Zhang Chulan, Feng Baobao, Zhang Lingyu, and Annie spent a full seven days at the Celestial Master's Mansion. Then, after confirming something, Zhang Chulan and the others hurriedly said their goodbyes and left Mount Longhu. That same day, they caught a plane back to Z City in North China.
As for Wang Zhenqiu, the Southwest Region's thorn in everyone's side, who had spent several days scheming only to come away empty-handed without finding or learning a thing, Zhang Chulan naturally "released" him at the same time.
Though, to be fair, they hadn't restricted his movements at all since the day they arrived at Mount Longhu several days earlier.
In any case!
Wang Zhenqiu had been captured by Zhang Chulan and the others, humiliated and beaten up, then deliberately dragged to Mount Longhu to watch some inexplicable show. After that, they had inexplicably let him go. Even when Zhang Chulan and the others dumped him in front of the entrance to the Mount Longhu scenic area and walked off, he was still completely bewildered. He had no idea what had happened or what it had all been about.
Still, although he couldn't make sense of it, he could vaguely tell that Zhang Chulan seemed to be using him to pass along some message, or perhaps trying to convey something to him. But no matter how hard he racked his brain, he couldn't figure out what it was.
After confirming that Zhang Chulan and the others had boarded their flight to Z City, and knowing that the Celestial Master's Mansion on Mount Longhu would certainly not welcome him back—and that he had no chance whatsoever of getting the old Celestial Master, Zhang Zhiwei, to come clean—Wang Zhenqiu had no choice but to slink away from Mount Longhu the next day and return