Feather Cocoon

It was over.

Heavenly Mechanism Prefecture.

Deputy City Lord Jiang returned the token and said, "Three years ago, I accepted orders to travel to Han River. Today, I have come specifically to return the token and report back."

As he spoke, Deputy City Lord Jiang looked at the token on the desk. Although he had not intervened much in this matter, it had ultimately been brought to a satisfactory close, settling one burden on his mind.

The old man bent over the desk casually drew the token into his hand and tossed it into the long cylinder before him. Frowning, he said, "Letting a Demon Cultivator undergo tribulation within the city was one thing. Why did you let him go?"

"I wasn't confident."

"You weren't confident?"

"I wasn't confident I could keep him," Venerable Guanghe said gravely.

Had it been anyone else, let alone a Demon Cultivator, even a disciple of a great sect would have had to give Heavenly Mechanism City an explanation.

Yet that man's cultivation and foundation were both extraordinary. Having emerged from the lightning tribulation, he had already become a mid-stage Venerable. Since there was no confidence in keeping such a person, it was better to let him leave, lest Heavenly Mechanism City be drowned in blood.

This caused surprise and suspicion to surface in the old man's gaze. He then said, "Was he a Dao Child of a demonic sect?"

"No."

"You don't know him?"

"Have you investigated?"

"I have."

"What did you find?"

"It was as though he had suddenly sprouted from the earth. There was no information about him before."

Venerable Guanghe shook his head with a sigh.

He had nearly turned every puppet instrument in Heavenly Mechanism Prefecture upside down, yet he still had not found any trace of that person. It