Yue Qing said he was going back, but he did not return to the Azuresteel Sect. Instead, he headed straight for the Yin Sha Sect.
He was friends with Han Ji, the True Person of Yinsha—strictly speaking, Han Ji was the junior brother of his master, True Person Nanmen. The two had known each other since the Emergence from Dust Stage, though Han Ji had advanced to the Golden Core rather late, at the age of three hundred and forty.
Han Ji was skilled in Heavenly Mechanism Deduction, and True Person Nanmen often sought his help. Their relationship had always been good, and Yue Qing was quite familiar with him as well.
True Person Yue did not go directly to the Yin Sha Sect to find him. Instead, he waited on the outskirts of the Yinsha market.
At the beginning and middle of every month, Han Ji would visit the Yinsha market. One of the market's female stewards was his dual-cultivation partner. She had borne him a daughter and also took jobs involving the market on his behalf.
That was right. Although Han Ji was a True Person, he cared deeply about wealth. His cultivation was destined to stop at the Golden Core, so he now took on jobs involving the divination of heavenly mechanisms wherever he could find them—though his price was certainly high.
True Persons generally could not personally accept jobs, so that female steward handled such matters for him. She filtered out jobs with suitable prices and clients, then had True Person Han Ji perform the divination.
There would not necessarily be work every month—having a True Person personally conduct divination was not something commonplace. Han Ji also often entered seclusion within the sect, so his visits to the market at the beginning and middle of the