I will burn books and slay gods.

A moon-white silk robe with cloud patterns cascaded down like flowing water, with faint silver thread embroidery on the collar and sleeve edges.

The mutton-fat jade belt hook was loosely fastened, with a green jade pendant hanging from it, swaying gently as he tapped the armrest with his fingertips.

Her eyebrows and eyes were naturally noble, and her skin was a thin, porcelain-white color that rarely saw sunlight.

Her thin lips were naturally upturned, and when she looked at people, the corners of her eyes were slightly raised, but her gaze was indifferent, like distant mountains veiled by rain and mist.

He slowly turned a pigeon-blood red thumb ring on his right thumb. The bright red was somewhat abrupt—the only eye-catching color in his otherwise plain appearance, like a drop of blood splattered on the snow.

After walking up to the notice board, I looked up at it and saw the picture I had pasted up. How is it doing now?

Before Wang Jie could react, one of his followers suddenly shouted loudly.

"Young Master, the portrait is missing!"

Upon hearing the shout, Wang Jie looked up at the notice board and indeed saw the portrait, which had now vanished.

The anger in my heart was instantly ignited!

"Who is it?"

"You dare tear down the picture I put up? You don't want to live anymore, do you?"

At this moment, the attendant behind Wang Jie explained to him, "Young master, perhaps the person who painted the portrait discovered it. That's why they tore it down and took it away."

Wang Jie turned to look at the servant behind him. What the servant said seemed to make sense, so he nodded.

"Someone come here!"

A guard following behind Wang Jie approached him respectfully and asked, "Young Master, what are your instructions?"

Immediately afterward, Wang Jie said to the guard in front of him, "Return to the manor immediately and tell my father about this situation. Tell him that traces of those three people have been found here!"

Upon hearing the order, the guards immediately left the area and headed towards the Prince's residence.

Then, Wang Jie turned to the guards behind him and said, "Go and get more portraits like these, and post them all over the city. I refuse to believe that not a single person will come forward to find them."

"Inform me immediately if you discover anything!"

"yes!"

After he finished speaking, the guards in the mansion went to post notices in various places as arranged.

Only Wang Jie and his servant remained. Just then, Wang Jie said to his servant, "I'll go back to the manor to see my father. You go and look for traces of those three people around here."

"yes!"

Wang Jie then left the area, and the attendant, under Wang Jie's arrangement, began patrolling the surrounding area.

Meanwhile, Chen Ye and the other two who had torn down the notice post had safely returned to the Mo family's villa and tightened the gate again.

Chen Ye stood in the courtyard, looking up at the sky.

Seeing Chen Ye's expression, Lin Su walked up to him and asked, "Did you think of something?"

Chen Ye tilted his head and glanced at Lin Su. "I feel that our situation is becoming increasingly precarious."

"Why?" Lin Su asked, puzzled.

"Something might have happened to the Mo family!" Chen Ye explained. "It's already noon, and we still haven't seen the Mo family patriarch. If we were wanted, the Mo family patriarch would definitely have come to warn us, instead of us discovering it ourselves like this."

After Chen Ye explained his understanding, Lin Su also realized the situation. "Then we definitely can't stay here any longer. We need to move to another place as soon as possible."

"No need," Chen Ye continued. "If this place had already been discovered, it would have been surrounded since this morning. Instead, nothing has happened here until now."

"Perhaps the Mo family didn't inform them of the situation here after the incident. Or perhaps they didn't have time to tell them we were here."

Standing in the courtyard, Chen Ye explained what had happened, just as he had said.

It's not that they haven't discovered this place yet, but under the control of the blueprint, the Mo family leader has no chance to explain and has already become a puppet who only obeys the blueprint's instructions.

Therefore, nothing happened here, and very few people came here to search.

However, what Chen Ye was worried about at this moment was that this place would be discovered sooner or later, but he didn't know how long it could hold out.

After discussing with Lin Su for a while, they decided they couldn't stay in the courtyard any longer and returned inside to discuss some matters.

……

Meanwhile, Wang Ancheng, the head of the Wang family, was inside the academy.

He closed the wooden window in the study, and before closing it, he even carefully checked the surroundings.

Immediately afterwards, Wang Ancheng arrived at a porcelain object shaped like a wine pot, grasped the entire object with both hands, and forcefully turned it clockwise.

"Click!"

A crisp mechanical sound entered my ears.

Just then, the bookshelf in front of them slowly opened, revealing a width of about one meter.

Then Wang Ancheng walked into the dark room, and after he went in, the dark door slowly closed.

The air in the dark room smelled of old paper and rust.

