Chapter 653
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It turned out that when Mu Qian Fan had gone out to collect firewood, he had coincidentally passed by this place. He had not expected that this group of people would be discussing something in the forest. The man who was already dead did not care how much Mu Qian Fan had heard. He had only wanted the matter to remain hidden and he had led his men to pursue Mu Qian Fan.
The stench of blood that Jun Wu Xie had first smelled had come from Mu Qian Fan's body. If the little black cat had not arrived in time, Mu Qian Fan would have been dead.
"What were you discussing?" Jun Wu Xie asked.
The man did not dare to hide anything and said: "We ….. We are actually from the Fire Country ….. Because Master had asked us to go to the Heaven's End Cliff to search and we were discussing about going there ….."
Heaven's End Cliff!
Jun Wu Xie's heart skipped a beat.
"What are you going to do at the Heaven's End Cliff?" She asked coldly.
"This ….. We really don't know ….. These things are not for people of our position to know. The only one who knows about the details of the mission is my Boss alone and he has never told us anything about it ….. I ….. I really don't know ….." The man said as he kowtowed to Jun Wu Xie, pleading for her to spare their lives.
Jun Wu Xie narrowed her eyes and pointed at the dead man and asked: "Does he have a map on him?"
The man nodded quickly.
"Yes! Yes! But he did not show it to us. He kept it on himself. "
"Find it." Jun Wu Xie said.
The man quickly crawled over and looked at the ghastly corpse. He shivered and hesitated.
Lord Meh Meh exhaled a warm breath and the air swept over the hesitating man. In an instant, the man's face turned pale and he started to search.
"I'll find it! I'll find it! I'll find it now! Don't kill me! I beg you, don't kill me! "
The man cried and begged for mercy as he rummaged through the still warm corpse.
After a while, his hand trembled as he pulled out a blood stained map from the man's shirt pocket. After he pulled it out, he immediately brought it before Jun Wu Xie.
"It's ….. It's ….. This one."
Jun Wu Xie stretched her hand out to take it and unfurled it. The map was not drawn on leather but was made out of ordinary paper. More than half of the map was now stained with blood and it was impossible to see the complete map clearly.
From what was left of the map, it looked rather similar to the two maps that Qiao Chu and the others had.
Mu Qian Fan had already drawn out a map of the route to the Heaven's End Cliff and Jun Wu Xie was certain that this map was not meant for the journey to the Heaven's End Cliff.
If it wasn't used on the way, then there was only one possibility!
This map, was one of the eight maps of the Dark Emperor's tomb, but this one was not the original, but a replica.
"Fire Country." Jun Wu Xie stared at the map in her hand that had been mostly smeared with blood. If Lord Meh Meh had not smacked the leader to death earlier, she would have easily obtained the third piece of the map by now.
"Who is your Master?" Jun Wu Xie looked at the man and asked.
The man gulped. "The Yan Country's Crown Prince ….. The Yan Country's Crown Prince ….."
Jun Wu Xie arched up an eyebrow. The Fire Country was not as weak as the Qi Kingdom. It could be said that the Fire Country was the most powerful and prosperous country among all the countries, and its territory was the most vast. The Fire Country and the Qi Kingdom were polar opposites. The Fire Country was the first country to be established and their Royal Family had always been adept at governing the country. Over the years, the Fire Country's territory had continued to expand and the country's power had grown. A hundred years ago, when the various countries were at war, the Fire Country had seized the opportunity to secure their position as the hegemon.
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