When the morning dew of Túshān Manor was still clinging to the stellar petals, Hu Yuan had already covered the stone table with secret letters from the Lín Family Ancestral Hall.
The letter at the very top was stained with un-dried blood—dropped from the sleeve of the Lín Family Patriarch as he struggled while being dragged away. On it, the words "Zhao and Liu Treasure Hideouts" were carved with fingernails, the handwriting as scrawled as ghost talismans, yet radiating a final, desperate greed in the morning light.
"This is his last bargaining chip." Hu Shouzhen lifted the letter with the tip of his bamboo cane, the jade bead at the top reflecting a pale red mark on the back of the paper. "It's the Zhào Family's 'Blood Sand Seal'. Back when the three families carved up the Hu Family assets, they used blood sand as a token to swear a covenant of 'jointly guarding the hidden treasures'."
Chapter 431