On the broad official road.
Fine horses galloped at full speed.
Their hooves thundered like rolling thunder.
Hearing the rumble of hooves, the people on the road moved to either side in advance.
The next moment.
Five swift horses swept past like a gale, leaving only dust billowing where they had been.
"Swift as racing thunder—truly horses swift as racing thunder!" someone exclaimed, watching the five riders flash past.
At the same time.
Bai Luoyu, leading the five swift horses, put away the Heavenly Secrets Register.
"Brother Jiang really understands me!"
He smiled, and his heart settled somewhat.
Several days earlier, the subordinates he had sent to Baisha County had stopped sending back any news.
The last message they had sent said that the Baisha County magistrate might have a problem and was deeply entangled with the God-Worship Cult. They were investigating further.
When the messages stopped for several days, he knew something had happened in Baisha County.
That was why he had personally led a team there today, to see what was going on.
Before leaving, he had worried that he might not be able to handle the powerful God-Worship Cult, so he had left a message for Jiang Ning in advance.
"How much farther to Baisha County?" Bai Luoyu asked without turning his head as he urged his horse onward.
"Reporting to my lord, if we travel day and night, we can reach Baisha County by tomorrow evening," the attendant riding beside him replied.
This time, to ensure nothing went wrong, Bai Luoyu had brought along the strongest members of his Commissioner Office.
Besides himself, there were three fifth-rank experts and one sixth-rank Jade Bone realm expert.
In other words, there were four fifth-rank experts in total and one peak sixth-rank expert.
Such strength would count as a