Song Ying thought for a moment and took out the remaining heart-shaped energy stone.

When taking it out, cover it with a black cloth and place it on the table.

"This thing will explode if it is hit by something with fire or a huge amount of energy."

Qi Cen lifted a corner of the black cloth, took a look and immediately put it away.

"You are still awesome."

"I got this thing last night when I went into the plot station to rescue Liu Zhongju. Thanks, Brother Liu."

Song Ying turned the cup with tea in it and raised her hand towards Liu Zhongju.

Liu Zhongju smiled helplessly, picked up the cup beside him and raised it.

Shi Muyuan was watching from the side. At this time, in order to maintain Yuan Ning's personality, he could only endure and reduce the number of questions he asked.

The others were sitting aside and having a small meeting. Song Ying could naturally hear everything. They were basically discussing how difficult it would be to take down Zong Cen with their current bodies.

Song Ying was not too worried about this. If there was a rebellious system in Zong Cen's body, it would be easy to become exhausted after being sucked out of the system by the cage. It would be much easier to deal with than when it was in its prime.

The group stayed in the yard until noon, and Qi Cen even asked the servant to prepare a sumptuous lunch.

Someone was sent to invite Zong Cen to come and have dinner together, but he refused.

The servant came back and said that there was someone else in Zong Cen's room, but he didn't see clearly who it was.

The guards of Xuanbing Mansion should not let anyone in at will at this time. If that person did not sneak in by himself, he must have come in before the incident.

The person Qi Cen had sent down the mountain earlier brought the letter back at this time. It was brought in by a member of the escort team.

"Has anyone come in today?"

"My Lord, no one else came in or out today except our own people."

The guard was still waiting for Qi Cen's reply and did not leave immediately.

Qi Cen unfolded the letter and took a look. The content was relatively brief.

"Tell Wu Sen that he did a good job. If there are any other situations, he should handle them first and report them later."

"Yes."

After receiving the reply, the guard immediately retreated to deliver the message.

After the person left, Qi Cen handed the letter to Liu Zhongju who was next to him.

The lunch position was originally intended to be seen by outsiders, and the two seniors were naturally the closest to the Lord of Xuanbing Mansion.

Liu Zhongju took the letter, took a look at it, nodded and handed it out.

The letter turned around before it landed in Song Ying's hands, who unfolded the letter paper.

Rumors have spread in the city and have been dealt with in the same way as before.

It seemed that the person who stole the weapons had arranged it before the theft in order to muddy the waters even more.

He handed the letter to Yan Luo who was standing next to him. After reading it, Yan Luo slapped the table.

"Sister, please be careful about your personality. There are too many people here."

Song Ying immediately grabbed Yan Luo, who had a hot temper. She couldn't be exposed now, otherwise if the other party noticed, she would easily be able to escape.

The deal she made with the main system was a hidden mission, and capturing all the rebels was the most important thing.

When you have the chance in the future, you must use the cage to test Zong Cen. Every time the sixth sense is triggered after you come in, it is related to him. This person is the key figure.

In addition to the rebel treason, there is also the Black Mist Tree, the energy extractor of the Black Sponge. So far, she has not seen this thing in any of the yards she has walked through, so she must find it and deal with it.

In this way, the black sponge will lose its nutrients, and without energy, it will naturally be unable to harm other people.

"Master Qu, may I ask if you have a tree here?"

During the meal, everyone sat at their own table. Song Ying was still some distance away from Qi Cen, who was sitting at the top of the table, so naturally she couldn't lower her voice when speaking.

If you act like this for a long time, you will naturally become a good actor.

"I wonder what tree Miss Liu is talking about? I still have a lot of trees here."

"A special one among all the trees."

Song Ying did not directly describe the appearance of the tree. What if the black fog tree here was different from the previous black fog tree? That would be misleading.

When Song Ying asked about the tree, Liu Zhongju glanced at her with admiration in his eyes.

"Well, there was a tree in a deserted backyard with a well. When the tree was found, it had already grown out of the well. It grew very fast at first, but it has stopped growing in recent years."

"It is most likely this tree. Let's get someone to test it out first to see if it can be removed. If it is really that tree, it won't let anyone produce it at will."

Liu Zhongju took over the topic. He and Song Ying were the only two people present who had seen the black fog tree. They both knew how tenacious such a tree was.

Now all spell skills cannot be used, and it may be difficult to deal with the tree with cold weapons alone.

