From Wangjiang City to the Bingqi Mountains was only a little over three hundred li. At Huang Tian's flying speed, the journey would take little time. But he did not set off at once. Instead, he remained in the city to investigate the owner of the Riverbed Cave Abode.
In less than half a day, he found information on someone who was likely its owner. It had been so quick because, over the past few centuries, few cultivators at Foundation Establishment Perfection had been active in Hanzhang Commandery, and almost every one of them appeared in the records. A little elimination was enough to narrow it down.
The man was named Du Ruoxi. He cultivated the Wall Water Dao Path of the Water Virtue lineage, had been active roughly a century ago, and was a well-known Rogue Cultivator in Hanzhang Commandery.
At the time, many believed he had a chance of attaining the Violet Palace and ruling a region. Instead, he failed his breakthrough and vanished, presumed dead. Who would have thought he had died in meditation beneath the Min River, so close to Wangjiang City? Fang Yuanlong and the others knew how to enter the abode, yet dared not go in rashly for fear Huang Jutao would discover it and claim a share of the spoils.
If there are pills and treasures in the Riverbed Cave Abode, they should retain seventy or eighty percent of their potency after a century, provided they were stored reasonably well. The legacy of a cultivator at Foundation Establishment Perfection might be worth more than the Wangjiang Huang Clan and Bingqi Fang Clan put together. No wonder Fang Yuanlong and the others entertained wicked thoughts.
Of course, that assumed Du Ruoxi had not sold off everything he owned before attempting to break through to