Lin Danyang and Cheng Feng felt upset about their journey in the northern frontier which had lasted a while without any gains.

They sent out lots of people. And gangs there also helped them enthusiastically. But there were no messages about Li Mu.

After discussion, they both thought the former judgment was wrong and Li Mu might not run southward. Lin Wan had fooled them.

The reason why they thought so was that Lin Wan never came to the frontier. Before they arrived here, Lin Wan was on the way to the south. But when they got here, they gained nothing.

Now they had lost Lin Wan’s trail. The main lineage’s branch kept Miss Lin’s whereabouts as a secret. Even Lin Danyang didn’t know where she was.

“Danyang, where do you think she can go?” Cheng Feng asked.

Shaking his head, Lin Danyang answered, “I don’t know. But she must go to find Li Mu. We can know Li Mu’s whereabouts after finding her.”

“You are one of the Lin Family. Don’t you know where to find her?”

Cheng Feng doubted Lin Danyang’s answer, starting to suspect that Lin Danyang would deceive him.

Lin Danyang said with a bitter smile, “Dude, you are one of a great clan. Don’t you know about these? It’s true that I belong to the Lin Family. But I do not belong to the main lineage. They don’t believe me and wouldn’t tell me where to find Dantong. Alas, I can do nothing with that.”

“So what should we do now?” Cheng Feng asked anxiously.

“Don’t rush. Eighth Uncle is investigating it. We can wait for his feedback. He has more favors than me to get more information.”

Cheng Feng sighed helplessly and could only wait.

After a day, Lin Pujun’s call finally arrived. Lin Danyang answered it openly with Cheng Feng’s existence.

“Eighth Uncle, any message about Dantong?”

“Yes. This wicked Dantong. She fooled us all. After we left the residence, she turned backward to return there and have stayed there.”

“I knew it!” Lin Danyang continued angrily “She had never gone to the south. She was just pretending to go in order to make us believe that.”

“It should be like this. This wicked Lin Danyang is surely cunning. Don’t stay there. Find her immediately. You go everywhere she goes afterward, gazing at her then we don’t worry about finding Li Mu.”

Without any hesitation, Lin Danyang answered heartily, “Ok. We will come back soon.”

Two of them left immediately for the residence. But they didn’t expect to come back in vain. Lin Wan had been away for a long time.

Within two days, Lin Pujun came to join them too. Knowing it, he couldn’t help gnashing his teeth.

His own eldest nephew was really foxy. She always left before they found her, seeming to clearly know their routine and could always find a perfect time to pull them away.

Actually they wronged her. How could Madam Lin have that thought to play the game with them? She was just pushed around by her ex-husband. They should blame Little Brother Li rather than Lin Wan. Because the former was the real one behind all these.

Of course if Li Mu knew all of these, he would feel unfair, thinking people like Lin Danyang should have blamed the Railway Department. The twists and turns they made misled Little Brother Li and he took the wrong train.

Without other solutions, they could only keep searching for Lin Wan. Several days had passed and they received nothing. The clan of the main lineage kept their information tightly. You could talk about everything. But if you mention Miss Lin, all you could get is no for an answer.

Lin Pujun and others couldn’t press too much, worrying about causing the suspicion of the clan of the main lineage. Then they focused on their families and servants, in hope of getting some valuable information.

It was like the saying that all efforts would pay off. After some trials, a maid finally leaked a piece of interesting information.

That maid served an old couple days before. It was said that they came back from the South Seas and may be the parents-in-law of Miss Lin. Fifth Aunty took them away after a few days. Before leaving, the old lady muttered that it was time for them to visit their hometown.

Lin Pusheng and others thrilled with excitement. Lin Wan’s parents-in-law must be Li Mu’s parents. Li Mu’s hometown was Shanyang City. His mother mentioned coming back to their hometown. Then they might have left for the north.

Several of them started their journey for Shanyang City at once and stayed at the Nanyun Resort Hotel.

Two groups of people from the Lin Family and the Cheng family shocked Mr. Gou. This old man did not know what happened but he knew that it must be something bad. They couldn’t come to enjoy the scenes of this city.

And these people have always been seeking information about Miss Lin. Mr. Gou was alarmed, suspecting that they might be the foes against Miss Lin. So he made decisions to say what he should say and keep quiet about the things that shouldn’t be told.

This conflict of clans never attracted Mr. Gou and he dared not to participate. Keeping himself safe was the best choice. Lin Pujun and others searched for days ending with no gains.

