Huang Mei said, "You think Pang Tianze was really stupid? It wasn't that he didn't have a spatial treasure like yours. If he could purify it, would he have gone to all that trouble to set up this Spirit Gathering Array for the heavens? Come to think of it, he really was a man dealt a hard lot in life."
Xu Yi paid no heed to Huang Mei's attempt to comfort him. He released corpse fire, enveloping the Qingyun Shoes in it, then activated a secret technique and split off a wisp of corpse fire, dividing it into countless threads that slowly seeped into the shoes.
He was fully absorbed in refining them when suddenly his brow twitched. Xu Yi put away the Qingyun Shoes, summoned Corpse Xu Yi back into his main body, grabbed Huang Mei, and shot off at full speed.
Xu Yi crept close to the gate of Ailao Peak and saw a squad of armored soldiers loudly calling for the gate to be opened. After a long while, no one answered. The squad leader's expression changed at once. "This is bad. Something's wrong at Ailao Peak. Enemy alert! Report it immediately."
Huang Mei said, "Obviously, your Inspector went in and never came back. He gave himself away."
This time, Huang Mei had guessed wrong. It wasn't that the Inspector had gone in and never come back; it was simply bad timing. Xu Yi had only just finished investigating, and now the real Inspector had begun making his rounds. More importantly, this new Inspector really had accepted bribes.
The contrast between the two inspections immediately raised suspicions. At one of the dozen or so checkpoints along the route, someone had finally become wary and reported what was going on.
As soon as he received the report, Hall