Tomb raiding: Today is another day I don't want to go home.

Chapter 112 Xie Lianrui's Identity

Suburbs of Beijing.

A light gray figure flashed swiftly through the dense forest, and ordinary people could only barely tell from his occasional pauses that he was a young man of no more than twenty-five years old.

But those who understand the Dao will have questions about this—how could a young man of only twenty-five years old be wearing the abbot's robe?

This question cannot be answered because, in reality, he is not young...

Indeed, this man was Xie Lianrui, the abbot of Chenyun Temple, who should have passed away an hour earlier.

As for why he appears here with a youthful appearance? The answer is that he possesses the same ability as so-called immortals—immortality and the ability to live forever. His aged body is merely a disguise to deceive others.

This was something that not only Yan Huai hadn't expected, but even Hei Yanjing, who had been saved by Xie Lianrui and had interacted with him several times, hadn't anticipated.

Upon closer examination, Xie Lianrui actually learned this disguise ability from the Wang family.

Even though Yan Huai unexpectedly gained the ability to see the death and cause of death of a dying person by some unknown coincidence, he still could not distinguish the authenticity of a deliberately disguised face. This was incomparable to bloodline intuition.

After all, with this disguise technique, without the assistance of bloodline sensing, Yan Huai really wouldn't be able to detect the problem for a while.

Xie Lianrui must have also taken advantage of this point to obtain some of the information he wanted. He also lowered Black Glasses' guard by using his aged appearance, which allowed the fake death to proceed smoothly.

Yan Huai and Hei Yanjing were defeated because they lacked a bit of cunning.

As for Xie Lianrui's immortality... he was originally just a medicine boy serving the Demon Mother, but later the Demon Mother was betrayed by her apparent partner and eventually died.

Thus, he became the test subject of those partners, euphemistically called: the Demon Mother's medicine boy. He must have some research value for immortality, so let's lock him up!

This seemingly absurd and illogical statement, made on a whim at the time, was later confirmed by a member of the Wang family...

That member of the Wang family was also two-faced. After learning of this discovery, he immediately injected Xie Lianrui with a drug to fake his death, deceiving everyone and working with his insiders to get Xie Lianrui transported back to the Wang family.

Thus, after his business partner, Xie Lianrui fell into the hands of the Wang family, beginning his fifty-year-long period of imprisonment.

Until more than twenty years ago, a woman surnamed Gu saved him, allowing him to survive until now...

Now, after so many years, just when Xie Lianrui almost thought the Wang family had really disappeared, Yan Huai appeared.

From birth, the Demon Mother possessed a mysterious orchid fragrance that lingered and penetrated deep into her bones, capable of concealing the "truth" that her master wanted to hide.

As a servant, Xie Lianrui would naturally be contaminated as well; if Yan Huai hadn't mentioned it, he would have almost forgotten about it...

The peculiar smell, coupled with Yan Huai's probing, made it hard for Xie Lianrui not to suspect the despicable Wang family.

Moreover, the calculations have now been verified, so regardless of life or death, it is time to repay the karmic debt. In a sense, this is similar to passing away peacefully!

Xie Lianrui looked up at the gloomy sky, feeling relieved but also a little guilty—guilty towards the woman surnamed Gu. He feared he would have to live up to her kindness in saving him.