Eastern Hall was one of the five halls of the God of Release Cult. Its renown was not as great as Western Hall's, but its Hall Master was famed for mystery.
Chaluo Zha had come from Eastern Hall. His risking his life to save Zhou You must have been at Eastern Hall Master's behest.
Yes, Zhou You had come calling this time not only to return the corpse, but also to express his gratitude.
The God of Release Cult had paid such a tremendous price; they surely had demands of their own. A negotiation was unavoidable.
Just now, at the Prime Minister's Estate, he had seen a famous painting hanging on the wall.
The painting depicted a blood-smeared fierce tiger embracing a bulging boulder, its eyes lowered as it sniffed at a wildflower poking out from a tangle of weeds. It possessed an extraordinary depth of mood and charm.
For this painting, the Prime Minister had promised to exempt the realm from taxes for three years.
The lesson of that tale was that everything gained in this world came at a price. Nothing was truly priceless.
The reason Zhou You had looked at it several times was that the painting had come from the same hand as the Starving Tiger Painting behind him: Han Yushou of the Northern Four Families.
The thought had come to him with utter suddenness.
Zhou You's situation was rather delicate. Eastern Hall Master's invitation for him to enter and meet him had originally seemed like nothing unusual.
But "entering" did not literally mean walking into the God of Release Cult's foothold in the capital. It meant entering Heaven Hall.
He was an outsider, not even a cult follower, yet he was allowed to enter Heaven Hall, the God of Release Cult's most secret and central