After putting away the three treasures brought back from the Celestial Mystery Pavilion, night had fallen before Lin Bai knew it.
The maidservant from the Tianshui Sect's traveling palace came to ask whether Lin Bai wanted her to arrange a banquet.
After declining, Lin Bai asked whether Qiao Mo, Qin Yao, and the others had returned.
Qiao Mo, Qin Yao, and the others had gone to the entrance to the Dark World in the imperial capital that day to investigate the matter of the Twelfth Prince's posthumous child.
They had been gone the entire day, without a word of news.
It was already late into the night.
Qin Yao, Qiao Mo, and the others finally returned. Lin Bai met them in the discussion hall of the Tianshui Sect's traveling palace.
"How is the situation? Did the Dark World find anything?"
Lin Bai asked curiously.
Qin Yao and Qiao Mo exchanged a glance before saying, "We got a lot of information, but none of it sounds true."
Lin Bai frowned slightly. A lot of information?
It seemed they had reaped quite a harvest in the Dark World.
Lin Bai asked, "Tell me in detail."
Qiao Mo said in a low voice, "According to the information provided by the Dark World, they indeed knew that when the warriors from the Zhao Xing Office and Prince Chen's forces went to the Desert North Thousand Provinces, the Third Prince had already dispatched his own warriors. After they arrived in the Desert North Thousand Provinces, they took that posthumous child away."
"But after leaving the Desert North Thousand Provinces, they vanished strangely."
"It was as if they had evaporated from the face of the earth, disappearing without a trace."
"That was the first piece of news."
"..."
"The second piece of news is that although