<h4>Chapter 18: Strong Killing Intent</h4>


    In the next instant, Guan Sheng''s smile quickly faded, turning gloomy and then sinister.


    The smile was a disguise, and the sinister expression revealed his true state of mind.


    At this moment.


    This sinister feeling reached its peak.


    He was fooled.


    A thought shed through his mind, and a surge of anger emerged on his gloomy face.


    This anger surged rapidly, but it also disappeared in less than a moment.


    The smile returned.


    It was as if the rapid transformation of his expression had been merely an illusion.


    He let out a heavy sigh.


    "Junior Brother Han Yi, you are really ying tricks on me."


    "Isn''t this just setting me up for failure?"


    "Junior Brother Han, open the door first and let''s talk. The alchemy cer, or your senior brother canpensate you with spirit stones."


    "Just name your conditions."


    "Where can I find a suitable helper in such a hurry?"


    "Really, really, sigh..."


    Guan Sheng continued to plead outside the door, his tone and expression were both very infectious.


    Unfortunately, he didn''t know that Han Yi inside the room had already closed the array again and entered the quiet room, blocking out all noises.


    A little over a quarter of an hourter, Guan Sheng outside the door knew his mouth was getting dry from speaking and realized there was still no sound from inside the room.


    He had no choice but to give up, let out a dissatisfied snort, and leave with a flick of his sleeve.


    But.


    Only after he had walked about ten meters away, and with his back to the courtyard, his face appeared extremely gloomy again.


    "Something is wrong."


    "There is definitely something wrong."


    Guan Sheng suddenly felt a sense of crisis in his heart.


    Three months ago, he had clearly made an agreement with Han Yi, and Han Yi had agreed to help.


    Why, after three months, did Han Yi act so differently? He didn''t even dare to open the door, clearly rejecting him from a thousand miles away.


    ording to his previous observations, Han Yi was not of this temperament.


    Furthermore, he had taken great care of Han Yi, even giving him the Pill Form for exorcise evil spirits pill, providing raw materials free of charge, and sharing 20% of the profits from the refined pills.


    This kind of care could already be considered a heavy favor.


    A normal person would not refuse to help with a task that takes less than half a month.


    Furthermore.


    Three months ago...


    Guan Sheng''s footsteps paused as he thought back to the day Han Yi had left three months ago when Jiang De had also disappeared after stepping out.


    That''s right, he disappeared.


    In the Cultivation World, when someone disappears, Guan Sheng knew very well what it meant.


    He searched secretly for a long time and eventually suspected an incident involving cultivator fights in an alley several blocks away from the Pill Shop where Jiang De might be involved.


    But it was only a possibility.


    Through his connections, he found the Daqian official''s Qi Cultivating Cultivator and reviewed the fight at that time.


    He only knew that the battle at the scene was very brief,sting only a few breaths before the fighting ceased, leaving behind an unidentifiable body.


    Guan Sheng was not sure if that body was Jiang De''s.


    If it was, who was the enemy?


    He didn''t suspect Han Yi back then because Han Yi had just broken through to the thirdyer of Qi Cultivation, while Jiang De was at the fourthyer.


    Moreover, he was very familiar with the Alchemy Skills of these external sect disciples. Han Yi''s Alchemy Skills were mediocre, and hisbat skills were even more disastrous. He probably only knew one basic Magic Skill that wasn''t even up to par.


    Jiang De, on the other hand, though also an Alchemist, had cultivated several powerful attacking Magic Skills.


    Compared to Han Yi, who had just broken through to the thirdyer of Qi Cultivation without revealing any slightly outstanding Magic Skills, Jiang De was simply a dimensional attack.


    If the fight in the alley had indeed involved the two of them, it would have been effortless for Jiang De.


    However, ording to the records, the suspected Jiang De''s character waspletely crushed during the battle.


    Such an ability to crush Jiang De would have required at least a peak fourthyer Qi Cultivation, or even the fifthyer Qi Cultivation.


    Based on this range, Han Yi could already be ruled out.


    However,


    looking at Han Yi''s attitude today, Guan Sheng felt extremely strange.


