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These independent units had perfected everything, whether finding people or concealing themselves after completing a mission. Although I had clearly been pursuing the same direction all along, I still should not have run into them. It left me frustrated and gave me a splitting headache. It seemed the saying was absolutely true: one hero needed three helpers, and one fence needed three stakes.
However, with Zhu Daohe absent, I had gained an advantage. After all, I held no official position, which made it easier to act, while outsiders would find it extremely difficult to discover my true identity. Disguised as an ordinary Rogue Cultivator, I could even enter the border city's headquarters without trouble. After all, such a massive administrative office had its own marketplace to meet the needs of all sides.
As I drew closer and closer to the border city, I gradually encountered more loose immortals, as well as immortals returning to report for duty or handling assignments. Some swept directly past me, while others intentionally or unintentionally sent out their senses toward me. Naturally, I was not idle either. Whenever I met such people, I would go over and greet them, deliberately saying that I had seen three judicial officials on the road, dragging a fifth-grade Burial God Coffin here, hoping to pry some information from them.
However, their answers were all filled with curiosity. They wondered who had been captured, yet none of them had encountered anyone. After asking around like this, I actually got those loose immortals, and even the guardian immortals of various regions, eagerly discussing the matter. As a result, Zhu Daohe's affair became common knowledge among the immortals who entered the city afterward.
By the time I entered West Victory City, the headquarters of the border city, the patrol soldiers had