"Too cowardly to take White Jade that was already in hand!" Chen Mu muttered ruefully.
After thinking it over, he shook his head. "Forget it. Condensing Orifice is still more important."
The Sun Clan was still searching for him, openly and covertly.
If he got implicated by Shang Huan and the others, he would definitely be investigated.
Just like his neighbor Liu Hongyang. Merely suspected, he had been detained at Jade Spring Mountain and questioned repeatedly for half a year.
"Then I'd have no choice but to run."
The key was that he might not even be able to get away.
Judging from Liu Hongyang's experience, Sun Jian valued the Gourd Sword Box far more than he had imagined.
Chen Mu sat on the soft couch in the secret chamber, frowning deeply. "I can't contact Shang Huan and the others again. And if anything goes wrong, I need to deal with it promptly!"
On the western side of Eagle Sorrow Cliff's mountainside stood the Patrol Institute.
Inside a Black Tile Gray Window White Wall Tower.
Zhao Shaoyuan, the Vice Dean, sat beside a second-floor window. After a long while, he said flatly, "That business can't continue."
Li Dechao, the steward standing behind him, changed expression. "Academy Supervisor, we made over fifty thousand White Jade last month. We're really stopping?"
Zhao Shaoyuan frowned slightly. "Shut it down."
"Academy Supervisor, who's blocking our path to wealth?!" Li Dechao's face turned fierce.
Zhao Shaoyuan turned and glared at him. "What? You want to go trouble Elder Hu?"
"Elder Hu at the mountaintop?"
Li Dechao immediately shrank his neck, but he still asked unwillingly, probing, "We were only trading with the local mountain folk. It showed that the Other Courtyard was integrating into East Ridge's local power circles."
"Isn't Elder Hu... meddling a