I Can Devour Spirits

”No need!” Wei Ziyan waved it off and said, ”Let’s just eat something by the roadside!”

Sun Qian was slightly taken aback and said, ”Law Envoy, how can this be appropriate?!”

Wei Ziyan smiled faintly and said, ”Having a meal, why make it so complicated?”

The four of them really sat down at a roadside stall. Wei Ziyan ordered two bowls of beef noodles and three flatbreads.

The other three looked a bit embarrassed as they walked beside Wei Ziyan; Sun Qian had been in Xianggu County for three years and had never eaten by the roadside.

Suddenly Wei Ziyan said, ”By the way! My driver, the little boy Wei Tian, please call him over to have a bowl of noodles.”

Upon hearing this, Ruan Fengshan immediately stood up, gestured, and someone came up to him. Ruan Fengshan whispered to the person, who then dashed off.

Wei Tian was still in the carriage not far from the County Office’s gates, cracking melon seeds. The sun had shifted by now, and he was growing impatient when suddenly, a shadow stopped before him. It was a young boy of short stature.

The boy said, ”It’s noon. Go have a bowl of beef noodles!”

Wei Tian glanced at the boy, feeling he was somewhat inexplicable.

Seeing Wei Tian not reacting, the boy asked, ”Aren’t you hungry?”

Wei Tian said, ”I’m waiting for my master.”

”Your master is eating noodles over there; he sent me to call you. You’re Wei Tian, right?”

Wei Tian noticed the boy calling his name directly, and he jumped off the carriage in one flip, his eyes rolling. He thought there might be a secret path in the County Government Office.

Wei Tian then followed the boy to the somewhat secluded noodle stall and indeed saw his master sitting there.

Wei Tian sat silently beside Wei Ziyan, unnoticed.

Wei Ziyan saw the blisters at the corner of Wei Tian’s mouth and said, ”Don’t eat too many melon seeds!”

”Hmm.”

Soon after Wei Tian sat down, the shopkeeper served the two bowls of noodles and three flatbreads that Wei Ziyan ordered.

One bowl each for Wei Ziyan and Wei Tian. Wei Tian alone ate two flatbreads.

Wei Tian just buried his head in the food, but Wei Ziyan, while eating, kept observing the passing pedestrians, his eyes gradually filled with deep thought.

After finishing their meal, Wei Ziyan suggested he wanted to go up the city wall for a look.

Sun Qian and the others had no choice but to accompany him.

Shortly after they set off, a shivering little beggar timidly walked out from the three alleyways outside the noodle stall.

This was Duan Rong, who had followed them all the way.

Once Wei Ziyan and his group entered the secret pathway, Duan Rong followed them all the way to Wei Yutian’s old residence and then to this street-side noodle stall.

Duan Rong kept enough distance, ensuring Wei Ziyan and his group were within the range of his Divine Sense Investigation.

Because Duan Rong discovered there were many secret agents nearby, and those who had attended the banquet that night were also disguised and shadowing nearby.

Duan Rong watched from afar as Wei Ziyan and his group climbed up the city wall, glancing at the sun above the wall, sighing slightly in his heart.

Wei Ziyan had been in the city for so long, yet the sect’s people had not arrived!

If Wei Ziyan was to leave before the sect’s people arrived, should he intercept Wei Ziyan’s group, or wait for them to leave and then target the remaining corrupt blood remnants in the city?

Duan Rong was lost for words for a moment. The contact point person had assured him, asking if he thought the Ministry of Communication was a joke.

Wei Ziyan stood on the city wall, looking at the surrounding mountains of Xianggu County, and sighed, ”The mountains and rivers are solid, truly, it’s a strategic place for fortification!”

Speaking this, Wei Ziyan suddenly turned to look at Ge Qinglei beside him and said, ”Qinglei! Imagine if we built a stronghold among these mountains, echoing the city here! If the siege became too intense, we could retreat into the mountains! When the defending forces weaken, we’d attack the city again, wouldn’t that provide more room for maneuver between reality and illusion?”

Ge Qinglei’s brows furrowed as he looked at the surrounding undulating mountains, astonished. He couldn’t help but admit that what Wei Ziyan suggested was a masterstroke of strategy between offense and defense.

Ge Qinglei thought long and hard before he murmured, ”Law Envoy’s words, are no less than a thunderbolt!”

Sun Qian was equally shocked in his heart, contemplating Wei Ziyan’s words, rendered speechless for a long time.

Ruan Fengshan had felt uneasy since leaving Wei Yutian’s old residence; several days had passed, and Duan Rong and Xiao Yu seemed to have vanished into thin air, which terrified him. However, he noticed all the brothers had disguised themselves and were surveilling around, protecting the Law Envoy, which slightly reassured him.

Wei Tian was also following from a distance, completely uninterested in their conversation; if it weren’t for Wei Ziyan advising him against eating too many melon seeds during meal time, he would have already started munching them.

Walking along, Wei Tian leaned idly against the battlements on the city wall, glancing around, and suddenly, he slightly froze.

He saw a shivering little beggar at the alley a few yards away. He remembered having seen this little beggar near the County Government Office as well.

Wei Tian’s mind was stirred; he carefully recalled and confirmed that the little beggar hadn’t followed him, because when he left the gates of the County Office, the little beggar was no longer there.

Wei Tian turned his gaze back, sighing inwardly, thinking it might just be a coincidence!