Qi Cen asked someone to explore the way first. If they didn’t need to continue searching, maybe the tree was not in the villa, but in Yucheng.

If it happened in Yucheng, something really big would probably happen.

Song Ying thought about it and didn't express this idea immediately because there were too many people here.

After lunch, everyone went back home. Song Ying did not leave immediately but stood behind the crowd waiting.

Shi Muyuan and Liu Zhongju could see that Song Ying still had something to say, and Qi Cen did not leave either. He and Song Ying seemed to have something to say, so they fell behind and successfully left the team.

After everyone left, the four of them returned to the pavilion in the middle of the lake. This position had a wide view and they could spot anyone approaching immediately.

"When I was talking about trees just now, I had an idea. The Yucheng Fengyun may not only be the Mingque Dragon Stone, but also the Black Mist Tree."

Song Ying glanced at the entrance of the yard and saw someone coming over there.

“The tree might not be here but in the city.”

As soon as he finished speaking, the housekeeper walked in. It should be that the tree in the backyard had borne fruit.

When the butler arrived outside the pavilion, the four people in the pavilion stopped talking.

"Master, the tree in the backyard has been cleared, and the water under the well has dried up, but we did find something."

When the butler came over, he was holding a long box in his hand. He raised his hand and handed the box towards Qi Cen.

Qi Cen walked over and opened it, and saw that there was a knife inside. The knife that appeared at this time could only be the Qianxue Sword.

"This guy is really good at hiding things. If I hadn't suddenly remembered that there was such a place, I would have missed it."

Qi Cen took out the knife and swung it a few times. The knife energy split the water surface and went all the way to the small tree on the opposite bank, which broke into pieces.

It is rumored in the martial arts world that the master of Xuanbing Mansion is young and has not yet mastered the family sword skills. This is not just about not mastering them, this is about hiding one's strength.

"The shield has not been found yet, it may be in a similar place."

Song Ying walked behind Qi Cen and took a close look at the knife.

This knife is actually more like a Mo Dao, but the handle is not as long as that of a Mo Dao. Upon closer inspection, it is found that this is probably still a Mo Dao, and the long handle needs to be connected to another section.

"This man didn't steal everything, and the handle of the knife fell off."

Qi Cen said jokingly.

"Take people to search those courtyards that are not often used, especially the area near the courtyard where the knife appeared."

"It's the master of the palace."

After receiving the next instruction, the butler immediately went out to arrange the personnel.

"It seems that the other party is very familiar with the Xuanbing Mansion."

Shi Muyuan was speaking from behind, and Liu Zhongju nodded in agreement.

"I didn't expect that kind of place. This person simply treats this place as his home."

Qi Cen put away the knife and returned to the pavilion. He had not finished the previous topic and must continue.

"I'm afraid we still need to search the city. How about this? Since there are still three days before the martial arts conference, I'll find an excuse to take people down the mountain to play and look for the tree at the same time."

Song Ying still wanted to go down the mountain to investigate by himself, mainly to familiarize himself with the nearby terrain. This way, even if a fight broke out and the other party escaped, he would know where to chase him.

"I'm afraid this won't work. The knife has been found, but the shield hasn't. If I go down the mountain now, the person behind the scenes will say I'm absconding because I'm afraid of the crime."

Liu Zhongju hit the point home in one sentence. If he wanted to get down the mountain without any trouble, he had to find the shield first. Even if he couldn't find out who did it, no one could say anything.

"That's right. Yucheng is within the territory of Xuanbing Mansion. I'm afraid you'll have to come forward to look for the tree."

Qi Cen nodded and indicated that he would arrange this matter.

After that, the four of them didn't talk much and left.

When Song Ying returned to the yard, several fellow apprentices were practicing swordsmanship. She came back and saw them, and stood under the eaves watching the people in the yard without saying a word.

They all used the sword skills very skillfully, and no one was as clumsy as she was at the beginning. It seemed that there were no players among them, but it could not be ruled out that the other party was hiding well.

Qi Yu, who was leading the group, saw Song Ying and immediately stopped what he was doing and ran towards Song Ying.

"Senior Sister, when you went out just now, someone sent something over and placed it in your room."

"What is it? Who sent it?"

Song Ying immediately became nervous and walked quickly in her direction.

"We don't know what it is. We didn't open it. The person who delivered it was wearing the clothes of a servant of Xuanbing Mansion."

