Fairy, please step aside, I've taken a liking to your man.

An hour later, Phelps's voice came from inside the office: "Heath, make me a cup of spiritual tea."

The female secretary picked up the tea tray beside her and pushed open the door to Fei Pu's office, then went inside.

There was no one else in the room at this point. Philip was sitting in his office chair, sulking. When he saw his female secretary come in, he waved to her and said, "Come here, I'm really angry right now."

The female secretary smiled and said, "You're a bit hot-tempered. Have some spiritual tea to cool down first, and then I'll help you calm down."

Fip snorted, "What kind of spiritual tea are you drinking? Get over here right now."

The female secretary walked over awkwardly, dropping a formation plate as she went. Fip was stunned for a moment, about to say something, but found that his voice could no longer be transmitted to the outside world.

The communication talisman also lost contact with the outside world at this time.

"Heath, what are you doing?"

Fip sensed something was wrong and got up to prepare to unleash his flying sword, but he immediately realized that he couldn't even use his spiritual power.

"A spirit-sealing array! You're not Heath!"

Fip's face turned pale, and he immediately shouted, "We have an agreement with you 'Wu' that you are not allowed to assassinate family members at will. Are you going to break this agreement?"

The female secretary, a sinister smile on her face, slowly approached Fip: "Then guess which family scion hired me to kill you?"

Phelps paused, his mind racing: "Vanka? No, she couldn't be. Is it the Mocha family? Or the Dugan family?"

"Just go and be a fool!"

The female secretary's left hand shot out like lightning, but Philip, who was already on high alert, did not hesitate to raise his palm to block her attack.

However, he never expected that the female secretary opposite him was simply a human weapon.

With only the physical strength of a beginner Golden Core cultivator, he was utterly powerless against his opponent.

The female secretary's left hand pierced through his hands with almost overwhelming force, then pinned him firmly to the bookshelf.

"Who...who sent you?"

Philip's eyes gradually became unfocused. He died without ever knowing who had taken his life, and could only keep asking the other person.

However, the female secretary didn't say another word. With a gentle twist, the other person's chest was completely pulverized.

The two sides are not even in the same league in terms of physical strength.

After quickly looting Philip's storage ring and all the valuables in his office, the female secretary calmly picked up the tea tray and left Philip's office.

The escort outside the office looked up at her, but didn't suspect anything.

After tidying up the tea tray, the female secretary headed towards the bathroom.

Half an hour later, the female secretary rubbed her head and walked out of the bathroom. Her eyes were filled with confusion as she looked towards Philip's office: "I've already been in there? No wonder I felt so uncomfortable. Let's go to bed early tonight!"

The following morning, Phoebe's protectors finally realized something was wrong.

He first messaged Philip, but received no reply. Then he knocked on the office door, but still received no response.

He panicked immediately.

He hurriedly took out the jade token, activated the formation, and went inside. What he saw before him horrified him.

"Young Master Philip has been assassinated!"

A shrill voice rang out over the entire stronghold, startling all the Golden Core cultivators.

Vanka, who was practicing in his office, was also awakened.

She appeared above Phelps' office immediately, only to find Phelps slumped on the ground with a large hole in his chest.

There was no sign of damage to the entire office, suggesting the assassination occurred in a very short time.

Phelps's secretary stood trembling to the side, while Phelps's protector demanded sharply, "What did you do after you went in last night?"

The female secretary was almost in tears: "I didn't do anything! The young master asked me to pour tea, so I went in and poured tea, and then the young master told me to leave."

"You let me leave? How could that be? When have you ever stayed up all night? I was wondering last night why you came out so quickly."

The words of the protector made the onlookers want to laugh.

The female secretary blushed as well: "Didn't you see everything clearly as I went in and out?"

The protector was also bewildered. He was in a state of confusion and just wanted to find a scapegoat as soon as possible.

If Philip is dead, then his protector won't live either.

Last night, because he was humiliated by Vanka, Philip was so angry that he kicked himself out. He thought he would take his anger out on the female secretary, but who would have thought that he would kick her out after just having a cup of tea? Last night, he was even wondering if the young master was not in the mood.

In retrospect, the perpetrator must have sneaked in last night while the female secretary was coming and going.

"We'll capture you first, then search your soul to find out if you did it!"

The protector was about to take drastic action against the female secretary without hesitation, but Vanka stopped him directly: "This is not your place to give orders. She is a suspect, and you are a suspect too. Men, take him down as well!"

The protector's expression changed upon hearing this, and he roared, "Wanka, did you kill the young master? Yesterday, you humiliated my young master in public for that mistress. I will definitely report this matter to the family head truthfully."

"Dare to slander me? Then you'll get a taste of soul-searching first! Guards, lock him in the dungeon and search his soul and heart."

Vanka's face was as cold as frost, but his eyes held a captivating light.

Upon hearing the call for soul-searching and heart-questioning, the protector was terrified. Just as he was about to say something, a team of law enforcement officials stepped forward and directly locked his magical power.

