Inside the hall, Ye Jingcheng drank Spirit Wine alone and did not continue chatting.
The more he pondered, the clearer the truth became.
Prefect Lu clearly knew nothing about what had happened today. They perhaps knew even less about him than the Golden Core cultivators of Xiao Mountain Prefecture did.
What they had likely heard most about were some of his deeds in the Earth Immortal Realm.
Yet Ye Jingcheng had concealed certain things about himself in the Earth Immortal Realm, so the warning had served its purpose. Elsewhere, however, there was not much to see of his strength.
Otherwise, Lu Qiuxuan would not have acted so differently before and after.
Moreover, she might not have known about the agreement between the Ye Family and the Jade Union Sect.
Green Bamboo Real Person and Sky Fire Real Person were Prefect Lu's enforcers. It was perfectly normal for them to go around issuing warnings. If he arrived in a new prefecture himself, he too would arrange for people to knock on doors and rattle cages everywhere.
Those sent to make such warnings did not necessarily need to be clever, but they had to be overbearing. That way, when Prefect Lu stepped forward to set things right, he could win people's hearts with ease.
What was unusual was how the Azure Sky Sect knew the Jade Union Sect's exact circumstances, and how it knew Zi Lan possessed a spirit body—and that dual cultivation would bring enormous benefits even to Golden Core cultivators.
After all, the other party had been in Xiao Mountain Prefecture for less than six years, even counting to the fullest. The Jade Union Sect itself would not go around spreading such things recklessly.
After all, not even the Sky Sand Sect and the Ye Family knew what kind of