Whose Heaven and Earth

Yinge City.

Beneath a sky churned by the north wind, a slender figure flew in at high speed.

Those atop the city gate tower had long since detected his approach.

Zhu Weiwu remained seated, the Firewood Exhausted Spear laid across his knees, his gaze fixed straight ahead.

It was the Grand Chief of the Criminal Investigation Bureau who turned to face the newcomer.

"What brings you here?" His voice resonated from beneath his mask, carrying a cold, detached quality.

Li Jianqiu's features gradually sharpened in the night. He flew directly onto the high tower and performed a formal, earnest salute: "Greetings, Grand Chief."

He then nodded to the other: "Greetings, Senior Brother Zhu."

Zhu Weiwu merely raised a hand in a gesture of dismissal, signaling that such formalities were unnecessary.

Li Jianqiu, long accustomed to Zhu Weiwu's temperament, took no offense. He withdrew a black square token from his robes and presented it with both hands to the Grand Chief of the Criminal Investigation Bureau: "Vice Chancellor Dong ordered me to deliver this token, saying you would naturally know how to arrange things."

"Hm?"

The Grand Chief's voice held a trace of confusion as he reached out to take the black token: "Did he say nothing else?"

Li Jianqiu thought for a moment: "He only said the military situation was urgent and instructed me to deliver it as quickly as possible."

The moment the black token touched his palm, before he could even examine it, it disintegrated silently. In an instant, it turned into a handful of black dust that slipped away on the wind!

The Grand Chief remained silent for a long moment, then closed his hand, clutching the final remnants of the token's dust in his palm.

"Vice Chancellor Dong has sacrificed himself," he said.

Li Jianqiu stood