"Huff, huff!"
The sound of heavy, ragged breathing suddenly echoed through the secluded, empty place. After a long moment it finally calmed, and Li Heng, regardless of his entire body being caked in mud, propped himself up against a boulder to sit upright.
"I was used by that man... He was after the Wang Family."
From Zhou Ying and Wang Qi's reactions just now, it was clear that the Wang Family was in the midst of refining some important Pill. When Li Heng infiltrated the Prince's Mansion late at night, he hadn't even noticed the alchemy business going on.
The Wang Family had to be keeping this matter secret—at the very least, they were not making a spectacle of their alchemy. Yet that man knew of it—he must have come well-prepared.
"I can lend you a hand... But whoever approaches the inn again—dies!"
