Getting a Sugar Mommy in Cultivation World!!-Chapter 644: The Mastermind

"Why don't we cut to the chase and you tell me the reason you came here?" Gu Chen leaned back in his chair and asked coldly.

Not even bothered by the killing intent and the aura directed at them, Noah and Xin Yan could already sense Gu Chen secretly trying to cover the entire room with his qi. The man tried to be discreet, but they could see the qi moving like a river flowing before them.

"I will do just that, but before that..." When Noah spoke without showing any signs of tension, Gu Chen felt a bit surprised inwardly but kept a cold facade outwardly.

"Over the years I have been in this world, I have realized one thing." Noah chuckled lightly, making Gu Chen furrow his brows.

"Oh, what is that?" he asked.

Instead of answering, Noah tapped on the sofa twice, and the qi covering the room receded almost instantly. It all came gushing back inside the city lord's body, making him cough hard and jerk on his chair.

"Dad!" Gu Ren approached his father worriedly, but the man pushed him back. He looked back at Noah, and this time his eyes held a grave severity that they lacked before.

His son may not have realized it, but he had several guards surround this room, and he wanted to use the key to send a signal to have them charge in once he knew that his son was safe.

But now? He didn't even feel what was happening outside the room. It was like they were isolated in a different area from his house.

The thought itself was too chilling for him to even comprehend.

'This guy is a monster! Just how powerful is he? Golden Core Realm? No, maybe he has even broken through to the legendary realm.

Can those people from the sect even handle him if they entered a face-off?' Doubts started to creep up in his mind.

But what he did not know was that Noah had used his seals to cover the area, making sure no one could disturb or listen in on their conversation.

With a satisfied smile, Noah continued. "I realized that unless you show others what you are capable of, they don't take you seriously."

"Now that you know what I am capable of and you won't brush off my words, we can finally have a proper conversation."

Both the father and the son now felt the smile on Noah's face, unnerving.

"The reason I am here is because of the unnatural events I have witnessed on my travels around the various mortal towns under your jurisdiction." Noah pointed his finger at that man, causing him to flinch.

Gu Chen started to panic inwardly, wondering what the man had witnessed in those places for him to come all the way to him. 'This cannot be good.'

"In the past year there had been 12 abductions in each town." Noah revealed everything he knew to Gu Chen. From how he came to know about the kidnapping to what he had witnessed in each hidden room.

The altar, array formations, the spies in each place, hiding in plain sight.

The more he heard about it, the more shocked and enraged Gu Chen became. His hands clasped on the armchair's arm, causing it to crack.

From the start, Xin Yan stayed silent, only watching how the man reacted when Noah revealed the news to him.

"Why did I not get any information about it? What are the magistrates of the town doing?" Gu Chen roared in the air, but there was no one to answer him.

So Noah took it upon himself to tell him. "The magistrates themselves were not aware of the severity of the matters, and even when they sent messages to ask for a cultivator's help, the only replies they got were that no cultivator was free to be deployed and if they wanted help, they should hire someone."

"I received no such messages!" Gu Chen shot back, fidgeting unnaturally in his seat.

Noah hummed, "Let's say I believe you. We still have another problem at hand. The altars and all the array formations in those towns were not the core of the array."

Gu Chen may not be an expert on array formations, but he understood a little of the basics. "So we have to find the core of the array to find whoever is behind such a heinous transgression."

Hearing him spew venom like this, Noah smirked and revealed the final key information that sent waves of terror through the man. "I have already found the location of the core and…

It is in this very city."

"Here?" Gu Chen sucked in a deep breath of cold air; the hair on his body tingled as he shot up on his feet, his chest heaving up and down. "How could that be? There are so many power cultivators in this city. How could those evil cultivators do something like that under their noses?"

Noah shook his head and corrected him, "Not under their nose, under your nose."

"All the souls that were taken away from those towns were all in this town; the ley lines of the array are in one place. The place it all had happened is right under your feet.

Right below this house!"

Boom!

Noah's words were like a bomb that had been dropped on his head. Gu Chen fell back on his chair. "How can this be…?"

Still not being able to believe in Noah's words, he himself tried to use his qi sense to see for himself if what he said was true or not, but sadly Noah's seal prevented him from doing that.

"You will not find anything with your qi sense." Noah shook his head. "There is a seal that isolates the area where it's happening from qi senses. It is a Rank 6 array formation."

Gu Chen snapped his back towards him with a grave look on his face. "How do I know this is not a setup made by you to frame me? No one knew about this thing until you came along, and doesn't it seem very convenient that all of this is happening right below my house, even if that is true?" frёewebηovel.cѳm

The man was barely holding himself back from lashing out at Noah.

Noah glanced at Xin Yan, who shook her head and nodded back. "The reason I am telling you all this is because I believe that you are innocent and you are also being used as a scapegoat for all these murders by one of the unorthodox factions."