"To the Dragon Emperor Temple, this must count as a strategic retreat. I can understand that. Then what I did yesterday must have caused trouble for the Dragon Emperor Temple, right? At a time like this, the Dragon Emperor Temple definitely doesn't want to clash with the Star Emperor Temple." Zhang Tie smiled. There was three parts helplessness in that smile, three parts self-mockery, and four parts indifference. "If that's the case, why did Temple Master Huang still allow me to join the Dragon Emperor Temple?"
"Do you know what I was doing last night?" Leng Manxue suddenly asked.
"Cleaning up Heavenly Square City's mess!"
"Besides that, the thirty-seven street wardens who saw the faces of you people in Heavenly Square Tower yesterday, along with the innkeeper and two attendants of Heavenly Square Tower, plus the surviving guards of the Zi Family, have all been seized and thrown into the Dragon Emperor Temple's dungeon. After being interrogated, their memories of yesterday were erased with medication. Other than them, no one in Heavenly Square City saw you at the scene of the incident!" Leng Manxue said expressionlessly. "It was an order from the Temple Master. So today, all sorts of rumors are circulating throughout Heavenly Square City—rumors that a shape-shifting demon infiltrated the city and killed experts from the Star Emperor Temple, along with other bits of gossip. But not a single rumor mentions you. Even now, the Star Emperor Temple cannot possibly know that what happened in Heavenly Square City yesterday was your doing!"
Zhang Tie froze. In just one night, even he had not expected the Dragon Emperor Temple to be capable of turning yesterday's events into an unsolved case, leaving the Star Emperor Temple to swallow bitter gall in silence. At the same time, the Dragon Emperor Temple