Secretly, Mr. Gou notified the people of the main lineage about it. Third Uncle felt strange about it. What did the people from Fourth Brother’s lineage mean? Why did they always focus on Miss Lin? What did they want to do?

And they worked with the young master of the Chen Family now. Would they really be planning some evil traps?

But he had no time to consider about these for Miss Lin and others got missing. And they were in a conflict with the Shen Family.

While Lin Wan and others went searching for Li Mu, Fifth Aunty stayed behind. They made a deal that if Fifth Aunty got nothing from them within three days, there must be something wrong. Then people here would immediately go to save them.

Actually Fifth Aunty sent people for information on the second night. She sent three people. Two of them died and only one came back wounded.

That wounded clan gave a piece of thrilling news that the place Miss Lin went was full of corpse puppets and beasts. With a surprising amount of them, these three people could hardly rush in.

Fifth Aunty was astonished. Calming down, she announced her Third Brother immediately. She asked him and her own husband to come back quickly. She was sure that Lin Wan had been in danger. With no time to waste, they must rescue them now.

People from the main lineage rushed to Jiu Feng Gou and met with the Shen Family on the way there. Dark at that time, they had a combat muddleheadedly. With dead and wounded people on both sides, they started a confrontation.

This fight was totally strange. The Lin Family knew something while the Shen Family totally knew nothing. But they all knew the real power of the other side and did not dare to make a move.

At the campsite of the Shen Family, Third Grandaunt cursed angrily that the shifty rivals looked not like good people, and her two apprentices who turned to help outsiders were ingrateful wolves. She finally cursed that Little Brother Li was as cruel as a wolf and was a total rat.

Shen Xingyue was unhappily and said, “Mom, why you scold my husband? How does he offend you?”

Third Grandaunt did not dare to scold her daughter and patiently explained, “My dear Yueni, your judgment of men isn’t good enough. How can you decide to marry a shifty man?”

“Who is a shifty man? Mom, do not talk nonsense.”

“As your mother, I don’t say anything wrong. The Three Stones Mountain is the place where our ancestors buried gold. Why did they go there? For travel? Idiots can know the reason. They want to steal the gold.

“You can’t get him wrong. Why do you suppose they went to steal the gold? The Three Stones Mountain didn’t belong to the Shen Family. Why don’t you allow others to go there? It’s not like that. You shouldn’t say this without any proof.”

This time, she was followed by her parents, her Fourth Uncle and Fifth Aunty. Hearing her words, they all shook their heads.

“Yueni!” Fifth Aunty said nicely, “Your mother is right. They must plan to steal the gold. Hovering around the nearby of the Three Stones Mountain means they have been trapped by the protection formation. You tell me the reason why they rushed into the formation. If they don’t want to steal the gold, why do they take risks?”

“What formation?” Shen Xingyue asked with a frown.

“Of course the protection formation of the gold mine. But it’s strange that They were trapped with the two girls protecting him. It’s really strange. It seems that we can only know the real reasons when we arrive there.”

“The protection formation doesn’t trap the Shen Family members?” Shen Xingyue kept asking.

Shen Hong who followed Third Grandaunt at the side opened his mouth to explain,” Xingyue, the protection formation is called the Dream Valley. It is a treasure to protect our clan. There is another one around our village. It never traps people from the Shen Family. So if people followed the Shen Family member, they wouldn’t have troubles. That’s why Fifth Aunty feels strange.”

“Fifth Aunty, is the formation very dangerous?”

“Yes, it’s very dangerous with no way to break. We can only try to lower down the power of it but can’t save them out of it. The only way out is them helping themselves.”

Shen Xingyue rushed to stand up and said hastily, “We are going to Jiu Feng Gou right now tonight’.

“Wait!” Third Grandaunt stopped her daughter, “Yueni, don’t be hasty. The group of people fighting with us is quite powerful. We can’t move easily. Wait till tomorrow morning. Tomorrow morning, we will contact them to know who they are.”

‘I can’t. More time we delay here, more dangers my husband will have. Contact them now to know their intention.” Shen Xingyue decided immediately.

With her voice just going down, there was a clan member announced outside the camp, “Miss Shen, the Lin Family from South Seas come to greet.”

“The Lin Family!” These old people screamed together and then frowned in silence.

“Why? Who is the Lin Family from the South Seas? Are they the people fighting with us just now? Are they foes or friends?” Shen Xingyue asked hastily.

“Those people should be them.” Third Grandaunt answered. “I didn’t expect that they are from the Lin Family. We actually fought with our former ally.”

Fourth Uncle muttered “The Lin Family always do their business at the South Seas. Why do they come here suddenly? Do they intend for the gold mine?