    Was Han Yi the one who killed Jiang De in the first ce?


    No.


    This conjecture could be entirely ruled out.


    So,


    there were two other possibilities.


    The first possibility was that Jiang De indeed made a move against Han Yi, but for some unknown reason, Jiang De was killed by another Cultivator.


    This Cultivator might have thought that Jiang De was attacking them, and fought back, causing Jiang De to be crushed into debris without any restraint.


    And this made Han Yi be extremely suspicious of Jiang De and gradually extended the suspicion to everyone else. So today, when facing Guan Sheng, he wouldn''t even dare open the door.


    The second possibility was that in these three months, whether by ident or deliberate investigation, Han Yi had discovered the problems with the Xuanhuo Pill Shop and became suspicious of Guan Sheng.


    At this moment, Guan Sheng''s inner thoughts shed through his mind, and he deduced the two most likely possibilities as he perceived.


    Han Yi''s im that he had an inspiration in his alchemy skill and was about to break through, Guan Sheng did not believe it even a bit, not even punctuation-wise.


    And regardless of which of the two possibilities above, it showed that Han Yi could not be let go under any circumstances.


    Han Yi must die.


    As Guan Sheng walked non-stop, his footsteps had already set the tone for Han Yi''s life and death.


    As for killing Han Yi directly here, he wouldn''t choose to do that, of course.


    Even with his cultivation base as a Qi Cultivating Cultivator at the sixth level, it would take some time to forcibly attack the Array of this courtyard, and it would definitely create a hugemotion.


    There were too many ways for him to kill Han Yi.


    On the other side,


    in the quiet room.


    After recovering his magic power, Han Yi resumed his cultivation of Spirit Void Finger.


    With only a little over two months left before the one-year deadline, he was urgently in need of pushing the Spirit Void Finger to a new realm.


    But the more urgent, the more he knew that he couldn''t be impatient.


    A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.


    At this moment, the two bedrooms had already been connected, with walls full of holes and even a pit three meters deep on the ground.


    Thump, thump, thump...


    His ten fingers continuously flicked, with spirit light surging, as if they were ying an exquisite divine melody on the guzheng.


    Time flew by.


    However, Han Yi, who had immersed himself in cultivation again without any distractions, didn''t know that there was a certain pair of eyes watching the courtyard from a hidden, remote ce every day outside the yard.


    The owner of these eyes was not Guan Sheng, but the person Guan Sheng had instructed to keep an eye on Han Yi.


    At a certain moment, the person watching the courtyard suddenly jolted because a huge vibration suddenly erupted from the courtyard, shaking the entire Array.


    The vibration was brief but real, and Guan Sheng had ordered that any changes in the courtyard were to be reported.


    He quietly squatted until the night approached before leaving the surveince spot and heading to the Xuanhuo Pill Shop.


    "An abnormal vibration?" Guan Sheng raised an eyebrow after hearing the report.


    "Yes, Old Guan, the vibration was very loud, as if the entire courtyard Array shook, but I didn''t see anyone attacking the courtyard."


    "Moreover, this vibration is the first abnormality within the Array this month, and it''s clearly problematic."


    "Did anyone insidee out?" Guan Sheng asked again.


    "No, I was very vignt and kept watching. There''s no way I could be wrong. Up until the moment I left, the Array was still maintained, and it''s impossible for anyone inside to leave."


    "Alright, since the person is still inside, don''t worry about him. Tomorrow you continue to keep an eye on him."


    "Remember, if there''s any movement, report back to me immediately. Do not act rashly. Remember this."


    Guan Sheng waved his hand, and the person in front of him respectfully bowed and retreated.


    "A huge abnormal vibration? Could it be that the Pill Furnace exploded?"


    "That''s not right. Even if the Pill Furnace exploded, there''d be the house as a buffer, and with Han Yi''s strength, he couldn''t possibly shake the Array."


    "Interesting, I can''t believe we can''t see any secrets on this boy."


    "In just over a month, the one-year deadline will be up, so you can''t avoiding out, and then..."


    Guan Sheng''s eyes narrowed, revealing a hint of murderous intent.


    No matter what Han Yi knew or spected, he had to die.