for now. I’ll be over there soon.”
“Young Master, this is bad. Someone else just exploded like this.”
“Did you stop interrogating? This is the curse erupting. They must have said something they shouldn’t have.”
“Young Master, we have already stopped, but we still couldn’t prevent it…”
By the time Lin Xiao Tian arrived, only one or two people were left in the entire Xu family.
Some elders of the Xu family were still alive, but death was only a matter of time.
All the younger generation were dead. Xu Jia Hui was still clinging to life.
Lin Xiao Tian examined them and confirmed they were afflicted by a curse.
However, this kind of curse was something Lin Xiao Tian couldn’t resolve.
This curse was on their bloodline, and its level was far, far higher than Lin Xiao Tian’s!
“No wonder eighty percent of your family members are cultivators. It turns out you rely on the power of the curse!”
Lin Xiao Tian looked at the dying Xu Jia Hui before him.
The probability of a child born from two low-level cultivators having spiritual roots is very low. Spiritual roots are more a matter of luck.
Even high-level cultivators could have ordinary children.
And the strongest in the Xu family were only at the Qi Refining stage. For eighty percent of their clan to be cultivators was clearly unreasonable.
The reason they could achieve this was not because they could cultivate, but because with the help of the curse, they forcibly possessed spiritual power, and some didn’t even have spiritual roots.
But the price for gaining powerful abilities was equally steep. They were at the mercy of the caster their entire lives, and if the curse erupted, they would only face death.
Not long ago, it was because their clansmen were about to reveal the truth that the curse erupted.
“I never thought… this curse is cursing our entire family,” Xu Jia Hui gasped for air.
The person who confessed earlier was actually acting under his instructions.
Originally, Xu Jia Hui wanted to sacrifice one person to ensure the safety of the entire family. After all, if the Lin family killed all their clansmen, other small families facing similar situations in the future would definitely resist to the death. This was something these hidden families did not want to see. But he didn’t expect that the hidden families wouldn’t kill them; instead, the curse of the Taotie killed them.
“It never intended for us to live,” Xu Jia Hui said, spitting up a mouthful of blood.
“Lin Xiao Tian, avenge us.”
With Xu Jia Hui’s last cry, no Xu family members survived.
Lin Xiao Tian was helpless.
He didn’t want the Xu family wiped out. After all, he only wanted answers, and there was no need to kill. Moreover, this would tarnish the Lin family’s reputation.
Who could have imagined the apostles to be so malicious!
Lin Xiao Tian left the aftermath of the Xu family’s affairs to Xiao Ming, and he returned to Jiang City to continue searching for Xue Zi Yan’s whereabouts, but still found nothing.
If the Xu family’s words were true, then the apostles must have used some method to evade Lin Xiao Tian’s divine sense.
Divine sense also had limitations. For example, if the other party used a powerful disguise technique, divine sense alone couldn’t detect it; it would require sight or discerning scent.
But the apostles were hidden too well, and Lin Xiao Tian had no chance to see them. His sense of smell wasn’t that keen either.
Thinking of this, Lin Xiao Tian suddenly thought of the little white snake.
The little white snake had an excellent sense of smell. Every time he entered the mountains, the little white snake would arrive within minutes. Calculating the distance from its cave to the foot of the mountain, the little white snake’s scent coverage was equivalent to half of Jiang City.
If he could bring the little white snake out, perhaps he could use its sense of smell to find Xue Zi Yan and Bai Xue.
However, there was a restriction on Black Mountain. He wondered if the little white snake could come out.