The next day, two major pieces of news broke in Dongying.
The first was a video showing the Ota Family stealing five divine swords and destroying every one of them.
As soon as the video was released, the Ota Family was placed under a kill order by every samurai in Japan.
However, when they rushed to the Ota Family's residence, they discovered that everyone from the Ota Family had vanished.
Everyone concluded that they had gone into hiding. In their rage, they set fire to the entire Ota Family estate, burning it to the ground.
The other piece of news concerned Old An. Old An had gone missing.
Old An had originally been scheduled to attend meetings for four events that day, but he had stood them all up.
The furious reporters and members at the meetings cursed Old An from head to toe, and were now searching for him.
Whether they could find him, however, was another matter.
Meanwhile, the man who had manufactured both pieces of news—the mastermind behind it all, Jiang Siming—was still fast asleep at home.
"Ishihara, wake your husband up for breakfast."
When Ishihara Satomi came downstairs and heard the voices of the other women, she blushed guiltily and explained, "Um... Arada said he was going into seclusion for a few days."
"Huh? He went into seclusion right after being with you yesterday? Don't tell me you drained him dry?"
The women all grinned mischievously. Ishihara blushed crimson and shook her head repeatedly. How could she possibly have the ability to drain him dry?
Arada really had said he was going into seclusion. Wuwuwu, how could they blame her?
At that moment, Jiang Siming had just emerged from seclusion at the Qingyun Sect.
By his calculations, he had spent another full two years in seclusion