The moment the Wei court learned of the massacre at Evening Mulberry Town, it activated the Nation-Protecting Array and sealed the borders. But clearly, it had failed to trap Zhang Linchuan.
The experts of Wei's Criminal Bureau all mobilized. In an extremely short time, they eliminated, one by one, all twenty-seven leads left at the scene that pointed somewhere—yet they still failed to find any true trace of Zhang Linchuan... They could not even determine which direction he had fled.
After all, by the time the bloodshed was discovered, far too much time had already passed. There had been too much room to maneuver.
Jiang Wang sent a letter to the Southern Frontier, while he himself joined the murder-hunt forces deployed by Wei's Grand General. Following the Criminal Bureau's analysis of the most likely escape route, he searched throughout the Southern Regions for Zhang Linchuan for two whole days.
The result was likewise nothing.
Zhang Linchuan seemed to have vanished into thin air, completely severed from Wei's intelligence network. Nor did he appear in anyone's sight again.
Like a savage beast in the dark night, after sunset, he had slipped back into the darkness.
Over those two days, there had been no response at all from Ruan Qiu. Chongxuan Sheng's analysis, however, was promptly conveyed through the Great Void Illusion Realm.
"Your intuition was right. Zhang Linchuan really is concealing something. He has been wildly gathering wronged souls in Wei, replenishing the World of No-Life. Everyone would think that he is 'attaining the Dao through slaughter.' That, instead, should not be his purpose."
Within Star River Pavilion, Chongxuan Sheng said, "Because if he wished to achieve such a purpose, what he ought to do was hide himself as thoroughly as possible, not expose himself. His first move should not merely