Such words made Song Ying even more confused. He pushed open the door and saw a box about 1.5 meters long and 1 meter wide on the table.

The Song Ying brothers took a deep breath and quickly stepped forward to open the box.

A black and ice-blue shield appeared in front of Song Ying.

"Qi Yu, go find Mansion Master Qu right away. Don't make it public. Just say I have something to do."

"Senior sister, what is this?"

"This is the Half Snow Shield from Xuanbing Mansion. We discovered it was stolen this morning."

Qi Yu immediately understood the importance of the matter. He took a few deep breaths beside Song Ying before calmly walking out of the room to find Qu Huisi.

Song Ying closed the box again. Why did this person bring the shield to Dingfeng Villa and use such a method?

Want to make Dingfeng Villa and Xuanbing Mansion turn against each other? But the relationship between Xuanbing Mansion and Dingfeng Villa was not very good. At most, they knew each other, but because of the long distance, they did not communicate much.

Or you send the things over so openly, aren't you afraid of being discovered?

Song Ying thought that she was not in the yard when the box was delivered, which meant that the other party had some understanding of the fellow disciples in Dingfeng Villa.

I understand that they won’t ask too many questions about a gift to their senior sister, and they won’t even do an inspection.

This group of junior brothers had been protected too well by Dingfeng Villa, and they had no skills at all in being on guard against others.

"Gong Xin, come in."

He shouted towards the yard.

Gong Xin is usually a very meticulous person, so if he could get some clues, maybe he could discover something.

"I'm here, what do you want, Senior Sister?"

After entering, Gong Xin stood very politely near the door.

"When this thing was delivered to you, did you see the man's appearance clearly?"

He tapped the box lightly, signaling Gong Xin to pay attention to the box.

"Remember some of it. Senior Sister, do you want me to draw it down?"

"If you can draw one, it's better to be accurate."

"Sure, Senior Sister, I'm afraid you don't know how good my painting skills are."

Gong Xin walked to the desk in the room with a proud look on her face and began to prepare for painting.

Song Ying didn't speak for a while, for fear that her words would disturb Gong Xin.

She couldn't bear to sit there and wait for him, so she quickly walked out of the room.

"Meng Yan, you guys should be careful these days. Don't go out, and don't let anyone in, especially those who call you out."

Song Ying felt that the other party wanted to deal with Dingfeng Villa of Xuanbing Mansion at the same time. One of them controlled minerals and money, and the other was the oldest force.

He had no idea how many complex forces were behind Dingfeng Villa, but as long as Dingfeng Villa showed signs of weakness, the voices that had been suppressed before would definitely resist.

If Miss Liu Yanyun, who was loved by the owner of the villa, died in Xuanbing Mansion, or died because of slander, then Dingfeng Villa would definitely avenge the miss.

When two forces fight, no matter who wins, the remaining one will definitely become weaker.

With such a vicious thought, Song Ying hammered the pillar beside him.

After waiting for a long time, Qi Yu, who had gone to look for Qu Huisi, came back, and brought Qu Huisi with him.

Qi Cen had already returned to his courtyard and was listening to the housekeeper's report when he heard the servant say that Liu Yanyun wanted to see him for something. She called him in and asked what it was about. He just said that his senior sister wanted to see him.

It seemed a little strange that he remained silent, so Qi Cen finally brought his men to the courtyard of Dingfeng Villa.

The guards were waiting outside the yard. He followed Qi Yu into the yard. After turning a landscape, he saw Song Ying standing under the corridor and hammering the pillar.

"Did you call me here so that I can watch you hammer the pillar?"

Song Ying, who was immersed in his own thoughts, only realized at this moment that someone was approaching and immediately turned around to look at the person.

There were other junior brothers in the yard so she couldn't call them Qi Cen directly, so she could only call them politely.

"Master Qu, please come this way."

He pointed to the door not far from him, and it was obvious that he was going in to have a conversation.

Qi Yu was a little worried, so he followed Gong Xin into the house. The first person he saw after entering was Gong Xin. He could tell she was drawing. He leaned over to take a look and recognized her at first sight.

"Isn't this the boy who came here to deliver something before?"

"Yes, my senior sister asked me to draw it."

Qi Cen looked at them with some confusion.

Song Ying opened the box on the table, and the things inside immediately attracted Qi Cen's attention.

"How come this...thing is here?"

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