"How had Jing Kingdom learned so quickly that Ji Yanyue had been killed?" King Chujiang said. "I thought that after Ji Yanyue disappeared, they would need to investigate in secret for some time before reaching a conclusion. After all, Ji Yanyue seemed to have been carrying out a highly secretive mission, and Mirror World Terrace could not exactly investigate with great fanfare..."
"I leaked it." Yin Guan said blandly.
King Chujiang froze for a moment. "Why? You have only just attained True Insight. You need not seek another breakthrough anytime soon, do you?"
Rather than answer, Yin Guan asked, "Tell me—in the eyes of Jing Kingdom's court, which matters more: the blade that killed Ji Yanyue, or the organization within Jing Kingdom that possessed Ji Yanyue's intelligence and wanted her dead?"
King Chujiang understood. "That depends on whose will Jing Kingdom's court carries out."
With a casual sweep of emerald hair-thin light, Yin Guan picked off the black insects in his blood and erased any traces that might remain. "Jing Kingdom is vast. That is the source of our danger. Jing Kingdom is complicated. That is the crack through which we escape."
King Chujiang pondered. "But catching the assassin and rooting out the organization behind the intelligence seem, to today's Jing Kingdom, to be one and the same matter?"
"So we must split them apart." Yin Guan said blandly. "Our newly appointed King Song is a cunning fellow. He is adept at political maneuvering and trusts no one. Through his private investigations into the organization's secrets, he has already obtained some client records. Among them, by coincidence, is the client who placed this order for Ji Yanyue's life—such conduct, which ruins the organization's reputation, cannot be tolerated. I will certainly curse him to death."
King Chujiang fell silent for a