The secondhand news of the upheaval in the Northern Territory reached the Capital, half a year after it had occurred.
Ever since Duke Niu and Three Spears had quelled the Wuman rebellion, few paid attention to the situation in the north. The reason it reached Zhou You's ears was that mysterious old man.
Yes, the mysterious old man Lu Zhigang had transformed into was precisely the benefactor Cao Mo'ang, Jian Xiaocao, and the others had been searching for.
This time, he had joined forces with Lu Xiangxing to break into the poison pool, snatching chestnuts from the fire and stealing the Wuman clan's Gu Emperor. He had truly turned everything upside down.
After this incident, all factions in the north had even greater motivation to track him down. It looked as though this identity could no longer remain hidden.
However!
After shedding his disguise, Lu Zhigang had returned to the Ten Thousand Poison Marsh Sea with the Gu Emperor. To cut off the Wuman's pursuit, he had trapped the Gu Emperor inside the Doll Gu and slowly refined it, advancing his Infant Phoenix Swallows Dragon Art.
So long as the Gu Emperor did not expose him, the Wuman would not be able to trace it back to him. His secret could still be kept for the time being.
After parting ways with him, Lu Xiangxing decisively left the north. He knew that this time, the commotion had been far too great. If he remained there, he would inevitably suffer the Wuman's endless pursuit.
So he simply left without a backward glance, arriving in Haiming Prefecture, the place closest to the sea, and went out to sea to evade disaster.
In the years that followed, Lu Zhigang had learned through Thousand Faces Hall that among the Sea Martial Artists, a certain