Somewhere in a large Immortal City.
A handsome cultivator strolled along the street, looking unconcerned.
It was Cheng Buzheng, who had just left the City Lord Mansion.
After gathering some information, he couldn't help falling into thought.
"They all came back?"
That meant something must have happened inside—something he didn't know about.
The more he thought it over, the more suspicious it seemed.
He had a few guesses, but there were too few clues to work out the right answer. He set the doubt aside for now.
What troubled him most was where that batch of Soul-Cleansing Grass had gone.
According to Lin Jingwan, Fragrant Pavilion's supply of spirit items to the Treasure Pagoda had been due half a month ago.
And Wu Qingzhao had returned long ago. So that batch of Soul-Cleansing Grass should have appeared in the Treasure Pagoda by now, shouldn't it?
"What happened?"
"Could it be that the Treasure Pagoda they supplied wasn't the one in Immortal Alliance City, but a Treasure Pagoda in another Immortal City?"
Cheng Buzheng murmured to himself.
Then,
Cheng Buzheng made another circuit of the Immortal City. As he'd expected, he didn't manage to buy a single Spirit Medicine or Spirit Material.
He wasn't surprised.
He'd just been here not long ago.
After that, Cheng Buzheng set off on the Teleportation Array again.
He visited all ten Immortal Cities, but none of their Treasure Pagodas had Soul-Cleansing Grass for sale.
Cheng Buzheng had also asked around about the whereabouts of Fragrant Pavilion cultivators with some standing. They had all been in Immortal Alliance City recently, and none had left.
That meant something had gone wrong at one of the links in the chain.
The first possibility was that Lin Jingwan had deceived him back then, only wanting to drag him into