I Surrender
The Golden Flower Bandits were great criminals wanted and hunted by every faction. Yet even within the karmic net of the Heavenly Dao woven by Divine Court Heaven, they still found ways to commit murder and sow calamity. They had struck everywhere over the years, piling crime upon crime; they were naturally no ordinary figures.
One thing was certain: the Golden Flower Bandits must possess some extraordinary method of concealing their identities. Perhaps that method could even evade many of the world's means of detection.
At the very least, the people of the Fang Family seemed unaware of the Golden Flower Bandits' true identities. Even Fang Xiongyang, the Fang Family's Dao-Entry-level expert and family head, was deeply wary of them.
"Fang Xiongyang's cultivation isn't weak, and the Fang Family are the local tyrants here. They shouldn't be afraid of the Golden Flower Bandits... If there is one reason why the Golden Flower Bandits could make Fang Xiongyang so exceptionally wary, it must be that they possess some formidable means of hiding their tracks and disguising their identities."
However, for He Ping, finding this person was no difficult task. His will spread like a net cast over heaven and earth, enveloping the entirety of Solitary Yang City. In the blink of an eye, he found an unremarkable young man.
The young man appeared to be a young scholar dressed in white, studying at an academy.
"...Harmonious yet not drifting with the current—how strong and unbending! Standing in the center without leaning to either side—how strong and unbending! When the state has the Way, unchanged even in hardship—how strong and unbending! When the state has lost the Way, unchanged until death—how strong and unbending!"
This was East Mountain Academy in Solitary Yang City, located in a relatively remote area at