The next day.
Inspection Office.
"My lord, Liu Linmen of the Yellow Heaven Cult requests an audience!"
Jiang Ning had just returned from Hong Minghu's place when he saw Xie Xiaoj iu reporting to him.
Liu Linmen requested an audience?
His expression immediately turned surprised.
"Refuse him!" Jiang Ning said.
"Yes, my lord!" Xie Xiaoj iu cupped her hands and withdrew, then headed toward the courtyard entrance.
Watching Xie Xiaoj iu's departing back, Jiang Ning could not help but reveal a thoughtful look.
Liu Linmen had already visited three commanders over the past few days, with only one commander left unvisited.
Yet he had suddenly come calling today. Clearly, he wanted to see him and then use the Heavenly Eye to probe the truth.
"It seems Liu Linmen's suspicions of me run deep," Jiang Ning muttered.
Then he gave a derisive smile and looked beyond the manor gates. "But I won't agree to see you now."
With his hearing, once he listened carefully, he had already detected Liu Linmen at the Inspection Office gates and learned that a middle-aged woman accompanied him.
Having made up his mind, Jiang Ning simply decided not to leave the manor today.
Wind-Thunder Archery had completed its second breakthrough, so he was no longer in a hurry.
After all, archery was not his only means of increasing his strength.
If he went out and Liu Linmen discovered the mark on him, confirming that he had been the one who acted that night, it would instead be rather troublesome.
Outside the Inspection Office.
"My lord is in seclusion, cultivating his martial arts. He will not receive visitors," Xie Xiaoj iu said.
"I understand," Liu Linmen replied, his expression unchanged as he showed a faint measure of respect.
Then.
Only after Xie Xiaoj iu had once again