"Are you sure?" Qin Bailian asked doubtfully.
It was no wonder he was suspicious. Previously, they had only determined that the force causing trouble behind the scenes should be in Zhen Province.
And this conclusion had been reached only after reviewing the reports submitted by all the provinces across the nation.
That was why he had hurried toward Zhen Province—to confirm the true location of the force behind everything.
Hearing Qin Bailian's doubts, Yun Chao began telling him how she had obtained the intelligence.
It turned out that after Yun Chao had encountered the corrupted martial artists from the Ye family last time, she had kept people monitoring Star Cloud City closely.
Although the last battle had wiped out the Ye family completely, there should not have been any corrupted martial artists left at large.
Yet she had always felt that things were not so simple.
After the Ye family had been eradicated, no more corrupted martial artists had appeared anywhere in Zhen Province.
This meant that no dark passage had appeared near Star Cloud City.
Then where had those corrupted martial artists from the Ye family come from?
This doubt had always weighed on Yun Chao's heart, which was why she had never relaxed her vigilance toward Star Cloud City.
When corrupted martial artists began appearing in other provinces one after another, she watched Star Cloud City even more closely.
It was not that she had caught any evidence. She was merely suspicious.
The corrupted martial artists had been able to launch attacks in an orderly manner, which meant someone might be controlling them from behind the scenes.
And the person manipulating everything might still be hiding in Star Cloud City—or in the grasslands beyond the city.
At that moment, she received another report from her subordinates saying that