After returning to the Tianshui Sect estate, Lin Bai went into seclusion once more.
He had already told Chu Junyou the intelligence Zhao Xing Office had obtained through its investigations. From here on, it would depend on Chu Junyou's own abilities.
However, judging from Lin Bai's conversation with Chu Junyou about Ke Province in the pavilion on the lake, and from Chu Junyou's performance, his thoughts were fairly well-organized. There probably would not be any major mishaps.
The best possible situation for Chu Junyou now would be to make the Taiyi Dao Fruit cultivators captured from Zhennan City talk. As long as they revealed even the slightest clue, they could follow the vine and find the Blood God Sect's lair.
According to Chu Junyou, extracting confessions was the Zhao Xing Office's specialty. Lin Bai believed there would be results before long.
Alternatively, if the Formation Daoists from the Celestial Mystery Pavilion in the imperial capital could infer the location where the Blood God Sealing Pagoda had been built based on Ke Province's terrain and landforms, that could also break the deadlock.
In any case, apart from waiting, Lin Bai would have nothing else to do from here on.
As for Bai Yifei, Zhou Xinjin, and the others—
Although Bai Yifei had come with ill intentions, they were currently in Azure Lotus City. The Third Elder and Zheng Yuan were also in the estate, so they did not dare to act too brazenly.
All they could do was wait patiently for an opportunity.
Time passed in the blink of an eye, and half a month went by.
The injuries Lin Bai had suffered in Zhennan City and Mystic Phoenix City had completely healed, and he had recovered as good as new.
After leaving seclusion, Lin Bai kept pondering one question.
That