Yin-Yang Cleaves Dawn and Dusk, the Grand Void Yin-Yang Sword's Enhancement!

Five Peaks Prefecture.

Celestial City.

The Marquis's manor, rear garden.

Led by the gatekeeper, Jiang Ning passed through covered corridors and courtyards, crossed an arched bridge over the lake, and arrived at the rear garden.

The moment he stepped into the rear garden, he spotted the two people in the pavilion at a glance.

One of them was very familiar to him. It was Zhong Yue, the Prefecture Inspector of Five Peaks Prefecture.

The other made a flicker of surprise pass through his eyes.

That was because the man looked very young, only around thirty-odd years old, with a face as flawless as carved jade.

Most crucially, he wore a purple python robe.

Both purple and a python robe represented nobility.

Combined, they instantly made Jiang Ning understand that this man was of incomparably exalted status.

He immediately understood that the man in the purple python robe before Zhong Yue was the head of the Five Peaks Inspection Office.

He was also the rumored title-level Second Rank Grandmaster, the Violet-Clad Marquis.

Even as his thoughts turned, the rhythm of his steps did not change.

"Marquis, this is Inspector Jiang of Dongling Commandery!" the gatekeeper said respectfully to the man in the purple python robe.

"Greetings, Marquis!" Jiang Ning clasped his hands.

Then he clasped his hands toward Zhong Yue beside him. "Greetings, Inspector Zhong!"

"No need to be so formal!" Zhong Yue immediately rose and walked over to Jiang Ning.

He took hold of Jiang Ning's sleeve.

"Marquis, let me introduce him! This is the Jiang Ning I mentioned before, the most dazzling prodigy in Zeshan Prefecture today!"

Then he raised a hand, gesturing for Jiang Ning to look at the man in the purple python robe before him.

"This is the head of the Five Peaks Inspection Office, a