Chapter 164: Netherworld
The tea pavilion was destroyed. Chen Qing left several taels of broken silver as compensation, then departed this place of trouble with Xu Qi and Zhao Shi.
The three searched Blackstone Ridge for another day but found no trace of Zhu Yi or other core Zhu family members.
The next morning at dawn, a hawk broke through the cloud layer, circled several times in the air, let out a clear cry, then dove down and landed precisely on Chen Qing's raised arm.
This was exactly the trained hawk used by the Five Terraces Sect to transmit urgent secret reports.
Chen Qing skillfully extracted a wax pellet from the copper tube on the hawk's talons. After crushing it, a tiny slip of paper was revealed.
He quickly scanned it, then reduced the paper to powder in his palm with his true qi.
"A sect secret report. Zhu Yi has supposedly appeared at 'Blackwater Dock,'" Chen Qing said in a low voice.
After verification, the intelligence Luo Wei provided was accurate.
According to the secret report, Li Lei and Yan Yaoyang were currently heading to Blackwater Dock and had arranged to meet him at an inn near the dock.