Whether the world would be stirred by winds, Chen Yi did not know.
What he did know was that Shuzhou was truly about to be swept by a storm.
Seven days had passed since Lou Yuxue left that day.
Shuzhou's situation could be summed up in four words: undercurrents surged in the dark.
On the surface—
Shu Prefecture City remained calm and peaceful. The common folk lived as they always had, rising with the sun and returning at dusk.
Working, sightseeing, trading, and the like.
Yet in places beyond the reach of ordinary people, many were secretly making their moves.
From what Chen Yi knew alone, the Judicial Department and White Tiger Guard were investigating the cases of Ma Shuhan and Xu Jitong.
All clues pointed toward the Mountain Tribe.
This led Prefect Liu Si, after discussing matters with acting Provincial Governor Yang Ye of the Provincial Administration, to deliberately send Granny Shan a letter.
He laid out the full course of events and asked the Mountain Tribe to send people to apprehend the culprit.
Though Chen Yi guessed that another person stood behind the scenes as the true murderer, he likewise could not understand why the Mountain Tribe's exclusive poison had ended up in an outsider's hands.
After some thought, he had Pei Guanli write Granny Shan another letter.
It not only detailed the entire cause and aftermath of Ma Shuhan's case, along with a few suspicions.
He had also specifically mentioned that Wudang Mountain's "Little Daoist Lord," Hua Huiyang, had died from Half-step Smile Madness.
Though the Mountain Tribe was a native tribe of Shuzhou, they were entirely unlike ordinary farming families.
Although they tilled fields and hunted in their daily lives, some among them also refined Witchcraft and Gu to make a living.
Such as escorting shipments