"No."
The goat blinked innocently, and under the child's gaze, its body quietly began to change.
Before long, it had transformed from a goat into an old man.
The old man's face looked somewhat aged.
Two horns rose from his head.
A tuft of snowy-white beard hung beneath his jaw.
"Sacred Ancestor."
Demon King Yangli's expression was grave. "Qin Shouchang was a Great Scholar of the Holy Dynasty. He accumulated countless achievements throughout his life, possessed lofty character, and had peerless wisdom."
"He also died fighting for the Holy Dynasty, so the Holy Dynasty's emperor places great importance on his family."
"I risked my life to infiltrate his home and search it, but found no information concerning the Ancestral Dragon Diagram."
The child slowly narrowed his eyes.
He looked Yangli up and down for a moment, then gazed ahead.
"Then why did you go alone to the Minister's Province the night before last?"
Yangli's expression turned solemn, his eyes filled with earnestness.
"Though I did not find any information about the Ancestral Dragon Diagram—"
"—I happened to hear a clue from the mouth of Qin Shouchang's only daughter."
"She said that the Confucian Sage's Manuscript was in the hands of Qin Shouchang's lifelong close friend, Zeng Shilin!"
Yangli's gaze was grave. "Zeng Shilin is now the Holy Dynasty's Minister of War. I went to the Minister's Province in order to investigate Zeng Shilin's whereabouts."
"Did you find him?"
The child stared fixedly at Yangli.
Yangli sighed.
"Zeng Shilin is a Third Rank Confucian cultivator. No matter how formidable my concealment technique is, I would not dare approach within thirty feet of him. Otherwise, I would certainly be exposed."
"Useless."
The child's face turned cold as he stared at Yangli.
"We risked our lives to come to the capital just to