Lu Zheng had not yet received the tiger-skin coat when Real Person Qing Song arrived first.
"Grand Uncle-Master?"
Lu Zheng welcomed Real Person Qing Song into the house and asked curiously, "Why have you come to Tonglin County, Grand Uncle-Master? Is something the matter?"
"A few days ago, I encountered a ghostly creature." Led by Lu Zheng, Real Person Qing Song took a seat in the main hall, then lifted his teacup and took a light sip. "It was a Ghost King from the Profound Yin Mountain lineage."
Lu Zheng looked startled and asked gravely, "Was it here for the Cloud Palace Treasure Mirror?"
"Of course." Real Person Qing Song nodded.
"They—"
"I have already driven them back to the netherworld. They will find it difficult to enter the Central Plains again for twenty years."
Real Person Qing Song frowned, somewhat puzzled. "But that is not the issue. The issue is that they actually found Tonglin County."
At that, Real Person Qing Song turned to Lu Zheng. "Have you used the Cloud Palace Treasure Mirror outside and inadvertently let someone discover a clue?"
"Uh... probably not..."
Lu Zheng dearly wished he could tell Real Person Qing Song that he had misunderstood. Golden Absolute Venerable had not been trying to pursue him, but rather the ghostly creature that had stolen the Profound Yin Divine Mirror and fled to the Yang World to live in seclusion.
Only, that ghostly creature had already been killed by him several years ago.
He had not expected that, after so many years, Golden Absolute Venerable could still follow its lingering traces and determine that the place where it had fled and hidden was somewhere near Yizhou.
But finding Tonglin County specifically had been a beautiful misunderstanding.
After thinking it over, Real Person Qing Song still said,