All Eyes on Spirit Grain Rice, Pricier Than Gold

Within the Alliance's inner circle, in Courtyard Number One.

Ye Xiu raised his eyes to Ji Ye, who was kneeling before him.

"Sir, the uproar in the city has fully risen. Just as you predicted, all the major sects are searching for the source of the Spirit Grain."

To those outside the Alliance, Ji Ye was a reclusive research talent wholly devoted to his studies. Yet few knew that, because of his status as Ye Xiu's disciple, Ji Ye was actually the one controlling most matters involving Ye Xiu's various identities.

To put it simply, the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion, which remained neutral toward every sect, had in fact privately accepted Ji Ye's request and secretly assigned a group of people to help coordinate intelligence.

There were no especially blatant, sweeping privileges, but ensuring that all intelligence circulating within Heyang City reached his hands at the earliest possible moment was no problem at all.

As the major sects turned the world upside down searching for the source of that Spirit Grain, they naturally could not avoid the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion's line.

After so many years of operation, setting aside regions it had yet to reach, the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion's reputation in Yu Prefecture, its place of origin, was still sufficiently renowned and reliable.

The major sects had not failed to try establishing intelligence organizations of their own. Yet the training methods, manpower requirements, and resource expenditure were simply too great. In the short term, the gains could not compare proportionally to those offered by the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion. More importantly, because they were inclined toward the sects behind them, they also had to guard against the eyes of other sects. All things considered, they were inferior to the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion.

Over the years, the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion had deliberately loosened