"Carefully investigate all personnel within the stronghold, especially those who entered and exited the stronghold's teleportation array yesterday, and those who left the teleportation array from last night until now. In addition, a reward of one million spirit stones will be offered."

After arranging the work on site in an orderly manner, Vanka returned to his office: "Send a message to the Kuna family and ask them what Fip saw before he died."

Each member of the family has a soul lamp enshrined within the family.

Firstly, it facilitates the monitoring of the safety of family members; secondly, after a family member dies violently, the mysterious connection of the soul lamp allows one to cast a spell to know everything the deceased saw before their death.

Meanwhile, just as Vanka had predicted, the Kuna family was analyzing the images that Philip had seen before his death.

Is it "nothingness"?

Judd, the current head of the Kuna family, stared at the blurry image in front of him, suppressing the anger in his heart.

"It should be, but we don't know who broke the rules and hired 'Wu' to assassinate the young master."

An elderly man in black robes stood respectfully to the side: "Intelligence indicates that 'Wu' has been rampant lately, participating in assassinations all over the world. The most famous of these is the assassination of the third prince of the Xuan Yuan Empire some time ago."

A prince of the Kingdom of Xisai was recently found brutally murdered on his estate, and the Xisai royal family suspects that it was done by someone hired by "Wu".

"Raising a tiger will only bring trouble!"

Judd snorted, "I suspected there was something wrong with this organization from the start. How could we allow them to continue existing when they can perfectly mimic the other's aura?"

"So what do we do now?"

The old man in black robes bowed and asked.

"Press 'Nothing' and demand that they hand over the murderer immediately. Propose a formal protest to the Wanpu family and demand that Wanka apologize for this and marry my youngest son, Janard."

Without hesitation, Judd stated his goal: "This time, I want to see how the Wanpu family will refuse my marriage proposal."

The old man in black robes chimed in at the opportune moment: "I believe that old Wanpu will know what's good for him."

……

After leaving the stronghold, Shen Bai transformed into a phantom and flew swiftly westward with all his might.

Assassinating a mere early-stage Golden Core cultivator would be as easy as turning one's hand for Shen Bai now.

If he weren't afraid of trouble, he was prepared to take down even the opponent's protectors in one fell swoop.

He was unaware that the other party's family had brought Vanka a huge crisis after he assassinated Fip, but even if he had known beforehand, he wouldn't have hesitated at all.

Shen the Hedgehog's nickname wasn't given for nothing.

While using the prospecting talisman to explore the spiritual veins within a hundred miles, Shen Bai also reviewed his harvest.

Of the four Golden Core cultivators' storage rings, the most valuable was undoubtedly Fei Pu's.

Shen Bai usually considered himself a wealthy man, but he was still stunned when he opened Fei Pu's storage ring.

What a rich dog!

……

The storage ring contained hundreds of millions of low-grade spirit stones alone.

In addition, there are tens of millions of mid-grade spirit stones and a full one hundred thousand high-grade spirit stones.

Putting everything else aside, a single spirit stone would be enough for Shen Bai to cultivate for a long time.

These many spirit stones must have been given to Fei Pu by the Kuna family to support the family's cultivators.

The Kuna family sent quite a few cultivators to Qiyuan Star this time, and most of these spirit stones should be used to pay their salaries.

This time, everything benefited him.

There are more than ten fourth-order magic artifacts and three fifth-order magic artifacts.

Unfortunately, none of these magical artifacts were used; they were all killed in a sneak attack. However, these artifacts couldn't be brought into the open, so they'll have to be disposed of later.

There are over a thousand fourth-tier spiritual herbs, over a hundred fifth-tier spiritual herbs, and even one of the legendary sixth-tier spiritual herbs, the main ingredient for the Spirit God Pill used to advance to the Nascent Soul stage.

These were either part of Fei Pu's family's wealth or things he had just acquired after arriving on Qiyuan Star.

Fourth-tier and fifth-tier spirit talismans are not rare items anymore. The most valuable items are actually the array plates for three small short-distance teleportation arrays, plus a complete set of array materials and array diagrams.

The array plate of this small teleportation array is extremely difficult to make. Even a sixth-level array master would find it difficult to make it independently. This should be the masterpiece of a seventh-level array master.

A seventh-tier array master is at least a Nascent Soul Ancestor level being.

Such a teleportation array is priceless.

I actually managed to get three sets.

Shen Bai's heart suddenly burned with excitement.

I've been accumulating jealousy points like crazy lately, and I'm already a sixth-tier array master.

Even if one's cultivation level is insufficient to unleash the full power of a sixth-tier array master, the finished array plate, along with a complete set of array materials and array diagrams, is more than enough to easily set up these three teleportation arrays.

"I was just saying I wanted to establish my own family, and now someone has offered me a foothold. Qiyuan Star is truly my lucky place!"