"Fatty, what is the meaning of this?"

Head Guard Rowen didn’t speak to this arrogant man but looked at the fatty. 𝗳𝐫𝚎𝗲𝚠𝚎𝗯𝕟𝐨𝘃𝚎𝗹.𝗰𝗼𝗺

If the other party was insistent on putting the blame on them, then he didn’t mind calling in reinforcements and ’enforcing’ the law. His enemies and rivals, who were eying his position, could take advantage of it, but so what?

Reputation was everything! Face was everything!

The handsome fatty’s expression turned difficult.

He was also troubled by Dragon interfering in his way of doing things, but since he invited the other party to have fun outside, he inwardly sighed and chuckled.

"My brother has a point. I mean, with so many people surrounding this mansion, not to mention the guards, what are the chances that those souls could escape? If they could really escape after you have surrounded this place, wouldn’t that make you all a laughingstock?"

"Hahaha!"

Head Guard Rowen started laughing out loud in anger. Just as he was about to stop with the pretense, the masked man’s voice rang out.

"Head Guard, what do you mean?"

Davis sounded innocent, "I thought you played the part of a silent hero and arrested them. The corpses are just tools for you to goad them into convincing them to tell the truth of who sent them to assassinate the Handsome Giant Consortium’s members, right?"

Head Guard Rowen momentarily came to a stop as he looked at the masked man incredulously.

His lips twitched amidst all that laughter, causing him to nearly erupt and twist the other party’s head. However, he forced a smile and nodded.

"That’s right. Keen of you to be able to tell my intentions. Little brother, it’s not easy to be a guard here since. Hence, I wanted to undertake this investigation covertly before the mastermind could pull these assassins out of my headquarters using unscrupulous and overarching means. Once we find the truth, we’ll be sure to let you know."

"..."

Looking at the head guard who did a one-eighty, the handsome fatty’s jaw nearly dropped.

He didn’t expect the Head Guard to follow suit after offending him to the point of blowing up.

Indeed, Head Guard Rowen looked at Dragon warmly.

"What do you think? Should we have the corpses now?"

"No!"

Davis reacted vehemently, "They will still end up as nutrients to my magical beasts, and for the crimes they have committed against the handsome fatty, they should not dare have a body anymore. I will even hire a wicked path cultivator to curse them from ever having bodies again."

He cupped his hands, "Head Guard Rowen, please find another way to make them confess. The Handsome Giant Consortium will be deeply indebted."

"..."

Head Guard Rowen’s smile had frozen for a while. He could not understand this man.

The handsome fatty looked at Dragon with some trepidation, ’Hey, little brother. Can you stop twisting your words? It’s difficult to follow...’

Was Dragon intent on offending the head guard or not? Why was this so confusing?

Many people wondered how this Level Three Empyrean wasn’t simply crushed yet. They heard the handsome fatty call him brother, but he couldn’t have a great background, right? The fatty had always been an eccentric who made friends in every class of life and cultivation.

"Fellow cultivator, where are you from? What’s your background?" Head Guard Rowen’s tone sounded mixed.

He seemed to acknowledge Dragon as an old monster instead of looking at him like he was only an Empyrean.

"I’m from an ancient family whose name has long been forgotten."

Once he said his part, Davis simply turned back and returned to the mansion.

Left with no concrete evidence or a way to head inside the Handsome Giant Consortium since it required the City Lord’s permission, Head Guard Rowen could only flick his sleeves and turn around with a harrumph.

The guards cleared the skies while the handsome fatty summoned his avatar and soul body to deal with the neighbors. He didn’t seem reluctant to compensate them, but even laughed and interacted with them as though destroying a part of their manors was a calculated move on his part.

Indeed, the more people were watching, the more the Head Guard would be held accountable. After all, this was one of the twelve Bastion Cities. All the big shots throughout the realm had some here to rebuild and survive, so there was a high concentration of Exalt Stage and Primarch Stage experts.

The Hexadra Clan wouldn’t dare offend them all, as they had promised to give them a good city to live in.

Inside the Handsome Giant Consortium, he ran towards Dragon and laughed out loud.

"Bwahaha! That was hilarious. I didn’t expect you to make the Head Guard so angry and confused that he didn’t dare explode on the spot. Aahahaaha!"

Davis wryly smiled as he looked at the corpses inside the spatial ring.

These bodies were obviously dead. However, their souls were still out there. If he performed a karmic attack, they would die, but he wasn’t going to since they were his sleeper cells. With the Celestial Transcendent outside somewhere, it became dangerous to move about.

Davis mused if he should create a new technique to control these defenseless souls from afar. He wondered how effective his spell could be, but he had no confidence in it being able to succeed. Perhaps, it might even backfire.

After all, if he attacked karmically, his aura would also appear on those defenseless souls, and in the end, his aura could be identified and then further traced back.

Seeing Davis remain silent, the handsome fatty stopped laughing and turned thoughtful.

"It’s not safe here anymore. The Head Guard saying he would investigate them is merely a pretense. He is probably in cahoots with them, as it is the obvious choice to side with the new Saint in town rather than the handsome fatty who keeps attracting women away from him. It’s a pity, though. The Head Guard and I got along just fine for over a month, but in the end, sigh..."

"That seems to be the case."

Davis said nonchalantly, still wondering how he should get the Head Guard.

"But you have to be careful." Advised the handsome fatty, "They might figure out where you live and make things difficult for your family."

"Hmm, it’s not a problem."

Davis said. They weren’t going to stay here for too long anyway.

After siphoning enough energy from the Ethereal Lumina Tree, they needed to leave.

Suddenly, he recalled something and turned to look at Fatty.

"Handsome fatty, do you want to get stronger?"

"Who doesn’t want to get stronger?" The handsome fatty shrugged, "However, increasing stages at my cultivation stage is easier said than done. I have only one more step to take to enter Level Nine and then make my way towards becoming a Hierarch, but that would consist of a journey that’s a few million years or a few hundred million years at the worst. Still, at that time, who could possibly withstand my awesomeness?"

He grabbed his beardless chin and stroked the curves.

"No, no. I meant if you wanted to become stronger by being able to activate your bloodline powers."

"Bloodline powers..." The handsome fatty muttered confusedly, "What’s that got to do with you?"

"Hmm, I think I remember seeing a copy of the [Heaven-Burying Mountain Scripture] in our library once. Do you-"

"What!?"

The handsome fatty jumped two feet high as he stared at Dragon with an incredulous expression. Before he could land, he rushed to Davis and stopped in front of him.

"You seriously have that [Heaven-Burying Mountain Scripture]!? Don’t kid me, you don’t know what it means to have that manual."

Davis smiled lightly.

This manual’s name was simply too domineering, but it couldn’t be unlocked without the bloodline of the Stone Titan species of the Giant Race.

Davis’s lips curled as though he found it a pity, "I’m not sure. I think it was complete, although it was just an Exalt Grade Manual, so it won’t be useful for you. A pity..."

"Exalt Manual or Primarch Manual! It doesn’t matter! Damn, if I have that, I’ll be allowed into the remnant clan of the Stone Titan Race, and they’ll help me translate it into a Primarch Manual! The remnant clan has long been in decline and has been on the verge of extermination several times. As a result, they lost many legacies and treasures. In this case, they are only lacking a single Chapter of the circulation method to complete the cycle and allow them to enter the World Hegemon Stage!"