Jiang Ming arrived at the Shrek Grand Hotel, but Jing Hongchen was not there. Accompanied by two attendants, he was strolling through Shrek City that morning—or rather, "being watched" would have been more accurate. Those two attendants had been placed there by Xu Tianran to keep an eye on Jing Hongchen.
If those two attendants had not used the Sun Moon Empire's intelligence channels in Shrek to report to Xu Tianran last night, they likely would have followed Jiang Ming and Jing Hongchen during their conversation.
"Hall Master Hongchen, out shopping?"
Jiang Ming greeted Jing Hongchen warmly, not even sparing a glance for the two wary attendants beside him.
Jing Hongchen's expression turned somewhat complicated when he saw Jiang Ming approaching.
When he returned to the hotel last night, he happened to run into the two attendants just as they came back from making their report.
Even though he knew these two had been placed at his side by Xu Tianran to monitor him, he was the dignified master of Bright Virtue Hall, a peak Rank 9 Soul Master. Being interrogated by two Rank 8 Soul Masters with eight spirit rings about where he had gone was truly humiliating!
If not for the fact that Xu Tianran had placed them beside him, and that his grandson and granddaughter were still in Radiant City, he would have slapped those two bastards to death on the spot for daring to question him like that!
But now... sigh.
He had not slept at all that night, constantly thinking about what he and Jiang Ming had discussed.
Anyone with eyes could tell that the Sun Moon Empire's current state was becoming increasingly abnormal.
Before the tournament, the likelihood of the Sun Moon Empire launching a war to unify the continent had been more than