Chapter 616 Suspicion

Chapter 616 Suspicion

Chen Yang first returned to the building. Along the way, he heard everyone talking about the dark clouds and thunder from the previous night, which made him even more cautious.

Upon arriving at the security office, he immediately instructed Vermilion Bird to personally lead people to guard the bronze tree.

"No matter what happens inside, do not enter."

Vermilion Bird naturally knew that the bronze tree was placed inside. After the Black Ice organization was wiped out, those mysterious people were likely looking for that very bronze tree.

Chen Yang's instruction for her to personally guard the bronze tree was enough to show its importance.

However, as she was leaving, Vermilion Bird said somewhat curiously, "The weather last night was truly too strange. I had people search every nook and cranny of Qingzhou City, but we couldn't find anything unusual."

"Could it be the doing of the Sacred Moon Divine Venerable?"

A considerable number of people from the Celestial Physician Hall were gathered in Qingzhou City. Vermilion Bird naturally bore the heavy responsibility of protecting Qingzhou.

Although they had immediately looked for Chen Yang yesterday, they couldn't find him anywhere. Vermilion Bird didn't ask further; she only focused on her assigned duties.

Including when Chen Yang left years ago, Vermilion Bird was the first to agree and not impede him.

In Vermilion Bird's heart, if Chen Yang was not in the Celestial Physician Hall, then she had to guard the Celestial Physician Hall well. When Chen Yang returned, handing back the Celestial Physician Hall intact was her responsibility, and it was the only way she could protect Chen Yang.

Now that such a major incident had occurred in Qingzhou City, and despite her using countless methods to investigate, she still couldn't figure it out, which truly worried her.

Chen Yang chuckled helplessly and shook his head. He scanned the surroundings with his spiritual power and found no martial artists. Only then did he say to Vermilion Bird, "Don't worry about this matter. It has something to do with me. The commotion might have been caused by me."

"But whether there will be more is uncertain." Although Chen Yang still needed time to verify his guess, his intuition told him that it was because of that matter.

"The Sacred Moon Divine Venerable's methods are powerful, but we've never heard of him being able to create phenomena like celestial anomalies."

Vermilion Bird didn't ask Chen Yang what he had done, because whatever Chen Yang did was beneficial to their Celestial Physician Hall.

After Chen Yang finished reinforcing the defenses, he immediately went to the room of the North Profound War God.

The moment Chen Yang pushed the door open, an endless stream of green smoke floated out from the room.

"North Profound, what on earth are you doing in your room!"

Chen Yang fanned the green smoke in front of him as he walked inside.

North Profound, however, hurriedly closed the door, not even greeting him immediately. "These are all good things. Don't let them spread out."

Saying this, North Profound took out a copper gourd from his waist, and all the green smoke in the room was sucked into the gourd.

Seeing this copper gourd, Chen Yang immediately felt a surge of spiritual energy emanating from it.

"You actually have such a treasure? What was that smoke just now? And you put it in such a good bottle?"

North Profound merely smiled and put the item away, not answering Chen Yang's question. Instead, he retorted, "Where were you last night? Such a major event happened in Qingzhou City. Even if I didn't say anything, the people from the Celestial Physician Hall should have notified you, right?"

When he had called Chen Yang before, North Profound hadn't felt anything strange. But later, when he thought about it carefully, whether it was to deal with the Zhou family or to guard against the Sacred Moon Divine Venerable, many martial artists from the Celestial Physician Hall were indeed gathered in Qingzhou City.

Unless even the Celestial Physician Hall itself couldn't contact Chen Yang, how could Chen Yang have had no news at all!

North Profound's eyes scanned Chen Yang up and down, muttering inwardly, "This guy's secrets are becoming more and more numerous."

Chen Yang coughed awkwardly. "I really didn't know. Otherwise, how could I be here looking for you? If I had known what was going on, I would have dealt with it long ago."

Chen Yang's visit to North Profound was purely to probe how much North Profound knew.

Among the Four Great War Gods, only East Cang was cultivated step by step. The backgrounds of the other three were all very mysterious.

Take the current North Profound, for instance. Chen Yang only knew that he came from a temple as a monk, but he had no idea which temple or who his master was.

Even the identity of being a monk was something Chen Yang had guessed. After all, advanced Buddhist scriptures and martial arts were not something ordinary people could learn.

Advanced Buddhist scriptures required Buddhist philosophy to be studied alongside them. This alone was enough to cut off the path to Buddhist martial arts for many.

As for the other two, Chen Yang currently had very little information.

Each of these individuals possessed their own unique profound techniques.

Chen Yang had once seen North Profound discuss karma, and he could meticulously unravel many things to uncover a lot of information.

"Heh heh, I thought you had forgotten what I do!"

North Profound tiptoed and pulled Chen Yang to the depths of the room, then said in a low voice, "I actually did investigate some clues."

"Although the sky above Qingzhou City was covered in dark clouds last night, the center of these dark clouds was in a certain residence."

"That residence either hid a rare treasure or something strange was born there. I plan to go and take a look. Shall we go together?"

When Chen Yang heard the word "residence," a cold sweat broke out.

The Celestial Physician Hall had acquired quite a bit of property in Qingzhou City. There was only one old residence, and beneath that residence was the secret underground chamber where the bronze tree was kept.

Although that underground chamber was insulated with special materials to block its aura, if North Profound truly went to the residence and searched inch by inch, he would definitely find it!

"Ahem, I think it's better if we don't go. Sacred Moon Divine Venerable's activities are becoming more frequent. We need to guard against him more!"

Chen Yang's words had no flaws, but as he spoke them, North Profound's gaze shifted.

The two looked at each other. After a long pause, North Profound smiled even more heartily.

"Brother Chen, you're standing so close to me. If your aura fluctuates even slightly, I can feel it very clearly!"

In fact, the green smoke that North Profound had released in the room earlier was not anything else but a precious item used to calm the mind.

The purpose of doing all this was precisely for this meeting with Chen Yang.

Not only could the green smoke calm the mind, but North Profound could also detect any unusual fluctuations in aura in the path the smoke had passed.

Before Chen Yang entered the room, the entire room was like a pure white space.

But after Chen Yang entered, during their conversation, Chen Yang's aura and state of mind had clearly changed.

All of this unfolded before North Profound's eyes like a painting.

Chen Yang was completely helpless and could only say with a bitter smile, "I knew that your green smoke wasn't right!"