"After Mountain-Bearing True Person and the others returned and revealed Qi the Old Freak's hidden identity, Lion Fortress passed the information on to Great Xia's Office of the Chief Justice, which is responsible for tracing the clues Qi the Old Freak left behind!"
Having suddenly found Zhang Tie much more pleasing to the eye, Guan Qianzhong patiently answered his questions. Perhaps it was something like opposites attracting: a man full of schemes was always wary and guarded around someone of the same disposition, yet when he saw someone utterly unlike himself—open, direct, simple-minded, big, rough, and dark—he would easily feel a certain fondness. At this moment, in the eyes of this Black Armor Army commander, Zhang Tie belonged to that sort of man: loyal, yet also simple-minded, big, rough, and dark.
He had long heard all sorts of rumors about Zhang Tie. A man who could openly call the princess of Prince of Guangnan's Mansion, who was with him, his mistress certainly had something endearing about him. A person like that, straightforward by nature and not given to scheming, would have Heaven scheme on his behalf. Such people were the most likely to receive Heaven's favor, to turn danger into safety time and again, and to enjoy extraordinary luck. Those who constantly plotted, whose thoughts were excessively deep, on the other hand, found it exceedingly difficult to have good fortune. Heaven would take away three parts of such people's luck. The balancing principle of the Heavenly Dao showed itself most readily in people like them.
"How has the Office of the Chief Justice's investigation gone?"
"Qi the Old Freak was exposed suddenly. Before that, everything he did had been especially strange and unfathomable. He himself was an Earth Knight, drifting without a fixed trail and difficult to follow. It is