There were no windows on the wall, only a perpetually burning copper lamp crouching in the corner. The flame was tilted in one direction by a breeze from who-knows-where, casting a thin, blade-like shadow on the wall.

The four walls were made of dark stone blocks, and in the center there was only a long ebony table. The table was empty and the light made it look like an inky ice surface.

After Wang Ancheng entered the secret room through the hidden door, he said, "My lord, I've arrived."

Just after Wang Ancheng finished speaking these respectful words, a cloud of black mist appeared in front of him and transformed back into its original form. That person was none other than Lan Tu!

"How's it going?"

"Did you find it?"

Lan Tu lowered his voice, asking for an answer.

Wang Ancheng looked flustered and didn't utter a word for a while.

Do I need to ask you one more time?

The blueprint has been lowered even further, clearly indicating some impatience.

Wang Ancheng immediately knelt down and said, "My lord, please calm down. I just received the news. This morning, I followed your instructions and posted the portraits of those three people on the notice boards in the city."

"but……"

Lan Tu's tone suddenly turned serious. "But what?!"

Wang Ancheng was startled by Lan Tu's roar, and then replied tremblingly, "But, someone tore the portrait off... but my son put it back on..."

After hearing Wang Ancheng's explanation, Lan Tu suddenly burst into laughter!

Wang Ancheng watched the adults laugh and dared not make any other movements for a long time. He would look up at the blueprint from time to time, but then quickly lower his head, afraid that he might have said something wrong.

Lan Tu approached Wang Ancheng, helped him up with both hands, and said with a smile, "This is good news. It means that it's in the vicinity now. You just need to continue sending people to search that area."

"Yes, sir!"

"You may leave now!"

After explaining the blueprint, Wang Ancheng left the dark room.

At this moment, Lan Tu looked down at the so-called Nightmare Pill in his hand and wondered, "What exactly is this thing? How can it release such powerful energy?"

As expected, even Lan Tu didn't know what this so-called Nightmare Pill was.

All he knew was that the Nightmare Pill was a pill naturally produced by the so-called 'Harmony Bell,' and its true effects could only be known after consuming it.

Then Lan Tu snapped his fingers, and a spatial rift reappeared before them. From the rift, Mo Chen once again emerged.

However, he didn't want Mo Chen to swallow the pill in his hand. Instead, he gave Mo Chen an order: "Go find them!"

Then Mo Chen transformed into a wisp of black mist and left the dark room.

Then, the blueprint also turned into a cloud of black mist and left.

He needed to find those three people quickly; they were a danger in this plan.

……

At this moment, three figures dressed in black robes and hoods appeared outside the Mo residence, but they did not knock on the door directly.

Instead, they exchanged a glance and then leaped onto the roof of the Mo residence.

The Mo residence was eerily quiet; not a soul could be seen. One of the men in black robes spoke up, "Chen Ye, is it necessary for us to be dressed like this?"

The three then removed the hoods of their robes, revealing their faces; they were Chen Ye, Lin Su, and Wang Xiaoming.

Chen Ye then explained, "This is also for safety reasons."

"Don't you all feel that there's something extremely familiar within the Mo residence right now?"

Wang Xiaoming was puzzled by Chen Ye's question, his brows furrowed. Chen Ye, seeing that neither of the two people in front of him noticed, stopped beating around the bush and answered directly.

"I could sense the lingering presence of the concept."

After Chen Ye finished speaking, he pointed to one of the rooms in the Mo residence.

The two, who had just come to their senses from the question, instantly felt the so-called conceptual aura.

"You mean," Lin Su said, "that the blueprint was here."

Chen Ye nodded.

Chen Ye then asked the two to wait there for a while while he went inside the house to take a look.

Just after Chen Ye finished explaining the plan, Lin Su stopped him.

"No!"

"What if... the blueprint is inside... with our strength... we can't defeat him."

Lin Su's worries were not unfounded, but Chen Ye then explained to the two of them, "Don't worry, this conceptual aura is not from the blueprint. Because this conceptual aura is too weak."

After Chen Ye explained his reasoning, Lin Su, who had been blocking him, chose to trust his judgment and let go of his hand.

"You two, wait here for me for a while."

"However, if anything happens, don't worry about me, just retreat."

After Chen Ye finished speaking, he turned and headed towards the house.

Although Chen Ye said that, how could he possibly leave immediately when faced with danger?

As Chen Ye got closer to the house, he heard a faint cry for help.

At this moment, under Chen Ye's observation, there was indeed no one in the Mo residence, which was definitely a problem.

When Chen Ye landed in front of the house, he decisively pushed open the tightly closed door.

As the door was pushed open, a scene that shocked Chen Yedi was presented before his eyes.