The child sitting beside Lu Yang broke into an intrigued smile upon hearing this. "Is there a murder case? I've solved several difficult cases in my hometown, though I don't know whether I can crack this one."
Considering that the problem might not be the feng shui of this cabin, but the feng shui of the entire flying vessel, Lu Yang decided to disembark temporarily and fly to Sword Tower. The rest of his ticket money could go straight down the drain.
Several mishaps occurred during the flight, such as coincidentally encountering a secret realm that opened once every thousand years and running into the daughter of an Aristocratic Clan who was unhappy about her family-arranged marriage and used Lu Yang as a shield. These "minor" incidents stretched what should have been a half-month journey into a full month, though he arrived at Sword Tower just in time.
Feeling the thick humidity of Shu Province, Lu Yang could not help sighing. "Thank goodness I set out early. Otherwise, I wouldn't have made it to the Sword-Seeking Ceremony."
"...Is it possible that if you'd left one day later, you wouldn't have run into any of those things?" the Everlasting Fairy asked despite herself.
"That makes sense. A hundred years from now, when Sword Tower holds the Sword-Seeking Ceremony again, I'll leave one day later." Lu Yang was meticulous in his actions. He knew that when conducting an experiment, one had to control the variables and change only one condition at a time.
The Sword-Seeking Ceremony was a grand event on the level of the cultivation world. Many cultivators from beyond Great Xia came, and the officials of Shu Province attached great importance to it. If they could use this opportunity to persuade some sword cultivators to remain in Shu Province, that