All of the attendees in the banquet room nearly jumped out of their skin.
The aftermath of the explosion had no less of an impact compared to the explosion at the Pill Pagoda a few days ago.
Somehow, there was a faint sense that the two occurrences were similar in terms of their bizarreness.
Everyone close to the explosion was dizzy from the earth-shaking aftermath.
“Was the City Lord Mansion blown apart?”
Once the banquet attendants recovered from the shakes, they saw a majestic and large-scale mushroom cloud in the distance.
After that, the venue fell into dead silence.
It was unimaginable that there would be individuals destroying the heavily guarded City Lord Mansion.
The only other possibility was this was a repeat of the attack from the other time, another chop that could have split Tiansang City in half.
“Explosion?”
Fu Xing stared at the diminishing light of the explosion. His feelings greatly differed from the rest of the crowd. He felt his entire heart sink into the depths.
He had a different and more in-depth understanding of the explosion than the other attendees.
“Where is Xu Xiaoshou?”
“Where is Xu Xiaoshou?”
Holding a wine glass as he traversed the crowds, Fu Xing had initially ignored the disappearance of Xu Xiaoshou since he had to socialize with many elders that were present at the banquet.
However, the wave of the explosion had knocked him out of his assumption. Xu Xiaoshou must have had something to do with it.
He did not think that Xu Xiaoshou would continue his antics even when he was in the middle of the City Lord Mansion.
In the face of the familiar blast, anyone would have guessed the individual who was responsible for it.
Fu Yinhong sprinted past the crowds and joined Fu Xing where he was.
As one of the witnesses present who had observed the explosion of the Pill Pagoda that day, she shared the same deduction of who would have caused the explosion that just happened.
She was still not completely certain of her deduction.
“Quick! Find Xu Xiaoshou and suppress him!”
On the other hand, Fu Xing was fairly certain about his own deduction. “Don’t let him fool around anymore!”
He was seething with hatred.
He had reassured himself that the City Lord Mansion was large in scale and well-protected with layers of barriers.
Therefore, if the man were to be practicing alchemy anywhere, it would not have caused much of a scene.
The thought that Xu Xiaoshou would return to his explosive tricks never occurred to him, especially since the current batch of alchemy had not started yet.
The next round had not started, but he had already played his ace.
Fu Yinhong was nervous as well, but she was still doubtful as she returned the gaze.
“The explosion seemed to have come from the back garden…”
“Who can enter there anyway?”
“Maybe this was an attack.”
“It’s not impossible!” Fu Xing interrupted her words and replied with a voice of steel, “It is Xu Xiaoshou!”
Fu Yinhong frowned and thought before adding sincerely, “Even Guardian Liu can’t enter that space. I don’t think that was Xu Xiaoshou’s doing.”
“It is him!”
Fu Xing was anxious. “I don’t need your doubts!”
She had no personal experience with Xu Xiaoshou, so she did not know the extent of terror the young man was capable of creating.
His strongest area was not limited to alchemy alone.
Fu Yinhong had wanted to speak more, but Fu Xing stopped her.
“Let’s not talk any further. Just find Guardian Liu and someone to go to the back garden with you.”
“If it is Xu Xiaoshou, please suppress him but do not try to attack or eliminate him.”
“If it is someone else, then activate the array and eliminate them!”
“We can’t let tonight’s banquet be disrupted!”
Fu Yinhong nodded. She was aware of the banquet’s significance. After all, she had her personal missions to complete.
“But the Red Coat…”
Fu Xing paused. His expression instantly turned sour.
“You get to that first if you still can’t be back when the time comes.”
“I’ll receive them!”
He held up his wine glass. His expression was a mixture of pain and reluctance. It was as if the individual he was receiving was not a human being at all.
A smile unfolded on Fu Yinhong’s face. After a light laugh, he reached out and patted Fu Xing’s shoulders.