Chen Yan did not linger at the Zhao Residence. Instead, following Wei Zhao's arrangements, he took a carriage back to the City Lord's Manor.
Wei Zhao also instructed Chen Yan not to go out without good reason for the time being.
Chen Yan did exactly that.
Compared with his dispute with Zhao Yuanshan, Chen Yan had more pressing matters to attend to.
Namely, the Fragment of the Purple Mansion Record in his possession, and the mastermind behind the attempts on his life.
After returning to the City Lord's Manor, Chen Yan skimmed through the Fragment of the Purple Mansion Record.
The dozen or so pages contained roughly one-twelfth of the middle section of the Purple Mansion Record's first part.
It certainly gave him food for thought.
About half a month passed after he returned to the City Lord's Manor.
Nothing happened during that half month.
Chen Yan had been waiting all along for the true culprit behind those three Wanhua Realm cultivators to make another move.
Yet there had not been the slightest stir.
Chen Yan found this rather baffling.
Could it be that the fragment of the Purple Mansion Record was not all that important to the true culprit behind those three Wanhua Realm cultivators?
Or perhaps the mastermind did not understand the fragment's true value either?
That was certainly a possibility.
After all, Chen Yan had already deduced from the spiritual sense restriction placed on the Young Cultivator in the dark teal Daoist robe that the culprit had to be at least in the Dao Integration Realm. Even the Ascension Realm or Void Return Realm was not out of the question.
After the Great Xuan Immortal Kingdom fell, its cities and commanderies had each established themselves as independent entities. The strongest cultivators in Forgotten River City were merely